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Hackers 'not causing damage'
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 31/07/2025
» Thailand has remained unscathed by Cambodian hackers despite their best efforts, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Economy and Society (DES) Prasert Jantararuangtong said.
Domestic co-payment incentive comes under scrutiny
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/07/2025
» The government's domestic tourism stimulus campaign has come under heavy criticism in parliament, with the opposition blasting the scheme as ineffective due to frequent technical failures, low public engagement and high potential for fraud.
The rise of AI in political warfare
News, Parmy Olson, Published on 07/05/2024
» This year promises to be a whopper for elective government, with billions of people -- or more than 40% of the world's population -- able to vote in an election. But nearly five months into 2024, some government officials are quietly wondering why the looming risk of AI hasn't, apparently, played out. Even as voters in Indonesia and Pakistan have gone to the polls, they are seeing little evidence of viral deepfakes skewing an electoral outcome, according to a recent article in Politico, which cited "national security officials, tech company executives and outside watchdog groups". AI, they said, wasn't having the "mass impact" that they expected. That is a painfully shortsighted view. The reason? AI may be disrupting elections right now, and we just don't know it.
Thais bombarded with most fraudulent messages
News, Onnucha Hutasingh, Published on 28/03/2024
» Thais received the highest number of fraudulent messages in Asia in 2023, with over 58 million messages received, according to the caller identification application, Whoscall.
Govt hails results of recent crackdown on online crime
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 11/09/2022
» The government yesterday trumpeted the success of efforts to clamp down on online scammers, claiming more than 45,000 SMS spam numbers were suspended recently.
Test & Go restarts for travellers
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 01/02/2022
» The "Test & Go" programme for fully vaccinated travellers resumes on Wednesday with travellers required to take an extra RT-PCR test on the fifth day of arriving and to wait for the test result at their hotel or face tough legal consequences.
CIB warns of rising cybercrime
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 07/01/2022
» A crime assessment by the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) indicates that cybercrime activities will spike this year as people increasingly rely on the internet due to the pandemic.
Prawit urges governors to protect King
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 07/11/2020
» Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon on Friday urged provincial governors across the country to help protect the monarchy and prevent fake news.
Three new maxims for surviving the next era of tech
News, Farhad Manjoo, Published on 30/11/2018
» Nearly five years ago, in my very first "State of the Art" column, I offered a straightforward plan for how to survive what was shaping up to be a turbulent time in the tech world.
For election hackers, a new, more dangerous tool
News, Michael Chertoff & Eileen Donahoe, Published on 15/11/2018
» The election interference tactics originally deployed by Russia against the United States and Europe are now global. Hackers across the democratic world have exploited weaknesses in campaign email servers; probed electronic voting machines for vulnerabilities; set up troll farms to spread highly-partisan narratives; and employed armies of bots to distort the truth online. Tech experts in countries such as Iran and Venezuela have borrowed these tactics and joined efforts toward the same goals: to erode confidence in electoral processes and in democratic governance itself.