By Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporterThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised against traveling to South Africa due to poor public security and warned of telephone scams targeting overseas Taiwanese.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration of wasting its massive cybersecurity budget, after Web domains battled a record number of cyberattacks in response to a visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week.
Internet traffic on Tuesday last week peaked at 23 times the previous single-day record and remained high throughout the week, as government Web sites and other online systems came under attack.
Hacker organization APT 27, believed to be a Chinese state-sponsored group, on Wednesday claimed responsibility, although Beijing has refused to comment on the issue.
The past week has exposed
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid on Monday slammed Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov for alleging that Adolf Hitler might have “had Jewish blood” and summoned Moscow’s ambassador for “clarifications.”
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Israel has sought to keep a delicate balance between the two sides, but remarks by Lavrov to an Italian cable channel sparked anger in Israel.
Moscow has previously said that it wants to “de-militarize” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine.
Lavrov, speaking to Mediaset’s Rete 4 channel in an interview released on Sunday, claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy “puts forward an argument of what