The adoption of Web 3, which seeks to decentralize data control and return it to users, entails challenges in sectors ranging from commerce to simple everyday tasks.

Web 3 or 3.0, based on blockchain technology and leveraging AI, aims to create a semantic platform where data is interconnected more intelligently, allowing for better understanding and analysis of information. Furthermore, it seeks to achieve a deeper understanding and processing of information in a way that more closely resembles human intelligence, going beyond machine learning.

Experts point out that decentralizing data control is crucial, although they understand that it is a gradual process, given that Web 3 is still under development. Some examples of its progress can be seen in initiatives such as those of Amazon Web Services, which has launched Web3 labs, and Google Cloud with zero-knowledge proofs, weaving Web3 into its traditional offerings, according to Cointelegraph.

Key features of this advancement include the aforementioned decentralization of data, along with its democratization; transparency; personalized browsing preferences; and increased privacy, which could even lead to the possibility of anonymous browsing.

Where is the application of Web 3 most evident currently? Particularly in the area of ​​decentralized finance (DeFi), which eliminates financial intermediaries; non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which represent ownership of unique digital assets; and decentralized social networks, where greater user control over data is prioritized.

Likewise, its application is seen in more intelligent and personalized access to information through AI; various decentralized messaging and trading platforms, as well as supply chain management and digital identity solutions, all leveraging blockchain technology.

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Cryptocurrency hacks in the first quarter of 2025, according to data from blockchain security firm PeckShield, exceeded $1.63 billion.

According to the company, compared to figures for Q1 2024, there was a 131 % year-over-year increase in these types of crimes.

Among the company’s main reasons for the significant increase in crypto hacks is the attack suffered by Bybit, which accounted for more than 92 % of the total losses.

The monthly estimate was over $87 million in digital assets in January, $1.53 billion in February, and a decrease in March with the theft of $33 million.

In any case, the increase in cryptocurrency hacking cases is worrying. According to PeckShield, “There were 60 attacks in the first quarter of the year, marking a 131 % year-over-year increase.”

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The Venezuelan government created the National Cybersecurity Council through Official Gazette No. 42,939, dated August 12, 2024, with the participation of the ministries of Defense, Science and Technology, Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade, Foreign Relations, Internal Relations , Justice and Peace, Planning and National Commerce.

The Decree establishes that said body may “require from natural or legal persons of a public and private nature the data, statistics and information related to the computer security of the Nation.”

The council will have 13 specific powers, including “the creation of a permanent surveillance network for telematic incidents and the ability to request data, statistics and information related to the nation’s computer security from natural persons and public or private companies.”

As explained in the text of the decree, the National Cybersecurity Council will act as an advisor for the “generation of security policies, but its basic constitution is made up of representatives of ministries of the executive cabinet.”

Likewise, it establishes that cyberspace is now of public and strategic interest for the republic. Therefore, “the State requires the development of security, administration and control policies in its access and use, to ensure the common good, sovereignty and institutionalism for the benefit of the Nation.”

Functions of the National Cybersecurity Council

1. Advise the President of the Republic and the Defense Council of the Nation in the development of the national cybersecurity policy that contains the plans and programs for computer security, technological surveillance, supervision and control of telematic incidents.
2. Raise proposals for regulations, laws and regulations regarding the prevention of the use of information and communication technologies for criminal purposes.
3. Verify the degree of compliance with the implementation of the plans and regulations adopted regarding cybersecurity.
4. Formulate proposals and recommendations on cybersecurity policy, in harmony with the interests and objectives of the Nation to guarantee the supreme purposes of the State.
5. Carry out continuous assessment of risks and threats in terms of computer security.
6. Promote the establishment of a 24-hour surveillance network of telematic incidents, affiliated with regional peers to prevent, mitigate and/or control cross-border computer crimes, in accordance with article 41 of the United Nations document for the prevention of cybercrime.
7. Constitute Interinstitutional and Emergency Work Committees, for the attention and prevention of the use of information and communication technologies for criminal purposes.
8. Require from natural or legal persons of a public and private nature the data, statistics and information related to the computer security of the Nation, as well as their necessary support.
9. Promote cybersecurity training programs with educational institutions, research centers and public and private entities.
10. Promote the formation of multidisciplinary teams specialized in cybersecurity in the public and private sectors.
11. Promote the necessary investments to strengthen the State’s telematics platform.
12. Dictate the regulations for its organization and operation.
13. Others that are decided within the Council, at least by two thirds of its permanent members.

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In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and a group of colleagues at Harvard University broke new ground in the digital age with the launch of the social network Facebook. Twenty years have passed since that event.

Ups and downs, demands, questions and praise have accompanied Facebook in recent years. Regulations regarding private data have led to greater control by the parent company, Meta.

The number of users continues to increase, given the friendliness of the social network and its global reach, allowing connection between millions of people as well as the possibility of sharing videos and images.

The privacy terms and conditions, however, are currently a cause of distrust among users. Added to this is the considerable increase in the use of advertising, which has bothered thousands of people, even causing them to close their accounts on the platform.

In any case, Facebook remains at the top of the most used, followed by Instagram and TikTok.

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An anonymous hacker claimed to have access to private user data on various services, including exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance.

According to one report, this claim appears to be true. The hacker in question has access to an account associated with the “KodexGlobal” platform, which has the power to request user information from companies.

The report details that the hacker is trading access to this account for $5,000. In addition, it offers the possibility to request emergency data from the Service of Interest (EDR) for $300.

With this access, interested parties can get information from people on LinkedIn, Discord, Tinder, SendGrid, and other services. Crypto platforms such as Binance, Coinbase and Chainlink stand out in particular.

Unlike other types of attacks, this modality does not directly compromise the security of the sites and services identified. However, the use of fake or stolen credentials allows access to customers’ private information, making them possible targets for attacks and phishing campaigns.

The KodexGlobal account is used for communications and requests related to regulators and legal agencies.

Those who have control over this account can write to any service and request information about users, citing legal justification. It is believed that access to this session was obtained through a vulnerability in the file transfer software known as MOVEit.

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This Sunday, the UN Venezuela Office of Humanitarian Affairs indicated through its social networks that its official account was hacked.

The UN agency on Venezuelan soil for humanitarian affairs warned citizens that the information that was appearing in their account was not published by the UN.

In this sense, they recommended not accessing their links while they claimed to be working to resolve the vulnerability situation to which the data of their official account was exposed.

The office in charge of addressing humanitarian emergencies in Venezuela made the announcement and warning through a post on the social network X.

🚨ATENCIÓN🚨
Desde @onuvenezuela informamos que la cuenta oficial de OCHA Venezuela ha sido hackeada y en estos momentos su contenido no está siendo publicado por ONU. Se recomienda no entrar a sus enlaces.

Estamos trabajando para recuperar la cuenta. Les mantendremos informados

— ONU Venezuela (@onuvenezuela) January 28, 2024

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In the field of cybersecurity, threat actors have flourished amidst economic and geopolitical uncertainty, deploying cunning and tools to circumvent corporate defenses. According to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), 83% of leaks are the work of external agents, while economic profit is responsible for 95%. ESET, a leader in proactive threat detection, details the top 10 incidents of 2023.

1. MOVEit: Zero-Day Vulnerability Exposes More than 2,600 Organizations

The modus operandi of this attack was to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in popular software, compromising data on more than 83 million people. The magnitude of the impact was compounded by affecting suppliers and service providers in the affected organizations.

2. UK Election Commission: Cybercriminals Expose Data on 40 Million Voters

In August, a complex cyberattack revealed the personal information of 40 million voters. The weak security of the Electoral Commission, coupled with the late notification to the public, raises questions about the effectiveness of its security measures.

3. Police Service of Northern Ireland: Sensitive Data Leak Raises Concern

The accidental posting of sensitive internal data on a public website exposed the information of 10,000 officers and civilian personnel. Although he was available for a short time, he caused concern and led to arrests for terrorist offences.

4. DarkBeam: Biggest Data Leak of the Year with 3.800 Million Records Exposes Vulnerabilities

The DarkBeam digital risk platform disfigured a data visualization interface, exposing 3.8 billion records. Although quickly corrected, uncertainty persists as to whether the data was accessed maliciously.

5. Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR): Mega Breach Exposes Information of 815 Million Residents

Data extracted from the ICMR’s COVID test base, including crucial information such as names, addresses and Aadhaar numbers, were put up for sale. The seriousness of the incident opens the door to possible identity fraud attacks.

6. 23andMe: Threat Actor Steals Up to 20 Million Genetic Data

Using credential filling techniques, 23andMe user data, including genetic information and family data, was accessed. The incident highlights the importance of maintaining vigilance in the configuration of systems.

7. Rapid Recovery DDoS Attacks: Vulnerability in HTTP/2 Causes Mass Attacks

A zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol allowed unprecedented DDoS attacks, reaching 398 million requests per second. Although Internet giants have patched the bug, other companies are urged to follow suit.

8. T-Mobile: Security Breaches Impact 37 Million Customers

In January, T-Mobile suffered one of the biggest breaches, affecting 37 million customers with sensitive data theft. Despite subsequent action, the company revealed another breach in April, raising concerns about the security of its systems.

9. MGM International/Cesars: Ransomware Attacks Paralyze Operations in Las Vegas

Both Las Vegas giants were attacked with ransomware, causing significant disruptions and substantial economic costs. Infiltration methods, such as the use of LinkedIn, highlight the urgent need for more robust security measures.

10. Pentagon Leaks: Young National Guard Member Leaks Sensitive Military Documents

Young Jack Teixeira leaked sensitive military documents, providing military intelligence to Russia. This incident underscores the importance of safeguarding information in large organizations from malicious intruders.

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Citizens of China enjoy the fastest Internet connection in the world, with a speed of 1.2 terabits per second.

The Asian nation has made profound progress, particularly in the use of fiber optics through a network of more than 3,000 kilometers between Beijing and the cities of Wuhan and Canton.

The initial forecasts to reach 1 terabite per second had been set for 2025. Fortunately, the results were obtained earlier than expected. With this, they advance in the search for alternatives to dependence on the US and Japan for some components of network technology.

Those responsible for this network have assured that all the software and hardware of the system is of national production.

This network has been operational since July, providing residents with the highest connection speed. According to the vice president of Huawei Technologies, Wang Lei, this infrastructure allows the transfer of “the equivalent of 150 high-definition movies in just one second.”

Similarly, expert Xu Mingwei from the Tsinghua University, indicated that the speed of the Internet network can be compared to “an ultra-fast train track that replaced 10 regular tracks to transport the same amount of data. This made it much cheaper and easier to manage.”

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Meta announced the launch of additional controls in Account Center for Instagram, where it implemented a feature that allows users to disable tracking of their activity and collection of their data from apps and websites.

With this feature, the company seeks to give users greater control over the information they share and their activity, since it will allow them to review which companies share this data with the Meta platform and delete it if they wish.

This will be possible on Instagram thanks to a new functionality called Activity Off-Meta Technologies -Review activity outside of Meta technologies-, which has been available on Facebook for a few months and which can be accessed from the Information Center. social network accounts.

Activity Off-Meta Technologies is a summary of activities that organizations share with the technology firm in relation to the interactions that users. These companies use the tools offered by Meta to collect all the activity related to the accounts of the platforms it offers, as Meta reminds us in its Help section.

On this website, the company also remembers that it uses user activity outside its platforms to display advertisements according to their tastes and preferences, suggest events or products of interest and show new companies and brands, among other purposes.

Thus, with the deployment of this feature also on Instagram, Meta hopes that users will be able to “easily review the companies that share data with Meta, unlink some of them to further personalize the experience or delete the data completely,” as commented in an entry on your blog.

Another new feature that will come to the social network’s Account Center is the function that allows you to transfer Instagram photos and videos to other services, which will make it “much easier to share and save memories.” With this option, for example, users will be able to send photos they have shared through Instagram to a third-party service to create an album and print them.

Finally, Meta has commented that from its Account Center, which launched in January of this year and which unifies all the configuration menus of Facebook, Messenger and Instagram, it is now possible to download the information from these accounts simultaneously.

Until now, the Account Center only allowed data to be downloaded individually, that is, choosing one platform or another. This option, by the way, is maintained for those users who wish to access their information individually.

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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) of Chile fell to 5.1 % year-on-year in the month of September, which represents a reduction of just two tenths compared to the previous month, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

This drop of 0.2 percentage points is much smaller than that recorded by the index last month, of 1.2 points. On this occasion, Chile’s annual inflation reached the lowest figure since August 2021 (when it stood at 4.8 %). Until last April, the price index in Chile had remained above 10 % for 12 months.

However, inflation in the country has already been declining for ten months. This trend has allowed the Central Bank of Chile to begin progressively cutting interest rates, with two reductions for a total of 175 basis points at the end of last July and in September, which puts the figure at 9.5 %.

The organization has recently updated its inflation forecasts for Chile, with the goal of reaching 4 % by the end of this year. Core inflation, however, would remain at a higher level.

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