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The cyberattack on the city of Antwerp at the beginning of December turned out to be an unexpected gift for all “black parkers”. Parking attendants can’t check who has or hasn’t paid. Hacking by a hacker collective called ‘Play’ threatens to cost the city of Antwerp dearly. The systems used by parking attendants to issue parking tickets are currently unrelated …

APE ONS News•yesterday, 7 p.m. The offices of the British newspaper The Guardian will remain closed for weeks due to a serious cyberattack. Networks were hit by ransomware on December 20, and major computer systems have been locked down since then. Initially, employees were only required to work from home during the holidays, but have now learned that offices will …

An uprising by far-right congressmen creates chaos in Washington. As long as the House of Representatives is leaderless, the United States will be leaderless. Also tonight in the fourth and fifth rounds, candidate Kevin McCarthy did not win. They are nineteen people and hold American politics hostage. Members of Congress from the far-right conservative wing of the Republican Party are …

PA ONS News•today, 11:51 Free parking in the city center. Sounds too good to be true? Not in Antwerp. Due to a hack, the city was unable to collect parking fines for a month. We don’t know how many parkers have already put it to good use. Among other things, parking controls in the city are difficult because “the systems …

AFP ONS News•today, 01:26 Ruslan Khasbulatov, for several years the second man of Russia and the Soviet Union, died at the age of 80. He became Speaker of Parliament shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union and was initially an ally of Boris Yeltsin. Khasbulatov became speaker of parliament in 1991 and in August of the same year he …

Republican Kevin McCarthy failed to secure a majority in the first two ballots for Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. It therefore takes several votes before there is a new president. McCarthy needed 218 votes to become president and succeed Democrat Nancy Pelosi, but he only got 203 on the first two ballots to slide forward. It’s the …

03 jan 2023 om 09:44 The United States House of Representatives today elects a new speaker. Normally it’s just a formality, but due to divisions within the Republican Party, it could be quite a spectacle this year. It may well be that multiple ballots are needed for the first time in a hundred years. In November’s US midterm elections, Republicans …

Sweden launched a major wolf hunt on Monday. Of the 460 currently living in the country, hunters will be allowed to kill 75 over the next month. Animal rights activists are protesting the move, saying it endangers the animal’s survival. The British newspaper The Guardian followed on Monday 200 hunters who started hunting with dogs. It is the biggest wolf …

APE ONS News•today, 17:31 The European Parliament is launching an emergency procedure to lift the parliamentary immunity of two MEPs. This is done at the request of Belgian justice, which is investigating the corruption scandal in the European Parliament. The objective is for the emergency procedure to be closed by February 13 at the latest. “From the very beginning, the …

Facebook parent company Meta needs more time to decide whether Donald Trump is welcome on the platform. The former President of the United States was banned from the platform in early 2021 for allegedly praising Capitol Storms. Meta previously said he would decide by January 7, 2023 whether Trump would be allowed to return to Facebook, two years after his …