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Malaysians lost almost 300 million ringgit to cyber crime so far this year!

Oct 09, 2018

Malaysians lost almost 300 million ringgit to cybercrime so far this year!

Telecommunication fraud hit the biggest dent, costing victims over 160 million ringgit. 

The govt said most cybercrime cases were carried out by foreigners, but M'sians are mostly the perpertators when it comes to e-commerce scams.

MOH  has set its sights on eliminating mother-to-child transmission of Hep B

The Health Ministry has set its sights on eliminating mother-to-child transmission of Hepatitis B

Image:@kementeriankesihatanmalaysia 

This comes after M'sia was hailed as the first country in the Western Pacific to eradicate mother-to-child transmissions of HIV and Syphilis.

About 1 million people in M'sia are chronically infected with Hep B. 

In other news:

You can be arrested if you're an inconsiderate and noisy neighbour!

The police have gone on Facebook to remind the public they can lodge reports against neighbours who are always making noise, including revving their motorcycles loudly, as it disturbs public order. 

Image:youngchoppers.com

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Tun Daim Zainuddin has alleged that Jho Low managed to evade the authorities with the help of moles in the govt!

He told Channel News Asia, the fugitive businessman has help from within M'sia's civil service and enforcement agencies, but didn't offer proof. 

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And Google is shutting down a large part of its social network, Google Plus, after private user data was exposed because of a bug. 

It found the breach affecting 500,000 users back in March, but decided not to reveal it to avoid action from regulators.