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At the end of the year, the number of fraudulent calls has quadrupled

The free security solution for combating phone fraud provided by the electronic communications and ICT service provider Bite Latvia blocked almost 660 thousand fraudulent calls in the fourth quarter of this year alone, which is four times more than in the same period last year, reaching the highest intensity level so far. Meanwhile, in the digital environment cybercriminals attack every third mobile device, as recorded by the company’s security service Antivīruss Plus. As […]

An international artificial intelligence community “AI Salon” is coming to Latvia

This November in Riga, “AI Salon” – an international artificial intelligence (AI) community – will start operating, bringing together AI startup founders, developers, investors, and partners to promote cooperation, knowledge exchange, and new contacts, Tet reports. “AI Salon” operates in more than 40 cities worldwide, and in each of them we see how the power of the local community accelerates innovation and creates […]

In five years, Tet wants to become a “unicorn”: will develop data center infrastructure

In the next five years, the Latvian telecommunications company Tet plans to become a “unicorn”, that is, to reach a company valuation of one billion euros, the company’s Chairman of the Board Uldis Tatarčuks said at the “Tet Vision 2030” presentation event. “Tet is Latvia’s digital heart, beating with values, responsibility, and a desire to help. We combine humanity with technology to create solutions that are alive […]

Schrödinger’s registry; the Prosecutor’s Office claims that the system by which the elections are ensured does not exist

At the end of 2020, the company “SOAAR” developed the Electronic Online Voter Register (ETVR system), which was used to conduct the 2021 municipal elections and the 2022 Saeima elections. The Prosecutor’s Office has thrown the evidence into the trash and claims that the ETVR does not exist. The 14th Saeima elections had concluded, the votes had been counted, and the new Saeima convened for its first session on the first of November 2022. Exactly one week later, with the Internal Security […]

The impossible audit – the State Data Inspectorate has announced a procurement to carry out an audit of the IT platforms used to support the 2025 municipal elections

The State Digital Development Agency (VDAA) on June 26 announced a procurement to carry out an audit of the IT platforms used to support the 2025 municipal elections. Interestingly, the agency apparently expects that someone will carry out such an audit in a single working day. The procurement documents indicate that the contract performance period is theoretically 15 days, however, given the overall scope of work and the requirements set for the bidders, as […]

In the 14th Saeima elections, the SAB deemed the use of Latvia.lv unsafe

Already in the previous Saeima elections, the Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB) deemed the portal Latvija.lv, created by the State Digital Development Agency (VDAA), to be insecure and requested that it not be used in the elections, according to information available to Inc. In its restricted-access (IP) document, SAB urgently asked the organizers of the election process to assess the technical possibilities of not using the unified authentication mechanism of the http://www.latvija.lv portal in the Electronic Online Voter Register and in the Election Management Systems. […]