Keeping up with the fast events regarding the Russian assault on Ukraine, new developments emerged related to cyber warfare currently taking place. Ukraine is recruiting a volunteer IT army composed of white hat hackers to launch attacks on a list of Russian entities. The list comprises 31 targets, including Russian critical infrastructure, government agencies, banks, […]
Karim Husami
Journalist for 8 years in print media, with a bachelor degree in Political Science and International Affairs. Masters in Media communications.
Continuing with the consequences of the Russian assault on Ukraine, the mobile industry and technology event Mobile World Congress (MWC) is back in Barcelona on February 28. However, there will be no Russian Pavilion at MWC 2022, and Russian tech firms will be excluded. The world’s most meaningful connectivity event anticipates over 1,800 exhibitors and […]
Since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, the digital world has been accelerating its pace rapidly, taking advantage of the procedure taken by governments to leave people at home in order to protect them from the virus. This led governments around the world to implement policies to promote 5G technologies and applications, which took companies into […]
Many countries are setting their own targets to create a carbon pollution-free power sector, as in decarbonization, an essential element in countries’ goals to reduce emissions from 50 to 52 percent by 2030 to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. In accordance, McKinsey’s research found that “early decarbonization of the power sector is a critical factor […]
On Wednesday, Intel announced that it is updating its OpenVINO artificial intelligence (AI) developer toolkit that allows developers to use it in order to bring a broader range of intelligent applications to the edge. Launched in 2018 with an aim to focus on computer vision, OpenVINO supports a broader range of learning models, which means […]
Both Mobile communications and chat commerce firm Clickatell publicized it has secured $91 million in a Series C round of funding, headed by Arrowroot Capital, contributing from Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, Endeavor Global, and Harvest. The investors of Clickatell include Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, Arrowroot Capital, Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, Endeavor Global, and Harvest. As such, […]
With every rising technology and telecom innovation comes new threats to infrastructure and user’s information security, the most common among them being ransomware. These perils are becoming more common as criminal groups and hackers continually develop methods to prevent or defeat the implemented security measures. The telecom sector is seen as one of the most […]
YouTube removed around 3.7 million video clips internationally for going against standards between September and December 2021, with 92 percent identified by the website’s automated systems, 32 percent had no sights at all, and 74 percent had much less than ten sights. YouTube is boosting its assistance to the web content-producing neighborhood in the United […]
Mashreq, a Dubai bank, announced on Thursday the purchase of a stake in NymCard, a banking-as-a-service provider, to promote FinTechs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as cashless transactions increase owing to the coronavirus pandemic. The bank, which is controlled by the Al Ghurair family, said it recognizes “the important role the FinTechs play in […]
As the war escalates between Russia and Ukraine, the nation’s banks and government agencies were stuck with disruptive cyberattacks for the second time in two weeks. Last week, several banks and government agencies were affected by denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), which resulted in knocking down their websites’ security and functionalities. Now, a similar set of attacks […]