By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei is scheduled to learn Wednesday if a U.S extradition case against her can proceed. Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder, at Vancouver’s airport in late 2018. The U.S. wants her extradited to face fraud […]
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In light of the Covid-19, many people on the planet have lost their jobs. Searching for a job is intimidating and frustrating, but should you grasp the first opportunity given to you? Human Resource managers have shifted their strategy to digital recruitment. However, Scamwatch, has reported 990 job employment scams in Australia since January 2020. […]
Today, our daily communication seems very much dependent on phone applications, meaning security risks have become an increasing challenge for all users. It can be said that our hyper-connected, digitized society has increased security risks, with hackers breaching the wide web or targeting specific applications. Hackers have improved and developed the nature and scope of […]
By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Singapore has suspended the use of Zoom for online education after hackers hijacked a lesson and showed obscene images to students. In what is known as “Zoombombing,” two hackers interrupted a geography lesson a day after Singapore closed schools on Wednesday in partial lockdown measures to […]
By REGINA GARCIA CANO and AARON MORRISON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ceri Weber had just begun to defend her dissertation when the chaos began: Echoes and voices interrupted her. Someone parroted her words. Then Britney Spears music came on, and someone told Weber to shut up. Someone threatened to rape her. Hackers had targeted […]
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Marriott says guests’ names, loyalty account information and other personal details may have been accessed in the second major data breach to hit the company in less than two years. Marriott said Tuesday approximately 5.2 million guests worldwide may have been affected. The information taken may have included names, […]
Until January of this year, very few of us were aware of Clearview AI, a company that has gathered billions of publicly available images from millions of websites to build a facial image search engine app. Clearview claim that more than six hundred law enforcement agencies have utilized its technology in the last year. News […]
By DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government has lost more than $2.6 million after falling for an email phishing scam, according to a senior official. The finance director of the island’s Industrial Development Company, Rubén Rivera, said in a complaint filed to police Wednesday that the agency sent […]
SEATTLE (AP) — An election for a volunteer board in the Seattle area is so obscure that voter turnout is typically less than 1%. Officials are giving online voting a trial run this year to try to boost turnout and explore how it might work in a bigger election. It will be the first election […]
By JIM MORRIS and ROB GILLIES Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The first stage of an extradition hearing for a senior executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei started in a Vancouver courtroom Monday, a case that has infuriated Beijing, caused a diplomatic uproar between China and Canada and complicated high-stakes trade talks between […]