Microsoft along with technology human rights group Citizen Lab said on Thursday that an Israeli private firm named Candiru sold hacking tools that controls Microsoft Windows. The hackers created and sold a software than can penetrate Windows. This new growing business aim to find flows in common software platforms for their clients, according to a report by Citizen Lab. The clients […]
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Facebook exposed on Thursday an Iranian cyber-spying operation that went after U.S. military personnel and people working at defense and aerospace companies. The tech giant said that group of Iranian hackers, known as Tortoiseshell, created fake social media profiles, and sent targeted malicious links to victims. The links that aimed to infect devices to enable espionage, used different tactics including setting up fake job recruiting sites. Facebook said the hackers tried to direct people to other websites, […]
An assemblage of China’s biggest tech companies has cooperatively signed on Tuesday an antitrust ‘self-discipline’ agreement with Beijing’s expanding regulatory pressure on Chinese tech firms. E-commerce platform Alibaba Group, Tencent, and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance are amongst 33 Chinese tech companies that have voluntarily signed an agreement of self-discipline amidst Beijing’s regulation rise on Big Tech companies. Some of China’s biggest and most dominant tech […]
Facebook and its subsidiary WhatsApp are developing two separate new updates. The features will support multidevice services on the instant messaging app and enhance experts’ profiles on Facebook groups. WhatsApp announced on Wednesday that it’s testing a multidevice service that works without a phone connected to the internet. “Each companion device will connect to your WhatsApp independently,” said the messaging platform in a statement. The new update enables WhatsApp users to use this service on […]
It began in February with a tweet by pop star Rihanna that sparked widespread condemnation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of massive farmer protests near the capital, souring an already troubled relationship between the government and Twitter. Moving to contain the backlash, officials hit Twitter with multiple injunctions to block hundreds of tweets […]
The FCC voted unanimously on Tuesday on a $1.9 billion program to pull and substitute telecommunications equipment from Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE for national security purposes. Chinese telecom titan Huawei announced later on Wednesday its acute disappointment over the FCC’s decision to remove and alternate its telecommunications equipment in the U.S. Huawei continued […]
Governments have enlisted the help of hackers throughout the entirety of the digital age, as user data continues being the target of many institutions, be them governmental or otherwise. These targets not only include state secrets, but also engulf an array of intellectual property as well as academic knowledge. Headlines have previously proved the effectiveness of these […]
With Virgin Galactic making its highest profile test flight to date with boss Richard Branson aboard, it’s only a matter of time before paying customers get their chance and New Mexico realizes a dream that has been decades in the making. Former Gov. Bill Richardson is among those who have been watching the progress of […]
Swiss-based insurance and mortgage comparison company Comparis.ch has fallen victim to ransomware attack on Wednesday and shut down its website on Thursday out of fear of customer data breach. Comparis.ch is a price and product comparison platforms in Switzerland, specializing in products of health insurers prices, insurance companies’ prices, alongside banks and telecom providers. On […]
The U.S. Department of Commerce sanctioned on Monday 14 Chinese tech companies over links to human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, northwest China. Adding these firms to the Entity List restricts American companies from collaborating with any of the listed businesses without a special license. Among the listed companies is DeepGlint, a Chinese […]