Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused, including by governments looking to surveil their citizens. The tool designed to detected known images of child sexual abuse, called “neuralMatch,” will scan […]
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Zoom will pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that weak privacy controls opened too many peepholes into the personal information of users and that it was too easy for outsiders to disrupt video meetings during the early stages of the pandemic. The proposed agreement must still be approved by U.S. District Judge Lucy […]
Telecoms companies are under ever-increasing pressure to release quickly. One of the biggest obstacles, however, is testing. How does testing keep up with the demand for secure, bug-free software, especially with the proliferation of devices? Automated continuous testing has addressed some of the challenges, but also created new ones. Now, recent innovations in scriptless technology […]
Former eBay security manager Philip Cooke was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 months in prison for his role in an intense cyberstalking campaign against a pair of eBay critics. U.S. district judge Allison Burroughs issued the sentence nine months after Cooke was found guilty to conspiracy of cyberstalking and tampering with witnesses. According to federal prosecutors and a lawsuit filed last week by the victims, a group of eBay employees led by executives began in 2019 targeting the […]
Moscow’s public Wi-Fi provider, Maxima Telecom, won earlier this month a $13.6 million contract for the installation of 2000 biometric cameras on the roads of the capital, according to Russian media reports. The contract was completed with the Center for Traffic Management of Moscow. It aims to deploy a neural network in the capital that will receive data from cameras, record accidents, fires and other incidents, and report them […]
India’s Parliament erupted in protests on Tuesday as opposition lawmakers accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of using military-grade spyware to monitor political opponents, journalists and activists. The session was disrupted repeatedly as opposition lawmakers shouted slogans against Modi’s government and demanded an investigation into how the spyware, known as Pegasus, was used in India. […]
U.S. based- video game company Activision Blizzard was sued on Tuesday over a culture of constant sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination. The lawsuit filed by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) against the company was a result of a two-year investigation that revealed top executives were aware and/or involved of unequal pay, promoting men over women, and widespread sexual harassment. The complaint highlights those male employees of the gaming company discuss sexual encounters […]
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 […]
Saudi Arabia is looking to attract investments upwards of $18 billion dollars as part of its bid to construct large-scale data centers across the Kingdom, the country’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) announced this week. The move – which is part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 – aims to transform the gulf country […]
Audio-editing software Audacity has been accused by its users of being spyware for governments, following its update of its privacy terms which would see it collecting private user data. The privacy terms, which were released last week, state that the program will start collecting certain forms of “personal data” like the user’s operating system name […]