The State Department will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of anyone engaged in foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity, including ransomware attacks, against critical U.S. infrastructure. A task force set up by the White House will coordinate efforts to stem the ransomware scourge. The Biden administration is also out […]
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Amazon has been legally called out for selling hazardous products to consumers that are mostly defected or missing vital features. Due to this reason, Amazon is facing a lawsuit by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Through a 3-1 vote, the U.S. regulator voted to file the lawsuit on Tuesday. The lawsuit seeks to force Amazon to recollect the products on the website, and to instantly contact consumers who purchased them about taking back the products and […]
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 […]
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 […]
UAE-based telco Etisalat partnered up on Wednesday with Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson through a global 5G program that is designed to help communications service providers (CSPs) accelerate 5G commercialization and monetization. Ericsson’s program seeks to foster innovation around 5G technologies between startups and Etisalat to mutually create new business opportunities in the market. Through this collaboration, Etisalat will receive a list of companies that develop services, devices, and applications […]
With Children and young adults spending over a third of their time online, digital safety has become indispensable. Parental control apps started gaining immense popularity among parents who seek to keep a regular check on their children’s online activities to save their kids from unwanted and dangerous mishaps of the internet world! Monty Mobile presents “Safe Surf”, a new […]
Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged on Thursday that his platform had indeed mistakenly overlooked racists comments made on the site toward England’s black football players such as Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford, and Jadon Sancho. Instagram head Adam Mosseri quickly issued a statement to clarify the matter. “We have technology to try and prioritize reports and we were […]
China’s cyber-watchdog on Friday announced an on-site cybersecurity investigation of ride-hailing service Didi, stepping up scrutiny after earlier criticism of its handling of customer information caused the company’s New York-traded shares to tumble. The on-site inspection comes two weeks after the regulator said it would probe the ride-hailing company over concerns about national security and […]
Open Radio Access Network, Or Open RAN for simplicity, isn’t a new thing, but it is seeing a sharp rise in adoption coinciding with. It refers to open access to radio network architecture, and telcos are clamoring to jump aboard the band wagon. A bandwagon that would otherwise be very, very expensive to implement for any one entity. The biggest players in worldwide telecoms, those same ones […]