American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX plans to extend its partnership with Indian firms to locally manufacture satellite communication equipment as it gears up to launch its high-speed satellite Starlink in 2022. The meeting was conducted with the global satellite companies including officials from global communications networks OneWeb, Viasat, Hughes, in addition to Department of Space and the Regulatory Authority of India. […]
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The agency in charge of Ireland’s cyber security is to get an increased budget and a major staff increase, the Government announced today. The expansion would bring the strength of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) from 25 to 45 within 18 months, with a further promise to increase it to 70 within five years. […]
Instagram announced on Tuesday a security feature that would enable its users to help recover their hacked accounts. The Facebook owned platform revealed the new tool called “Security Checkup” in a blog post to guide its users, whose accounts may have been hacked, through the steps needed to secure them. Users through this feature will undergo four major steps: after checking their login activity, they will be asked to review their profile information, followed by a confirmation […]
Ethiopia’s liberalization of its telecommunications sector is in full swing, as the state-run Ethio Telecom reported an 18.4 percent rise in full year revenue as of end of June to $1.29 billion, the telco’s CEO Frehiwot Tamiru told reporters on Tuesday. The provider’s ballooning revenue streams were followed by a 22 percent hike in subscribers […]
For 21 years, the software company Kaseya labored in relative obscurity — at least until cybercriminals exploited it in early July for a massive ransomware attack that snarled businesses around the world and escalated U.S.-Russia diplomatic tensions. But it turns out that the recent hack wasn’t the first major cybersecurity problem to hit the Miami-based […]
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 […]
Apple has launched on Tuesday MagSafe wireless battery for its iPhone 12 lineup at the price of $99, the company announced on its website. The new battery will work with all four of the phones in the iPhone 12 family —iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max. The MagSafe battery pack attaches magnetically to the back of one of the iPhone 12 models, […]
Tech experts in China who find a weakness in computer security would be required to tell the government and couldn’t sell that knowledge under rules further tightening the Communist Party’s control over information. The rules would ban private sector experts who find “zero day,” or previously unknown security weaknesses, and sell the information to police, […]
Electrify America, an electric vehicle charging network funded with money paid by Volkswagen as punishment for its emissions cheating scandal, says it plans to more than double its number of charging stations throughout the United States and Canada. The expansion will include 1,800 fast-charging stations and 10,000 individual chargers to be installed by 2025 and […]