If organizations want to get serious about software security, they need to empower their engineers to play a defensive role against cyberattacks as they craft their code. The problem is, developers haven’t had the most inspiring introduction to security training over the years, and anything that can be done to make their experience more engaging,
Month: November 2020
A former Facebook employee told a Delhi Assembly panel that violence in the national capital in February this year could have been easily averted if the social media giant had acted in a proactive and prompt manner. The Committee on Peace and Harmony, headed by Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha, had summoned the former
iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max are now on sale in India and global markets. Both new iPhone models were launched alongside iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro last month and went on pre-orders last week. While iPhone 12 mini offers a compact chassis, iPhone 12 Pro Max carries the largest display ever
Disney India is gearing up to launch its own online store at ShopDisney.in, which will offer products from all of its biggest brands: Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and Disney itself. But there are no details on what products will be offered. It’s unclear if this will merely offer everything Disney India currently sells elsewhere but
Maintain your employer brand in a pandemic Read the VentureBeat Jobs guide to employer branding Download eBook The need to pursue racial justice is more urgent than ever, especially in the technology industry. The far-reaching scope and power of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) means that any gender and racial bias at the
A group of academics from the University of California and Tsinghua University has uncovered a series of critical security flaws that could lead to a revival of DNS cache poisoning attacks. Dubbed “SAD DNS attack” (short for Side-channel AttackeD DNS), the technique makes it possible for a malicious actor to carry out an off-path attack,
In a letter to employees, TikTok India Head Nikhil Gandhi said the company has taken steps to comply with data privacy and security requirements and is optimistic about a positive outcome. PUBG Mobile’s announcement on Thursday where it talked about new security arrangements and customisation for India could point to a path back to the
Apple has released the first developer beta of iOS 14.3 that suggests a series of features coming to iPhone users. These include ProRAW photo format for the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, a new Home app, and an option to consider Ecosia as a new default search option. The iOS 14.3 beta
Google has introduced a new feature on Gmail that will allow users to pin a specific Google Chat conversation. It will also be possible to pin a ‘room’ to the top of the list. The conversation or room will be pinned to the top of the list view in Gmail and the pinned messages can
Tony Xu, co-founder and chief executive officer of DoorDash Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images DoorDash, the leading food delivery app in the U.S., filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The company will list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “DASH.”
Nintendo Switch sales crossed 735,000 units in the US in the month of October, the company revealed. These numbers shared by NPD include both Nintendo Switch, that launched in 2017, and Nintendo Switch Lite, that launched last year. Nintendo also states that the October 2020 numbers are the second-highest October sales of any video game
Jul.21 — IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Ethereum Network, discusses Bitcoin and the landscape for initial coin offerings. He speaks with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Technology.”
Maintain your employer brand in a pandemic Read the VentureBeat Jobs guide to employer branding Download eBook Menlo Security, a provider of endpoint-free cloud solutions that protect organizations from cyberthreats, today raised $100 million at an $800 million valuation. The company says the proceeds will be put toward go-to-market, sales, and global expansion efforts. According
Disney+ Hotstar now has over 18.5 million paid subscribers, taking the global subscriber base of Disney+ up to 73.7 million. Disney’s senior executive vice president and chief financial officer Christine McCarthy revealed those numbers during the entertainment giant’s quarterly earnings call on Thursday. Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar added over 16 million subscribers this past quarter
Complexity is the bane of effective cybersecurity. The need to maintain an increasing array of cybersecurity tools to protect organizations from an expanding set of cyber threats is leading to runaway costs, staff inefficiencies, and suboptimal threat response. Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with limited budgets and staff are significantly impacted. On average, SMEs manage
Instagram and Facebook Messenger are getting their own version of ephemeral messaging with the introduction of Vanish Mode. Disappearing messages were once a Snapchat signature, although now versions of this exist across platforms including WhatsApp and Telegram. Instagram has also brought changes to its homepage. The Reels tab, which was launched recently in India, is
iPhone 12 Pro Max teardown video has been released on Weibo ahead of its global availability and gives us a glimpse of its internal components. Most importantly, it shows the battery capacity of the most premium model of the latest iPhone series. Apple is currently taking pre-orders for the iPhone 12 Pro Max, while its
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before the House Financial Services Committee on “An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors” in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC on October 23, 2019. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on
Xiaomi Mi TV Stick and Mi Box 4K buyers this Diwali festive season will get multiple offers and discounts on premium streaming services. Up to Rs. 2,400 worth of benefits are on offer across various streaming services. The Mi TV Stick and Mi Box 4K were launched earlier this year and are the company’s first
Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent reported an 89 percent rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, with its blockbuster game Honour of Kings and solid advertising businesses helping it to beat forecasts and lifting its shares. The world’s largest gaming firm by revenue has benefited from healthy growth of paying users for video games in
Best practices for a successful AI Center of Excellence A guide for both CoEs and business units Download Guide As the pandemic wears on, humanoid robots that can perform general tasks could become increasingly important. They can move heavy objects in warehouses, assist with last-yard deliveries, and potentially be involved in other tasks where low
Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new kind of modular backdoor that targets point-of-sale (POS) restaurant management software from Oracle in an attempt to pilfer sensitive payment information stored in the devices. The backdoor — dubbed “ModPipe” — impacts Oracle MICROS Restaurant Enterprise Series (RES) 3700 POS systems, widely used software suite restaurants, and hospitality establishments
Facebook on Wednesday said its post-election ban on political advertisements would likely last another month, raising concerns from campaigns and groups eager to reach voters for key Georgia races in January that will decide control of the Senate. The ban, one of Facebook’s measures to combat misinformation and other abuses on its site, was supposed
Google Play store has been found to be the main distribution vector for malware on Android phones. Research conducted by NortonLifeLock and the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid found that 67.2 percent of the malicious app installs came from Google Play. However, the researches pointed out that this was due to the huge volume of
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X are now available around the world — even as those of us in India are still waiting on a release date for Sony’s next-gen console — and that means a lot of new games have been launched alongside. There’s no point to a new console if people can’t
Best practices for a successful AI Center of Excellence A guide for both CoEs and business units Download Guide Google has officially debuted its new database migration service (DMS) today, designed to make it easier for Google Cloud customers to transfer their MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases to Google’s fully-managed Cloud SQL database service.
A hackers-for-hire operation has been discovered using a strain of previously undocumented malware to target South Asian financial institutions and global entertainment companies. Dubbed “CostaRicto” by Blackberry researchers, the campaign appears to be the handiwork of APT mercenaries who possess bespoke malware tooling and complex VPN proxy and SSH tunneling capabilities. “CostaRicto targets are scattered
Mmhmm, the video camera app that was launched in beta by former Evernote CEO Phil Libin in July, is now generally available for Mac users. The app debuted at the time when virtual meetings were at a new height, owing to the coronavirus outbreak in the global markets. Although Libin decided to go with an
Apple could reportedly be launching new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops, all powered by its new in-house M1 chip, in 2021. According to a report, the Cupertino company could also be looking at launching a 24-inch iMac as well as a smaller Mac Pro workstation in the coming year. Unveiling the M1 SoC at
Dec.20 — Apple has engineers from the aerospace, satellite and antenna design industries working on a satellite technology project. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports.
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