Month: July 2021

To curb internet addiction and especially reduce the time youngsters under the age of 18 spend playing video games, the gaming giant Tencent has rolled out a time-sensitive facial recognition system in China. The objective of Tencent Games’ facial recognition function is to prevent children masquerading as adults from getting around a government rule for underage gamers
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For years, security professionals have recognized the need to enhance SaaS security. However, the exponential adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications over 2020 turned slow-burning embers into a raging fire. Organizations manage anywhere from thirty-five to more than a hundred applications. From collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams to mission-critical applications like SAP and Salesforce,
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Criminals in Brazil were stealing iPhone handsets not to resell them but to access people’s bank account details and then steal their money, according to a report published last month. These criminals were no ordinary elements. They could steal money from people’s accounts within hours of robbing them of their iPhone devices. Such cases had
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Transform 2021 Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy. July 12-16 Register Today Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week revealed that it has acquired Ampool, a provider of a distributed SQL engine based on the open source
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Decades after burnishing his reputation as a wealthy daredevil mogul in a series of boating and hot-air balloon expeditions, Richard Branson is poised to promote his burgeoning astro-tourism venture by launching himself to the final frontier. Branson’s Virgin Galactic is due on Sunday to send the company’s passenger rocket plane, the VSS Unity, on its first
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While it’s a norm for phishing campaigns that distribute weaponized Microsoft Office documents to prompt victims to enable macros in order to trigger the infection chain in the background, new findings indicate that macro security warnings can be disabled entirely without requiring any user interaction. In yet another instance of malware authors continue to evolve
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Facebook “misplaced” guidance on an important exemption to its rules on dangerous individuals and organisations for three years, the company’s independent oversight board said on Thursday. The board, which was created by the company to rule on a small slice of contentious content decisions, said it had overturned Facebook’s original removal of an Instagram post
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Ubisoft has officially confirmed the existence of a new Assassin’s Creed game codenamed Infinity, after a report detailed the new online service-based game. According to The Verge, while Ubisoft’s announcement doesn’t shed much light on what form the new game will take, reports claim that it will be an evolving online game similar to the likes of Fortnite
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Transform 2021 Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy. July 12-16 Register Today Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Recently, I keynoted LogPoint‘s customer conference with a talk about how to extract value from security data. Pretty much every company out there has tried
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Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday took the wraps off a new, ongoing espionage campaign targeting corporate networks in Spanish-speaking countries, specifically Venezuela, to spy on its victims. Dubbed “Bandidos” by ESET owing to the use of an upgraded variant of Bandook malware, the primary targets of the threat actor are corporate networks in the South American
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Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, and Alphabet’s Google, as well as their chief executives, alleging they unlawfully silence conservative viewpoints. The lawsuits, filed in US District Court in Miami, allege the California-based social media platforms violated the right to freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment of
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