Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are actively targeting academia, government agencies, and tourism entities in the Middle East and neighboring regions as part of an espionage campaign aimed at data theft. Dubbed “Earth Vetala” by Trend Micro, the latest finding expands on previous research published by Anomali last month, which found evidence of malicious
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VinTeam is one of the finalists in the XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge, which focuses on the development of data-driven AI systems to predict COVID-19 infection rates, and plan interventions. VinTeam is made up of Mudit Jain, a software engineering lead at Google, and Biplab Deka, PhD from the University of Illinois, UC. The duo have
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Bug bounty platform HackerOne is touting its enterprise growth over the past year, when businesses underwent major digital transformations due to the pandemic. The San Francisco-based company said its hacker community grew to more than 1 million users and helped drive
Oppo F19 Pro+ and Oppo F19 Pro were launched in India on Monday. The new Oppo F19 Pro- series phones come with quad rear cameras and feature Super AMOLED displays. Both models also have Android 11 out-of-the-box. In the series, the Oppo F19 Pro+ also supports 5G connectivity and is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 800U.
WhatsApp is bringing password-protected, encrypted chat backups for iCloud and Google Drive, according to a report. The new update, which is said to be currently in the works, would allow users to keep their WhatsApp chat backups protected from unauthorised access by using a password. Right now, your chats are end-to-end encrypted on your phone
Russia accused Facebook on Monday of violating citizens’ rights by blocking some media outlets’ content in the latest standoff between a government and Big Tech. Communications watchdog Roskomnadzor at the weekend threatened Facebook with a minimum RUB 1 million (roughly Rs. 10 lakhs) fine and demanded it restore access to content posted by TASS news agency,
International Women’s Day 2021 is today, and Facebook has launched a special logo that celebrates diversity and inclusion on the occasion. The Facebook homepage turns into a special Women’s Day logo when you tap on it and redirects you to a page that groups together all posts with hashtags related to International Women’s Day 2021
The power of audio From podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices. Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Harm wrought by AI tends to fall most heavily on
Garmin Lily has launched in India on the occasion of Women’s Day. The Lily is a new fashion smartwatch for women, and is said to have been designed by women. It features a 14mm slender strap for smaller wrists. It includes women-centric features like pregnancy tracking, menstrual cycle tracking, and offers workout modes like pilates.
Samsung Galaxy A52 live images seem to have been leaked on Twitter. The leaked images show the design of the Samsung phone, along with its retail box and key specifications. The Galaxy A52 is expected to come with an IP67-certified dust- and water-resistant design. Separately, the Samsung Galaxy A72 has been tipped to come with
The interface of the app Meitu is displayed on a mobile phone in Yichang, central China’s Hubei province, Feb 22, 2021. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images Meitu, a Chinese company that makes a photo editing app, has purchased bitcoin and ether, becoming the latest firm to buy cryptocurrencies. The Hong Kong-listed company said
Watch Dogs: Legion online is facing more problems. Just ahead of its release date — Watch Dogs: Legion online goes live March 9 — Ubisoft has announced that the co-op online multiplayer component of the latest Watch Dogs title won’t be available at launch on PC due to issues with “certain GPUs”. That is also
Mar.04 — Michael Novogratz, a long-time proponent of cryptocurrencies through his firm Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd., said Bitcoin and other digital coins have become “an institutional asset class” and banks are “frantically” trying to get in on the action. He spoke with Emily Chang and Sonali Basak on “Bloomberg Technology.”
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Paytm, the homegrown digital payments app, provides a wide array of services to users that range from paying utility bills to booking flight tickets. Uses can also carry out mobile recharges for their operators via Unified Payment Interface (UPI) through the app. Just like any other mobile recharging app, users can either recharge their own
Avoiding online payment fraud while using UPI apps or e-wallets is becoming increasingly difficult with the growing volume of online transaction in India. Total number of transactions made through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in February 2021 was 2.29 billion, according to data provided by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). And as more
Experts agree that lowering our carbon emissions is no longer enough. In a 2018 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that, if we are to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst effects of climate change, we need to actually remove between 100 to 1,000 gigatons of carbon dioxide from
The power of audio From podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices. Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. There has been more than a modicum of buzz around
Thousands of Android and iOS apps exposed user data due to commonly found cloud misconfigurations, according to a mobile security firm. The issues could allow malicious attackers to exploit the leaked information. The researchers found misconfiguration problems on apps using popular public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Among
NFT or Non-Fungible Tokens are cryptocurrency assets that represent a wide range of unique items, both physical and virtual like real estate or digital art. NFTs are unique – like a real artwork, an NFT uses the blockchain to identify its authenticity, so you can tell the difference between an original or a replica. They
Facebook has taken down 185 accounts and groups engaged in an information-influencing operation in Thailand run by the military, the company said on Wednesday, the first time it has removed Thai accounts with ties to the government. The Thailand-based network removed in the latest sweep of “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on the platform included 77 accounts,
The power of audio From podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices. Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The benefits of cloud computing are well understood — it
Realme 8 Pro has been reportedly spotted in a US FCC listing, hinting at some specifications. Realme 8 Pro and the vanilla Realme 8 will be successors to the Realme 7 series that launched in September last year. The two phones were recently teased by the company’s India and Europe CEO Madhav Sheth and are
Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey gestures while interacting with students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi on November 12, 2018. Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty Images Jack Dorsey appears to be offering to sell the very first tweet as a non-fungible token, or NFT. The Twitter CEO shared a
Mar.03 — Jesse Powell, founder and CEO of Kraken, explains how he believes that Bitcoin will eventually replace all of the world’s currencies. He speaks to Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology.”
South Africa’s information regulator has protested WhatsApp’s plans to share user data with Facebook, vowing to engage directly with the popular messaging app to ensure its compliance to national privacy laws. In January, WhatsApp asked all its users to accept new terms allowing it to share more private information with its parent company Facebook for
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Sitecore, a provider of digital experience management software, this week announced it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Boxever, whose customer data platform (CDP) is accessed via the cloud, and Four51, which offers an ecommerce platform invoked using application
OnePlus The Final Horizon Sale is live and brings discounts on OnePlus Power Bank, OnePlus Buds Z, and OnePlus Buds. The name of the sale leads into the teaser “Something is new on the horizon” that the company shared a few days ago and is expected to be the launch date announcement for the OnePlus
Justice League Snyder Cut will cost Rs. 149 to rent and Rs. 689 to buy on BookMyShow Stream, the ticketing platform has announced. Pre-orders are now live. We also have the exact release time: Zack Snyder’s Justice League will be available March 18 at 1:31pm IST. Pricing is not yet available for any other platforms
Marc Benioff, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., speaks during the opening keynote of the 2019 DreamForce conference in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2019. Salesforce.com Inc.s annual software conference, where it introduces new products and discusses its commitment to social causes, was interrupted for the second year in a row by protests