Ten people belonging to a criminal network have been arrested in connection with a series of SIM-swapping attacks that resulted in the theft of more than $100 million by hijacking the mobile phone accounts of high-profile individuals in the U.S. The Europol-coordinated year-long investigation was jointly conducted by law enforcement authorities from the U.K., U.S.,
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Twitter CEO and Co-Founder Jack Dorsey on Friday announced that he was giving BTC 500 (approximately Rs. 172 crores) along with American rapper Shawn Corey Carter — famously known as Jay-Z — to launch a new endowment called Btrust. It will be aimed at funding Bitcoin development, with initial focus in Africa and India, the
In a move that will give chills to fans of the dystopian movie The Matrix, scientists have developed a wearable device that could use the human body to replace batteries. Echoing world-domineering robots’ use of enslaved humans in the 1999 cyberpunk movie, US researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created an environmentally-friendly gadget that
Data: Meet ad creative From TikTok to Instagram, Facebook to YouTube, and more, learn how data is key to ensuring ad creative will actually perform on every platform. Register Now A battle for dominance over observability in the enterprise intensified this week with both New Relic and Dynatrace providing updates that expand the number of
Leher, the social media app that launched in 2018, has started gaining attention among Indian users. It has been considered as an Indian alternative to audio-only chat app Clubhouse that recently gained popularity in the tech industry globally — thanks to its usage by eminent personalities including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Facebook co-founder Mark
Valentine’s Day 2021 sees a unique challenge for people’s dating lives. Pandemic-hit 2020 drove us all back to the confined spaces of our home, and meeting new people and going on dates became a challenge. With Valentine’s Day 2021 around the corner, it might be a good time to check out some dating apps. Here
May.08 — Byron Allen, Entertainment Studios chief executive officer, comedian and onetime TV host, discusses his investment in Sinclair Broadcast Group’ acquisition of Fox’s regional sports networks, and his company’s plans to buy four TV stations in Indiana and Louisiana. He speaks on “Bloomberg Technology.”
In the era of hacking and malicious actors, a company’s cloud security posture is a concern that preoccupies most, if not all, organizations. Yet even more than that, it is the SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) that is critical to today’s company security. Recently Malwarebytes released a statement on how they were targeted by Nation-State
India’s technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday warned US social media firms to abide by the country’s laws, a day after a face-off between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration and Twitter over content regulation. Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad called out Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp by name and said
Data: Meet ad creative From TikTok to Instagram, Facebook to YouTube, and more, learn how data is key to ensuring ad creative will actually perform on every platform. Register Now Sorting through the hype surrounding quantum computing these days isn’t easy for enterprises trying to figure out the right time to jump in. Skeptics say
Samsung Galaxy A52 could launch in Vietnam in the last week of March, as per a tipster. A fresh leak suggests the specifications and pricing of the upcoming smartphone, along with the launch details. Samsung Galaxy A52 is expected feature a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED screen. The smartphone has been leaked extensively in the past few
Bob Chapek, CEO of the Walt Disney Company and former head of Walt Disney Parks and Experiences, speaks during a media preview of the D23 Expo 2019 in Anaheim, California, Aug. 22, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg via Getty Images Disney is set to report earnings for the first quarter of 2021 after the
Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) have been cast in HBO’s The Last of Us series adaptation, in the respective lead roles of Joel and Ellie. The Last of Us is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a pandemic results in the creation of the Infected, who are zombies all but
Twitter has withheld the account of Rajya Sabha member Sukhram Singh Yadav, as first reported by MediaNama. This move follows updates provided by the social media platform on its response to the government’s orders to block accounts that allegedly spread misinformation about the farmers’ protest against new farm laws. Twitter mentioned in its response that
Two new Android surveillanceware families have been found to target military, nuclear, and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir as part of a pro-India, state-sponsored hacking campaign. Dubbed Hornbill and Sunbird, the malware impersonates legitimate or seemingly innocuous services to cover its tracks, only to stealthily collect SMS, encrypted messaging app content, and geolocation, among
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said social-media services like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube need clearer laws and rules to govern whether controversial accounts, like former US President Donald Trump’s, have a place on their services, rather than being asked to make free-speech decisions themselves. “Unilateral action by individual companies in democracies like ours is
Data: Meet ad creative From TikTok to Instagram, Facebook to YouTube, and more, learn how data is key to ensuring ad creative will actually perform on every platform. Register Now Immunai, a startup developing an AI platform to analyze the human immune system, today announced that it raised $60 million. The company says it will
Global notebook shipments grew 54 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to a market research firm report. The growth came on the back of increased adoption of remote working and e-learning across major markets worldwide fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report. It said that gaming and remote work drove
Singapore Airline’s Salvatore Ferragamo-branded amenity bag SFO Museum Multiple third-party sellers allegedly advertised and facilitated the sale of counterfeit Salvatore Ferragamo goods on Amazon, according to two joint lawsuits Amazon and the Italian luxury label filed Thursday. The lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington accuse four sellers and three
Asus ROG Strix GA35 and ROG Strix GT35 gaming desktop models have been refreshed with AMD CPUs and latest Nvidia GPUs in India. Both are powered by Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 series GPUs and while the ROG Strix GT35 is powered by a 10th-Gen Intel CPU, the ROG Strix GA35 comes with AMD Ryzen 9
New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof critical infrastructure environments. The breach, which occurred last Friday, involved an unsuccessful attempt on the part of an adversary to increase sodium hydroxide dosage in the water supply
Twitter will not allow former president Donald Trump back on the platform even if he runs for office again, the company’s chief financial officer said Wednesday. “The way our policies work, when you’re removed from the platform, you’re removed from the platform, whether you’re a commentator, a CFO or a current or former public official,”
An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around Mars after a 6-1/2-month journey from Earth, China’s space agency said, in the country’s first independent mission to the red planet. The robotic probe carried out a 15-minute burn of its thrusters at 7:52pm Beijing time (5:22pm IST), the China National Space Administration said in a
Data: Meet ad creative From TikTok to Instagram, Facebook to YouTube, and more, learn how data is key to ensuring ad creative will actually perform on every platform. Register Now Data compliance startup Anecdotes, which provides enterprises with a SaaS information security platform, today announced a $5 million dollar seed round co-led by Aleph and
A Realme smartphone has been spotted in a TENAA listing with model number RMX3161. This could be the Realme Narzo 30 Pro. The listing leaks key specifications of the upcoming phone along with its images. The smartphone is listed with a 6.5-inch LCD display and a 4,880mAh battery. Realme had recently teased the India launch
An executive at Tencent has been held by Chinese authorities as part of a probe into a high-profile corruption case involving one of China’s former top law-enforcement officials, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Shares in the gaming company and Internet powerhouse fell 1.4 percent in early trade in Hong Kong on
Feb.08 — Shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. surged after announcing the company will unite with International Business Machines Corp. in a partnership that will dramatically expand the reach of Palantir’s sales force while making IBM’s own artificial-intelligence software easier for non-technical customers to use. Bloomberg’s Lizette Chapman has more on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close.”
A previously known Windows remote access Trojan (RAT) with credential-stealing capabilities has now expanded its scope to set its sights on users of Android devices to further the attacker’s espionage motives. “The developers of LodaRAT have added Android as a targeted platform,” Cisco Talos researchers said in a Tuesday analysis. “A new iteration of LodaRAT
Canadian e-commerce company Shopify said on Tuesday it would expand its payment option, “Shop Pay,” to all users choosing to sell on Facebook and Instagram. The move marks the first time the feature will be available outside Shopify’s platform and will help the company tap into the rise of shopping through social media platforms during
The United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars is set to reach the red planet and enter its orbit on Tuesday following a seven-month, 494 million km journey, allowing it to start sending data about the Martian atmosphere and climate. This would make the UAE the fifth space agency to reach the planet. The Mars