The award of a lucrative contract to Microsoft (bypassing Amazon Web Services) did not happen after White House interference, according to the watchdog of the U.S. Department of Defense. This is evidenced by a recently published report by the internal watchdog of defense. At the end of 2019, Mic... Read more
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Before the end of the month Microsoft wants to roll out a new feature in their Teams chat service Teams, so the company lets you know on its own website. The update should make it possible to see nine instead of four participants of a call on the screen at the same time. Microsoft Teams is one o... Read more
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For three zero-day vulnerabilities in different versions of Microsoft Windows, a patch was released this week to tighten security. Should the update not be downloaded and installed immediately, Windows users run the risk that hackers could take over their system. Two of the three vulnerabilities... Read more
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Bootstrap, a UI framework for developing websites and business and mobile applications, does no longer support the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE)10 and 11 browsers. This makes it the first web development facilitator to take this step. Bootstrap's decision is an important one. The open-source ... Read more
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The development of the new iPhone 12 is at an advanced stage, according to internal documents held by Bloomberg. The report states that there are four new models on the way, of which the two high-end models will have a design similar to that of the recently announced iPad Pro. The two high-end d... Read more
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Currency Exchange Travelex paid 2.3 million dollars to cybercriminals after a ransomware attack. Travelex's systems were encrypted by ransomware in early January. The company has paid the cyber criminals in question to recover lost data, according to sources from The Wall Street Journal. Not onl... Read more
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Startup Cohesity has raised 250 million dollars in investments, bringing the value of the company to 2.5 billion euros. The investment in the company, which specialises in managing and backing up enterprise data, comes after a revenue growth of 150 percent in the first half of the fiscal year 2020.... Read more
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The login details of more than 500,000 Zoom accounts are offered for sale on the dark web, according to research by Cybersecurity firm Cyble. The data is comprised of e-mail addresses, passwords and meeting IDs of the video conferencing app. Cyble itself tested a number of the accounts offered, ... Read more
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Chat application Zoom will immediately remove the meeting ID from the title bar of the program, after several screenshots recently appeared online of government officials who shared their screen (including call ID and sometimes also password). The privacy of Zoom users has regularly been called ... Read more
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The names of chat applications Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet will be known as Google Chat and Google Meet, as of today. There was no official announcement of the name change, but in a blog post, Google has started using the new names. Changing program names to be more in line with the vendor i... Read more
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