Google’s in-app billing enforcement is delayed due to US lawsuits
Google has been sued by dozens of state attorney generals over Play Store policies. The app store, run by Google, is now delaying the enforcement of one of its most significant recent changes, a requirement that all Play Store apps have to use Google’s in-app billing or get banned.
Developers ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux available with low-cost academia subscription
A reliable and secure operating system should form the foundation of modern workloads, be they critical production applications or research projects. The adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux by businesses, NGOs, organizations across the globe and governments, demonstrates the belief that it is one ...
Coalition of NATO states form coalition against Chinese cyberattacks
A coalition of NATO member states, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan are coming together to reckon with the problem of Chinese state-sponsored hacks.
The first of many actions the new joint effort aims to take includes publicly blaming China’s Ministry of State Security (MS...
Rapid7 acquires IntSights to gain ‘outside the wire’ capabilities
Rapid7, the security automation technology firm, announced that it will pay $335 million in cash and stock to buy the New York-based, privately-held firm, IntSights. The purpose of this acquisition is so Rapid7 can protect customers even before an attack reaches the perimeter.
In a press release...
Amazon shuts down accounts and cloud infrastructure related to NSO Group
Amazon Web Services has shut down cloud infrastructure and accounts linked to the Israeli-based NSO group according to a news report by VICE on Monday.
Recent reports from The Washington Post and other publications revealed that NSO Group’s spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of...
Japanese research team breaks internet record speed at 319Tb/s
Japan announced that an engineering team from the National Institute of Information and Communication technology research group set a new record for internet speed at 319 Terabits per second (Tb/s). This new figure almost doubles the previous world record.
In 2020, the UK and Japanese engineers ...
Chinese processor maker Zhaoxin debuts in QNAP TVS-675
Intel and AMD may be the biggest x86 processors makers, but they are not the only ones, given that a Chinese organization named Zhaoxin has been designing its own x86 chips for a few years now. Until recently, the Zhaoxin chips have only been available in computers sold in the Chinese market.
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Mimecast adds new AI tools to fight phishing attacks
Mimecast, the email security provider, launched an AI-powered add-on for Mimecast Secure Email Gateway (SEG), named Mimecast CyberGraph. The company said the tool detects sophisticated and sneaky phishing impersonation threats.
Mimecast CyberGraph deploys machine-learning technology to detect an...
Windows 10 has five more years to live, with a 21H2 feature update
Microsoft is reminding us that Windows 10 may not be ready to leave us yet. The software giant has promised a feature update for Windows 10, 21H2.
If you are a little confused because the current Windows 11 preview is also known as 21H2, don't be because this update is for Windows 10. It would n...
Nokia and Ericsson granted equal rights to its Spanish 5G bands by Telefonica
On Friday, Telefonica announced that it had awarded a contract for its Spanish 5G radio network to Nokia and Ericsson. In a Solomonic turn of events, the contract gives the two Scandinavian companies equal use of Telefonica’s Spanish 5G bands.
The frequencies in question are 3.5GHz and 700MHz....
Zoom enters all-stock deal to acquire Five9 for $14.7 billion
Zoom Video Communications announced late Sunday that it had made a deal to acquire Five9 Inc, a cloud contact centre provider, in an all-stocks transaction worth $14.7 billion.
Five9 was founded in 2001 and provided the enterprise contact centre market with a software-as-a-service platform, whic...
NSO Group software is being used to spy on journalists and activists
In the latest controversy involving NSO Group Technologies, an Israeli spyware company, it has been uncovered that the company made software that has been used to target activists and journalists.
In an investigation led and published by The Washington Post as well as 16 media partners, the NSO ...