Facebook posted full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Washington Post, blasting Apple for its upcoming iOS 14 operating system. The ads carried the headline, “We’re standing up to Apple for small businesses everywhere.” The criticism is against Apple’s decisio... Read more
3 years ago
Microsoft has taken a number of measures to prevent the hack on SolarWinds from working. The company has seized a domain and blocked the software with Microsoft Defender. A coalition of several other companies seized the domain avsmcloud.com and made sure it ended up in the hands of Microsoft. T... Read more
3 years ago
The European Union has announced its official plans for the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act. With the legislation, the EU aims to prevent unfair competition in the tech market and protect users' online rights. The new proposals have been published on the EU website. Digital Servi... Read more
3 years ago
The EU has published a resolution on how to deal with encryption, security and privacy in the future. Contrary to previous fears, the Union does not want to prohibit end-to-end encryption or require a backdoor. In the resolution, the EU indicates that it wants to strike a balance between the pos... Read more
3 years ago
Thousands of companies and various government organisations are looking for clues that they have been affected by the hack on the SolarWinds software. Presumably Russian hackers had built a backdoor into the company's Orion software. Some Reuters sources have reported that the hackers have been ... Read more
3 years ago
Security researchers at Blackberry say that a new strain of ransomware has popped up that uses affiliates to spread malware. Since July, the researchers say that MountLocker has been available as ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) and was updated this November to broaden the file types it targets and h... Read more
3 years ago
Bitdefender published a new report that says the stay-at-home model of working, online shopping, and online banking are perfect hunting grounds for criminals. Recently, they have started spoofing banking emails more, hoping to defraud customers. More than a third of all incoming emails related t... Read more
3 years ago
SolarWinds software, which is used by various American organizations, has been hit by an extensive hack. Russia seems to have played an important part in the hack. The New York Times writes that it may well be the biggest hack in the last five years. SolarWinds is in use by parties such as the W... Read more
3 years ago
The deal to buy the world's largest technology distributor is worth $7.2 Billion. Platinum Equity announced this week that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ingram Micro. The latter is the world's largest provider of technology logistics services and solutions. Ingram Mic... Read more
3 years ago
FireEye, a company that provides digital security for other companies, has itself fallen victim to a hack. The hackers captured a tool that was used for pen tests. The company announced the hack in a press release on its website. In it, the company writes that the attack was probably state-spons... Read more
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