Will Google, Apple and Amazon change after historic antitrust hearing?
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the House Judiciary Antirust Subcommittee as part of an antitrust probe. A historic hearing, as the CEOs faced questions about the power of the tech titans. Eventually the companie... Read more
Should Europe compete for technological world domination?
The United States is in the process of increasing their dominance in the world. It does this by arguing with other countries, starting trade wars and by banning companies, products and services. The technology sector plays a major role in their attempt to stay in the lead. The trade war is focusing... Read more
Microsoft Office 365 is growing and hackers are aware
Researchers from the FireEye Mandiant cybersecurity platform have reported that the most sophisticated hacking operations are now refocusing on attacking Microsoft Office 365.
Office 365 provides endpoint and cloud services, including Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Exchange, Teams, and OneDrive, t... Read more
TikTok is planning to file a lawsuit against ban in U.S.
TikTok has recently become a victim of the ongoing economic trade war between China and the United States. Trump recently revealed he signed an executive order that will ban TikTok in a couple of weeks or force the owners to sell the business, preferably to a company in the United States.
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CIA finds no evidence of Chinese TikTok espionage
According to the U.S. intelligence agency CIA, there is no evidence that the Chinese government gained access to TikTok data. At the same time, the CIA claims that Chinese authorities could intercept the data if they wanted to.
The CIA was recently asked to investigate the threats TikTok poses t... Read more
Enthusiasm but also doubts about Dell’s strategy change
Analysts applaud Dell Technologies' plans to sell its subsidiary VMware. However, the remarkable shift in strategy also creates uncertainty and could have negative long-term effects for both companies.
After weeks of speculation, Dell Technologies confirmed it is exploring a possible spinoff of ... Read more
Trump bans American transactions with TikTok and WeChat
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order prohibiting transactions with ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, within 45 days. A similar order also applies to the Chinese chat service WeChat.
The possibility that Chinese authorities can access data from American citizens via ... Read more
295 malicious Chrome extensions discovered with millions of downloads
Over 80 million Google Chrome users have downloaded at least one malicious extension that steals search results from Google and Bing and inserts ads at the same time, according to research by AdGuard.
AdGuard, a company that provides adblocking solutions, discovered the existence of almost three... Read more
Studies show human errors are the biggest threat to cloud security
According to two recent studies by security providers, the single greatest security threat cloud users face is caused by configuration errors. The second most common type of breach is caused by user error. The study by Verizon Corp.’s 2020 Data Breach Report, shows that misconfigurations are the ... Read more
Microsoft updates Azure AD for users to manage their account security
Azure Active Directory My Sign-Ins is a new feature from Microsoft that reviews and reports unusual behavior based on the sign-in history of enterprise users. The feature allows users to detect any attempts of signing in by guessing the password.
The user will also be able to see whether the att... Read more