The IDC predicts that overall spending on technology will drop by 5.1 percent this year. The ongoing corona crisis is forcing companies to cut IT spending. The IDC originally predicted that IT spending would grow by 5 percent this year. The company revised the prediction in March after... Read more
4 years ago
ICANN blocks the sale of the .org domain to investment company Ethos Capital. Last year, the organisation announced that the Internet Society would sell the subsidiary Public Interest Registry (PIR) to Ethos for one billion dollars. According to ICANN, it's unacceptable that the domain would mov... Read more
4 years ago
Hackers used a backdoor in Google Play for years to steal sensitive data. Researchers from security firm Kaspersky Labs published these results. Kaspersky's research team discovered at least eight Google Play apps with backdoors dating back to 2018. Based on archive research, the resea... Read more
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Researchers have discovered a new form of Android malware that steals user data from financial applications. Security researchers at Cybereason discovered the new malware in March and named it 'EventBot'. EventBot is described as an information stealer, and a trojan focused on mobile banking. Th... Read more
4 years ago
The first version of Apple and Google's API to trace possible contact with people infected by the coronavirus should be available next week. This emerged from a conversation between Apple CEO Tim Cook and Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market. Breton shared a photo of his... Read more
4 years ago
Video conferencing app Zoom is going to work with Luta Security, the company that also worked with Microsoft and the Pentagon, to improve security. Through a bug bounty program, the number of vulnerabilities in the app should be reduced faster. Luta Security has used a similar approach in the pa... Read more
4 years ago
New documents presented in the court case between Facebook and the spyware manufacturer NSO Group show how Facebook attempted to buy spyware (Pegasus) from the Israeli group years ago. This could potentially have been used to better monitor iOS users. Facebook filed a lawsuit against the NSO Gro... Read more
4 years ago
Internet traffic to and from large global content delivery networks has recently been unintentionally diverted through the Russian telecom operator Rostelcom. This was done with a classic BGP hijacking. The incident occurred last week, according to ZDNet. Concretely, internet traffic to and from... Read more
4 years ago
Recently, there has been quite some commotion around the Zoom app for video conferencing, which is now widely used as a collaboration tool during the corona crisis. Several security leaks were found in the app, which sometimes seriously compromised the privacy of users. Because we sometimes couldn'... Read more
4 years ago
The number of daily Zoom users passed the 200 million mark in March. Before the coronavirus outbreak, the record was about 10 million users in one day, according to Zoom-CEO Eric Yuan. The use of Zoom and other forms of digital communication has increased exponentially in many countries since th... Read more
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