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
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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
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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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Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, Google will immediately reverse the recently added privacy feature regarding samesite cookies. This is to prevent that certain websites are suddenly no longer accessible to users. At the beginning of this year, Google introduced the feature for a number o... Read more
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In a letter, Amazon top executive Jeff Bezos writes that extra jobs will be created at Amazon. According to Bezos, because of the corona crisis a lot more is being ordered, which in the short term will result in 100,000 extra jobs at Amazon. According to the top man, these jobs can be filled by the... Read more
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In an effort to speed up testing for the coronavirus, Amazon Web Services is making 20 million dollars available to organisations researching testing methods. In the current situation, it often takes more than a full day for a patient's test results to arrive. Research institutes and private com... Read more
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The chairmanship of Microsoft's board of directors was managed by Bill Gates until early 2014, after which he stepped back and remained on the board. Until now, as Gates is also resigning to that position in order to focus more on his own institution. In 2008 Gates already took a first step back... Read more
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The corona virus outbreak is now officially a pandemic, and companies are obviously noticing the consequences. According to research bureau IDC, the financial consequences will specifically be noticeable in IT. IDC initially expected a 4% growth in IT spending in 2020, but due to the effects of ... Read more
4 years ago
Recording a telephone call using Amazon Transcribe is a feature that, according to AWS, is already possible in 31 languages (of which six in real-time) for organisations like call centres. However, the service had one drawback: it actually recorded all calls word for word, including sensitive data ... Read more
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Google rolled out the first preview of Android 11 today. The preview is meant for developers who can test their apps earlier on the new Android version. This way they can guarantee compatibility with the new version for users. There is a strong emphasis on privacy and security in the new version... Read more
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