Peter Wennink, the CEO of the EU’s highest-valued tech company said that Europe should not block exports of high-end technology to China, because doing so will only speed up Beijing’s plans to become superior in tech. The head of the Dutch chip printing giant ASML said that the EU should get... Read more
3 years ago
This week, Cloudflare offered $100,000 for evidence of prior art to nullify the patent infringement lawsuits it's facing. As reported in The Reporter, Sable Networks sued Cloudflare and five other companies in March, claiming they ripped off four patents belonging to Caspian that involved direct... Read more
3 years ago
Homebrew, an alternative package manager for macOS, contained a vulnerability that allowed attackers to run their own code on computers running the software. The team behind the package manager has now released a patch. Security researcher RyotaK published a blog post about the vulnerability in ... Read more
3 years ago
Hackers have managed to add malware to an update package of the password manager Passwordstate. The malware is believed to have stolen data from infected computers. Victims are advised to install the hotfix as soon as possible. The hack came to light when Click Studios, the developer of Password... Read more
3 years ago
UiPath, the automation technology startup, jumped 23% in trading on Wednesday, after its initial public offering raised $1.4 billion. The company sold 23.9 million Class A shares at $56 per share, late Tuesday, according to a report by Reuters. UiPath had announced on Tuesday that the shares wou... Read more
3 years ago
Facebook wants to deflect attention from its recent data breach by creating an image that scraping incidents occur across the industry. Meanwhile, a new tool has surfaced that can retrieve the email addresses of Facebook users. The new media strategy is was leaked from an internal email held by ... Read more
3 years ago
British authorities have the legal means to break into vulnerable Exchange servers to remove possible malware. This would allow them to mimic a similar operation to that of the FBI. However, some legal hurdles remain, so unlikely that such an action would actually be performed. Last week the new... Read more
3 years ago
Codecov, a company offering software auditing services, has fallen victim to a hack. The attacker appears to have been able to modify the company's software. The American government has launched an investigation. In an announcement about the hack, Codecov says that on April 1, 2021, the company ... Read more
3 years ago
Google Project Zero has added a 30-day period to the 90-day period in which it releases details of zero-days. The initiative still gives companies 90 days to release patches, but users will then have 30 days to install them. In a blog post, Project Zero says that the initiative is adjusting its ... Read more
3 years ago
A coalition of human rights organisations is asking European lawmakers to set strict rules for WhatsApp and Skype. The organisations believe that some countries in the EU are weakening privacy rights. The coalition consists of thirty human rights organisations, including Amnesty International an... Read more
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