Tech Data, a Fortune 500 company and one of the biggest supplies of IT solutions, recently came under fire after receiving an email from two cybersecurity experts. According to the inflammatory email, the company leaked at least 260GB of sensitive data. Inside sources reveal that that data was stored on …
Read More »Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Face Recognition Experiment After FT Investigation
At the beginning of this week, Microsoft pulled the plug on MS Celeb, a facial recognition database containing more than 10 million images. The decision came after the Financial Times’ investigation concluded that Microsoft’s picture-gathering methods infringed upon the General Data Protection Regulation. Microsoft denied any legal implication and stated …
Read More »Microsoft Joins Forces with NSA to Stop BlueKeep
The BlueKeep situation seems to have blown out of proportion; or, at least, that’s how it looks after the National Security Agency (NSA) decided to join efforts with Microsoft in an attempt to stop the spread of BlueKeep. The latest reports reveal that over one million machines are at risk. …
Read More »Facebook Joins Trump’s Crusade Against Huawei
Earlier this week, Facebook announced that Huawei would no longer be allowed to pre-install certain apps on smartphones. This includes Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. With Google rescinding Huawei’s license and now Facebook pulling the plug, it’s a wonder how Huawei still manages to stay afloat. The ban only applies …
Read More »Apple Announces Hot Fix for Zero-Day Synthetic Click Vulnerability
Apple recently revealed that a hotfix had been rolled out for MacOS Mojave. The patch is aimed to fix a synthetic click vulnerability. As the company explained, this issue would have allowed hackers to dismiss on-screen security prompts. Patrick Wardle, a former NSA security researcher and the one who discovered …
Read More »Hackers Cripple Thousands of Servers with Cutting-Edge Crypto Miners
An Israeli-based cybersecurity company announced the discovery of a full-fledged crypto mining crusade that crippled at least 50,000 servers around the world. In a blog post dated May the 29th, Guardicore stated that the attack wave, dubbed the Nansh0u Campaign, uses cutting-edge algorithms in infect servers and computers. No one …
Read More »Apple Supercharges Siri To Deal With Spam and Robocalls
The Cupertino tech giant recently announced that a huge milestone in spam filtering had been reached. In a bid to reduce the number of spam and fake calls, Apple has granted Siri the ability to deal with such nuisances. This is the latest feature of iOS 13, the latest version …
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