Facebook mother Meta has paid a consultancy firm to set up a campaign against TikTok. Salient detail: many of the ‘dangers’ that the company highlighted about TikTok are said to have originated from Facebook itself. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has traditionally kept the competition […]
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The co-CEO of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix does not rule out the possibility that his company will make an offer for Arm together with others. However, the company emphasises that it is rather a thinking exercise that is far from concrete. SK Hynix is considering forming a consortium […]
Ukraine’s security service SSU says it has shut down more than 100,000 fake social media accounts for spreading disinformation since the war with Russia began. According to the SSU, the network of bots consists of five ‘bot farms’, managing more than 100,000 social media accounts. They would be operated […]
Criminals are more likely to target smaller companies for social engineering attacks. This should be apparent from an investigation by security guard Barracuda. In a report, the company states that an employee at an SME with fewer than 100 employees is on average 3.5 times more likely to be […]
The new feature on Tinder that would allow Americans to investigate matches for possible crimes better was not created by Israeli criminal Simon Leviev. This became known through the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler, in which three victims are interviewed who have sometimes been defrauded for hundreds of thousands […]
Suspect in Kaseya Attack Extradited to US. The man, linked to the REvil gang, must stand trial in the United States. Ukrainian Y. Vasinskyi, 22, was arrested in Poland last November. He is believed to be a member of the REvil ransomware gang that infiltrated and extorted corporate networks worldwide. […]
A preliminary bill obliges Google, Twitter, Facebook and others to better prevent fraudulent advertisements. With these types of ‘ads’, scammers lure you to a fake survey that redirects you to a dangerous website. ‘This was not allowed to be shown on TV’, ‘This well-known Belgian became rich thanks to […]
IBM spin-off Kyndryl and network maker Nokia will collaborate on business networks based on LTE and private 5G. Kyndryl and Nokia want to focus on, among other things, the digitization of factories using machine learning, AI and robotics. Networks are, of course, also needed to connect that technology, and […]
All internet traffic in Cambodia will go through a mandatory government gateway as of this week. The measure gives the regime in the country more options for censorship and surveillance. The gateway was already announced last year but will go into effect this week. In addition, all operators are […]
The shortage of semiconductors and the pandemic disrupted chip production in 2021. However, the top 10 OEMs invested 25.2 percent more in chips. As a result, they accounted for 42.1 percent of the total market. This is according to preliminary figures from Gartner. “Semiconductor sellers shipped more chips in […]
