A security bug at WhatsApp could help bring an end-to-end encryption as owner Facebook has promised. The bug could allow encrypted messages to be intercepted from the popular messaging app. All communications such as text messages, videos and other files flowing the service would be encrypted, WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook in 2014, said last year.…
The hacking expert has been hacked in the United States. Having fallen a victim itself to hackers is Cellebrite, a digital forensics firm known for helping law enforcement crack into locked smartphones. It had obtained 900 gigabytes of data related to the Israel-based company, technology news website Motherboard said on Thursday. Customer information, databases and technical…
With the arrival of a 615-seater superjumbo service for the first time, Emirates is set to boost flights to Hong Kong. According to aviation data tracking service Airline Route, from October 1, the Dubai carrier will commence regular service with the aircraft on its Dubai-Bangkok-Hong Kong service — flights EK384/385. in response to the high demand for travel…
In a world that’s rapidly moving on to music streaming and podcasts, Norway has been left as a lonely beacon of digital-only broadcasting as the Scandinavian country switches off its FM radio network this week and other nations have abandoned similar plans. European nations, which are starting to question the benefits of shutting down analog…
In order for Britain to avoid a systemic economic meltdown, the U.K. government was urged to consider extending Brexit negotiations to a five-year transitional process by London’s financial bosses. In a meeting with MPs at the Treasury select committee, calls for the U.K. government to clarify its future relationship with the European Union (EU) were renewed by the chief…
Ranking Apple Inc. highly even next to fellow “A” grade firms Google and Facebookfor a third consecutive year, activist group Greenpeace has deemed Apple the world’s most environmentally-friendly technology platform company. Companies have been ranked on a range of green credentials, from energy transparency and renewable procurement to energy efficiency and mitigation in the report, Clicking…
Under a proposal presented by the European Union executive, online messaging services that are reliant on advertising such as WhatsApp, iMessage and Gmail will face tougher rules on how they can track users. The web companies would have to get the consent of their customers before tracking them online to target them with personalized advertisements…
A laptop associated with a Vermont electric utility but not connected to the grid, a code associated with a broad Russian hacking campaign dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected, the utility said. “We took immediate action to isolate the laptop and alerted federal officials of this finding,” the Burlington Electric Department…
Japan’s Toshiba is running out of fixes: it is burning cash, cannot issue shares and has few easy assets left to sell, even as it is faced with the prospect of a multi-billion-dollar writedown that could wipe out its shareholders’ equity. By announcing that cost overruns at a U.S. nuclear business bought only last year…
China plans to give a further boost to its economy by spending $503B on expansion of its railways. As China turns to investments in infrastructure to bolster growth and improve connectivity across the country, it plans to spend 3.5 trillion yuan ($503 billion) to expand its railway system by 2020. According to details released at…
