Russia based and backed hackers have been trying to steal information about the research on vaccines against the novel cooronavirus with the pandemic surging again across the world, alleged the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. So far more than 585,000 people have been killed so far while infecting a total of more than…
Social media company Twitter confirmed on Friday that the latest hacking incident of its platform had targeted 130 accounts in the unprecedented attack. The company added that “for a small subset of these accounts, the attackers were able to gain control of the accounts and then send Tweets from those accounts”. Passwords of the accounts…
A new report has claimed that incidents of piracy have doubled across Asia which has caused “deep concern”. In the first half of the year, there were 50 incidents in the region compared to 25 such incidents in the same period a year ago. Between January and June, there have been 16 incidents in the…
In addition to ending the special trade status for Hong Kong, United States president Donald Trump also signed an executive order to impose stricter sanctions targeting Chinese businesses and officials in reaction to the new Chinese national security law being imposed in Hong Kong at the beginning of this month. While condemning the move, China…
A lawsuit seeking class action status has alleged that even after users of alphabet Inc’s Google’s apps follow the company’s recommended settings for stopping monitoring of what they are doing, the company continues to record the activities of on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps. The law suit against Google has been filed by the…
According to data released by the app-analytics firm SensorTower, after United Based tech giant and iPhone maker Apple Inc closed a loophole to comply with Chinese licence requirements, authorities in China have removed more than 2,500 mobile games from Apple’s China app store. This was done in the first week of July and it as…
In a reversal of sorts, the United Kingdom has directed all telecom companies of the country to remove all components and equipment from the Chinese telecom equipment making giant Huawei from their 5G networks by 2027. This has renewed a clash between London and Beijing. Additionally, after the end of the current year, UK telecom…
The Chinese video sharing app TikTok was first banned and then unbanned within hours from the mobile phones of its employees by Amazon last week. The largest e-copmmerce company of the world said that the move was done by mistake. There was widespread attention for the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok by the move by…
Up to $1 billion is being planned to be invested by the Taiwanese chip maker and Apple Inc’ largest contract manufacturer Foxconn in the expansion of its factory in of expand a factory in Southern India where the firm assembles iPhones for Apple, said a report from the news agency Reuters quoting sources with knowledge…
With the aim of reducing its dependence on the saturated smartphone market of the world, Japan Display is no aiming to expanding of its automotive display business. The urgency of the need for the strategy of the Japanese firm can be gauged from the fact that about 60 per cent of its revenues are generated…
