The new Windows malware uses to steal passwords and reaches targets via ads for cracked software. MosaicLoader, as researchers dubbed it, can also deliver trojan malware and install crypto miners. According to specialists, attackers try to sell access to Windows PCs to…
Google free services threat might mean a new beginning
August 17, 2020
Australian users might use Google free services only as… paid services, the company announced. These would include everything, even the search results.
This is the result of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) ruling that the company…
Employees could only return to their Google offices on July 2021. The company made this decision for most of its staff, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned that the company will extend the work from home option until June 30, next year. Still, this…
Microsoft released its first optional Windows 10 update, since it decided to pause them in March, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the company announced last month, July would see the return of the optional Windows 10 cumulative updates for Windows 1809 and later. Usually…
A new TikTok competitor comes from Instagram, the company announced. The video-sharing feature – Reels, is going to be available in the United States and fifty other countries. The announcement comes just one week after the company started testing the platform in India.
Sundar Pichai, the CEO for Google and Alphabet, announced the “Digitization Fund” plan for India. Thus, the company will invest $10bn in partnerships, ecosystem, operations and infrastructure.
In his post, Pichai emphasized that the company intends to create “new…
Facebook developed an exploit tool, in order to help FBI hack a man for harassing girls on the social network.
The hacking tool exploits a flaw in Tails
Facebook mentioned that it had been tracking the man from California for years. He was using the secure operating system…
Remote work seems to have increased productivity of the employees, during the pandemic. Although there were security issues and concerns regarding this way of working, more than 38% of the companies in the U.S.A. observed productivity gains. Moreover, 84% of them consider…
For mishandling user information, Canada’s Competition Bureau established a new fine for Facebook. The Bureau decided a penalty of 6.5 million USD. This is far smaller than the one that international regulators decided in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The decision…
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that four US communications giants sold users’ location data. So, the commission suggested it might fine the nation’s four major wireless carriers, for selling the data without safeguards to prevent misuse. AT&T…