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The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revoke and terminate China Telecom (Americas) Corp’s authorization to provide international telecommunications services to and from the US. The DoJ is doing this on behalf of President Donald Trump’s new Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications […] More
Image: Zoom, ZDNet The US Senate and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs have become the latest organizations to advise staff against using the Zoom video conferencing app. According to a report from the Financial Times, the US Senate sergeant at arms sent an advisory last week warning Senate members and their respective staff against […] More
Bugcrowd has secured $30 million in a Series D funding round launched on the back of strong business growth. On Thursday, the vulnerability disclosure platform said the investment round was led by Rally Ventures and will help the company accelerate its growth, of which there has been a 100% increase in bookings across the US […] More
More than 3.5 million iOS users have installed “fleeceware” apps on their devices, UK security firm Sophos warned in a report published earlier this week. The term fleeceware is a new addition to the cyber-security jargon and describes apps engaging in a new form of online fraud. Coined last year by Sophos researchers, the term […] More
Cryptocurrency exchange Bisq halted trading following a cyberattack leading to the theft of $250,000 worth of virtual currency from users. The decentralized exchange said on Wednesday that trading would be temporarily halted while a hotfix was implemented to resolve a “critical security vulnerability.” As a peer-to-peer network, Bisq users could override this alert and thee […] More
Even the biggest tech companies have major IT disasters because engineers fail to foresee that a seemingly minor event might overload a vulnerable system. If your job involves protecting IT infrastructure, it could well be worth reading Google’s new and free 500-page book detailing numerous failures affecting Google’s internal systems and products like YouTube. […] More
Image: ZDNet, Google Internet web infrastructure company Cloudflare announced plans to drop support for Google’s reCAPTCHA service and move to a new bot detection provider named hCaptcha. Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said the move was motivated by Google’s future plans to charge for the use of the reCAPTCHA service, which would have “added […] More
Singapore is setting aside SG$125 million ($70.89 million) to help its financial services industry (FSI) and fintech firms boost their digital capabilities and drive their deployment of digital tools. The funds also will offer financial support for workforce training and manpower costs. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Wednesday said the package aimed to […] More
