Cybersecurity

The social media company had 229 million users who were served advertising in the first quarter.

Amazon's exceptional growth relies heavily on the massive data it manages to collect from its customers through its devices and services including its website, shopping app, the Kindle e-reader, the Ring doorbell, and Echo smart speaker amongst several others.

The internet giant took down some 63 million Google Docs and terminated over 1,100 Google accounts

The prospect that the company will host several critical applications in its cloud is raising eyebrows in the secretive world of French IT security

NSO has consistently denied any wrongdoing and insisted its software is intended for use by authorities only in fighting terrorism and other crimes.

After several years of back-to-back losses, the company seems set to return to profitability this year.

Washington also offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest or conviction in any country of anyone who tries to join in an attack with DarkSide.

Tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google have stopped, at least temporarily, selling facial recognition software to police forces.

The software company urged its customers to check on their security arrangements

Facebook also added journalists and human rights defenders to the list of people considered public figures because of their work.

The service is suing two users in US federal court, accusing them of orchestrating "hate raids."

Earlier Sunday, Facebook dismissed as "ludicrous" suggestions it contributed to the January 6 riot.

The report comes as an anti-feminist backlash grows in South Korea, with companies accused of endorsing "radical feminism" being boycotted by some men.

In all, officials said, they raked in some 27 million messages on phones which were used "exclusively" by criminals.

FBI director Christopher Wray recently underscored the severity of the problem

To date, reports show that over 15 billion user credentials sourced from more than 100,000 security breaches are now being distributed online.

If left unpatched, hackers will be able to exploit the operating system's permissions to access direct messages.

This was reported by Scam Alert alongside Whale Alert via its new 'crime reporting, tracking and analysis' platform.

A hacking operation likely backed by the Chinese government has targeted global telecommunications companies in order to gain information on high-profile targets.

In the latest in what has been a series of headaches for Facebook, 540 million records have been exposed on Amazon's cloud servers.

If a company or individual is powerful, they are vulnerable to a dangerous cyber attack, and that's where we come in.

Marcus Hutchins was lauded as a hero in 2017 for finding a "kill switch" to the WannaCry virus which crippled computers worldwide.

U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies said the main targets include "government and private-sector organizations," as well as "critical infrastructure" providers.

Stark Riedesel, security consultant at Synopsys, points to a recent scan of Ethereum smart contracts that identified 34,200 vulnerable contracts.

The Internet has transformed the way we live our lives and run our businesses. But with it has come a new, and fast-growing, type of crime.

"We would not be reopening our online stores if we did not feel confident that they are a safe place to shop," the company said.

Security researchers uncovered that the malware infects Android models during manufacturing so users receive already infected phones from the box.

The attack on GitHub, which lasted less than an hour, reportedly exploited memcached servers instead of bots.

First detected in January, GandCrab has been deemed one of the most aggressive forms of ransomware this year.

"Whether they are working on behalf of the government or they're doing it on their own accord with plans to sell the information to a third party, we have no idea," Symantec said.