Representative Image Social media giant Facebook is expected to face more trouble in India after a former employee accused the US-based company of failing to disclose the existence and removal of “a politically-sophisticated network of more than a thousand actors working to influence” the assembly elections in Delhi earlier this year. A former data scientist […]
Archives for September 2020
Government plans to introduce law to ban cryptocurrency trading
India plans to introduce a new law banning trade in cryptocurrencies, placing it out of step with other Asian economies which have chosen to regulate the fledgling market. The bill is expected to be discussed shortly by the federal cabinet before it is sent to parliament, according to people familiar with the development who who […]
Record transactions worth Rs 5.99 lakh crore via mobile apps in June
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi More Indians used their mobile phones to make payments and to transfer funds in June, than in any previous month since the Reserve Bank of India started recording such data in July 2011. A total of 1.66 billion transactions worth Rs 5.99 lakh crore were processed by various mobile-based banking and payment […]
Fashion etailers, brands look to get back in shape during festivals
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Online fashion and beauty marketplaces Myntra and Nykaa as well as brands are gearing up for a strong rebound this festive season after a weak first half impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, top executives told ET. The fashion and beauty categories were the hardest hit by the nationwide lockdown as people cut […]
Data Breaches Exposes Vets, COVID-19 Patients
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QR Codes Serve Up a Menu of Security Concerns
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VMware Adds Tanzu to vSphere for Quick Kubernetes Onramp
News VMware Adds Tanzu to vSphere for Quick Kubernetes Onramp By David Ramel 09/15/2020 Among several new product updates announced by VMware this week is VMware vSphere 7 Update 1, which further integrates its mainstay virtualization platform with Tanzu, the company’s Kubernetes offering. The company says adding the relatively new and “modern” Tanzu with the […]
IoT managed service providers connect more than 50 million cellular devices
A new report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight says that IoT managed service providers have more than 50 million IoT subscribers worldwide. In Europe and North America, these players hold a combined market share of 15–20 percent. Most IoT managed service providers operate as full MVNOs using their own core networks and […]
MFA bypass allows hackers to infiltrate Microsoft 365
Critical vulnerabilities in multi-factor authentication (MFA) protocols based on the WS-Trust security standard could allow cyber criminals to access various cloud applications including core Microsoft services. Microsoft 365 is the most notable cloud service that can be infiltrated in such a way due to the way the platform’s session login is designed, according to Proofpoint, with hackers able to […]
NFS 4.1 support for Azure Files is now in preview
Azure Files is a distributed cloud file system serving file system SMB and REST protocols generally available since 2015. Customers love how Azure Files enables them to easily lift and shift their legacy workloads to the cloud without any modifications or changes in technology. SMB works great on both Windows and UNIX operating systems for […]