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Samsung set to debut Note 20 and Fold 2 at August online-only event
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today announced it will hold its annual Unpacked event Aug. 5, and unsurprisingly in the age of COVID-19, it will be an exclusively online affair. At the annual event, one of two Samsung holds each year, the South Korean smartphone giant is expected to debut the Galaxy Note 20 alongside an ...
IPO Express rolls on: Palantir files confidentially for initial public offering
Joining a slew of recent and upcoming initial public offerings of stock by tech firms, data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. is finally going public. Today the Palo Alto, California-based company disclosed that it has confidentially submitted its S-1 registration form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Reportedly still losing money on reported revenue of $750 ...
Millions of records from dating sites found on misconfigured cloud storage
Information relating to millions of users of data sites have been found exposed online in yet another case of misconfigured cloud storage. Discovered late last week by security researchers at WizCase, the exposed records span up to 11 different dating services, with five identified: Catholic Singles, SPYKX, TESTIKI, the Blurry dating app and Charincharin/Kyuun-Kyuun. Data found on the ...
Study finds home routers unpatched and full of known vulnerabilities
A new study into commonly used home routers has discovered a range of known security vulnerabilities with manufacturers failing to issue security updates to patch them. The study recently released by the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication involved 127 routers from seven manufacturers: AsusTek Computer Inc., Netgear Inc., D-Link Corp., Linksys, TP-Link Technologies Co. Ltd., Zyxel Communications Corp. ...
FBI extradites Nigerian man who allegedly stole millions in business email compromise scams
A Nigerian Instagram “influencer” has been extradited to the U.S. after being arrested in Dubai last week on multiple allegations of money laundering, hacking, identity theft and bank fraud. Raymon Abbas (pictured), known online as Hushpuppi, had 2.4 million Instagram followers at the time he was arrested, with the account showing various photos of him ...
Arca gains SEC approval for blockchain-based US Treasury Fund
Digital asset investment firm Arca today gained approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a new investment product that combines Treasury securities with blockchain management. Called the Arca U.S. Treasury Fund, the fund invests 80% of its portfolio assets in interest-bearing, short-duration U.S. Treasury securities, with investors being paid quarterly interest. That’s where similarities ...
Report: UK planning to remove Huawei equipment from its 5G networks
The U.K. is planning to remove Huawei Electronics Co. Ltd. equipment from its 5G networks following a decision by the government that the equipment presents security risks according, to a report today from Bloomberg. The U.K. government, unique among close U.S. allies, decided to allow Huawei equipment to be used in 5G rollouts in January with ...
Block.one opens blockchain-based Voice social network to limited public access
Blockchain startup Block.one opened its blockchain-powered social network Voice over the weekend to limited public access with a promise to reward users for quality content. Announced in 2019, Voice is pitched as a blockchain-based social media application designed with users of the platform in mind. Offering a “more transparent social media platform for the world,” users of the service ...
Customer data from fitness firm V Shred exposed on misconfigured cloud storage
Data relating to at least 99,000 customers of fitness company V Shred LLC has been exposed online in yet another case of misconfigured cloud storage. Discovered by security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar at vpnMentor and reported today, the unsecured data was found in an Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 bucket. The data, which came in ...
Ransomware targeting MongoDB databases threatens to report victims for GDPR breach
An unknown hacker has targeted 22,900 MongoDB databases in a ransomware attack that threatens to report victims to authorities for breaching the European Union General Data Protection Regulation if they don’t pay up. The attack, discovered Wednesday by security research Victor Gevers at the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, was first detected in April. According ...