The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said the U.S. has ordered Google to pay $170 million in order to settle allegations of YouTube collecting data from minors without the consent of their parents. The commission said the U.S. government had previously accused the video hosting platform, which belongs to the tech giant, of illegally […]
Continue ReadingJosh Fruhlinger of CSO simply defined a cyber attack as an attack launched from one computer or more computers against another computer, multiple computers or networks. In his article “What is a cyber attack? Recent examples show disturbing trends” he broke down the attacks into different types describing how the occurred with damaging effects on […]
Continue ReadingGoogle wants to make it easier to find your ideal job. The internet giant is introducing a line of improvements to its Google for Jobs platform. Among other things, the new features will offer users more detailed career postings, including salary comparison stats, improved location settings, application categories – and a couple of weeks from […]
Continue ReadingIsreali intelligence officials say it has discovered that Russian government hackers were using Kaspersky Lab antivirus software that is used globally by 400 million people, including U.S. government agencies, according to media reports on Tuesday. Reuters said this was revealed according to media reports on Tuesday. “The Israeli officials while spying on Russia had hacked […]
Continue ReadingMicrosoft this week announced that there will be a successor to Office 2016, the non-subscription version of the application suite and that the upgrade would ship in about a year. The bundle, named “Office 2019,” will be geared to customers, primarily corporate customers, “who aren’t yet ready for the cloud,” according to Microsoft. But other […]
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Yudala Ltd., Nigeria’s fastest growing composite e-commerce outlet on Wednesday advised contemporary tech-smart population on six features to look for while buying a new laptop. The Head of Corporate Communications, Yudala Ltd., Mr Gideon Ayogu, in a statement in Lagos said that the call was necessary to ensure the workability of their laptops. According to […]
Continue ReadingFacebook may soon add a pay wall for news content from premium publishers. The company’s news partnerships head Campbell Brown told publishers at an industry event in New York this week that the company is getting ready to test news subscriptions as early as this fall. Brown’s remarks were first reported by The Street Wednesday, […]
Continue ReadingA French court today ruled that Google is not liable for $1.3 billion in back taxes, passing judgement on a suit filed last year. The courts stated the company didn’t have a “permanent establishment” in France to justify the large amount of money. The company’s legal revenue-shifting scheme means that, despite employing about 700 people […]
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Intel, the giant producer of processor chips have unveiled the Core 18 Core i9 in the Core X-series chips, describing it as the dawn of a new breed of extreme desktop processors. Powered by a massive 18 cores and 36 threads, the Core i9 processor enables extreme single-threaded performance with the updated Intel Turbo Boost […]
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More than 150 countries and over 300, 000 computers have been affected by the recent Ransomware global cyber attack worldwide. This attack, known as “WannaCry” or “WannaCrypt”, spreads by itself between computers and does not require human interaction. It restricts access to the affected system as well as demanding for the payment of ransom. Simple […]
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