Huawei, ZTE to be banned from Canada’s 5G/4G networks
Canadian telecom providers will have to rip out any Huawei and ZTE equipment from their 4G and 5G networks without compensation, the federal government has announced. The long-expected announcement came from Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and Innovation Minister François-Phillipe Champagne. There will be discussions with affected telcos on the timeline for taking out the […]
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It Will Be Difficult To Prove That Twitter Misled Musk, Legal Experts
Legal experts warn that it will be difficult for Elon Musk to prove he was misled by the social media platform Twitter. Elon Musk has announced he will suspend his $44 billion takeover of Twitter until the company provides evidence to back up its claim that spam accounts account for less than 5% of its […]
Cisco Cut 2022 Earnings Forecast, Expect Q4 Revenue Decline
Cisco Systems has announced it will lower its full-year profit forecast due to several factors, including the lockdown in China and the ongoing war in Ukraine. Cisco now expects revenue growth of 2% to 3% for fiscal 2022, compared to an earlier forecast of 5.5% to 6.5%. Adjusted earnings are estimated between $3.29 and $3.37 […]
Russia Will Sooner Or Later Legalize Crypto As A Means of Payment
Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said that sooner or later the country will legalize cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. “The question is when this happens, how it will be regulated, now that the central bank and the government are actively working on it, but everyone tends to understand that sooner or later […]
Costa Rica “At War” With Conti Ransomware Hackers
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has announced that the country is “at war” with Conti ransomware hackers after they broke into 27 government institutions. The attack led to major disruptions across numerous government ministries and IT systems. “The attack being experienced by Costa Rica at the hands of cyber criminals, cyber terrorists, is declared a […]
Google Russia Forced To File For Bankruptcy
Google’s Russian subsidiary plans to file for bankruptcy, according to a Google spokesperson, a decision made after the company’s bank account was seized, making it nearly impossible to pay employees and vendors. A note in the official Russian register Fedresurs also confirmed the new development. The note said that Google’s subsidiary intended to file for […]
Apple Release Emergency Update To Fix Zero-day Used To Hack Macs, Watches
Apple has released emergency updates to fix a zero-day vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to target Mac and Apple Watch devices. The bug, identified as CVE-2022-22675, is an out-of-bounds bug in the AppleAVD that allows apps to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. Apple has fixed the bug in macOS Big Sur 11.6, […]
IT Admin Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison For Deleting Company’s Data
A former database administrator, Han Bing, who works for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage firm, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Bing was arrested after logging into corporate systems and deleting the company’s data in 2018. He used his administrative privileges and his “root” account to access the company’s financial system and delete all […]
NVIDIA Security Update Fix 10 Flaws In Its GPU Drivers
Nvidia has released a security update to fix 10 vulnerabilities in its GPU drivers, including four high-severity vulnerabilities and six medium-severity vulnerabilities. The four high severity flaws include CVE-2022-28181, CVE-2022-28182, CVE-2022-28183 and CVE-2022-28184. CVE-2022-28181 (CVSS v3 score: 8.5) is an out-of-bounds bug caused by a specially crafted shader sent over the network. If exploited, this […]
