Cyber Security Today, Week In Review For Friday July 15, 2022
This episode features a discussion with U.S. cybersecurity expert and author
New Phishing Kit Targets PayPal Users
Researchers from Internet technology company Akamai have discovered a phishing kit that targets PayPal users. The phishing kit is hosted on legitimate WordPress websites that have been hacked. This allowed the phishing kit to circumvent detection to some extent. According to the researchers, the phishing kit was discovered after the threat actor planted it on […]
Netflix To Offer Users Cheaper Subscription Plan, Partners With Microsoft
Netflix is working with Microsoft to offer users a cheaper subscription plan, which means Netflix will add a new but cheaper plan to its existing plan and the new plan will show adverts. Netflix has chosen Microsoft as its global advertising technology and sales partner to launch a “lower priced ad-supported subscription plan.” Although Netflix […]
70% Of Companies That Value Environment Record New Tech, Outperform Peers
70% of technology leaders embracing environmental, social and governmental targets, as well as sustainable climate targets, have adopted new technologies in the last two years. The ESG leaders also outperformed companies lagging behind in environmental sustainability goals. According to respondents, artificial intelligence (45%) and advanced analytics (40%) are critical to achieving climate-related goals. Environmentally conscious […]
SEC Probes Musk’s Comments On US$44 Billion Twitter Deal
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) put Elon Musk under scrutiny last month over a tweet in which he hinted at a likely decision to end his planned takeover of Twitter due to inaccurate spam figures. In a letter to Musk dated June 2, released on Thursday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) […]
DoJ To File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google, Bloomberg
According to Bloomberg News, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will file an antitrust lawsuit against Google in the coming weeks. The U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Google’s ad-tech practices since 2019 and has also accelerated its investigation of the ad market in recent months under the supervision of the antitrust division’s official, […]
Amazon Prime Day Record Over 300 Million Sales
According to Amazon, the retail giant recorded its biggest Prime Day, with Prime members buying more than 300 million items worldwide. Amazon Prime Day is a now-annual savings bonanza available to members of Amazon’s Prime service. It started in 2015 as a celebration of Amazon’s 20th anniversary. The event took place between July 12 and […]
NFT Marketplace OpenSea Lays Off 20% Of Its Staff
NFT marketplace OpenSea has cut 20% of its workforce. The decision was taken by the company to cut costs as the crypto world struggles to cope with the depreciation of digital assets. “The reality is that we have entered an unprecedented combination of a crypto winter and broad macroeconomic instability, and we need to prepare […]
Attackers Are Still Exploiting Log4j Flaw, Cyber Review Board Warns
According to the Cyber Safety Review Board, attackers are exploiting Log4j vulnerability, albeit at a lower level than experts predicted. The review board described the Log4j vulnerability as an “endemic vulnerability” that is likely to persist or even persist for decades. Log4j is undoubtedly difficult to track because the short line of code that makes […]
IT Spending To Reach US$4.5 Trillion In 2022: Gartner
According to Gartner’s latest forecast, global IT spending will reach US$4.5 trillion in 2022, up 3% from 2021. In 2022, spending on data center system is expected to grow by 11%, software spending by 9.6%. Spending on devices is expected to suffer a 5% decline which is majorly attributed to the decline in demand for […]
