The intensifying tension between India and Pakistan since Tuesday’s air strike has turned social media into a virtual battlefield and fact-checkers are left grappling with a deluge of misinformation and fake news. Tweets with #BalakotAirStrike, #BringbackAbhinandan, #SayNoToWar, #MiG21, #F16, #PakFakeClaim #PakistanPM had been trending all through Wednesday with unabated exchange of barbs from both sides […]
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Spotify looks to test new features in India
After a year long wait, Swedish music streaming major, Spotify finally launched in India, amid a legal tussle with music label Warner Music Group, in a competitive domestic market. India can emerge as a key test market for several of Spotify’s upcoming features which may then be exported to other markets, the company’s India managing […]
Pluribus Pivots to the Distributed Cloud Edge
News Pluribus Pivots to the Distributed Cloud Edge By David Ramel 02/27/2019 Pluribus Networks, firmly ensconced in the next-gen networking camp with software-centric, open networking offerings on bare-metal (or white-box) hardware, has updated those offerings with a distinct focus on the edge of distributed cloud implementations. The company today announced Netvisor ONE 5.0, an open, […]
How Secure Are The Most Popular Mobile Payment Methods?
As technology gets increasingly more advanced, things become smaller and easier to access than ever before — including our shopping and spending habits. The switch from using physical cash first moved to payments through checks before onward to credit cards. Now we process payments entirely online with a series of numbers without ever taking a […]
Facebook Watch to broadcast El Clasico live and free in India
Fans in India will be able to watch Sunday’s El Clasico between Real Madrid and Barcelona live and free on Facebook Watch, the social media giant’s streaming platform, La Liga has said. Spain’s top flight signed a landmark deal with Facebook last August which will allow viewers in the Indian sub-continent to watch every game […]
Ring Doorbell Flaw Opens Door to Spying
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Protecting the IoT: 3 things you must include in an IoT security plan
With many IT projects, security is often an afterthought, but that approach puts the business at significant risk. The rise of IoT adds orders of magnitude more devices to a network, which creates many more entry points for threat actors to breach. A bigger problem is that many IoT devices are easier to hack than […]
Twitter to liaise with India’s election body, boost hiring ahead of polls
Twitter Inc plans to boost hiring in India and appoint an officer to liaise with the Election Commission (EC), a senior executive said on Tuesday, responding to concerns about political misuse of social media ahead of this year’s general elections. Speaking a day after an Indian parliamentary committee told the company to engage more with […]
Hackers target Elasticsearch clusters in fresh malware campaign
Security researchers have observed a spike in attacks from multiple threat actors targeting Elasticsearch clusters, in what is believed to be attempts to place malware on victims’ machines. Attackers appear targeting clusters using versions 1.4.2 and lower, and are leveraging old vulnerabilities to pass scripts to search queries and drop the attacker’s payloads, according to […]
MWC 2019: VMware says telcos must move 5G infrastructure into the cloud to stay ahead
VMware made many announcements at MWC 2019 and they all centred around one common theme: network virtualisation. “If a telco wants to progress in the future, they need to think software-defined,” said Gabriele di Piazza, VP products & solutions for telco at VMware. “More and more communication service providers (CSPs) are turning to VMware to […]