The US House Financial Committee will be holding a hearing on the recent GameStop stock debacle which saw GameStop’s stock value soar after hype from Reddit’s wallstreetbets (WSB) forum. Unusually, the hearing will involve both Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, and Redditor Keith Gill who had been investing in GameStop since 2019 while arguing …
Workers in Facebook’s Dublin office have claimed that their employer used nondisclosure agreements (NDA) to prevent them speaking to Leo Varadkar, the Irish minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. Phoenix Law, representing the moderators, say that just a few days before the scheduled meeting with Varadkar “moderators working for Facebook were warned that any discussion …
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Europol have arrested 10 hackers for stealing $100M worth of cryptocurrency. Ten people have been arrested in connection with a series of SIM-swapping attacks which allowed the attackers to steal more than $100M by gaining access to the mobile phone numbers of celebrities in America. SIM swapping refers to an attack whereby hackers persuade phone …
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According to the state of Massachusetts, employees of the Oldsmar water treatment plant shared a TeamViewer password to log in to an unfirewalled Windows 7 machine to remotely access Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. These shortcomings show the lack of rigor towards security in critical infrastructure. Massachusetts officials wrote: “The unidentified actors accessed …
Cloud computing giant Salesforce is joins other Silicon Valley tech companies by announcing a seismic shift in its approach to working habits. It will let any employee work from home indefinitely while also giving employees more freedom over their daily schedules. Brent Hyder, Salesforce’s Chief People Officer made the following statement: “As we enter a …
Games developer CD Projekt Red has been the victim of a ransomware attack. Hackers have claimed to have stolen source code and more. CD Projekt Red has suffered a cyberattack, in which hackers claim to have stolen documents and the source code for the games Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, and more. The company announced …
A man who used Trustpilot to leave a negative review of a law firm has been ordered to pay £25,000 in damages. The man left a negative review of the solicitor after being dissatisfied with their service, who then subsequently sued him for libel. The judge said it was “beyond any dispute” the review “had …
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Elon Musk has promised that Tesla will soon accept Bitcoin as payment for its vehicles, and has revelead that it had already bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin. “I think a lot of institutions and corporates who thought the Saylor move was curious might actually see the upside in taking a small hedge on bitcoin …
The game Terraria has been cancelled on Google’s Stadia platform after a developer of the game had his Google account locked without explanation. Andrew Spinks used Twitter to complain that Google had locked his account and had not responded to support requests for three weeks. He described business with Google as a liability and announced …
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Starting from the 13th April, Microsoft will release a Windows update to remove the legacy version of Edge from Windows 10 computers. Microsoft took almost a decade to wean people off Internet Explorer, but the company has a swift retirement plan for the old version of the Edge browser. On 13th April 2021, Windows’s monthly …