Some of the UK’s largest communications services providers (CSPs) may have been at significant risk from a series of 14 vulnerabilities in Draytek’s Vigor router devices disclosed on Wednesday 2 October by ForeScoutincluding big b2b names such as Daisy Communications, Gamma Telecom and Zen Internet, and even BT. Patches for all the vulnerabilities were made…
Vivo Y28s 5G was launched in India in July this year alongside the Vivo Y28e 5G. The company has announced that the price of the Vivo Y28s 5G has been reduced by Rs. 500. The handset is currently available in three RAM and storage configurations. It is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 6300 chipset paired…
YouTube Shorts, touted as YouTube’s rival to Instagram Reels and ByteDance’s TikTok, will now allow users to post short videos up to 3 minutes in length, diverging from its original limit of one minute. This move has reportedly been a long time coming, especially considering both Instagram and TikTok allow users to post longer videos….
A former senior officer at the Police Service of Northern Ireland is seeking legal advice following comments attributed to her during a hearing of the Investigative Powers Tribunal. Barbara Gray, former assistant chief constable at the PSNI, said she was “deeply angered and offended” by comments attributed to her by a former detective who headed…
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has today (3 October) unsealed a civil action brought by Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), including an order allowing it to seize 66 unique domains used by the Russian state threat actor known variously as Star Blizzard, Coldriver and Callisto. Star Blizzard is alleged to…
Dyson, the popular self-care and home appliance maker, is letting go of multiple employees, continuing the tech layoffs trend that started a few years ago. As identified by The Independent Singapore (via CNA), the affected employees were informed in various meetings conducted by human resources. They were reportedly told that their roles were redundant. Also…
This week is big on entertainment with a host of interesting releases from across genres, on the home front as well as globally. We face the dangers of AI technology in Ananya Panday’s Netflix thriller CTRL and relive the horror of brutal, occult killings in a Maharashtrian village in the 1970s in SonyLiv’s Manvat Murders….
MoneyGram said it is “shocked and disappointed” by Post Office portrayal on a contract breakdown, which saw money transfer services removed from thousands of branches. The money transfer firm also confirmed that the UK is the only country it operates where services are yet to resume following a major cyber attack. Earlier this week, Computer…
A former detective brought in to investigate the confidential sources of two journalists who exposed collusion between police in Northern Ireland and paramilitary groups reported solicitors acting on their behalf to the Law Society of Northern Ireland. Former Durham Constabulary detective Darren Ellis, told a tribunal investigating allegations that police unlawfully placed the two journalists…
Set in the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Norfolk Island is regarded as a remote paradise, but lacked greatly in terms of connectivity. However, this is set to change with Telstra International’s “transformative upgrade” to telecommunications infrastructure on the island through use of geostationary (GEO) satellite capacity provided by Intelsat and medium Earth orbit (MEO)…
