Today’s Tech Sightings: Millions of Verizon Customer Records Exposed in Security Lapse Up to 14 million Verizon subscriber records were left unprotected on an Amazon storage server in Israel. An employee of Israel-based NICE Systems left the information unsecured on the server and available for download with little difficulty. The leak includes sensitive records of […]
Millions of Verizon Records Leaked; Tech Giants Rally for Net Neutrality
Posted July 12th, 2017 at 12:51 pm (UTC-4)
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India iPhone to Start Production Soon; a Chatbot for India Called ‘Ruuh’
Posted March 30th, 2017 at 11:58 am (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: ‘Made in India’ Apple iPhones to Start Production in Bengaluru in April Until recently, the Indian government was having some issues with the list of demands Apple wanted fulfilled before it starts manufacturing iPhones in India. But according to Indian officials, assembly will begin in April, in partnership with Taiwanese contract manufacturer […]
One Billion Yahoo Accounts Hacked; Messenger AI Gets Bigger Role
Posted December 15th, 2016 at 12:50 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: One More Time:1 billion Yahoo Accounts Stolen in Biggest Hack Ever Yahoo announced Wednesday that one billion user accounts were hacked and stolen in 2013 – the largest hack ever and the second for the beleaguered company. In September, Yahoo revealed that up to 500 million user accounts were compromised. The breach […]
Yahoo Disputes Scanning Report; Messenger Encrypted – With Strings
Posted October 5th, 2016 at 1:58 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Yahoo Calls Report of Secret Email Scanning ‘Misleading’ Yahoo is disputing a Reuters’ story that said the company used custom software to scan users’ emails in real time for specific information to comply with a classified order from the U.S. government. Yahoo denied such a program exists and called the report misleading. […]
Google Kicks Off Hardware Launch; Touring Your Bloodstream With VR
Posted October 4th, 2016 at 12:36 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: #MadebyGoogle Event Launches in San Francisco With New Hardware, Smartphones Android fans can look forward to a bunch of new products from Google. Those include home devices to compete with Amazon’s voice-activated gadgets and high-end smartphones to compete with Apple. The most anticipated are a pair of Pixel smartphones that replace the […]