When staff at CyberKeel investigated email activity at a medium-sized shipping firm, they made a shocking discovery.
"Someone had hacked into the systems of the company and planted a small virus," explains co-founder Lars Jensen. "They …
News and community website Reddit has launched a new video player that allows users to directly upload videos.
The player has so far been tested in more than 200 of the site's community groups, known as subreddits.
With 48 million an…
A worrying statistic for the tech industry was revealed in freshly-released A-level data - only 9.8% of those completing a computing course were girls.
It comes amid a storm in Silicon Valley over the number of women employed in the tec…
Ericsson announced it's suing French smartphone maker Wiko for patent infringement. The suits were filed in the regional courts of Duesseldorf and Mannheim in Germany, for infringement of patents essential to 2G, 3G and 4G cellular technol…
A digital rights group based in San Francisco on Thursday criticized several internet companies for removing neo-Nazi groups from servers and services, saying the actions were "dangerous" and threatened free expression online.
GoDaddy I…
US President Donald Trump has posted an image of a train hitting a CNN reporter three days after a hit-and-run left one person dead at a far-right rally.
The cartoon, which Mr Trump deleted after tweeting, depicts the cable network logo…
Leeds Beckett University has launched a chatbot to help prospective students find the right course.
It follows the publication of A-level results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Using Facebook Messenger's chatbot technology, …
China's latest crackdown on those attempting to skirt state censorship controls has seen it warn e-commerce platforms over the sale of illegal virtual private networks (VPNs).
Five websites, including shopping giant Alibaba, have been a…
neo-Nazi site that disparaged a woman who died during protests in Charlottesville has faced another wave of rejection by web companies.
The Daily Stormer's account with Cloudflare - which protects websites from distributed denial of ser…
In just two years, Angonix – an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) based in Luanda – has grown exponentially to become the third largest African IXP. With peak traffic of 10.8 Gbps (as recorded in July 2017), Angonix has become a competitive fo…
Swiftly, a Ghanaian/Nigerian based online freight forwarding rate comparison platform for global deliveries has received support from Silicon Valley vanguards including Microsoft, Facebook and venture capital firm Draperdarkflow.
After …
Facebook gears up for a jam-packed week at the LoeriesCreating a number of programmes to help grow and recognise young, diverse creative talent across Africa and the Middle East, to showcase Facebook and Instagram’s mobile canvas for brand…
Around 28 million smartphones were shipped to India in the second quarter of this year, which represents a “modest” 3.7 percent growth quarter-on-quarter growth and of 1.6 percent year-on-year, according to a report from IDC. The report al…
Uber has been ordered to introduce tougher measures to protect the privacy of its drivers and their customers, to settle charges brought by a regulator.
It also had to agree to have the effectiveness of the stricter controls assessed by…
An app developer appears to have prevailed in a long-running trademark war against the US president's business operation.
The creator of iTrump first clashed with the Trump Organization in January 2011, when the billionaire's lawyers al…
It may be President Trump's communication tool of choice - but it's a tweet by former President Barack Obama that has become the most liked in Twitter's history.
The tweet, the first in a series of three, quoted Nelson Mandela and was a…
Google has acquired the Seattle start-up Senosis Health, a developer of apps that help collect critical health information with smartphones, people familiar with the deal told GeekWire.com. Senosis's apps include SpiroSmart, SpiroCall, Hem…
India ended June with 1.210 billion telephone subscribers, up by 5.86 million from May. The total comprises 1.186 billion mobile subscribers, up by 6.02 million in the month, and 24 million fixed-line subscribers, down by 16,000 users in t…
Finnish mobile games and animation studio Rovio Entertainment Ltd said on Tuesday its sales in the first half of the year almost doubled following the success of "The Angry Birds Movie."
First-half revenue rose to 152.6 million euros ($…
Amazon.com Inc is rolling out U.S. pickup points where shoppers can retrieve items immediately after ordering them, shortening delivery times from hours to minutes in its latest move into brick-and-mortar retail.
The world's largest onl…
Indian police have arrested four people suspected of leaking an episode of the hugely popular TV show Game of Thrones before it was aired.
Three of the accused are current employees of Prime Focus Technology, while one is a former emplo…
Plans to build the world's "largest" data centre are being made public.
The facility is set to be created at the Norwegian town of Ballangen, which is located inside the Arctic Circle.
The firm behind the project, Kolos, says the chi…
Tigo Ghana is marking the fifth anniversary of its Tigo Digital Changemakers Competition with plans to invest an additional GHS 135,000 to advance the impact of leading social entrepreneurs in the programme. Run in partnership with the i…
Facebook approved the launch of an app in China similar to its own Moments app, in order to gain a foothold in the country, person with knowledge of the company’s plans told the New York Times. The photo-sharing app launched in May thr…
Telefonica is considering launching an OTT video streaming service outside its home market in Europe, in order to monetize its growing audiovisual production, El Pais reports. At the moment the programmes are only available over its Movist…
The Philippines on Monday suspended the accreditation and operation of Uber [UBER.UL] for one month, in a decision that followed a government crackdown on unregistered drivers offering app-based ride-hailing services.
The Land Transport…
The neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer had its internet domain registration revoked twice in less than 24 hours in the wake of the weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, part of a broad move by the tech industry in recent months to tak…
Ride-sharing company Uber is to allow its drivers in the UK to receive tips from passengers via its app.
Uber said the feature - first introduced in the US in June - would launch in the UK on Tuesday.
The change follows criticism tha…
On Friday, another one bit the dust. As Snap's shares plunged following disappointing results, it became clear that the myth that a feisty young challenger to Facebook could topple the social media giant from its perch was just that - a my…
The author of an influential guide to computer passwords says he now regrets several of the tips he gave.
Bill Burr had advised users to change their password every 90 days and to muddle up words by adding capital letters, numbers and s…
Social media giant Facebook has made a move into dedicated video, pitting it against YouTube and TV networks.
Users will soon see a new Watch tab that will offer a range of shows, some of which have been funded by the social network
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Ukraine's national postal service has been hit by a two-day-long cyber-attack targeting its online system that tracks parcels.
Unknown hackers carried out a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Ukrposhta's website.
The…
What's made of sugar, can carry four people and travel at 50 miles (80 km) per hour? A biodegradable car, whose inventors say could be the next step in environmentally friendly motoring.
The lightweight electric car, created by students…
Parents who think they are being responsible by limiting their children's time online should think again: they could be putting their kids and Britain's security at a disadvantage, according to a former British spy chief.
"If you appear…
Hackers who have leaked Game of Thrones scripts and other data from entertainment company HBO have released a note demanding a ransom payment.
In a new dump, they also published a script for the as yet unbroadcast fifth episode of the c…
Algorithms don’t have good taste. At least not yet.
That’s the message Lonely Planet’s chief executive, Daniel Houghton, wants you to hear as his company launches a new app, Trips.
Since 1973, his firm has been using a vast human net…
Hackers could target electricity grids through security flaws in solar panel equipment, a Dutch researcher has said.
Willem Westerhof found 17 vulnerabilities in inverters, which convert electricity produced by the panels so it can be u…
A Google employee who wrote a controversial memo about workplace diversity has been fired, the BBC can confirm.
The controversial memo broke the firm’s code of conduct, Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai said on Monday in an email t…
The Pentagon has given US military bases permission to shoot down or otherwise destroy consumer drones flying overhead and nearby.
A spokesman revealed that guidance was issued on 4 August.
He said the exact terms of the policy were …
SVOD provider Iflix has acquired programming from Viacom International Media Networks. Iflix, which announced its expansion into Africa in June, will carry content from Viacom brands including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, MTV Bas…
Networking software supplier Lumina Networks has announced that it’s moving into the software-defined networking (SDN) market after acquiring assets associated with the SDN Controller product family from Brocade Communications Systems. The…
Apple is planning to release its first Apple Watch with 4G connectivity later this year, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. This would allow the watch to conduct multiple tasks without having to first connect to an iPhone.
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Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) said on Monday it would raise about $1.5 billion through its first-ever offering of junk bonds as the U.S. luxury electric car maker seeks fresh sources of cash to ramp up production of its new Model 3 sedan.
The move…
A simple device to cut the weight of washing machines could save fuel, cut carbon emissions, and reduce back injuries, according to researchers.
A typical budget washing machine is weighted by 25kg of concrete to stop it moving while on…
Emoji icons have helped scientists train computers to understand sarcasm.
Researchers used 1.2 billion tweets containing at least one of the most popular 64 emojis to develop DeepMoji.
The algorithm learned first to predict which emo…
Bitcoin's value has jumped to a record high, following a month of turmoil.
The virtual currency reached $3,451.86 (£2,651) per coin in Monday trade, according to the Coindesk Bitcoin Price Index.
It had never crossed the $3,000 mark …
Apple has applied for a patent on a screen it is working on that would enable for increased privacy on portable devices such as the iPhone and iPad, Cnet reported, citing a patent application published on 3 August. Apple Insider said t…
Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] knowingly rented its drivers defective cars at risk of catching fire, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, and the ride-hailing firm said it moved to fix the problem after one of the vehicles suffered…
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is working with Indonesia to tackle video content deemed to be offensive, including material that might incite violence or hate speech, a senior official of the search giant said on Friday.
Goog…
Transport networks specialist Infinera said revenues fell to USD 176.8 million in the second quarter, from 258.8 million the year before. The gross margin slid to 36.7 percent from 47.8 percent while the net result went to a loss of US…
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