Month: February 2022
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp hacked
has been hacked, with data stolen from journalists and other employees. The cyber security firm investigating the intrusion said Chinese intelligence-gathering is believed to be behind the operation, which also struck its News UK arm. The hacking appeared to date back to February 2020 and that scores of employees had been affected. Hackers were said
Alcohol Effects on Sleep
couple of glasses of wine or a few drinks in the evening will probably make you fall asleep faster than normal and also there’s a good chance that too much alcohol will mean a fitful night of sleep. That’s because alcohol disrupts what’s known as your sleep architecture, the normal phases of deeper and lighter
HIV VB in the Netherlands
An “exceptionally” virulent variant of HIV has been detected in the Netherlands, where it has been circulating for several years, Without treatment, the variant – referred to as VB – appears capable of accelerating patients’ usual progression to advanced HIV and AIDS-related complications. The variant, which is thought to have arisen in the late 1990s,
Criminal Case Against False Crypto Ads on Facebook
Australian billionaire and mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has launched a criminal case against Facebook, alleging the social media giant failed to prevent false cryptocurrency advertisements that used his image. Mr Forest Argued in a Western Australia Magistrates Court that the social media platform breached Australia’s money laundering laws by failing to prevent false advertisements.
Hacked North Korean Internet
The hacker, who goes by the name P4x, says he had been targeted by the hermit dictatorship’s spies who cyber-attacked Western security researchers in 2021. The hacker told Wired that he was angered by the attack and frustrated at the lack of response by US authorities, An American computer hacker says that he is behind
Facebook and Snapchat sued over suicide
A Connecticut mother sued social media giants Meta and Snap for allegedly causing her 11-year-old daughter to develop an “extreme addiction” to social media before she killed herself. The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in January in San Francisco’s US District Court, claims that Meta and Snap’s products contained “defective design, negligence and unreasonable dangerous features.”
Amazon raises prices for prime
The e-commerce giant said it was hiking the price by 17% to $139 for annual membership. The firm, which cited increased wage and shipping costs, said it had no announcements to make about other countries “at this time”. Amazon shares soared almost 15% in after hours trade on the news, which accompanied the release of
Koo global Ambitions
India’s Twitter alternative with global ambitions. Koo expects to surpass Twitter’s 25 million-strong user base in India this year according to co-founder Mayank Bidawatka . Koo was thrust into the spotlight last year as an alternative to Twitter amid a row between the Indian government and the US microblogging platform. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government
Meta biggest ever stock market loss
Facebook’s owner Meta Platforms saw its stock market value slump by more than $230bn on Thursday, in a record daily loss for a US firm. The company’s share price slide saw chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth fall by $31bn. That came after Meta revealed that Facebook’s DAUs fell to 1.929bn in the three months
WhatsApp Scam
WhatsApp is a messenger platform that people use to talk to close friends and family, and people naturally take their children on face value .Victims of a WhatsApp scam have been left thousands of pounds poorer after being tricked into handing over cash. Investigators are trying to figure out if the fraudsters research their victims