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A 23-year-old man from Utah was sentenced this week to 27 months in prison for a series of DDoS attacks that took down online gaming service providers like Sony's PlayStation Network, Valve's Steam, Microsoft's Xbox, EA, Riot Games, Nintendo, Quake Live, DOTA2, and League of Legends servers, along with many others. Named Austin Thompson, but known online as DerpTrolling, the...

Security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh has disclosed a vulnerability in the Zoom video conferencing app on Macs that essentially allows a website to enable the camera without the user's permission. The vulnerability requires an attacker to send a specially-crafted meeting request to the Mac user, which is handled by a web server installed by Zoom, running on port 19421. This...

Shares of Symantec gained more than 4% at their peak on Monday after a report that Broadcom had gotten the necessary financing to acquire the cybersecurity firm in an all-cash agreement. The deal could value the cybersecurity firm at more than $22 billion including debt, Bloomberg reported. A deal between the two companies could be reached in mid-July, according to anonymous...

Smartphone operating systems have ramped up their privacy settings in recent years to let users pick and choose what information apps can get, but it seems those permissions aren’t ironclad. A new study revealed that over 1,300 Android apps can scrape certain personal data anyway, even if a user explicitly denied access to it. Researchers at the International Computer Scienc...

According to new research from Thales, almost half (49%) of businesses believe cloud apps make them a target for cyber-attacks. Surveying 1,050 IT decision makers globally, Thales’ 2019 Access Management Index revealed that cloud applications (49%) are listed in the top three reasons an organization might be attacked, just behind unprotected infrastructures such as IoT devic...

The UK Information Commissioner's Office has warned British Airways it faces a whopping £183.39m fine following the theft of customer records from its website and mobile app servers. The record-breaking fine - more or less the lower end of the price of one of the 747-400s in BA's fleet - under European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), represents 1.5 per cent of BA’...

Telco promises 5G roaming in four European countries this summer; set to launch 5G unlimited data plans next week, priced based on speed Vodafone on Wednesday become the second UK operator to launch 5G services, bringing the technology to market in seven cities. The telco follows in the footsteps of rival EE, which launched 5G in six cities just over a month ago. Industry wa...

BT Group said on Thursday its third-biggest investor Orange would sell its remaining 2.5% stake, valued at over $600 million, in the former British telecoms monopoly. BT said it intended to repurchase up to 80 million pounds of shares offered by Orange. The French group said it would offer approximately 248 million shares to eligible institutional and qualified investors. Or...

Colocation giant Equinix is embarking on a $1bn joint venture with Singapore-based investment fund GIC that will see it directly court the hyperscale market through the creation of a series of tailor-made datacentres in Europe. The facilities will be sited on or near to existing Equinix facilities, the pair confirmed in a joint press statement and will be specifically design...

CyrusOne Inc, a leading global real estate investment trust (REIT), announced it has broken ground on the first phase of its newest data center location in Frankfurt, Germany. The facility is CyrusOne’s third in the Sossenheim district of the city, offering cloud providers, systems integrators and multinational corporations customized, secure and resilient data center soluti...