Law, Order and Mayhem: Cybercriminals Scam Each Other Out of Millions of Dollars and Take Their Complaints About the Scams to Arbitration Rooms, Sophos Reports
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today announced in the first of a four-part series, “The Scammers Who Scam Scammers on Cybercrime Forums,” that cybercriminals are scamming each other out of millions of dollars and use arbitration to settle disputes about the scams. The report also reveals how attackers use classic techniques—some decades old, such as typosquatting, phishing, backdoored...
UST Collaborates with Intel and SAP to Digitize the Industry 4.0 Journey for Malaysian SMEs
UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company, has announced a collaboration with Intel and SAP to assess and enable the Industry 4.0 digital transformation journey for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in northern Malaysia. The collaboration will further accelerate the transformation of local businesses into ‘intelligent enterprises’, empowering them to deliver the streamlined and automated Industry 4.0 experiences...
Avatars on WhatsApp
WhatsApp has rolled out avatars for its users as a new personalized way to express themselves. Avatar is a digital version of you that can be created from billions of combinations of diverse hair styles, facial features, and outfits. On WhatsApp you can now use your personalized avatar as your profile photo or choose from one of 36 custom stickers reflecting many different emotions and actions. Sending an avatar is a fast and fun way...
Sophos Launches Industry-First Managed Detection And Response (MDR) Service
From An Endpoint Security Provider That Integrates Vendor Agnostic Telemetry
Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, announced the general availability of Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) with new industry-first threat detection and response capabilities. Sophos is the first endpoint security provider to integrate vendor agnostic telemetry from third-party security technologies into its MDR offering, providing unprecedented visibility and detection across...
Cybercriminals Attack Users With 400,000 New Malicious Files Daily – That Is 5% More Than In 2021
In 2022, Kaspersky’s detection systems discovered on average 400,000 malicious files distributed every day, indicating a 5% growth compared to 2021. The number of certain types of threats also escalated: for example, Kaspersky experts discovered the 181% increase in the proportion of ransomware detected daily. These and other findings are part of Kaspersky Security Bulletin (KSB) – an annual series of predictions and analytical...
Ericsson and DNB Achieve New World Record For Long-Distance Speed With mmwave, Paving The Way For High-Speed Rural Connectivity
Ericsson and Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) recently achieved a world record distance for Gigabit speeds over Malaysia’s 5G network that will pave the way for high-quality, affordable and high-speed connectivity. The test, conducted over the 28GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency, achieved a peak throughput of 1Gbps at a record distance of 11.18km from a radio antenna in Butterworth, Penang to a point off the island. The new distance...
Epson Relaunches Campaign to Raise Awareness of Arctic Greening
Global technology firm Epson has continued its efforts for the second successive year to increase awareness of global warming, with a new campaign focused on the issue of Arctic greening, and how businesses and consumers can take more action to reduce their environmental impact. The campaign builds on Epson’s previous campaign produced by National Geographic CreativeWorks. Last year’s campaign won a Webby Award as the People’s Voice...
