Security

With most contact sports being out of the question, many viewers have turned to e-sports and competitive gaming to satiate their needs. Electronic gaming is a massive market, and both gamers and gaming companies rake in billions of dollars a year in…

YouTube, the world’s top provider of streaming multimedia content, keeps reaching new heights in terms of its popularity. Nearly two billion monthly users and five billion videos watched every single day – these impressive statistics speak for themselves, and the numbers are steadily growing…

GateHub hacked, nearly $10 million worth of Ripple (XRP) stolen In a “preliminary statement” published on its blog on Thursday, cryptocurrency wallet service GateHub has warned that over 100 customers have had their ledger wallets hacked and funds stolen. Dear Valued Customers,…

A flurry of deal-making activity has struck the cybersecurity industry. CrowdStrike is preparing for an imminent initial public offering that could value the company at $6 billion. Elastic, maker of a Splunk-like data trawling product, just snapped up Endgame, a CrowdStrike competitor, for a…

Apple Releases Firmware Security  Apple recently released a series of updates that address several firmware security issues affecting its AirPort base stations. Released on 30 May, the changes fix eight vulnerabilities that apply to the AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule base…

An attack which targeted users of the Telegram app on Wednesday might be linked to protests in Hong Kong that turned violent. That’s one of the theories in circulation, after a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack disrupted legitimate access to the Telegram secure…