A whistleblower who exposed that Apple was hoovering up people’s Siri recordings has gone public in decrying the company. Last year, The Guardian broke a shocking story that Apple was employing contractors to listen to and ‘grade’ Siri recordings. This was done without users knowledge and contractors “regularly” heard confidential information from iPhone and iPad …
The cybercrime attacks of large enterprises has grown in recent months driven by the new work conditions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The threat has increased in many areas including servers that are directly accessible from the internet, domain names, websites, web forms, certificates, third-party applications and components or mobile apps. While some of those …
COVID 19 Pandemic has exposed the imbalance in the education sector globally and especially in the developing countries. More especially, several challenges have been enumerated in the education sector of Africa this is compounded by the poor infrastructure for online learning. Challenges such as academic theft, insecurity, document forgery, and low enrollments have besieged Africa’s …
Recent information released by Gartner revealed that there could be over one million drones in the sky over the next 6 years. Throughout the last several months of the COVID-19 pandemic, drones have been used more and more in order to limit human-to-human contact while maintaining the ability to deliver supplies and medications all over …
The US Patent and Trademark Office recently granted Apple a patent for the software that would allow for “synthetic group selfies,” or socially distant group selfies. The patent which as Protocol points out, could be a way to take group selfies for social media even if you’re trying to stay socially distant from your friends. …
VeriSign has announced that the first quarter of 2020 closed with 366.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 4.5 million domain name registrations, or 1.2 percent, compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. Domain name registrations have grown by 14.9 million, or 4.2 percent, year over year. The .com …
Google is facing a proposed class action lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of invading people’s privacy and tracking internet use even when browsers are set to “private” mode according to Reuters. The suit, filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that Google violates wiretapping and privacy laws …
Nearly all countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have closed schools to slow the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Closures in some places will last through the end of the school year and could continue into the next. While many countries are turning to distance learning strategies, it is difficult to ensure that these provide equitable learning …
A new study from cybersecurity company Lookout has found that there is a 37% increase in enterprise mobile phishing in the first quarter of 2020. Cybercriminals now deliver phishing attacks through a wide variety of methods, including SMS, social media, and messaging apps in addition to email. According to data collected by Lookout researchers, unmitigated …
Zipline’s first American launch is happening now despite that the US-based startup has been in running operations in Africa for several years. The successful COVID-19 response in Ghana have become a boost for the drone delivery firm. The delivery firm signed in a two-year partnership with North Carolina’s Novant Health has started its operations in …