Study: Health care facilities attacked by ransomware amid pandemic
A new study by cybersecurity firm Emsisoft has revealed that health care facilities were among the top targets for ransomware last year amid the...
GitHub issues apology for firing Jewish employee over Nazi warning
IT service management firm GitHub has issued an apology for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers about Nazis during the Capitol riots.
GitHub has...
WhatsApp postpones privacy update following user complaints, 'confusion'
Messaging platform WhatsApp has decided to delay the rollout of a privacy update after receiving backlash from its users.
WhatsApp will move its privacy update...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene gets Twitter suspension for violating policy
Social media platform Twitter has temporarily suspended the account of US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeatedly violating its new rules.
A Twitter spokesperson said...
Creating Facebook events near the White House banned on the platform
Creating Facebook events near the White House will be banned on the platform through President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration day.
Facebook announced Friday that it will...
Messaging platform Signal breaks down from download surge
Messaging platform Signal has announced that that the surge in downloads of the app has caused technical difficulties.
Following rival WhatsApp's announcement of changes to...
President-elect Joe Biden starts POTUS Twitter account from scratch
Twitter has given US President-elect Joe Biden a fresh POTUS account, which will start with zero followers.
This Twitter decision to transfer the POTUS account...
Jack Dorsey says Twitter ban on Trump was the right thing to do
Twitter chief executive officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey has said that the permanent ban on Trump was the right thing to do.
While Jack Dorsey justified...
President Trump receives permanent ban from Snapchat
Multimedia messaging app Snapchat has decided to place a permanent ban on US President Donald Trump from its platform.
Initially, Snapchat announced an indefinite account...
Amazon sued for removing social network Parler from AWS
So-called "free speech" social network Parler is suing Amazon for removing it from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for violating its rules.
Parler has filed a...
