Facebook invests $5.7B in Indian mobile carrier Reliance Jio to bring small businesses online

Facebook today announced that it investing ₹43,574 crores ($5.67 billion) into India’s biggest carrier, Reliance Jio, to pick up 9.99% stake in the company. It’s the social network’s biggest investment in the country till date. Last month, Financial Times reported that the social networking giant was in talks with Jio to make an investment. However, the…

Unpatchable ‘Starbleed’ Bug in FPGA Chips Exposes Critical Devices to Hackers

A newly discovered unpatchable hardware vulnerability in Xilinx programmable logic products could allow an attacker to break bitstream encryption, and clone intellectual property, change the functionality, and even implant hardware Trojans. The details of the attacks against Xilinx 7-Series and Virtex-6 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been covered in a paper titled “The Unpatchable…

Researcher Discloses 4 Zero-Day Bugs in IBM’s Enterprise Security Software

A cybersecurity researcher today publicly disclosed technical details and PoC for 4 unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities affecting an enterprise security software offered by IBM after the company refused to acknowledge the responsibly submitted disclosure. The affected premium product in question is IBM Data Risk Manager (IDRM) that has been designed to analyze sensitive business information assets…

A Comprehensive List of Free Software Resources

Where businesses, public organizations, and nonprofits are able, we are all trying our best to adapt to the new normal presented by the current global environment. Buying and using new software tools is a big part of shaping that adaptation—but not everyone can find the budget to do this.