Securely Migrating to the Cloud
Cloud migration is an ongoing trend.
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Japan’s mobile payments app PayPay reaches 10 million users – TechCrunch
Paytm, India’s biggest mobile payments firm, now has 10 million customers in Japan, the company said as it pushes to expand its reach in international markets.Paytm entered Japan last October after forming a joint venture with SoftBank and Yahoo Japan called PayPay. In addition to 10 million users, PayPay is now supported by 1 million…
US state regulator slaps ‘fraudulent’ ICOs with cease and desist orders
A US state regulator is cracking down on two New Jersey-based initial coin offerings (ICO) offering “fraudulent unregistered securities.” The Bureau of Securities issued emergency cease and desist orders as part of “Operation Cryptosweep” – an international crackdown on fraudulent ICOs and cryptocurrency-related investment schemes – against Zoptax LLC (also known as Zoptax) and Unocall.…
Black Hat 2019: Microsoft Protocol Flaw Leaves Azure Users Open to Attack
At Black Hat USA 2019, researchers showed how a previously-disclosed flaw on Windows systems that could allow arbitrary code execution could also impact Hyper-V.
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G2sday Roundup: July 30, 2019
Ready to catch up on everything you probably missed in the last week?
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Africa’s top mobile phone seller Transsion to list in Chinese IPO – TechCrunch
Chinese mobile-phone and device maker Transsion will list in an IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market, Transsion confirmed to TechCrunch. The company—which has a robust Africa sales network—could raise up to 3 billion yuan (or $426 million). “The company’s listing-related work is running smoothly. The registration application and issuance process is still underway, with the specific…
Quantum physicists successfully teleported ‘qutrits’ in breakthrough experiments
Two independent research teams recently published studies indicating they’ve successfully teleported a qutrit — possibly within days of each other. Now, both await the scientific process of peer review to see which will ultimately get credit for being the first humans to do so. But what’s a qutrit? It’s a lot like a qubit, an entangled…
Reverse RDP Attack Also Enables Guest-to-Host Escape in Microsoft Hyper-V
Remember the reverse RDP attack? Earlier this year, researchers disclosed clipboard hijacking and path-traversal issues in Microsoft’s Windows built-in RDP client that could allow a malicious RDP server to compromise a client computer, reversely. (You can find details and a video demonstration for this security vulnerability, along with dozens of critical flaws in other third-party…
How to Use Transferable Skills to Land Your Dream Job
Sometimes climbing the corporate ladder means changing careers entirely.
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Official Google Advice on Core Update Recovery
Last updated on August 7, 2019 at 10:18 am Recent core updates, both small and large, have made SEOs clamor for a solution or a fix to the negative effects of the update to their websites. Different theories and hypotheses have been rampant in the SEO industry on how to properly “fix” a website that…
