Eddie Ackerman Contributor Eddie Ackerman is strategic finance operating partner at Thomvest Ventures, where he works closely with the company’s portfolio companies to provide valuable financial insight and guidance. Recent headlines have been dominated by announcements of large headcount reductions across the tech industry and especially at giants like Meta, Amazon and Twitter. But it’s…
Dec 23, 2022Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Pakistani Hackers A new targeted phishing campaign has zoomed in on a two-factor authentication solution called Kavach that’s used by Indian government officials. Cybersecurity firm Securonix dubbed the activity STEPPY#KAVACH, attributing it to a threat actor known as SideCopy based on tactical overlaps with prior attacks. “.LNK files are…
Huawei’s chief strategist in the Middle East believes that current infrastructure cannot support the metaverse. Most current “metaverse” experiences are just online games capitalising on the hype around the term. Long term, the ambitious vision for the metaverse is a series of decentralised interoperable virtual worlds. True metaverse experiences will allow users to take their…
Huawei’s chief strategist in the Middle East believes that current infrastructure cannot support the metaverse. Most current “metaverse” experiences are just online games capitalising on the hype around the term. Long term, the ambitious vision for the metaverse is a series of decentralised interoperable virtual worlds. True metaverse experiences will allow users to take their…
Huawei’s chief strategist in the Middle East believes that current infrastructure cannot support the metaverse. Most current “metaverse” experiences are just online games capitalising on the hype around the term. Long term, the ambitious vision for the metaverse is a series of decentralised interoperable virtual worlds. True metaverse experiences will allow users to take their…
Prosecutors have charged two men with conducting “swatting” attacks that used Ring cameras to livestream the response and taunt police. Swatters make a false report to law enforcement that prompts an armed response to an address. While often intended to be a sick form of entertainment, they pull resources from where they could actually be…
Eddie Ackerman Contributor Eddie Ackerman is strategic finance operating partner at Thomvest Ventures, where he works closely with the company’s portfolio companies to provide valuable financial insight and guidance. Recent headlines have been dominated by announcements of large headcount reductions across the tech industry and especially at giants like Meta, Amazon and Twitter. But it’s…
Facebook’s parent company Meta has agreed a $725 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit related to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. First reported by Reuters earlier today, the deal follows nearly four months after news first emerged that Meta had proposed a settlement in the Northern District of California where the suit was…
Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart no longer owns a stake in payments firm PhonePe. The two said on Friday that they have completed a full ownership separation of PhonePe and shareholders in the Singapore entities of both firms have purchased shares directly in PhonePe’s India entity. The move comes as PhonePe, which was acquired by Flipkart…
Facebook’s parent company Meta has agreed a $725 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit related to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. First reported by Reuters earlier today, the deal follows nearly four months after news first emerged that Meta had proposed a settlement in the Northern District of California where the suit was…
