With the ongoing brouhaha that Apple continues to deal with over the rules surrounding its App Store — such as Spotify chief legal officer Horacio Gutierrez embarking on something of a media tour in recent weeks, whining that Apple is a “ruthless bully” to anyone who will listen — it’s hard not to imagine that …
February 19, 2021 A Singtel booth is pictured at the Money 20/20 Asia Fintech Trade Show in Singapore, on March 21, 2019
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Singtel’s announcement of their data breach which affected approximately 129,000 customers should be a cause for concern, as identifiable data containing NRIC and a combination of phone number, address, name, and date of birth was part of that leak.
Singtel was alerted by Accellion, a third-party vendor for a file-sharing system, that unidentified hackers have gained access to that file-sharing server which is used to disseminate information within Singtel’s internal systems and external stakeholders.
The hackers used unknown zero-day vulnerability exploit, which Accellion wasn t made aware till much later to follow-up with the necessary fixes. However, it wasn t effective, which allowed the hackers to breach the system and gain access to the information on Singtel s servers.
»Explained: Gmail Didn’t Work Properly For Some Users Today Too And Maybe This Is What Google Should Do
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Explained: Gmail Didn’t Work Properly For Some Users Today Too And Maybe This Is What Google Should Do
While users were able to access their mailboxes on Gmail today, some encountered delays while sending messages. Google doesn’t say if today’s issue was limited to certain parts of the world or if it was in any way related to the earlier outage.
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Google confirmed that a few hours ago, a “significant subset” of users faced certain issues such as high latency, error messages or unexpected behavior while using the service. It was quickly rectified and comes just a day after a major outage of Google services which saw Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Docs and the complete Google Authentication system that powers Google’s Single Sign-On. While users were able to access their mailboxes on Gmail today, some encountered delays while sending m