- World
After protest, Microsoft engineer slams company’s ties with Israel
After interrupting Microsoft’s 50th-anniversary event in protest of the company’s AI involvement in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza, software engineer Ibtihal Aboussad sent a mass email to employees across several…
- India
41 airports across India get hoax bomb threat on email
New Delhi: Forty-one airports, including in Varanasi, Chennai, Patna and Jaipur, received bomb threat emails on Tuesday, prompting authorities to scramble contingency measures and carry out anti-sabotage checks that lasted hours, and…
- India
Mukesh Ambani receives 3rd threat email with Rs 400 cr demand
Mumbai: Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has received a threat email from an unidentified person seeking Rs 400 crore, police said on Tuesday. Ambani’s company received the email on Monday. Also ReadAfter…
- Technology
Microsoft reveals how China-based hackers stole its consumer email key
San Francisco: China-backed hackers stole a digital consumer key from Microsoft to gain unfettered access to US government emails and the tech giant has detailed how the cyber criminals pulled off one…
- Technology
Google will delete accounts that remain inactive for 2 years from Dec 1
New Delhi: Google on Saturday sent emails to its billions of users, saying the company updating the inactivity period for a Google Account to two years across all its products and services.…
- Technology
Email-based phishing attacks surge 464% in 1st half of 2023: Report
New Delhi: In the first half of 2023 alone, the number of email-based phishing attacks has surged 464 per cent globally when compared to 2022, a new report said on Friday. According…
- Technology
Now Google places Blue verified check marks on email senders
New Delhi: After Twitter, Google has now announced to display a Blue checkmark next to a sender’s name to verify their identity and minimise scams, which is free at the moment. In…
- Technology
Sacked Twitter workers didn’t get severance as promised, even as Musk fires more
San Francisco: Elon Musk has fired more employees at Twitter from its content moderation team while some of the employees fired in earlier job cut rounds last year did not receive severance…
- India
Email threat to blow up IndiGo flight turns out to be hoax, Mumbai cops register case
Mumbai: A case was registered after an unidentified person sent an email to the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) threatening to blow up a flight of IndiGo airline, a Mumbai police official…
- Technology
Google pilot to keep political campaign emails out of Gmail spam launched
San Francisco: Google has finally launched a new pilot programme to keep political campaign emails out of spam folders for Gmail users. Gmail users could start seeing more campaign fundraising emails in…
- Technology
ProtonMail acquires email alias startup SimpleLogin
New Delhi: Encrypted email service ProtonMail has acquired Paris-based startup SimpleLogin, that allows users to create an email alias, for an undisclosed sum. SimpleLogin is a browser extension, web app and mobile…
- Technology
Hackers hit email marketing giant Mailchimp, access crypto wallets’ data
San Francisco: Hackers have stolen data from more than 100 clients of email marketing giant Mailchimp after they broke into its services, using the data to mount phishing attacks on the users…
- Technology
Covid test-related email scams surge 500% with rise in Omicron: Report
New Delhi: With the increase in demand for Covid-19 tests, over the past weeks due to the latest Omicron variant, the hackers are back at exploiting the pandemic to conduct more attacks,…
