Web search engine Yandex is one of the most popular sites in Russia, having indexed several important Russian websites as well as allowing access to services for free, just like its American competitor, Google. The search engine, which also provides a free webmail service, recently caught an employee selling access to user email accounts, according to reports. The search engine has now begun informing each of the users who were affected by the employee’s actions – around 4,887 users’… Source link
Read More »Yandex suffers data breach after sysadmin sold access to user emails
Russian internet and search company Yandex announced today that one of its system administrators had enabled unauthorized access to thousands of user mailboxes. The company discovered the breach internally, during a routine check of its security team. The investigation revealed that the employee’s actions led to the compromise of almost 5,000 Yandex email inboxes. Sysadmin’s side business The employee was a system administrator who had access rights to provide technical support for… Source link
Read More »Russian Tech Giant Yandex Detects Data Breach Affecting Over 4,800 Mailboxes
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 12th February, 2021) Russian internet giant Yandex said on Friday it had detected a data breach of 4,887 mailboxes orchestrated by the company‘s employee for personal gain. “Yandex… today announced that a data breach had been discovered during routine screening by Yandex’s security team. An internal investigation revealed that an employee had been providing unauthorized access to users’ mailboxes for personal gain,” the company said in a press… Source link
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Bloomberg This Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came. (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link
Read More »Google Play Music Data Will Be Deleted on February 24: Here’s How to Transfer to YouTube Music
Google Play Music has shut down, but it is still possible to download the library or transfer to YouTube Music. The music-streaming platform officially stopped working for users in December 2020. According to a report by 9to5Google, users have until February 24, 2021, to download, transfer, or delete their data from Google Play Music, after which it will all be wiped out. Google is urging users to transfer to its other music streaming service YouTube Music before the aforementioned date.
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InvestorPlace Listen to Jeff Bezos: Buy These 7 ‘Hyperinnovative’ Stocks “Invention is the root of our success.” So said Jeff Bezos, who – among other things – founded Amazon.com 27 years ago, grew it into a trillion-dollar company and, along the way, became the world’s second-richest person. Source: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon and transitioning to the Executive Chairman role. He announced his departure in a letter to Amazon employees on… Source link
Read More »Police used Google location data to identify criminal suspects in Minneapolis: report
Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Could your phone make you a suspect in a crime you didn’t commit? Police investigating vandalism that broke out amid the protests in Minneapolis over George Floyd’s death last year used a search warrant for Google users’ location data in an attempt to identify the so-called “Umbrella Man” who has been blamed for starting violence, TechCrunch reported. The “geofence” warrant targeted anyone who… Source link
Read More »Data Doctors: Which Google Pixel 5G phone should I buy?
On Data Doctors, Ken Colburn compares Google’s 5G offerings to help you decide which phone is for you. Q: I’m ready for a 5G phone and comparing the Google Pixel 4a with 5G to the Pixel 5 — is the Pixel 5 worth the difference? A: As 5G coverage continues to grow, upgrading to a phone that can take advantage of the faster speeds is becoming more attractive. Every major manufacturer now offers a 5G capable smartphone, so the field of choices has become quite… Source link
Read More »Union Alleges Google Data Center Vendor Silenced Workers About Pay
Josh Eidelson (Bloomberg) — Google contract workers were banned from discussing their pay, and one was suspended for her labor activism, according to a complaint from the Alphabet Workers Union. In a Thursday filing with the National Labor Relations Board, the union accused the Google vendor Adecco of violating U.S. labor law by trying to silence employees. Management forbid employees at a data center in South Carolina from discussing their… Source link
Read More »Twitter broadens its partnership with Google Cloud to improve data analytics
Twitter and Google Cloud announced they have inked a multi-year partnership that includes using Google’s machine learning to improve Twitter’s data insights. Twitter is moving its offline analytics, data processing and machine learning (ML) workloads over to Google’s Data Cloud as part of its cloud migration strategy. Twitter first started working with Google Cloud in 2018 to migrate its Hadoop clusters over to Google Cloud Platform as part of its cloud strategy, which is cloud “Partly… Source link
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