The European Central Bank (ECB) has chosen five businesses to develop prototypes of user interfaces for its planned digital currency. Through the prototypes, the ECB wants to test how technology underpinning a digital Euro would integrate with user-facing interfaces provided by third parties. “The aim of this prototyping exercise is to test how well […]

A 15-year-old vulnerability in the open source Python programming language is still finding its way into live code, with the result that over 350,000 projects are at risk of potential supply chain cyber attacks, according to threat researchers at Trellix, the recently spun-up union of FireEye and McAfee. CVE-2007-4559 is a directory traversal vulnerability […]

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone have teamed up with Matsuko, a technology firm that is developing 3D holograms for remote communication, to conduct mobile hologram video calls. Last year, Cisco unveiled Webex Hologram, which uses augmented reality (AR) headsets to display 3D representations of meeting attendees, making them appear in the same space. A […]

About $2.5bn will be spent on 5G fixed wireless access services globally in 2023, as the benefits match that of fibre networks, according to Juniper Research. Figures from the research company show a huge increase, 480%, compared with $515m spent this year, as 5G is taken on by more businesses. 5G fixed wireless is […]

Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor proferred a real-time customer data platform called Genie as an engine of growth at the supplier’s Dreamforce customer and partner event in San Francisco. Benioff took a passing pot shot at rival SAP as he noted that Salesforce has surpassed the Germany-based enterprise applications provider in revenue, […]

Datacentre operators are still falling short when it comes to keeping track of the environmental impact of their facilities, with the majority failing to keep tabs on the carbon emitted and water used by their facilities. That’s one of the standout findings of the Uptime Institute’s 12th annual Global data center survey, which is […]

The personal details of thousands of customers were exposed after digital challenger bank Revolut was hit by a “highly targeted cyber attack”. The app-based bank, launched in the UK in 2015, admitted that a third party gained access to the personal details of 0.16% of its 15 million customers, but said “no funds have been […]

The attackers who broke into the systems of multinational hospitality operator IHG Hotels & Resorts at the beginning of September 2022 have claimed they attempted to stage a ransomware attack but instead used a data wiper malware to wreak havoc. The attack rendered parts of IHG’s customer-facing website inoperable for a time, causing disruption to […]

Two highly impactful cyber attacks on ride-sharing service Uber and video game developer Rockstar Games that unfolded over the space of three days are being tentatively linked after a threat actor going by the handle teapotuberhacker claimed to be behind both incidents. Details of the Uber incident first emerged on Thursday 15 and Friday […]

Air transport without fossil fuel still has a major drawback: electric planes don’t get very far. Transporting goods by drone can circumvent that problem, if you use a network in which drones fly from depot to depot to change batteries.   Two student drone teams of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) – Blue […]