Why paying the ransom is a mistake
New research from Databarracks reveals 44% of organizations that suffered a ransomware attack, paid the ransom. 34% recovered from backups, while 22% used ransomware decryption tools. The findings come from the Databarracks 2022 Data Health Check. Th.....»»
Apple may soon turn iPhones into credit card payment terminals
Apple Pay already allows you to pay for goods at any store with a third-party terminal supporting the method. This technology helped make the process of paying much simpler and more secure, as you don't have to use cash or a credit/debit card. Howeve.....»»
More than a third of Peacock subscribers are actually paying money
More than 9 million of Peacock's nearly 25 million subscriptions are on one of the two paid tiers, execs said in a quarterly earnings report......»»
The James Webb Space Telescope owes its success to Hubble"s bumpy start
When Hubble launched in 1990, mission managers missed a defect in the primary mirror that threated the entire project. NASA vowed to not repeat that mistake with Webb......»»
Netflix loses a quarter of its value on slowing subscriber growth
Netflix finished the quarter with 222 million paying subscribers, adding 8.3 million members during the last three months of 2021. Revenue for the quarter was $7.7 billion, up 16.0 percent compared to the same period a year earlier......»»
Why Investors Are Paying Real Money For Virtual Land
A blank square of pixels in a virtual metaverse world like The Sandbox can cost as much as a home in the real world. But investors are buying in A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscr.....»»
Is Bumble Premium worth it? I tried it for two months to find out.
You may balk at the concept of paying for a dating app, but others certainly don't: Daters spent $3 billion on apps in 2020, up 15 percent from the previous year. These days, singles aren't afraid to fork up cash for additional features on these apps.....»»
Twitter makes it possible to link NFTs to profile pics (for a price)
Conspicuous consumption is now officially integrated into the Twitter app. The social media giant announced Thursday a new feature which lets paying Twitter Blue subscribers on iOS officially link non-fungible tokens to their profile pictures. Once d.....»»
Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying for Workspace this year
In 2020, G Suite became Google Workspace as part of a mass reorganization of the company’s apps for the “future of work.” Various plans were migrated over, and Google is now finally getting rid of the G Suite legacy free edition......»»
Google Requiring All "G Suite Legacy Free Edition" Users To Start Paying for Workspace this Year
An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2020, G Suite became Google Workspace as part of a mass reorganization of the company's apps for the "future of work." Various plans were migrated over, and Google is now finally getting rid of the G Suite lega.....»»
Day Traders as "Dumb Money"? The Pros Are Now Paying Attention
Last year, amateur investors took financial markets by storm. This year, Wall Street professionals are watching them closely. From a report: Fund managers who might have once derided small-time day traders as "dumb money" are scouring social-media po.....»»
Cloudflare reports a massive 175% increase in DDoS attacks
Cloudflare has just released a report detailing DDoS attacks from the last quarter of 2021. The last half of the year saw a massive increase in ransom attacks......»»
Scammers Put Fake QR Codes On Parking Meters To Intercept Parkers" Payments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Scammers in a few big Texas cities have been putting fake QR codes on parking meters to trick people into paying the fraudsters. Parking enforcement officers recently found stickers with fraudule.....»»
FuboTV increases its subscriber estimates to 1.1 million for 2021
Streaming service FuboTV says it expects to end 2021 with more subscribers that it previously estimated, with more than 1.1 million paying customers......»»
Bank Accidentally Deposits $176M In People"s Accounts on Christmas Day
"Thousands of people received a surprise gift on Christmas Day this year," reports CNBC, "when European bank Santander accidentally deposited £130 million ($176 million) across 75,000 transactions." The mistake happened when payments from 2,000.....»»
Why Star Wars is best when it doesn’t pin its hopes on the Jedi
It's a mistake for Star Wars to mainly focus on the Force and people who wield it when other aspects of the galaxy are far, far more exciting......»»
Riot Games to pay $100 million to settle gender discrimination lawsuit
Riot was accused of paying women less for similar work, fostering culture of harassment. Enlarge (credit: Chris Delmas | Getty Images) Riot Games has settled a class-action lawsuit for $100 million. Filed in 2018 by two female.....»»
Preparing, and paying for, climate change-induced disasters
During the evening hours of Dec. 10, a flurry of tornadoes ravaged several states, claiming close to 100 lives and leaving whole communities in wreckage. According to the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the storms were.....»»
JPMorgan Hit With $200 Million in Fines for Letting Employees Use WhatsApp To Evade Regulators" Reach
JPMorgan Chase is paying $200 million in fines to two U.S. banking regulators to settle charges that its Wall Street division allowed employees to use WhatsApp and other platforms to circumvent federal record-keeping laws. From a report: The Securiti.....»»
Elon Musk says he will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year, more than any American in history
A ProPublica report back in June found that many billionaires such as Musk and Jeff Bezos pay little to no federal taxes using completely legal means. Musk reportedly avoided paying any federal income tax in 2018 while handing over just $68,000 in 20.....»»
Who"s Paying to Fix Open Source Software?
The Log4Shell exploit "exposes how a vulnerability in a seemingly simple bit of infrastructure code can threaten the security of banks, tech companies, governments, and pretty much any other kind of organization," writes VentureBeat. But the incident.....»»