Google launches a unified platform with its rewards programs Google celebrates the anniversary of its rewards program for vulnerability detection , known by the acronym VRP, with the launch of a new website: bughunters.google.com . On this platform gathers all the reward programs that the American company had set up to date ( Google, Android, Abuse, Chrome and Play ) and delivers them to […]
Microsoft paid out 13.6 million in security rewards in the last year Microsoft has paid out $ 13.6 million in rewards in the last year to the research community for the discovery of bugs . {{1 }} This figure corresponds to the period between July 2020 and June 2021. On average, the Redmond giant awarded each discovery in its different programs with more than $ 10,000. In […]
Google makes changes to its search engine to protect victims of harassment Google is aware that some queries made in its search engine are more susceptible than others to being used for bad practices. A problem against what the company fights are those sites that ask for a payment in exchange for removing content related to a person. Google already had mechanisms to remove these pages from […]
Firmina arrives, the largest submarine cable with single-end power capacity Google begins construction of a new submarine cable . Named Firmina , in honor of the Brazilian novelist Maria Firmina dos Reis, it will unite the northern part of the American continent with the southern part. Specifically, < strong> will run from the east coast of the United States to the Argentine city of Las […]
They detect four vulnerabilities present for years in Microsoft Office Check Point has found four vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s office suite , which it suspects were hidden for several years . All of them have to do with parsing errors in the code inherited from Excel95 file formats . Through a series of checks, security experts detected vulnerable functions within MSGraph that affected various Office products, […]
Siloscape, the first known malware targeting Windows containers Malware has reached Windows containers. An investigation led by Palo Alto Networks ended with the detection of Siloscape , so named because its objective is to escape from the container and because of its implementation through a server silo in the Microsoft operating system. { {1}} This discovery is important because so far Unit 42, […]
Microsoft offers Spanish companies Teams Xperience to explore the possibilities of collaborative work The volume of teleworkers has accelerated in the last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Microsoft estimates that a year ago around 15% of companies had a teleworking policy. Right now 76% of the companies in Europe and 83% in Spain have it. At a time when some employees begin to return to the office […]
Retail: New Era in Multisites Management The health crisis has had a hard impact on the retail sector. Up to 67,500 establishments, 15% of those that existed in Spain, have had to close their doors in the midst of a pandemic. The financial situation is complicated and stands as one of the main challenges for the present and the future, along […]
Google Meet adds a function to pre-check audio and video Ensuring that the video and audio quality in a video conference are optimal is easier with the new feature added to Google Meet. In somewhat more informal settings this adjustment can be made at the beginning of the communication, but sometimes it can be difficult or annoying to carry out these checks, which can even […]
Huawei Mate X2, a new folding mobile that arrives on February 22 It has not finished consolidating nor is it, far from it, the revolution that some predicted, but the traditional form factor of smartphones continues to undergo a small revolution with the incessant proposals around the versatility of folding screens. So much so that Huawei is already in the second generation and its flagship will be […]
The pandemic slows the fall of domestic telephony in Spain The domestic telephony market has recovered in Spain during 2020. After a long decline, last year it managed to halt its decline, sponsored by the new needs of users in the midst of the health crisis. People spend more time at home and their priorities change. In this market, Panasonic is still the leader . […]
SAS proposes a global hackathon to solve problems through analytics Solving problems through technology. This is what SAS proposes through a new series of global hackathons that will focus on the use of advanced analytics . «From SAS we want to help creative people to use technology in new and innovative ways,» explains Emilia García, director of SAS Alliances and Channel for Iberia, who considers […]
The Spanish fixed broadband market, the only one that resists among retail services The National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) has published results for the Spanish telecommunications market. These are results corresponding to the months of July, August and September of 2020. During this period, revenue from retail services fell by 3.8% to 5,778 million euros . Basically, all services (fixed and mobile telephony, mobile broadband, business […]
Microsoft’s recommendations for the rise in calls from scammers posing as company technicians Microsoft has taken very seriously the campaign that, according to data from the National Police, has recently escalated from telephone scams with calls in which criminals pose as employees of the company founded by Bill Gates. The objective is to gain access to computer equipment that remains under the control of these criminals, which can […]