LONDON, April 12 — A new strain of Qbot malicious software that self-updates is being used to attack public sector organizations around the world, BAE Systems reports. More than 54,000 computers in thousands of organizations — such as police departments, hospitals and universities — have been infected with the virus ... Read More »
TEHRAN, April 12 — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC, on Tuesday unveiled its newest aerial surveillance drone during large-scale military exercises in the western part of the country. Iranian media reports the drone, named “Hamasseh” or “Epic” in English, conducted its first ever surveillance flights during the exercise in ... Read More »
MOSCOW, April 12 — Russia and Bolivia are holding negotiations over how Russian defense firms can help the South American nation revitalize its aging military arsenal over the next decade. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss current and ... Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO, April 12 — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday laid out an ambitious 10-year plan to connect the world’s 7 billion people via his company’s social media network. The Facebook chief executive, speaking at the F8 Developers conference Tuesday,submitted a vision of the future in which everyone on ... Read More »
Samsung’s operating profits were up 10.4 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier on strong sales of the Galaxy S7, the latest iteration of its flagship smartphone line, the company said Thursday. Operating profit was around 6.6 trillion won for the quarter, while sales reached 49.0 trillion ... Read More »
It is the biggest leak in history, but many have questioned why only a few Americans have been implicated so far. US news outlet Fusion, which was part of theInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) that revealed the files, said journalists were able to identify 211 people with addresses in ... Read More »
Chances are by now you know all the gory details – allegations in the Panama Papers that the super-rich and politically connected, and even some of their relatives, have moved hundreds of thousands of dollars from their own countries into offshore accounts in Panama, Hong Kong and Singapore, amongst other ... Read More »
The move follows the leak of millions of documents from law firm Mossack Fonseca, showing it helped some clients evade tax and avoid sanctions. Several countries are probing possible financial crimes by the rich and powerful in the aftermath of the leak. President Juan Carlos Varela said Panama would work ... Read More »
The world’s largest smartphone producer has said its operating profit in the January to March period is expected to reach 6.6 trillion Korean won ($5.6bn; £3.9bn). For the same quarter in 2015, Samsung’s operating profit was at 6tn won. The improved outlook comes amid reports of strong sales of its ... Read More »
An entire generation of Syrians has had its education truncated, and the country’s once flourishing academic community has been scattered or driven underground. The scale of the problem, according to the president of the Institute of International Education (IIE), Allan Goodman, is “unprecedented” in the near 100-year history of his ... Read More »
Swiss police raided the European soccer body UEFA on Wednesday to seize information about a contract disclosed in the Panama Papers that was signed by Gianni Infantino, now head of the global soccer body FIFA. The impact of the leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm is snowballing, with Iceland ... Read More »
A new U.S. rule aimed at protecting retirement savers from profit-hungry brokers turned out to be much weaker than an initial proposal after the Obama administration bowed to pressure from the financial services industry. The rule, announced by the Department of Labor on Wednesday, sets a so-called fiduciary standard for ... Read More »
