After a data breach, the US Department of Energy was asked for ransom twice.

A representative for the United States Department of Energy said on Friday that the agency had received ransom demands from the Russia-linked extortion gang Cl0p at its nuclear waste plant and the scientific education institutions that had been compromised in a recent global hacking campaign.

The German government has given its blessing to the transfer of weapons to Saudi Arabia

This goes against a prohibition put in place in 2018 in response to Saudi Arabia's role in the conflict in Yemen. Allegedly, deals were sealed before Chancellor Olaf Scholz's weekend visit to the area.

Olaf Scholz, the chancellor of Germany, met with Mohammed bin Salman, the cro...

Innoviti receives a US patent for its secure QR communication system

For the safe transfer of payment information from a consumer-facing product – such as a terminal, website, or mobile app – to a payment processing server for authorization, communication security is critical. Customers' identities can be stolen, merchant identities can be changed,...

UAE’s Mashreq Bank Has Entrusted an Israeli Tech Firm for Cross-border Transfers

Mashreq Bank of the United Arab Emirates has chosen a transaction monitoring solution driven by Artificial Intelligence and developed by ThetaRay for correspondent banking.

ThetaRay is an Israeli Tech Firm based in Tell Aviv. Mashreq Bank will be benefitting from its AI-driven solutions...

International Fintech Wise to employ 150 people in its Singapore headquarters this year

Wise, a financial technology business, stated on Wednesday that it wants to employ 150 people in its Singapore headquarters this year (Feb 16).

It added in a press statement that this comprises jobs in engineering, product development, design, analytics, compliance, payments, and other ...

U.S. Ships LNG to Europe

The United States is shipping at least 30 tankers of liquefied natural gas to Europe where the energy crisis has caused prices to skyrocket. The shortage of oil and gas supply in the region has been so severe that the demand has increased prices 14 times more than that in the United States.

The U.S. and Australia Increase Tech Transfer

As China continues to create discord in its surroundings, the US and Australia strengthen their alliance to face the Chinese dragon. Although both countries already have a close bond owing to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, the US, Australia, and the UK are said to sign a new trilateral secu...

WhatsApp to allow data transfer between Android and iOS

WhatsApp has introduced the most wanted feature on Wednesday that allows users to transfer their chat history between iOS and Android phones. Until now switching from an Android to iPhone, or vice versa, required to trust third-party apps, take complicated steps, or forget your chat history. Now ...

HIGHEST BTC IN ACCUMULATION ADDRESSES IN THE LAST 3 YEARS

Highlights:

• Long term investors hold BTCs in accumulation addresses
• The strategy is to let BTC keep on with its upswing

As of Tuesday investors had hoarded 2,851,608 BTC in accumulation addresses. This accumulation of Bitcoin’s is the most in t...

HONG KONG JUDGE GARY LAM ALLEGEDLY TRANSFERRED FOR WRONG DECISIONS OVER DEMOCRATIC PROTESTS

HIGHLIGHTS

• Hong Kong Magistrate Gary Lam Tsz-kan will be reassigned to the Obscene Articles Tribunal one month from now while lashing by Chinese state media and public objections against his decisions over dissent related cases

The legal execut...

MANCHESTER CITY SIGNS RUBEN DIAS FROM BENFICA FOR 68 MILLION EUROS

Highlights:

• Manchester City have made an agreement with Benfica for signing the Defender Ruben Dias for 68 million euros
• Nicolas Otamendi will go the other way, which will be a separate transfer for 15 million euros

Manchester City h...

FACEBOOK MAY GET ORDERS TO CHANGE DATA TRANSFER PRACTICES IN EUROPE

Highlights:

• Facebook might get orders for changing the practices related the data in Europe
• The Data Protection Commission of Ireland had begun an enquiry on the movement of the data of the users of Facebook

On Wednesday, the social ...

HONG KONG JUDGE TRANSFERRED AFTER CRITICIZED BY PRO-BEIJING LEGISLATORS FOR LINENCY ON PROTESTS PROCEEDINGS

HIGHLIGHTS

• A Hong Kong judge whose decisions on protests related cases experienced harsh criticism from Beijing supported legislators has been moved to the High Court to take up a managerial post, nearby media have announced.

Sing Tao Daily sai...

KIM YO-JONG TAKES REINS FROM NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG-UN AS DE FACTO LEADER

• Putting to rest news regarding the worsening health condition of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, Chang, a former associate of the late president Kim Dae-Jung has added that President Kim is in a coma and that this is the reason for power changing hands to Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong-un‘s...

DATA PORTABILITY FEATURE BY FACEBOOK INC. PUSHED FOR LEGISLATION TO THE FTC

Highlights –                       

• Data portability feature by Facebook Inc. pushed for legislation to the FTC.
• This feature would hel...

KOREA EXPORTING SAFETY GEAR TO IRAN WITHOUT FEAR OF US EMBARGO

• United States has put trade sanctions between Iran and Korea which are prohibitive.
• Korea and Iran can enter into a trade sanction by allowing the deal to be carried through with transaction dealt over wire transfer.

United States has put a trade embargo on Ir...

FED APPROVAL OF EBT CARDS FOR MICHIGAN

Highlights:

• Michigan is the first state to receive the federal approval for the EBT cards under the Department of Education
• This program will see the federal government pump in $172 million worth a month

Students in Michigan, who is a part of the Mic...

Lighting Control

The term lighting controls are commonly used to demonstrate remain solitary control of the lighting inside a space. ... These gadgets may incorporate transfers, inhabitance sensors, photocells, light control switches or touchscreens, and signs from other structure frameworks, (for example, alarm ...

Mako Fintech Announces Launch people Transfer Agency Business and Formation of the planning board

MONTREAL-(BUSINESS WIRE) Mako Fintech, a technical school startup delivering next-generation code for securities transfer and administration, declared nowadays that it's received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commissions to control as a security agency within the U.S. transfer age...