ESET researchers have investigated a targeted mobile espionage campaign against the Kurdish ethnic group. This campaign has been active since at least March 2020, distributing (via dedicated Facebook profiles) two Android backdoors known as 888 RAT and SpyNote, disguised as legitimate apps.Read More…

Facebook is in the news again, for another data breach: A cyber security firm, UpGuard has said in a report that over 540 million records about Facebook users were publicly exposed on Amazon’s cloud computing service recently. UpGuard claimed that Cultura Colectiva, a Mexico-based media company, was responsible for the leak.Read More…

Ruckus Networks, joined Facebook’s Express Wi-Fi Certified ecosystem that allows access point manufacturers to build Wi-Fi hardware compatible with Express Wi-Fi. Operators participating in Facebook’s Express Wi-Fi initiative will deploy the Ruckus virtual SmartZone controllersRead More…

Bahrain telecom operators have secured mobile network coverage across 99 percent of the population, through calls or data usage on both 3G and 4G handsets. The announcement was made by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) in its recently published mobile quality service report for 2017, which highlighted that all operators have improvedRead More…

On Thursday, Facebook marked the opening of a new headquarters for the region in Dubai Knowledge Village, with an expanded capacity of about 150 staff compared to around 40 in the previous office, which was also in Dubai marking five years in the Middle East and North Africa.Read More…