Meta, Facebook’s parent company, provided user information to hackers who pretended to be law enforcement officials last year, a company source mentioned recently.   Imposters were able to get details like physical addresses or phone numbers in response to falsified  “emergency data requests,” which can slip past privacy barriers, said the source who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.   Criminal hackers have been compromising email accounts or websites tied to police or government and claiming they can't wait for a judge's order for information because it's an  “urgent matter of life and death,” cyber expert Brian Krebs wrote recently.   Bloomberg news agency, which originally reported Meta being targeted, also reported that Apple had provided customer data in response to forged data requests. Apple and Meta did not officially confirm the incidents, but provided statements citing their policies in handling information demands.   When US law enforcement officials want data on a social media account's owner or an associated cell phone number, they must submit an official court-ordered warrant or subpoena, Krebs wrote.   But in urgent cases authorities can make an  “emergency data request,” which  “largely bypasses any official review and does not require the requestor to supply any court-approved documents,” he added.   Meta, in a statement, said the firm reviews every data request for  “legal sufficiency” and uses  “advanced systems and processes” to validate law enforcement requests and detect abuse.   “We block known compromised accounts from making requests and work with law enforcement to respond to incidents involving suspected fraudulent requests, as we have done in this case,” the statement added.   Apple noted its guidelines, which say that in the case of an emergency application  “a supervisor for the government or law enforcement agent who submitted the... request may be contacted and asked to confirm to Apple that the emergency request was legitimate.”   Krebs noted that the lack of a unitary, national system for these types of requests is one of the key problems associated with them, as companies end up deciding how to deal with them.   “To make matters more complicated, there are tens of thousands of police jurisdictions around the world - including roughly 18,000 in the United States alone - and all it takes for hackers to succeed is illicit access to a single police email account,” he wrote.  

Facebook's owner Meta has hired a consulting firm to carry out a US campaign denigrating its fierce rival TikTok, according to a Washington Post report Wednesday partially confirmed by AFP. The campaign reportedly includes placing letters in major US news outlets and promoting negative stories about TikTok, allegedly using the type of tough tactics familiar to Washington politics.

A concentration is a subsection of a major that focuses on a particular topic of study, though not all majors have one.

These days, owning a refrigerator is tantamount to preserving health and leading a healthy lifestyle. Even though we mostly use refrigerators to store food and keep them fresh,

From what we witnessed in the last month, we can all agree that the summer this year too will be brutal.  

Edutechs, an edtech startup based in Bangladesh has raised USD 100K in its pre-seed round, led by serial investor Mohammad Maaz and industrialist F. K. Md. Emdad Khan.

What are these protective gears you ask? Well, wearing a helmet is mandatory, but there are other crucial ones: protective goggles, ear guards, hand gloves, knee-shinbone-elbow caps, arm guards, jagged boots and protective jackets or bodysuits.

10 women and 3 companies were recently awarded the prestigious ‘BASIS Luna Shamsuddoha Award’ at the Grand Ballroom of Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden hotel in the capital city.

LG has officially announced the latest additions to their ever-growing family of home electronics: the LG Instaview™ Side-by-Side refrigerator and the LG OLED Evo TV.

Three astronauts - one American and two Russian, safely landed in Kazakhstan on 30 March after departing from the same capsule from the International Space Station, despite the ongoing hostility between the USA and Russia.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook Messenger, is introducing new shortcuts which allow you to send messages silently while you’re chatting with your friends.

Wavemaker Partners, a leading venture capitalist firm in Southeast Asia, recently invested 35 crore taka in the second round of Bangladeshi edTech Shikho’s seed round. 

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday added Russia's AO Kaspersky Lab, China Telecom (Americas) Corp and China Mobile International USA to its list of communications equipment and service providers deemed threats to US national security.

Walton is going to supply a total of 3.95 lakh pieces of Tabs to the government’s Population and Housing Census Project 2021. Under the agreement, Walton will execute device monitoring activities using VMware MDM software to implement this project.

Casio, the leading musical instruments company, launched a new CT-X Series of portable keyboards in Bangladesh. With new AiX Sound Source and advanced specifications for beginners to performers and players. This keyboard is aimed at musicians who already know their favourite sounds and are looking for a simple plug-and-play interface.

Apple is reportedly launching a brand new subscription-based service in which users can purchase iPhones and iPads.

Bangladesh Angels Network (BAN), the nation’s first angel investment network, recently launched Bangladesh Women Investors Network (BWIN) to support women entrepreneurs and investors. 

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is giving "serious thought" to building a new social media platform, the billionaire said in a tweet on Saturday.

Airwrk, a brand new US-based Bangladeshi tech talent platform, officially launched its beta program earlier today. 

Hikvision, a leading global surveillance device supplier, officially launched the first-ever security surveillance equipment manufacturing plant in Bangladesh at Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City in Kaliakair on 25 March.