TECHNOLOGY

The Minister for Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, on Monday May 8, 2017, paid a working visit to the National Communications Authority (NCA). Accompanying her were the Minister for Information, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid and Deputy Minister for Communications, Vincent Sowah Odotei. After being welcomed, the Minister, held a closed door meeting with Management of the Authority where she was briefed by the ...

The Facebook page of US newspaper USA Today has been swamped with fake users, its parent company has said. Gannett Co has now asked the FBI to investigate, after it estimated that half of the newspaper’s Facebook following was automated. Facebook has removed millions of the fake accounts, but it has detected more suspicious activity since. And the number of ...

A phishing email that targeted Gmail users is estimated to have cost the state of Minnesota $90,000 (£69,400). About 2,500 state employees received the email, according to the state chief information security officer. Around the world, people have reported getting multiple copies of the email, while others have received the message from trusted organisations. One million Gmail users, which Google ...

Users of Guardian Soulmates have been targeted with sexually explicit spam emails after their contact information was accidentally exposed on the dating site. Information from users’ profiles was included in the spam messages. The Guardian newspaper’s publisher, which runs the service, said “human error” was at fault. Guardian News & Media blamed a third-party technology provider for the problem, which ...

Facebook’s profits have jumped in the first three months of the year, as the social network closes in on two billion users, according to its latest results. The number of people using Facebook each month increased to 1.94 billion, of which nearly 1.3 billion use it daily, the company said. The US tech giant reported profits of just over $3bn ...

Millions of WhatsApp users were left without service after the messaging service suffered a global power outage. The app stopped working at around 9pm UK time on Wednesday leaving people unable to send or receive messages. Users in Europe, America, South America were affected, according to data gathered by Down Detector. The outage lasted for around almost three hours and ...

The US National Security Agency (NSA) is to end surveillance on messages sent by US citizens that mention foreign intelligence targets. The NSA was allowed to collect this information without a warrant thanks to a US law passed in 2008. In a statement it said that an internal review had revealed several problems with the spying programme and its effect ...

A malicious hacker has reportedly released 10 episodes of the new series of TV show ‘Orange is the New Black’. The episodes are believed to have been uploaded to file-sharing sites across the net after US media firm Netflix refused to pay a ransom. The shows were due to be released officially from 9 June onwards. The hacker who stole ...

Officials said “an administrative measure” had been taken, but gave no reason why. Turkish media said authorities had asked Wikipedia to remove content by writers “supporting terror”. Turkey has temporarily blocked social media sites including Facebook and Twitter in the past, usually following protests or terror attacks. The Turkey Blocks monitoring group said Wikipedia was unreachable from 08:00 (05:00 GMT). ...

Hong-Kong based smartphone manufacturer, Infinix, has launched the world’s first ever wefie smartphone, Infinix S2 Pro, a successor to the Infinix Hot S. Wefie, unlike selfie, allows group photographs which captures each individual in the group without using a selfie stick. Infinix S2 features a 13.0-megapixel rear camera, with a dual tone LED flash and dual front cameras, one of ...