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The Indian Ministry of Railways has launched an internal investigation into allegations that Oracle paid about $400,000 in bribes to its officials. The probe was initiated following a disclosure by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that Oracle used “slush funds” to bribe Indian Railway officials in 2019. “Yes, Indian Railways has ordered an internal inquiry,” said a spokesperson of the Ministry of Railways when asked about the probe into the bribery case.  “In…

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser could dismiss Arne Schoenbohm, president of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) due to possible contact with Russian security agents, German media reported on Sunday, October 9, 2022, citing government sources. As a founder of the Cyber Security Council of Germany, an industrial consortium, Schoenbohm is alleged to have had contacts with people from one of the association’s members, a German subsidiary of a Russian cybersecurity firm founded by…

What is transformational leadership? The transformational leadership approach encourages, inspires, and motivates employees to innovate and create the change necessary to shape the future success of the company. This is accomplished by setting an example at the executive level through authenticity, a strong sense of corporate culture, employee ownership, and independence in the workplace. Transformational leaders are change agents in the business, who can identify innovative and shifting trends in technology, and then help the…

While the “death of the mainframe” may be a ways off if ever, companies are currently looking for exit strategies from big iron, with logistics multinational FedEx making headlines of late, announcing it will retire all its mainframes by 2024 in a bid to save $400 million annually. As part of its goal to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040, FedEx is adopting a zero data center/zero mainframe environment, running half its compute in colocation…

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has identified over 400 malicious Android and iOS apps that target people in order to steal their Facebook login information. According to Meta, the app discoveries were all made in 2022 and findings have been reported to Apple and Google. The malware apps are disguised as apps with fun or useful functionality. Once downloaded, these apps can steal a user’s login information by asking the user to ‘login with Facebook’ to…

More than nine in 10 (91%) cybersecurity professionals have experienced mental health challenges at work during the past two years, according to research by Australian cybersecurity services company Sekuro. The survey of 101 cybersecurity professionals analyzed how increasing cyber-threats following COVID-19 affected the mental state of those working in the sector. Over half (51%) of respondents said their mental health struggles were caused by poor culture and/or management styles at work, while 50% attributed these…