With several organisations implementing work from home for
employees in the wake of growing COVID-19 threat, hackers have turned their
eyes on breaking into companies’ networks and systems in absence of robust,
multi-layered firewall and security solutions within the boundaries of workers’
homes.
In view of the coronavirus scare, education technology company
Extramarks has said it will give all students full and free access to its app
until April 30th, 2020. In view of the coronavirus scare, education technology
company Extramarks has said it will give all students full and free access to
its app until April 30th, 2020.
BioNTech struck a collaboration deal with Shanghai Fosun
Pharmaceutical over the German biotech firm’s rights in China to an
experimental coronavirus vaccine, the latest gambit in a global race to halt
the pandemic
While Google is still working on a coronavirus screening and
racking website, Microsoft Bing team has already launched a web portal for
tracking COVID-19 infections worldwide. The website, accessible at
bing.com/covid, provides up-to date infection statistics for each country.
Microsoft’s chat and communications tool, Microsoft Teams, went
down across Europe this morning for more than two hours. The outage started
just as thousands of workers started to sign into the service and attempt to
work remotely amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma says he is donating 500,000 coronavirus testing kits and one million protective face masks to the United States, Reuters reports. The Chinese billionaire already has pledged 2 million protective masks to European countries
