Citigroup Inchas been hacked and hundreds of thousands of customer’s records have been accessed, the company admitted today. The attack, which was discovered in May, affected 1% of Citigroup’s users — that’s quite a number of people for such a large banking corporation. The company is upgrading its security measures and contacting affected customers, according to a spokesmanwho emailed Reuters. Attacks on some of the world’s largest corporations have dominated the news in recent months....

Cities are betting big on smart streetlights — 23% will be connected by 2030 Funding The report notes that infrastructure investment funds, energy services companies (ESCOs) and urban management companies are playing a growing role in financing and carrying out smart streetlighting projects. It forecasts that this trend will be exacerbated by municipal budget shortages caused by Covid-related economic issues. “The challenges of 2020 have reinforced some of the key trends that were already developing in the smart streetlighting market,” said Chris Testa, Research Director at Northeast Group....

Thehackers who recently attacked Citigroupand made of with the details of 200,000 customers used an extremely rudimentary attack that anyone could’ve pulled off, theDaily Mail reports. All one needed to access other users’ information was a Citigroup account and a lot of spare time. After logging into the Citigroup credit card customer area of the site, accessing the information of other customers was simply a matter of replacing the account number in the browser’s URL bar with another number....

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A new report by public policy research organization Citizen Lab has highlighted Apple’s censorship in regions such as China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The company offersengraving servicesto let customers personalize Apple products they’re buying with emojis, names, or other characters. The investigation says that Apple has a huge list of disallowed phrases — some of them being arbitrary — that it doesn’t engrave on iPhones, iPads, and AirTags sold in these regions....