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  Hackers exploited a Trend Micro OfficeScan zero-day to plant malicious files on Mitsubishi Electric servers. Chinese hackers have used a zero-day in the  Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus  during their attacks on Mitsubishi Electric, Tech News has learned from sources close to the investigation. Trend Micro has now patched the vulnerability, but the company did not comment if the zero-day was used in other attacks beyond Mitsubishi Electric. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC HACK News of the Mitsubishi Electric hack became public on Monday, this week.  In a press release  published on its website, the Japanese electronics vendor and defense contractor said it was hacked last year. The company said it detected an intrusion on its network on June 28, 2019. Following a months-long investigation, Mitsubishi said it discovered that hackers gained access to its internal network from where they stole roughly 200 MB of files. While initially the company didn't reveal the content of ...

  A number of leading Chinese tech companies have started utilising green energy but the scale remains limited compared to foreign peers, according to a recently released paper. Chinese tech companies are expected to continue growing exponentially in the era of 5G, cloud computing, and internet of things, but their investment in green energy has lagged behind comparative to foreign competitors, according to a  paper  released by Greenpeace and North China Electric Power University. Although China's electricity consumption from the data centre industry is forecast to expand by 66% between 2019 and 2023, coal remains the primary source for electricity, said the paper.  Data centres in China consume nearly 2% of the entire electricity consumption in the country, as nearly 300,000 data centres in China ran non-stop as of the end of 2017, an  earlier news report  suggested. Many Chinese companies have also moved their data centre facilities to the Guizhou provin...

  Technology professionals shouldn't be distracted by the big TVs and robots at CES; the real innovation happens behind the curtain with the enterprise tech powering all those 'smart' consumer gadgets. Each January, over 150,000 people from all over the world converge on Las Vegas for the year's biggest show in tech...CES. And today's CES is as much a showcase for the latest business technology as it is for new consumer electronics. Enterprise technologies like AI, data analytics, IoT, and 5G underpin all the gadgets, smart devices, and autonomous vehicles that are on display during the show. So as always, will have CES covered from all the angles that matter for businesses and professionals. At CES 2020, there are three big trends that tech pros and CIOs should pay attention to: 1. 5G 5G has been a hot topic for the last two years and has rolled out in limited areas. 2020 will be the year we begin to see 5G come to consumer devices at scale and become a force for d...

  As we become ever-more reliant on GPS, the prospect of it going down seems increasingly worrying. Almost half a century ago, the US Department of Defense started working on an experimental project to launch a series of satellites into space to make it possible to pinpoint any location on Earth. Fast-forward 47 years, and the Global Positioning System (GPS) is everywhere and in everything from the activity-tracking applications in our smartphones to the navigation systems found in airplanes. Ahead of receiving the £1 million Queen Elizabeth Award for Engineering last week, the chief architect of GPS, Bradford Parkinson, told that making the tool accessible to all was part of his plan from the earliest stages of the project. And it became part of the US government’s plan, too:  in 1983, the Reagan administration declared that it would effectively guarantee and provide GPS for both military and civilian purposes . “President Reagan established that reliable knowledge of your po...