Ransomware gangs face a crackdown
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Alleged hackers are arrested and millions of dollars recovered in a global police operation. Is the tide finally turning in the battle against ransomware attacks? Jane Wakefield speaks to James Chappell from cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows. Plus companies like Facebook have virtual reality at the heart of their plans for the metaverse, but is augmented reality a better bet? We speak to Magic Leap, the company that hopes its AR glasses will become as essential to our digital lives as our phones. And just a few companies run the cloud that powers most of the websites we use. What happens when they fail? Presented by Jane Wakefield with BBC tech reporter Chris Vallance.
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| 0:31.7 | Hello, this is TechTemp from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm Jane Wakefield. |
| 0:36.7 | And with me to take a trawl through the technology |
| 0:38.8 | news this week is BBC tech reporter Chris Fallence. Hi Chris. Hi, Jane. On the show this week, we're looking |
| 0:44.8 | at what could be a day of reckoning for a notorious vansomware gang, plus a firm which thinks that |
| 0:50.2 | augmented reality headsets could drive the metaverse and an interview with one of the cloud computing companies that underpin the internet. |
| 0:57.7 | What else are we going to look at this week, Chris? |
| 0:59.6 | Well, it's you win some, you lose some for Google in its legal battles, |
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