Facebook Adds ‘Vanish Mode’ For Messenger And Instagram
The social media giant Facebook introduce vanish mode on Messenger, which lets you send messages that disappear automatically. How it works is simple—messages disappear after they’re seen and you leave the chat. To turn it on, swipe up on your mobile device in an existing…
YouTube Rewind Is Cancelled This Year
YouTube has cancelled YouTube Rewind for the year 2020. The announcement was issued on Twitter just a day after the company experienced widespread outages. In the statement, YouTube said that Rewind has always been meant to be a celebration of its users, but that celebrating wouldn’t feel…
Stock Photo Site 123RF Has Suffered A Massive Data Breach | 8.3 Million User Records Exposed !
Popular stock photo site 123RF has suffered a massive data breach. Cybercriminal began selling database containing 8.3 million user records on a Darkweb. The stolen data includes a 123RF members’ full name, email address, MD5 hashed passwords, company name, phone number, address, PayPal email if…
macOS Big Sur Is Now Available To Download
The tech giant Apple has officially released the latest version of macOS: macOS Big Sur, which is available to download now assuming you have a compatible Mac. Big Sur introduces a beautiful redesign and is packed with new enhancements for key apps including Safari, Messages, and Maps, as well…
Actor Asif Basra Found Dead In A Private Complex In Dharamshala
Actor Asif Basra was found hanging in a private complex in Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh. Reportedly he died by suicide. Asif had worked in several popular films like ‘Kai Po Che’, ‘Black Friday’, ‘Jab We Met’, ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbai’, ‘Krrish 3’, and…
Google Photos To End Its Free Unlimited Storage On June 1st, 2021
Google Photos will start charging for storage once more than 15 gigs on the account have been used. The change will happen on June 1st, 2021, and it comes with other Google Drive policy changes like counting Google Workspace documents and spreadsheets against the same…
After Massive Outage, YouTube Is Back Online
YouTube has recovered from a seemingly worldwide outage that prevented videos from loading for roughly an hour. If you’re having trouble watching videos on YouTube right now, you’re not alone – our team is aware of the issue and working on a fix. We’ll follow…
VPN vs. HTTPS | Do You Need A VPN If HTTPS Is Secure?
Both HTTPS and VPNs do similar things in different ways. HTTPS secures your information when you visit websites where VPN encrypts your entire internet traffic. They both have to deal with encryption. In this article, we are going to explain what are the differences & similarities between HTTPS and VPNs.
Ransomware Group Turns To Facebook Ads
A ransomware group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up, krebsonsecurity reports. On the evening of Monday, Nov. 9, an ad campaign apparently taken out by the Ragnar Locker Team began appearing on Facebook. The ad was designed to…
Apple Announces MacBook Air, 13-Inch MacBook Pro, And Mac Mini Powered By Apple’s Arm-Based M1 Processor
The tech giant Apple introduced a new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by the revolutionary M1, the first in a family of chips designed by Apple specifically for the Mac. By far the most powerful chip Apple has ever made, M1 transforms the Mac experience. With…
What Is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network management protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks, whereby a DHCP server dynamically assigns an IP address and other network configuration parameters to each device on the network, so they can communicate with other IP networks. A DHCP server enables computers to request IP addresses and networking parameters automatically…
5.8 Million RedDoorz User Records For Sale On Dark Web
Singapore-based hotel management & booking platform Reddoorz suffers a massive data breach. A hacker is selling a RedDoorz database containing 5.8 million user records on a dark web. As part of the sale, the threat actor shared a database sample, including the table structure and…
Former Microsoft Engineer Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Stealing $10 Million
A former Microsoft software engineer that was convicted for stealing more than $10 million from the company has been sentenced to nine years in prison, zdnet reports. The judgment, made by a jury, found that the charged individual, Volodymyr Kvashuk, committed 18 felonies. This consisted of five…
Critical Bugs Found On ‘Ultimate Member’ Plugin | UPDATE IMMEDIATELY !
Wordfence’s Threat Intelligence team disclosed several vulnerabilities in Ultimate Member, a WordPress plugin installed on over 100,000 sites. These flaws made it possible for attackers to escalate their privileges to those of an administrator and take over a WordPress site. Ultimate Member is an extensible WordPress…
The EU May Be Looking Into Breaking End-To-End Encrypted Chats
In the EU Council of Ministers, a resolution was made ready within five days, obliging platform operators such as WhatsApp, Signal and Co. to create master keys for monitoring E2E-encrypted chats and messages, the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) reports. The ORF obtained an internal draft in which…
Hosting Provider Exposed 63 Million Customer Records
A hosting provider exposed over 63 million customer records via an open elastic search database containing verbose logs with plain-text username/password credentials for numerous WordPress, Magento and other sites, securethoughts reports. The database appeared to belong to the Texas-based cloud application hosting provider, Cloud Clusters…
What Is Network Address Translation (NAT)
Network address translation (NAT) is a method of remapping an IP address space into another by modifying network address information in the IP header of packets while they are in transit across a traffic routing device.
Joe Biden Wins The 2020 US Presidential Election
America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president In a victory speech Saturday night in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said he was humbled by the trust America had placed in him and reached out to those Americans who did not vote for him. “I understand…
Twitter Flags President Trump’s Tweets About Ballot-Counting
The micro blogging site Twitter flagged four tweets from President Trump on Saturday morning for making “potentially misleading claims about an election,” a company spokesperson said, continuing its attempts to try to rein in misinformation on its platform. The president tweeted, without evidence, that “tens…
FBI : Cyber-Criminals Target Misconfigured SonarQube Instances to Access Proprietary Source Code of US Government Agencies and Businesses
Since April 2020, unidentified cyber actors have actively targeted vulnerable SonarQube instances to access source code repositories of US government agencies and private businesses, the FBI said in an alert sent out last month and made public this week on its website. The actors exploit known configuration…
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