What Is A Dictionary Attack ? Here’s How Can You Can Prevent It
A dictionary attack is based on trying all the strings in a pre-arranged listing. Such attacks originally used words one would find in a dictionary. However, now there are much larger lists available on the open Internet that contain hundreds of millions of passwords recovered...
Elon Musk Passes Bill Gates To Become World’s Second Richest Person Behind Jeff Bezos
Tesla founder Elon Musk surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk added $100.3 billion to his net worth in 2020, more than any other person on Bloomberg’s ranking of the top 500 richest people in the world, Bloomberg...
Samsung Brings Free TV Service To More Galaxy Smartphones
Samsung’s free TV Plus service has become a great way to watch content on the company’s line of TVs. Recently, the service was brought over to select Galaxy smartphones, and now Samsung is bringing TV Plus to even more devices starting this week. Samsung TV Plus...
Twitter To Show A Warning If You Like Or Retweet A Labeled Tweet
The micro-blogging site Twitter announced on Monday that it will showing a warning if you tried to like or retweet a tweet that had been labeled for potentially including misleading information. The functionality is rolling out on the web and iOS globally this week, and it will...
Over 300K Spotify Accounts Hacked In Credential Stuffing Attack
VPNMentor’s research team has discovered a possible credential stuffing operation whose origins are unknown, but that affected some online users who also have Spotify accounts. Credential stuffing is a hacking technique that takes advantage of weak passwords that consumers use — and often re-use — online....
Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Deactivating Or Deleting Your Facebook Account In 2021
Copies of your information may remain after the 90 days in backup storage that Facebook uses to recover in the event of a disaster, software error, or other data loss event. Facebook may also keep your information for things like legal issues, terms violations, or...
TikTok Patches Reflected XSS Bug, One-Click Account Takeover Exploit
TikTok has patched a reflected XSS security flaw and a bug leading to account takeover impacting the firm’s web domain. Reported via the bug bounty platform HackerOne by researcher Muhammed “milly” Taskiran, the first vulnerability relates to a URL parameter on the tiktok.com domain which was not...
The Google Assistant Can Now Schedule Lights On And Off!
Google Assistant has been able to turn lights on and off for a while, but until now, it could only do so immediately, via r/googlehome reddit. Now it is finally possible to use the commands “Ok Google, turn off the lights in 10 minutes”, “turn...
Charli D’Amelio Hits 100 Million TikTok Followers
Charli D’Amelio is the first TikTok creator to hit 100 million followers. On TikTok, that makes her more than twice as big as Will Smith, three times as big as The Rock, four times as big as Selena Gomez, and five times as big as Kylie...
Java vs JavaScript: Everything You Need To Know!
A programming language is a formal language comprising a set of instructions that produce various kinds of output. Programming languages are used in computer programming to implement algorithms. Most programming languages consist of instructions for computers. There are programmable machines that use a set of specific instructions, rather than general programming languages.
Wordfence Site Cleaning Guarantee Extended To 1 Year
Wordfence announced that all customers of Wordfence site cleaning services receive an 1-year clean site guarantee. If your site is compromised again after Wordfence team has cleaned and secured your WordPress site, Wordfence will clean it again for free. The Wordfence Security Services Team is...
Manchester United Football Club Discloses Cyber Security Breach
European football club Manchester United disclosed on late Friday a cyber-security incident that impacted its internal systems. The football club said it’s still investigating the incident and couldn’t say if the breach allowed the intruders to access data associated with fans or store customers. While...
Social Media Giants To Hand Over @POTUS Account To Biden On January 20
The social media giants will transfer presidential accounts to President-elect Joe Biden the moment he’s sworn in at noon on January 20, 2021. The @POTUS account on both platforms is the official account of the President of the United States. It is separate from the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account and...
MeowTalk : You Can Now Talk With Your Cat!
A former Alexa developer has launched an app that can help the cat parents. The app called MeowTalk records the sounds of cats and then attempts to identify the meaning of these meows. These meanings will then be fed in a database for the AI software from which...
Google Chrome Support For Windows 7 Will Be Extended To January 15, 2022
Google Chrome support for Windows 7 was supposed to end summer of 2021, but because of challenges presented by COVID-19, Google has announced an extension. After assessing the current situation, and based on feedback from our valued enterprise customers, Chrome is extending our support for Windows...
Bitcoin Price Breaks Above $18K For First Time In 3 Years
Bitcoin exploded above $18,000, taking its market capitalization to an all-time high. The price of the digital token surged to $18,605.50 around 10:16 a.m. GMT (+5:45), and its price is up about 154% year-to-date. Bitcoin recorded its highest price ever in December 2017, hitting $19,783....
Twitter Will Transfer Presidential Account ‘@POTUS’ To Joe Biden On Inauguration Day
The microblogging site Twitter will automatically transfer presidential accounts to President-elect Joe Biden the moment he’s sworn in at noon on Inauguration Day, as reported by Policito. Twitter will transfer the account to Biden even if President Donald Trump hasn’t conceded. Twitter will transfer @POTUS, @whitehouse, @VP, @FLOTUS, and a...
From Windows 1 to Windows 10: 35 Years Of Windows Evolution
Microsoft’s Windows operating system was first introduced in 1985. It was a huge milestone that paved the way for the modern versions of Windows we use today. While Windows 10 doesn’t look anything like Windows 1.0, it still has many of its original fundamentals like...
Samsung Strengthens Its Smart TV Voice Capabilities
Samsung Electronics announced that Google Assistant will join the suite of voice assistants currently available on 2020 Samsung Smart TVs, providing viewers with enhanced control and discovery abilities. Available alongside Amazon Alexa and Bixby, Google Assistant is now fully integrated into Samsung Smart TVs and...
Microsoft Teams Is Now Free To Use For 24-Hour Video Calls All In A Browser
Microsoft is bringing Teams’ friends and family features to the desktop and web allowing you to create a Microsoft Teams meeting for up to 300 friends and family that can run all day free of charge. You won’t need a Microsoft Account or the Microsoft...
