Facebook Staff Who Volunteer at the Polls Get Paid Time Off
The social media giant Facebook will give additional paid time off to employees who volunteer as poll workers during the election, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday. The move is part of a wider push by the Menlo Park, Calif., social-media platform to recruit poll...
WordPress Malware Disables Security Plugins To Avoid Detection
Installing a security plugins is the best thing that we do to protect our sites from attacker. But what if an attacker disabled the plugins to avoid detection? According to a post in Sucuri blog, its showing how PHP malware exists which solves this problem...
Microsoft : New Cyberattacks Targeting U.S. Elections
Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming presidential election. Hackers with ties to Russia, China and Iran are attempting to snoop on people and groups involved with the US 2020 presidential election, Microsoft says. “We have and will continue to...
Zoom Has Added Two-Factor Authentication For All Users
Cloud-based video conferencing service ‘Zoom‘ has added two-factor authentication (2FA) support to all user accounts to make it simpler to secure them against security breaches and identity theft. Two-Factor Authentication identifies online users by requiring them to present two or more pieces of evidence, or credentials, that...
6 Best Secure Messaging Apps For Couples In Long Distance Relationship
Without encryption, private messages can be read by the company behind the app, as well as third parties such as governments who like to collect private data on their citizens. Not even using the best VPN would help you if you’re using a messaging service that stores identifiable metadata about your conversations on...
Apple Designs Special Face Masks For Employees
Apple Inc. has developed masks that the company is beginning to distribute to corporate and retail employees to limit the spread of Covid-19, Bloomberg reports. The Apple Face Mask is the first created in-house by the Cupertino, California-technology giant for its staff. The other, called ClearMask,...
Apple Disabling ‘Sign in with Apple’ For Epic Games On September 11
Apple will no longer allow users to sign into Epic Games accounts using “Sign In with Apple” as soon as September 11, 2020. If you have previously used “Sign In with Apple”, update your Epic Games account email address and password immediately so that you...
Huawei Has Announced Its New Operating System ‘HarmonyOS’
Huawei has officially announced HarmonyOS, the operating system it was rumored to be developing to replace its reliance on Android. In China, the software will be known as Hongmeng. The company says the operating system, a microkernel-based distributed OS, can be used in everything from...
Chinese Embassy Calls For Twitter Inquiry After Ambassador Account Likes Porn Tweet
China’s embassy in the United Kingdom is calling on Twitter to open an investigation after its ambassador’s official account liked a pornographic clip on the platform earlier this week, BBC reported. Liu Xiaoming’s account also liked posts that criticised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and...
Android 11 | New Feature And Privacy Enhancement
Google has released Android 11 to the general public. The announcement on Tuesday follows several months of beta testing and updates to the latest mobile operating system. The new version should also arrive soon on devices from other manufacturers, including OnePlus, Xiaomi, Realme, and more. Eligible...
Microsoft’s Expressive Pixels app lets you communicate through LED displays
Microsoft has a new tool to help people communicate through artwork. The technology is called Expressive Pixels, and it lets people communicate through animated visualizations. Expressive Pixels introduces an authoring app combined with open-source firmware, peripherals, documentation, and APIs that allow users and makers to create...
What Is Identity Theft? And How To Protect Yourself
Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime around the globe for the very obvious reason that most of us have made our most valuable personal information — name, address, social security number, driver’s license, credit card number, etc. — available online. And cyber criminals are having...
Critical Vulnerability in File Manager Plugin Affecting Millions WordPress Websites
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team is seeing a dramatic increase in attacks targeting the recent 0-day in the WordPress File Manager plugin. This plugin is installed on over 700,000 WordPress websites, and we estimate that 37.4% or 261,800 websites are still running vulnerable versions of this plugin at...
How To Stop Videos From Automatically Playing On Facebook
Automatic video play can be pretty annoying. Because it will expose you to violent, offensive, or otherwise unwanted content that you shouldn’t have to see by default.
How to Protect Your Child’s Privacy During Remote Learning
One thing should remain a priority: the overall security of students’ learning experience during the pandemic. For this, many careful and considerable preparations are needed.
Facebook Will Stop Accepting New Political Ads A Week Before the US Presidential Election
The social media giant Facebook Inc. said on Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the U.S. election day on Nov. 3, in a series of moves the company billed as its final plan for reducing risks of misinformation and...
How To Secure Your Email Account
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.
Here’s What’s New In Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20206
Windows has released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20206 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. With this build, Microsoft is adding what it’s calling “the new and improved version of Windows dictation,” which it is now calling Voice Typing. Test build 20206 adds a “modern design,” which...
Here’s How To Move Google Authenticator To A New Phone
Google Authenticator, the company’s code-based authentication app, has received its first update in three years, Now, for the first time, Authenticator users will be able to easily transfer their account from one device to another without needing to manually transfer each code or disable and...
Intel Launches World’s Best Processor for Thin-and-Light Laptops: 11th Gen Intel Core
Intel today unleashed a new era of laptop performance with the launch of its next-generation mobile PC processors and the evolution of its broad ecosystem partnerships that are propelling the mobile PC industry forward. New 11th Gen Intel Core processors with Intel Iris Xe graphics (code-named...
