Bijay Pokharel
Bijay Pokharel is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Abijita.com and a freelance technology writer covering the tech industry since 2017. He specializes in cybersecurity, digital privacy, malware, vulnerabilities, and online safety, with a strong interest in internet protection and women’s online security. A dedicated tech enthusiast and continuous learner, Bijay approaches his professional work with clarity, rational thinking, and a calm, solution-oriented mindset.
iPhone Overheating? Here’s How To Cool Down A Hot iPhone
iPhone is overheating? Or it says “iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it”. It’s really annoying when you hold the overheated iPhone playing games or talking with others. When smartphones get too hot they start to misbehave and may suffer long-term damage.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 14, 2020
4 min read
Facebook To Pay $52m To Content Moderators Over PTSD
Facebook has agreed to pay $52m (£42m) to content moderators as compensation for mental health issues developed on the job. The agreement settles a class-action lawsuit brought by the moderators, as first reported by The Verge. Each moderator will receive a minimum of $1,000 and will...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 13, 2020
3 min read
Instagram Now Makes It Easy To Delete Comments In Bulk
Instagram is launching and testing multiple new features starting today that are aimed at making the platform a more positive space. The company says it’s rolling out the ability to delete up to 25 comments at once and also block or restrict multiple accounts at the same...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 13, 2020
1 min read
Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey emailed employees on Tuesday telling them that they’d be allowed to work from home permanently, even after the coronavirus pandemic lockdown passes. Some jobs that require physical presence, such as maintaining servers, will still require employees to come in. “We’ve been very thoughtful...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 13, 2020
1 min read
US Govt Exposes New North Korean Malware
The US government today released information on three new malware variants used in malicious cyber activity campaigns by a North Korean government-backed hacker group tracked as HIDDEN COBRA. The new malware is being used “for phishing and remote access by #DPRK cyber actors to conduct illegal...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 13, 2020
2 min read
Magellan Health Hit By Ransomware Attack
Fortune 500 company Magellan Health Inc announced today that it was the victim of a ransomware attack on April 11, 2020, which led to the theft of personal information from one of its corporate servers. The Fortune 500 health care company said in a letter that the hacker...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 13, 2020
1 min read
Microsoft’s Family Safety App Hits Preview On Android And iOS
Microsoft launched its Family Safety app in a limited public preview today. The app, first announced in March, is available on Android and iOS. With the Microsoft Family Safety app for Android and iOS, you can get information about your family’s activity including what your kids...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 12, 2020
2 min read
How To Limit The Bandwidth Used By Windows Update
While installing new updates via Windows Update or the Microsoft Store, we often experienced slow internet speed. Its because Windows 10 consume all of the available internet bandwidth.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 11, 2020
2 min read
Qualcomm Announces New Snapdragon 768G 5G Processor
The first phones with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 processor are just starting to trickle out, but that isn’t stopping the company from announcing an upgraded version today called the Snapdragon 768G, which offers better CPU and GPU performance than its predecessor. “We are uniquely positioned to accelerate 5G commercialization...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 11, 2020
2 min read
How To Block Unsolicited Calls, Text And Emails On iPhone
Whether it's a salesperson, frenemy, or someone you just need a digital break from for a bit, Apple lets you limit the communication received from the outside world. If you have people or unknown, annoying numbers that you'd prefer not to see messages or receive...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 11, 2020
2 min read
Zoom To Add End-To-End Encryption With Keybase Acquisition
Zoom has acquired secure messaging and identity management firm Keybase as its looks to shore up security capabilities on its platform with end-to-end encryption. The acquisition will give Zoom access to Keybase’s encryption technology, used to secure online identities, as well as its team of...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 10, 2020
2 min read
A Hacker Group Is Selling 73.2 Million User Records From 11 Companies On The Dark Web
A Cyber-criminals group named ShinyHunters claims to have breached ten companies and is currently selling their respective user databases on a dark web marketplace for illegal products. The hackers are the same group who breached last week Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest online store. Hackers initially leaked 15...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 10, 2020
1 min read
How To Enable Remote Desktop On Windows 10/11 ?
The term Remote Desktop refers to a computer that connects remotely to another, shares control of its mouse and keyboard, and views its display. Remote Desktop is commonly accessed through port 3389.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 10, 2020
4 min read
Apple To Reopen Stores In US Starting Next Week
Apple will reopen some stores in the United States next week, with temperature checks and a limited number of customers in the location at one time, the company told CNBC. The vast majority of Apple’s stores outside of China have been closed since March in...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 9, 2020
1 min read
Facebook’s Redesigned Desktop Site Is Now Available Globally
Facebook begin to roll out its new desktop interface all around the globe, the social media giant announced on a blog post. In a blog post published today, Facebook says the new site will “now be the web experience for Facebook globally,” adding that “it’s...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 9, 2020
1 min read
Twitter To Shut Down Legacy Version On June 1 2020
Twitter starts to showing warning to its users that the legacy version will be shut down on June 1st, 2020. If you have installed a browser extension to trick Twitter into thinking you were running Internet Explorer 11, which is unsupported, Twitter would continue to...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 9, 2020
1 min read
Facebook Will Allow Employees To Work From Home Through End Of 2020
The social media giant Facebook will allow most of its employees to continue working from home through the end of 2020, a company spokeswoman told CNBC. The social media company will allow any employees who can do their work remotely to continue to do so,...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 8, 2020
1 min read
Google Authenticator Gets Its First Update In Years, Finally Lets You Transfer Accounts Between Devices
Google Authenticator, the company’s code-based authentication app, has received its first update in three years, updating the app’s interface for larger screens with more modern aspect ratios and delivering one of the platform’s most-needed features (via Android Police). The Android version was last updated on August 22nd,...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 7, 2020
1 min read
TikTok, Spotify, Pinterest And Other iOS Apps Are Crashing Because Of Facebook
Many users have been reporting issues with iOS apps like TikTok, Spotify, Pinterest, and Tinder. Reports across Twitter and through Downdetector show that many popular apps on the iPhone have been crashing for the last couple of hours. According to a new report from The Verge,...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 7, 2020
2 min read
Hacker Claims To Have Breached Microsoft’s GitHub Private Repositories
A hacker named Shiny Hunters contacted Bleepingcomputer to tell them that he had hacked into the Microsoft GitHub account, gaining full access to the software giant’s ‘Private’ repositories. A hacker claims to have stolen over 500GB of data from Microsoft’s private GitHub repositories, according to BleepingComputer....
Bijay Pokharel,
May 7, 2020
2 min read





