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...
After WeChat And TikTok, India Bans PUBG Mobile, Alipay, Baidu, And More Chinese Apps
After banning WeChat And TikTok, India is banning another 118 apps said to be either based in or linked to China. PUBG Mobile, Alipay, and Baidu are among the biggest names on the list. The country’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said that it...
Apple And Google Make COVID-19 Exposure Notifications System
The tech giants Apple and Google are making it easier to get COVID-19 exposure notifications on your phone — in some cases, without requiring an app. Apple on Tuesday released iOS 13.7, adding support for a new exposure notification system for powering COVID-19 tracking. The system is...
Norwegian Parliament Discloses Cyber-Attack On Internal Email System
The Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) said on Tuesday that it fell victim to a cyber-attack that targeted its internal email system. Attackers have compromised a limited number of email accounts of Norwegian Parliament (Storting) representatives and employees according to Storting’s managing director Marianne Andreassen. In a press...
Google’s AI Flood Warnings Is Now Expanded To Bangladesh
For several years, the Google Flood Forecasting Initiative has been working with governments to develop systems that predict when and where flooding will occur—and keep people safe and informed. The search giant launched the tool in 2018 for India’s Patna region, but it says it’s been slowly increasing...
Here’s How To Watch Free TV Shows And Movies In Netflix
You can watch select Netflix Original movies and TV episodes online for free, and without creating a Netflix account, by using a computer or Android device (iOS browsers are not supported). Visit netflix.com/watch-free to get a peek at the type of entertainment you can expect from Netflix...
Google Photos For iOS Gets Upgraded Video Editor|Now You Can Crop, Trim, And Add Filters To Your Videos
Google Photos for iOS takes that a step further with the edit button launching a user interface with four items in the bottom bar. Now the upgraded iOS version has the ability to trim video clips, add filters, crop, and make adjustments like exposure, contrast,...
SSL Certificate Validity Will Be Limited To One Year By September 1st 2020
Starting Sept. 1, Apple’s Safari browser will no longer trust SSL/TLS leaf certificates with validity of more than 398 days. (This is the equivalent of a one-year certificate plus the renewal grace period.) Other types of SSL/TLS certs, including intermediates and roots, are unaffected. Other...
Read Cloudflare’s Statement Regarding Sunday Morning’s CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
Cloudflare was suffering an outage Sunday morning that appeared to be affecting multiple websites. CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet....
Here’s How To Disable Specific Keys On Your Keyboard In Windows 10/11
The simple solution besides this problem is deactivating the specific key. There might be various reasons besides deactivating the specific key on your keyboard: one is broken and is constantly being pressed.
Cloudflare Is Suffering A Sunday Morning Outage
Cloudflare was suffering an outage Sunday morning that appeared to be affecting multiple websites. The outage began early Sunday, and according to Cloudflare’s status page, it was seeing “an increased level of HTTP 5xx class errors,” such as 522 and 503, which indicates an issue...
Microsoft Defender ATP For Android Is Now Available In Play Store
The tech giant Microsoft announced the public preview of our mobile threat defense capabilities with Microsoft Defender ATP for Android. As Rob Lefferts, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance, mentioned in his blog, the threats in the mobile space are unique, and as more and...
