Samsung Electronics Announces Second Quarter 2020 Results
The tech giant Samsung announced KRW 52.97 trillion in consolidated revenue and KRW 8.15 trillion in operating profit for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020. Even as the spread of COVID-19 caused closures and slowdowns at stores and production sites around the world, the...
PayPal Adds 21 Million New Active Accounts In Strong Second Quarter
PayPal reported its strongest ever quarter driven by an uptick in new users and payments flowing through its platform. During the entire second quarter, PayPal said people were using its payments service at levels equal to the five days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. The...
Qualcomm Announces World’s Fastest Commercial Charging Solution, Quick Charge 5
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 5, the fastest commercial charging technology for Android devices, which delivers unprecedented mobile phone charging speed and efficiency improvements compared to previous versions while enabling new battery technology, accessories, and safety features. The world’s first commercially viable fast...
Use Multi-Factor Authentication To Protect Accounts : IRS
With heightened threats during COVID-19, the Internal Revenue Service and Security Summit partners today called on tax professionals to select multi-factor authentication options whenever possible to prevent identity thieves from gaining access to client accounts. Starting in 2021, all tax software providers will be required to offer...
YouTube Kids Released Over 100 High Quality Full-Length Movies For Free
The pandemic has completely changed the way we live. It forces us to stay at home. We’re juggling work, life, kids and the state of the world today. This has been a particularly tough situation for parents, who need to look after their kids while...
Critical Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Found wpDiscuz Plugin
Wordfence’s Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability present in Comments – wpDiscuz, a WordPress plugin installed on over 80,000 sites. This flaw gave unauthenticated attackers the ability to upload arbitrary files, including PHP files, and achieve remote code execution on a vulnerable site’s server. This...
New Netflix Attack Hides Behind Working CAPTCHA
A new wave of phishing attacks is attempting to steal payment data and login credentials from Netflix subscribers, according to Bleeping Computer. The actor behind these attempts used a “failed payment” theme to engage potential victims into the redirect chain leading to the phishing page....
How To Transfer All Of Your Facebook Photos And Videos To Google Photos
Facebook has made a photo transfer tool globally available that let's account holders easily download all their pictures and videos from the social network to Google Photos.
WhatsApp Begins Testing Multi-Device Logins
WhatsApp is testing multi-device logins features for iOS and Android, according to WABetaInfo. WABetaInfo first discovered signs of multi-device support in WhatsApp in November 2019 on iOS and Android. At the time, a “Registration Notification” hinted at asking for a new security code from a secondary phone, and...
What Is CDN And Here’s Why We Recommend CDN77
A content delivery network (CDN) refers to a geographically distributed group of servers that work together to provide fast delivery of Internet content. A CDN allows for the quick transfer of assets needed for loading Internet content including HTML pages, javascript files, stylesheets, images, and videos.
Fourth Anniversary Of ‘No More Ransom’: Saves $632 Million In Ransomware Payments
The “No More Ransom” website is an initiative by the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Netherlands’ police, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, Kaspersky, and McAfee with the goal to help victims of ransomware retrieve their encrypted data without having to pay the criminals. The...
How To Take A Screenshot On Mac
Screenshots are a convenient tool. You can use them to help guide someone through a new app, capture essential messages, and take incriminating photos of your best friend while Skyping. Unfortunately, Apple computers and laptops don’t come with a straightforward Print Screen Key.
WordPress To Get A Built-In XML Sitemap Feature
WordPress, the favorite content management system (CMS), running a third of today’s internet sites, is getting built-in support for XML sitemaps The function will go stay in WordPress 5.5, scheduled for launch later this fall. XML sitemaps are particular records data that include a listing of...
Tech Unicorn Dave Admits To Security Breach Impacting 7.5 Million Users
Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today a security breach after a hacker published the details of 7,516,625 users on a public forum. In an email to ZDNet today, Dave said the security breach originated on the network of a former business partner, Waydev, an analytics platform used by...
TikTok Blocks QAnon Conspiracy Theory Hashtags
TikTok has blocked a number of hashtags related to the QAnon conspiracy theory from appearing in search results, amid concern about misinformation, the BBC reported. The video sharing app has blocked the terms “QAnon,” “QAnonTruth” and the related phrase “Out of Shadows,” which are used...
Apple Begins Assembling iPhone 11 In India
The tech giant company Apple has started to assemble the current generation of iPhone units — the iPhone 11 lineup — in its plant near Chennai, India, TechCrunch reports. Apple has manufactured lower-priced iPhone models in India since 2017 and reportedly has been considering moving production of its...
Google Messages Now Lets You Reply With Emoji Reactions
The tech giant company Google is adding new features to its Messages app for Android, including the ability to reply to messages with emoji reactions. Google has been testing the feature since at least the start of March, but the company is now rolling it out...
Twitter Security Breach : The Attackers Accessed The DM Inbox, Including 1 Elected Official In The Netherlands.
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, by attackers to spread a cryptocurrency scam. Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam. The official...
App Lock Feature Is Now Available In Facebook Messenger
The social media giant Facebook added an extra layer of security when opening Messenger on an iPhone or iPad. The app itself can now be locked upon or shortly after closing, requiring you to use an authentication method like Face ID or Touch ID to...
Twitter Cracks Down On QAnon Conspiracy Group
Twitter announced Tuesday that it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content, banning many of the conspiracy theory’s followers because of problems with harassment and misinformation. Twitter will stop recommending accounts and content related to QAnon, including material in email...
