LG Electronics To Offer Free Repair Of TV Power Boards In South Korea
LG Electronics will offer free repair of TV power boards in South Korea due to a possible heating risk, Yonhap News reports. The South Korean tech firm said it will replace power board components for 18 OLED TV models, including the OLED 65G8 and the OLED...
Coinbase Paused More Than $280,000 In Bitcoin Transactions During Catastrophic Security Breach In Twitter
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, by attackers to tricked at least 1,100 people into sending bitcoin to an unknown hacker. According to Coinbase, a popular cryptocurrency exchange in which people buy and trade digital currency, the company prevented...
7 VPN Services Leaked 1.2 TB Of User Data Including Usernames, PlainText Passwords, Connection Logs And Website-Visit Histories.
Seven Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers who claim not to keep any logs of their users’ online activities recently left 1.2 terabytes of private user data exposed to anyone who comes looking. The data, found on a server shared by the services, included the Personally Identifiable Information...
Brazil Will Authorize Payments System Involving WhatsApp If Rules Are Respected, Central Bank Director Says
Brazil’s central bank will authorize a payments system involving Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) WhatsApp messaging service, to send money and make payments via chats, as long as all rules are respected, director Joao Manoel Pinho de Mello said on Monday, Reuters Reported. “We view the entry...
IBM Reports 2020 Second-Quarter Results
IBM published second quarter financial results on Monday, reporting its second straight quarter of revenue declines despite beating expectations. The business technology giant delivered non-GAAP EPS of $2.18 on revenue of $18.1 billion, down 5.4% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings of $2.07 per share on revenue of...
Microsoft Will Disable TLS 1.0 And 1.1 In Office 365 On Oct 15
Microsoft has set the official retirement date for the insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols in Office 365 starting with October 15, 2020, after temporarily halting deprecation enforcement for commercial customers due to COVID-19. “As companies have pivoted their supply chains and...
Twitter Disables Trump Tweet Over Copyright Complaint
The micro blogging site Twitter has disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint, Reuters reported. The video, which included music from the group Linkin Park, disappeared from the president’s Twitter feed late Saturday with the notification: “This...
Here’s How You Can Protect Your Netflix Profile With A PIN
The streaming giant Netflix now lets you protect your profile with a PIN, keeping other people on your account from accessing your home screen and personalized experiences.
Here’s An Update About Twitter Catastrophic Security Breach In History
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...
Twitter Says About 130 Accounts Were Targeted In Cyber Attack
The micro blogging site Twitter revealed that hackers targeted roughly 130 accounts during the massive attack that allowed them to take over dozens of high-profile accounts of tech companies, executives, and celebrities to promote a Bitcoin scam. Hackers had accessed Twitter’s internal systems to hijack...
Discord, Bleepingcomputer, And Other Site Was Down For Nearly An Hour Due To Cloudflare Issues
Cloudflare is having an outage that is affecting many sites including Discord, BleepingComputer, and other. The issues started at around 5PM ET, and lasted nearly an hour. Patreon, Deliveroo, GitLab, Zendesk, Medium, and many other sites were also down, and Cloudflare acknowledged issues with its network affected...
Facebook Messenger Now Lets You Share Your Screen On Mobile Devices
The social media giant Facebook has enabled its screen-sharing feature for Messenger on mobile devices, allowing you to share your phone or tablet screen when calling a friend one on one, in a group chat, or while taking part in even larger conversations via Messenger Rooms. “Screen...
Google Will Ban Ads From Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories
The tech giant company Google will ban publishers from using its ad platform to show advertisements next to content that promotes conspiracy theories about Covid-19, CNBC reported. It will also ban ads that promote those theories. In cases where a particular site publishes a certain threshold...
Netflix Announced “Immortal* Netflix Account” For 83 years If You Win This Game
The streaming giant Netflix announced a nationwide U.S. competition for an “Immortal* Netflix Account” (*1000 months of subscription, or 83 years. How do you win it? By obtaining the highest score in an original “The Old Guard” videogame (www.oldguardgame.com), where you play as a Labrys-wielding...
How To Secure Your YouTube Account In 2024
To begin with, be wary of any shortened link that reaches you, no matter where it comes from. While most are safe, some hide nasty surprises, like a malware that is automatically downloaded to your computer to steal information. Before clicking, make sure you know...
TikTok Deletes 29,000 Coronavirus-Related Videos
TikTok says it has deleted about 29,000 coronavirus-related videos that broke its rules in Europe alone since the beginning of 2020. The video-sharing app says it does not allow misinformation that could harm an individual’s health or public safety. It said about 3,000 of them...
Netflix Names Ted Sarandos New Co-CEO
The streaming giant Netflix on Thursday announced that Ted Sarandos will serve as co-CEO alongside co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings. Sarandos, a 20-year Netflix veteran, will also hold onto his title of Chief Content Officer and is joining the Netflix board of directors. “Ted has been my...
Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts
A Twitter employee was responsible for a wave of high profile account takeovers on Wednesday, according to leaked screenshots obtained by Motherboard and two sources who took over accounts. A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers who used the accounts —...
Twitter Suffered The Most Catastrophic Security Breach In History
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers who used the accounts — some with millions of followers — to spread a cryptocurrency scam. Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on...
Apple Wins Fight Over $14.9 Billion Tax Bill
Apple Inc. won its court fight over a record 13 billion-euro ($14.9 billion) Irish tax bill in a crushing blow to European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s crackdown on preferential fiscal deals for companies. The ruling was made by the European Commission in 2016 and was seen as...
