Bijay Pokharel
Bijay Pokharel is the founder and editor of Abijita, covering cybersecurity, malware, and digital privacy since 2017. His coverage of vulnerabilities and breaches has been cited and republished by other tech and security outlets, and he focuses on translating technical threats into clear, practical guidance for everyday readers.
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
Microsoft Offers $100,000 If You Can Hack Its Linux Operating System
Microsoft is offering hackers up to $100,000 if they can break the security of the company’s custom Linux OS. The software giant built a compact and custom version of Linux last year for its Azure Sphere OS, which is designed to run on specialized chips...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 6, 2020
1 min read
Tinder To Add Video Call Feature Later This Year
The world’s largest dating app Tinder announced that it is going to launch its own in-app, one-on-one video chats later this year. “We know that singles are adjusting their behaviors, and many are shifting to having dates virtually via phone or video,” it wrote in...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 6, 2020
1 min read
NASA Working With Tom Cruise To Film Movie On The International Space Station
NASA said Tuesday it is working with Tom Cruise to film a movie on the International Space Station, but details on the arrangements are scarce. The news that Cruise was in talks with to shoot an action-adventure film on the space station was first reported...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 6, 2020
1 min read
Nike Will Donate 30,000 Pairs Of Shoes To Health Care Workers
Nike is donating 30,000 pairs of shoes — specifically designed for healthcare workers — to health systems and hospitals in cities across the United States. The Air Zoom Pulse, which was released in November 2019, is the company’s “first shoe designed for the healthcare athlete, an...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 5, 2020
1 min read
How To Use WhatsApp’s New Coronavirus Fact-Checking Chatbot
Poynter Institute launched a bot on the Facebook -owned service that will allow people across the globe to debunk over 4,000 hoaxes surrounding the pandemic. It comes as an effort to battle misinformation being spread about the coronavirus. The chatbot relies on information supplied by over 100...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 5, 2020
1 min read
Apple Announces 13-inch MacBook Pro With Magic Keyboard, Double The Storage, And Faster Performance
Apple announced the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new Magic Keyboard for the best typing experience ever on a Mac notebook and doubled the storage across all standard configurations, delivering even more value to the most popular MacBook Pro. The new lineup also offers 10th-generation processors for up...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 5, 2020
4 min read
GoDaddy Reports Data Breach Involving SSH Access On Hosting Accounts
GoDaddy notified some of its customers that an unauthorized party used their web hosting account credentials to connect to their hosting account via SSH “We have no evidence that any files were added or modified on your account,” the company said while omitting evidence that files could...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 5, 2020
1 min read
How To Delete Hiberfil.sys? Why Is It Using So Much Hard Drive Space?
The Hiberfil.sys hidden system file is located in the root folder of the drive where the operating system is installed. The Windows Kernel Power Manager reserves this file when you install Windows. The size of this file is approximately equal to how much random access...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 4, 2020
1 min read
How To Fix Your Smartphone After You Dropped It In Water
Dropping your phone in water is a pretty bad feeling, but what’s important is what you do next. The most crucial thing to do is to dry it off as quickly as possible and don’t turn it on under any circumstances. If it’s still on,...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 4, 2020
2 min read
Login Details Of 91 Million Tokopedia Account Sold On Dark Web
A hacker is selling a database containing the information of 91 million Tokopedia accounts on a dark web market for as little as $5,000. Other threat actors have already started to crack passwords and share them online. Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company specializing in e-commerce. Founded...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 4, 2020
2 min read
What Is Off-Facebook Activity? Here’s How To Disable It
According to Facebook, Off-Facebook activity is “a summary of activity that businesses and organizations share with us about your interactions, such as visiting their apps or websites.”
Bijay Pokharel,
May 3, 2020
1 min read



