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SpaceX Wins $2.9bn NASA Contract To Build Moon Lander
The contract is worth $2.9 billion and is part of NASA's Artemis programme, which aims to return astronauts to the moon by 2024 as a stepping stone to the first human mission to Mars.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 17, 2021
1 min read
What Is Sextortion? And How Can You Avoid It?
Sextortion is an emerging online scam in which an attacker attempts to extort money or get victims to do something against their will by threatening to release embarrassing, personal images or their most intimate moments to their contacts, friends, and family.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 16, 2021
4 min read
You Can Now Hide ‘Likes’ On Instagram
Instagram is now testing a new feature that will give users more controls in the form of three options — select not to see like counts on anyone’s posts, turn them off for their own posts, or keep the original experience.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 15, 2021
1 min read
Apple’s ‘Spring Loaded’ Event Will Be Held On April 20
Apple has officially announced its next event “Spring Loaded” for April 20.The official confirmation came just hours after the company’s voice assistant revealed the date early when asked “When is the next Apple event?”
Bijay Pokharel,
April 14, 2021
1 min read
3.1 Million External Attacks On Cloud User Accounts In Q4 2020 – McAfee
In Q4, McAfee Labs observed an average of 648 threats per minute, an increase of 60 threats per minute (10%) over Q3. The two quarters also saw COVID-19-related cyber-attack detections increase by 240% in Q3 and 114% in Q4, while Powershell threats again surged 208%...
Bijay Pokharel,
April 13, 2021
1 min read
Microsoft To Buy Speech-Recognition Firm Nuance For $16B: Report
Microsoft Corp is in advanced talks to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications Inc at about $16 billion.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 12, 2021
1 min read
Facebook Spent $23 Million On Mark Zuckerberg’s Security In 2020
Facebook spent more than $23 million to provide security for its CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2020.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 11, 2021
2 min read
Researchers Found Critical Vulnerability In Zoom, Rewarded $200,000
The vulnerability was discovered as part of a contest, Pwn2Own, organised by cybersecurity firm Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a programme designed to reward security researchers for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 10, 2021
2 min read
500 Million LinkedIn Account Leaked Online On A Popular Hacker Forum
Days after a massive Facebook data leaked, a thread actor is selling an archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles on a popular hacker forum.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 9, 2021
1 min read
How To Fix The 500 Internal Server Error In WordPress
Internal server error in WordPress is often caused by plugin or theme functions. Other possible causes of internal server error in WordPress that we know of are: corrupted .htaccess file and PHP memory limit.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 8, 2021
3 min read
European Commissions Were Hit By Cyber-Attack Last Week
The European Commission and several other European Union organizations were hit by a cyberattack in March, according to a European Commission spokesperson.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 7, 2021
1 min read
Microsoft Edge Overtakes Mozilla Firefox
As first reported by WindowsLatest, StatCounter shows that Microsoft Edge has grown from a 0.57% market share in March 2020 to 8.03% by March 2021. This is an impressive 1,308% growth in market share in just twelve months.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 6, 2021
1 min read
Here’s How To Check If Your Info Was Exposed In The Facebook Data Leaked
On April 4th 2021, 533 million Facebook users’ phone number has been leaked on a popular hacker forum for free. The sold data included 533,313,128 Facebook users, with information such as a member’s mobile number, Facebook ID, name, gender, location, relationship status, occupation, date of...
Bijay Pokharel,
April 5, 2021
1 min read
533 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Leaked On Hacker Forum
533 million Facebook users' phone number has been leaked on a popular hacker forum for free.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 4, 2021
1 min read
Russian Court Fines Twitter Over Failure To Delete Content
Moscow said last month it had slowed the speed of U.S.-based Twitter inside Russia and on March 16 threatened to ban the social media service outright in a month over content ranging from child pornography to drug abuse.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 3, 2021
1 min read
Google: North Korean Hackers Target Security Researchers Again
Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says that North Korean government-sponsored hackers are once again targeting security researchers using fake Twitter and LinkedIn social media accounts.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 1, 2021
1 min read
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference Is Back In Its All-Online Format
Tech Giant Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 31, 2021
3 min read
Top 5 Tips To Protect Your Webcam From Hackers
Millions of us are constantly adding IoT devices to our homes – digital speakers, security cameras, and smart doorbells, to say nothing about all the connected clocks, thermostats, lights, and more. Each one of these is an attack surface, and we are only increasing the...
Bijay Pokharel,
March 30, 2021
5 min read
Netflix To Launch 40 Anime Shows In 2021
The streaming giant Netflix will launch 40 new anime titles in 2021, Bloomberg reported, following the success of its Blood of Zeus series last year.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 28, 2021
1 min read
Two Vulnerabilities Patched In Facebook For WordPress Plugin
This flaw made it possible for unauthenticated attackers with access to a site’s secret salts and keys to achieve remote code execution through a deserialization weakness.
Bijay Pokharel,
March 26, 2021
1 min read
