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Facebook Plans To Send Instagram 2FA Codes Through WhatsApp
Instagram is planning to send 2FA codes on WhatsApp, according to the leaker and app analyst Alessandro Paluzzi.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 23, 2021
1 min read
Air India’s 4.5 Million Customers’ Info Compromised In Global Data Breach
Air India disclosed a data breach after personal information belonging to roughly 4.5 million of its customers was leaked two months following the hack of Passenger Service System provider SITA in February 2021.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 22, 2021
1 min read
CNA Financial Paid $40 Million To Ransomware Hackers
CNA Financial paid $40 million in late March to regain control of its network after a ransomware attack.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 21, 2021
1 min read
Microsoft Is Retiring Internet Explorer In 2022
Microsoft is retiring Internet Explorer next year, after more than 25 years. Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 20, 2021
1 min read
Google I/O 2021: Here Are The Biggest Announcement
Tech giant Google finished its live Google I/O 2021 keynote, where the company unveiled a huge number of announcements, including a new look coming to Android, a bunch of features coming to its Google Workspace productivity suite, next versions of Android and Wear OS, as...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 19, 2021
3 min read
Guard.me Has Taken Down Their Site After Data Breach
Student health insurance carrier guard.me has taken their website offline after a vulnerability allowed a threat actor to access policyholders' personal information.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 18, 2021
1 min read
Cloudflare To End CAPTCHA Madness With Trusted USB Keys
Cloudflare, an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network services, wants to replace the “madness” of CAPTCHAs across the web with an entirely new system.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 17, 2021
1 min read
How To Protect Your Home Network From ‘FragAttacks’
FragAttacks are a group of security vulnerabilities that can be used to attack Wi-Fi devices. Every Wi-Fi device ever created appears vulnerable, making it possible for attackers to steal sensitive data or attack devices on your network.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 15, 2021
2 min read
Twitter Finally Adds DM Search To Android
The micro-blogging site Twitter brings a DM search bar to Android today, nearly two years after it first appeared on iOS.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 14, 2021
1 min read
How To Defend Against DDoS Attacks
In a DDoS attack, An attacker uses a number of machines across the internet (or what’s called a “botnet”). Those machines send a high volume of fake traffic to the target site, all in an attempt to overload server resources and bring the site down.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 12, 2021
5 min read
Samsung Unveils Industry-First Memory Module Incorporating New CXL Interconnect Standard
Samsung unveiled the industry’s first memory module supporting the new Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect standard. Integrated with Samsung’s Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) technology, this CXL-based module will enable server systems to significantly scale memory capacity and bandwidth, accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 11, 2021
3 min read
Clubhouse Is Now Available In The Play Store
Audio-based social media app Clubhouse released its Android app. It will be available in beta on Google’s mobile OS today, allowing users to sign up and participate in its audio-only chat rooms.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 10, 2021
1 min read
‘Out Of Control’ Chinese Rocket Falls Over Indian Ocean
An out-of-control 100-foot-tall, 22-metric-tonne Chinese rocket has finally fallen to Earth over the Indian Ocean near the Maldives.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 9, 2021
1 min read
Over 128M iOS Users Affected By XcodeGhost Malware
More than 128 million iOS users were allegedly affected by the “XcodeGhost” malware which first surfaced in 2015 -- responsible for injecting malware into several iPhone and iPad apps that were subsequently uploaded to the App Store.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 8, 2021
2 min read
Twitter Testing Tip Jar Feature Globally On iOS And Android
The micro-blogging site Twitter started rolling out new Tip Jar features on iOS and Android apps, where users can send money directly to their favourite accounts with substantial followers.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 7, 2021
1 min read
Twitter Rolls Out New Prompts To Reconsider Offensive Reply
The new prompts will encourage people to pause and reconsider a potentially harmful or offensive reply — such as insults, strong language, or hateful remarks — before Tweeting it. Once prompted, people had an opportunity to take a moment and make edits, delete, or send...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 6, 2021
1 min read
Top 5 Ways to Recognize a Phishing Email: Email Phishing Examples
A phishing email is a scam that relies on emails. A hacker crafts an email that looks like it’s coming from a genuine source, like the support department at Google or Facebook. However, unlike real support emails, they request sensitive data the actual company would...
Bijay Pokharel,
May 4, 2021
5 min read
Facebook and Instagram Add Notices That Say User Tracking Keeps Their Apps Free
Facebook is continuing its campaign against the privacy updates of Apple's iOS 14, adding a notice within its iOS app telling users that the information it collects from other apps and websites can help keep Facebook free of charge.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 3, 2021
1 min read
Nearly 10K iOS Apps Have Enabled App Tracking Transparency Prompt: Report
Almost 10,000 iOS apps have adopted permission prompts to conform with Apple's App Tracking Transparency less than a week after the feature rolled out, according to a new report.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 2, 2021
1 min read
Facebook Acquires VR Military Simulator ‘Onward’ Developer
Facebook has acquired popular virtual reality game developer Downpour Interactive which is behind the hit multi-player military simulator Onwards.
Bijay Pokharel,
May 1, 2021
1 min read
