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DigitalOcean Data Breach Exposes Customer Billing Data
Cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean has emailed customers warning of a data breach involving customers’ billing data.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 29, 2021
1 min read
How Secure Are QR Codes?
Attackers can embed malicious URLs containing custom malware into a QR code which could then exfiltrate data from a mobile device when scanned. It is also possible to embed a malicious URL into a QR code that directs to a phishing site, where unsuspecting users...
Bijay Pokharel,
April 27, 2021
2 min read
Twitter Removed 50 Tweets At The Request Of The Indian Government
The microblogging site Twitter has removed tweets that were critical of India's response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the request of the Indian government.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 25, 2021
1 min read
Signal Uses iPhone SE To Hack Cellebrite Phone-Cracking Software
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has successfully used an iPhone SE to hack Cellebrite‘s phone-cracking software.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 23, 2021
1 min read
REvil Ransomware Gang Are Demanding $50 Million From Apple To Avoid Documents Leaked
The operators of the REvil ransomware are demanding a $50 million ransom from Apple to avoid having confidential information leaked on the dark web,
Bijay Pokharel,
April 22, 2021
1 min read
Here’s Everything Apple Announced From Apple’s ‘Spring Loaded’ Event
Apple just finished its first event of 2021 by streaming a virtual keynote for the "Spring Loaded" event held at its campus in Cupertino, California.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 21, 2021
3 min read
Geico Data Breach Exposed Customers’ Driver’s License Numbers For More Than A Month
Insurance company Geico has suffered a data breach that exposed customers’ driver’s license for more than a month, according to a data breach notice filed with the attorney general of California.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 20, 2021
1 min read
You Can Now Transfer Your Facebook Posts And Notes To Google Docs, Blogger And WordPress
Social media giant Facebook announced a new feature that will allow users to export their Facebook posts and notes to popular services like Google Docs, Blogger, or WordPress.com.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 19, 2021
1 min read
Twitter Is Suffering From Another Outage, Users Unable To Send DMs
The micro-blogging site Twitter went down in the US and the company said it was working on fixing an issue with its servers.
Bijay Pokharel,
April 18, 2021
1 min read
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
