Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

The tech giant company Google is rolling out a new feature called dark mode on both Android and iOS devices After the update, the app will automatically use whatever theme your operating system is already set to if you use Android or iOS 13. Google...

EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected nine million customers. It said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit card details “accessed”. In a statement it said: “We take issues of security...

Several high-performance computers (HPCs) and data centers used for research projects have been shut down this week across Europe due to security incidents. Security incidents have been reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland, while a similar intrusion is rumored to have also happened at...

An M.2 SSD is a solid-state drive (SSD) that conforms to a computer industry specification and is used in internally mounted storage expansion cards of a small form factor.

Facebook has purchased the GIF-maker Giphy and plans to make it part of the Instagram team. A report from Axios values the deal at $400m (£330m), but Facebook would not confirm the final price. In a blog post, Instagram’s VP of Products Vishal Shah said...

The social media giant Facebook announced on Thursday that Messenger Rooms is now available to everyone on both mobile and desktop. The product is a more feature-rich and expanded version of the existing Facebook Messenger’s video calling function, and it allows up to 50 people...

Facebook has agreed to pay $52m (£42m) to content moderators as compensation for mental health issues developed on the job. The agreement settles a class-action lawsuit brought by the moderators, as first reported by The Verge. Each moderator will receive a minimum of $1,000 and will...

Fortune 500 company Magellan Health Inc announced today that it was the victim of a ransomware attack on April 11, 2020, which led to the theft of personal information from one of its corporate servers. The Fortune 500 health care company said in a letter that the hacker...

Microsoft launched its Family Safety app in a limited public preview today. The app, first announced in March, is available on Android and iOS. With the Microsoft Family Safety app for Android and iOS, you can get information about your family’s activity including what your kids...

The first phones with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 processor are just starting to trickle out, but that isn’t stopping the company from announcing an upgraded version today called the Snapdragon 768G, which offers better CPU and GPU performance than its predecessor. “We are uniquely positioned to accelerate 5G commercialization...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...