Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Tech giant company Apple and Google are jointly building software into iPhone and Android devices to help track the spread of coronavirus by telling users if they contacted an infected person and are potentially sick themselves. The new project is slated for release in May. The...

INTERPOL has issued a warning to organizations at the forefront of the global response to the COVID-19 outbreak that have also become targets of ransomware attacks, which are designed to lock them out of their critical systems in an attempt to extort payments. INTERPOL’s Cybercrime...

YouTube will reduce the amount of content spreading conspiracy theories about links between 5G technology and coronavirus that it recommends to users, it has said, as four more attacks were recorded on phone masts within 24 hours, The Guardian reported. According to The Guardian, YouTube may still allow...

The SSL handshake is nothing but a conversation between two parties (client and server) wanting to accomplish the same purpose – securing the communication with the help of symmetric encryption.

Facebook has launched a Messenger apps for MacOS and Windows so you can video chat on your computer and stay connected with friends and family all over the world. The app, which is now available on the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store, lets you message friends and...

In 2018, Cloudflare announced 1.1.1.1, a secure, fast, privacy-first DNS resolver free for anyone to use. Today, Cloudflare process more than 200 billion DNS requests per day making them the second largest public DNS resolver in the world behind only Google. Cloudflare announced on a...

Facebook launched the Coronavirus Community Hub on Messenger, which aims to provide people with tips and resources regarding the new coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, while preventing the propagation of misinformation. The blog post read “Our communities give us the strength we need to get through...

There are various ways in which a virus can infect your system, one way that is used by Cyber Criminals to penetrate business networks is via USB Devices, a popular method that is often forgotten.

Huawei has launched a new personal assistant for its phones. A rival to the Google Assistant, Huawei’s AI helper is named Celia. Huawei will roll out the new digital assistant to its phones through an OTA update. However, the company hasn’t shared a specific timeline...

YouTube will reduce the default video quality to standard definition (480p) around the world to ease internet traffic during the coronavirus outbreak. The decision comes just one week after YouTube announced it was reducing streaming quality for users in Europe to help lessen broadband strain...

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis in full swing. The two sites promoting the fake antivirus software can be found at antivirus-covid19[.]site and corona-antivirus[.]com as discovered by the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team and researchers at MalwareHunterTeam, respectively. That’s right, scammers are trying to...

NetWalker ransomware is believed to be a variant of the Mailto Ransomware family. The .mailto file extension along with an email address is attached as the extension to all of your files, making them inaccessible. All encrypted files will receive the new extension as a...

Cybercriminals promise that they will stop attacking health organizations during coronavirus outbreak. The cybercrime groups behind two of the most prolific ransomware threats have issued statements that they will not attack healthcare and medical targets during the coronavirus crisis. Lawrence Abrams (the creator of BleepingComputer),...

Emsisoft and Coverware have announced on a blog post that they will offer free help to critical care hospitals and other healthcare providers that are on the front lines of COVID-19 and have been impacted by ransomware. “As hospitals around the world struggle to respond...

Facebook is rolling out the new web interface to its users. For the past few days, Many users have reported that they got prompted by Facebook to try out the new interface. After accepting, they get asked if they’d like to use the white or dark layout. The choice is also...

The European Union has called on streaming services such as Netflix and YouTube to limit their services in order to prevent the continent’s broadband networks from crashing as unprecedented usage due to the coronavirus pandemic. With so many countries on forced lockdowns to fight the spread...

Google has decided to pause on adding new features to Chrome and Chrome OS in an effort to keep the essential software running as smoothly as possible. In a tweet today, the Chrome development team acknowledged that “adjusted work schedules” have led the company to...

Facebook started marking some posts linking to information and articles about the coronavirus and COVID-19 as spam. The issue was due to a “bug in an anti-spam system,” according to Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of integrity. Commenting on the matter after a fix had...

Google just announced that the company’s Translate app is getting a killer new feature: real-time transcription. This new functionality is rolling out over the next few days, and it should be available to all Android users by the end of the week.  Currently, it supports English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese,...

Google hacking, also named Google dorking, is a computer hacking technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites use.