Qualcomm Announces World’s Fastest Commercial Charging Solution, Quick Charge 5
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 5, the fastest commercial charging technology for Android devices, which delivers unprecedented mobile phone charging speed and efficiency improvements compared to previous versions while enabling new battery technology, accessories, and safety features. The world’s first commercially viable fast…
Critical Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Found wpDiscuz Plugin
Wordfence’s Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability present in Comments – wpDiscuz, a WordPress plugin installed on over 80,000 sites. This flaw gave unauthenticated attackers the ability to upload arbitrary files, including PHP files, and achieve remote code execution on a vulnerable site’s server. This…
WhatsApp Begins Testing Multi-Device Logins
WhatsApp is testing multi-device logins features for iOS and Android, according to WABetaInfo. WABetaInfo first discovered signs of multi-device support in WhatsApp in November 2019 on iOS and Android. At the time, a “Registration Notification” hinted at asking for a new security code from a secondary phone, and…
Fourth Anniversary Of ‘No More Ransom’: Saves $632 Million In Ransomware Payments
The “No More Ransom” website is an initiative by the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Netherlands’ police, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, Kaspersky, and McAfee with the goal to help victims of ransomware retrieve their encrypted data without having to pay the criminals. The…
WordPress To Get A Built-In XML Sitemap Feature
WordPress, the favorite content management system (CMS), running a third of today’s internet sites, is getting built-in support for XML sitemaps The function will go stay in WordPress 5.5, scheduled for launch later this fall. XML sitemaps are particular records data that include a listing of…
Google Messages Now Lets You Reply With Emoji Reactions
The tech giant company Google is adding new features to its Messages app for Android, including the ability to reply to messages with emoji reactions. Google has been testing the feature since at least the start of March, but the company is now rolling it out…
Twitter Security Breach : The Attackers Accessed The DM Inbox, Including 1 Elected Official In The Netherlands.
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, by attackers to spread a cryptocurrency scam. Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam. The official…
App Lock Feature Is Now Available In Facebook Messenger
The social media giant Facebook added an extra layer of security when opening Messenger on an iPhone or iPad. The app itself can now be locked upon or shortly after closing, requiring you to use an authentication method like Face ID or Touch ID to…
Twitter Cracks Down On QAnon Conspiracy Group
Twitter announced Tuesday that it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content, banning many of the conspiracy theory’s followers because of problems with harassment and misinformation. Twitter will stop recommending accounts and content related to QAnon, including material in email…
Coinbase Paused More Than $280,000 In Bitcoin Transactions During Catastrophic Security Breach In Twitter
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, by attackers to tricked at least 1,100 people into sending bitcoin to an unknown hacker. According to Coinbase, a popular cryptocurrency exchange in which people buy and trade digital currency, the company prevented…
7 VPN Services Leaked 1.2 TB Of User Data Including Usernames, PlainText Passwords, Connection Logs And Website-Visit Histories.
Seven Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers who claim not to keep any logs of their users’ online activities recently left 1.2 terabytes of private user data exposed to anyone who comes looking. The data, found on a server shared by the services, included the Personally Identifiable Information…
Microsoft Will Disable TLS 1.0 And 1.1 In Office 365 On Oct 15
Microsoft has set the official retirement date for the insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols in Office 365 starting with October 15, 2020, after temporarily halting deprecation enforcement for commercial customers due to COVID-19. “As companies have pivoted their supply chains and…
Here’s An Update About Twitter Catastrophic Security Breach In History
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, by attackers to spread a cryptocurrency scam. Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam. The…
Twitter Says About 130 Accounts Were Targeted In Cyber Attack
The micro blogging site Twitter revealed that hackers targeted roughly 130 accounts during the massive attack that allowed them to take over dozens of high-profile accounts of tech companies, executives, and celebrities to promote a Bitcoin scam. Hackers had accessed Twitter’s internal systems to hijack…
Facebook Messenger Now Lets You Share Your Screen On Mobile Devices
The social media giant Facebook has enabled its screen-sharing feature for Messenger on mobile devices, allowing you to share your phone or tablet screen when calling a friend one on one, in a group chat, or while taking part in even larger conversations via Messenger Rooms. “Screen…
Netflix Announced “Immortal* Netflix Account” For 83 years If You Win This Game
The streaming giant Netflix announced a nationwide U.S. competition for an “Immortal* Netflix Account” (*1000 months of subscription, or 83 years. How do you win it? By obtaining the highest score in an original “The Old Guard” videogame (www.oldguardgame.com), where you play as a Labrys-wielding…
Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts
A Twitter employee was responsible for a wave of high profile account takeovers on Wednesday, according to leaked screenshots obtained by Motherboard and two sources who took over accounts. A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers who used the accounts —…
Twitter Suffered The Most Catastrophic Security Breach In History
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on Wednesday by attackers who used the accounts — some with millions of followers — to spread a cryptocurrency scam. Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on…
Sony Reportedly Doubles PS5 Production
Sony has doubled the number of next-generation game consoles “PlayStation (PS) 5” to be launched during the year-end sales season and decided to reach 10 million units by the end of the year. As reported by Nikkei Asian Review and Bloomberg, Sony had originally planned to produce 5-6 million consoles…
Now You Can Block Annoying Notification On Chrome 84 Released
The tech giant company Google has released Chrome 84 to the Chrome official stable channel. Users can update Chrome using the browser’s built-in update feature to move to this new release and get access to new features and security updates. Chrome 84 is also the…
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