Be it the Twitter Blue subscription or laying off roughly 50% of employees or the new grey official badge for high-profile accounts, the microblogging platform has been in the news ever since. Now, according to a report from Platformer, Twitter’s new owner and CEO, Musk in an all-hands meeting on Thursday with all employees at Twitter revealed that there is a possibility that the social media platform could go bankrupt....
Khaled Abdel Fattah, a man based in Tennessee has been arrested for withdrawing money using his debit card. The problem? He re-programmed the ATMs to dispense $20 dollar bills instead of $1 ones. He had taken help of his accomplice Chris Folad, and both of them from Tennessee, United States withdrew more than $400,000 from the ATMS around Nashville. Former employee goes rogue When a small-time Tennessee restaurateur named Khaled Abdel Fattah was running short of cash he went to an ATM machine....
UCWeb says its UC Cleaner app has a simple and ad-free User Interface (UI), UC Cleaner is able to keep its size to less than 1.5MB. UC Cleaner is the latest app from UCWeb’s mobile app portfolio for international markets, which includes UC Browser and 9Apps, a third-party app store. The UC Cleaner app, much like other memory booster apps for Android, can free up memory (RAM) and closes apps that run in the background....
The news comes as a surprise when several reports floated by the US-based media, including Bloomberg News, suggested that the security firm had powerful ties than initially believed with Russian intelligence agency FSB. The General Services Administration (GSA) who confirmed the news to AFP said that “GSA’s priorities are to ensure the integrity and security of US government systems and networks and evaluate products and services available on our contracts using supply chain risk management processes....
Ransomware generally locks a computer by making changes to its operating system, which the end user needs to pay to get back unlocked. Cryptolocker meanwhile uses the encryption library files in Windows to render 70 types of files unreadable without a valid decryption key, hence forcing companies which did not take regular backups to pay the premium or else be screwed.More than 50% Cryptolocker infections are found in United States while ransomware softwares and platforms are finding a major boon in Russia and Eastern Europe since about an year ago....
USPS was hacked in mid-September and it had reported the same in November 2014. The hack attack was said to have compromised personal data of more than 800,000 employees including their names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, beginning and end dates of employment, emergency contact information and other information. The investigations which took place after the intrusion was noticed have revealed that health care information of 485K employees stored in the file along with employees’ Social Security Numbers and other personal information, was compromised back in September after hackers managed to exploit a USPS server’s weak default password....
After Android, VAIO now wants to dabble in Windows 10 smartphones. It seems that during a press conference in Japan, President of Microsoft Japan Takuya Hirano revealed a handful of partners who will be working on creating a series of Windows 10 smartphones, and as you can see in the photo above, VAIO is one of them (along with Acer). Apart from Hirano’s word that VAIO is now planning a Windows 10 smartphone, there is no word regarding VAIO’s plans for a new smartphone, and more importantly what will this new VAIO Windows 10 smartphone will feature....
The 35-second YouTube video clip, called “iPhone Unlock Without Passcode Glitch”, has been viewed over 440,000 times, after being uploaded last Thursday, 3 March. The video shows a user gaining access to an iPhone by first asking Siri what time it is. When the spoken request brings up the time, the user taps on the clock face to disclose the World Clock screen and then chooses the Timer icon at the bottom of the screen....
Cybersecurity expert Benjamin Tedesco who was touring Vienna was hanging out in Main Square, near the metro station when he walked up to an ATM machine. He decided to give the ATM reader a little pull, as he is very suspicious about such machines. The reader came out with a working skimmer that was designed exactly to like the same card slot on the original machine. “It pays to be paranoid,” he said....
JavaScript was first conceived in 1993 in the heady days of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. The then king of browsers, Netscape Navigator founder Marc Andreessen believed that Netscape needed a “glue language” to support HTML that would be easy to use by Web designers and part-time programmers to assemble components such as images and plugins, where the code could be written directly in the Web page mark-up. Also, Bill Gates’ Microsoft Internet Explorer was eating into market share of Netscape Navigator....
“It’s clear WhatsApp is the global messaging app of choice,” says Apptopia spokesperson Adam Blacker. “Apps having to do with communication take up most of our time spent on our mobile apps.” WhatsApp will soon delete all your chat, photos and videos – How to backup Overall, the top 10 apps that people spend time globally are as below: However, this data does not include data from Android stores in China or other regions....
WhatsApp has been in news many times due to its upcoming feature of voice calling facilities in its instant messaging App for smartphones. The good news is that WhatsApp has started rolling out this feature but the same seems to available for only some users. Recently a Reddit user has posted some snapshots of WhatsApp voice calling feature which has appeared on his profile. He said that he was able to use the feature when he had downloaded the latest version of the app and when his friend called him; he was able to use it....
Now, WhatsApp has changed its plans saying that it won’t restrict any functionality, even if users don’t accept the new updated policy, after speaking with governments and privacy advocates. “Given recent discussions with various authorities and privacy experts, we want to make clear that we will not limit the functionality of how WhatsApp works for those who have not yet accepted the update,” a WhatsApp spokesperson told The Verge in a statement....
As such, organizations may have to go beyond conventional security tools like antiviruses and firewalls and implement security measures that can detect and combat advanced attacks. But before you go about adopting virtually every available solution that’s being offered today, it’s only practical to test your defenses and establish a baseline of what’s really needed. To do this, you can perform conventional methods like penetration tests but these require technical know-how to perform, making them out of reach to smaller and less-resourced organizations....
On Tuesday, WikiLeaks was brought down by the elite hacking group called OurMine, which has earlier hacked the social media accounts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. After the DDoS attack, WikiLeaks reached out to OurMine, the exchange between the two was leaked by Buzzfeed. In screenshots, the person speaking for WikiLeaks advises OurMine on obtaining information by impersonation. Wikileaks said that OurMine should have impersonated their previous targets, including Zuckerberg and Pichai, instead of attacking their site, calling it a “huge waste”....
Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB4503327 causing black screen issues after installing the latest patchesHow to fix the Black screen triggered by Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB4503327- According to Microsoft, a small number of devices are likely to start up with a black screen during the first login after installing the latest updates for the system. Thankfully, the company has provided a quick workaround for those facing black screen issues for temporarily fixing the issue....
The report reads that this affects discs created using the Backup and Restore feature on Windows 7 post-January 2022 update. Fortunately, Microsoft is already working on an update, here’s the complete story. Windows 7 users are facing issues with recovery discs According to the tech support report, Microsoft released an update dubbed as KB5013438 on January 11th, 2022, on Windows 7. Post the update, users who created a recovery disc using the built-in Backup and Restore app on the Control Panel, are facing issues using the recovery disc....
For those unaware, WSL is a feature of the Windows operating system that enables you to run a Linux file system, along with Linux command-line tools and GUI apps, directly on Windows, alongside your traditional Windows desktop and apps. The two biggest highlights of the change are: Users can get access to WSL features faster, and they don’t have to worry about changing their Windows version when getting the latest WSL updates....
The hack attack was first noticed when a totally NSFW selfie of Zahra Schreiber, who is a model-turned-NXT wrestler, emerged the wrestler’s WWE co fighter, Seth Rollins’ social media accounts. Apparently even WWE website was showing the NSFW images for a brief period according to WWE tracking website Deadspin. New York Daily News reported that the Seth Rollins’ Twitter account was hacked and the hackers started tweeting NSFW images of Zahra Schreiber just as the popular WWE program “Monday Night Raw” went on air....
