Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Zoom announced several recent security updates and user interface enhancements from the product team during the May 20 “Ask Eric Anything” webinar. Here’s a roundup of the main security changes to the Zoom platform from the past week: Screen sharing: For single Zoom Pro accounts,...

Maze ransomware operators have published credit card data stolen from the Bank of Costa Rica (BCR). They threaten to leak similar files every week. The hackers are doing this in support of their claim to have breached BCR in the past and the bank’s denial of...

The 9to5Google crew has found evidence of plans to add end-to-end encryption to RCS conversations in Google Messages. While full details of how this would work aren’t clear, you could decide whether not third-party apps see encrypted messages. It’s also safe to assume that both participants would need a...

Microsoft’s Solitaire game is turning 30 years old today. Microsoft is celebrating the occasion with a world record attempt of the most games of Microsoft Solitaire completed in one day. The “Microsoft Solitaire Collection” was first released in 1990 under the name “Microsoft Solitaire” for Windows 3. Microsoft said...

WhatsApp’s latest beta version lets you add contacts by scanning their QR Codes,  WABetaInfo reports. The feature, which is available in beta on both iOS and Android, can be found in the app’s settings menu, where there are options to display your own code, as well as to scan...

Windows Hello is a more personal, more secure way to get instant access to your Windows 10 devices using fingerprint, facial recognition, or a secure PIN.  Windows Hello sign-in mechanism is also supported on the web-based services, courtesy of the FIDO2 protocol. Google is now rolling...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he expects half of the tech giant’s 48,000 employees to be working remotely in the next five to 10 years as part of a major shift in how the company operates. “We’re going to be the most forward-leaning company on...

Online movie streaming service Netflix is trying to make it easier for people to cancel their service with a new automated prompt that will ask subscribers if they want to continue paying after a lengthy period of inactivity. On May 18th, the company started reaching...

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...