Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

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.

A lot of users have begun to believe that using a Virtual Private Network increases Internet speed. Under normal circumstances, this does not happen because the speed is entirely in the hands of the service provider. However, if your service provider is throttling your bandwidth,...

Google issued one of the most sweeping cautionary edicts, recommending on Tuesday that all its employees in North America work from home until at least April 10 amid the novel coronavirus outbreak. Google offices will remain open to workers if they have to be physically...

Major Tech Company Apple and Google are taking down the apps related to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that aren’t from recognized institutions like governments or hospitals, according to CNBC.  Four independent developers told CNBC that Apple rejected their apps, which would allow people to see...

Google is canceling its biggest event of the year because of concerns about the coronavirus. The 2020 edition of Google I/O, an annual developer conference originally scheduled for May 12-14 at Google’s Mountainview headquarters, will no longer take place, the company confirmed on Tuesday. According...

After a months of beta testing, WhatsApp dark mode is now available on iOS and Android devices. Users on Android 10 and iOS 13 can use dark mode by enabling it in system settings. Users on Android 9 and below can go into WhatsApp Settings...

Wi-Fi is a family of wireless networking technologies, based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access. A common misconception is that the term Wi-Fi is short for "wireless fidelity," however this is not the case. Wi-Fi is simply a trademarked...