Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

In new research from Malwarebytes Labs, it has been found that hundreds of fraudulent sites selling branded shoes are injected with a credit card skimmer. The purpose of the attackers is to steal both personal and financial data from shoppers by tricking them into visiting...

WordPress is one of the most popular content Management System (CMS) powering more that 40% websites around the globe. Due to its popularity, it has become a prime target for hackers. There are a number of entry points that hackers can exploit to gain access...

There's a new battleground in the browser wars: user privacy. Picking a web browser isn’t like selecting an operating system or smartphone ecosystem. You could download any one of the major browsers on the market today in the time it takes you to finish reading...

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a law created to protect the privacy of children under 13. The Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998 and took effect in April 2000. COPPA is managed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). YouTube is making...

The Facebook app is secretly recording through iPhone cameras, as their users scroll through their news feed. The bug appears to only affect iPhone users running the latest iOS 13 software, and those who have already granted the app access to the camera and microphone....

How do you feel if someone is prying eyes on your online activities? How do you feel if someone is watching what are you surfing, your uploads and downloads and literally everything you are doing online? Doesn't matter what precautionary measures you use there is...

Netflix announced that they will be cracking down on password sharing. Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann said the company is continuing to monitor it for now. “We’re looking at the situation, and we’ll [look for] those consumer-friendly ways to push on the edges of that.” The...

one prefers fingerprint instead of Pincode to unlock their phones because it is easy, convenient and who's gonna type the pin everytime, just put your finger and boom, the phone will unlocked. Isn't this what you think? However, Biometric authentication including fingerprint identification, iris and...

Yahoo has announced it will be removing all content from its free long-running online discussion boards, Yahoo Groups. While Yahoo said in a statement that the Yahoo Groups site will continue to exist, users will no longer be able to upload any new content to...

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer protocol that enables data communications over a packet switched network. Packet switching involves the sending and receiving of data in packets between two nodes in a network

A supercomputer is a computer that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers.  Traditionally, supercomputers have been used for scientific and engineering applications that must handle very large databases or do a great amount of computation (or both). Although advances like multi-core processors and GPGPUs (general-purpose...

When you see a pop-up on your computer coming from your antivirus software that says “virus,” you know that there is some type of issue. However, not all viruses are extremely dangerous, and they are often categorized according to the threat level they carry. Some viruses...

Twitter has admitted that it has been using phone numbers and email addresses that its users have provided to enable two-factor security for advertising purposes. In a statement, Twitter revealed that this was “inadvertently” done by its Tailored Audiences advertising program. As for phone numbers (usually...

Who wants to type a password every time when visiting a website? So, for our convenience, we saved the password to the browser and get rid of entering it every time it's requested. But this is not a good idea because it is so easy...

After the release of WordPress 5.2, WordPress 5.3 is expected to be released on November 2019.  WordPress 5.3 will have new features, block editor improvements, and user interface update.  In this article, we will show you the major changes and the new features in WordPress...

A terms and conditions is a legal contract with a website’s users and visitors and can be enforceable in court. You should read it because if you agree to the terms and conditions, you will likely be agreeing to a legal contract with the website...

If you are tired of using Facebook and want to take a break permanently then deleting your Facebook Account is the only option. Deleting your Facebook Account means deleting all the information that you have shared, your videos, picture, your status updates and literally everything. ...

Reframing a video footage to a different Social Media is a time consuming process. Because Simply changing your project’s settings from a widescreen aspect ratio to a square one won’t cut it; you’ll also have to shift the footage around to keep all the action...

If you are running a blog, an eCommerce website or a news portal then creating a regular backup is the best thing for your website security. If anything goes wrong then it gives an option to restore the website to an earlier time.  This means...