Last year, Telegram rolled out the Nearby Share feature that lets you get in touch with other users without sharing contacts. This year, in February the messaging app, update the feature and brought People Nearby 2.0. People Nearby feature allows you to meet new people. You can see all the nearby Telegram users who have enabled the feature. Even you can make your profile visible and allow other people to find you....
While we think Apple restricts users in most cases to maintain tight security, it cooked up many flexible features to better the user experience. One such feature is the text shortcuts while typing on Mac, replacing the word with an intended phrase to avoid typing it in full. The user should enable this beforehand by feeding the system what you wanted it to go like. For example, shortcuts like LoL (Laugh Out Loud), OMG (Oh My God), GTG (Gotta Go), BRB (Be Right Back), TTLY (Talk to You Later), etc....
As per a sneak peek from Huawei, the company’s revenue from the three quarters of this year fell significantly. The consumer base was hit badly, down by 13.7%, thus 14% down in carrier business. But, Huawei gained ground in the B2B segment by 18% and remained stable. Overall, the company reported earning 456 billion yuan in the first three quarters of 2021. Significant Hit to Huawei’s Business Huawei is one of the major Chinese companies specifically targeted by the US government since last year....
Due to the blacklist from the Trump administration, Huawei is no longer intended to use Google products. This is the reason why the company has been working on its own OS named HongMeng. The global name of this version will be Ark OS . According to a new report, Huawei is all set to ship their phones with this new OS in October. HongMeng Worked a Lot Faster than Android in Tests Huawei has been conducting intensive tests on its OS along with Oppo, Tencent, and Vivo....
Hulu is a streaming service available in the US. Users cannot watch videos on Hulu outside the US because of the licensing agreement of Hulu. If you live in the United States, you won’t face any problem streaming Hulu, but you won’t be able to do so when traveling internationally. When you try to watch Hulu outside of the United States, then you will get the following error message- ‘Sorry, this video is not available to watch at your current location....
To keep its platform safe for everyone, Instagram has added a number of tools over the years. Observing them being effective, the platform is now expanding deeper. Instagram Safeguarding Tools Instagram is one of the many platforms that are often accused of various privacy and security reasons. Though the platform is combating every new problem proactively, there’s still room for abusing each other on the platform. While it’s automatically enabled, creators can always decide on the settings and choose to disable it if wanted to know the community better....
Instagram this week announced a new feature to make our DMs less junk when someone likes our SStory. This is the Private Story Likes, a dedicated button to appreciate someone’s SStory without sending a DM. This seemed essential, as sending alike (heart symbol) for someone’s SStory now will send a message of such in their DMs. This could get worse if numerous people are responding in the same way. And all the likes can be viewed later in a dedicated Story’s view sheet....
Following the suite of several western companies, Intel announced ceasing operations in Russia yesterday. The company already stopped supplying its products to Russia and Belarus last month, and now adds up with an outright ban. Intel stated that Russia’s ongoing war with Ukraine is the cause, and calls for a swift return to peace. Also, it says to work on supporting all its employees in Russia. Intel Suspended Operations in Russia Being one of the critical companies in the tech industry, Intel has continued its operations in Russia while others are leaving....
iTerm macOS terminal app has been one of the most popular open-source replacement apps for Mac’s built-in terminal app. Now this open-source app is facing a serious vulnerability which is seven years old. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2019-9535. Mozilla Open Source Support Program found this program in their cyber audit. A cybersecurity firm that goes by the name Radical Open Security conducted this audit and found the vulnerability. iTerm 2 processes a lot of unsecured data and so many developers, programmers use it....
Jony Ivy, the former chief designer at Apple is parting ways with the company, probably forever. While in office, he led the design of several models of Macs, iPod, iPhone, Apple Watch, and even the upcoming MR headset. Ivy left Apple in 2019 and formed his own company called LoveFrom – where his first and primary client remained Apple, to date. But with the contract ending date nearing, The New York Times reported that Ivy isn’t interested in renewing the contract, in order to have more freedom of adding new clients....
Exposing databases online wouldn’t be intentional, but a mere cyber mistake. Companies may forget to set a password for their databases that have their customers data, which eventually lead black hats to scrape it and sell in the underground forums for money. One such incident is about the new victim, LimeLeads . The open database of 49 million of this firm is kept for sale in the dark forum. LimeLeads is just another B2B lead generation company that harvests data about millions of freelancers, small companies etc to help them rent to others for marketing in return for a fee....
Lockbit ransomware claims to have hacked Maximum Industries – one of the contractors of SpaceX, tasked to fabricate its rocket parts. The ransomware group claims to have critical designs of SpaceX’s rockets and threatens to leak them if the company doesn’t agree to negotiate with them . While it’s unknown what the exact demands are, neither SpaceX nor Maximum Industries has responded till now. Hacking a SpaceX Supplier While hitting an ultimate target is hard, hackers often target the third-party vendors associated with the main target to hopefully obtain indirect access....
Ludo King, a classic board game that’s once played in ancient India, is now topping both Google’s Playstore and Apple’s Appstore as the best video game in India. Ludo King has seen an unprecedented rise in the past couple of months, due to people being restricted to their homes caused by Coronavirus lockdown . This casual game is praised for being simple, native, and is for all age groups. As a native of India, we perceive games like Ludo King are crafted for females, as males are more interested in battle royale games like PUBG and CoD....
Everyone in the cyberspace, irrespective of size, are somehow vulnerable to hack one day. Today, the software giant Microsoft has reported an internal leak that left around 250 million records of support analytics database information exposed. This leak was first identified by Bob Diachenko and reported to Microsoft, where they’ve corrected it immediately. Discovery and Corrections The company pointed out the fault to be a misconfiguration of security rules occurred while changing the database’s network security group on December 5, 2019....
Microsoft has fixed a bug in Outlook for PC app that’s reportedly blocking users from replying to emails or forwarding them. Since February, this issue has been in the wild and is specific to those emails with lengthy URLs. Though Microsoft addressed the issue, the fix is rolling out to the current production channel late this month. Till then, it listed out few workarounds to try. Microsoft Outlook For PC Bug Resolved Since February this year, several Microsoft users are complaining about a new issue in the Outlook for PC app in both community forums and Reddit ....
The makers of Microsoft Flight Simulator has issued a patch update earlier this month, which is showing significant results after testing. As checked by The Verge’s Tom Warren, Microsoft Flight Simulator, after the recent update is having increased frame rates and optimized CPU and memory usage rates. All without the game using Direct X 12. Microsoft Flight Simulator Game Update One of the best games one can play on Windows OS these days is Microsoft’s Flight Simulator – a flight simulation game rich in graphics and content....
Taking a leap ahead in the PC hardware industry, MSI announced that its Intel Z790 and B760 series motherboards support 48 GB and 24 GB DDR5 RAM sticks. These high-end DIMMs were recently launched by Crucial to offer extra efficiency to users who may want more room for power-intensive work. So now, with MSI’s support, their 700-series motherboards can equip 48GB RAM sticks upto 192GB capacity in the whole! A Motherboard For 48GB RAM In the realm of PC hardware, we see most of sophisticated gamers equipped with high-end machines to power their experience....
Michigan State University was just hit by a ransomware group called NetWalker and is now under a deadline for leaking their stolen files public. The ransomware group has given the university one week to pay the undisclosed ransom, if not, the stolen data will be published on NetWalker’s blog that’s maintained by the group in the dark web. Name-and-Shame Policy NetWalker Ransomware, also known as Mailto, has emerged recently in mid-2019....
Card skimmers are actively attacking numerous e-commerce websites since many have been relying on them now more than ever. In a new technique discovered by the Malwarebytes team, a group of Magecart attackers is found to be hiding their malicious data-stealing code behind an image file’s metadata! And also exfiltrating the stolen data via an image file. A New Card Skimming Technique Along with security researchers, hackers too have been evolving with new techniques for evading detections....
A relatively new ransomware group is found hitting the publicly exposed remote desktop connections – even on through the non-standard ports. Named Venus Ransomware, the group terminates a number of legitimate Windows processes before encrypting the target system and even deletes the event logs and shadow copies to prevent data recovery. Venus Ransomware Modus Operandi As noted by a security analyst and later by BleepingComputer , a new ransomware named Venus group – which started its operations in August 2022 – has been targeting publicly exposed remote desktop systems ....
