Some of these include a live caption for calls, videos, etc when the device is offline, door detection to spot a door nearby and read text on it, and the ability to view a paired Apple Watch screen on your iPhone. All these are coming soon, probably with iOS 16. Apple’s New Accessibility Features For a long, Apple is appreciated its continued support for helping disabled users with a range of accessibility features....
Out of so many well-known antiviruses, Mcafee is one popular name that has come into the picture in the past few years. The company claims to provide a full system scan and protection from all sorts of viruses and malware. Not to mention, Mcafee is also known for providing tons of extra features that guarantee your safety. However, as most of our daily life works are getting digital, there is a doubt if Mcafee is a safe Antivirus for working or not?...
So, does your system need so much storage? Or is there any way to reduce the space taken by system settings so that you can use the memory space more effectively? Here is a pro guide to the standard volume of system files on a Mac. Is Your System Consuming That Much Space? The first thing to realize is that your system might not take as much space as your Storage menu shows....
They claim the Defender Endpoint suite was tagging these updates are malicious, even though they are not. Microsoft later clarified that it was a false positive issue, and was rectified soon. But, it didn’t provide what exactly is causing these issues. False Positive Issues in Defender for Endpoint One of the core jobs of antivirus software is to spot and highlight any malicious activity happening in the concerned system. For this, they deep dive into apps and their process with an extensive set of permissions....
This is actually a software dedicated for enterprises earlier but now brought to individual-level since many have been asking Microsoft. Users with Microsoft 365 subscriptions can download and log in to their accounts to safeguard their devices from harmful files. Microsoft Defender for Individuals To protect corporates from falling prey to unwanted hacks and breaches, Microsoft made a dedicated threat protection suite called the Microsoft Defender – which is packed as a part of the Microsoft 365 suite....
Microsoft Edge Brings Collections Feature Which Allows to Collect & Organize Content Day by day, the Microsoft Edge browser is getting more popular, and it has come on the second position in the desktop market. The first one on the list is Google Chrome. Both Chrome and Edge have similar features as they are based on the Chromium browser engine. But many users avoid Google services to protect their privacy. A Collections feature of Microsoft Edge allows the users to collect, share, and organize content that you find from the web....
On 18th December this year, a company in the US filed a case against the Thallium group in District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, where the court has now enabled Microsoft to act upon this issues by taking down 50 of the Thallium’s domains that were said to be used for malicious activities. The company’s special units, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has been tracking this group since a long time and gathering information to act on them....
What this offering actually is? By name, one could easily say it’s just another antivirus software. But this Advanced Persistent Threat (ATP) of Microsoft uses behaviour analysis in acting and flagging something. For example, a PDF downloaded from an email should be opened in a PDF software in general, but it invokes the command prompt (used by hackers to dump malicious code), this Defender ATP immediately senses this and sent Microsoft’s cloud for analysis....
This will let users view a title already without needing to wait until it’s fully downloaded. Netflix said this feature would be coming to iOS clients soon. Netflix New Feature Though Netflix is a heaven of entertainment, it requires a constant internet connection to view its extensive content. Well, it lets users save desired titles offline to view later, but it takes time. And if it’s on your mobile data instead of WiFi, find a new pass time until it gets downloaded....
Name-and-Shame Policy NetWalker Ransomware is the same group behind the attack on Toll firm, which is Australia’s largest shipping company. This group has now captured one of the US’s oldest universities, Michigan State University. This was first seen on a blog that’s affiliated to NetWalker, claiming the university’s financial info and personal records of students were stolen. Further, a week was given to pay the ransom amount, which was undisclosed yet....
While Samsung and Apple dominate the world’s premium smartphone market, OnePlus from China sneaked in with competitive prices and startled everyone. Ever since its inception, it has grown gradually and is now the most loved premium smartphone of users worldwide. OnePlus 8 Features & Specifications Yet, features like below lack even in its premiums and special editions. And all these four ingredients are expected to be added to the OnePlus 8 series soon....
A group of movie studios has earlier filed a lawsuit against PrimeWire, alleging the pirate operations the platform is serving. As they have now obtained the preliminary injunction for seizing the active PrimeWire domains, the pirate site’s operators have started advertising a new indexing portal for its survival later. A New PrimeWire Site For Status Check PrimeWire is one of the popular pirate sites serving copyrighted content, for almost free....
Big corporations usually have their own ISP and different internet tunnels to reroute their web traffic via secure means, but what about normal users like me and you? This was the point of conversation between me and my friend – Jacob, who works in a news agency. Ans he tells me about this wonder product – VPN- the answer to all the above problems. As I told you, Jacob works in a news agency, and often times it’s his job to make sure to double crosscheck some news information which means he has to access the web securely....
The Mespinoza ransomware, which earlier was at a reduced risk, is now updated and triggered by this group to work at a more lethal and advanced methodology. The initial Pysa attacks began in the closing months of 2019, which was curbed by cybersecurity experts in France. However, two months down the line, it again triggers back to form, affecting thousands of servers across the country. Users are reporting cases of multiple infections, and IT-security is yet to understand how this new gang is breaking into computers so effortlessly....
They stated that additional talents in AI and ML could give an advantage over others and are pursuing LinkedIn as their primary platform to source new talent. Also, recruiters said they’re relying on video conferencing tools for interviews. Back-End Developers on Demand HackerEarth, a developer hiring platform, surveyed 2,500 recruiters and HR personnel in about 79 countries to see what kind of talent they’re actively looking for in 2022. And the results are pretty expected, with back-end developers being in high demand....
In what known as bunch dumping, hackers in this new age are developing the package of malware that can be dumped at once and cash on it frequently. Malware as Emotet dump can deliver TrickBot, which in further brings the Ryuk ransomware along with it. This kind of collaborative malware packed into one single dump and fed into the system can earn the hackers more than anything. Legion Loader As Father Legion loader, as described by DeepInstinct, is the initial pack that stores all of these malwares....
MeetMindful User Records Leaked MeetMindful is a fairly popular dating platform that started in 2014 and gained a significant userbase over the years. Now, it’s reported that a database belonging to MeetMindful, has been dumped in a well-known hacking forum on the dark web, where such stolen databases are traded. The database is said to be containing records of over 2.28 million users, worth 1.2GB. Details included in the database are users’ Real names, Email addresses, City, state, and ZIP details, Body details, Dating preferences, Marital status, Birth dates, Latitude and longitude, IP addresses, Bcrypt-hashed account passwords, Facebook user IDs, and Facebook authentication tokens....
The company stated the technology behind regular SMS is old and vulnerable, thus subject to hacks – which doesn’t really fit Signal’s core principles. Also, it wanted to mitigate the misunderstandings users deal with – like sending regular SMS instead of Signal texts and incurring carrier charges. SMS in Signal App If you’re tracking Signal’s development since its inception, the company started with two individual apps – an encrypted voice-calling and an encrypted text messaging app....
Therefore certainly this is welcomed by one and all throughout the market. This is good news for all you music lovers out there who do not want to begin a song right from the start but wants to listen from the time you had left it. During the last few months, we saw the onset of Android betas in the store. Though Spotify did add the progress bar to its notification, it was not functional....
The world’s largest caller identity service has a typical feature that no one thought could be possible. Letting users know who’s calling even before the phone rings are surprisingly, and seemingly helpful. Truecaller calls it as Caller Alert, and it’s just milliseconds faster than regular ringing. Moving From Cellular Networks To Data/Wi-Fi If you’re just staring at a screen and notice the alert, you can plan your reaction accordingly. Truecaller said as, This was made possible by leveraging Wi-Fi/data connections than relying on cellular networks....
