USAGM Suffered a Data Breach The US Agency for Global Media is a government agency that runs several state-run media outlets like Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. It strives to “inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.” As per a notification shared by former Voice of America White House correspondent Dan Robinson, the USAGM has suffered a data breach incident last December after falling for a phishing attack....

The sanctions were specifically slapped against Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and its Minister of Intelligence – which are tasked to aid the Iran government’s Targeting an Ally Nation Countries with uncommon interests targeting each other in cyber means, as we see several state-sponsored hacking teams hitting their enemy countries for various purposes – almost every month. And Iran’s cyberattack on the Albanian government in July this year is something similar!...

US Veterans Personal Data Breached The US Department of Veterans Affairs offers eligible veterans services like outpatient clinics and medical services, also several non-healthcare benefits like education assistance, burial and memorial benefits, disability compensation, home loans, life insurance and vocational rehabilitation. The office this department has disclosed a data breach incident yesterday. It explained that unknown users have “social engineered” one of the apps from Veterans Affairs Financial Services Center (FSC), and exploiting the “authentication protocol” to access personal information of about 46,000 veterans....

Found Privately and Released Patch VMware didn’t acknowledge any external person in finding the bug and claims to be found privately. The bug was disclosed on Thursday as CVE-2020-3952 and found in VMware’s Directory Service (vmdir). This is a critical component of vCenter Server, which is used for managing all virtual hosts and machines of a corporate, by a single admin account. This was, in return, governed by vCenter’s SSO (single sign-on), an authentication mechanism for system admins to control hundreds of virtual machines and hosts....

One among them includes creating its own cryptocurrency and selling NFTs! Also, there are plans for conducting fitness classes virtually, by training people on health and nutrition through AR and VR technologies. All these ideas were just noted by Walmart in the filings and seem no work regarding it has started. Walmart into Metaverse Ever since Facebook renamed its name to Meta and shared the vision of creating a cool virtual world, every other tech company started exploring themselves on how can they fit into this futuristic concept....

WeLeakInfo Data Breach Who would thought a site that’s gathering details on data breaches would itself be breached? But WeLeakInfo did, as per reports since last week. WeLeakInfo was basically a data breach indexing site, that collates all the breaches databases and sells access for paying customers. The site has been taken down early last year for doing so, by the FBI. Now, after being pulled down, a mistake from the FBI costed WeLeakInfo’s customers’ records being stolen and now sold for dead cheap prices....

This permission comes from NPCI, the payments regulator of India who earlier granted WhatsApp to test its payments service with upto 20 million users, and later 40 million people. Though the new cap is more than double of existing limit, WhatsApp is wishing for the unlimited bar considering its 500+ million Indian users. Expansion of WhatsApp Pay in India WhatsApp being the most widely used instant messenger in India, it started testing a payment service too from with the app a couple of years ago....

WhatsApp New Security Feature Amidst the controversy surrounding WhatsApp about its updated data sharing terms, the platform has announced a new security feature to safeguard the accounts while linking them across devices. More specifically, this about authenticating while linking WhatsApp on the web or desktop app. WhatsApp does not see your face or fingerprint data. Chats for your 👀 onlyhttps://t.co/qR3zsexzfj pic.twitter.com/Ei5G35MPpA — WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) January 28, 2021 The general process of linking WhatsApp account on the web or a desktop app includes the user scanning the QR code shown through his mobile client....

An Old Feature Turned Vulnerable The feature which is exploitable in this issue is the CryptoAPI (or crypt32.dll specifically), a cryptographic component that’s decades-old in Windows and is used by developers to digitally sign their software and authenticate the digital licenses. It has many other functions to perform, but this is used as a back door by hackers to exploit and impersonate the original developers at validation checkpoints in installation/scanning apps....

But, this support so far has been soft since the Android apps running in Windows 11 aren’t performing as well as emulators. Thus, Microsoft in its latest update to WSA brought H.264 decoding for addressing this. Further, there’s a Mail app integration and a few other features included in this update. New Update to Win11 WSA To make Windows OS competitive and more productive, Microsoft announced support for running Android apps on its Windows platform....

The group’s CEO has just disclosed this move officially, as promised earlier. In a tweet today, Adam Aron said AMC theatres would accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash as online payment methods for ticket booking and concessions. Paying Through Bitcoin For Movies With growing consciousness, many enterprises are integrating cryptocurrencies and blockchain in their models to leverage their advantages. We’ve seen companies like Tesla, Shopify, Wikipedia, Microsoft, etc., accept Bitcoin as a payment....

This service is available in 22 countries now and accessible only to those who have an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. Users can play over 100 games using their touch controls or connected joysticks. Xbox Cloud Gaming Service Availability Competing against Song’s PlayStation, Microsoft makes its Xbox Cloud Gaming Service available generally for all iOS and Windows 10 users. However, the company has tested this service with few selected users through an invite-only system in April this year....

Warning that it could contain some known bugs and may cause performance issues, Xiaomi released this update only to the “Beta stable channel”, which is a pilot program of Xiaomi. Interested users can download this directly or flash it using TWRP. MIUI 13 Based on Android 13 Just a couple of days after Google released the stable Android 13 for Pixel phones, Xiaomi followed up with a new update for its flagship phones....

This is priced at €6.99 per month and is 60% lesser than the regular one, which consists of all access to Originals, background playback, and Music Premium. YouTube said it will roll out other plans based on the feedback. YouTube’s New Plan For The Just-Needed While YouTube isn’t in the OTT war yet, it’s having plenty of reasons to offer subscriptions to its platform. As per it, the Google-owned video platform has a YouTube Premium tier, that offers full access to YouTube Originals, offline downloads, ad-free video playback, YouTube Music Premium, and the background playback....

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List of Best Google Tricks to Try in Free Time in 2022 Here we have shared some google tricks that you must try right now. Try these tricks and impress your friends. List of Best Google Tricks to Try in Free Time in 20221. Do a Barrel Roll2. Askew3. Recursion4. Thanos5. Anagram6. Zerg Rush7. Google Sky8. Animal Sounds9. Play Games on Google10. Atari Breakout 1. Do a Barrel Roll A popular Google search trick rotates the page twice and gets back to the original position....

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