As we know, no matter how strong a password the user is using, there is a possibility that hackers can still find a way to hack into the account. Due to this, Facebook provides an extra layer of security known as Two Factor Authentication. Using this feature, you will have to verify your account login by providing a code you get via the authentication method you have set. This secures your account and makes it less prone to hacking....

The issue usually appears when some of your installed programs start using more RAM than they should. However, while it is a software-related issue, it can occur because of a wide range of reasons. Luckily, fixing the issue is not as complicated as it might seem. Instead, there are a few simple methods that you can try out to get rid of the error. But before I move to the fixes, let’s know what memory leaks are in Windows in detail....

Just recently, an internal employee named Hu Ling had posted a letter (and soon deleted) to the company’s board regarding his dissatisfaction in employee treatment over overtime policies. According to a screenshot witnessed by Bloomberg, Hu Ling, a member of human resources in Huawei’s 2012 Lab research unit has some deep grievances to be shared. He complained about the company’s harsh policies of overtime and efficiencies of the workers. Hu Ling wrote, “Take my advice brothers: Don’t trust HR, they have no honesty” in his letter to Huawei’s internal messaging board....

Huawei and The AU are Planning to Work Closely to Digitize African Continent Wang Dong, North Africa’s Huawei VP stated that this agreement has proven how much the AU trusts their company. He also ended the rumour called “AU Data breach.” Huawei is now committed to provide high-quality services to the AU and will be the strategic partner in the digitalization process of Africa. Quati, the Vice-President of the African Union Commission said that signing this MoU will improve the situations in African countries’ communication sector....

Strong at home, but sucked at others Ever since the US blacklisted Huawei over security concerns, the victim firm has lost many mobile spares partners from the US, yet, it thrived in its homeland. Though Huawei denied US claims of spying people and authorities through its devices, the US demanded its domestic firms to cut ties and even advised other nations the same. This led Huawei to cripple for a while and invent its own resources as self-aid....

As announced by Meta’s boss Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram users in select countries will be able to send NFTs in their DMs and feeds and even use AR stickers in their status too. Further, the platform has added support for Coinbase and Dapper wallets, so users can import their NFTs from there. NFTs on Instagram Meta has been one of the many strong backers of cryptocurrency and blockchain concepts, with several of the company’s products already testing some byproducts....

Instagram new features leaks After a year of introducing Reels in India and recently in the US, Instagram is making new tools for both content creators and general users. As shared by a reverse engineer named Alessandro Paluzzi on Twitter, Instagram may set in an affiliate program for its influencers. — Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) February 17, 2021 This is found in the Creators section, and influencers (content creators) should be eligible for this program to start with....

Aside from this, Instagram is also enhancing the sound effects library, allowing creators to import audio from any video in their device’s camera roll, added interactive stickers and polls for surveying the audience. At last, there’s a Templates feature to let creators sync clips with music and video. Increasing the Scope of Reels on Instagram Trying to beat TikTok in its own game, Instagram has been adding new video-making features every now and then....

Hacking Sites For Mining Cryptocurrencies Cryptocurrency mining needs extensive resources to work. While it can be done on basic computers and phones, they garner nothing but peanuts. Thus, using high-end servers and GPUs are effective. While these cost much, hacking them to run mining softwares and mint coins is easy. This is practiced by a botnet named KashmirBlack. As per the reports (1, 2) from Imperva, a cybersecurity firm, a botnet group named KashmirBlack is said to be behind the attack against CMS like WordPress, Joomla!...

SMS Vulnerability in ZakaZaka ZakaZaka is Russia’s second-largest food delivery platform after Delivery Club, both owned by Mail.ru, which is one of the largest internet companies in Russia. Mail.ru also owns Russia’s largest social media – VK. A bug hunter named Novovolynsk (Moonwalker) has disclosed a bug in ZakaZaka’s SMS mechanism to Mail.ru on June 18th this year, to which the company has rewarded him $150 the very next month. While Mail....

There are two other tools that would help content creators to embed hashes to mark and prove the authenticity of the content. These are widely published along with its partners to educate the people about deep fakes. Patterned With Several to Support and Educate With presidential elections nearby, everyone’s speculating a rise of cyber attacks to manipulate the content of what voters see or hear. Considering all these potential risks, Microsoft has come up with new technology to detect a major video manipulation technique – Deepfake....

RCE Vulnerabilities in IoT and OT David Atch, Omri Ben Bassat, and Tamir Ariel from Section 52 of Microsoft’s Azure Defender for IoT research group has detailed a new report, explaining 25 critical vulnerabilities in various IoT and Operational Technology (OT) systems. These are collectively known as BadAlloc, as they’re known to be Wraparound bugs or the memory allocation integer overflow ones. Researchers found these bugs to be available in embedded software development kits (SDKs), several real-time operating systems (RTOS), and C standard library (libs) implementations in their memory allocation functions....

Rapid Patching of Microsoft Exchange Servers As the attacks against vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers happening rapidly, system admins are advised to apply the patch immediately to avoid falling for the hacks. This included many warning notices from security agencies, law enforcement, and government boards. It all started when Microsoft discovered four zero-day vulnerabilities in its Exchange servers, which could let an attacker breach in and exfiltrate data and also conduct other exploitations....

Narendra Modi Launches Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge In a tweet, Narendra Modi has put a challenge up for techies and IT Startups in India to make Android and iOS applications in India in an effort to make India self-reliant. This challenge comes after the India Government’s ban on 59 Applications of Chinese Origin. In a LinkedIn post, Modi has said, “Nowadays, we are seeing huge interest and enthusiasm among the start-up and tech ecosystem to innovate, develop and promote homegrown apps....

If you think Apple’s macOS is secure than anything, guess what, it’s subjected to malware too. The popular malware dumping group named Lazarus, associated with North Korea is believed to be behind this attack. It’s infamous for remotely implanting a virus in sequence to gather confidential data. He tagged security researchers Patrick Wardle and Thomas Reed for analysing the issue further. “Another #Lazarus #macOS #trojan md5: 6588d262529dc372c400bef8478c2eec hxxps://unioncrypto.vip/ Contains code: Loads Mach-O from memory and execute it / Writes to a file and execute it”....

These include a larger screen, more internal storage, widened kickstand, slightly rounded edges for docks, and wired internet support. All these have increased the price of a new console to an additional $50 from the previous edition. Nintendo Switch OLED Features While the world only sees a console war happening between Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation always, there’s Nintendo sneaking in between with its own perks and gaining fans. The Japanese console maker has now come up with a new console – Nintendo Switch OLED – with many Improvements over the previous edition....

The video leak is claimed to be originated from TikTok, showcasing the phone’s under-display fingerprint unlocking feature. Rest details have already been known, including the renders and internal specifications. Unlocking Nothing Phone 1 One of the major reasons for Nothing Phone to get fame already is its head – Carl Pei – who co-founded OnePlus, one of the favorite Android brands today. The very first phone in this series is touted to bear no name but a number, as 1, making it Nothing Phone 1....

Some of them belong to the White House, Vatican, FBI, Wikipedia, IMDb, and sometimes Google itself! Google is clever enough to spot errors and decide not to take them down but act only on the infringing ones. Most of the targeted domains are still pirate ones, although some are less popular. A New Milestone For Google With Google’s Search having the lion’s share in the search engine market today, most people would be aiming to tune their content accordingly for better reach....

Passwordstate’s Infectious Update Supply chain attacks are highly reliable and the most complex attacks in the cybersecurity space. This includes targeting one element of an ecosystem (like an internal employee), compromising his credentials and getting access to the whole network, and impacting their clients ultimately. They’re hard to detect and can cause extreme damage since well rooted into the network before being realized. One such attack was reported by Click Studios, where the update mechanism of its famous Passwordstate is compromised for a supply chain attack....

What is the reason behind the increased number of data breach events? With an average of 20 data breaches each day, the first half of 2019 saw more than 3800 data breaches. It is estimated that more than 4.1 billion records were stolen in these attacks. The majority of these breaches were conducted using tools and information that can be accessed through the Dark web. For example, BriansClub is one of the largest web marketplaces for trading stolen credit card data that was hacked....