The hackers reference themselves as the “Chuckling Squad”. They also shared a link to a Discord server, where users were boasting about the hacks just before the account was hacked. Twitter later confirmed they have regained control of the account within half an hour and also debunked the bomb threat. How Was the Account Hijacked? Later that evening, the company put out a statement and blamed Dorsey’s mobile phone company for the hack....

From his personal Twitter handle, he tweeted as, “I love @DuckDuckGo. My default search engine for a while now. The app is even better!” This created enough hype for everyone to discuss shifting to privacy concerned browser from Google. Right after the tweet, DuckDuckGo, via its handle replied as “That’s great to hear @jack! Happy to have you on the Duck side.” followed by a duck emoji.” DuckDuckGo is a user privacy-focused browser just being started recently....

The Keyboard App – Ai.type, that is stealing from the user! The name of the keyboard app is ‘ai.type.’ This is a customizable keyboard alternative that had millions of downloads on the play store until June 2019. After which it was taken down by Google. However, many users were still using it. The app is estimated to be used by over 40 million users before it was detected by the mobile security company Upstream Systems....

Obtaining Data Through Spear Phishing On December 20th, a threat actor in a hacker forum has claimed to have breached the network of Koei Tecmo’s European website and stole identifiable data of about 65,000 users from its forum. The hacker claimed that he got his hands on the network through a spear-phishing email against an employee, and accessed the forum of that website. While stealing the data, he also claimed to have set a shell for future access to the website....

Leaseweb countered, saying that none of the accused parties have connections to California – where the lawsuit was filed – thus asked the court to dismiss the case straight away. Instead, Leaseweb welcomed litigation in the Netherlands, its home country. Suing Leaseweb on Inaction With hundreds of thousands of customers globally and data centers in Europe, US and Asia, Leaseweb is a strong player in the web hosting industry. The company has been strangled with several copyright notices in the past, including allegations from Hollywood for hosting pirate sites....

As organizations like WHO, CDC, and hospitals are critical for handling the ongoing pandemic, these have turned as a sweet-spot for hackers to breach in. Though cybersecurity experts have long been warning those organizations for potential hacks, unknown activists have somehow pooled thousands of login credentials of officials at healthcare and other services and dumped the online to initiate any attacks. Over 25,000 Credentials Free To Fake This was discovered by a SITE, a cyber Intelligence group that detected a URL in 4chan, an internet forum for political hate speech....

Now, since the leaked database containing e-mail addresses, hashed passwords, and other information, it’s working with Have I Been Pwnd platform to let users know about their hacked status. MangaDex Confirms Users Database Leak In mid-March, MangaDex reported a malicious incident with its platform where an unauthorized party had accessed their internals through an admin account. Credentials of this account were reportedly obtained from a previous beach, and soon he elevated access with a dormant developer account and possibly accessed the users’ database....

Microsoft Cloud PC For Better Access to Windows 10 Since Microsoft understood that not everyone can support machines to run the regular Windows 10 OS, it revealed to be preparing a lightweight variant of Windows 10 as Windows 10X. While this powers the low resourceful gadgets like phones and tablets, Microsoft has even bigger plans to get everyone on board. This by introducing Cloud PC, a concept that would let users access their Windows 10 desktop via any device, through the web!...

Microsoft has long been hard pushing its users to shift from Chrome and make its native Edge browser default. Now, it’s at least trying to infuse some useful features to look attractive. Here are they; New Features to Edge Browser A Web Capturing Tool Just as the snipping tool, the new Web Capturing tool will let users snip their favorite content on a webpage to make it as photo and save it....

Last year, Safari used to dominate the position with a slightly bigger market share that Edge, while Google’s Chrome is still the No.1 browser for so many years. Although, these statistics change according to region. Edge is More Popular Than Safari Microsoft’s constant push of its new Chromium-based Edge browser in a number of intriguing ways seems to be working, as the browser is now the second most popular desktop browser....

And most of those who tried shared their reviews and even encouraged others to try for themselves. As it’s getting out of hand, Microsoft jumped in with takedown notices to bar users from distributing the leaked copies. Microsoft’s Late Response While Microsoft and the Windows community are so excited about the upcoming Windows event, scheduled on June 24th, an unfortunate leak of the event’s core purpose shook everyone. Earlier this week, we’ve seen a pre-beta build of Windows 11 OS being leaked and shared on various internet forums....

Making It As A Choice Just as other vendors, Microsoft has been pushing their users to update to their latest versions timely. But this is changing recently when the company made November update a choice for its users. While this could be seen as freedom, users who ignore updating to latest patches can fall victim to rising hacks. In addition to the system’s kernel improvements, Microsoft releases updates twice a year for its users....

these may be aimed at easing the regular work by helping people take a causal gaming break. Microsoft is seen testing Solitaire, Connect 4, and Wordament initially, with more games expected later. All these are multiplayer games, so Teams users can play against their colleagues. Causal Games in Microsoft Teams To tackle the competition from rivals and stand as the best video conferencing platform, Microsoft has been developing its Teams services with new features regularly....

Though it didn’t mention the specific reason, this could be more about the Windows 11 23H2 update release. Thus, Microsoft asked users to downgrade to the Beta channel if they want no issues; else, those in the Dev channel will be updated to the new Windows 11 23H2, which has a lot of bugs in the early development phase. The Unstable Windows 11 23H2 Update As Microsoft shifted the feature-update phase to only once every year from Windows 11, we see the next build – Windows 11 22H2 coming later this year....

While the former forces users to try the HTTPS versions of a webpage rather than the insecure HTTP mode, the latter feature is about dumping all the cookies when the user enabled the Enhanced Cookie Clearing system. Firefox V91 New Features Firefox browser’s new version v91 has significant privacy-focused features brought in by Mozilla. For example, the browser now has an Enhanced Cookie Clearing system, which, if enabled, will flush out all the cookies and supercookies after the session....

While he didn’t exactly mention when he expressed his interest in making the team like T1 if he ever brings a team. This could be so welcoming the League of Legends community, which has been losing interest over time. A Grand Entry to League of Legends On the night of the grand finale between T1 and the DRX, fans were shocked to see MrBeast as the official guest of the event....

Merchants across the world can soon accept contactless payments through their iPhones with Tap to Pay support for easier checkout. Also, PayPal is adding Apple Pay as one of the many options for merchant payments in its app. Tap to Pay in PayPal and Venmo The US digital payment giant PayPal has revealed that its platform, along with Venmo, will soon support Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhones. Making this announcement on its latest earnings report, PayPal’s President and CEO Dan Schulman said; Apple launched the Tap to Pay option in iPhone XS and later early this year, with Stripe as its first partner....

Season 14 Royal Pass Trailer Leaked PUBG is so popular that fans flock around every leaks and rumor. While all cannot be true, some with close attributions can. Here’s one such leak of a trailer, posted by a YouTuber through his channel, Mr. Ghost Gaming. The video spanning over one minute gives us a glimpse of the upcoming season’s environment. It starts with a Mad Max Fury like a car, which has players with new customers....

However, even though the game was officially released in 2006, the idea that it would turn into Roblox actually started in 1989. Meanwhile, according to Roblox, there are 8 million developers and about 20 million different experiences that other gamers can enjoy. But, as we know, purchasing the products within the game is very costly that can easily lose your pocket. So, that’s why creators in Roblox create Roblox Asset Downloader using which you can earn more items without spending a single penny....

One would consider flawless Showbox ahead of other applications, but some cautions still exist to using this service. The official site of Showbox indeed gives you the service of unlimited access to free movies. However, there are still some chances that people might be curious to know the alternatives of Showbox. If you are one among them, keep reading the article. Best Showbox Alternatives / Apps Like Showbox (2022) Here are the highly recommended best and most effective similar apps like Showbox in 2022....