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There is a free version for this software and it doesn’t need you to sign up. But the paid version with all the other facilities requires users signing up and the details of My Account of a user are now in the hands of hackers. The email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, company names, user names, and IP addresses are now in the hands of hackers. Reset Your Account Password Now Resetting your “My Account” password is the need of an hour now....

Safari can be downloaded on Windows 10, 7, 8, both 32-bit and 63-bit systems. However, the company is not bringing any updates, so you need to download Safari version 5.1.7, which was released years ago. As this version is outdated, many features from the latest Safari browser will be missing. Sadly, there is no official link for getting the latest version of Safari, so if you want to use Safari on Windows, you need to use the old version only....

Duolingo, along with several other education apps, was thumped by China last year in a sweeping crackdown on for-profit tutoring apps. In the rejuvenated version, Duolingo added Cantonese to its catalog of learning languages, which is widely used by Chinese people around the world. Duolingo Back in China One of the popular language learning apps – Duolingo, is back in China after a year-long gap. Last year, Duolingo was one of the many apps swept in China’s efforts to curb for-profit after-school tutoring apps....

Names of the arrested aren’t revealed yet but are believed to be affiliates of the Egregor group and not the authors. This ransomware group has infected over 200 victims and earned well in just a short span. Police Caught Members of Egregor Group Egregor ransomware, which started its operations in September last year, is believed to be the successor or an updated version of Maze ransomware, which shut down its operations in the same period....

Elon Musk’s Showcased an Example of his Neuralink Project Elon Musk’s association with Tesla and SpaceX has given us a sneak peek into how innovative he is. Alongside, he is also associated with several other companies/projects like The Boring Company, Solar City, Hyperloop etc. Out of them, a really futuristic project is the Neuralink. Neuralink is all about bringing us closer to technology. While it formally stated that it wanted to solve neurological issues like Spinal Cord injuries, Alzheimer’s and Dementia like problems, an interesting perk is conceptual telepathy....

Disinformation Research Groups Ever since the big companies are dealing with big data, everyone’s thinking about an IT war arising one day. And this step of actors leveraging AI in fueling the fake propaganda is what analysts think to be one of the first stages of the war. Disinformation Researchers from Graphika and DFR labs have reported many examples of few actors using Artificial Intelligence to create fake profile pictures and performing an “Inauthentic Social Media campaign”....

Facebook’s been handling enough pressure from authorities and critics already. And to sustain from all such factors, the company’s tightening its privacy policies and reinventing itself with new features to entertain users. One such trail is here – an AI-powered tool to convert 2D images into 3D. Will Support Single-lens cameras too! A similar tool was launched by Facebook back in 2018, but it then supported only by those high-end phones which has a dual-lens camera....

Facebook is using the services of Britney Spears’ lawyers to handle its case now, against the production of Doomsday Machine, which is an adaptation of An Ugly Truth book. The show, if released, talks about Facebook’s failures in user security, misinformation handling, etc in past. Defaming Facebook Facebook’s image was already tarnished by various documentaries and articles in past, regarding its failures in handling privacy, user security, and other related sections on its platform....

FBI Warns US Companies of New Attacking Campaign The Federal Bureau of Investigation has previously warned US companies in China about possible backdoor malware, and also about using the outdated Windows 7 OS. And now, it came up with a new alert to US private companies about Iranian hackers exploiting a well-known device from F5, the BIG-IP. The BIG-IP from F5 is a multi-networking device used by several companies. This gadget is now vested with a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5902, that is being exploited by Fox Kitten (or Parisite) group....

Weak Passwords, Windows 7, and TeamViewer The Oldsmar attack that happened last week is critical and a close one. Unknown hackers have managed to access the water treatment plant’s operator system and altered the sodium hydroxide (lye) levels added to the water. This would have sickened all the citizens but was immediately rectified by the operator, fortunately. After investigating the incident, the FBI came up with three major flaws that led to this almost succesful attack....

Open-sourcing Have I Been Pwned and Access to FBI The site Have I Been Pwned is an indexer of compromised passwords from several data breaches and lets people check if their password was compromised or not. This requires the person to enter either their email address or name or a username to check. Checking with email addresses is suggested since not all data breaches have usernames and names included in them....

This error can be encountered due to issues with your browser, malware on your system, insufficient power supply, a bug in the system, and others. This article will discuss how you can fix Netflix Screen Flickering issue in Windows and macOS. Fix Netflix Screen Flickering Issue in Windows and macOS If you have been facing Netflix Screen Flickering issues in Windows and macOS, then follow the steps given below to fix it-...

Leveraging the blockchain, Glupteba hackers retrieve their wallet addresses, C2 server details, and for others operations. Though this makes the gang’s operations public, it makes it resilient to normal takedowns by law enforcement. Rebirth of Glupteba Hackers In December last year, Google took down the operations of Glupteba – a new-age threat actor that leverages the Bitcoin blockchain to perform its malicious operations. Securing the court orders, Google had taken control of the botnet’s infrastructure and even filed complaints against two Russian operators....

Google Ends Third-party Cookie Tracking What started as a perfect way for tracking users online about their interests and internet activity is now coming to an end. Third-party cookies or just the browser cookies placed by third-parties into your device for knowing your interests have been invasive. Though this helped both users to get relevant ads and advertisers with a high turnover ratio, they’re considered privacy evils. Many new-age browsers like Brave and Microsoft’s Edge have stopped tracking through third-party cookies, whereas Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox have ended this practice recently....

Google’s Kind of Pinterest Keen, a platform for grouping your interests and share it with others. This may seem more like Pinterest, as the idea behind this is the same. CJ Adams, co-founder of Keen explained that Letting you save time by reducing your research time is what Keen is meant for. It lets you group up relevant links and images collected from the web, and curate in your profile. This can be shared with anyone as per their choice, and let them contribute too....

Google to Sell its Upcoming Smartphones without Charger Just a day before, on 17 August, Google announced Pixel 5a 5G smartphones similar to Pixel 4a 5G. These phones come with a charger in the box. If you remember, both Samsung and Apple have stopped providing chargers for their latest flagships. So, Google is also joining these companies by not shipping chargers with a phone. Google said the Pixel 5a would be the last Pixel phone to have a charger in the box....

While the list mostly includes necessary features on usage, it surprisingly misses out on Always on Display. Although, a test made by the folks at 9to5Google revealed that Pixel Watch does give the promised day-long battery life with Always on Display. Pixel Watch Battery Metrics One of the many things that Google promisGoogle Revealed How You Can Get a 24-Hour Battery Life on Pixel Watched on the Pixel Watch’s launch is 24-hour battery life....

Same Old Actor From Past Exploiting any WordPress related vulnerabilities can garner something big. And since the fact is widely accepted, a group that previously exploited XSS cross-scripting vulnerability in WordPress has no targeted old vulnerabilities in unpatched plug-ins, and download configuration files from sites. This, in return, to steal the login credentials of the site’s database. Wordfence reports that this campaign happened last weekend, between May 29th and May 31st, where May 30th has seen a peak number of attacks....

xHelper is a Real Pain for Android Users Android devices, especially smartphones are prone to malware infections more than iOS, blackberry or windows. This is because of the wider community base, and a prime reason for attackers to focus on creating Android malware. One of the worst malware an Android phone could get is the xHelper, which was discovered back in February by Malwarebytes. Its sophistication is defined in its hardness of removal, where it’s touted to be surviving even the extreme steps as factory reset!...

Thus, keeping an eye on how it’s performing is suggested. One such metric you should keep checking is the battery report, where you can see the battery’s cycle count. This is the number of times your device’s battery has fully drained. One cycle counts as vanishing your charge from 100% to 0%. This is an important metric, as all laptops come with a predefined number of battery cycle counts, after which they’ll not be efficient....