Month: August 2021
Misconfigured Microsoft application Exposes Records
The misconfiguration of Microsoft Power Apps, a low-code app design tool, has exposed up to 38 million personal records at 47 organizations, including American Airlines and Ford ,According to a cybersecurity vendor. According to UpGuard , organizational data including COVID-19 vaccination appointment information, Social Security numbers, employee IDs, and email addresses were exposed. What is
Crypto chaos
Incidents involving tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of dollars are happening almost every few months and, because these platforms are largely unregulated, there’s no guarantee that customers get their money back. Investigators are still trying to ascertain how many millions, or maybe even hundreds of millions, were lost in the mysterious demise
Zoom hybrid return to workplace
Zoom’s employee poll found that more than half of its staff preferred a hybrid approach, with the remainder favouring or already working fully remotely. The firm said it would not rush office reopenings and that no office would open until it was “possible to do so without personal protective equipment and social distancing”. Zoom has
OnlyFans pivoting from porn
OnlyFans is, on a technical level, effectively Instagram combined with Patreon. Creators can post photos, videos and text to the service for their followers to peruse, and they can also lock any of those behind a personal paywall, and even charge to send and receive messages. There’s nothing inherently pornographic about those features, and indeed
developers email users about payment options on App store
Independent developers will be allowed to tell iPhone users about ways of avoiding the “Apple Tax” on their apps for the first time, as part of an out-of-court settlement concluding a class-action lawsuit against the company. Other provisions in the wide-ranging agreement include a guarantee that Apple will maintain its “small business programme”, which cuts
Mail Mass Delete
The problem with the Gmail app is there’s no easy way to do a mass delete. The web version allows you to only select 100 emails at a time when personal inbox is overflowing, that’s not a good enough option. The mass delete is not really supported and the issue of emails overflowing is not
Quantum-safe VPN
The technology works by using session key exchange security mechanisms or cryptographic ciphers that are designed to provide a higher level of protection and it is to enhances encryption methodologies today in order to make them even more difficult to hack tomorrow . Quantum-safe virtual private network is being tested how it can enhance the
Discord’s Groovy music bot cracking down
Groovy Bot had allowed users to converge on Discord for listening parties, aggregating music from platforms like YouTube, Spotify, Soundcloud, Deezer, Apple Music, and Tidal since its creation. Google-owned YouTube is finally cracking down on Discord’s Groovy music bot, which had sourced and played music from the streaming platform on more than 16 million servers
Monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19
Monoclonal antibody therapy has been around for decades, COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies have been gaining credibility as a key tool for protecting people most at risk of severe COVID-19. Preventing COVID-19 from making people extremely sick or landing them in the hospital is the public health goal of the pandemic, and the main job of the
Apple saving children
Before releasing their latest operating system, iOS 15, Apple announced that they will include new measures in the their devices to combat child pornography. These new measures include alerts to parents for iMessages containing nude images sent to their child’s device, as well as automated hashing to automatically match any images stored in the Apple