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Apple's Famed T2 Security Chips' Unfixable Vulnerability Allows Hackers Easy Access to Macs

Combining two iOS jailbreaking methods and exploiting a vulnerability in Mac's T2 security chips, hackers can decrypt data and plant malware

Oct 6, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Cybersecurity

Chinese Hackers Steal Personal Data of Half of Taiwan's Workforce, What Next?

The data sets belonged to Taiwan's popular online job site 104 and hackers were selling the data on the dark web for $500 to $1,000 each

Oct 5, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Cybersecurity

MIT Develops AI Tool That Warns of Heart Attack by Reading Lung X-Rays

The artificial intelligence tool can read X-rays and corresponding reports to determine the exact level of excess fluid in the lungs that can help prevent heart attacks

Oct 5, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Artificial intelligence

Canada's GEEP Resells 1 Million iPhones and iPads Instead of Dismantling, Apple Files Lawsuit

Apple discovered that at least 18 percent of those devices sent for recycling were still active on mobile phone networks.

Oct 5, 2020

By R. Ghosh

Apple ios

Google to Turn off Beauty Filters by Default in Pixel Phones, Says It's Bad for Mental Health

Google and Snapchat are collaborating to bring more awareness about body dysmorphic disorder and want phone makers to follow suit

Oct 4, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Cyberattack on US Software Provider Slows Down AstraZeneca Coronavirus Clinical Trial

The ransomware attack at eResearchTechnology that provides software to manage clinical trials data forced researchers to switch to pen and paper, halting their progress at a crucial time

Oct 4, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Coronavirus Ransomware

California Company Redesigns Bomb Sniffing Device to Detect Coronavirus from Breath

The aim of the company is to detect novel Coronavirus from breath, faster than traditional COVID-19 testing

Oct 3, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Coronavirus

Hackers Hijack Verified Twitter Profiles, Impersonating Elon Musk to Promote Cryptocurrency Scams

Verified Twitter accounts of Cincinnati Bengal player Jonah Williams and Canadian Olympian Nicole Sifuentes were hacked and altered to look like Elon Musk's

Oct 3, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Elon musk

Cybersecurity: Millions of Australian Customers Are at Risk of Major Bank Scam

ANZ Bank has advised its customers not to respond to such fake emails that ask for their personal information

Oct 3, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Cybersecurity

New Strain of IPStorm Malware Infects Thousands of Smart Devices in 84 Countries

IPStorm malware uses brute force attacks to infect IoT devices that are run on Linux besides Android, Windows and Mac systems

Oct 3, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Cybersecurity

Kpop Star Lai Kuan Lin Celebrates Chinese National Day on TV, Taiwanese Netizens Furious

Kpop singer, actor Lai Kuan Lin was also criticized for posting in support of Hong Kong police recently.

Oct 2, 2020

By Suman Priya Mendonca

Chinese Hacker Group Hijacked Facebook Accounts Using SilentFade Malware, Report Says

The Chinese group infected thousands of victims with SilentFade malware to defraud $4 million by running fake ads from hijacked accounts

Oct 2, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Facebook Cybersecurity

Facebook Sues UpVoice and Ads Feed Chrome Extensions Makers for Scraping Thousands of Users' Data

Both Google Chrome extensions harvested users' personal information from social media profiles without Facebook's and sold them as marketing intelligence

Oct 2, 2020

By Krishnendu Banerjee

Facebook Mark zuckerberg

Takahiro Shiraishi: Japan's Twitter Killer Murders 9 People With 'Consent', Stores Body Parts in Boxes

Shiraishi did not contest the charges of killing nine people, while his lawyer argued that he killed victims with their consent.

Oct 2, 2020

By Suman Priya Mendonca

Netflix Documentary on BLACKPINK: Light Up The Sky; From Tears to Tiaras All You Need To Know

Here is what BLINKS can expect from the Netflix documentary on internationally popular KPop girl band BLACKPINK.

Oct 1, 2020

By Suman Priya Mendonca

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