Shouvik Das
News18
Noida, UP, India
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Apple Arcade Review: Great Value, Excellent UX and the Need for a Few More Big Names
It has been about two years since Apple Arcade was first showcased. → Read More
Windows 11 Upgrade: What is the TPM Chip That Has Caused So Much Confusion for All?
The Windows 11 upgrade process has created plenty of confusion for everyone involved – most likely even Microsoft itself. → Read More
RBI Circular on Cryptocurrency Clarifies No Ban in India: Will UPI, Online Payments Return?
Yesterday, on May 31, the Reserve Bank of India issued a circular that offered some clarification towards the official state of cryptocurrencies in India. → Read More
Facebook Wants Your 'Help' to Keep it Free, But Can You Trust it With Your Data?
Remember the good old days, when Facebook was all about creating the fanciest virtual farmland or being the baddest e-mafia you could be? Yeah, those ships have sailed long ago. → Read More
Google Covid-19 Contact Tracing App Flaw Could Leak Sensitive Health Data: Report
Google, in a rare turn of events, joined hands with fellow big tech firm Apple to bring forth a privacy focused Covid-19 contact tracing effort at the height of the pandemic’s breakout in 2020. → Read More
Oxygen on Mars: How the Tiny, Toaster-Sized Moxie Aboard NASA Perseverance Created History
Earlier today, news broke about a benchmark achievement of mankind artificially synthesising oxygen in an extraterrestrial world for the first time ever. → Read More
Vivo X60 Review: Even Without Gimbal Stabilisation, a Splendid Phone Under Rs 40,000
I've had my share of reservations about Vivo as a premium smartphone brand – even though it makes undeniably competitive phones. → Read More
Google Chrome FLoC Trial: How to Know if You’re Being Tracked and Opt Out of it
Google Chrome has a new way to track you, in a method that the company called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC. → Read More
Amazon Smbhav 2021: Digital Kendra for SMBs, Spotlight North East Launched
Amazon Smbhav 2021, the company’s annual event for small and medium businesses, was opened in a virtual avatar earlier today. → Read More
Zoom Security Flaw Lets Hackers Take Control of Your PC, Patch to be Issued Soon
Zoom has already had its fair share of cyber security issues for a lifetime, and the video conferencing app took a while (and Alex Stamos) to steady its ship on the security front after finding unexpected popularity due to the Covid-19-necessitated work from home mandates. → Read More
Gift Cards Worth Rs 285 Crore, 3.3 Lakh Credit Cards Sold on Dark Web for Over Rs 26 Lakh
A data breach of an online gift card portal has reportedly led to the sale of its database, containing 3. → Read More
Mobikwik Claims All Accounts Safe, Security 'Robust', to Conduct External Security Audit
Mobikwik has toned down its sharp response to claims of what has been reported as the biggest data breach of its kind. → Read More
Exclusive | Hackers Behind $50mn Acer Ransomware Also Selling Private Data of Banks, Celebs
The REvil ransomware gang, which has claimed a $50 million ransom after hitting Acer with an alleged ransomware attack on its servers, has been targeting major organisations around the world, stealing their data and listing them on a dark web marketplace – News18 has learnt. → Read More
Telegram on Mac Left Secret Chat Audio, Videos Exposed, Stored Passcodes in Plain Text
Telegram, hailed as one of the two significantly more private communication apps over WhatsApp, had a major security vulnerability that could have exposed self-destroying audio and video messages sent by any user, when used on Mac. → Read More
Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO, AWS Chief Andy Jassy to Succeed in Top Role
Jeff Bezos, the founder and erstwhile chief executive officer of Amazon, has announced that starting Q3 2021, he will be renouncing his role at the helm of Amazon. → Read More
Any Smartphone Can Be Hacked to Access ALL Your Data, But iOS Still Better Than Android
Ever wondered how any smartphone you use today is susceptible to some cyber security flaw or the other, irrespective of how many security updates that are pushed to it? While a large part of it has to do with the extensive amount of resources that cyber criminals and law enforcement bodies put into finding these exploits, a new research by cryptographers at Johns Hopkins University has shed… → Read More
WhatsApp Privacy Fiasco: Company Reiterates Security Claim, But That's Not the Problem Anyway
WhatsApp has issued a new statement in a bid to remind its users that despite its recent disclosure of a changed operation policy and terms of service, the personal privacy of users on the app has not changed with the update. → Read More
Explained: Microsoft, Google, WhatsApp vs Cyber Mercenaries, and Your Cyber Security
Earlier this week, Tom Burt, corporate vice president of ‘customer security and trust’ at Microsoft, published a blog post expressing the company’s support towards WhatsApp in its legal battle against the Israeli NSO Group. → Read More
Twitter Public Verification Returns in January 2021: How You Can Get Your Account Verified
Twitter India has announced the reopening of its public account verification process, which will commence from January 2021. → Read More
Google Confirms All Services Down as Gmail, YouTube, Drive, Meet Stop Working
Google has confirmed that all of its services are facing an outage at the moment. → Read More