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Researchers at cybersecurity firm KnowBe4 have uncovered a new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) tool called Quantum Route Redirect (QRR) that makes it easier for cybercriminals to steal Microsoft 365 credentials worldwide — with no advanced hacking skills required. KnowBe4 says QRR has been used in active phishing campaigns since August across 90 countries, exploiting around 1,000 compromised or parked domains globally, with the majority of attacks (roughly 76%) targeting users in the United States....

Abbott Laboratories has launched a new “ID NOW COVID-19” test that can detect positive coronavirus cases in less than five minutes on the spot without the need of a lab. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Abbott’s ID NOW COVID-19 making the test available to healthcare providers as early as next week. This test can be used in a wide range of healthcare settings such as physicians’ offices, urgent care clinics, and hospital emergency departments....

Residents living in Noida and Greater Noida found without the Aarogya Setu app installed on their smartphones will now draw punishment for violating the COVID-19 induced lockdown, according to an order issued by the Noida Police. The order will be also applicable to those traveling to Noida from outside. For the uninitiated, Aarogya Setu is India’s COVID-19 contact tracing app whose purpose is to spread awareness of COVID-19 and notify people if they have come into contact with a coronavirus infected person....

Earlier this month at the CES 2022 keynote, Nvidia had announced the highly-anticipated GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU with the card rumored to go on sale on January 27th. However, Nvidia never officially announced the launch or availability date of the RTX 3090 Ti. Now, based on reports from TweakTown’s and Videocardz’s sources, the chipmaker has reportedly halted the production of their upcoming GeForce RTX 3090 Ti custom models for time being....

Opera, the company behind the popular Opera web browser, on Wednesday, announced that it has integrated with DeversiFi, a decentralized exchange (DEX) powered by Starkware’s Layer 2 (L2) scaling solution, to provide cheap and instant transactions within its mobile browser wallet. The company also announced that Opera for Android (OfA) will become the first mobile browser with an Ethereum Layer 2 Wallet. With this new non-custodial wallet, millions of Opera users will be able to transact with Ethereum Layer 2 directly allowing them to benefit from efficient, ultra-low transactions and instant trading and making swaps 100 times quicker and more cost-effective....

Good news for all the crypto users out there. The popular browser app Opera has now launched its Opera Crypto Browser on iOS devices. Based on crypto and Web 3.0, the crypto-backed app offers everything about cryptocurrencies right on your iPhone. Opera Crypto Browser is now available on iOS After arriving on Android , Windows, and Mac; Opera Crypto Browser has now arrived across iOS as well. This will give iPad and iPhone users an unparalleled experience with an assortment of features built-in to the browser....

Following Apple’s much-anticipated decision to allow game emulators, RetroArch has made a comeback to app store for iOS and iPadOS. RetroArch is one of the most popular multi-console game emulators available for iOS, Android, Mac, and PC. However, due to the App Store’s restrictions, users had to sideload the emulator on iOS. Now that there is an official App Store version, iOS/iPadOS users can play thousands of games. The official App Store description has listed a total of 69 emulation cores....

Samsung Electronics on Monday announced that it will be opening up Tizen, an open source OS for Samsung Smart TV, to third-party TV manufacturers for multiple markets outside South Korea. In other words, non-Samsung smart TVs will now be able to use the Tizen OS TV platform in their smart TVs for the first time. For this purpose, the South Korean giant has announced licensing partnerships with leading international ODM (Original Development Manufacturing) companies such as Atmaca, HKC, and Tempo....

Snapchat on Wednesday officially rolled out Snapchat+ (Snapchat Plus), a paid subscription service that offers a collection of exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features, which are not available for free members. “Over 332 million people worldwide use Snapchat every day to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. We’ve always enjoyed creating new features for our community, and historically we’ve tested new features in different ways, rolling them out to various Snapchatters and geographies,” Team Snap said in a news release about Snapchat+....

Sony’s Projector Turns Any Surface Into A Touch-Sensitive Display Sony has been tasked with making impressively designed smartphones, TVs and of course, its popular next-gen gaming console, PlayStation 4. However, company also has a division called Future Lab, which is basically just a fancy name for an R&D section designed to bring in products of the future. Looks like the company is at least ten steps ahead of the competition, because Future Lab has just introduced its next-generation projector that has the capability to turn any screen into a touchscreen....

The website of police services of South Africa (saps.gov.za) was said to be breached by Anonymous hacker group DomainerAnon, this Friday. The data leaked can be seen in the pastebin provided by the hacker group, which contains the emails, cell number, telephone number, Rank id’s of many officials. The paste also mentioned the reason as: The reason for this action is to serve as a reminder to the government regarding the murders of 34 protesting miners outside the Marikana platinum mine by police....

Spotify, the popular audio streaming platform, on Wednesday, announced that it is rolling out full-screen music videos in beta for Spotify Premium users across 11 markets with a “limited catalog” to enhance artist-to-fan connection. “Spotify is where fans go to dive deeper into an artist’s music. So whether you’re a superfan who wants to rewatch the videos you love and share them with friends, or a casual fan on the lookout for new releases, music videos create a new point of connection with artists,” Spotify explained about the new feature in a blog post ....

Stack Overflow is the largest developers’ community for programming and coding questions. Most techies rely on it for technical queries and help them with their jobs/projects. You will find answers from experts here for your complex questions for free. The contributions were for making the community better. But Stack Overflow has other plans to monetize the content in partnership with OpenAI . Several users are not okay with it and have started protesting the move....

The Pirate Bay (TPB), one of the most infamous site for torrents , has switched to a new v3 onion domain on the Dark Web. The only official backup address for TPB is its .onion domain , which it has had for years. However, in recent weeks, many visitors have started to receive warnings to shift to the new v3 onion domain. “With the tor project V2 Onion Services Deprecation many visitors are getting warnings visiting the Pirate Bay v2 onion address,” notes TPB admin Moe about the switch....

There are hundreds of software and hardware solutions available on the market to monitor a vast array of activities. The price of user activity monitoring software ranges from several thousand dollars down to free. Most solutions can log keystrokes typed, application and website usage, detailed file usage, incoming and outgoing chats and e-mails, internet connections, windows interacted with, internet packet data, desktop screenshots, software installations, and much more. The software can present all activities logged in easy-to-read graphical reports....

Some iPhone and iPad users appeared to be experiencing a nosy bug in the Safari browser app that caused it to crash when they entered select three-letter terms into the search bar of Safari. However, Apple has rolled out a server-side update to fix the bug in its Safari. According to multiple reports, select three-letter words such as “tar,” “bes,” “wal,” “wel,” “old,” “sta,” “pla,” and others were crashing the Safari app, as noted by MacRumors ....

This guy created a WhatsApp group made up of his ex-girlfriends to wish ‘Merry EX-Mas’ Many of us are a part of some WhatsApp group or the other and most of us take due care to keep separate groups for family, friends and work. Because combining them could give us serious headaches in long run. But this guy named Tom from United Kingdom had other ideas. He created a group called Merry EX-Mas’ and added all his four ex-girlfriends to the group....

After launching the Psion-inspired Gemini PDA in 2017, UK based Planet Computers is now bringing its hybrid smartphone with dual-screen for the general public. The Cosmo Communicator is inspired by vintage personal digital assistants (PDAs) such as Nokia Communicator, Sharp Netwalker and Psion Series 5. Last year, Planet Computers started a crowdfunding campaign for a PDA-inspired hybrid smartphone. This campaign managed to attract under 4,000 backers and collect $2.05 million (€1....

While Google may be the most sought-after website around the world, a recent report by web performance and security firm, Cloudflare tells a different story! According to Cloudflare’s Year in Review report, TikTok has surpassed Google to become the most popular domain worldwide in 2021 in terms of internet traffic. Besides Google, TikTok, a short video-sharing platform, also went past tech giants like Twitter, Meta, and Apple. As per the report, Google....

An independent cybersecurity researcher has warned that the Chinese short-form video app, TikTok reportedly injects JavaScript code into any and all links opened through its custom in-app browser on iOS, which can track all keystrokes on a webpage. The researcher, Felix Krause, founder of the app-testing company Fastlane that was Google acquired five years ago, who discovered the findings said when the user opens any link on the TikTok iOS app, it is opened inside their in-app browser....