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pCloud The App Store privacy analysis finds Instagram, Facebook’s most invasive apps, and Signal app among the safest to use. By using Apple’s new privacy labels featured in the App Store, Cloud storage company pCloud  decided to take a deeper look into the mobile apps to find the most invasive overall iOS users interact with the most to determine which ones share the most personal they identified which apps share the most private data with third parties  pCloud takes a look at the most invasive apps collecting data from users, Instagram, Facebook, Uber Eats and more: The most invasive apps on iOS and Signal and Clubhouse Safest to Us According to data collected by p-Cloud, Signal messaging app, Clubhouse, Microsoft Teams, Netflix, Skype, Telegram, and Google Classroom collect no data at all, and Facebook and Instagram are among the topmost invasive apps that collect and share user data with third-party vendors. As per pCloud, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn collect the most...

China blocks encrypted messaging app Signal, Signal users in China reported issues sending or receiving messages, which went away when they used a virtual private network. Encrypted messaging app Signal blocked in China. Also services like Face-book, Google and Twitter have been blocked for years in China.                        Popular encrypted social media app Signal has become “unusable” for some in China,  The Wall Street Journal  reported Tuesday, suggesting that the app may have-  been blocked in CHINA.  Users in China said Tuesday that they could not get the app to connect without a virtual private network (VPN) service. Messages failed to send and calls did not goes on Tuesday The Chinese embassy in Washington, DC,  pointed to comments Tuesday  from Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian, who said he was not aware of Signal b...

Bounce Two Wheeler Rental startup has put Scooters on Sale. The main reason for this layoff and putting up bikes is the current Pandemic COVID-19 in the country. The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus and its resulting condition has caught much of the world off-guard. The COVID caused the overall economic situation in India. Lots of businesses have been affected by this pandemic. The company has been catering 35% of the total ride-hailing traffic till Nov- Dec 2020. despite the lockdown having ended in June. Bounce is a private rental bike service company. The Bounce company started as Wicked Rides in 2014 by Vivekananda HR, Varun Agni. Bounce was once valued at $450 million and had 600 persons on its rolls, is on an employee reduction spree. It is also learned that the company has lined up all of its two-wheelers for sale at an open ground near the Bharat Nagar Metro Station in Hyderabad. Bounce had earlier laid off around 130 employees or 22 percent of its staff in June 2020. Bou...

Tinder in-app match background checks feature. Online dating app tinder will soon allow its users to run a background check on their possible dates. On March 15, 2021, Tinder’s partner company match group announced in a press release says that it has partnered with a background check platform Garbo to integrate the service into its platform. Tinder users will now check on their partners, regardless of their gender or sexuality. This feature is being introduced keeping the protection of women and marginalized groups in mind “For too long women and marginalized groups in all corners of the world have faced many barriers to resource and safety” told Tracey Breeden, head of safety and social advocacy.  If you are on tinder or planning to join the online dating app then here’s good news for you.  Tinder users will be able to look out the following about their matches- Arrest record Any violence history The previous record of conviction Violent crimes Drug possession But the report says that...

Facebook to pay News Corp for news content in Australia News Corp says the deal of three-year agreement with Facebook, has agreed to pay for its Australian content will transform the terms of trade for journalism. The deal also includes extending an existing agreement between Facebook and Sky News Australia, part of News Corp, has also reached a new agreement with Facebook which “extends and significantly builds on” an existing arrangement. The three-year deal comes weeks after the Australian government passed laws that aim at making tech platforms pay for news content. In a statement Tuesday, chief executive of News Corp Robert Thomson said the agreement, which he called a “landmark,” in transforming the terms of trade of journalism, and will have a material and meaningful impact on our Australian news businesses. ,  Last month Facebook restricted the sharing of news on its service in Australia. In defiance of the controversial proposed law that Facebook said the agreements would hel...

Netflix to limit password sharing with friends and family. Netflix Is Testing New Feature That Prevents Users from Sharing Passwords for the streaming service for both business and security reasons. According to CNN reports the new feature is just a test and it is for the Netflix TV app users. CNN reported when a user-selected their profile on a shared Netflix account, a pop-up comes on the screen and asks them to verify the account by confirming with a text or email sent to the account holder. Viewers have the option to delay the verification and keep watching Netflix. The message may reappear when they open Netflix again, eventually a message pop-up on the screen to required to open a new and account to continue streaming. A Netflix spokesperson told CBS Money Watch that “This test is designed to help to ensure that people using Netflix are authorized to do so” Netflix’s terms of service say users can stream content “for your personal and non-commercial use only and may not be shared...

SAMSUNG Galaxy A52 AND A72 price leaked In India Samsung galaxy A72 and Galaxy A52 could be launched on March 17, Samsung is rumored to launch a 5G and a 4G variant of the Galaxy A52 with a similar feature. The prices of the Samsung Galaxy A52 are expected around Rs. 26,499 for the 6GB RAM/128GB storage variant, while for 8GBRAM/128GB variant the price could be Rs. 27,999. DISPLAY      6.5-inch Full HD+ 2400 x 1080 pixels. BATTERY 4,500mAh.   REAR CAMERA primary 64MP camera with an f/2.0 aperture, an 8MP ultra-wide-angle camera with 123-degree field-of-view, 5MP macro camera & 2MP depth sensor. FRONT CAMERA 32MP Selfie camera. REFRESH Rate.    – 120Hz (5G), 80Hz(4G.) GPU Adreno 619(5G), Adreno 618(4G). PROCESSER Octa-core  Snapdragon 720G(4G), Octa-core Snapdragon 720G  (5G). Samsung Galaxy A52 5g Specifications The phones will likely run on Android 11 based One UI 3.0 and has a micro SD card slot for storage expansion. The Galaxy A52 5G is likely powered by the Qualcomm Snapd...

Tik Tok prohibited in Pakistan for immoral content and peddling vulgarity, by Peshawar High Court. Peshawar high court prohibits short-video platform for peddling vulgarity, immoral and objectionable content Peshawar HC says Tik Tok will remain shut till company corporate with PTA on immoral content Tiktok App banned in Pakistan for the second time. Last year in October PTA had blocked the Chinese video-sharing app. However, Ten days later the PTA overturned its decision after it was told by TikTok that the app would Block all Accounts repeatedly involved in spreading obscenity and immorality. The journalist and commentators Najam khan said that tiktok not banned because of immoral content, but because tiktokers are pingun of the great leader The social network has faced numerous hurdles around the world recently. In January, HC Find that Videos uploaded on tiktok are not acceptable For Pakistani society. recently the app has been installed by over 40Million times in Pakistan. The regu...

Netflix to launch Rs 299 plan in India. Netflix will charge Rs 299 a month for a “Mobile+ plan”. According to an Economic Times report, Netflix in India has brought this new entry-level plan on a pilot basis.  Netflix has named this plan ‘Mobile +’. Currently, this plan is in the testing period. In this period, Netflix will charge Rs 299 per month for this plan. Netflix is ​​trying to increase its user base with this cheap plan. New Netflix Mobile+ plan, allows users to stream content on just one device at a time. However the Mobile+ plan allows users to stream on a computer/laptop as well in phone and tablets. Spokesperson of Netflix told to BGR India “We launched the mobile plan in India to make it easier for Netflix. We want to see if members like the added choice Mobile+ brings. We will only roll it out long-term if they do get positive response.Netflix had fewer than half a million subscribers. Today, it has 203.66 million paying members. And the company’s ma...

Apple takes a forward step in iPhone manufacturing in India, and giving a boost in ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’. Apple might soon start iPhone 12 production in India. Apple confirms local manufacturing of  IPhone 12 in India soon. Currently apple is producing 6 products in India iPhoneSE, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7,iPhone XR, and iPhone11 in India APPLE iPhone 12 is the 7th model to be manufactured in India. Apple has confirmed that it will start manufacturing IPhone 12 in India. The company is said to manufacture iPhone 12 at Foxconn’s facility in Tamil Nadu. APPLE contracts manufacturers have a deal to produce “ upto $ 40billion worth of smartphones” in India, With the local production of iPhone will get benefit of decreas on the 22% import taxes and create new job opportunities for locals in India The Apple company is doubling its market share in India in this Quarter, apple has shipped over 1.5 Million iPhones units in India. The iPhones currently producing in the Narasapura plant located i...

Mozilla blocking third-party cookies Total cookie protection is also known under the technical term state partitioning is supposed to prevent cross-site cookie tracking probably the most common method for web tracking. To better understand what has changed. Let’s look at how cookies were managed before, When you browsing the web, Visited websites can store cookies in the browser which are mostly used for saving logins and settings. When the same advertising network has ads embedded on multiple websites. They can set and read their cookies on each of those websites and therefore collect a list of sites that each browser (of course User) has accessed in the past. This easy tracking method was partially made harder over time by, for example, blocking third-party cookies, but blocking all third-party cookies can break some websites with legitimate users like single sign-on services from Google or Facebook Or embedded content like tweets. That’s why Firefox doesn’t block al...

Indian users are not receiving OTP’s, other transactional, promotional and notification messages are also affected. OTP and SMS Notifications not working telemarketing companies are heavily affected. Bulk SMS service provider are facing high rate of message delivery failure. All company or service providers using SMS based OTP or transactional SMS for notifying users are facing this problem. Users are not able to order foods from food delivery apps many bank users are unable to complete their online payment because OTP is not delivered to their registered mobile even some govt related services are also heavily affected by this. There is some reports that Indian government COVID vaccination registration app COVAXIN is also affected. Users are complaining on Twitter and Facebook that they are not receiving OPT’s and notifications. And we have come to know these all issues are because of TRAI has made DLT registration mandatory for telemarketing and every service provider compa...

WIPRO acquires CAPCO for 1.45 billion dollar. This acquisition will help WIPRO expand business in Europe and Asia. Wipro announced acquisition of London based consulting firm Capco from $1. 45 billions. This acquisition will make Wipro one among the most important end-to end global consulting, technology and transformation service provider to the banking and financial services industry. And this will help have access to 30 new large BFSI clients. New clients from banking, and insurances. This will increase Wipro margin 2% in first year and it will improve in future due to revenue and cost efficiency . Wipro believes there are significant synergies to be realized through cross-selling. This is Wipro’s largest acquisition ever, will also give the Indian tech services giant a strong consulting footprint. The company can now patriciate in large transformational deals given consulting expertise. And more importantly its signals more aggressive go-to-market approach for Wipro. Wipro aims to...

WhatsApp is rolling out support for voice and video calling to its desktop app, the Facebook-owned messaging service said Thursday. Like WhatsApp’s mobile app, voice and video calls on the desktop equivalent are end-to-end encrypted, ensuring only the people conversing have access to the contents of a call. As it stands, one important difference on desktop from the mobile experience is that, Only one-to-one calling is currently supported, although WhatsApp says they will soon add group voice and video calling to desktop in upcoming months after testing this one to one calling feature. It’s supported on desktop version for now but, support for voice and video calls is not being extended to WhatsApp Web, the browser version of the WhatsApp. Like the 100 billion messages that WhatsApp processes on its platform each day, voice and video calls are also end-to-end encrypted, it said. A user need a WhatsApp account in mobile app in order to use it in desktop a user can not use only...

Cyber security researchers have uncovered a Campaign of attacks by Chinese hackers targeted to Tibetan activists via a malicious new Firefox extension. Allegedly Chinese state-sponsored hacking group TA413 The Crusade was targeted against Tibetan dissidents and at its core implemented a felonious Firefox plug-in spread by an email address known for impersonating the Dalai Lama himself. The reason why Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups might want to Target. Ins is obvious. China controls Tibetans, The Tibetans, aren’t happy about it? Thus Tibetan dissident groups exist. And as you can imagine the Chinese States really doesn’t like them. TA413 is a hacking group aligned with Chinese Communist party interests. If it’s not directly State controlled. There isn’t much out there about TA413, but they’ve been linked to the lucky cat and Exile rats malware exonerate It’s all started a few weeks ago when Tibetan organizations started receiving phishing emai...

China based cyber criminals or maybe state sponsored Chinese hackers are targeting Indian power grid just to show that they can. Investigation by multiple online security company has found, that the campaign conducted by a China-linked threat activity group RedEcho targeting the Indian power sector. The attack was identified through a combination of large-scale automated network traffic analytics and expert analysis. Who are these Chinese Hackers? These attacks were done using ShadowPad, which is one of the largest known supply-chain attacks, according to cybersecurity firm  Kaspersky . It is a obscured background malware, which hides inside legit software. Once activated, it allows attackers to access the victim system in order to install more malicious software or steal important data. On October 12, a grid failure in Mumbai resulted in massive power outages, trains were stopped on tracks, causing covid hospitals to run on emergency power backups and hitting the stuttering econom...

OPPO RENO5 F HAS A DISTINCT DESIGN AND A NICE SITE OF SPECIFICATIONS The Reno5 F probably has an 6.4 inches, 98.9 cm2 OLED display with an in-display fingerprint scanner. After all, the power key is protruding from the right-hand side. The volume keys probably are placed on the other side. An OLED panel will not be a first for the Reno5 series. After all, this is a premium mid-range smartphone lineup from Oppo. The big icing on the cake of Reno phones is that they are cheaper than other premium smartphones from Oppo. As specification’s mentioned in comparegadget website It may have quad camera (48mp, 8mp, 2mp 2mp), and 16mp front selfie camera. with LED flash, HDR, panorama, video capture at 4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60/120fps. It may come with 128GB 6GB RAM, 128GB 8GB RAM variant. with 4310 mAh battery capacity. Compare this gadget with your device list on your wish list at comparegadget

The highly-sophisticated supply chain attack ever, Which targeted SolarWinds may be result of a Intern’s poor choice of password. Current and former top executives of the Texas-based software services SolarWinds are blaming a company intern for a critical lapse in password security that apparently went unnoticed for years. The said password “solarwinds123” of a intern was originally believed to have been publicly accessible via a GitHub repository since 17, June 2018, before the misconfiguration was addressed on 22, November 2019. In a hearing before the House Committees on SolarWinds on Friday, CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna testified that the password had been in use as early as 2017. Till date, at least nine govt agencies and 100 big private sector companies have been breached in what’s being described as one of the most sophisticated and well-planned supply-chain hack that involved injecting the malicious implant into the Orion Software Platform with the goal of ...

The government of West Bengal an Indian state govt website exposed the test result of millions of people who took Covid-19 test. The website is part of govt mass testing program and the system works like this. They will send the sms to patient with the url to see their test results which contained the base64 encoded unique autoincremented number which is unique for every test which can be guessed by anyone. Anyone with basic knowledge about base64 encoding can change that parameters and can see all the test result listed on website which supposed to be visible to only patient. The result contain name, age, gender, address and test result negative/positive. Govt has taken site offline since end of February and currently it’s offline.