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Nothing Fixed CMF Watch App Vulnerability That Could Expose Email Addresses, Passwords: Report
Nothing has partially fixed a security vulnerability that affected the CMF Watch app on Android phones that was related to the encryption of user information. The vulnerability could also expose email addresses and passwords used to sign up for an account — these issues have come to light weeks after Nothing Chats was pulled from the Play Store a...
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Nothing Chats App Lets Users Send iMessage From Android Smartphone
Nothing Chats, a new app introduced by the UK-based tech company today, will now blur the lines between iMessage and Android SMS with a blue bubble for text messages. Nothing has shared that it has added iMessage compatibility to Nothing Phone 2, letting users of the smartphone send messages that will be displayed in iMessage-like blue bubbles.
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Digi Yatra Data Stored on Passenger Devices and Not in Centralised Storage, Minister Says
Digi Yatra, the biometric boarding system using facial recognition technology (FRT) has no central storage of passengers' Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, according to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA). The data is stored in the passenger's own phone in the Digi Yatra secure wallet, Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M...
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LastPass Says Hackers Stole Customer Data, Encrypted Passwords in Breach That Occured in August
LastPass, a password management service, announced on Thursday that hackers stole encrypted copies of customer passwords and other sensitive data such as billing addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses. The announcement is the latest update from a breach that occurred in August.
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New Mobile Banking Virus Prowling In Indian Cyberspace
A new mobile banking 'Trojan' virus -- SOVA -- which can stealthily encrypt an Android phone for ransom and is hard to uninstall is targeting Indian customers, the country's federal cyber security agency said in its latest advisory.
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Pegasus Spyware Used to Hack Phones of Salvadoran Journalists Investigating Alleged State Corruption: Report
The cell phones of nearly three dozen journalists and activists in El Salvador, several of whom were investigating alleged state corruption, have been hacked since mid-2020 and implanted with sophisticated spyware typically available only to governments and law enforcement, a Canadian research institute said it has found.
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WhatsApp Multi-Device Support Starts Rolling Out for Beta Testers, Works Even When Your Phone Is Inactive
WhatsApp has started rolling out the much-awaited multi-device capability for a “small group of users” who are already a part of its beta programme. It will allow users to connect WhatsApp on up to four non-phone devices simultaneously.
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Researchers Explain How Locked Android, iOS Phone Encryption Gets Bypassed
New research conducted by Maximilian Zinkus, Tushar Jois, and Matthew Green, of Johns Hopkins University, shows our phones aren’t as secure as we think. In their analysis, they found that Apple does have a powerful and compelling set of security and privacy controls, backed and empowered by strong encryption. However, critical lack in coverage du...
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OnePlus 8T Battery Specifications Confirmed, Warp Charge 65 Announced Ahead of October 14 Launch
OnePlus 8T will come with a 4,500mAh battery and support Warp Charge 65, OnePlus confirmed through a post on its community forums. This will be an upgrade when comparing with the OnePlus 8 as that model debuted in April with a 4,300mAh battery that supported Warp Charge 30T.
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Zoom to Offer End-to-End Encryption for All Users, Trial to Begin in July
Zoom Video Communications will offer its free and paying users end-to-end encryption for video calls and launch a trial version in July, the video conferencing provider said on Wednesday.
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Samsung Galaxy A Quantum With Quantum Encryption Technology Launched
Samsung and SK Telecom of South Korea launched quantum encryption technology equipped Galaxy A Quantum. The phone is claimed to have the world's smallest quantum random number generator (QRNG) chipset that enhances data security on the device.
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Elon Musk Taunts WhatsApp, Says the Platform Comes With Free Phone Hacking Risk
Elon Musk had taken a jibe at WhatsApp in the wake of the highly publicised Jeff Bezos phone-hacking scandal, claiming that the platform comes with a free phone hacking risk.
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Jeff Bezos Phone Hack: Facebook Blames iOS for the Hacking
Facebook has blamed Apple's operating system for the hacking of Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' phone, saying WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is unhackable.
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Apple 'Has to Help' on Police Access to Encrypted Phones, Trump Says
President Donald Trump weighed in Wednesday on Apple's dispute with the US government over giving law enforcement access to encrypted iPhones, saying the company "has to help."
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Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos' Phone Said to Have Been Hacked by Saudi Crown Prince
Jeff Bezos’s mobile phone was hacked following an exchange between the Amazon.com Inc. chief executive officer and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman on encrypted messaging service WhatsApp, according to two people familiar with an analysis of the breach.
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Nothing Fixed CMF Watch App Vulnerability That Could Expose Email Addresses, Passwords: Report
Nothing has partially fixed a security vulnerability that affected the CMF Watch app on Android phones that was related to the encryption of user information. The vulnerability could also expose email addresses and passwords used to sign up for an account — these issues have come to light weeks after Nothing Chats was pulled from the Play Store a...
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Nothing Chats App Lets Users Send iMessage From Android Smartphone
Nothing Chats, a new app introduced by the UK-based tech company today, will now blur the lines between iMessage and Android SMS with a blue bubble for text messages. Nothing has shared that it has added iMessage compatibility to Nothing Phone 2, letting users of the smartphone send messages that will be displayed in iMessage-like blue bubbles.
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Digi Yatra Data Stored on Passenger Devices and Not in Centralised Storage, Minister Says
Digi Yatra, the biometric boarding system using facial recognition technology (FRT) has no central storage of passengers' Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, according to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA). The data is stored in the passenger's own phone in the Digi Yatra secure wallet, Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M...
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LastPass Says Hackers Stole Customer Data, Encrypted Passwords in Breach That Occured in August
LastPass, a password management service, announced on Thursday that hackers stole encrypted copies of customer passwords and other sensitive data such as billing addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses. The announcement is the latest update from a breach that occurred in August.
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New Mobile Banking Virus Prowling In Indian Cyberspace
A new mobile banking 'Trojan' virus -- SOVA -- which can stealthily encrypt an Android phone for ransom and is hard to uninstall is targeting Indian customers, the country's federal cyber security agency said in its latest advisory.
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Pegasus Spyware Used to Hack Phones of Salvadoran Journalists Investigating Alleged State Corruption: Report
The cell phones of nearly three dozen journalists and activists in El Salvador, several of whom were investigating alleged state corruption, have been hacked since mid-2020 and implanted with sophisticated spyware typically available only to governments and law enforcement, a Canadian research institute said it has found.
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WhatsApp Multi-Device Support Starts Rolling Out for Beta Testers, Works Even When Your Phone Is Inactive
WhatsApp has started rolling out the much-awaited multi-device capability for a “small group of users” who are already a part of its beta programme. It will allow users to connect WhatsApp on up to four non-phone devices simultaneously.
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Researchers Explain How Locked Android, iOS Phone Encryption Gets Bypassed
New research conducted by Maximilian Zinkus, Tushar Jois, and Matthew Green, of Johns Hopkins University, shows our phones aren’t as secure as we think. In their analysis, they found that Apple does have a powerful and compelling set of security and privacy controls, backed and empowered by strong encryption. However, critical lack in coverage du...
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OnePlus 8T Battery Specifications Confirmed, Warp Charge 65 Announced Ahead of October 14 Launch
OnePlus 8T will come with a 4,500mAh battery and support Warp Charge 65, OnePlus confirmed through a post on its community forums. This will be an upgrade when comparing with the OnePlus 8 as that model debuted in April with a 4,300mAh battery that supported Warp Charge 30T.
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Zoom to Offer End-to-End Encryption for All Users, Trial to Begin in July
Zoom Video Communications will offer its free and paying users end-to-end encryption for video calls and launch a trial version in July, the video conferencing provider said on Wednesday.
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Samsung Galaxy A Quantum With Quantum Encryption Technology Launched
Samsung and SK Telecom of South Korea launched quantum encryption technology equipped Galaxy A Quantum. The phone is claimed to have the world's smallest quantum random number generator (QRNG) chipset that enhances data security on the device.
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Elon Musk Taunts WhatsApp, Says the Platform Comes With Free Phone Hacking Risk
Elon Musk had taken a jibe at WhatsApp in the wake of the highly publicised Jeff Bezos phone-hacking scandal, claiming that the platform comes with a free phone hacking risk.
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Jeff Bezos Phone Hack: Facebook Blames iOS for the Hacking
Facebook has blamed Apple's operating system for the hacking of Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' phone, saying WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is unhackable.
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Apple 'Has to Help' on Police Access to Encrypted Phones, Trump Says
President Donald Trump weighed in Wednesday on Apple's dispute with the US government over giving law enforcement access to encrypted iPhones, saying the company "has to help."
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Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos' Phone Said to Have Been Hacked by Saudi Crown Prince
Jeff Bezos’s mobile phone was hacked following an exchange between the Amazon.com Inc. chief executive officer and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman on encrypted messaging service WhatsApp, according to two people familiar with an analysis of the breach.
