Smishing Attacks See A Sharp Incline In The Days Leading Up To Black Friday And Cyber Monday

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday almost upon us, smishing attacks have reportedly increased at an alarming rate, being double the amount that were recorded in the same time period last year. Smishing attacks, for those unaware, are essentially phishing attacks that are conducted via SMS (thus...

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These Black Friday Deals Might Make You Lose Your Credit Card Information

Black Friday is every consumer’s dream come true, and it has been known to be every retailer’s nightmare as well because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up causing a lot of commotion and panic. Lots of people are understandably going to want to at the very...

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Russian government calls out Apple and other tech firms to open representative offices within the country

Apple is one of the most widely used and top mobile device manufacturer in the world. The company has reached such heights because of its tendency to cater to even the minute problems of its users. However, there is one place where Apple has lacked and it is not providing representative centers in...

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Reddit Is Shutting Down DubSmash, Improving Its Video Editing Tool In The Process

Reddit has announced that it will be shutting down DubSmash for good in 2022, with the latter’s video making tools being integrated into the former. DubSmash may not have gained a lot of success in the West, with TikTok filling out the lip synching niche just as well, if not better. However, the...

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Apple Is Suing Israeli Company NSO Group Over TheLatter’s Selling Governments Software That Can Hack Into Consumer Devices

Apple has recently sued an Israel based tech company that helps governments hack into the former’s devices, bypassing the security that iOS and MacOS has become famous for. Do I like major multi-billion tech companies? No, not at all, they’re contributing to a lot of what makes late stage...

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Instagram’s New Feature Helps You Verify Account Without a Phone

Most social media platforms make it so that you need to provide a phone number or at the very least some kind of an email address so that you can go about creating your account. It’s considered important because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up preventing...

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New Data From Google Shows Android 10 is the Most Popular OS Version Among Smartphone Users

It’s not often that Google releases data regarding Android’s distribution numbers, but whenever it does it reveals quite a bit about how users are interacting with Android OS in the first place. It’s been three years since the last dashboard was released in 2018, but it seems that Google has waited...

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