Your snapshots are, quite literally, the keys to your private life. Your gallery holds your future plans, financial secrets, cat pictures, and sometimes even things you’d never share with anyone. But how often do you truly think about protecting those images? We hope that ever since you heard about the SparkCat cross-platform stealer, you’ve been…
AN URGENT warning has been issued over a new mobile attack that allows hackers to hijack your bank accounts. A dangerous new version of malware, or malicious software, allows criminals to see inside your banking apps and steal your money. 1 A new version malware allows criminals to hack into your banking appsCredit: Getty The…
A new version of the Android malware Godfather creates isolated virtual environments on mobile devices to steal account details and transactions from legitimate banking apps. These malicious apps run within a controlled virtual environment on the device. This enables real-time spying, theft of login credentials, and manipulation of transactions, while the visual display appears completely…
A mainland Chinese bank in Hong Kong is investigating unauthorised transactions on the Faster Payment System (FPS) involving one of its clients, the Post has learned, with experts saying breaches on the widely used platform are uncommon and may involve hacking. A client of the China Construction Bank (Asia) in Hong Kong told the Post…
Perplexity CEO and cofounder Aravind Srinivas. Associated Press In February, days before the Super Bowl, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of AI search startup Perplexity, gave users a sparkly incentive to install its app. He posted on X that instead of buying a Super Bowl ad, the company would give $1 million to one lucky user who…
If you’re taking your laptop away from the safe environs of your home or office desk and still want to stay online, you’ve got a couple of choices (assuming it doesn’t have cellular connectivity built in): hunt around for a Wi-Fi network you can connect to or run a Wi-Fi hotspot from your phone. Running…
ChatGPT We all love a clean house, but what about your digital life? Clutter builds up fast: old contacts, forgotten files, 127 versions of the same photo and a desktop that’s basically an overflowing junk drawer. That doesn’t just hog storage, it slows down your tech and drains your focus. Let’s tackle it, step-by-step. I’m…
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has issued a crucial warning to iPhone and Android users, highlighting the risks associated with secure messaging apps. While these apps are generally secure, their safety is only as strong as the user’s behavior. Millions of users unknowingly make simple mistakes that can expose their phones to attacks, News.Az…
US technology giant Google moved to assure developers in China on Friday that its Android mobile operating system (OS) will remain open source after a change to how it publishes its code raised concerns that developers may lose access. Google, owned by Mountain View, California-based Alphabet, sent a notice to its China-based partners to assure…
Screenshot: Opal Opal is like a mix of One Sec App, Freedom.to and BePresent. You can start focus sessions that block select apps and websites for your desired period of time. The sessions have three levels of difficulty. You have your “normal” sessions where you can take breaks or leave the sessions early, and you…