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This isn’t just a catchy headline, there is a whole different world of hackers who are waiting for small vulnerabilities in smartphone technology to hack into your most personal device.

The advancement of smartphone technology provides more and more conveniences but sometimes these might come along with few security concerns. Unless you have the iPhone 11 which did away with the fingerprint as a biometric scanner, it is possible that you are relying on your finger image to unlock your device and some of the apps within it. Recently there have been many tests and cases wherein hackers / normal users have been able to crack into a device without requiring the use of original fingerprint.

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Government blocks 43 Chinese apps from being accessed in India.

Dhruv Shingeri

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Tuesday blocked 43 Chinese mobile apps from accessing by users in India, under section 69A of the Information Technology Act.

As reasoned in the past blocking of Apps in June 2020 and September 2020, the said action is taken based on inputs that these apps were engaging in activities prejudicial to India’s sovereignty, integrity, defence, security and public order.

Technology

50 Worst Passwords List. If you use any, change it NOW!

Anika Gupta

Passwords were first used by the military in ancient Rome to differentiate between friend and foe. We have come a long way from there and the term is most widely used to protect one’s digital accounts from intruders (hackers). The other change is that unlike the past where military generals use to create a password or passphrase, now the onus of creating a password is on each individual.

As will be evident after looking at the list below, despite a lot of help available on the internet, not everyone is capable of creating strong passwords. Nordpass compiled a list of 200 most popular passwords of 2019 and they looked into 500 million passwords for the same. Quite an impressive number, however, the results are all but impressive. Have a look at it yourself.

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Top 10 intelligence agencies in the world

Gautam Singh

All countries use intelligence agencies to thwart away external threats and they’re known to use all possible means to achieve their means including espionage, covert operations and a network of informers.

Over decades these intelligence agencies have built a reputation of being notoriously effective, aggressive and secretive, reminiscent of James Bond Movies. Here’s a lit of top 10 intelligence agencies around the world.

Technology

How safe is Whatsapp?

Nikita Syal

With over 2 billion users, WhatsApp is one of the biggest and popular instant messaging apps. More than 65B messages are shared through this channel on a daily basis. It would not be wrong to presume it to be the second biggest social media platform after Facebook.

WhatsApp was founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton sold their messaging app to Facebook in 2014 for $19 Billion and joined the Board of Directors. But both of the co-founders of the app left the parent company i.e. Facebook just after 4 years of it being taken over. The reasons for such an action or step would have been considerably serious. There are multiple reasons as to why we all should reconsider using WhatsApp to share our personal details and sensitive data.