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Ransomware attacks have long been a major cybersecurity issue for organisations around the world, affecting computer networks running critical infrastructure, hospitals, businesses and more. Some of the most significant ransomware events of the past year have hit targets in the United States, including the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which restricted gas supplies for large parts of the country – and resulted in a ransom payment of millions of dollars being paid to cyber criminals....

In Summary A new member has been added to the Redmi Prime family. The Redmi 10 Prime comes as a successor of the Redmi 9 Prime which was launched last year. While the Redmi 9 Prime had focused mainly on battery performance and a tall display, the new Prime has also added some camera muscle to the mix as it is the first Redmi device in India to come with a 50-megapixel main sensor....

This year has come full circle. In Q1 we all drooled over the Snapdragon 600 powered HTC One and Galaxy S4. In Q3 the internet collectivity foamed at the mouth over all the new Snapdragon 800 devices hitting the market. But today, all anyone can seem to talk about is the budget market. The $180 Moto G shocked people, coming in at nearly $200 less than the Nexus 5, yet delivering more than adequate performance for most people....

The press release doesn’t specify how many of the phones will be returned to the wild, but Samsung confirms it will be using some returned devices as “refurbished phones or rental phones.” Samsung offers a leasing program that lets you upgrade to a new device after a year of payments, but Samsung doesn’t say whether it would be selling refurbished Note7s to these customers. It specifies that “applicability is dependent upon consultations with regulatory authorities carriers as well as due consideration of local dem....

Koh Dong-jin, head of Samsung’s mobile communication business, remarked at the launch of the Galaxy Note 7 earlier this week that the Korean company expects its sales to exceed those of its predecessor. The executive, however, did not provide any public sales figure or target. Considering that Samsung launched the Galaxy Note 5 in Europe more than 4 months after its unveiling in the United States, it will not be surprising to see the Note 7 surpass its predecessor in terms of sales....

The OnePlus 2 sold better than the OnePlus, and right now the company says it has 800,000 current users in its online forum, so obviously they’re working on something new. According to a report from CNET, following an interview with OnePlus’ co-founder, Carl Pei, the OnePlus 3 will be launching “at the end of the second quarter” of this year. That means the new flagship from the company will be available, in some capacity, by June....

The OnePlus 7T and OnePlus 7T Pro launch is just a week ahead. As expected new leaks are trickling in as we near the launch date. A new leak reveals OnePlus 7T and OnePlus 7T Pro specifications and gives you a much a needed sneak peek of the upcoming device. OnePlus 7T Features and Specifications OnePlus 7T is expected to come equipped with a 6.55-inch AMOLED display with HDR10+ and In-display fingerprint sensor....

A group of researchers from Princeton University created the open-source 25-core processor known as Piton. The developers of Piton wish to build a computer consisting of 200,000 cores or core powered by 8000 64 – bit Piton Chips. It could effectively reduce the energy usage while boosting the processing speed. The Design is based on OpenSPARC, a transformed version of the processor OpenSPARC T1 Oracle. The researchers chose the architecture SPARC used by Oracle in its high – performance servers that are designed to operate with databases....

In a bid to take on the Jet Black iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus and to rejuvenate the sales of its 2016 flagship the Galaxy S7, Samsung will be introduced a ‘Pearl Black’ variant of the handset in South Korea on December 9. The Pearl Black Galaxy had previously leaked in live images thereby confirming its existence. The Pearl Black Galaxy S7 looks very similar to the Black Onyx variant of the handset that Samsung has been selling since day one....

With it, the players will be able to earn loyalty points and digital collectibles (not NFTs). Besides, PlayStation Plus members might get more benefits from it. Take a look at to complete details below. PlayStation’s Loyalty Program To Arrive On October 5th for US Users Today this program has already been released in its first region, Asia, including Japan, and the company has planned to roll it out in various regions week after week....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, also known by the acronym PUBG, is the most played game on Steam. It reaches 2 million simultaneous players every day and, due to its popularity, is a constant target of cheaters or hackers. However, now apart from all these things, the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is still betting on the sports side of its battle royale and has decided to move this bet to its mobile version, PUBG Mobile....

A French security company VUPEN , was the first one to bag a Mac, as they cracked a 64-bit Safari which performed a disk read-write operation even though it was sandboxed, within 5 secs of visiting the exploit website. This hack was not due to Webkit, the rendering engine in both Safari and Chrome. The details of the hack won’t be available till the Apple is able to release a patch which fixes this security hole....

Starting with the name itself, the Snapdragon 888 is a successor to the Snapdragon 865, which is the current top-of-the-line chipset powering a majority of flagship devices out there, and a successor to the Snapdragon 855. And therefore, going by Qualcomm’s naming trend for the past few years, one expected the successor to the Snapdragon 865 to be called SD875. However, Qualcomm seems to have approached the naming with a different headspace this time around....

Snapdragon 888 is Qualcomm’s flagship processor. It powers popular flagship Android smartphones, including OnePlus 9, Galaxy S21 and more. A new leak reveals specifications and other important information about Snapdragon 888’s successor. Popular tipster Evan Blass has revealed specifications about the new Qualcomm SM8450, which is expected to succeed Snapdragon 888. He claims that Qualcomm’s upcoming chipset will be manufactured using a 4nm process. For the sake of context, the Snapdragon 888 is based on a 5nm process....

Realme Buds Air: AirPod feels in a Realme box The minute you lay your eyes on the Buds Air box you will know that the product comes from Realme. Dipped in the brand color, yellow, the Buds Air come in a square-shaped box. Pull the lid up and you will find the case Realme Buds Air inside. We received the white unit of the device, which reminded us of an awful lot of Apple’s Airpods....

But every so often, a developer or team of developers takes Fedora to yet another level of usability. Such is the case with RisiOS, which is a Seattle-based Linux distribution that adds just enough “extra” to make this a special kind of distribution. First off, RisiOS uses the GNOME desktop, and, for the most part, it’s pretty vanilla. You won’t find a Dash To Dock extension installed to modify the default desktop UI....

Just as 2012 was the year of 720p flagship phones and 2013 was the year of 1080p flagship phone, this year will be all about “2K” phones. I say “2K” because technically it’s 1440p, but marketing people seem hell bent on getting people to say “2K”, so that’s that. As I was saying, you can expect Samsung, Sony, LG, HTC, everyone really, to announce a 2K phone during the next few months....

In the latest development of the court case initiated by human rights and consumer rights organizations, the São Paulo Court of Justice maintained an earlier decision that ordered the interruption of the roll-out in March. The organizations are calling for the suspension of the use of “massive and indiscriminate” facial recognition technology, which is part of a surveillance system and would impact over 4 million people who travel in the metro system on a daily basis....

Smartphones today remind me of computers in the 90s. By that I mean every successive generation blows the previous generation out of the water. While it may be hard to believe, there was a time when buying a new computer every 12 months meant you’d get a substantially better machine. And likewise, look at what changed under the hood between the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy S4 in the span of a single year....

Samsung today unveiled the Galaxy S10 series — its flagship smartphone lineup for 2019. The lineup comprises of three different phones, the Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10, and the Galaxy S10+. All three phones feature the same design language and only differ externally from their camera cutouts and screen size. They all feature an Infinity-O punch-hole display at the front, an aluminum chassis, and a glass panel at the rear. The dynamic AMOLED panels on the three Galaxy S10 variants can reach brightness levels of 1,200 nits....