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WhatsApp Protect IP address in calls feature is now rolling out to users on iOS and Android, as a way to enhance user privacy when making and receiving calls on the messaging service. The feature will hide your IP address by relaying your calls through the company's servers instead of directly connecting to the other party and revealing your IP ad...

WhatsApp is currently beta testing a feature that will allow users to pin chats at the top of group chats. The Meta-owned chat app is also working on adding a new username selection tool and an option to hide IP addresses while making calls on the chat application.

Police received information on Wednesday regarding a fake call centre operating at H-N Block, Krishan Vihar, Sultanpuri, a senior police officer said.

The IP addresses of ETH stakers are visible after the network upgrade to Shanghai was completed on Ethereum blockchain, raising privacy issues. Justin Drake, a researcher in the Ethereum Foundation has sounded an alert around the same. The researcher has predicted that solo ETH stakers could soon get special airdrops, which would probably not be di...

The Mumbai police during investigation traced the IP address of the tweet to Surat in Gujarat, following which a team was sent there and the student was arrested on March 27, the official said.

Microsoft Edge browser’s new version has reportedly been under testing for nearly a year. It is now being said to be rolling out with a built-in Secure Network VPN service. However, only a few users have the access to the latest stable version of Microsoft Edge. The update, only available in insider versions till now, might be scheduled for an im...

Mumbai Police have traced a 25-year-old man and saved him from ending his life, following an alert received from a US law enforcement agency that a person was searching on Google about 'how to commit suicide without pain', an official said on Thursday. The man, a resident of Jogeshwari area in Mumbai and working as an IT engineer with a private com...

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.

The Delhi Police has written to CBI seeking details from Interpol about the IP addresses of email IDs from China and Hong Kong in connection with its probe into the AIIMS server attack case, officials said on Sunday.

Google defeated a lawsuit filed in a US court on Monday, that accused the company of collecting data of users who had opted out of sharing web activity on the browser. The lawsuit had alleged that Google tracked IP addresses and browsing history, even if users did not have a Google account, or if they had chosen not to synchronise their Google acco...

The US Treasury in October thwarted a cyberattack perpetrated by Killnet, a pro-Russian hacking group. The incident occurred a couple of days before similar attacks from Killnet on U.S. financial services firms. Meanwhile, the IP addresses used for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack were quickly shared with financial services firms, in...

Facebook parent Meta has reportedly filed a motion to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the company had violated the privacy of its users by collecting its location without their permission for $37.5 million (roughly Rs. 300 crore). Facebook was accused in 2018 of collecting users' data including their location, based on their IP addresses, even w...

Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo has been convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia, after he failed to register as an agent and accessed private data on users critical of the kingdom’s government. The FBI’s complaint had alleged that Abouammo and Saudi citizens Ali Alzabarah and Ahmed Al-Mutairi used their positions to access confidential Twi...

NordVPN and Private Internet Access (PIA) are set to remove physical virtual private network (VPN) servers located in India as a result of the government's directive that is coming into force on June 28. Earlier this month, ExpressVPN and Surfshark also announced their plans to remove physical VPN services in the country.

Indian cybersecurity rules due to come into force later this month will create an "environment of fear rather than trust", IAMAI has said

WhatsApp Protect IP address in calls feature is now rolling out to users on iOS and Android, as a way to enhance user privacy when making and receiving calls on the messaging service. The feature will hide your IP address by relaying your calls through the company's servers instead of directly connecting to the other party and revealing your IP ad...

WhatsApp is currently beta testing a feature that will allow users to pin chats at the top of group chats. The Meta-owned chat app is also working on adding a new username selection tool and an option to hide IP addresses while making calls on the chat application.

Police received information on Wednesday regarding a fake call centre operating at H-N Block, Krishan Vihar, Sultanpuri, a senior police officer said.

The IP addresses of ETH stakers are visible after the network upgrade to Shanghai was completed on Ethereum blockchain, raising privacy issues. Justin Drake, a researcher in the Ethereum Foundation has sounded an alert around the same. The researcher has predicted that solo ETH stakers could soon get special airdrops, which would probably not be di...

The Mumbai police during investigation traced the IP address of the tweet to Surat in Gujarat, following which a team was sent there and the student was arrested on March 27, the official said.

Microsoft Edge browser’s new version has reportedly been under testing for nearly a year. It is now being said to be rolling out with a built-in Secure Network VPN service. However, only a few users have the access to the latest stable version of Microsoft Edge. The update, only available in insider versions till now, might be scheduled for an im...

Mumbai Police have traced a 25-year-old man and saved him from ending his life, following an alert received from a US law enforcement agency that a person was searching on Google about 'how to commit suicide without pain', an official said on Thursday. The man, a resident of Jogeshwari area in Mumbai and working as an IT engineer with a private com...

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.

The Delhi Police has written to CBI seeking details from Interpol about the IP addresses of email IDs from China and Hong Kong in connection with its probe into the AIIMS server attack case, officials said on Sunday.

Google defeated a lawsuit filed in a US court on Monday, that accused the company of collecting data of users who had opted out of sharing web activity on the browser. The lawsuit had alleged that Google tracked IP addresses and browsing history, even if users did not have a Google account, or if they had chosen not to synchronise their Google acco...

The US Treasury in October thwarted a cyberattack perpetrated by Killnet, a pro-Russian hacking group. The incident occurred a couple of days before similar attacks from Killnet on U.S. financial services firms. Meanwhile, the IP addresses used for the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack were quickly shared with financial services firms, in...

Facebook parent Meta has reportedly filed a motion to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the company had violated the privacy of its users by collecting its location without their permission for $37.5 million (roughly Rs. 300 crore). Facebook was accused in 2018 of collecting users' data including their location, based on their IP addresses, even w...

Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo has been convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia, after he failed to register as an agent and accessed private data on users critical of the kingdom’s government. The FBI’s complaint had alleged that Abouammo and Saudi citizens Ali Alzabarah and Ahmed Al-Mutairi used their positions to access confidential Twi...

NordVPN and Private Internet Access (PIA) are set to remove physical virtual private network (VPN) servers located in India as a result of the government's directive that is coming into force on June 28. Earlier this month, ExpressVPN and Surfshark also announced their plans to remove physical VPN services in the country.

Indian cybersecurity rules due to come into force later this month will create an "environment of fear rather than trust", IAMAI has said