Tech Solutions By Prabhakar Das

Build a super-safe computer you can take anywhere For those looking for the ultimate in portability and security in their computing, there's the option of running a system straight from a USB drive you can carry around in your pocket. Plug this into a spare USB port on a Windows or macOS computer, and the flash drive acts as the storage and the software of the system while borrowing everything else—display, keyboard, processor, graphics—from the machine it's connected to. Shut down the computer, pull out the USB drive, and it's as if you were never there. It's an appealing option for those who value their privacy, as well as those who spend a lot of time moving between offices. For the purposes of this guide, we're going to take a look at Tails. It was developed as a way to avoid surveillance, censorship, advertising, and viruses, and it comes with a stack of useful, privacy-focused software applications. It's also free to use, and all you need to pr...

Although the PhoneSpy-infected apps have not made their way to the Google Play Store, people are still somehow falling into the trap and downloading them. HIGHLIGHTS Researchers have warned people against the PhoneSpy spyware. PhoneSpy can find its way to your phone outside your knowledge. The apps that carry it look very legitimate, making people hard to identify them. Anew spyware may be targeting your Android phone and trying to steal your personal data, researchers have found. PhoneSpy is a new spyware campaign that has most South Korean users of Android devices in clutches right now, but it will only be a matter of time till it spreads elsewhere. Researchers have noted that this spyware does not leverage existing vulnerabilities of a device but hides in plain sight on it by posing as a legitimate app, such as one for yoga instructions or streaming videos. The biggest risk that PhoneSpy could be posing to your Android phone is by stealthily uninstalling mobi...

If you are using Google Chrome browser on your laptop or desktop, you need to update it immediately, as hackers can exploit the bug and steal your data. Billions of Google Chrome users have been urged to update their web browsers without delay to avoid any attacks by hackers. Several threats have forced Google to issue a warning and roll out an update for the browser. Google Chrome gave this information to the users  However, this is not the first time that Google Chrome users have received warnings from Google to update their web browsers to avoid any cyber attacks. Similar issues were discovered in October and September. However, what makes the latest warning even more alarming is that two issues discovered by Google's cyber team have also been given a dangerous 'zero-day' rating. Google has confirmed in its blog post about the Chrome update that it is aware that the CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003 codename issues exist. Google said in a statement that ...