Samsung Galaxy S21 battery performance has been tipped to improve over the Galaxy S20. The new flagship model is speculated to come in Snapdragon and Exynos variants (just like its predecessors) and both variants are tipped to get significant improvement in battery life. However, an earlier tipster had suggested that the Galaxy S21 — expected
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Microsoft on Thursday revealed that the threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack were able to gain access to a small number of internal accounts and escalate access inside its internal network. The “very sophisticated nation-state actor” used the unauthorized access to view, but not modify, the source code present in its repositories, the
Mi 11 Pro has been tipped to be in the works once again, as a reference of the phone has been spotted in the code of the MIUI Gallery app. According to a report, the code for the updated version of the app — version 2.2.17.18 — mentions the Mi 11 Pro under the system
Microsoft Surface Duo just got an update that brings bugs fixes and app optimisations as well as improvements, as spotted in an update on Google Play. The Microsoft Launcher update is now rolling out for Android users and brings along improvements such as opening the feed page in landscape and concurrently with another app, screen
Vivo Y20A has been launched in India as the latest smartphone offering from the company. The phone comes with a 6.51-inch display with a waterdrop-style notch and packs a large 5,000mAh battery. Vivo Y20A has been unveiled in two colour finishes and its sale is set to begin on January 2. The battery life on
Poco M2 has started receiving the MIUI 12 global stable update in India, according to users. The update brings the December 2020 Android security patch as well. The version number of the latest update is MIUI 12.0.1.0.QJRINXM. Other phones in the Poco range have already received the MIUI 12 update, including Poco X2, Poco M2
Threat actors have been discovered distributing a new credential stealer written in AutoHotkey (AHK) scripting language as part of an ongoing campaign that started early 2020. Customers of financial institutions in the US and Canada are among the primary targets for credential exfiltration, with a specific focus on banks such as Scotiabank, Royal Bank of
Realme Koi, aka Realme V15, specifications and live images have been leaked online. The new smartphone was recently teased to be part of an upcoming series from Realme that could also include a top-end model codenamed Realme Race. The latest revelation suggests that the Realme Koi could be a new mid-range phone in the series
Google has patched a bug in its feedback tool incorporated across its services that could be exploited by an attacker to potentially steal screenshots of sensitive Google Docs documents simply by embedding them in a malicious website. The flaw was discovered on July 9 by security researcher Sreeram KL, for which he was awarded $3133.70
Vivo Y31s has leaked online as an upcoming smartphone from the Chinese company. The online listing of the phone suggests key specifications including the presence of a new Snapdragon 4-series SoC with 5G support. The new SoC series from Qualcomm is due for the first quarter of 2021. Some images of the Vivo Y31s have
Lava has sent out an invitation for a January 7 event that will witness the launch of new smartphones from the Indian vendor. The Indian company has been teasing the launch since last week and today it has officially revealed that the upcoming smartphones will have “evolved and dynamic engineering.” The company has already listed
Xiaomi Mi 11 has now been officially unveiled as the company’s newest flagship phone — weeks after being a part of the rumour mill. The Mi 11 is also the first smartphone to debut with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC that was unveiled earlier this month and is expected to power a list of premium
Xiaomi may launch three foldable smartphones in 2021. Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC), shared the alleged development via Twitter. Earlier, Xiaomi has already been linked with a foldable smartphone to be in the works. Apart from Xiaomi, other players like Oppo and Samsung are also expected to be working on foldable
An authentication bypass vulnerability in the SolarWinds Orion software may have been leveraged by adversaries as zero-day to deploy the SUPERNOVA malware in target environments. According to an advisory published yesterday by the CERT Coordination Center, the SolarWinds Orion API that’s used to interface with all other Orion system monitoring and management products suffers from
Infinix has been launching new phones at a rather fast pace. We have recently seen new models in the Hot and the Note series and now there is a new smartphone called the Infinix Zero 8i. The slightly amusing name aside, the Zero 8i packs in some impressive specifications on paper. You get a MediaTek
The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) has warned of critical vulnerabilities in a low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck that, if weaponized, could allow remote attackers to run arbitrary commands and mount denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The four flaws affect Treck TCP/IP stack version 6.0.1.67 and earlier and were reported to the company
Oppo X Tom Ford slider smartphone, a new rollable smartphone concept, has leaked in images. In the images, the phone is seen to have a pull-up display panel that rolls in and out like a scroll. This hints that the company may be working on multiple concept phones with rollable displays. Last month, the company
21 people have been arrested across the UK as part of a nationwide cyber crackdown targeting customers of WeLeakInfo[.]com, a now-defunct online service that had been previously selling access to data hacked from other websites. The suspects used stolen personal credentials to commit further cyber and fraud offences, the NCA said. Of the 21 arrested—all
Mi 11 is all set to launch on Monday, December 28 and Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has now confirmed that the flagship phone’s retail box will not bundle a charger inside. Jun says that this move has been adopted to reach its environmental goals. While reducing the carbon footprint is a wise goal to have,
Citrix has issued an emergency advisory warning its customers of a security issue affecting its NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC) devices that attackers are abusing to launch amplified distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against several targets. “An attacker or bots can overwhelm the Citrix ADC [Datagram Transport Layer Security] network throughput, potentially leading to outbound bandwidth