Digital Diary

Be warned. The Department of Telecommunications has not announced any free internet for mobile users in the country till May 3. If you have received a message on  WhatsApp ,  Facebook ,or any other social media platforms which asks you to click on a link to get free internet, then don't just fall for it. The message is fake and given link is an absolute fraud. According to a fact check done by the Press information Bureau(PIB), this claim is wrong and is once again advising people to not fall for rumours. The rumour was busted by the official account of  PIB  Fact Check on Twitter. DOT has announced to provide free internet to all mobile users by May 3, 2020, to which one has to click on a given link. Fact: users claim is completely false, and the given link is fake. Please stay away from rumors and fraudsters." Rumors and online scams have gained traction during these times of coronavirus outbreak. Earlier this month, the State Bank Of India warned its customers

The email app on  Apple  iPhone may be at its Achilles heel against hackers and vulnerable to malware attacks, as per a report by the The Wall Street Journal. The report is based upon the claims of  cybersecurity firm  ZecOps that says that hackers have found a flaw in mail on  Apple iPhone . And the iPhone can be hacked without you having to tap on a link or downloading any file, essentially a "malware without input", claims ZecOps. To make such a surreptitious attack possible, hackers could send in a "malware without input", a breach which would be "virtually undetectable ". This malware would be in the form of a "specially designed message", claim researchers. What is more alarming that hackers could have been exploiting  the flaw for quite some time now, the time being claimed to "at least two yeas". There have been reportedly "at least six targets" till now and they have been mentioned in the report. They include "