Technical Updates

Online security services and software provider, McAfee Inc. has recently released its McAfee labs 2018 Threat Predictions. The predictions reveal five key trends to watch in the upcoming year. The main focus of this year’s report was on the evolution of the most harmful threat Ransomware from old to new applications. Apart from this, other main issues to consider in the report were the cyber security implications of serverless apps, the consumer privacy implications of corporations observing their consumers in their own homes, long-term connotation of corporations collecting children’s user-generated information, and the emergence of a machine learning innovation race between adversaries and defenders. Steve Grobman, CTO for McAfee said in a report that “The Ransomware affected huge number of the computer users this year and this reminds us of how dangerously a threat can reinvent itself as an online attacker just to innovate and adjust to the successful efforts of defende...

Are you planning to buy a Windows laptop for your kid as a present for winters and thus parents need to know about how to set the borders over cordon off certain corners of the internet? Even the parents could have a look over their kid’s online activity. Creation of an account for kids: Microsoft enables parents to create separate accounts for children, which could be managed later. After having a sign in to the account follow the steps: 1. Settings > Accounts > Family & other users 2. Select Add a family member 3. Select Add a child and then select The person I want to add doesn’t have an email address for creating an account. Family safety first 1. Follow the path: Settings > Accounts > Family & other users 2. Here you will get link where you can direct the path to open “Microsoft’s family settings website” 3. Just sign in into own account, if you signed into child’s account, you won’t be able to access family settings. A...