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OnePlus ambassador Robert Downey Jr. Beijing:  Much-loved Marvel hero and  OnePlus ambassador Robert Downey Jr. was spotted posting about OnePlus 7 on his Weibo page using  Huawei's flagship P30 Pro  smartphone, the media has reported. On 30 July, Robert Downey Jr. forwarded a Weibo using Huawei P30 Pro rather than his endorsed smartphone brand OnePlus 7. Although the post later disappeared from his Weibo profile, the eagle eyes of users captured the evidence in the screenshot before it got erased, tech portal huaweicentral.com reported on Wednesday. OnePlus, which roped in the Hollywood actor earlier this year for endorsing it, has faced flak for paying for ads featuring him instead of waterproofing its smartphones. Even as OnePlus has always touted its commitment to getting its users the highest specs at the lowest prices, its phones have lacked official IP certification for water resistance. Micro-blogging site Weibo is one of China's most popular social platforms...

Whether you’re trying to preserve your cell phone data or get online while in flight, connecting to Wi-Fi networks seems to be a constant task when traveling. And this either requires figuring out the correct router name and password or entering a passphrase and/or accepting terms and conditions on a log-in page. If it’s the latter, figuring out how to get to the Wi-Fi log-in page can be the biggest hurdle to getting back online. What if I told you there’s a shortcut to figuring out the log-in portal? For the last few years, I’ve been using a single URL to prompt the portal log-in page for Wi-Fi routers around the world. And it’s a URL that I highly recommend that you save on your browser(s) of choice: http://www.msftconnecttest.com As this site isn’t secured with HTTPS protocol, your browser will let it redirect to the Wi-Fi log-in page, and it’s never failed to work during my constant travels, at least using a Windows laptop. The only downside is that using this URL redirects to the ...

Enterprises should expect to see  more cyber attacks  launched against them. The data that they now gather and store have made their infrastructures key targets for hackers. Customer data and intellectual property can be sold in the black market for profit, and sensitive information can also be used by hackers to extort them. Enterprises are now aggressively shifting their workloads  to the cloud  which, while it has many benefits, expands their defensive perimeter and exposes them to further risks as well. As such, organizations are now widely investing in various security solutions in order to comprehensively protect their networks. Gartner expects security spending to  exceed $124 billion  this year. Solutions such as firewalls and threat prevention tools have increasingly become essential for enterprises. Leading firewall provider  Palo Alto Networks , for example, provides companies with various measures to protect their infrastructures. It's curr...

After  fining British Airways  with a record fine of £183 million earlier this week, the UK's data privacy regulator is now planning to slap world's biggest hotel chain  Marriott International  with a £99 million ($123 million) fine under GDPR over 2014 data breach. This is the second major penalty notice in the last two days that hit companies for failing to protect its customers' personal and financial information compromised and implement adequate security measures. In November 2018,  Marriott discovered  that unknown hackers compromised their guest reservation database through its Starwood hotels subsidiary and walked away with personal details of approximately 339 million guests. The compromised database leaked guests' names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, gender, arrival and departure information, reservation date, and communication preferences. The breach, which likely happened in 2014, also exposed unencrypted pas...

Microsoft today released its monthly batch of software security updates for the July month to patch a total of 77 vulnerabilities, 14 are rated Critical, 62 are Important, and 1 is rated Moderate in severity. The  July 2019 security updates  include patches for various supported versions of Windows operating systems and other Microsoft products, including Internet Explorer, Edge, Office, Azure DevOps, Open Source Software, .NET Framework, Azure, SQL Server, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, and Exchange Server. Details of 6 security vulnerabilities, all rated important, were made public before a patch was released, none of which were found being exploited in the wild. However, two new privilege escalation vulnerabilities, one affects all supported versions of the Windows operating system, and the other affects Windows 7 and Server 2008, have been reported as being actively exploited in the wild. Both actively exploited vulnerabilities lead to elevation of privilege, one (CVE-2019-1132) ...