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Technological advancements continue to create a friction-less lifestyle in all aspects ranging from the digital workplace to personalized customer experiences. Twenty-five years ago, making cash withdrawal, depositing a paycheck, paying bills meant taking a trip to your bank or service centers, interact with concerned people. This is not all! Lack of online presence also involved a lot of paper clutter, account management, & other cumbersome tasks that caused a lot of inconvenience. Online existence of businesses and services has made our lives a piece of cake. It is deemed as a useful lifestyle innovation. From customer experience standpoint, technologies such as online banking, online bill payment, online travel booking, and flight check-ins reflect an appetite for smoother, instant processes. Online transactions remove almost all inconveniences along the customer journey & provide a stellar customer experience. Technology has enlightened lives in general, but, as we know...

Lucas Stefanko, the famous malware hunter who has made a commendable contribution in finding malicious malware like  Trojan , has  yanked Facebook  for  harvesting user’s data  through Onavo  Protect  . It is a VPN Client that  professed to help the users  to  monitor their data usage  and  protect  their  personal information . In February 2018, Facebook was reported to  advertise Onavo VPN  app within  Facebook  app for iOS users in the United States. Thereafter,  Onavo  was declared as a  spyware  by the media outlets as the  app had no significant mention of Facebook’s ownership  that led to the denouncements of the app. Onavo started as an independent organization in 2010 and developed mobile apps like Onavo Protect etc.  They  announced their acquisition  by Facebook on 13 th  October 2013. The Onavo Protect App  aims to pro...

Online Community site, Reddit, informed its users that the company’s servers were breached by hackers, who had gained access to user data. The data breach was accomplished by successfully bypassing or circumventing the SMS based authentication on Reddit servers. The hacker was able to obtain information about some current email addresses and a backup database from 2007 which contained old salted hashed passwords. The data breach occurred between June 14 and June 18 of which the company learned about on June 19. The attacker was able to compromise a few employee accounts with the company’s cloud and source code hosting providers. The Company has its primary access points for code and infrastructure behind strong authentication that requires two factor authentication (2FA). The attacker gained read-only access to some of Reddit systems that contained source code, backup data and other logs. This was a serious attack on the Reddit systems and if the attacker had gained write acces...