Apple awards $2,88,500 to hackers who spot 55 bugs in its systems

A group of hackers has received 32 payments from Apple totaling $2,88,500 for discovering 55 vulnerabilities (11 critical) in the core systems as they hacked the tech giant for three months.

The critical bugs allowed the group to take control of core Apple infrastructure and "from there steal private emails, iCloud data, and other private information".

Apple promptly fixed the vulnerabilities. There were a total of 55 vulnerabilities discovered with 11 critical severity, 29 high severity, 13 medium severity and 2 low severity reports.

Source - Business Insider India

Google messages app - Update

- Google messages app to get message category for efficient SMS management A couple of days back, we saw a possible option in Google Messages to let users auto-delete OTPs after 24 hours. The latest development suggests that the company is focusing more on the app's functionality, as it is now testing message categories.

Coronavirus can surive on smartphone screens for 28 days - Study

- While most of us have made wearing face masks and washing hands part of our routines, we often forget to sanitize the gadgets we're using, primarily smartphones, and a new study shows we should seriously consider sanitizing our devices. Source - Beboom

Amazon fire TV now allows live tv

- We are just a few days away from Amazon's Great Indian Festival sale that will last an entire month this time around. And today, Amazon has given us another new update With this update, users will see two new tabs namely 'Live' and 'On Now' on Fire TV's home page. The former will show you live TV channels from SonyLIV, Voot, NextG TV, and Discovery+. This includes popular channels, including Sony SAB HD, Colors HD, SET HD, Nick HD+, Dangal, DD National, News18 India, MTV Beats HD, SONY BBC Earth HD, Mastii TV Music, and Discovery.

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