Spooky season is upon us as we get ready for the last stretch of the year. Certainly, 2020 presented many challenges most of us were not ready for, but the human ability to adapt and prosper knows no limits! Many tech industries and startups took the challenges the new normal posed and flipped them to their advantage, never stopping their developments and keeping the fire of innovation burning as bright as ever.
For our October news roundup, we bring you a mix of tips to take your zoom game to the next level, a guide to do if your hack (the first step is Don’t Panic!), news from Microsoft Security, how Google is working to improve their spell-checking, and information about new malware scam to keep an eye out for!
Here we go!–
Google is about to get better at correcting your terrible spelling
the search and advertising behemoth announced it will soon be rolling out a new spelling algorithm that promises even better suggestions for misspelled words.
Google made the announcement during its “Search On” event this week. During the same event, it also unveiled a new search feature that lets users search for a song by humming or whistling it. Google says that 15 percent of search queries each day are ones that it’s never seen before, and that’s largely because they’re straight-up misspelled.
Given that Google’s whole business is based on finding the information you need as fast as possible, it’s only natural the company would invest a lot in finding ways to improve the service bt taking user spelling errors into account and finding better ways to work around them, or, in this case, to fix them.
Zoom tips: 10 tricks on how to get most of it
Zoom has become one of the most used digital communication tools out there amidst the whole pandemic times we’re living through, with many people spending a considerable chunk of their daily time using the video calling platform for work, getting in touch with family and friends, school, and even getting tech support!
If you want to take your mastery of this very useful tool, don’t miss these 10 tricks on how to get the most out of zoom and stand out at your next book club video conference or just to say hi to your grandma and show her your Halloween costume.
Devil in Disguise – New Malware Scam enters as Windows 10 Update
October is the month of horror, scary thrills, and all things spooky. Now, what’s scarier than a new malware scam?! and this one, even put on a costume.
“Devil in Disguise†is a new Malware Scam that comes trick-or-treating to your computer, as the name implies, disguised as a Windows 10 update. A report from Tech Radar asserts that a new Windows 10 update malware scam is buzzing up, and it’s mainly aiming the people through their e-mail accounts.
If you want to know more about it Tech news today explains how it works and how to avoid it. If you ask us, we prefer to get our thrills from scary movies rather than pc malware.
Microsoft Zero Trust Deployment Center Will Deploy the “Never Trust, Always Verify” Approach for Network Security
If that last bit about malware left you feeling a little scared for your online security, this one might cheer you up. Technology behemoth Microsoft is constantly looking for better ways to protect their user’s information from any online threat, and one of their latest developments towards a safer platform is the “Zero Trust Networking Security Management Modelâ€
According to Microsoft, the Zero Trust security model assumes that everything behind the corporate firewall is unsafe. It verifies each request, whether it is from a closed or an open network. Zero Trust always emphasizes the “never trust, always verify†motto regardless of what resource the system requests access. The model fully verifies, authorizes, and encrypts all access requests before they grant access.
What To Do If You’ve Been Hacked | I Got Hacked, How Do I Fix It?
Getting hacked is probably one of the scariest things that can happen to you online. If you’ve been a victim of these internet ghouls or just want to read ahead to prepare yourself if the time ever comes, this quick guide posted in Popular Mechanics can help you take back control over your accounts and information.
How do you know if one of your accounts has been compromised? In a classic scenario, that could include unusual activity on your bank account, but there’s a good chance you may also receive alerts from Google, Facebook, or Apple that a sign-in attempt has been made on your account. That doesn’t necessarily translate to a hacked account, but it’s certainly a red flag if those sign-in attempts didn’t come from you.
Quibi says it will shut down in early December
After what some people have called a disastrous tenure in the startup sphere, Quibi, a short-form mobile-native video platform, is shutting down, according to a newly published support page on their site. The startup, co-founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, had raised nearly $2 billion in its lifetime as a private company.
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