More than seven hundred Dutch servers are vulnerable to hackers due to a vulnerability at the American software company Citrix, research by Bath packets. According to IT security expert Matthijs Koot, this includes servers from ministries, hospitals, mental healthcare institutions, a large bank and an airport. Citrix provides software for companies, including ‘virtual desktops’ that … Read more
Leaked photos confirm that Samsung will not reveal the Galaxy S10 series on 11 February, but will switch to the Galaxy S20 series. It concerns three models: Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus and S20 Ultra, writes XDA Developers. At the beginning of this month there was already plenty speculated about the new Samsung models, but … Read more
It will be years before the Facebook Messenger messaging service is just as secure as WhatsApp, says Jon Millican, software developer for Facebook, to the American technology magazine Wired. Facebook wants to provide Messenger with so-called end-to-end encryption, a form of encryption whereby only the sender and the recipient can read the content of the … Read more
The developers of the controversial app LekkerParkeren have informed the municipality of The Hague to stop using the app with which they resell visitor parking hours for residents of The Hague. The municipality warned residents Thursday for the app, because the developers asked Hagenaars for a fee to hand in the login details of their … Read more
Samsung announced a new external SSD disk with a fingerprint scanner on Thursday. A user of the T7 Touch must first scan a finger to gain access to the files. The function is an extra layer of security and comes on top of the existing security with a password. This means that others cannot simply … Read more
TikTok has addressed a vulnerability in the app after the company was notified of this by researchers. That’s what the researchers at Check Point Research announced on Wednesday. The leak allowed videos to be placed on users’ accounts without permission and hackers had access to personal data. The problem was in the way TikTok stored … Read more
Twitter is going to enable users to limit responses to tweets or completely disable them, the company announced Wednesday at CES tech fair in Las Vegas. Users can choose to completely disable responses, limit them to followers or write to people mentioned in the message Mashable. The standard option, where anyone except blocked users can … Read more
A group of activists want to prevent the sale of the .org internet domain to investment company Ethos. According to them, sales worth 1 billion euros are bad for the millions of non-profit organizations that use the .org domain. The activists have set up a cooperative themselves and hope that this organization will get control … Read more
The future is foldable, if it’s up to technology companies. At the CES tech fair in Las Vegas, brands such as Dell and Lenovo showed what we can expect from the first foldable computers. In 2019, tech fairs focused on foldable smartphones. The Chinese brand Royole was present at CES with the first folding phone, … Read more
Samsung presented its new personal assistant Ballie during the tech fair CES. It is a small ball-shaped robot that helps the user in the household. Among other things, Ballie can patrol the house and serve as a remote control for smart devices. The ball also works as a fitness assistant with its users. During a … Read more