WhiteHat Jr Bug 🐜 Exposed Data of 2.8 Lakh Student
+ Tata group to acquire majority stake in BigBasket
Today’s headlines.
WhiteHat Jr Bug Exposed Data of 2.8 Lakh Students, Mostly Minors. Password was stored in plaintext.
Personal data including photographs of children and transactional data were left exposed.
Tata Group is ready to acquire a majority stake in BigBasket by the end of November. According to CNBC, Tata Group is likely to buy out Alibaba’s entire 29.1% stake as well as the stakes of some other investors.
Amazon's Alexa powered Echo Buds get a fitness tracking feature update. The feature has an accelerometer and can also estimate workout distance, time taken, pace, and calorie information. All the user has to do is say “Alexa, start a workout”
Google to stop its web payment app from January; will start charging transfer fee from now on. Google has said "Starting early in 2021, you won't be able to use pay.google.com to send and receive money from other people."
Microsoft has announced a discount of 25% for the first 25 new commercial customers buying its Microsoft365 Business Premium. Microsoft has said that this will be on till the 30th of November and is a part of "Small Business Saturday"
The telecom regulator of India, TRAI has imposed fines amounting to Rs 30 crores, on major telcos for sending out unsolicited and fake SMSs. The companies include Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, and Reliance Jio, among others.
Twitter to relaunch public verification for accounts wanting the blue badge. Twitter has identified six types of accounts eligible for verification and says an account must be notable and active to receive the blue badge.
Cognizant’s CEO, Brain Humphries has announced that they plan to have more women as Managers and VPs under its 'Diversity Target' from 2021. The CEO has also promised bigger hikes and promotions to employees in Q4.
Filecoin claims to have over a million TB cloud storage around the world now. Filecoin, which claims to be the world’s largest storage network, has revealed that it has reached 1 Exabyte of storage capacity.
Android messaging app Go SMS Pro which was removed from the Google Play Store has 100 million+ downloads. This Chinese app was removed following reports of serious security flaws. The reports said privacy concerns were instrumental in the removal.