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Hyderabad: Harassment over phone and domestic violence formed a majority of complaints received from women in September in the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate limits. There were 39 complaints of phone harassment and 36 complaints of domestic violence during this period. As per data from Cyberabad She Teams officials, out of 182 complaints, apart from phone harassment […]

Never click on short links sent through email/SMS: Experts

With that users can be alerted (or not) by new reactions the same way they are with messages and groups notifications citing WABetaInfo, 9To5Mac reported on Saturday.

Hyderabad: Rachakonda police on Saturday urged men not to make half-naked video calls on WhatsApp with people they’ve met on Facebook or any other social media platform as a new scam that involves video calling has set foot in the town.   The gang that is said to be targeting only men creates multiple fake […]

Ever since a major outage hit WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram recently, many users started receiving audio or text messages saying that WhatsApp has been banned or that they will be charged for using the app in the future. It is also claimed that the instant messaging app is going to be restricted from 11:30 pm […]

By Pramod K Nayar For a few hours, the global audience did not know what was going on. Literally. With Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram crashing, people discovered a lot of time on their hands. Ironically, the principal sources of disinformation – online and social media platforms – were themselves subjected to disinformation. In an era […]

On Monday, Facebook experienced its worst outage since 2008.

Washington: Facebook has said that the disruption of its operation was caused by configuration changes on backbone routers. Facebook, in a statement, said its service is now back online.“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This […]

New Delhi: Services of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp started coming back online on Tuesday after an outage that lasted almost six hours. The services went down at about 16:00 GMT with users beginning to gain access to the sites at around 22:00. “Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the […]

Hyderabad: Social media apps WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram have been down since Monday evening.  Much to the frustration of the users, these apps have been snagging whenever refreshed.  It has been reported that users received a “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can,” message […]

In its second monthly report for the 30-day period of August 1-August 31, under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, WhatsApp received 420 grievances from users in India received via e-mails and mails sent to the India Grievance Officer via post.

The Rupee symbol rollout has begun and would soon be available to users all over India in the coming weeks.

The Facebook-backed platform will stop supporting a lot of old devices from November 1, which technically means that it will stop completely working on some devices.

Hyderabad: A businessman from the city was duped of Rs 14 lakh by cyber fraudsters on the pretext of Bitcoin trading. The man, a resident of Falaknuma, got a message on Whatsapp about bitcoin trading and contacted the sender who identified himself as Nicole. The person told the victim he could make huge money through […]

Says cyber crooks swindling people using fake identity cards of Army and other paramilitary forces

The 55-year-old, a resident of Khammam, brought from a state-run care home in West Bengal

Kochi (Kerala): A case has been registered against N Prasanth, IAS officer, serving as the managing director of Kerala State Inland Navigation Corporation (KSINC), at Palarivattom police station in Kochi for allegedly insulting the modesty of a woman journalist. Police informed that a case has been filed under Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code […]

Hyderabad: Harassment over the phone appears to be a major problem for women in the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate limits. Complaints lodged with the Cyberabad She Team in the month of August hint in this direction. Out of 180 complaints, 44 pertained to phone harassment, while there were 28 complaints of domestic violence. Blackmailing and harassing […]

Samsung announced the feature was coming during its August Unpacked event, The Verge reported.

Several cases of cheating on pretext of job opportunities, mostly in e-commerce companies, being reported