Microsoft is planning to launch new privacy tools which will help the users to understand what kind of data get collected about them when they use the Windows Operating System. The company said the changes are aimed at increasing users trust and confidence.
The coming privacy-focused includes a new application called a Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer, which will be available free in the Microsoft store and an updated Microsoft Privacy dashboard. The main addition to the Microsoft Privacy dashboard will be the Activity History page that allows the users to see details what data has been collected by Microsoft Operating System during their activities of Microsoft accounts.
Other features that will come with new Windows 10 includes expanded control of fonts and fixes for a Variety of PC bugs and glitches. The next consumer update is expected to arrive soon this spring.
The latest iOS 11.3 update supports Advanced Mobile Location(AML) which will automatically send the user's location on making one call to Emergency services./p>
The feature activates the GPS and Wi-Fi services when someone calls any Emergency number and then send the text with the caller's precise location to Responders.
AML is not available in US but users in UK, Sweden, Belgium, New Zealand can take advantage of the feature.
According to Japanese media reports, A Japanese Exchange has lost 58 billion yen equivalent to $530 million in cryptocurrency due to Hacking.
Coincheck, which calls itself the leading Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange in Asia, said they detected the unauthorized access to their systems around 3am at night on Friday.
The Japanese exchange said on its website, this Friday that it had halted sales and withdrawals of the currency, called NEM. Also, it had restricted dealings in most other cryptocurrencies too.
The ads largely arrived on Wednesday and ended up stealing the computing power from victims' PCs through their browsers.
The mining software called Cryptocurrency Miner briefly invaded the video platform in an attempt to secretly siphon the computing power from any YouTube viewers who encountered the ads.
The ads largely arrived on Wednesday and ended up spreading to victims PCs. The major affected countries include Japan, France, Taiwan, Italy and Spain according to the security firm Trend Micro.
The more browsers the mining software can leverage, the more cryptocurrency it can generate.
However, the mining comes with a cost as it can harm your PC's resources, and thus drag down the performance. In this case, the mining scripts in the YouTube scheme were configured to siphon 80 percent of the PC's computing power according to the Trend Micro. But the Google, which owns YouTube on Friday claimed that the ads were blocked in less than two hours.
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