Dr Jamshaid Akbar
Shopify Outage Disrupts Cyber Monday 2025 Sales Surg
On December 1, 2025, one of the busiest online shopping days of the year Shopify experienced a major outage that blocked many merchants worldwide from … Read more
Google’s RCS Archival Lets Employers Read Your Work Texts Even If Encrypted
A big privacy change rolled out by Google now makes it possible for employers to intercept and store all SMS, MMS and RCS messages on … Read more
How to Secure a Corporate Network in 2026: Best Practices for IT Teams
Did you know? SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) remain especially vulnerable: in 2025, 88% of breaches affecting SMBs involved ransomware, compared with 39% for larger … Read more
Google Meet Outage Why Millions Suddenly Couldn’t Join Calls
Today, hundreds of thousands around the world especially in India, experienced a major disruption with Google Meet, the video-conferencing service many of us rely on … Read more
OpenAI Launches “Shopping Research” to Turn ChatGPT Into a Smarter Holiday Buying Companion
OpenAI has introduced a new feature called “shopping research” that transforms ChatGPT into a personalized buying assistant just in time for the holiday shopping surge. … Read more
WhatsApp Tests Group Member Tags to Clarify Roles in Busy Chats
WhatsApp is exploring a new feature called Group Member Tags, which helps users add short, personalized identifiers to their names in group chats. Currently in … Read more
Google Denies Using Gmail Emails to Train Gemini AI
Recent social media discussions have raised concerns that Google may be utilizing Gmail content, including emails and attachments, to train its Gemini AI models. A … Read more
7 Network Security Threats and How to Prevent Them
Network security threats are growing faster than ever, and organizations must keep pace. Attackers are advancing with more automation, faster exploitation, and increasingly clever social … Read more
Azure Mitigates 15.7 Tbps Aisuru Botnet DDoS Attack
On October 24, 2025, Microsoft Azure’s DDoS Protection platform successfully mitigated a massive 15.72 terabits-per-second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever observed in … Read more
Network Security Best Practices for Businesses in 2026
Did you know that? Ransomware accounted for 44% of all confirmed breaches in Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, a 37% year-over-year increase. Meanwhile, third-party … Read more
Major Outage Impacts Google Workspace: What You Need to Know
On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, many users of Google Workspace including the popular apps Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides reported difficulty … Read more