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We have reported on this news before, but it seems that the possibility has turned into reality. The Malaysian government has announced a target of 2026 for rolling out a ban that will prevent children aged under 16 from creating social media accounts.

Today, CelcomDigi has unveiled WebSHIELD, a new network-based security service designed to protect mobile users from online threats. Running silently in the background, WebSHIELD offers real-time protection against phishing, malware, and fast-moving scams, all powered by Cisco’s global threat intelligence.

We’re just a few days away from the official release of iOS 16 and it looks like Apple is adding yet another new feature to the iPhone OS. Spotted inside the iOS 16 RC to developers yesterday (7 September 2022), the system can now detect counterfeit AirPods and accordingly, warn users when they try to connect them to their iPhones.

Encrypted messaging service Signal has revealed that the personal data of its users may have been compromised after its verification services provider, Twilio Inc fell victim to a phishing attack. In a blogpost yesterday, Signal said that the phone number of 1900 users could have been revealed by the incident.

Malaysia’s contact tracing app, MySejahtera has evolved to be more than just a Covid-related app in the past year or so, especially since our country's pandemic restrictions have been relaxed. Today, the app took that even further when it announced the update into MySejahtera 2.0 that brings with it a new look and additional health features.

Last week, Huawei introduced HarmonyOS globally and many Huawei phones would be able to get an upgrade soon. According to sources, the update rollout seems to be a success as 10 million users in China have upgraded to the new operating system.

Based on a statement by theverge, it seems Zoom recently admitted that they did not have more than 300 million daily active users on their video conferencing platform. With that said, they’ve recently updated their blog post stating that they have up to 300 million daily zoom meeting participants, which is different compared to daily active users.

When Facebook Messenger was first introduced, it allowed users to sign up for an account by using their phone number. Surprisingly, Facebook has made changes to Messenger, which now requires new users to have a Facebook account in order to sign up for the service based on a statement by venturebeat.

There was news a few months ago that a large scale hacking event transpired involving Yahoo accounts, which amounted to about half a million different accounts. Now a new report has surfaced, stating that the data breech is bigger than expected. A further 1 billion accounts was compromised, on top of the previous number of account.

Information compromised may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and there’s a possibility that some security questions and answers were also compromised. Yahoo believes the reason for the breach was that a hacker was able to figure out how to forge cookies to gain access to these accounts. Yahoo already started to email affected customers on this matter, and have taken steps to rectify this issue.