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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also known as IP telephony, is a technique for the delivery of voice communications & multimedia sessions over IP networks. In other words, It is a technology that converts your voice into a digital signal which allows you to make a call straight from a computer or any other data-driven devices. However, in most VoIP environments, It is possible to classify the IP phones by their SNMP signature. VoIP Risks and Vulnerabilities: a) Reconnaissance Attacks     Gathers information about network vulnerabilities and the behavior of network devices and                   services. b) Call Hijacking and Redirection      Call intended for one user is redirected to a different user. c) Protocol Fuzzing      Test the software system for bugs and sees what it's response will be. d) Denial of Service (VoIP Spam)      Spamming the network with large number of unsystematic messages. e) Session Anomalies      Improper arrangement of recei

As we all know Ransomware may be a never stopping security threat with some very large business impingement. Statistics show it has reached new levels of menace, and it's growing at an interesting rate. The important question is how threat goes to grow next year and beyond. The McAfee report confirms ransomware isn't going anywhere: Across all sectors, ransomware been increased by 118% during the primary quarter of 2019. There's been a hike in server message block attacks. Over the stretch of the 30-day program, McAfee discovered 4 million uncommon sources of SMB exploit traffic. "RDP credentials are often brute-forced or often purchased from underground markets. Where past ransomware criminals would found out a command - control environment for the ransomware and decryption keys " Nowadays most cyber criminals pursue new approach in which victims are given notes that include an anonymous E-mail service address, allowing bad actors to remain hid

In an associate economy where data is associate with rising world currency, software package vulnerabilities and security breaches are naturally a big area of concern. data breaches’ costs are countable at a mean of  $3.86 million  for a non-public breach, and $1.5 trillion in total worth. whereas some reports advocate lower figures, there isn't any discussion that such vulnerabilities may finish in astronomically losses if left unattended. At constant time, as we've got an inclination to recently learned from the Cloudflare breach, data breaches became extra distinguished and fewer predictable, and even security corporations get hacked. In light-weight of these developments, it's no surprise that cyber security has become one among the foremost vital subjects usually mentioned in board rooms. as a result of the economic, reputational and legal costs of data breaches grow apace, the observe of exposing cyber vulnerabilities and “bugs” has evolved from

Image Credit Weibo South Korea Based Samsung Group is a well-known smartphone manufacturer in the entire world and is preparing for its next major launch on 20 th Feb 2019. Samsung is expected to launch its S10 line early this year. The S10 has been famous now for various leak rumours now and there has been another one among them. Although the truth behind the matter is still unknown. The leak this time is showing off the Galaxy S10+ premium variant and it hasn’t been long since it has surfaced online. In the leaks the smartphone can be seen in the working condition and boasts its infinity display with dual front camera cut-outs in the front. According to the statement made by Mobile Chief DJ "I will try my best to meet the expectations of consumers who have been waiting for our products,” on the topic of Samsung Galaxy S10 and Foldable Smartphones.  Although it is not entirely sure whether what reports are suggesting are true or not but, the foldable Smartpho

Image Credit: Android Police Tired of lots of messages and SMS spam don’t fret google is here for rescue. Recently Google Messaging App users has been reporting seeing a new feature in the app called spam protection. The feature has been a topic of talk for a long time and was expected to launch sooner or later. The development completed a while ago, almost around six months ago but it took some time for rolling out to begin. The roll-out has been server side and is selective roll-out you may or may not get it soon depending on your luck and region. If you are lucky enough and has received the update then after the update as soon as you open the app you will be notified about. The notification can be seen in the below image. A user can disable/enable the spam protection based on the choice and the setting can be accessed by going to Settings>Advanced Menu>Spam Protection .

The next gen camera technology has been in talks for some time now and Sony has been burning night hours in making it ready for mass productions. According to talk between Sony and BloombergQuint, The Sony will be soon be boosting their 3D Camera sensors after getting positive response from the customers and positive response from the market. The Apple Inc. is one of their customers. This new tech may result in huge improvements and a revolution in the smartphone photography. Some rumours also suggest that the Apple is planning to implement augmented reality features to its future Flagships and the future flagships may come with tri-camera setup. And from the rumours one can anticipate that these new camera features will be used to draw potential customer in the year 2019 by Apple Inc.  But the plans may or may not succeed as the most awaited and most anticipated feature the market has been waiting for the year 2019 is the smartphones and flagships with 5G connectivit

There has been rumours about the new Flagship Nokia 9 PureView from HMD Global. According to the rumours the smartphone is going t sport a Penta-Lens camera setup. Now there has been a leaked teaser video of the smartphone which further confirms about the rumours of camera setup and it may be true. The leaked video reveals some of the key specification of the device and its expected performance in the photography. Allegedly the penta-lens setup will help the device in taking ultra-sharp HDR pictures and advanced depth of field control. The teaser video below was shared by MySmartPrice on YouTube. The video above also confirms some of the early rumours about the device. The teaser also shows that the device will not be adopting the notch trend and instead will be going for notch less design. The device is going to sport in-display Finger Print Sensor, 6GB of Ram, 128 GB Device Storage, HDR 10 Supported 2K resolution PureDisplay with cross section of 5.99inch and came

Image Credit: Samsung Recently Samsung introduced their Galaxy Home Smart Speakers powered by Bixby Assistant from Samsung and it is yet to hit the market, but rumours about them planning an affordable version of the speakers which will also be powered by their voice assistant Bixby. Although the full specification of the speaker is not yet known it is expected to have less features being the affordable one than the pricier one i.e. the Galaxy Home Smart Speakers. This could most likely be their strategy as the Galaxy Home Speaker may compete with the Apple HomePod which cost somewhere around 349 USD but for Samsung to compete with more affordable speakers available in the market like Google Home and Amazon Echo which are available at less than 200 USD or so they had to take this approach. Even though the launch Is not yet confirmed, for Samsung to be able to compete in this niche they will have to focus on the potential customers who opt for more affordable kind of appro

Image Credit: 91Mobiles/On Leaks The Lenovo owned smartphone manufacturer Motorola is burning night hour to provide its users with wide range of smartphone in 2019. It has been just couple of days about the news of Moto G7 Power and yet news about another flagship from Motorola has been seen on the internet. According to the leaks and rumours Motorola is planning on revealing Motorola P40 smartphone in 2019. The new smartphone may be the successor of the previous build Motorola P30 which was only available in select markets thus not everyone was able to enjoy it. The render leaks reveal some of the key specification of the smartphone. The screen of the P40 will have higher screen to body ratio well no surprise there as it seems to be in trend nowadays and will be sporting an in-display front facing camera. The device will not have any kind of notch like in the Moto G7 series. As can be seen in the leaks the P40 has somewhat premium look and feel to it and the screen size o

Its been a week hearing rumours about Foxconn making deals with Apple to move production of their handset from china to India. It has now been finally confirmed by Reuters that the Taiwanese supplier will be using it’s Sriperumbudur plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. According to the statement made by Industries Minister M. C. Sampath, the plant is currently being used to make Xiaomi Phones in India. The Foxconn said that to full the product requirements for apple they will be expanding their product line-up and will be investing $365 million. The investment may prove a good for the region as it is expected to create as many as 25,000 job vacancies in the region. According to the sources who spoke to the Reuters up till now the Cupertino based company has been manufacturing the iPhone SE and iPhone 6S in the country, and Foxconn will be focusing on the higher end and premium models like iPhone X Family. According to GSMArena Apple is slowly preparing for any long-ter

Image Credit: HotHardware.com “Setup for Amazon Alexa” is an app which was available on Apple App Store. But the twist here is that it was a fake it seems that the tech giant Apple has been deceived by the company named One World Software. Apple has been very diligent and conscious over the privacy issues of its user but this time around something got through. According to the Description provided on the app store this app help user understand how to setup properly setup their Amazon Alexa Personal Assistant. When the app starts it will ask for the IP address of the user, the name of the device to be paired and the serial number of the device. The Knockoff app manged to reach No. 6 in the app store’s Utility category and also managed to become the 60 th most installed app on the Apple App Store. The company did have other two apps on the App store named “Marketplace – Buy/Sell” and a paid app named “Any Font for Instagram” which costed around 99cents. All of the three apps have

Android 9.0 Pie has been gaining market popularity very fast and smartphone manufacturers have been actively adopting this new operating system. The Smartphone Manufacturer Huawei is also not far behind in this race of adapting to the new technology. As we all know Huawei offers its users with a custom user interface for their smartphones with EMUI, and recently they have announced an open beta program for their Huawei and Honor device users. The open Beta Program allows its users to experience the features and UI of EMUI 9 which is based on Android Pie. The Android Pie for Huawei and Honor devices has already been rolled out major Huawei and Honor devices in China. The Company is planning to release he EMUI 9 globally hence the beta program to make it as seamless for the user as possible. The Smartphones users who will be able to apply for this Beta Program are: Huawei Mate 9 Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Edition Huawei Mate 9 Pro Huawei P10 Huawei P10 Plus Honor V9 Honor 9

Image Credit: GSMArena & Weibo (via Waqar Khan) The race for performing the best in smartphone has been going on for quite some time now and there is a new candidate in the race. Lenovo owned Motorola has been working on its next gen smartphone line up i.e. Moto G7. The specs and images of the flagship has been on the internet for quite some time now. Recently the Moto G7 Power has been spotted on Geekbench. The device will be officially available to the customers and fans next year. The company is going to release four devices in the Moto G7 line-up.  The Geekbench spotting of Moto G7 Power has revealed some of the main specs of the device. According to the listing the device will feature a Snapdragon 625 SoC with 4GB of Memory. the listing also mentions that the device will come with Android 9.0 Pie out of the box. Previous Leaks of the device suggests that the device will feature a wide display notch up front, a rear mounted fingerprint sensor, a single came

According to the rumours up till now the Samsung Galaxy S10 was supposed to have three distinctive models i.e. S10, S10 Lite, and S10+. But according to the new reports the Samsung is bringing back the Edge moniker which they introduced with their Samsung Galaxy S7 flagship back in Feb of 2016. The reports also suggest that Samsung Galaxy S10 will have a preinstalled screen protector with it. Although Samsung uses top notch and premium glass protection tech on their flagships like corning gorilla glass protection, the smartphones nowadays are becoming more and more fragile and prone to get damaged. The most recent developments also suggest that Samsung may reserve the Galaxy S10 name for their 10 th anniversary release which will be featuring 5G support. Everything about the Samsung Galaxy S10 Edge and preinstalled Screen Protectors are yet to be confirmed by the manufacturer and the news may very well be not true. Having said that the Samsung galaxy S10 will come wit

Samsung has been continuously adapting to the growing smartphone market by their innovative ideas. The most popular ones among them are the rear mounted quad camera in Galaxy A9 (2018) and new Samsung Galaxy A8s that has Infinity-O display featuring a hole in the display for front facing camera.  The Samsung has come up with another great idea to ramp up the game. Although it is not official but according to the leaks from a very popular Chinese tipster Samsung is working on a new flagship Samsung Galaxy A10 that is going to feature an in-display Fingerprint Scanner. But with this comes up a question, what is new? We have already smartphones like Vivo X21, OnePlus 6T, Xiaomi Mi8 etc. that provide their user with in-display finger print scanner. Well The flagship manufacturer Samsung is going to introduce a new technology of in-display fingerprint scanners which are more accurate that optical in-display finger print readers. Even though the full specification of the n

Google has been persistent in improving user experience of the Google Maps app. They gradually moved the Explore tab from sandwich menu to a new tab on the home screen of the app. This tab used to give the user a detailed info on the nearby places according to internal rating system of the google. Now they have tried something new to further improve the experience. In the new update Google has introduced a new tab ‘For You’ right next to the Explore and Commute listing all the item based on the personal taste and of end user. Rolling out with the regular update the new feature continuously gives you update on nearby Bars, Cafes, Restaurants and many more based on the location you have set as your home or work. This feature gives user an option to bookmark the places and they will automatically be available in ‘Want to go’ list. This feature can be used as an alternative to the Google Trips app as it has already begun rolling out to almost 40 countries for iOS and 130 or mor

HMD Global the manufacturer of Nokia smartphones is among the very few Handset makers who provide continuous and latest updates to their smartphone users across every price range be it top shelf or mid-range handsets. They have already rolled out the latest version of Android i.e. 9.0 Pie to three of their flagships. Way back in October HMD global announced the rollout of Android 9.0 to their flagship Nokia 7 Plus, and with this announcement they also made public a list of flagships which will soon be getting this update. The users of Nokia 6.1 have already started receiving the update for their handsets but the rollout for Nokia 8 was expected to begin in November.  According to tweet from the chief product officer of HMD Global, Juho Sarvikas, it may take couple of more days for the roll out to begin since there are some issues and difficulties that they are facing and working day and night to fix them. He also ensures that the update will begin rolling out as soon as t

According to post on amazon’s blog on 17 th December Friday Apple Music will be available to its Amazon Echo Smart Speaker Users. This is the result of increased collaboration between the tech giants. It’s a very good news to those apple music users who own an Amazon Echo Smart speaker as they will now be able to access the Apple Inc’s 50 million songs library on their Alexa Device. Amazon also said that they will stack more apple products in their store for shopping this holiday season. They have made a statement that they will be selling latest version of apple device on their shopping portals. Apple is also offering HomePod Smart speakers which uses Apple Inc’s voice assistant Siri, helping them compete against similar offering from tech giants like Amazon and Alphabet Inc’s Google.

There have been talks of Reliance’s JioMusic and Saavn Music app merger. Reliance Jio acquired majority stake of Saavn in March of this year. The launch of JioSaavn is basically a rebranding of Saavn app on iOS and JioMusic app on Android Google Play Store. The new JioSaavn app does not look that much different from previous Saavn. The Jio user are being offered complimentary 90-day pro service of the new JioSaavn app in which they get fully ad-free unlimited audio streaming. Jio’s big move of launching JioSaavn is not too far ahead from the expected launch of Spotify the biggest paid music streaming service in India. According to some reports Spotify is finally deciding on officially launching their services in India sometime soon. Though globally Spotify is the biggest music streaming service provider its services are limited to North America, Europe, and Latin America. On iOS app store Saavn app was rebranded to JioSaavn and the existing user of the app will be able to use all

Google is reportedly developing and testing a new king of voice assistant codenamed “Duplex”. It is Google’s new Natural language voice assistant. They are expecting it to replace call centres and answer customer service question to the Realtime users. According to the statement made by a google Spokesperson to The Information currently they not actively testing it and are taking a slow and steady approach in incorporating the results that they are getting from their intense testing. Google is not testing the tech with the business right now but the business world itself could be looking for the ways to use this impressive tech.  The statement made by the spokesperson was “ It’s important that we get the experience right both for the people and for businesses and we’re taking a slow and measured approach as we incorporate learnings and feedback from our tests – Google spokesperson ”. If Google’s plans are successful they we may be looking at world wide disruption in call centre bu