According to the 4.Edition of “Cybersecurity Report in Portugal – Scratchs & Conflicts” from the National Cybersecurity Center, the number of cybersecurity incidents recorded by the CERT.PT retreated from 754 records in the first quarter of 2022 to 470 from January to March 2023.
Ademar Days
Journalist
Radio Horizonte Algarve / Tavira
“Yet, This value represents an increase of 28% for the last quarter of 2022, in which they registered 366 incidents”, note the study.
Considering the entire year of 2022, face a 2021, cybersecurity incidents recorded by the CERT.PT increased 14%, of 1.781 to 2.023, maintaining the upward trajectory of previous years.
Android or iOS? A recent study by Green Smartphones sought to determine which of the two operating systems has better usability. The report analyzed search engine data, evaluating the number of times users of both systems sought help with basic operations, how to record screen, capture images or share location.
The results indicated that iPhone users sought help with these basic functions around 358.000 times a month, 58% more than on android. Average, were 226.000 monthly searches by Android users for help with basic tasks against 358.000 for iOS users.
The biggest discrepancy was observed in the research by “how to erase all content and settings”. In this case, on iOS searched six times more times than Android users.
the goal announced new features to help teens and families make it easier to manage their time on Instagram and Facebook, which includes parental supervision tools and alerts.
The new features will be available within weeks and include “new parental supervision tools”, in which there is the possibility for parents to be able to see how many mutual friends their teenager has with their followers and with the accounts they follow, and “new alerts to help teens manage their time on Facebook and Instagram”.
Another feature is silent mode., “which is designed to help teens focus and set healthy boundaries with friends and followers”.
It also adds “new restrictions to protect people from unwanted direct message requests”.
Google is test a new product that will allow players to access video games through YouTube. The information was advanced by the Wall Street Journal and is based on an internal email sent to Google employees.
The new product is called ‘Playables’ and allows users to access video games through the video streaming platform, via the YouTube app or a computer, as it already happened with Stadia.
For now, there is no more information about this new feature, which has not been officially announced by Google. It is possible that it uses technology similar to that of Stadia, which ended in January of this year, after failing to attract enough players.
And in film the highlight among the premieres of the week goes to an adventure with decades of history. "Indiana Jones and the Marker of Fate" marks the return of Harrison Ford as the legendary hero archaeologist, for the fifth part of the iconic saga.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Toby Jones and Mads Mikkelsen help make up the luxury cast of this film directed by James Mangold, which also features John Williams, responsible for the soundtrack of all Indy adventures since the original dated 1981.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsFCZ_33nGs
