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Nowadays, the majority of employment applications, social interactions, and business transactions are conducted online. This represents a paradigm shift in the way humans are interacting with their environment. With greater comfort and convenience comes increased online risks. The only way to safeguard against growing Internet threats is vigilance. Leading banks and financial institutions are deeply invested in beefing up online security since it is in their best interests to prevent large-scale losses through cybercrime....

One of their hacking works built in the 1970s known as a “Blue Box” device is at display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. It was a device that allowed users to get free phone service illegally. Interesting, isn’t it? Let’s delve further to unfold the story. How did it all begin? Before Wozniak and Jobs built Apple in the 1970s, both were “phone phreaks”. Wozniak was an old-school hacker himself, whose hacker name was ‘Berkeley Blue’, while Jobs’ handle was ‘Oaf Tobar’....

HTC vulnerable to fingerprint stealing, stores fingerprint image files in unencrypted folderHTC fixed the bug In a white paper released by FireEye researchers(PDF), the group mentioned how easy it was to recover the image files from an HTC One Max phone. The fingerprints were stored in an image file named dbgraw.bmp in an open, readable and unencrypted folder. This means anyone that gains access to these files is capable of editing the fingerprints, deleting them and even forcing fake fingerprint scans....

The restructuring exercise which many would describe as “massive”, comes on back of IBM’s January announcement that it would be laying-off staff at its Global Technology Services (GTS) department in the US. Reports claim IBM has extended its laying-off exercise to many other departments in United States. “IBM is aggressively transforming its business to lead in a new era of cognitive and cloud computing,” the company said Wednesday in a statement....

Despite the government’s ban on PUBG Mobile, people have been violating the law by downloading and playing PUBG Mobile’s Korea (KR) version using the VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service. This also includes Indian YouTubers who are playing PUBG Mobile KR games using VPN service and uploading videos to their channels and live streaming them. For those unaware, a VPN is used to mask your Unique IP Address and access websites and services that are not allowed by your Internet Service Provider (ISP)....

Instagram Bug Exposed Passwords: The Issue Instagram and Facebook are two of the most popular social media platforms with billions of users across the globe. Both Instagram and Facebook have been in news this year due to many major security flaws. Instagram Bug Exposed Passwords: The IssueInstagram Bug Exposed Passwords: The Solution The “Download Your Data” feature on Instagram allowed users to download their activity like recent posts, likes, and comments....

In the process, the Gigabyte OC team broke the erstwhile overclocking record which belonged to a sister processor, Intel i7-7700K. Intel Core i7-7700K held the record for being overclocked to 7 GHz but Gigabyte OC overclocked Intel Core i7-7740K to whopping 7.5 GHz. Imagine the heat this must have generated. Gigabyte OC used liquid Helium as a coolant for this massive overclocking exercise. The Gigabyte X299-SOC Champion motherboard was used in order to achieve this record along with 6GB kit of Corsair Vengeance LPX 4,333MHz memory and a Corsair AX 1500i power supply....

The new drives have a slimmer look and better shapes. The reason behind this new design is the server rack according to which, they will be able to load higher amounts of data in them.The storage of 1 petabyte i.e. 1000 terabytes will be available in the 1U server rack which is the smallest rack available and it uses Intel’s 3D NAND technology. The slimmer size and higher amount of storage has grabbed all the attention here and has become a topic of discussion among many....

The ten-second video footage of the incident that happened on January 19 has been circulating online that shows a man looking to purchase a replacement battery for his iPhone in an electronics, reports Taiwan News. The video clip shows the store employee handing the man a battery, which he brings up to his face and then bites on it to check its authenticity. The moment he removes the battery from his mouth, it bursts into flames just inches away from his face....

According to The Wichita Falls Times Record News, Ben Wilson says his phone still worked even though it was “scratched a bit” after the incident on a plane. Wilson said he was travelling home with a pilot in a Beechcraft Bonanza, aircraft, when the passenger door slightly opened due to a pressure drop. He realized that his iPhone had been sucked out of the plane during the accident only upon landing....

However, within hours their promise fell through as Google remained untouched. They instead defaced the website https://addgoogleonline.com, registered in the name of Gandani K. from India. On Monday morning, the site displayed the logo of the hacking group, and played an Islamic State song in French. “Hacked By: CCA,” the defaced website said. Cyber Caliphate published a list of the websites it had managed to hack through Monday. While Google stood out prominently in the list, the list also contained 35 British websites that it allegedly targeted....

For those unaware, KPM is a password manager developed by Russian security firm Kaspersky, which allows users to securely store passwords and documents into an encrypted vault, protected by a password. All the sensitive data stored in the encrypted vault is protected with a master password. This product is available for various operating systems such as Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Web. It also allows users to create generate random, strong passwords from a given “policy”, which consists of password length, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and a custom set of special chars....

Kickass Torrent domain seized by authorities, moves to its old .To domain againMoving back to its old .To domain After the downfall of The Pirate bay in December, Kickass was ruling the roost of the torrent jungle with a millions of unique visitors per day. It seems that its popularity caused some angry nerves with the copyright groups and that sounded the death knell for its .so domain. Kickass has been moving to different domain names to evade law enforcement and copyright advocacy groups for some time now....

India could help Foxconn lessen the increasing wage inflation in China, where it makes the majority of iPhones, and base production sites closer to markets where its main clients want to grow. Foxconn can keep hold of Apple orders in the middle of an intense competition with smart manufacturing rivals such as Quanta Computer due to lower production costs. According to Reuters, Foxconn is said to be looking to build iPads and iPods in India in addition to iPhones, for both local and international sales....

The total number of those believed to be caught up in the breaches, which included the theft of the Social Security numbers and addresses of more than 21 million former and current government employees, remains the same. OPM and the Department of Defense were reviewing the theft of background investigation records when they identified additional fingerprint data that had been exposed, OPM said in a statement. Breaches involving biometric data like fingerprints are particularly concerning to privacy experts because of their permanence: Unlike passwords and even Social Security numbers, fingerprints cannot be changed....

Towards a cashless era At the global level, the financial ecosystem is approaching a cashless era, it is imminent that various innovations emerge, proffering solutions for effective and efficient transactions. The rapid change that is occuring in this sector a number of innovations springing up in different areas. Mobile wallet options like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Wallet are all examples of innovations already in existence in line with this revolution....

However, the cyberattack has slowed down drastically over the week with Microsoft urging its unaffected users to update their systems with the patches released, latest antivirus and anti-virus malware. Also, independent security researchers going by the names ‘Adrien Guinet’ and ‘Benjamin Delpy’ have released WannaCry decryption tools named “WannaKey” and “WanaKiwi” respectively to counter the attack. In this article, we will find out more about the 22-year-old self-taught cyber analyst who helped slowing down the spread of WannaCry virus....

Under the partnership, OpenAI services will run on Microsoft’s cloud computing service Azure, which will be used by the former to continue its work on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a human-like AI that can learn and perform varied tasks like humans, or maybe even better than them. With this deal, Microsoft is also now OpenAI’s ‘preferred partner’ for developing commercial AI technologies, the companies said in a statement on Monday....