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The new Trojan downloader (malware that downloads malicious installers) is named as ‘PirateMatryoshka’ after the classic Russian stacking doll due to its “seemingly endless stack of functionality.” The malware contains smaller versions of itself within one shell, which is disguised as a hacked version of legitimate, everyday software. “The Pirate Bay (TPB) tracker filled up with harmful files used to distribute malware under the guise of cracked copies of paid programs....

Do you know that an astounding amount of data gets generated every minute of every day, when a Internet user connects to, or searches for, creates, downloads, watches, and shops for content. All this data does make sense as it is important for the growth and success of any company or brand. There are 3.2 billion people that make today’s global internet population, do you know what are they doing online?...

While bed, TV, fridge and Wi-Fi connectivity are the basic common amenities that a hotel offers its customers during their stay, i hotel located in the Taoyuan district, which is about an hour’s train ride away from Taipei, provides proper gaming rigs in all its rooms for its gamer customers. The rooms in this hotel come equipped with two gaming PCs with i5-7400 processors and 32-inch screens powered by ASUS....

This form factor may be new for Microsoft’s latest operating system, but computers built into tables are nothing new. Back in 2014, 3M and Ideum created a 46-inch Android table and offered it for $6,950. It was around this time Redmond was showing off the original Microsoft Surface, which later became PixelSense. The ‘La Table Kineti’ coffee table is made from from wood and aluminium and has an unbreakable 42 inch Full HD (1920x1080px) display built into the surface....

However, a Pokemon Go cheat that went viral previously showed how to unban the soft ban using a few easy steps. However, this time around, there is a crazy hack in Pokemon Go that allows you to walk around undetected. But this hack is possible only if you have an iPhone and you are willing to sacrifice your iPhone to be jailbroken for this. In a YouTube video (see below) posted by iCrackUriDevice, it shows how to install the “Pokemon Go” cheat software inside a jailbroken iPhone and install the newly updated Pokemon Go tweak as well....

Cerber is a latest ransomware which encrypts target victim’s files and then provides a TTS (text-to-speech) feature that reads out the ransom note. The ransomware was discovered by two independent security researchers, @BiebsMalwareGuy and @MeegulWorth, and was analyzed by researchers from Bleeping Computer and Malwarebytes. The Cerber was first analysed last week by security researchers from SenseCy. SenseCy researchers stated that Cerber is written by Russian coders who are advertising and selling it as a RaaS service on underground hacking forums in Russia....

16-year-old Mohammed Ali rejected a $6.72 million offer for his website, weneed1.com because he believes that the site will be worth a lot more in future. Mohammed Ali is not new to either tech or big money has earned more than £40,000 after creating his own video game and a financial app for the stock market. The school kid from Yorkshire, UK has instead launched his own price comparison search engine with 60-year-old business partner Chris Thorpe....

They 3D printed a three-part lens using something called a “femtosecond direct laser writing system,” which is no bigger than a grain of salt, onto the end of a fiber optic cable the width of two human hairs. “Endoscopic applications will allow for non-invasive and non-destructive examination of small objects in the medical as well as the industrial sector,” its creators wrote in their paper. They added: “The unprecedented flexibility of our method paves the way towards printed optical miniature instruments such as endoscopes, fibre-imaging systems for cell biology, new illumination systems, miniature optical fibre traps, integrated quantum emitters and detectors, and miniature drones and robots with autonomous vision....

Disney+, Disney’s much-awaited streaming service, which was launched on November 12 in the U.S., Canada, and the Netherlands, gathered more than 10 million subscribers within 24 hours of its launch. Many Disney+ account users complained of facing technical difficulties within hours of its launch caused due to high volume of subscribers than expected. Not just this, there were also reports from some users being locked out of their accounts, as their usernames and passwords were changed by hackers....

Follow these Top 10 Tech Security Tips To Keep Yourself Safe From Hackers10. Look Out for Social Engineering Attacks9. Make Your Phone’s Lock Code More Secure8. Always Back Up Your Computer/Smartphone7. Install the Best Antivirus and Anti-Malware Software6. Lock Down Your Wireless Router5. Never Send Sensitive Information Over Email Unless It’s Encrypted4. Don’t Use Public Wi-Fi Without A VPN3. Use A Password Manager2. Use Two-Factor Verification1. Frequently Review Your App Permissions and Security Settings...

All thanks to its 3 founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Ronald Wayne left Apple only after 12 days of its launch and the reason is that he saw no success of apple. But Steve jobs proved him wrong. He became the most successful entrepreneur in the world and made apple reach the heights of glory. So what are the reasons for Apple Success? Let’s find out....

The company’s front-end server for YouTube and its YouTube API are mainly written in Python, and run on CPython 2.7, as opposed to other implementations (Jython, PyPy, or IronPython). The project began out of a need to improve Python execution on YouTube, which runs its front end on CPython 2.7, to handle concurrent workloads well. “Grumpy cannot leverage the wealth of existing Python C extensions, but it gave us a lot of flexibility to design an API and object representation that scales for parallel workloads,” said Dylan Trotter, a staff software engineer within YouTube Engineering at Google in a blog post....

According to the blog published by anti-malware provider Malwarebytes, the new method secretly opens a hidden browser window that sits behind the clock on the Microsoft Windows taskbar and continues to mine cryptocurrency siphoning CPU resources and power from your computer in a way so as not to attract attention from most users. “The hidden window’s coordinates will vary based on each user’s screen resolution, but follow this rule: Horizontal position = ( current screen x resolution ) – 100 Vertical position = ( current screen y resolution ) – 40,” Malwarebytes Lead Malware Intelligence Analyst Jérôme Segura wrote....

While the order did not specifically identify any country or company, the move was widely seen as blocking Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co from being used in U.S. networks. According to a White House statement, Trump’s executive order said the actions are necessary to prevent “economic and industrial espionage against the United States and its people and protect America from foreign adversaries who are actively and increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology infrastructure and services....

For those unaware, the ‘Blue Tick’ is a verification badge given by Twitter to help users identify prominent and popular people on the platform, and let them know that the account of public interest is authentic. Previously, the blue checkmark badge was only given to the verified accounts of government organizations, celebrities, politicians, entertainment, and public figures. The revamped ‘Blue Tick’ subscription service was pushed to Twitter via version 9....

Now, this time it involves an incident where two men in their 20s who were playing the augmented reality game between E and F Streets in Encinitas fell off the cliff in North San Diego County. Police said the men became distracted while trying to catch Pokemon, causing them to fall from the cliff. According to authorities, Encinitas Fire Department found one of the men 80-90 feet down the cliff, on the beach....

According to the UK’s central financial regulator, any ATMs providing cryptoasset exchange services in the country must be registered with the FCA to offer ATM services and adhere to Money Laundering Regulations (MLR). They said that any ATM services violating these conditions and are operating in the UK are doing so illegally and consumers should not be using them. “Crypto ATMs offering cryptoasset exchange services in the UK must be registered with us and comply with UK Money Laundering Regulations,” the FCA announced on its website....

The leaked data can be seen from a paste provided by the hacker group. the data contains the login credentials of the staff of the University. although the passwords are in encrypted format but can be decrypted by tools available online. The hacker also added the vulnerabilty that let them into their database in the paste. The leaked data can be seen fro the paste provided below:

Last week Grocery giants Albertsons and SUPERVALU announced a data breach which had affected US Departments stores across 18 states.

Technology arrives fast; gets adopted much later—a veritable reality of today’s construction industry as it prepares to enter a more connected world. Investing in con-tech is a multi-pronged executive decision, one that sparks cyber-privacy concerns while increasing odds for quashing errors. The idea of embracing technology should accompany a vision of future-readiness despite evolving risks across the construction spectrum. Regarded as one of the more traditional industries with a rising baby boomer workforce, the construction sector has invariably grown accustomed to manual methods that nullify a technological shift—an existential limbo shoving them behind the curve....