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The intrusion may have caused the personal data of more than 800,000 employees being compromised including personally identifiable information about employees, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, beginning and end dates of employment, emergency contact information and other information. Customers personal data who contacted its customer care call center or connected its Customer care service via email between Jan. 1, 2014, and Aug. 16, 2014 is also been compromised which includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and other information of the customers who provided it to UPS call center....

Meet USB Killer v2.0 which can burn any PC in minutesUSB Killer 2.0 Can Damage Any Computer As It Is More Powerful Dark Purple works for a company that develops and manufactures electronic components. The same researcher has now launched a new version of his computer-frying USB Killer pendrive – USB Killer version 2.0, with a specific purpose that it “would burn half a laptop down.” USB Killer 2.0 is much more powerful than its previous version....

According to BBC News, Rigo pleaded guilty back into July to one count of voyeurism and one count of another computer-related offense. The documents filed in the court reveal that Rigo used his ex-girlfriend’s credit card to purchase Blackshades malware, a well known remote access trojan (RAT) that surreptitiously infects users’ computers. In addition to observing his victims through their hijacked webcam, Rigo was also capable of stealing passwords from infected computers, reading email conversations, launch denial-of-service attacks, access banking data and so forth using the Blackshades malware which has been around since 2010....

In fact, Twitch chat and KEKW are almost inseparable. This may lead you to question, “what does ‘KEKW’ mean?” If so, this article will answer your query along with the origin of KEKW. So, read on to find out. What does KEKW mean in Twitch chat? What does KEKW mean in Twitch chat?Where did KEKW originate?How did KEKW become so popular on Twitch? KEKW is popular emote in Twitch chat, which is often spammed when something hilarious takes place during a stream....

The ‘Joinable calls’ feature will allow the users to see the calls that were missed during the ring and join the group call while it is still going on. With the new feature, the participants can be seen on the video call screen, the way they are seen on various other communication apps. “At a time when so many of us are apart, there’s nothing better than getting together on a group call with friends and family, and there’s nothing worse than realizing that you missed a special moment As the popularity of group calls continues to grow, we’ve been working to improve the experience for our users – while of course still providing the security and privacy of end-to-end encryption,” WhatsApp said in a statement....

A majority of smartphones that will lose WhatsApp support are quite old at the time of writing this article and some of them are even a decade old (iPhone 5). One of the primary reasons why these smartphones won’t be supported is that they haven’t been updated in a very long time. Whatsapp will now only be supported on devices running at least Android 5.0 Lollipop or iOS 12 or later....

However when it does come, it comes with some good news. Microsoft is finally adding support for Bluetooth keyboards to its Windows Phone run smartphones. The Bluetooth keyboard was supported by old Windows Mobile 6.0 however surprisingly it is not supported by any version of Windows Phone. Having Bluetooth support for Windows Phone will let Windows Phone users like Lumia ones, to connect their Bluetooth keyboards and type away. As per the news from Redmond, the new update called Windows Phone 8....

The smartphone operating system market is dominated by Google’s open source Android OS while Apple’s closed operating system iOS takes the third place. Microsoft which has its own Windows Phone operating system is a distant third and Microsoft has been trying hard to make a dent in the smartphone OS market but has met with repeated failures. Its only chance of catching up with Android is its planned Windows 10 operating system which it says will be a cross platform single OS for all devices like PC’s, smartphones and tablet....

Dubbed as T-CUP, the new device is so quick that it literally makes it possible to freeze time to see phenomena such as light itself behave in extremely slow motion. To build their camera, the researchers looked at compressed ultra-fast photography (CUP), a technique that can capture images at a speed of around 100 billion frames per second. T-CUP’s system is based on a femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second) streak camera that also involves a data acquisition type used in applications such as tomography....

Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone’s group at Columbia University School of Engineering heading the team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University, and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science reported that for the first time ever they have successfully demonstrated an on-chip visible light source by using graphene as a filament. Graphene is atomically thin and a perfect crystalline form of carbon. Scientists attached small strips of graphene to metal electrodes....

CEO Tim Cook and other executives are expected to announce major developments to iPhones, MacBooks, watches, and TVs and show off new versions of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Let us go through Apple’s biggest updates that are likely to be announced at WWDC 2019: iOS 13 iOS 13 is expected to be the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system that will run on iPhones, iPads, including iPod Touch....

We are in the 5G zone and a new Internet experience waiting to be unleashed. Along with Samsung, Nokia, Alcatel etc in the 5G arena, Qualcomm is also pushing hard to bring 5G mobile telephone to you and me.While who will be first to bring the technology to users is anybody’s guess, Qualcomm showed what it can do with 5G tech at the recently concluded CES 2017 at Las Vegas, United States....

OpenShot video editor is an open-source video editor for Linux but also available for Windows and Mac. It is free and released under GNU GPL 3 license. Using OpenShot video editor, you can take your videos, photos, and music files and create the film you have always dreamed of. You can easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats....

The move comes amid the updated Privacy Policy agreement revealed by WhatsApp that prompted many users across the globe to migrate to other encrypted messenger alternatives such as Signal and Telegram. For those unaware, WhatsApp had updated its Privacy Policy wherein the service was supposed to start sharing user data with other Facebook companies starting February 8th. However, following sharp criticism and mass migration by WhatsApp users to other chat platforms, the company has delayed the enforcement of its controversial Privacy Policy agreement until May 15th to give people time to review the policy at their own pace....

According to a report from WABetaInfo, which tracks all the latest developments related to WhatsApp, the messaging platform is apparently testing an update for the Last Seen and Online Status. This feature will allow users to decide who can see them online while they are using the messaging app. Currently, WhatsApp users can only hide their Last Seen everyone, contacts, or specific contacts. In its report, WABetaInfo stated that a lot of WhatsApp users over the years requested to be able to hide their online status in stealth mode for various reasons....

Explaining his findings in a post today Zdziarski stated that the software retains and stores forensic traces of chat logs even after the chats had been deleted by the WhatsApp users. Zdziarski said that this would create a potential treasure trove of information for anyone with physical access to the device. The same data could also be recoverable through any remote backup systems in place. Normally when the WhatsApp user deletes a particular message or chat, the data is deleted from within his App....

The zero-day was first noticed in December 2015 but demonstrated by Yunusov yesterday at the Nullcon conference in Goa. Yunusov proceeded to reveal flaws in eight 3G and 4G modems. A query on the Internet of Things vulnerability testing search engine, Shodan allowed him to find more than 42,000 vulnerable devices exposed on the web. Yunusov said that he could find as many as 2800 Gemtek modems and routers and 1250 from Quanta and ZTE with the unpatched flaw....

According to the security researcher, Benjamin Kunz Mejri from Vulnerability Labs, there are two main bugs both connected to the BMW online service web app for ConnectedDrive. ConnectedDrive is the name of BMW’s in-car infotainment system. The system can be used as it is, in the car, or via a series of connected mobile apps that allow the driver to manage vehicle settings through their mobile devices. This service also has a equivalent for the Web, in addition to the mobile apps....

The Blade V8 Pro was unveiled at this year’s CES 2017 and quickly leaped to our attention through the way that the device’s dual cameras enabled us all to achieve that sought-after bokeh effect, despite the smartphone’s street price being just $230. And when you realise that the device is also able to use its flash to deliver seven levels of brightness, it’s clear that this is a great new device for mobile photo fans....

MDSec which has been testing the hardware called “IP-Box iPhone Password Unlock Tool” says the hardware is freely available online on sites such as fotofunshop and needs to be sued with a adapter also available on fotofunshop, to crack any pin code on iPhone and iPad even if they are running on iOS 8.1. The IP-Box cracks any 4 digit iPhone/iPad pin code by exploiting a known vulnerability ‘CVE-2014-4451’ in Apple’s operating system upto version 8....