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The vulnerabilities affect a number of different operating systems, including Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Android, iOS, and Chrome OS. The update includes patches for a variety of problems, five of which Adobe rated as “critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.” In other words, hackers can use the aforementioned errors to break into your computer, take control of it, and even steal your private information....

The search giant has announced a post-quantum key-exchange algorithm called ‘New Hope’ that has been enabled in Chrome Canary. It is a type of testing ground for browsers and is currently being experimented on only a small fraction of connections between desktop Chrome and Google’s servers alongside current security measures. If the key is successful, Google says, it should stand up to future quantum computers. “Today we’re announcing an experiment in Chrome where a small fraction of connections between desktop Chrome and Google’s servers will use a post-quantum key-exchange algorithm in addition to the elliptic-curve key-exchange algorithm that would typically be used....

Now, a new security vulnerability that involves sending an Indian language character (in Telugu) to devices has been discovered in Apple’s latest operating system (iOS 11.2.5) that can cause your iPhone to crash and block access to apps, like iMessage, WhatsApp, Outlook for iOS, Gmail and Facebook Messenger or make them inaccessible. The iOS bug also affects built-in Messages app on macOS and the Apple Watch, as well as the App Store and Safari....

Google has released the latest version of its OS Android and here are some quick facts to get started with it. Fine Tuned App PermissionsNow on Tap is the future Nevertheless,here are some points to be taken into consideration before moving on to Marshmallow for a smoother user experience. Fine Tuned App Permissions In the latest OS,user will have an option to grant only specific permissions to the app out of all asked....

Nintendo was consistently refusing offers to share its gaming knowledge with the smartphone industry for a long time; one reason for this could be that it was experiencing some threat to its gaming console based business however with the giant Sony entering the gaming console industry and Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Nintendo is facing a tough competition and this could have added to its quick decision. Serkan Toto, a video game consultant based in Tokyo said: “This is basically a bombshell, especially given that Nintendo hasn’t been really fond of the smartphone gaming market....

The widespread malware campaign targeting cryptocurrency users is believed to be carried out by the “Lazarus Group,” a state-sponsored hacking group linked to the North Korean government. According to researchers, this group has been involved in some notable crimes, such as the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, an $81 million Bangladesh cyber theft in 2016 and the worldwide WannaCry ransomware attacks in May this year. Citing the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo reported that the cyberattacks credited to North Korean hackers also included the leaking of personal information from 36,000 accounts from South Korea’s biggest and one of the top five cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Bithumb, in June....

The new TITAN V card features 21.1 billion transistors that delivers 110 TFLOPs of raw horsepower. Besides rocking the latest 12nm Volta GPU architecture, the chip is designed to power AI and complex scientific simulations, offering as much as 9 times the performance of Nvidia’s previous-generation GPU and has “extreme energy efficiency”. “What Nvidia is all about is building tools that advance computing so we can do things that would otherwise be impossible,” said Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang at the annual NIPS conference....

The tool is product from the Think With Google team, which provides insights on how to best enhance your business online to attract, transform, and retain customers. The free service even provides an in-depth report on how to fix encountered problems. Just type in the URL for a homepage and it will return a score out of 100 for mobile friendliness, mobile speed, and desktop speed. However, to everyone’s surprise, the tool was not used by anyone at Google before it was made public....

This move was greatly appreciated by the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov of Ukraine. You can send and receive money in Ukraine on PayPal As per the latest update coming from PayPal, the payment processor has expanded its services in Ukraine. Earlier, users could only receive money in their Ukrainian wallets from outside the country. You can send and receive money in Ukraine on PayPalPayPal waives off transaction fee till June 30thHelping hands for Ukraine...

The Researcher used radamsa fuzzer (fuzzer for both text based generations and also binary file format mutations) and a python script created by him which uses the python-ptrace signal handling module and allows to catch any crashes and categorizes them depending on the signal number. POC: Result: The bug exposes serializer to user-controlled data and can trigger a crash when parsing specially crafted serialized data with the [unserialized]. The Vulnerability has been allotted “CVE-2014-3669” and a patch has been released by the PHP Warning: Class __PHP_Incomplete_Class has no unserializer in /home/user/Desktop/poc....

The hack attack which took place at 10.00 German time took down many German websites and left other sites periodically inaccessible. A group calling itself CyberBerkut claimed responsibility for the hack on its website cyber-berkut.org/en/. In a statement on its website it gave its reasons for blocking Chancellor Merkel and Bundestag’s websites, That’s why we appeal all people and government of Germany to stop financial and political support of criminal regime in Kiev, which unleashed a bloody civil war....

Apparently, a rodent was able to find its way inside the ATM at the State Bank of India’s Tinsukia location, who chewed up bank notes worth more than $19,000 and then died. The ATM had been broken since May 20, officials said. When the technicians came to fix the ATM machine on June 11, they were surprised to find out that all of the notes in 500-rupee and 2,000-rupee denominations inside the machine were shredded....

With digital threats becoming more and more sophisticated every day, a coordinated effort is required by all involved in the information technology ecosystem. These threats started placing a heavy focus on the mass acquisition of data and information from secure systems. Whether its intellectual property theft, identify or financial information, or simply aggregate user data, you can find countless examples of this in the last decade. From the mass breach of Equifax in 2017 that resulted in the theft of private information on 143 million Americans, to the internal breach at the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year, even the most sophisticated and well-protected organizations are subject to attacks on their internal data....

There is not just one type of router on the market that works with Verizon FiOS and you do not need to rent one. This is why you should buy. When you should Rent In some instances, renting a router for Verizon FiOS might be the best option. For $10 to $15 a year, you can rent the router and then send it back if you cancel your internet. One of the biggest perks of renting a router for Verizon FiOS is that if it is defective, they can replace it for you....

Google could face a fine between 800,000 roubles and 4 million roubles ($10,800 -$54,000) if it fails to restrict access to banned information within 24 hours. Further, a fine of up to 10% of the company’s total annual revenue would be charged for repeated offenses, the watchdog said. The search giant could also face a possible punitive slowdown of its online traffic in the country. The move comes as Russia seeks to curb Western tech giants and strengthen what they call the “sovereignty” of the Internet....

Elizaveta Danilova, the Director of the Bank of Russia’s Financial Stability Department, on Thursday presented the report, “Cryptocurrencies: trends, risks, measures,” during an online news press conference and discussed the study on the ban of cryptocurrencies. “The use of cryptocurrencies creates significant threats to the well-being of Russian citizens and the stability of the financial system,” the report said. Russia became the world’s third-largest player in bitcoin mining, behind the United States and Kazakhstan, according to Cambridge University data released in October....

According to breach notification site LeakedSource, accounts of over 100 million users of popular social media site VK.com are being transacted on the digital underground. The site obtained the data and published an analysis on Sunday. In the meantime, the hacker known as Peace, has put up the data for sale on a dark web market. Heavily inspired by Facebook, VK.com based in St. Petersburg, Russia – formerly known as VKontakte – is said to be the largest European online social networking service, with over 350 million users at the last count....

“Today we’re sharing that the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center has recently tracked significant cyberattacks originating from a group we call Strontium, also known as Fancy Bear/APT28, targeting anti-doping authorities and sporting organizations around the world. As the world looks forward with anticipation to the Tokyo Summer Games in 2020, we thought it important to share information about this new round of activity,” Tom Burt, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Customer Security & Trust said in a blog post....