Samsung Galaxy S22 Gets Hacked In Less Than A Minute

For those unaware, Pwn2Own is a hacking competition organized each year by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) where ethical hackers, cybersecurity experts, and several other contestants took part. Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the consumer-focused hacking contest. In the Pwn2Own hacking contest, security researchers exploit the latest and most popular mobile devices and demonstrate their skills and disclose major zero-day vulnerabilities to tech companies. Following the event, vendors have 90 days to produce patches for these bugs....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 462 words · James Estrada

Samsung Receives Trademark On Its Foldable Galaxy X Smartphone Techworm

The Galaxy X smartphone is said to come in two different versions, the Galaxy X1 and the X1+ and will have model numbers SM-X9000 & SM-X9050 respectively. As the names suggests, one can deduce that one of the devices will be bigger than the other. The Samsung Galaxy X1 will come with a 5-inch flexible OLED display and will sport a fold-out design along with support for the 4K resolution....

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 196 words · Eddy Eliason

Samsung S Foldable Smartphone Will Be Coming In 2017 Techworm

Samsung had in January, 2016, filed a patent suggesting that the company was working on a smartphone with foldable display tech. In a call with investors in January, director of Samsung’s Display division Lee Chang-hoon said “Development of Foldable OLED is taking place according to our plan…We are planning on mass-production and release this product by discussing without partners.” It seems that Chang-hoon was speaking about a foldable device which it had patented in January, 2016....

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 192 words · Esther Cooper

Samsung Smart Fridge Can Expose Your Gmail Credential To Hackers

The hack was discovered in Samsung’s RF28HMELBSR fridge which has a Wi-Fi capability that allows a user to show their Gmail calendar on the display. Though Samsung has implemented a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the fridge fails to validate the certificates that come as part of the SSL protocol, leaving the device vulnerable to attack. For an SSL certificate to be valid, the browser must receive a valid code back from the website host, something Samsung failed to do....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 259 words · Mary Ramirez

Saudi Aramco Saudi Arabian National Oil And Natural Gas Company Hacked By Anonghost Under Oppetrol Techworm

Although The Anonghost have not leaked Bank account login credential but Some of the data can be seen from the paste provided by Anonghost. Paste to the data here Stay tuned for latest update on #OPpetrol here Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below 🙂

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 55 words · Pamela Hall

Scientists Develop World S First Soft Robot With A 3 D Printed Body That Can Jump Like A Human Being

We think that bringing together soft and rigid materials will help to create a new generation of fast, alert robots that are more healthy and flexible than their predecessors and can safely work side by side with humans,” said Michael Tolley, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at University of California – San Diego. Tolley said that the thought of blending soft and hard materials into the robot’s body came from nature....

December 24, 2022 · 4 min · 651 words · Becky Palmese

Scientists May Have Just Found Out Why Time Moves Forward Not Backwards Techworm

Joan Vaccaro, an Associate Professor of Griffith University has put forward a proposition based on her calculations as to why there is a difference between the future and the past. According to her, the answer is in a special class of quantum phenomena, as the law of physics don’t have to distinguish between time and space. If you are going forward or backward in time, there may be a possibility that certain quantum phenomena may not act in the same way....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 490 words · Kristen Martinez

Scientists Successfully Grow Human Brain With Maturity Of 5 Week Foetus In Lab

Creating a model with the brain maturity of a 5-week-old foetus, the Researchers at the Ohio State University in the US say that the dimension is almost the size of a pencil eraser, which contains 99 percent of the genes that would be there in a natural human foetal brain. Rene Anand, professor of biological chemistry and pharmacology at Ohio State and lead researcher on the brain model, said “The brain organoid, engineered from adult human skin cells, is the most complete human brain model yet developed....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 562 words · Charles Hanavan

Sharp S Adorable Robohon Robot Phone Will Be Available In May For 1 800 Techworm

Sharp has started accepting preorders for its adorable RoBoHoN robot, a 7.7-inch-tall (19.5 centimeter) humanoid that also comes with all the basic features of a smartphone. The company said it plans to release the robots in Japan on May 26 at a price of 198,000 yen — or more than $1,800. RoBoHoN runs on Android 5.0 mobile operating system and comes with 16 gigabytes of storage and an 8-megapixel camera....

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 127 words · Donna Stubbs

Sheryl Sandberg Steps Down As Meta S Coo After 14 Years

Bidding adieu to her 14 years of journey in the organization, Sandberg said that she will officially leave the company this fall but continue to remain on the company’s board of directors and focus on her foundation and philanthropic work. She will also work with Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg to transition out of the role before her departure. Sandberg, who joined Meta in 2008 as Meta’s CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg’s second-ranking executive, has helped Facebook transform from a start-up to the most dominant and multibillion-dollar social media juggernaut it is today with nearly 3 billion users around the world....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 518 words · Jacques Smithson

Sony S Spider Man Remastered Coming To Windows Pc

PlayStation Studios partner studio Nixxes Software has helped with porting of the action-adventure game to PC. Marvel’s Spider-Man, the open-world superhero game, was the first title to be launched on PlayStation 4 (PS4) in 2018. The game received praise for its narrative, characterization, combat, and web-swinging traversal mechanics making it one of the best-selling PS4 titles of all time. Later, Insomniac Games ported the game to PlayStation 5 (PS5) in November 2020, creating the remastered version of Marvel’s Spider-Man....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 341 words · Barney Clay

Strange Bug Bricks Iphones If You Set It To A Certain Date Techworm

This eerie bug will brick your iPhone if you change the date to 1st Jan 1970.Note : Dont try this with your iPhone The bug came to light on Thursday when Reddit users started experimenting on their own iOS devices to see if it worked. Some recorded the process, which involves changing the date in the Settings app and rebooting the device, and shared videos on YouTube. It’s unclear what causes Apple’s operating system to crash from changing the date....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 434 words · Scott Boyce

Submarine Network Operator Pacnet Hit By A Major Cyber Attack

Spokesperson for Telstra said that an unauthorised third party had been able to gain access to the Pacnet business management systems through a malicious software installed via a vulnerability on an SQL server. According to Telstra the cyber attack took place just weeks before it concluded the $550mn (approx. £350mn) takeover of Pacnet on 16th April this year. It also said that it was not aware of the hacking attack while signing the takeover deal....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 223 words · Vince Lantz

Tesla To Stop People From Playing Games While The Vehicle Is In Motion

For those unaware, last year, the electric carmaker had added a “Passenger Play” feature on its electric vehicles that allowed car drivers to play video games available on the center touchscreen only when it was parked. However, Tesla later released a software update that allowed occupants to play video games while driving after a warning that it should only be used by passengers. This change made by the automaker raised a lot of questions about safety and driver distraction....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 358 words · Beau Williams

The Jungle Book And Other Iconic 16 Bit Disney Games Are Now Available On Pcs Techworm

The three Disney’s classic 16-bit platformers are Aladdin, The Lion King and The Jungle Book, which have been updated for modern computers and re-released exclusively on GOG.com. “All three titles have been meticulously updated to be compatible with modern operating systems while preserving the original graphics, sound and gameplay,” GOG.com’s press release reads. In order to bring popular Disney characters to life in the gaming world, all the three timeless classics were developed using Digicel technology....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 313 words · Brandon Martin

The Pirate Bay And Other Sites Ordered To Be Blocked By Isp Telia

The decision comes following a complaint by a huge association of content companies and groups including the Swedish Film Industry, Nordisk Film, Disney, Paramount, Columbia, Disney, and Twentieth Century Fox. Also Read: The Pirate Bay Alternatives- 10 Best Torrent Sites like TPB (2018) ‘Site-blocking’ has become one of the preferred anti-piracy tools by many content companies and distributors who are looking to decrease the level of copyright infringement. It all started in Sweden last year when the Swedish Patent and Market Court of Appeal ordered local ISP Bredbandsbolaget (Broadband Company) to block The Pirate Bay and streaming site Swefilmer....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 529 words · Thomas Congdon

There Was A Time When Yahoo Refused To Buy Google For 1 Million Techworm

You can call it an irony of sorts but Yahoo is responsible for its own demise. After making several attempts to reinvent itself since it lost relevance, Yahoo has finally announced that it is selling most of its core services to US telecommunications giant Verizon. Yahoo was one of the companies that defined Internet. In fact, in some ways, Yahoo was the harbinger of the famous Dot.com era when it was valued at over $100 billion....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 516 words · Bonnie Couch

Thirteen Oscar Movies Leaked Dvd Screeners Versions Hit Torrent Websites

Its Oscar season and torrent fans are enjoying the sudden flood of ‘Screener’ versions of most of the movies in run for the Oscar movies nominations. Most of the notable Oscar contenders are now available as ‘Screener’ versions even those films which have not been released outside of NYC and L.A. It is believed that most of these films were sent to the members of the various nominating guilds for screening and somebody may have leaked these films hence the name ‘Screener’ versions....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 364 words · Anthony Miller

This Developer Hacked Kinect Hololens To Control A Holograms Entire Virtual Body Techworm

We all know that Microsoft Kinect is a superb piece of engineering which lets you much better motion tracking than the HoloLens currently can on its own. Kyle G, founder and CEO of Wavelength Studios found that using either Kinect or HoloLens did not give him desired results so he thought out a plan to hack both Kinect and HoloLens to let him control his holographic zombie. Hololens Reality News notes that mixed reality doesn’t just involve putting digital objects in our environment—it needs to understand us and our movements as well....

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 151 words · Edward Hale

This Oral B Genius Will Help You Smartly Brush Your Teeth Techworm

Now, Oral-B has gone a step further by introducing a new toothbrush at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 called the ‘Oral-B Genius’. This brush uses “Position Detection Technology” with sensors in the brush and video recognition tech that uses the camera on your smartphone. Together the smartphone camera and sensor keep an eye on areas of your teeth being brushed to help ensure no space is missed. The users need to place their smartphone in a robust-looking holder on the mirror in front of them....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 628 words · Jacqueline Flagg