Ios 9 3 1 Allows Hackers To Bypass The Lockscreen In Iphone 6S Using Siri Techworm

A bug in the newly released iOS 9.3.1 iPhone 6s & iPhone 6s Plus models and can be exploited via Siri. Attackers can bypass an iPhone’s lock screen using a Siri search and access the user’s contacts list and private photos. Users may be aware of a similar bug which plagued iOS 9.3 and was fixed in September by Apple. The current bug looks pretty much similar to the earlier one and cause twice as much damage by giving access to the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus private album and contacts to hackers Jose Rodrigues discovered this issue and made a proof-of-concept video, embedded below....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 327 words · Anthony Niederkorn

Iphone 6 Plus Catches Fire In Pocket Forcing The Owner To Strip In Public Techworm

The man, who asked to remain anonymous, said that he had to strip in a Douglas County store parking lot when he noticed that his iPhone 6 Plus catch fire. Speaking with WSBTV, the unlucky iPhone owner said the first thing he actually felt was a strong burning sensation in his front pocket, followed by smoke coming from his pants. “When I saw the smoke, I undid my belt, I undid my pants....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 265 words · Daniel Reid

Is Your Vpn 100 Secure

Recent studies have shown that even the most popular VPNs actually leak your data. This is disconcerting news, I know. A VPN is supposed to keep your identity secure while keeping your internet traffic private. Now, the next important question is “Why?”. Why VPNs leak your data First, let’s get to the core of the problem. What type of data do VPNs actually leak? It’s a little-known fact among everyday folk that Internet domains are either IPv4 or IPv6....

December 19, 2022 · 4 min · 851 words · Thomas Shuler

It Takes A Whole Day To Change 3 Lines Of Code At Ea

In a recent blogpost, former EA developer Adam Berg stated that “3 Lines of Code Shouldn’t Take an Entire Day to Write.” Well, Adam joined the FIFA (EA Game Franchise) team as an intern back in 2014. He started by working on the PS Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Wii ports of the game. According to his blogpost compiling and testing just three lines of codes took an entire day....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 273 words · Teresa Hamilton

Japanese Gamers Are Using Female Vibrators To Cheat At Pok Mon Go Techworm

Who would have thought of female vibrator hack to cheat Pokémon Go GPSNote : The post contains NSFW references hence reader discretion is requested A Pokémon Go player group who goes by the handle of RocketNews24 suggests you to use female vibrator to fool Pokémon Go’s GPS. . The massager device is apparently useful to trick the app’s GPS system into thinking that you are moving around. With a couple Pokémon eggs in their incubator, the genius guys at RocketNews24 decided to test out this vibrator method so you wouldn’t have to :...

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 318 words · Dominique Steinman

Kaspersky Launches Its Own Operating System After 14 Years Of Hard Work Techworm

And to prove this right the Russian cybersecurity and antivirus company, Kaspersky Lab, who after investing 14 years of hard work has officially announced the availability of its own operating system known as ‘KasperskyOS.’ The company has codenamed the KasperskyOS as 11-11. For those unfamiliar, Kaspersky in November 2016 had announced that they are going to start its own hackproof operating system aimed at network devices, IoT, industrial control systems....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 358 words · Jose Moss

Katrg Kickass Torrents Own Movie Ripping Group Makes A Super Comeback Techworm

KickassTorrents community had announced the formation of KATRG in the aftermath of the shutdown of the most popular ripping group – YIFY/YTS. YIFY/YTS had gained publicity and notoriety due to the fact that the group brought out latest movie released in superb video and sound quality and crunching it within 1000 MB. Torrent lovers loved YIYF released because of the low space requirement as well as the fact that the group brought the best quality new releases....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 236 words · Alicia Hunter

Kodi Accuses Sony Of Blocking Its Media App On Recent Android Tvs

Despite the bad name, Kodi still remains popular with the public. Looking at its increased popularity, even Sony Electronics actively promoted Kodi on its website and recommended users of its Android TVs to download Kodi to access add-ons. However, the official Kodi project Twitter account has now directly accused Sony of “actively preventing” owners of Sony-made TVs, powered by Android TV, from installing the Kodi app. For those unaware, Kodi is an open source, cross-platform streaming and media player solution that allows you to access all of your digital audio, movies, TV shows, music collection, and photo library from a single, convenient place....

December 19, 2022 · 3 min · 511 words · Brad Cummings

Laser Li Fi Could Offer 100 Gbps Data Speeds

Well, a company named SLD Laser showcased a demonstration of its latest version of laser Li-Fi at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. During the demonstration, the company managed to transfer data at a speed of 20 GB/s. It is worth noting that, 5G wireless network can only offer data transfer speed of 1GB/s. Unlike conventional Wi-Fi, the Li-Fi technology displayed by SLD Laser uses laser light instead of radio waves to transmit data at improved speeds....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 302 words · Nancy Carrillo

Latest Cumulative Update For Windows 10 Fail To Install Causes Random Restarts

Some users reported that they were unable to install the released patches, while some complained of facing random restarts after installing the update. This issue also affects users of Windows 10 version 1903. Several Windows 10 users are seeing error codes 0x800f0982, 0xe0000100, and 0x80073701 that are preventing them from installing the patch update. “Screen goes black, PC shuts down. PC restarts, and goes straight to Desktop. As though it were just restarting normally, were it not for the fact that it doesn’t wait for programs to close before doing so....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 201 words · Daniel Belk

Latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Has A Secretly Hidden Retail Demo

However, there are a couple of disadvantages that may make this not worth though. First, if you enable the feature, all your personal content will be erased from your device. Second, if you want to uninstall the retail demo experience, you need a password that won’t be reported to the public, people may end up disabling the retail demos of devices at stores creating havoc for retailers. You can enable the demo feature by going to Settings -> Windows Update and Recovery -> Activation....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 418 words · Francis Bonnett

Leaks Reveals Xiaomi Mi5 Tipped To Cost 386 Mi 5 Plus May Boast Record Camera Resolution

This latest leak is somewhat more legit than the previous ones, as it comes from a tipster account that has spilled convincing beans a few times before, including on the latest Mi prototype. According to the leakster on Weibo, the Mi5 will take benefit of a Snapdragon 810 processor while the Mi5 Plus will be fueled by a next-gen Snapdragon 820. Earlier we have heard that both models would be the recipients of a Snapdragon 820....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 384 words · Harold Forsyth

Lg Band Play 4G Lte Smartphone With 5 Inch Hd Display 13Mp Camera Announced

LG said that the Band Play variant announced in Korea is a single-SIM device with 4G LTE connectivity but a dual-SIM variant should also be in the works. LG also stated that LG Band has a powerful 1-Watt loudspeaker for clear sound and Band Play buyers will also get LG’s QuadBeat headset within bundled with the smartphone. LG Band Play comes with 2GB RAM onboard and 16GB internal memory which is expandable via microSD slot....

December 19, 2022 · 1 min · 148 words · Justin Hampton

Linux Sudo Bug Lets Non Privileged Users To Run Commands As Root

The flaw was found to be working only on Linux systems that have a non-standard configuration. For those unaware, Sudo is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the ‘superuser’ (a special user account used for system administration). In other words, Sudo (su “do”) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 342 words · Molly Perry

Locked Out Your Android Smartphone Here Are 3 Ways To Hack The Passcode Of Your Device

There are umpteen advantages of setting a passcode to the Android device however there is one major drawback in case if someone forgets their password because one cannot get through the phone until the passcode has been entered and here this article will come handy. We will check the methods which will help you to get access to your locked Android device: Erase the memory of the device: The most important requirement for this technique to give 100% result is that the Android Device Manager (ADM) must be enabled in the device....

December 19, 2022 · 4 min · 677 words · Aaron Garcia

Meet Noto Google S Beautiful New Free Font That Covers 800 Languages Techworm

The Noto Project, is a five-year collaboration between Google and font specialist Monotype, to create a typeface that applies to any language and make Android and ChromeOS more accessible. The fonts are available under an open source OFL (Open Font License), both to use and to be modified with more design tweaks. The name Noto comes from the phrase ‘No more tofu’, and its aim is to efficiently free the world of little blocks (‘?...

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 350 words · Danette Koch

Microsoft Adds A Secret Skifree Like Surfing Game Into Its Edge Browser

The game is now available for everyone to play, which you can access via edge://surf/ if you are on Edge version 82 onwards. Microsoft has added this to Edge Canary and Dev builds of the browser, and it is expected to appear in the main stable version of the browser soon. Also Read- Best Browser Games The new version now supports three new modes: a classic surf mode, a time trial, and a slalom mode where you surf between gates....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 260 words · Yanira Santos

Microsoft Brings Back Swiftkey For Ios To The App Store

Those with the keyboard already installed could continue to use it on their iPhones until they decide to uninstall the same or the user gets a new device. Back then, no reason was provided as to why the company was withdrawing support for SwifKey’s iOS version. With just a little more than a month since its retirement, the company has unexpectedly taken a U-turn and brought back the SwiftKey keyboard app for iOS on the App Store....

December 19, 2022 · 2 min · 404 words · Penelope Bucknell

Microsoft Edge Accused Of Importing Data From Chrome And Firefox Without User Permission

Several users took to Reddit to complain regarding the matter, which has been noticed in the new Microsoft’s new Edge browser that has been installed via Windows Update. To be clear, in the background information from Microsoft, Edge does ask users to import data from other browsers at the time of installation; but this act is done by the browser in the background even before users have permitted it. However, if a user denies Edge the permission to import any data, that information is quickly deleted from the browser....

December 19, 2022 · 3 min · 540 words · Janelle Baerga

Microsoft Is Killing Off Ms Paint Techworm

You may never again use your favorite painting tool as Microsoft is killing MS Paint in future Windows 10 updatesRIP MS Paint – 1985 to 2017End of an EraOther Apps which will undergo the Microsoft axe!!! Microsoft has just released this sad news through a list which will be covered in its upcoming Windows 10 Fall creators update. This list contains the features that Microsoft will either remove or deprecate in the update and if the user feedback is positive than Microsoft will remove some or all the programs marked on the list permanently....

December 19, 2022 · 3 min · 628 words · Wanda Alvarez