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Google hired “Larry Gadea” a ‘brilliant’ Silicon Valley kid at the age of 18- now his setup serves more than 1,000 businesses and just scored $15 millionA successful entrepreneur built software called “Envoy” which announced a $15 million Series AINVESTMENT. When Gadea was 8 years old he started doing programming and he used to love computers a lot. He was already writing games in high school. He developed plug-in for Google Desktop Search that put him on Google’s radar....

The reason for penalisation may be the Google’s enabling of Google Safe Browsing which deletes any website which is thought to contain unwanted software. However if that would have been the case, the search for Kickass now shows many websites which are Kickass clones and known to contain malware and malicious ads. Right now searching for Kickass, Kickass Torrents, Kat.cr instead show unknown and unaffiliated Kickasstorrents.eu domain on top in many locations, as seen in the below given screenshot :...

Google’s new tools for Gmail makes it easier to get rid of unwanted emailsHow to Use Google’s New Block Feature Google on Tuesday announced some new Gmail features titled “Block” and “Unsubscribe” that would users to end annoying emails from people who just won’t leave you alone. With the new block feature, if you find yourself getting a bunch of unwanted emails from the same email address, you can, with a couple quick clicks, block those emails from coming to your inbox any longer....

“The Jester,” a vigilante grey-hat hacker broke the news of the incident on Twitter by posting a link to a recording of the broadcast. “A god among us has hijacked 6400kHz (North Korean station) and is playing the Final Countdown,” said The Jester on Twitter on November 9. — J?S??R ? ?C?U?L³³º¹ (@th3j35t3r) November 9, 2017 “The Jester” is famous for hacking jihadist websites, and in October 2016 had defaced the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the message, “Stop attacking Americans....

Recently, the software security firm TrendMicro sponsored a hacking event called Pwn2Own, the mobile-edition, wherein they invited some white hat hackers to test their skills against 2015 smartphones, which included the Nexus 6P, the Galaxy S6, and the iPhone 6s. For those unfamiliar, Pwn2Own is a computer hacking contest held annually at the CanSecWest security conference, beginning in 2007. Contestants are challenged to exploit widely used software and mobile devices with previously unknown vulnerabilities....

Now in another case, a serial doxxer and ‘swatter’ has been given ONLY one year in prison sentence. Mir Islam, who doxxed multiple celebrities and politicians, as well as called in fake threats that resulted in the swatting of at least nineteen people, including security researcher Brian Krebs, who uncovered Islam’s doxxing tactics. For the uninitiated, doxxing is a practice of researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual in order to publically leak their otherwise unknown information....

Apparently, the latest iOS 10 release of Apple Inc. appears to have accidentally reduced the security of the iPhone, thereby allowing unauthorized access to localized backups, according to Forbes. Russian password-retrieval company Elcomsoft first discovered that local back-ups now use a different password security mechanism that avoids certain security checks. Apple has implemented a password verification system for iOS 10 backups to iTunes on Mac and Windows PCs, which makes brute force attacks possible, and are now 2,500 times weaker to password-crackers than previous versions of iOS....

Recently, a hacker group named ‘fail0verflow’ had successfully managed to run Debian Linux on Switch by exploiting its boot code. The group had posted a still image on Twitter that displayed the Nintendo console running the Debian Linux distro and user login, along with a serial adapter that was connected to one of the Joy-Con terminal on the right side. Now, the same group fail0verflow has converted the console into a full-fledged tablet PC....

The flaw allows remote ‘network adjacent attackers’ to hijack and tamper with VPN (Virtual Private Network) connections, and inject malicious data into the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) stream. “I am reporting a vulnerability that exists on most Linux distros, and other *nix operating systems which allows a network adjacent attacker to determine if another user is connected to a VPN, the virtual IP address they have been assigned by the VPN server, and whether or not there is an active connection to a given website....

For the unversed, AiTM attack is a cyberattack where the attacker secretly conveys and possibly alters the communications between two parties who believe that they are directly communicating with each other, as the attacker has inserted themselves between the two parties. Hackers through this method can use the stolen cookies to log in and completely evade MFA. The main purpose of the large-scale phishing campaign is believed to be breaching of corporate accounts to conduct BEC (business email compromise) attacks, which redirects payments toward the hacker’s bank account using forged documents, as reported by BleepingComputer....

Trend Micro security researchers state that the leaked data stolen from Hacking Team, a company known to sell surveillance tools and communication interception, have a number of unpatched and unreported Adobe flaws. The researchers while examining the leaked data dump found at least three software exploits – two for Adobe Flash Player and one for Microsoft’s Windows kernel. Out of two, one of the Flash Player susceptibilities, known as Use-after-free vulnerability with CVE-2015-0349, has already been patched....

However, the company did not announce the brand name of the new merged service. The merger news was confirmed by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav during the second-quarter earnings call on Thursday, its first quarter as a company. For those unversed, AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit and Discovery Inc. completed its blockbuster merger earlier this year forming a resultant company, Warner Bros. Discovery. By merging HBO Max and Discovery Plus together, Warner Bros....

Today everything is driven by Internet and so speed becomes much more important. Have you ever thought where your country ranks globally in mobile data speeds? Do you think that your country provides you the best mobile data speeds? If you compare your country with other countries of the world, you may find yourself wrong. OpenSignal, a company that specializes in wireless coverage mapping, today released their sixth Global State of the Mobile Network report on the global state of mobile networks....

Every coder and wannabe programmer should read these five ‘must have’ booksThe Pragmatic ProgrammerClean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software CraftsmanshipThe Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional ProgrammersCode Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software ConstructionThe Mythical Man-month: Essays on Software EngineeringAlso Read PART II of the Here are the five must read books if you are a coder/programmer With the technology moving forward at a speed quicker than anytime in the history of mankind, there are new programming languages and tools every few months, seeking to be the silver bullet for all deficiencies of existing languages, tools and practices....

However, now a patch is available in a script provided by a third party for those who are running applications that might be affected and do not wish to wait for a solution from the kernel team. Titled “The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores,” the paper was authored by a sextet of researchers from the University of British Columbia and four other institutions. According to the paper, there are four bugs in the kernel scheduler that makes some CPU cores to stay idle even when runnable threads are waiting to be dispatched to a core....

“One of my colleagues was searching on eBay and came across what seemed to be a German Lorenz teleprinter, so we bought it and drove to Essex … and there it was in a garden shed under some rubbish, the Lorenz teleprinter in its carrying case,” said John Whetter, a volunteer at the museum. The volunteer very happily paid 10 GBP for the keyboard and went on his way....

Here’s the hard truth: Improving your lead engagement and sales performance through a reliable, cost-effective, and easy-to-execute strategy can be challenging to pull off. This is where Exceed.ai comes in handy. Exceed.ai is a platform that helps its users automate their lead engagement, nurturing and qualification efforts through robust conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI). The solution can streamline critical parts of your lead engagement and work 24/7, optimizing your process to increase your sales ultimately....

Many People are facing problems regarding Belkin router login. So in this article, we have provided you with the best way to login to Belkin wireless router using default gateway IP which is 192.168.2.1 (Default IP address). It’s Impossible to Troubleshoot the Router Without Accessing Belkin Router Dashboard. How to Reset Belkin Router to Default Settings (192.168.2.1)? Belkin Router Login using dashboard, 192.168.2.1: Before getting started with the Belkin router login process there are a few things you need to keep in mind....

Here is how to repair and/or fix a corrupt SD CardI just can’t access my SD cardThe Computer Shows my card name but not the contentFormatting the SD cardUsing a data recovery software SD cards are great as they are small in size, lightweight and versatile (you can store any type of data on them). But what happens when a SD card on which you stored your important files, becomes inaccessible or corrupt and what about a SD card whose entire data got wiped out for no apparent reason....

Taking screenshots is one of the important features we users require either to send it across to friends for troubleshooting or for just conveying the highest scores scored by user and harping about it. Taking screenshots is mostly easy on all smartphones like those running on Android 5.0 or iPhone 6/6 Plus or Windows Phone but it is a bit difficult for smartphones running on Android 2.3 and below phones....