Posts

Walter Stephan, who served the company as the CEO for 17 years had fallen victim to an email scam this past January that defrauded the company by posing as Mr. Stephan in an email. The hoax email asked an employee to transfer money to an account for a fake acquisition project — a kind of scam known as a “fake president incident”. The scam works when employees break protocol and don’t double-check via phone call or in person if the sender has requested to transfer large amounts of money....

The character-linked bug, when received as a text message, is crashing almost all devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch) running Apple’s latest publicly available iOS 13.4.1 software update. The bug is apparently exploiting the vulnerability in the message notifications on the phone, which means it doesn’t display a notification about the new message. In some cases, the device crashes, while other times it simply forces the Messages app to crash and re-open....

While Microsoft Teams comes with a range of security features built into its framework, this doesn’t necessarily mean that it is completely secure. Considering that as recently as April 2022, CyberArk exposed a weak point in Microsoft Teams security that completely bypassed all of their constructed defenses, it’s always a good idea to educate your team on how to stay safe despite the inherent cybersecurity that Teams employs. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at three easy steps that your admins and users can take to ensure your Microsoft Teams environment is as safe as it can be....

Top 10 vulnerability scanners for hackers to find flaws, holes and bugsOpenVASMBSASecunia PSINipperRetinaNexposeGFI Lan GuardCore ImpactQualys Cloud Platform Vulnerability Scanner is a specialised software build with a sole purpose of helping security researchers, hackers, system admins and developers to find faults in a particular software, computer system, network and servers. A hacker or security researcher is complemented in his manual testing of software or computer by using such vulnerability scanner making the hackers assessment efficient....

Software developers are a rare commodity nowadays. They are in such high demand that even interns at tech companies are drawing ridiculous salaries. But as there are more and more programmers joining the recruitment cycle, tech companies are finding it hard to hunt for talented coders. It is every student’s wish to learn programming or coding. We have already given you tips on how to learn programming, the books you should read about programming and how to start learning to program the easy way....

A comprehensive list of most popular operating systems among hackers all around the world. Back in August, we had posted a list of top ten hacker tools. Now we have advanced it one step further to bring you the best operating systems for hackers.1- Kali Linux:2-BackBox:3-Parrot Security OS:4-DEFT:5-Samurai Web Security Framework:6-Network Security Toolkit:7-NodeZero:8-GnackTrack:9-Blackubuntu:10- BacktrackBugtraq: Here is the list of top ten. Note that these are based on Linux kernel hence are free and open source:...

Torrentz search engine was not a torrent website in the strictest of terms but a BitTorrent meta-search engine. It hosted no torrents of its own but linked to other popular BitTorrent sites including The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrents, RARBG, KickassTorrents, 1337x, and others in a style like search engines do. Torrentz was used by millions of users to download movies, games, softwares, series, and other torrent files. However, after it shut down users started looking for its mirror, proxies, and alternate torrent sites like torrentz....

In the age of 3D printing, the TSA is learning a basic lesson of physical security. For instance, if you have set of master keys that can open locks you have asked millions of Americans to use, do not upload pictures of them on the internet. On Wednesday, a group of lock-picking and security enthusiasts took that lesson home by publishing a set of CAD files to Github that allows to 3D print a exactly measured set of the TSA’s master keys for its “approved” locks, which are the ones the agency can open with its own keys during airport inspections....

“We maintain a secure development lifecycle that includes secure development training to everyone that ships code, security review processes, hardened security libraries and robust testing through internal and external services – all to maximise the security we provide to our users,” Arkadiy Tetelman, software engineer at Twitter, said in a blog post on Friday. One of the important measures that the company takes is by engaging the broader information security community through their bug bounty program, allowing security researchers to dutifully reveal vulnerabilities to the company so that they can reply and address these issues before they are exploited by others....

Charlton Floate, 19, who worked from his family home in Solihull not only broke into government sites, but also took control of other people’s computers and “bragged” about the group’s success on the internet. Floate, of Starbold Crescent in Solihull, has confessed to three charges under the Computer Misuse Act and three for possessing images forbidden by law. In November 2012, Floate had performed two test runs by hacking into the computers of two men in the U....

However, in November 2021, the company revealed that due to global computer chip shortages, the Steam Deck would fail to ship by December 2021 and instead ship in February 2022. Now, Valve on Wednesday has officially confirmed that the Steam Deck will launch on February 25, 2022. Shortly after 10:00 am on February 25th, PST, the company will start sending out the first batch of order emails to those who have pre-ordered a Steam Deck....

What is BIOS BIOS (basic input/output system) is a software program made available to the microprocessor on an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) chip. When you switch on your machine, the microprocessor passes control to the BIOS which is always located at the exact same place on the EPROM. When the BIOS boots up, it first runs a check to ensure all attachments are in place and operational. Only once that is done, it will load the OS into your computer’s RAM from your disk storage....

The new feature called ‘Linked Devices’ will allow users to access WhatsApp on multiple devices such as smartphones or tablets or PCs with a single account. The company is actively working on this user interface (UI) to support the multiple device feature. As per the screenshots found in the beta version by WABetaInfo, the latest WhatsApp beta Android update 2.20.196.8 gives a peek of how the much-rumoured Linked Devices feature will look like....

According to a new report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has added the new pause/resume button on the voice recording bar in place of the stop button on Android devices. This new pause button will be visible to the users when they swipe up after pressing the record button. The same button will be used to unpause and resume the recording. The new pause and resume voice recording feature is particularly helpful where there is a disturbance or interruption in between in case of long recordings....

Smartphone-PC convergence. Microsoft recently announced that the Windows 10 phones will be so designed that it can also be used as PC if it is connected to external monitor. On the other hand, Ubuntu open source system with Linux as its OS was the first one to put forth the idea of Smartphone-PC convergence way back in 2013. Ubuntu’s crowdfunding campaign for its Ubuntu Edge was a failure in 2013 however Canonical is bent upon transforming Ubuntu into an OS that can be used along all the platforms with a feature of adapting to all the interfaces as per requirement....

Leading Security research firm, FireEye said in its blogpost on this malware, that the malware code is compatible with PowerPC and 64/86-bit CPU architectures; apart from the installation routine, a backdoor is also present and it executes as soon as the parent process is running. The capabilities present in the backdoor include opening a reverse shell along with actions for viewing files and transferring them to a remote location, or running self-update routines and installing other executable files....

This is Xiaomi’s first foray into quadruped robotics for the open-source community and developers around the world. According to Xiaomi’s recent blog post, the CyberDog is ‘powerful, precise and agile’. It is calibrated with Xiaomi’s in-house developed servo motors that translate into great speed, agility, and a wide range of motion. With a maximum torque output and rotation speed up to 32N m/220Rpm, CyberDog is able to conduct a range of high-speed movements up to 3....

When Xiaomi had originally launched the 64GB model of the phone, it was priced at Rs. 23,999. Now, it will cost Rs. 19,999. Users can also avail a discount of up to Rs. 5,000 on exchange for the phone. “Lower costs have enabled us to reduce the price of Mi 4 64GB, and this translates into savings that our Mi fans can enjoy,” said the company in a post on social media....

Announced by Xiaomi to celebrate its fifth anniversary, the 12 hour sale made Xiaomi richer by 2.08 billion yuan (USD 335 million) from sales of handsets and other accessories. In the process it broke the earlier sale record held by Alibaba’s Tmall, which sold 1.89 million handsets on Singles’ Day in November during a 24-hour event. — Mi (@xiaomi) April 9, 2015 “Good news: Xiaomi just set a new Guinness World Record, selling 2....

The report, which was distributed to clients, also suggests that even if our world was an illusion, we would never know about it. The researchers backed up the claims by citing comments from leading philosophers, scientists and other thinkers. The Bank of America’s report, which was looking at the inferences of virtual reality, described: “Many scientists, philosophers, and business leaders believe that there is a 20-50% probability that humans are already living in a computer-simulated virtual world,” it wrote last week, according to Business Insider....