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One of the two sentenced is Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, 27, from Russia. Panin was known in the cyber crime world by his handle, ‘Gribodemon’ and ‘Harderman.’ Panin was the mastermind behind the malware banking Trojan that allowed cybercriminals to infect millions of computers and drain bank accounts worldwide, has been sentenced to nine and half years in a US federal prison. The US Justice Department said on 20 April that his accomplice, Hamza Bendelladj, 27, from Algeria and known online as Bx1, who sold versions of SpyEye online and used it to steal financial information, was sentenced to 15 years....

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Adam Mudd from Kings Langley, a town north of London in the United Kingdom, pleaded guilty for doing unauthorised acts with intent to impair the operation of a computer, a charge of making, supplying or offering to supply the Titanium Stresser programme, and concealing criminal property. Mudd is believed to have developed the Titanium Stresser when he was 15, and that he used the service himself 594 times against 181 individual IP addresses, employing the username “themuddfamily” between September 2013 and March 2015, the month Mudd was arrested and the service shut down....

These flaws despite being fixed by the chip maker months ago still remain unpatched by the Android device manufacturers. According to a report published by Google’s Project Zero (GPZ), the GPZ team discovered five exploitable vulnerabilities related to the ARM Mali GPU driver between June and July 2022. The five vulnerabilities were identified as 2325, 2327, 2331, 2333, and 2334. While one of these issues (2334) leads to kernel memory corruption, the other one (2331) leads to physical memory addresses being disclosed to user space....

e-volo’s Volocopter, which is part multicopter, part helicopter and part alien spaceship can take off and land vertically and also hover in the air when need be. Built from fiber composite material with a 450 kg (992 lb) take-off weight, nine individual batteries power the all-electric motors and 18 rotors to make for a top speed of 100 km/h (62 mph). Best described as a drone-helicopter hybrid, the Volocopter has two seats available on it, while it runs on an electric engine with precision control being manned by a single joystick that is accompanied by a handful of buttons....

These ‘shadow networks’ can fake complex network structures, tricking the hackers into believing they have accessed usable information, said the researchers at the Information Security Conference in Honolulu on Thursday. Until now, the team has developed a prototype to exhibit its capabilities, faking both the attack and the defence on a virtual network. While this method could help bounce off some of the malicious traffic that hovers over computer systems that are vulnerable, but it may not be possible to avoid all attacks....

Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts called Server Fault, that he was stuck after mistakenly running destructive code on his own computers, which immediately went into a bit of a panic afterwards. The command he mistakenly typed in was ‘rm -rf’. To put it simply: “rm” is short for “remove,” “r” means “this directory” and “f” means “force,” which in this context means “Do not open any dialogue boxes or trigger any warnings....

That is what a new ransomware known as “nRansomware” is doing. On Thursday, the researchers at MalwareHunterTeam, a research group focused on ransomware, discovered the ransomware software installed through a file called ‘nRansom.exe’, which demands ‘at least 10 nude photographs’ from the victim in order to get their files back. The victim is actually forced to create a Protomail account, which will then be ‘verified’ as legitimate by the attacker....

In its fight against the botnets, malware and hackers, Facebook has realised that on its own it can only do so much so for ThreatEchange it has teamed up with several tech and big Internet companies. Facebook says that the ThreatExchange will be worlds first scalable threat fight data center and will be used for exchanging security threat information. Hammell says that Facebook toyed with the idea of having such a kind of threat based analysis exchange a year ago, when Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, and Yahoo had to collaborate and exchange attack information in order to stop a massive botnet-powered malware-slinging campaign that used all of their services to reach as many users as possible....

For those unaware, TIOBE Programming Community Index is calculated every month and the ratings are based on the number of search engine queries, which contain the name of the programming language as a keyword in popular search engines such as Google, Bing, and Wikipedia. In August 2017, C had slipped to its lowest-ever rating (6.477 percent). Since then, C has clawed back and climbed back up to 11.07 percent this month....

You should know these top 10 hackers who turned activists1. Edward Snowden2. Aaron Swartz3. The Jester4. Barrett Brown5. Ron Gonggrijp6. Jake Davis (Topiary)7. Oxblood Ruffin8. Deric Lostutter (KYAnonymous)9. Gary McKinnon10. Jacob Appelbaum The term was coined by the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) member known as “Omega” in 1994. Hacktivism is sometimes ambiguous and there exists significant disagreement over the kinds of activities and purposes it encompasses due to the different kind of meanings of its root words....

If you are looking out to upgrade your skill set, here are 6 of the highest-paying skills for 2016 that you should consider. Cassandra: It is a free, open source ‘noSQL’ database that stores and handles various types of data and is increasingly becoming the preferred choice for mobile and cloud applications. Apple and Netflix are among the biggest users of this system. Cassandra:Cloudera:HANA:MapReduce:HortonWorks Data Platform: Pig: Cloudera: Cloudera makes the most popular version of ‘easily-usable’ Hadoop, which is a system through which huge amounts of data can be stored on and accessed through a network of low-cost servers....

As per Mr. Prosser, for now Anthony Noto’s account has been locked and all the spam tweets deleted; it also seems the account was hacked only for a brief period and does not seem to have had further access to his account. Twitter authorities are further investigating this anyways. Anthony Noto, former Goldman banker took over as the Chief Financial Officer of Twitter in last summer. In the month of November he had a “DM fail issue” where in a private “Direct message” regarding acquiring a company was accidently broadcasted by him....

Aziz and Arshad along with three others were arrested from the northern part Karachi, Pakistan the country’s largest city and commercial hub, said Mir Mazhar Jabbar, a senior official with Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency. Noor Aziz Uddin and Farhan Ul arshad were on the FBI most wanted lists of cyber criminals for their alleged involvement in an international telecommunications scheme that defrauded unsuspecting individuals, companies, and government entities, including large telecom companies, in both the United States and abroad to the tune of $50 million....

Uber is a fast growing company which allows users to book a taxi through its smartphone application. However to expand its services Uber needs a good mapping services which can integrate its current business. At present Uber relies heavily on Google Maps for delivering people and things to their destinations. To end this dependency Uber has submitted a $3 billion bid for Here, the main competitor to Google Maps. Nokia which owns Here and had announced last month that it was considering selling the business....

“Codenamed ‘Cosmic Cuttlefish,’ 18.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs,” says Adam Conrad, Software Engineer, Canonical. Conrad further says, “The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 4.18 based Linux kernel, our default toolchain has moved to gcc 8.2 with glibc 2....

NuScale Power, a U.S.-based company that designs and markets SMRs, submitted a design certification application (DCA) to the NRC on December 31, 2016, to certify the company’s SMR design for use in the United States. It was accepted by the NRC in March 2017. Later, the NRC issued a final safety evaluation report (FSER) for NuScale’s 50-MWe module design in August 2020 as part of a Phase 6 review — the last and final phase —of NuScale’s Design Certification Application (DCA)....

He used Facebook’s live streaming video feature, which is similar to the Periscope and Meerkat apps, but is currently restricted to celebrities and others with verified profiles. Earlier this year, Facebook shifted to the Frank Gehry-designed office space in California. Called MPK20, the new 40,000-square-metre space is reportedly the world’s largest open floor plan, with room for 2800 employees. On the roof of the building is a 3.6-hectare park with walking trails and outdoor space....