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There are some hackers who hack for the pure pleasure of hacking, while there are some who identify system vulnerabilities and access points for penetration, and prevent unwanted access to network and information systems and in return get lucratively paid for doing so. Then, there are those hackers who just want to exploit, embarrass and expose. So, which operating systems do you think hackers enjoy exploiting the most? Since most of the operating systems for hacking is based on Linux kernel, which means that Linux is always the favorite operating system for hackers....

Dyson Animal 2 Living up to the stellar reputation of Dyson brand, the Animal 2 can clean up all messes and debris from your flooring and carpet with a single sweep. Although it might take a bit more time to clean scattered flour, the ultimate performance metrics of the Dyson model is way above its contemporaries. It becomes easy to manoeuvre the vacuum around furniture coupled with its swivel head....

Business Insider quoted Gates explanation about their dissimilarity as Jobs as the one with a design mind-set, while he had a coder’s mind, focusing more on the architectural built. The apt definition came from a new book on Jobs called, “Becoming Steve Jobs”, co-written by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. Below is the excerpt from the book: “He had an expectation of superlative things in his own work and in the products they would create....

The alleged hack which comes a year after the infamous Mt.Gox debacle has further aggravated the already frustrated bitcoin community. UK- and Slovenia-based bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has stated that it is currently offline and has put up a notice on its website that only one of its ‘operational wallets’ was compromised on 4th January. The company has assured users that all their bitcoins lying in the cold storage are secure....

The intrusion was detected and the Council’s IT system was “isolated” to ensure no other Government operated departments are compromised. Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird was in Beijing and was scheduled to hold a press conference. but it was canceled most probably due to above incident. In response to CBC questions, spokesman Rick Roth from Baird’s office said that Canada did not cancel any events as they were guests in China....

The attack affected the company’s storage and email services, Microsoft Teams, as well as the U.S. version of its website. Following the incident, Canon’s IT service sent a company-wide notification indicating that it is experiencing “widespread system problems affecting multiple applications, computers, email, and other systems may not be available at this time.” It also added that as part of the outage, the Canon USA website would be unavailable. The outage at the image....

Normally hackers use to make camera prints of movies using this technique. Later they upload such camera prints which are watched by millions of torrent lovers in absence of good quality rips. These hackers are usually caught by vigilant theater staff or annoyed theatergoers. In this case, unfortunately for the student, it was a piracy-monitoring service in India noticed the infringement and reported the same to the theater. TorrentFreak reports that a Valparaiso University student allegedly was using his phone to live-stream the premiere of Indian film A Aa to anyone watching on Facebook, when police showed up and shut down his illegal broadcast....

Following this, China may soon backfire on popular US firms that operate in China. In fact, China has created a blacklist of foreign firms that are considered unreliable by the Chinese government. So here’s everything you need to know about China’s plan to uproot US-based tech firms. ALSO READ: Hongmeng OS: Everything You Need To Know About Huawei’s Android Replacement BONUS VIDEO China Working On Blacklisting US Tech Firms China may soon intensify the trade war that was started by the USA....

The new rules were published in a document last week with the title: “Provisions on the Administration of Internet Thread Commenting Services”. The proposed revisions tighten the regulation, ‘Provisions on the Management of Internet Post Comments Services’, which first came into effect in 2017. According to the new draft, any company or individual that runs a website in China needs to hire ‘a review and editing team suitable for the scale of services to improve the professional quality of reviews and editors....

For those unaware, WeChat, is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent, and claims to have over 980 million active monthly users. WeChat is one of the largest social networks in China that is used by people in the country due to the ban of Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. The confession came from the anti-corruption watchdog, the Chaohu Municipal Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission in eastern China who on Saturday revealed on social media that it has “retrieved a series of deleted WeChat conversations from a suspect” as part of an investigation, reports the newspaper....

The hack attack reportedly targeted the network run by Afghan Ministry of Communications and IT (MCIT) by placing the malicious JavaScript [http:]//cdn.afghanistan[.]af/scripts/gop-script.js in the CDN The malware downed major Afghan government agencies websites like Foreign Affairs, Finance, Education, Women’s Affairs and Justice and also brought down external website of Australian embassy which used the same CDN network. [http:]//canberra.afghanistan[.]af/en (Afghan Embassy in Canberra, Australia) [http:]//herat.gov[.]af/fa (Herat Province Regional Government) [http:]//mfa.gov[.]af/en (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) [http:]//moci....

If the provided image is believed to be true, the first Core i9 chips will be part of the Skylake-X family of high-end desktop PCs with models ranging from Core i9-7920X, Core i9-7900X, Core i9-7820X, and Core i9-7800X. The Core i9-7920X would be the highest end processor that has 12 cores (24 threads) and 16.5MB of on-board L3 cache. It will also support 44 PCIe lanes and have a TDP of 160W....

Kickass.to for now shows the following seizure notice, Eventually, all popular domains relating to KickassTorrents went down. Before facing this setback, KickassTorrents has been enjoying the status of the world’s most popular torrent website, breaking into the top 70 websites in the world. After KickassTorrents’ demise, DXTorrent.com, a new mirror has come up claiming to be the original KAT. A few users in Reddit shared that DXTorrent.com is already up and running....

The Eibrus-4C CPU, developed by the MCST, could soon power the country’s entire government computer network, with the country having made its plans clear in this area since last June. The Elbrus-4C uses its own closed-source instruction set architecture called the Elbrus ISA. The chip will support programs written for the x86 architecture via emulation as shown in the Product marketing documentation. IiThis should give it enough power to support x86 hardware and should be lower in price than CPUs from the US....

It is now learned that Musk has decided to terminate the deal to buy out the popular microblogging platform for not complying with its contractual obligations as required. According to a letter sent by Skadden Arps attorney Mike Ringler on behalf of Musk to the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, it said that Twitter was “in material breach of multiple provisions” of the merger agreement. The letter states that “Mr....

In its early stages, ICOs were popularly perceived as a convenient means for small startups and beginner companies to generate funds. This opinion was largely due to the absence of the usual restrictions and rigorous processes that are involved in traditional capitalization procedures for business ventures. The beginning of ICOs Ethereum was the first crypto coin to use an Initial Coin Offering for their crowd funding. The Ethereum ICO happened from 20th July to 2nd September 2014 for a total of 42 days....

The accused, Anthony Scott Levandowski, a 39-year-old engineer and former head of Uber’s self-driving vehicle efforts, has been indicted on 33-counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1832. Levandowski had worked at Google’s self-driving car unit, which was later rebranded as Waymo. According to the indictment, Levandowski illicitly downloaded thousands of confidential files related to engineering, manufacturing, and business for Google’s LiDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging) and self-driving technology, in the months before he left Google....

This has propped up after the transatlantic privacy agreement between Europe and the USA, which has flamed uncertainties of social media giant’s future in the region. It has come up after Europe’s Court of Justice struck down Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield agreement earlier, which paved the way for data exchange conflicts. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, have categorically denied any such claims of pulling out in their blog post: In a detailed post, Meta talked about “identifying business risks involved” in the international exchange of data transfers and the risk involved through such agreements....

According to tech website Venture Beat, businesses which are switching to Facebook Messenger for all service interactions will soon regret their decision because of possible customer information leaks. If people want to get the tracking information of their orders online, chatbots are a perfect solution for a successful communication, but the story is not same when it comes to sensitive data like bank account information or insurance company details. “Conversations with these businesses can be complex, emotionally-driven and often require sensitive and personal information to pass between the two parties....

Now Facebook is being accused of violating the privacy of its users by collecting their facial data, according to a class-action lawsuit filed last week. Facebook has been allegedly collecting facial recognition data from millions of FB users and creating “the largest privately held stash of biometric face-recognition data in the world,” according to Courthouse News Service. The class action lawsuit filed by Carlo Licata and associates alleges that this facial recognition program violates the privacy of its users....