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According to the researchers, the vulnerability exists since 2008 when it was introduced in GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is a open source code which is used to power thousands of apps, software and is used in most Linux distros. The bug also leaves home routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices vulnerable to attacks. Ars Technica notes that a function known as getaddrinfo() that performs domain-name lookups contains a buffer overflow bug that allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code....

When did it start? According to Google, they first started investigating the issue in the early morning at 1:2 AM ET. Their current statement on the issue: When did it start?Downdetector showing spikes Downdetector showing spikes According to the real-time outage and monitoring service Downdetector, Google products such as Gmail, Drive first started showing disruption at around 11:57 PM of the last night. Some YouTubers are experiencing issues in uploading their videos to the channels as well....

Chrome users are more venerable to this type of attack as the browser doest display the whole URL in its address bar.

Back then, Rick Osterloh, Google’s Senior Vice President for Hardware in a blog post had said, “We’ve signed an agreement with HTC, a leader in consumer electronics that will fuel even more product innovation in the years ahead. With this agreement, a team of HTC talent will join Google as part of the hardware organization. These future fellow Googlers are amazing folks we’ve already been working with closely on the Pixel smartphone line, and we’re excited to see what we can do together as one team....

The Google Play Pass subscription service, which is somewhat similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Games Pass or Apple’s Arcade subscription, was originally launched in September 2019 and made available to U.S. consumers. The search giant later expanded the service and is now available in 90 countries, including Germany, Australia, Canada, and Europe, making it available now in India too. The Play Pass subscription service will offer a high-quality and curated collection of over 1,000 titles across 41 categories from developers across 59 countries, including local Indian app developers....

Google is testing out its top secret 5G drones at New Mexico’s Spaceport Authority. The solar-powered drones are being tested with the help of Virgin Galactic, a spaceflight company owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin. The Google project, codenamed SkyBender, involves testing solar-powered drones at Spaceport America using new millimetre wave technology to deliver data from drones – potentially 40 times faster than 4G SkyBender involves testing several prototype transceivers and drones using millimeter wave radio transmissions and Google is reportedly paying Virgin Galactic $1,000 a day for the use of a hangar in the Gateway to Space building....

With about 170 million copies sold, GTA 5 or Grand Theft Auto 5 is second on the list of the best-selling Video games ever. One of the most loved things about the GTA Series is the ability to use Cheat Codes. Cheat Codes allow you to gain special powers in the game for a short duration of time. Ever since GTA: San Andreas, cheat codes have been a special part of all GTA games....

We cannot emphasize more on the need of having a website that really serves the purpose of its being; maximum uptime/availability to visitors from around the globe, seamless navigation, an appearance that drives traffic, and speed. Without a doubt, a website’s speed or its loading time does affect the business’ conversions. As per a statistical report, 40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load....

The website, called VNC Roulette, has given a whole new meaning to the “open” internet, which contains thousands of screenshots of various types of systems, ranging from FreeBSD to the latest Windows 10 devices. All these desktops have something in common: they are running VNC, an open-source software that allows users to remotely access and control a desktop from anywhere else in the world without requiring a password. But if VNC is set up without a password, anyone can browse the web and access an unsecured computer....

The list was leaked by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet operator on a popular hacking forum, according to ZDNet which first reported the news. The list contained credentials such as IP addresses, usernames and passwords of more than 515,000 Telnet devices belonging to their respective ports. Telnet is an application protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection....

The botnet named “Cereals” was first spotted in 2012 and reached its peak in 2015 when it collected more than 10,000 bots connected to online websites for downloading anime videos. The researchers named the botnet ‘Cereals’ after the naming convention of its subnets. A detailed report explaining the working of Cereals botnet has been published by Forcepoint. Despite its size, the botnet went mostly undetected for 8 years from most cyber-security firms because it exploited just one vulnerability in NAS and NVR devices....

“The Gozi Virus has caused, at a minimum, millions of dollars in losses,” states the original indictment. On Friday, Deniss Calovskis admitted that he was guilty in federal court in Manhattan, according to Reuters, where he had faced up to 67 years in jail before entering into a plea bargain agreement with U.S. authorities. During his hearing, Calovskis disclosed that he was hired to code the virus which hit 40,000 computers in the US and 190 at NASA, along with computers in the UK, Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Finland, and Turkey....

Security flaws in the Globestar satellite systems makes it easy for hackers to break into Semi-trailersActual working of the Globalstar’s tracking system: About Globalstar and its services: According to the WIRED, Colby Moore, a security researcher working with Synack has discovered certain vulnerabilities in the asset tracking systems of the valuable shipments and cargo which he plans to discuss at the Blackhat and DefCon security conference which would be held next week in Las Vegas....

Hackers can exploit the vulnerabilities of Industrial Ethernet Switches and take control over Nuclear Power Plants or the Hydroelectric Dams.What is an Industrial Ethernet Switch and why is it so very important? As per the The Daily Dot, the security researchers would be uncovering the entire details of the vulnerabilities present in the IES at the BlackHat cyber security conference which will be held next week in Las Vegas. What is an Industrial Ethernet Switch and why is it so very important?...

Imagine your every move being spied upon by prying cyber criminals using just your telephone number. Is this possible? Yes, say German security experts! German security experts from Berlin based Research Labs say it is very easy to spy on anybody by hacking into their smartphone using just their number. To demonstrate their findings, a team of experts spied on a phone used by US Congressman Ted Lieu from California, a member of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology, who agreed to use an off-the-shelf iPhone....

Ransomware infected computer captures the owner wanking, hackers demand $10,000 ransom for not leaking the postNote : This post is NSFW hence reader discretion is required before you proceed to read the article. It so happened that unknown to Matt, his PC was infected by a ransomware. The ransomware was secretly filming Matt’s intimate activities when he was in seventh heaven doing what he was doing, and relaying it back to the ransomware creators server somewhere in Africa....

In a Statement on CyberGuerrilla the hackers said, “Taken into consideration recent Russian Government dillusional attempts to start WWIII, WE – Free from Putin – people of Russian Federation – Free computer renegades and outlaws from IT Security – have decided to initiate a true domestic CyberWAr on Russian Military Enterprises and Eventually we shall deliver critical infrastructure companies on which Russian Putin’s Empire (foked in da head) stands on....

Those who remember the maverick neurosurgeon, Sergio Canavero from our earlier post, will remember that he has promised to perform the first ever human head transplant in December 2017. Well that may still be far off, for now, Dr.Canavero claims he has has successfully done the procedure on a monkey. Dr.Canavero told the New Scientist that he and his team successfully tested the procedure in experiments on monkeys and human cadavers....

On a blog post published on Netflix, the team has decided to show-off some really cool hacks that would definitely bring an upgrade to your viewing experience. The blog post states the following: “Keeping with our roughly six-month cadence, Netflix recently hosted another fantastic Hack Day event. As was the case with our past installments, Hack Day is a way for our product development staff to take a break from everyday work to have fun, experiment with new technologies, collaborate with new people, and to generally be creative....

Acquired by Twitter in 2012, Vine is a short-form video sharing service that allows users to share small videos of 6 seconds looping them. The flaw in Vine allowed avicoder to download a Docker image containing the source code of the application. Docker is an open platform for managing server images, shipping, building, and managing applications. Docker can be used to install OS images for laptops, VMs, or cloud servers alike....