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Libero hacked the “Falkland Islands Radio Service” (FIRS) and the Islands’ Public Accounts Committee (PAC) sites (https://www.firs.co.fk/ and https://www.pac.org.fk. respectively). Instead of the usual content, both sites now broadcast the Argentine National Anthem while displaying images of Argentine soldiers. The Malvinas’ television website has also been hacked (https://www.ktvfitv.co.fk/), but it does not play the Argentine Anthem. “Líbero” informed in his Twitter account he was going to hack the site and teasingly said: “Now they want to attack [meaning Great Britain, in reference to President Cristina Kirchner’s yesterday speech in which she questioned the militarization of the South Atlantic by British forces]… but how?...

In a memo sent to authorized service providers and obtained by MacRumors, Apple acknowledges the problem with Studio Display and suggests a temporary fix. “Apple says that customers facing issues should unplug the Studio Display from power, unplug any accessories or devices connected to the display, wait ten seconds, then reconnect the Studio Display to power,” reads the report. Thankfully, the company describes the problem as a software issue, and not a faulty hardware issue....

According to Apple, the iPhone SE (2020) is a powerful new smartphone in a popular design. For those unaware, Apple had launched its popular budget handset and the original iPhone SE in March 2016, which turned out to be the company’s most successful device. “The first iPhone SE was a hit with many customers who loved its unique combination of small size, high-end performance, and affordable price; the new second-generation iPhone SE builds on that great idea and improves on it in every way — including our best-ever single-camera system for great photos and videos — while still being very affordable,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing....

Malware with this skill has to be able to detect a user-initiated webcam session, start its own recording, and end it as soon as the legitimate session is over, so that the camera and the hardware-based LED indicator can switch off. Every MacBook that Apple has shipped for more than a decade has come equipped with a built-in camera and microphone. There is an LED light on a MacBook that indicates when the device’s camera is active....

Code.org hosts Hour of Code, a global initiative every year, targeted at teaching the basics of computer programming tutorials to students. Hour of Code is sponsored by a number of technology companies that use their own products and services to help get students excited about coding. These events aim to teach a bit of coding in the space of an hour, not only proving that you can get across complicated learning’s in a fun and simple way, but also get that message across to growing minds, shaping them with strings of characters and variables with the hope that they will be able to turn these into award winning apps and a career later on....

Are All Tools That Claim to Protect Your Anonymity Online Actually Secure?Use web proxies if hiding your IP is enoughGet VPN for more thorough protectionIs free VPN a thing? One of the key methods to protect yourself from being tracked online is hiding your IP address, which, if exposed, can be traced back to your ISP, which in turn, could help ID you. Another, arguably even more important step in ensuring your anonymity online is encrypting all your online communications to ensure they are kept secure and private....

The signals “have exactly the shape of an ETI [Extraterrestrial Intelligence] signal,” according to the astronomers. Every one of the 234 stars was relatively comparable to our sun as well, raising the possibility that this could be aliens. Astronomers Ermanno Borra and Eric Trottier from Laval University in Canada claim that 234 extra-terrestrial civilisations might be beaming a coordinated light signal towards Earth based on the irregularities in the data is extremely premature....

The FTC claims that AT&T’s Mobile voice is a common carrier service—similar to the utility status of the traditional wire-line telephone network—placing it under the Federal Communications Commission’s jurisdiction. With the FTC’s October 2014 lawsuit against AT&T they only applied it to mobile broadband, which AT&T argues is not a common carrier service. AT&T insists that their mobile voice’s common carrier status also protects them from the FTC taking action against the cellular data portion of its business....

BadUSB : The unpatchable and unfixable USB malwareWhat is BadUSB?BadUSB on GithubUnpatchable!!! What is BadUSB? The malware which is dubbed BadUSB, reprograms embedded firmware to give USB devices new, covert and most powerful capabilities. In a demo at Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, a USB drive was infected and showed its ability to act as a keyboard that surreptitiously types malicious commands into attached computers. Another USB was similarly be reprogrammed to act as a network card that causes connected computers to connect to malicious sites impersonating Google, Facebook or other trusted destinations....

Introducing the Sound Bar Now this would be a great chance to quickly mention what this new product has to offer. Well here it is, the SDB1. This product has a lot of features that allow easy set-up in just a few minutes. It comes with 6 different input options including Bluetooth, AUX, USB and HDMI. This allows users to connect to any device and enjoy superior quality audio. This sound bar when compared with other sound bars on the market, it offers a lot....

The video game publisher said its games survive and thrive on “being enjoyable and fair for players of all skill levels, and Blizzard expends an enormous amount of time and money to ensure that this is the case.” According to the site, “thousands” of players may be using this tool. It hurts the honesty of the game in that it allows players to see where enemies are and what their health status is....

The team led by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) achieved this by treating the monkeys with a neuroprosthetic interface that acted as a wireless bridge between the brain and spine. The device does this by decoding brain activity related to walking and then sending those signals to the spinal cord through electrodes that stimulate neural pathways and activate leg muscles. This method allowed researchers to use a partial spinal cord lesion to successfully treat two rhesus monkeys each with one leg paralyzed by a partial spinal cord lesion....

The iphone 5S went on sale in market Friday, and just a day after CCC, club were able to break down the touch finger print censor. CCC said similar process have been used to crack Various touch sensors in the market. Aplple touch security just had higher resolutions from other, “In reality, Apple’s sensor has just a higher resolution compared to the sensors so far. So we only needed to ramp up the resolution of our fake”, said CCC member Starbug....

The Carnegie Mellon’s CERT advisory today warned that Cisco’s Linksys SMART WiFi EA series routers have two firmware vulnerabilities that could expose the administrator password thus allowing the potential hacker complete freedom over the system. Carnegie Mellon CERT Advisory The CERT advisory says that all Linksys SMART WiFi EA series routers firmware contains two severe vulnerabilities, CVE-2014-8243 and CVE-2014-8244. It also said that if the firmware is not updated by the users, potential attackers can get hold your your sensitive information and the administrator password in MD5 hash....

The original Doom is playable on the 2170×60 resolution of the Touch Bar. The touch bar replaces the traditional function keys as a digital, displaying context-sensitive controls that go beyond regular buttons due to the multitouch display. It can apparently be reconfigured to display the original Doom complete with music and sound effects pumped through the Pro’s speakers. “Doom runs on pretty much everything… but can it run on the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar?...

In preliminary tests, ControlFlag trained and learned novel defects on over 1 billion unlabelled lines of production-quality code. The tool shows promise as a powerful productivity tool to assist software developers with the labour-intensive task of debugging, according to Intel. Intel said that it’s estimated that of the $1.25 trillion that software development costs the IT industry every year, 50 percent is spent debugging code. “We think ControlFlag is a powerful new tool that could dramatically reduce the time and money required to evaluate and debug code....

The tourism industry is a combination of various other fields in smaller bits that determine the outcome of travel experiences, especially for people traveling to unfamiliar destinations. People travel for different reasons such as work, vacation, exploration, e.t.c. Hence, depending on their specific reasons, individuals arriving to new destinations normally need some level of guidance either for their entire trip or at least the initial stages before they settle. The impact of online agencies Mainstream travel agencies have played significant roles in enabling tourists achieve convenience in their trips....

The Romanian authorities suspect that these hackers could have hacked the banks to clone the payment cards which were then used in various ATMs across the world to steal more than $15 million. As per DIICOT, the required data to clone the cards was obtained by hacking the computer systems from banks in the US (Puerto Rico) and in Muscat, the capital city of Oman. Further it seems the criminals targeted the accounts which belonged to large corporations and successfully extracted the payment card data of these accounts which they then used to create fraudulent cards....

Well, Data Selfie, a free and open source tool, is here to answer this question. It is a Chrome extension that uses machine learning algorithms to analyse what your Facebook usage says about your personality and learns about your social media patterns, in order to provide you a personalized experience tailored to your wants and needs. Available for free, Data Selfie is an open-source Chrome extension that helps you discover how machine learning algorithms track and process your Facebook activity, and gain insights about your personality and habits....