Google Is Shutting Down Following Security Breach

Google’s own social media platform i.e. Google+ is now shutting down permanently for consumers. ALSO READ: How To Fix Err_cache_miss in Google Chrome Google+: Users Data Exposed According to the Wall Street Journal, data of hundreds of thousands of Google+ social media users were exposed after a software glitch between 2015 and March 2018. Well, this is a major security flaw that brought users personal data to risk. Furthermore, Goole even decided not to disclose this bug to the public as it feared Repercussions....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 284 words · Ruth Brown

Google Chrome Extension Add To Feedly And Tweet This Page Served Unwanted Adware Techworm

December 6, 2022 · 0 min · 0 words · Billy Underwood

Google Glass Is Not Dead Job Hiring Spree At Google Hints Return Of Family Of Google Glass V2 0

Well, Google Glass might not be one product any more. Business Insider, who spotted a number of job postings at Google hinted that Glass is about to make a comeback with a family of devices focused on augmented reality. This family may include the commercial device, alongside professional, gaming and other sub-devices. In other words, this may end up giving Google more room to experiment on the design of Google Glass, working on a sleek commercial option, alongside more heavy options for professionals or gamers that do not need to worry about the design so much....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 355 words · Rebecca Patel

Google Kenya And Google Burundi Hacked And Defaced By Team Madleets Techworm

The hacked domains are owned by Google and belongs to Kenya and Burundi, domains which are hacked are: Google Kenya: https://www.google.co.ke Google Brundi:

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 23 words · Helen Hughes

Google Launches Dataset Search To Help Scientists And Journalists

The service called Dataset Search is a targeted search that can help scientists and data journalists find the data required for their work and their stories, or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. The new search engine works similar to Google Scholar, the company’s popular search engine for academic studies and reports. Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 329 words · Todd Janczewski

Google Removes The Term Kodi From Its Autocomplete Search Box

Google has now added “Kodi” to its autocomplete piracy filter of the search engine, as it is viewed as being “closely associated with copyright infringement”, reports TorrentFreak. For those unaware, Kodi works as a centralized, legal, open source media center that allows you to access all of your digital audio, movies, TV shows, music collection and photo library from a single, convenient place, whenever and wherever you are. However, its support for third-party add-ons, including those that allow for illegal streaming of copyrighted content without paying for it, often makes it look illegal....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 405 words · Irene Nieto

Grandma Loses 42 Million In Jackpot Due To A Computer Glitch

Mckee and her daughter immediately asked the casino supervisor to make the huge payment; however the casino manager instructed the supervisor to block the slot machine till further investigations are done. Further, the supervisor also paid Mckee $18.10 that she had won on the slot machine till that point. The casino officials also said that it is some sort of computer glitch and she had won only $1.85. They further added that as per the rules of the game “Malfunction voids all pays and plays....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 460 words · Nancy Webber

Grant Imahara Has A Web Series To Talk About The Future Of The Robots Techworm

Movies represent a big part of our lives, and many people have seen many movies, the science fiction kind, with robots that come to Earth with the mission to take our jobs, or even worse – kill us. Some movies even represented them having sex with humans, but let’s be real – real-life robots are not to be feared at all. They’re actually kind of cute. About the web series A former cast member of the science fiction reality shows MythBusters, called Grant Imahara, who is also a robot expert, has a new web series which is called Generation Robot, which helps us in getting to know robots better and understanding how humans can actually deal with the concept of working with robots....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 427 words · Tammy Corcoran

Hacker Selling 117 Million Linkedin Emails And Passwords On Underground Forums Techworm

In 2012, LinkedIn was hacked and at that time hackers had leaked 6.5 million encrypted passwords online. At that time, security experts had suspected that the hackers may have stolen much more than 6.5 million user ids and passwords. Now with this sale offer of 117 million login credentials, their fears have come true. Leaked Source, a professional search engine for hacked data, has also claimed to have gotten their hands on the data....

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 195 words · Bettye Cheney

Hackers Bypass Microsoft S Emet Protection To Infect Silverlight And Flash Apps Techworm

According to an observation made by the FireEye security researchers, Silverlight and Flash Player exploits designed to evade EMET mitigations such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP), Export Address Table Access Filtering (EAF) and Export Address Table Access Filtering Plus (EAF+). The exploits have been recently added to the Angler exploit kit (considered the most sophisticated and most successful exploit kit to launch Web-based “drive-by” download attacks by cybercriminals). The Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight exploits currently leveraged by Angler to deliver malware do not depend on typical return-oriented programming (ROP) exploit techniques to avoid the DEP mitigation....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 352 words · Charlotte Royster

Hackers Can Hack Into Your Facebook Gmail Or Yahoo Account For Just 129 Techworm

Hackers are increasingly operating as regular businesses with many advertising themselves as “honest, trustworthy and professional,” and providing a variety of illicit goods and services on the cheap, says the cybersecurity company’s third annual Underground Hacker Markets Report. According to the Dell report, released on 5 April, the information was gathered by two intelligence analysts from the company’s CISO INTEL Team, who tracked hackers on a number of underground hacker forums and marketplaces scattered across the globe....

December 6, 2022 · 4 min · 806 words · Don Brueggeman

Hackers Create Massive Traffic Jam By Sending Dozens Of Cabs At Same Location

The hackers directed the taxi drivers to go to Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a major six-lane road that runs east to the west leading into the centre of the Russian capital and is widely known for the Stalinist-era building called Hotel Ukraina (Hotel Ukraine). Video circulated on social media from inside one of the cabs shows dozens of yellow cars working for Yandex Taxi barely moving – all pointing in the same direction – along the same busy road that runs past the Hotel Ukraine, causing an unprecedented traffic jam in the lanes....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 454 words · Eleanor Brooks

Hackers Turn Off The Pacemaker Of A Simulated Human And Kill It

To see what would be the outcome of hacking a medical grade human simulation, a group of undergraduates recently at the university spent a few hours to find the same. And the results were as one would expect. Meet iStan, the “most advanced wireless patient simulator on the market” with internal robotics that mimic human cardiovascular, respiratory, and neurological systems,” according to its manufacturer, https://www.caehealthcare.com/eng/patient-simulators/istan#block_3429. “When iStan bleeds, his blood pressure, heart rate and other clinical signs change automatically, and he responds to treatment with minimal input from an instructor....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 624 words · Sofia Landry

Hacknet A Real Hacking Game That You Can Play

Developed by Team Fractal Alligator, an Australian one-man studio, Hacknet is “an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC.” Here’s the official promotional trivial: Hacknet releases on the Humble Store and Steam on August 12. For those who are not familiar with hacking or the hacking game genre, this promises to be helpful and might even end up learning something. Bit, a hacker responsible for creating the most invasive security system on the planet, is dead....

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 187 words · Matthew Hannah

Have You Ever Wished You Could Learn How To Build Your Own Robot And Bring It To Life Now You Can Techworm

Each kit brings a new robotics project on Arduino and includes, 3D printed parts, electronic components, and a detailed construction guide. This guide will help you unlock step by step your robot’s potential thanks to its introduction to programming. Throughout your subscription, projects will become more challenging and even more interesting. With more parts comes more potential and more ways to personalize your robot to your wishes. You will start by learning the basics with an alarm or a robot arm and end up engineering a remote-controlled car or even a drone....

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 157 words · Sara Ryder

Heist Attack Hackers Can Steal Your Confidential Data On Ssl Tls Sites Techworm

Called the HEIST Attack, this new technique can attack the SSL/TLS and other secure channels purely in the browser to expose encrypted passwords, email addresses, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data. Two Belgian security researchers, Mathy Vanhoef and Tom Van Goethem presented their latest work at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. They named as HEIST, which stands for HTTP Encrypted Information can be Stolen through TCP-Windows....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 448 words · Tamara Rosenblum

Home Depot Investigates Possible Pos Breach Customer S Payment Card Data May Be Compromised Techworm

December 6, 2022 · 0 min · 0 words · William Batiste

How Hackers Can Hack Into Your Smartwatch To Steal Your Atm Pin Techworm

The researchers combined data from embedded sensors in wearable technologies such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. The algorithm called “Backward PIN-sequence Inference Algorithm” developed by the research team could crack private PINs and passwords with 80 percent accuracy on the first try and more than 90 percent accuracy after three efforts. The team conducted 5,000 key-entry tests on three key-based security systems, including an ATM, with 20 adults wearing a variety of technologies over 11 months....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 254 words · Bobby Harrington

How To Change Your Default Dns To Google Dns For Fast Internet Speeds

You can increase your internet speed by changing your Default DNS to Google DNSWhy is your ISP’s DNS slow compared to Google DNSHow to change your default DNS to Google DNSSteps To Manually Setup Google DNS In Windows PCNote : For Windows 10, the steps are more or less same.Steps To Automatically Configure Google DNS In Windows PC Using DNS JumperHow to Test Google DNS Servers Why is your ISP’s DNS slow compared to Google DNS Your ISP is into the business of providing you with Internet is basically to make money....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 620 words · Amy Cameron

How To Choose The Right Platform For Mobile App Attribution And Analytics Techworm

As a mobile app owner or marketer, knowing which attribution solutions will help you optimize your user acquisition activity most effectively is key. In this article, we’ll run the rule over three industry-leading mobile app attribution and analytics platforms and explain how you can get started with each one. Before we begin, let’s quickly take a look at what mobile app attribution is and some commonly used attribution models....

December 6, 2022 · 9 min · 1800 words · Horace Pendleton