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While every year, Facebook pays millions of dollars to researchers and bug hunters to find security holes in its products and organization, it is still facing security breaches. Facebook has been running its Bug Bounty program since 2011. Now, in order to step up its efforts to tighten the security of the platform, Facebook on Tuesday announced in a post that it has increased the average payout for account takeover vulnerabilities so as “to encourage security researchers to work on finding high-impact issues”....

A Chinese hardware hacker who goes by the pen name of ‘SexyCyborg’ has built a penetration testing toolkit built into her high-heeled shoes. She used a 3D printer to get herself a set of hollow high heels, with the purpose of secretly carrying a penetration testing kit around. SexyCyber made a post on Imgur giving details of her creation. Apparently, the gadget is inspired by the currently running and very popular TV show ‘Mr....

An unknown hacker hacked Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe’s Twitter account on Wednesday. The hacker then used the hacked Twitter account to promptly announce a new CEO for the Facebook owned virtual reality company. The hacker also changed Iribe’s Twitter bio to read, “im not testing ya security im just havin a laugh.” This is just the latest in a string of tech CEO’s having their Twitter accounts compromised, however this hack doesnt seem to be the work of OurMine which has in the past hacked accounts of Travis Kalanick, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Dick Costolo....

The news coming on the back of the now famous WannaCry ransomware attack indicated that ransom is the new mantra for cyber criminals. According to a report by Deadline, a group of hackers has illegally obtained a copy of Disney’s upcoming Pirates of The Caribbean movie and is now demanding ransom. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is the fifth and latest installment in the popular medieval pirate fantasy and is expected to hit theaters later this month....

Programming always fascinates people. Programming forms the core of all computers and “Hello World” is the first phrase that we try out when trying a new coding language. Writing the code for “Hello, world!” program outputs “Hello, World!” on a display device. Hello World is normally tried because it is one of the simplest programs possible in almost all computer languages. As such it can be used to quickly compare syntax differences between various programming languages....

Hiroshi Lockheimer has been moved up from Vice President of Android to Senior Vice President of Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast. While Mohan is now Senior Vice President of Display and Video Advertising, Phillip Schindler is also taking on a new title as well by moving up to the role as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations. Hiroshi Lockheimer has been at Google since 2006. He’s known as a congenial, skilled engineer and, more importantly, a trusted confidant for Pichai, who ran Android and Chrome before his appointment to lead all Google products in October 2014....

Each year phishing attacks cost companies billions of dollars in damages. It can happen to anyone: one accidental click on an unreliable link, one infected drive is enough. How about your staff? Each of them uses social media at work. Yes, unfortunately, nowadays we can’t stop scrolling down the feed or checking the messenger every 30 minutes. According to calculations done by Pew Research Center, employees spend 390 working hours every year on social media....

A damaged or corrupted memory card does not allow its data to function properly. If a card gets corrupted, you may not be able to access data from it and all the stored photos, videos, and other files may simply disappear. So, how can one find out if the SD card is at fault? The first step here would be check if the device is at fault. If the device is not at fault, then you need to check if the SD card is mounted properly....

Undoubtedly, Windows 11 had a rocky start as the operating system was plagued with many major problems like no sound output, consistent 100% disk usage, and the super troublesome No Wi-Fi Option available on Windows 11. As the title suggests, in this article we have shared multiple solutions to completely fix problems like Slow WiFi Connection, No Internet Access, and Missing WiFi Option. So without further ado let’s get started....

It’s quickly becoming one of the most popular sites for social networking on the planet with more than 200 million active users logging in every month and actively sharing over 60 million images, generating up to 1.6 billion likes daily. Engagement rates for the other social networks for brands are less than 0.1 percent but Instagram blows this all the way up, with an average extending up to an epic 58 times higher than on Facebook....

One such way to keep your Android smartphone secure is to lock with PIN (personal identification number). However, if someone happens to get access to your PIN, they are free to do just about anything, including wiping your device. As a result, you need to be extra vigilant to ensure that neither friends nor strangers are looking over your shoulder while you are entering your PIN. But, what if your PIN changed over time, using a pattern that only you were aware of?...

Originally a video game hardware developer, Hyperkin is all set to build a Game Boy compatible hand held device “Smart Boy” for iPhone 6 Plus and in future for other smartphones as well. The device Smart Boy, will be an attachment for the iPhone 6 which will give users the experience of playing the Game Boy game on a more sophisticated screen and also without the batteries as the device will be provided with in built batteries....

Along with that, it rolled the red carpet for its official digital currency, the digital rupee, backed by RBI, the country’s central bank. Any income from the transfer or transaction of cryptocurrency in India will attract a flat rate of 30% tax. This does not include the 1% TDS on any crypto-related transaction that will occur on every virtual digital asset (including crypto) in the country. How does 30% Tax on Cryptocurrency Work?...

The 11th gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors are engineered on the new architecture, called Cypress Cove, which are designed to transform hardware and software efficiency and increase raw gaming performance. The new architecture brings up to 19% gen-over-gen instructions per cycle (IPC) improvement and up to 50% better integrated graphics performance with Intel UHD graphics featuring Intel Xe graphics architecture. The Rocket Lake-S family takes advantage of Intel Deep Learning Boost and Vector Neural Network Instructions to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) inference, which will hugely improve performance for deep learning workloads....

Damien Zammit, a hardware security expert, claims that the recent Intel x86 CPUs have a secret and power control mechanism embedded into them that runs on a separate chip that nobody can disable and review the closed proprietary code. This subsystem called the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a subsystem composed of a special 32-bit ARC microprocessor that is exactly located inside the x86 chipset, where it runs its own closed-source firmware....

Today, IoT has grown into a billion-dollar industry, with the latest market analysis by Statista showing a valuation of 388 billion U.S dollars back in 2019. Projections show that the consumer IoT market could surpass $500 billion by 2030. So, what’s the big deal about IoT? This technology features among the latest concepts of the 21st century. The goal of IoT technologies is to enable communication between smart devices. As the world adopts the digital era, it has become evident that interactions will no longer be limited to humans – IoT is set to drive the next frontier of communication....

The websites were defaced as the result of change in DNS record of the sites. in a report published by thehackernews hacker confirmed that he managed to hack into Domain registrar of Tajikistan (domain.tr) using Traversal Vulnerability present in the website.

In a 25-minute video titled “Flames of the Supporters”, which is created in response to efforts by Facebook and Twitter to stop terrorist activity on their platforms, is made by an ISIS-supporting hacker group that calls itself “Sons of the Caliphate Army.” The video shows images of Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey sometimes engulfed in flames, or marked with bullet holes. A slide toward the end of the video reads, in English: “To Mark and Jack, founders of Twitter and Facebook / and to their Crusader government / You announce daily that you suspended many of our accounts / And to you we say: Is that all you can do?...

The website was hacked with the following message: HACKED Governor of Istanbul, in retaliation of attacks on people on MayDay. The website has been restored by the administrator and seems normal now, but you can have a look at the defaced website here The community posted Istanbul Governor’s Hüseyin Avni Mutlu picture with the message: I didn’t say you can’t be a Mayor, I said you can’t be a man”....