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PCs running Avast anti-virus left bricked after new Windows updateUpdate issued Avast and Microsoft under fire The users though didn’t differentiate between Avast and Microsoft while venting their fury on the forums and social media networks. Some users have claimed that their machines will not boot up while others claimed that their machines were taking a long time to apply the patch. Microsoft’s not immune either: a Redmond thread titled Major issues with KB3000850 includes plenty of people wondering why the company issued an update incompatible with third-party software....

All these phone numbers are believed to be clients of Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, which is also the developer of Pegasus software. For those unaware, Pegasus is a highly sophisticated surveillance software that can be covertly installed on iPhones and Android phones to enable operators of the tool to extract messages, photos, and emails, record calls, and secretly activate microphones. The company’s website reads, “NSO Group develops best-in-class technology to help government agencies detect and prevent a wide-range of local and global threats....

It’s not long since KissAnime shut down its operation in August this year and now HorribleSubs. Sharing the news on HorribleSubs’s homepage, the farewell message reads, “HorribleSubs began more than a decade ago providing subtitles for anime. We have grown way beyond what was originally imagined. But… as the cliché saying goes, all good things must eventually come to an end. This was a hard decision to make for the team, but the truth is, our real life responsibilities have been growing, especially in the times of COVID-19....

FBI forensics specialist Bob Moledor told Forbes that the first known case of police using a deceased person’s fingerprints was in November 2016, when they tried unlocking the iPhone 5s model of Abdul Razak Ali Artan, who had mowed down a group of people in his car, and gone on a stabbing spree with a butcher’s knife. He was later shot dead by a police officer on the grounds of Ohio State University....

Slack has been gain popularity over past few months and has been valued at a whopping $2.8 billion by its investors. The hack was noticed by the Slack security team who made a post on their website announcing the same. Though the hack occurred in February, it took more than a month for Slack to announce the hack. It also announced that it had enabled 2 factor authentication after the hack attack....

Security researchers at Symantec are researching its evolution and have discovered that Poweliks exploits now patched zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2015-0016) in Windows. Poweliks was first identified in 2014, but it appears that it was not fully developed at the time and could not achieve persistence on the machine, being removed at a simple restart of the computer. According to Symantec the recent version of Poweliks is used for ad-fraud purposes by the cyber criminals by launching web pages in the background and clicking on the advertisements....

The devices can be found everywhere in New York – in cafes, under benches, in shops, restaurants and bars. “Eavesdropping on the population has revealed many saying, ‘I’m not doing anything wrong so who cares if the NSA tracks what I say and do?’” the group, dubbed “We Are Always Listening,”wrote on its website. The pranksters say that they “don’t seem to mind this monitoring.” “[So] we’re hiding recorders in public places in hopes of gathering information to help win the war on terror....

Blackphone was intentionally made keeping in mind privacy and security at the forefront and is run on a forked version of Android previously called PrivatOS and now renamed “Silent OS,” which puts it more in line with the company’s other “Silent” products. Thanks to the encryption and special software, all calls and texts made with the phone are secure from all the inquisitive eyes. Recently, Silent Circle who acquired Geeksphone’s share of the business released the Blackphone 2 earlier this year at Mobile World Congress....

The modification enabled the bacteria not only record their interactions with the environment but also time-stamp the events they observed. These cells could monitor otherwise invisible changes without troubling their surroundings. The results are published in the journal Science. “Such bacteria, swallowed by a patient, might be able to record the changes they experience through the whole digestive tract, yielding an unprecedented view of previously inaccessible phenomena,” explained Columbia University Medical Center’s Harris Wang, a senior author of the Science paper....

Step 1: First thing that you need to do, is enable containers. For this, open the Run dialog box by hitting the Windows key+R ,type optionalfeatures and hit enter. Step 2: In the dialog box that appears, make sure the Containers option is checked. Step 3: Once done, you will need to install the docker. Install the stable channel Windows MSI. Step 4: Once the installation completes, you will need to log off and log in once....

According to the Unit 42 researchers, the unsuccessful hack carried out on August 30, 2022, has been attributed by Ukraine’s Security Service to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). However, neither the NATO country nor the petroleum refining company has been identified in the report. Trident Ursa, as Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 calls the hacking group, is “one of the most pervasive, intrusive, continuously active and focused APTs targeting Ukraine” and has been active since at least 2014....

The same tipster has also mentioned that Samsung has borrowed some of the iPhone X feature, like the facial recognition technology also known as Face ID in iPhone X. We had recently reported how Samsung was finding it difficult to implement the in-display fingerprint scanner under the screen of Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones due to technical complications. As a result, the Korean tech giant decided not to include fingerprint sensors under the screen of the S9 line of smartphones....

Specifications: A 1.63-inch (4.14-CM screen) 320 x 320 AMOLED Display, with which tasks can be accessed with simple swipes on the screen. The Super Galaxy watch comes in 6 different band colors including black, gray, orange, beige, gold, and green. 800 MHz, super fast processor. 1.9 megapixel camera, Located on the side of watch’s band providing ease in taking pictures, is designed to capture low-res shots and 10-second 720p videos, and includes a 1....

The tool uses an existing language called Verilog, which is used by chip designers to design electronic circuits. The idea is to make programming cells more like programming a computer. “We take the same approach as for designing an electronic chip,” says Chris Voigt of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “Every step in the process is the same – it’s just that instead of mapping the circuit to silicon, it’s mapped to DNA....

The official Google Play listing reads: ‘SnoopSnitch collects and analyzes mobile radio data to make you aware of your mobile network security and to warn you about threats like fake base stations (IMSI catchers), user tracking, and SS7 attacks.’ The SnoopSnitch App scans for signals that indicate a switch from a legitimate tower to a International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catcher aka ‘stingray’, where information may be being collected for intercepting mobile phone traffic and tracking the movement of smart-phone users....

Speaking at Common Cause’s ‘Blueprint for Democracy’ conference today, Edward Snowden spoke about surveillance, personal liberties and of course, the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone. “The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive technical means’ to unlock the phone,” Snowden said. “Respectfully, that’s bullshit.” — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) March 8, 2016 In the link provided by Snowden, Daniel Kahn Gillmor of the American Civil Liberties Union argues that FBI is more than capable of unlocking the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone....

This is not Fappenning 2.0 but something else is cooking in the world of hacking. Unknown hackers hacked into Selena Gomez’s Instagram on Monday afternoon. Soon after taking over the account, the hackers went on to post NSFW Justin Bieber photos with a caption calling Bieber “lil shrimpy.” The only thing that can be deduced from the caption is that the hackers belong to the anti-Bieber camp. Selena Gomez’s Instagram was in the control of hackers for approximately ten minutes and within that time the NSFW images amassed over 30,000 likes....

Sony Fights Back against Torrents and file sharing service using Denial of Service attacks and using Fake SeedsThe Fightback The Fightback According to Recode, Sony has started using various several technological countermeasures to disrupt downloads of its most sensitive information through torrents and file sharing services. Recode says that Sony is using hundreds of computers in Asia to execute what’s known as a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on the file sharing sites where its stolen data has been identified to be hosted....

According to the report published by Ookla on Wednesday, the company conducted speed tests of Starlink and its satellite internet rivals, HughesNet and Viasat, during Q2 2021. Out of the three, Starlink was the only satellite internet provider in the U.S. with fixed-broadband-like latency figures, and median download speeds fast enough to handle most of the needs of modern online life at 97.2Mbps during Q2 2021, up from 65.7Mbps in Q1....

Originally costing just 437 pounds, the Apple-1 Computer motherboard was in the first batch of computers for Apple’s first client, the Byte Shop. The Apple-1 was the first pre-assembled personal computer to come to market. In 1976, after Steve Wozniak demonstrated his breakthrough design at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, he and school friend Steve Jobs obtained an order from Byte Shop for 50 assembled boards. This one is from the first batch of 50 because they received an order from the Byte Shop who put inventory numbers on them with a security pen....