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Linton Salmon, program manager in DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office explained that DARPA is developing this open-source voting system in partnership with Oregon based cybersecurity firm Galois, to strengthen existing voting machine vendors’ security. “Our goal is to make this so that the hardware is blocked against all of these various types of attack from the external world. If this is successful, and if the software put on top is equally successful, then it means people can’t hack in and … alter votes....

This is developed as a global open-source computer vision project by VisionLabs, a solutions developer in the field of computer vision, data analysis and robotics, and a Skolkovo IT Cluster resident with the support of Facebook and Google, an official said. VisionLabs combined two popular libraries for developers – OpenCV and Torch. “The two IT giants became interested in the in-depth study of neural networks and artificial intelligence and hence extended their support,” the official told IANS....

Find out how and why it is necessary to know if your Android smartphone has a LCD or AMOLED displayMethod 1: An all-black image displayed on an AMOLED screen shouldn’t release any light at allMethod 2: Check the Spec Sheet However, bigger manufacturers like Samsung, LG and HTC are now going for AMOLED screens as the technology matures and becomes cheaper and more consistent in recent years. The benefit of an AMOLED display is that each pixel produces its own light, which means a separate backlight is not needed....

“From the past few years, trained security researchers are leaving for the Private sector and this has been a huge problem. We should train more security experts that will work for the country,” stated the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. Clearly citing cybersecurity as a top national priority, the panel has outlined a challenging to-do list wherein the President-elect Donald Trump has been advised to try and develop international norms for hacking, particularly drawing red lines to avoid cyber warfare or even armed conflict....

Dropbox Users scammed into handing over credentials through a Phishing Page sent over SSLThe modus operandiLog in pages served over a webpage using a secure protocol It so happens that a new style of stealing Dropbox credentials has emerged. Cyber criminals try steal credentials for Dropbox and web-based email service by having created a fake log-in page that is hosted on the file sharing website, taking advantage of its secure protocol....

However Rahul Yadav brushed the allegation of being involved in the hack. He posted, “I would have DESIGNED it better. #NotInvolved #LoveYouTechTeam” on his Facebook page. The unknown hackers deface the Housing.com homepage showing the message in the tweet below; the phrase ‘Chief Architect’ seems to refer to Yadav, with the message as a call for his reinstatement as the chief executive. https://twitter.com/asharotri/status/618016702333202432/photo/1 Housing and Rahul Yadav have been in news recently for all the wrong reasons....

Dubbed as “Haven”, this app will especially help those in journalism and activism in protecting their information and shield them from online surveillance and hacking. The software has been developed with The Guardian Project and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. According to its designers, it’s designed to be a “‘safe room’ in your pocket, or way to defeat ‘evil maid’ attacks”. Snowden wrote in a separate tweet: “Announcing #Haven, a safe room that fits in your pocket....

Earlier this month, elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization (WHO), which is facing more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks since the coronavirus pandemic began, reports Reuters. According to WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio, the identity of the hackers was unclear, but the effort was unsuccessful. The number of hacking attempts against the agency and its partners has increased amid the coronavirus outbreak, added Flavio....

In a blog post published on Friday, Facebook addressed a “hard question”: “Is spending time on social media bad for us?” The company referring to both internal and academic research said “in general, when people spend a lot of time passively consuming information — reading but not interacting with people — they report feeling worse afterward.” Simultaneously, engaging and interacting with people more on Facebook “is linked to improvements in well-being,” the company said....

Developed by Facebook, the “Internet Defense Prize” is a scheme to reward researchers for projects and prototypes that encourage the safety of the Internet. A part of Facebook’s “Internet Defense Prize“, the cash prize is given at the USENIZ Security Symposium in Washington, D.C. Most importantly, the payout has doubled from last year’s inaugural payout of $50,000, which was awarded to German researchers. The won the prize for their work on using static analysis to identify “second-order vulnerabilities” in applications used to compromise users after being stored in web servers before time....

Soon after the accident, Menlo Park Police received a call at 11:30 a.m. PT about a man who had jumped off a building on the 100 block of Jefferson Drive. The Menlo Park Police Department and Menlo Park Fire Protection District personnel instantly responded but they couldn’t revive the person and he was announced unresponsive at the scene. A preliminary investigation indicated there was no foul play involved in the apparent suicide, the police said....

Facebook engineering director shares his experiences in 6-week engineer bootcamp1. It allows engineers to decide how they want to contribute.2. It gives new joinees an internal network3. It fosters unity among engineers It’s one of the first steps that new college graduates to coding veterans are required to go through in the company’s signature “Bootcamp,” a six-week introduction to Facebook that all engineers. In a 2009 Facebook post, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, VP of engineering had said that he had started the program the year before, when the engineering staff was pushing 150 members....

This means that Facebook’s estimation of false accounts has increased from 1 percent last quarter to 2-3 percent this quarter, due to fake or “user-misclassified and undesirable accounts”. Also, 10 percent of the social network’s monthly users are now estimated to be duplicate accounts, which has increased from six percent estimated last quarter. To sum it, almost 13 percent of Facebook’s 2.1 billion monthly users, which is almost 270 million accounts are fake or duplicates....

The new OS will be built from scratch and Mark Lucovsky, a Microsoft veteran who co-authored the Windows NT operating system, will lead the project. While the report does not provide more information on how the new OS could be used, it notes that Facebook’s Oculus Quest, the standalone virtual reality (VR) headset and Portal, Facebook’s video-call display could benefit from the new software. Both these hardware are currently running on a modified version of Android....

Today, the company made its open sourced code Infer freely available to any independent developer or any company looking to debug their apps in new ways. Peter O’Hearn, Infer’s co-creator said “It looks at the program and makes guesses or hypotheses about the program, the way a human might.” However, in contrast to a human, it can read thousands of lines of code in just minutes to locate potential bugs....

Facebook had earlier tried to circumvent the net neutrality laws by introducing a service called ‘Free Basics’ with a aim of providing free Internet (read Facebook) to Indian. Free Basics created a huge public outcry both in India and aboard forcing the Government of India to ban it. Now with Express Wi-Fi, Facebook is again attempting to bring millions of Indians to its social networking under the garb of providing free Internet....

Andrew Nikishin, Head of Future Technology Projects at Kaspersky Lab, has given a detailed explanation on this controversial topic: “As a fairly frequent flyer, I had mixed feelings about the news that modern planes can be hacked. Readers who are not familiar with how modern planes operate might get the impression that an intruder with a laptop can easily seize full control of a plane. In reality, that isn’t quite the case....

What Makes FilmoraPro an Excellent Choice for Up and Coming Filmmakers? The process of making a short film, an online video ad or a social media video takes place in several stages, and during each stage, you must use the equipment that enables you to materialize your idea perfectly. In order to go through the post-production stage smoothly, you need to have access to a video editing app that allows you to use all the tools that are necessary to produce a professional looking video....

While there are no standout features in this release, it however notably does have support for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) content, a high-end gaming experience thanks to the implementation of WebGL 2 support, and the ability to view passwords before saving them in the built-in password manager. The users can now also save passwords for forms that don’t have “submit” events. They have also enabled Skia 2D graphics library for content rendering by default in the Linux build too....