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Jamie Oliver is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur, and media personality who runs his own food-focused television shows which are widely popular among foodies around the world. He has also published several cookbooks is also lending his hand for a global campaign for better food education. Cyber criminals targeted Jamie’s website because of its popularity among foodies and hacked it. They then injected it JavaScript malware that will redirect users to a malware laden website antkai dot com....

On Thursday, Shane Huntley, the head of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), said on Twitter that they recently detected two separate phishing campaigns. For those unaware, TAG is a division inside Google’s security department, which works to counter government-backed hacking and attacks against the company and its users. According to TAG, staffers working on the U.S. presidential campaign of Biden were targeted by China-linked APT (advanced persistent threat) group. Similarly, an Iran-linked APT group were found to be targeting email accounts belonging to Trump’s campaign staff....

This time around a Chinese engineer who could not find a girlfriend married a robot recently. Zheng Jiajia, 31, an artificial intelligence expert who designs and creates robots in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, created the “female” robot at the end of last year and married her after failing to find a human spouse, reported Qianjiang Evening News. The female robot named “Yingying” can identify Chinese characters and images and say a few words....

The attacks replace the operating system used in network equipment from Cisco, the world’s biggest maker of routers, said Mandiant on Tuesday. The router implant, dubbed SYNful Knock, provides attackers with highly privileged backdoor access to the affected devices and continues to exist even across reboots. This is different than the typical malware found on consumer routers, which gets removed from the memory when the device is restarted. SYNful Knock is a modified version of the IOS operating system that runs on professional routers and switches made by Cisco Systems....

Customers of Comcast who had been hoping the PS4 version would bring a resolution to the problem that has existed on PS3 for a year were sorely disappointed and Comcast has yet to offer any satisfactory answer for the lack of support. Customer complaints over the past year since the PS3 got HBO Go have been met with a variety of responses from Comcast. Not technical incompatibilities as a company spokesperson said the issues were up to “business decisions....

Computer solves 120 year old planarian regeneration puzzle without human helpArtificial Intelligence system proved that it is capable of independently solving a mind boggling Planarian regeneration mystery which had puzzled biologists for over a century As per a recent research article published in the science journal, PLOS Computational Biology, two biologists from the Tufts University, Michael Levin and Daniel Lobo were able to give a solution to the Planarian regeneration mystery with the help of a computer which they had programmed in such a way that it could develop scientific theories independently without taking any help from humans....

Connecticut May Become First US State To Allow Deadly Police DronesHuman costs? The state of Connecticut has voted to allow law enforcement agencies to use drones equipped with deadly weapons.The legislation, approved overwhelmingly by the state legislature’s judiciary committee on Wednesday, would ban so-called weaponized drones in the state but exempts agencies involved in law enforcement. It now goes to the House of Representatives for consideration. Once the House of Representatives passes the bill, it will sent to the US senate and then notified into a law meaning that the Connecticut police will have hitherto unknown powers of shooting down a wanted criminal directly from the sky....

Dendroid was a software toolkit used to create trojanised applications that infects Android-based smartphones. The malware is created by modifying the required permissions by any clean APK (Android Application Package) with Dendroid RAT functionality that allows detailed management of the infected devices. The virus allows hackers to place phone calls, intercept text messages coming in or going out, open applications, and delete call logs. Due to the intricacies of Dendroid, its users are able to sneak infected applications into the Google Play store....

The study, which was published in the IEEE Security & Privacy journal, shows how a so-called ‘Distributed Guessing Attack’, which is believed to be responsible for the recent Tesco cyberattack, used to defraud customers of millions of dollars last month, can circumvent all security features meant to protect online payments from fraud in a matter of seconds. While exposing the flaws in the VISA payment system, researchers found neither the network nor the banks were able to detect attackers making multiple, invalid attempts to get payment card data....

CurrentC hackedBelow, is the email being shared with these users, in its entirety:About CurretC In a email sent to its users, CurrentC acknowledged that in the last 36 hours, unauthorized third parties (hackers) compromised the CurrentC servers and obtained the email addresses of some of its CurrentC pilot program participants and other individuals who had expressed interest in the App. MCX, the owner of CurrentC has notified all its merchant partners about the data breach and is in process of communicating directly with those testers whose email ids may have been stolen by the hackers....

“Starting today, the majority of people on Facebook will have access to the new desktop design,” a spokesperson for the company told TechCrunch. This new Facebook redesign interface is now available to a majority of the users and offers changes and features such as dark mode, tabbed home screen, a cleaner profile, centralised tabs for Facebook Watch, Marketplace, Groups and Gaming as well as larger fonts. Further, there are additional shortcuts in a sidebar on the left....

The company claims that the Dell Precision 5520 is “world’s thinnest, lightest and smallest 15-inch mobile workstation in a stunning design” It is a mobile workstation inside of a smaller 14-inch chassis and weighs only 3.93 pounds (1.78kg). It also features 7th Gen Intel Core or Intel Xeon processors and a PremierColor 4K InfinityEdge display that comes in UltraSharp Full HD (1920 x 1080) or UltraSharp Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) variants including anti-glare LED-backlit panel with Dell’s Premium Panel Guarantee....

Several obscene links were published on the Delta Airlines Facebook page under the titles, “10 Reasons Why Girls Dont Give Blowjobs.” and “Worlds Fattest Woman and her Husband”. Shortly after the second post, Delta Airlines removed the objectionable links. — Delta (@Delta) February 10, 2015 Instead of Delta Airlines flight information, Following the link gave a Threat warning from the Avast Antivirus that detected the malware as Clickjack-AG (Trojan) A quick checkup from the virustotal shows that most of the Antivirus programs were unable to detect the threat....

The multitude of ecommerce platforms have a lot to offer. Many of these solutions make it easy enough for novices to master creating professional storefronts, uploading products, establishing checkout processes and and all the other ecommerce ins-and-outs. There are plenty of well-known options for merchants to choose from, such as Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce. Today I will give you the skinny on another one of the most popular solutions on the market: BigCommerce....

Siri now answers the question “Do you play Pokemon Go?” with a range of funny answers when asked about her feelings. However, any other phrasing will simply open the app or offer to navigate for the user to random locations. It is known to have answers to almost all questions related to Pokemon Go. Press and hold Home button or say ‘Hey Siri’ to summon Apple’s virtual assistant and ask her about Pokemon Go....

According to the reports from the users who found the new Facebook ‘Phone’ App on their screens, the the app will display info about who’s calling you, possibly pooling information from its user database, and will also block numbers that are commonly blocked such as spam. The Android users from Israel, who found the App on their smartphones tried to tap ‘Install or Update’ only to be greeted by an error message which confirms the fact that this App is intended for FB only and a internal version for testing purpose....

The leaked correspondence released last Wednesday is a part of a long-running lawsuit between Facebook and Six4Three LLC, a former Facebook app developer that produced a way to search for bikini pictures from user’s contacts on the social media site. The trove of emails and messages running into nearly 7,000 pages of confidential internal Facebook documents were leaked to Duncan Campbell in February 2019 but were first published last Wednesday....

Messenger already provides end-to-end encryption on one-on-one text chats sent by users. “People expect their messaging apps to be secure and private, and with these new features, we’re giving them more control over how private they want their calls and chats to be,” Ruth Kricheli, Director of Product Management, Messenger wrote in a blog post on Friday. “In the past year, we’ve seen a surge in the use of audio and video calling with more than 150 million video calls a day on Messenger....

The Photo Sync feature was introduced by Facebook in 2012 so that users across platforms like iPhone, iPad and Android can sync their images seamlessly. Once the user enabled the photo sync feature, Facebook automatically syncs all photos saved on mobile device into the users Facebook account. The mobile app saves the photos (upto 2GB) in the background which the user can call at will to share with his/her friends or to the wall....

Portal will also feature wide-angle video camera that will take advantage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to “recognize people in the frame and follow them as they move throughout a room”. It will also come with a privacy shutter to suppress the camera for those having privacy concerns when it’s not in use. Apparently, Facebook had plans to launch Portal at its F8 developer conference in May “but the company’s scandals, including the Cambridge Analytica data breach and the bombshell revelation that Russia used the platform to interfere with the 2016 elections, led executives to shelve the announcement at the last minute,” reads the report....