While most people aren’t targets of the FBI, NSA or a foreign government, hackers are always on the hunt to steal financial and personal information of the common man. For instance, your email account on the smartphone, paves way for the hacker to reset your banking and other sensitive passwords. In this article, we have compiled a list of 10 methods that you can use to keep yourselves safe from hackers and government backed attacks....
Few days back more than 6000 emails was leaked by XhackerTn. Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below 🙂
Evil Geniuses which comprises of five gamers including Pakistani born 16-Year-Old Sumail, bagged and pocketed the winning sum of $6.6 million. With a guaranteed million in his pockets, Sumail became the youngest millionaire in e-sports following his team’s achievement. The best-of-five Grand Finals series ended 3-1, with Evil Geniuses beating the dark horse, CDEC from China. CDEC which was a surprise winner from the qualifier stage took on the American favorite Evil Geniuses in the Grand Finals best-of-five series....
Watch out these 5 fresh and functional programming languagesStanza 0.8.22Resembles: Python, Ruby, and to some extent the family of functional languagesCurrent platforms: Linux, Mac, WindowsNim 0.13Resembles: Modula 3, Delphi, Ada, C++, Python, Lisp, Oberon (by the language designers’ own admission)Current platforms: In theory, any platform with a C compiler, but the binaries are currently only available for WindowsCrystal 0.17.4Resembles: RubyCurrent platforms: Linux, OS XNit 0.8Resembles: Python, Pascal, RubyCurrent platforms: Linux, OS X; Windows support is possible through Cygwin, but at an important performance penaltyPony 0....
The malware is spreading at a rate of 40,000 attacks per hour, and has infected more than 800,000 users in few days.A user once into the trap of these malware cannot easily remove it, since the malware disables browser settings to remove it, and it also blocks many websites providing Malware removal tools. Carlo de Micheli says, the Attackers have also developed the extension for firefox, a another popular web browser....
Also, the car responds to “KITT,” a fun little homage to Knight Rider. “While Tesla has not released a public API for developers to date, that does not stop one from hacking on the car anyway,” he says. You can check out the result of Goecke’s tampering below. Certainly impressive, Goecke doesn’t have plans to keep the temporary feature active for long. “A fun weekend project for sure,” Goecke writes, “but there are a lot of security issues to address before I leave this skill enabled on my Echo....
Confirming the hack and the data breach, Army and Air Force Exchange (AAFES) spokesperson Chris Ward said that, “The Exchange learned on February 11 of a data breach of customer information held by concessionaire SIGA Telecom.” SIGA officials did not immediately provide a comment on Friday after the breach was made public. However Ward said that the leaked data did not contain financial information about the military personnel nor was there any evidence of the data being used in fraudulent transactions....
CVE-2014-6352 : All Windows versions except Windows 2003 vulnerable to a new Sandworm exploitThe vulnerability :Microsoft has given a workaround for the mitigation of the exploit US-CERT recommends users and administrators review the Microsoft Security Advisory and apply the recommended workarounds. Microsoft says that the Zero-day is not patched yet and hence it is being exploited in the wild and allows the potentials hackers to perform remote code execution. The vulnerability : A zero-day security glitch pertains to the Microsoft OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) technology....
The reason staffers are choosing Confide over other secure messaging apps, like Telegram and Signal, is that Confide deletes chats as soon as they are read. In other words, by default the app deletes messages after they are read. “We immediately delete them from our servers and wipe them from the device,” says Jon Brod, Confide’s co-founder and the company’s president. The app has become a craze among the reporters as well....
The information was leaked on Ghostbin, and paraphrased with, ‘Just for lulz’ — Anonymous (@AnonymousGlobo) December 26, 2014 The Ghostbin paste has since been removed, however our team was able to get a copy of the alleged leak data At first glance, the leak seems new and seems to have been collected from the above mentioned services and websites, using phishing, social engineering or with similar methods. Alleged Leak comes from old leaks from 2012 and 2013, experts says Cyber security experts who previously operated Cyberwarnews has since been working on to find out where the leak comes from....
“After a comprehensive analysis of AMD Escape commands, we found a set of weaknesses in several APIs. These weaknesses make the system vulnerable to privilege escalation, denial-of-service attacks and denial-of-service attacks. services, disclosing information, bypassing KASLR, or writing arbitrary code to memory,” AMD stated in the security advisory published this week. The vulnerabilities were discovered by independent security researcher, Ori Nimron (Twitter username @orinimron123), Eran Shimony of CyberArk Labs, Lucas Bouillot, of the Apple Media Products RedTeam and driverThru_BoB 9th....
NBI Director Virgilio Mendez said the suspected hacker was nabbed Wednesday night through the help of intelligence gathered by the NBI Cybercrime Division. The suspect, Paul Biteng, a 23-year-old IT graduate, who is now in NBI custody, was arrested at his house along G. Tuazon and Miguelin streets in Sampaloc, Manila at past 7 p.m. He will be hit with charges for violation of Section 4A-1 of the Cybercrime Prevention Act, which pertains to “illegal access to the whole or any part of a computer system without right....
For those unaware, Apple has replaced its Touch ID in iPhone X in favor of Face ID, which uses the TrueDepth camera system on the top of the display to unlock the device. Face ID can also be used for authentication, payments, accessing securing apps and be used with Apple Pay as well. The Bloomberg report says that Apple “told suppliers they could reduce the accuracy of the face-recognition technology to make it easier to manufacture”....
For this, the Cupertino giant is introducing new child safety features in three areas, developed in collaboration with child safety experts. These areas are communication safety in Messages, CSAM detection, and expanding guidance in Siri and Search. “At Apple, our goal is to create technology that empowers people and enriches their lives — while helping them stay safe,” wrote Apple in a blog post. “This program is ambitious, and protecting children is an important responsibility....
Apple indulged in worst form of censorship and has removed the $1 App which informed iPhone users whether they were ever hacked and if their iPhone was being spied on. The $1 app called System and Security Info which was available iTunes store has since been removed by Apple. The App was developed by a German IT security researcher Stefan Esser after he found that there is no single App which could inform the iPhone owner whether he/she has ever been hacked....
The major announcement was definitely the next big release of the iOS 13 operating system for the iPhone. iOS 13 comes with numerous new features such as a Dark Mode, redesigned versions of key apps including Reminders, Health and Apple Books, New Image Editing Tools, Apple ID authentication and more. Let’s have a detailed look at the major features that are coming to iPhones with iOS 13: Dark Mode, one of the most anticipated features, that was first showcased in last year’s macOS Mojave, is now making its way to the mobile OS....
“Apple is working on touchless gesture control and curved screens for future iPhones,” Mark writes. “The control feature would let iPhone users perform some tasks by moving their finger close to the screen without actually tapping it …” In other words, it will allow users to navigate iOS just by waving with their hands above the phone. However, it’s unclear how the new gestures would be implemented into iOS software....
“The current out-of-warranty battery service fee will apply until the end of February 2023. Effective March 1, 2023, the out-of-warranty battery service fee will be increased by $20 for all iPhone models prior to iPhone 14,” reads the Apple Support page for iPhone battery service. According to an estimation calculator on Apple’s website, the Cupertino giant currently charges $69 for a battery replacement on most of the iPhone models such as iPhone 13, iPhone 12, iPhone 11, iPhone X, iPhone SE, and iPhone 8....
With entry level specs, the Aquarius E5 Ubuntu model is a reasonably priced device that comes with a 5-inch, 1280×720 HD display. It is powered by a quad-core MediaTek processor clocked at 1.3GHz coupled with 1GB of RAM. It also comes with 16GB of in-built storage capacity along with a microSD card slot. Further, it has two unlocked SIM card slots and is backed by a 2500mAh battery. Additionally, it has a 13-megapixel camera with dual flash that can shoot 1080p HD video along with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera....
If you are actively pursuing a career in the oilfield industry, you would be well advised to take into consideration the benefits that will accompany your hourly wage, specifically the health insurance. The purpose of this article isn’t to scare you into choosing a different career path, simply to make sure you are aware of some of the risk you will be up against. Now Hiring! While the oilfield industry has experienced more lows than highs during the previous few years, some believe that is about to change in 2017, especially in the state of Texas....
