We reported about the world’s popular Anime/Hentai torrent download website, NYAA being shut down. The NYAA admin has confirmed our worst fears! They said that they had shut down the website in response to certain court proceedings which could have hurt them. They have clarified that the shutdown of NYAA was their own decision and not a result of some form of internal subversion or engagement by government or legal entities....
Police say 45-year-old Yehuda Katz, assigned to the 70th Precinct in Brooklyn, obtained personal identifying information of traffic accident victims and fraudulently posed as an attorney soliciting clients. The complaint filed by the prosecutor states that Katz surreptitiously installed multiple electronic devices in the Traffic Safety Office of the NYPD’s 70th Precinct, which allowed him to remotely access restricted NYPD computers. He also had access to other restricted law enforcement agencies and FBI database....
For those unaware, BlueKeep is a term for a security vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) (noted as “critical” by Microsoft) affecting computers using older versions of Windows, including Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003, and also Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. The BlueKeep security vulnerability was first reported by Microsoft on 14 May 2019 and officially noted as CVE-2019-0708. BlueKeep is a “wormable” Remote Desktop Services (RDS) vulnerability in Windows OS....
Created by the OpenSignal team, WiFiMapper is powered by almost 500 million global hotspots and it itself picks up the best free Wi-Fi spots. They have remixed their Wi-Fi data with others, such as Foursquare, so you not only can find the best free nearby hotspots, but also find out how good the coffee is. It can save users money on their roaming charges and data plan. It allows users to see Foursquare ratings of the location and receive Foursquare and WifiMapper comments about each of the venues, and it will even give you performance information about the hotspot before you begin using it....
Pizza Hut Australia hit with Point of Sales (PoS) ZeroAccess rootkit malware for over a yearZeroAccess Rootkit malware ITNews in a blog post said that 60 of 300 Pizza Hut stores in Australia suffered varying amounts of downtime as a result of ‘steadily increasing’ malware infections over the 12-month period. Webroot told ITNews that the effect of the malware was so great that it caused trade to be halted for up to two hours per incident....
For those unaware, in April 2014, Microsoft had announced that it is discontinuing versions of the Windows XP build. Since then, the company has not rolled out any security patches nor has announced any new features for Windows XP. In April 2017, the RBI through a “confidential circular” to banks had emphasized concerns about ATMs running on Windows XP and other vulnerable operating systems. “A reference is also invited to our confidential Advisory No....
A recent study conducted by the scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore explained that humans can recognize and distinguish between millions of colors which they see; however they can recall only specific and few basic shades because brain can store only basic general hues. With this experiment scientists pointed out the fact that people often face this problem of recalling a particular hue because brain limits the “color memory” to few “best” version of basic colors....
The security researcher who goes by the pseudonym illusionofchaos in a detailed blog post on Friday claimed that he had submitted four zero-day vulnerabilities to Apple between March 10 and May 4, 2021, when iOS 15 was not yet in the middle. One of the bugs affecting the iOS Analyticsd was patched in iOS 14.7, but Apple never publicly acknowledged this and listed it on its official vulnerability page. The researcher said Apple “decided to cover it up and not list it on the security content page....
At the annual Display Week conference held in California from May 10-12, Samsung Display showcased some of its futuristic foldable and slidable concept prototypes. This included the Flex G, which folds inwards twice, and the Flex S, which folds both inward and outward. Besides these prototypes, the South Korean giant also displayed a 6.7-inch slidable product, basically a rollable panel, that expands upward and not stretches horizontally. According to the company, this capability is helpful for document work and social media postings....
Otto does have an integrated camera, which will make it quite handy to keep a track of whatever is going on in a given environment. The robot can broadcast live images from its integrated camera to PCs or mobile devices. Thanks to the inclusion of servos and motors, Otto will also be able to move its up, down, left and right, and this will all be made possible thanks to the latest dedicated mobile application....
In an effort to improve the anonymizing networks’ security, the hackers, Alejandro Caceres and Amanda Towler set PunkSPIDER loose on the Dark Web; however, they surprisingly discovered that the Dark Web may not be as huge as estimated by the experts. When PunkSPIDER scanned the entire Tor network last week, only about 7,000 .onion domains were found by the security tool in total. The entire scan just took only three hours to finish....
The list of hacked websites can be seen from the paste provided below: At the time of writing the Article, most of the websites were still showing the deface page.
The defacement page was similar to the previous hack, just a week ago over The Colombian Government website The defaced website was showing a short message, In addition to the above statement the defaced website was also playing a Youtube video, depicting The stark reality about the Prophet Muhammad in the Bible. List of defaced websites and their Webcached Version(Mirror): https://www.smsagenovesi.gov.it/ https://www.add-attack.com/defaced/468738/smsagenovesi.gov.it/ https://www.superdue.gov.it/ https://dark-h.org/deface/id/8018 https://www.matteodellacorte.gov.it/ https://www.add-attack.com/defaced/468745/matteodellacorte.gov.it/ https://www.terzonocera.gov.it/ https://www.add-attack.com/defaced/468744/terzonocera.gov.it/ https://www.liceoclassicogbvico.gov.it/ https://www....
Much more like a mafia organisation in the physical world which has to pay off several authorities to avoid raids, seizures and detection, Silk Road which was operating outside of law had to depend on payoffs to survive, it seems. The Silk Road marketplace founders found themselves paying thousands of dollars to cyber extortionists who threatened to expose serious site vulnerabilities or hit it with denial of service attacks in 2012 and 2013 , according to evidence presented in a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday....
“Over 332 million people worldwide use Snapchat every day to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. We’ve always enjoyed creating new features for our community, and historically we’ve tested new features in different ways, rolling them out to various Snapchatters and geographies,” Team Snap said in a news release about Snapchat+. “This subscription will allow us to deliver new Snapchat features to some of the most passionate members of our community and allow us to provide prioritized support....
A new round of digital movement has already begun and the future of the world will be super-connected. More and more bandwidth will be required to stay forward of the needs of the customers and the telecom industry will have to be prepared to deal with these growing demands. The backbone, which is the true central part of a telecom network is an important element to make this possible. The trial is the first result of the association on a new method that Huawei and Proximus have been occupied in January....
Joshua Drake from Zimperium Mobile Security discovered six + one critical vulnerabilities in the native media playback engine called Stagefright. He calls this weaknesses ‘Mother of all Android Vulnerabilities’. Drake said that the vulnerabilities can be exploited by sending a single multimedia text message to an unpatched Android smartphone. While the exploit is deadly, in some cases, where phones parse the attack code prior to the message being opened, the exploits are silent and the user would have little chance of defending their data....
Verizon Enterprise Solutions is the B2B unit in Verizon’s huge portfolio that offers a variety of services for other companies or governments around the world, that range from cloud hosting to cloud computing, from private IP services to communications, and even online security. The breach came to light Thursday in a post on the blog Krebs on Security. Krebs reported the hacker stole contact information for about 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customers and offered it for sale for US$100,000 on a cybercrime forum....
For Linux, OS X, and other Unix-like systems, the exploit results in a remote heap overflow as root in the Symantec or Norton process. Symantec on the other hand has stated that the ‘most common symptom of a successful attack’ would be a system crash and the infamous blue screen of death. Ormandy has also stated that when he attempted to mail Symantec information regarding the vulnerability, the email crashed Symantec’s mail server....
