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Although WPA3 uses a ‘Dragonfly’ handshake that makes it nearly impossible for attackers to crack the password of a network, two security researchers, Mathy Vanhoef (NYUAD) and Eyal Ronen (Tel Aviv University & KU Leuven), have discovered new vulnerabilities in WPA3-Personal protocol, that allows an attacker who is within the range of a victim to gain access to the encrypted network traffic and recover Wi-Fi passwords. “Concretely, attackers can then read information that WPA3 was assumed to safely encrypt....

The Newsweek Twitter account was hacked at 10:45 a.m and remained in the control of the group calling themselves “Cyber Caliphate” for nearly 14 minutes till 10.59 am, when Twitter’s support team regained control of the account at the publication’s request. The hackers tweeted threats to President Obama, the First Lady and their daughters in a message warning of a “Bloody Valentine’s Day.” Newsweek account’s profile picture and banner were changed to images of a masked man and the Black Standard flag, and declared “Je Su IS ISIS,” in an image uploaded as the header picture on the Newsweek Twitter profile and gave a brief description of their activities and why they were hacking Newsweek....

However, there is a notable change. The mini-console will come with a replica version of the original NES controller, and packed with 30 built-in games, including classics like Super Mario Bros 1, 2 and 3, The Legend of Zelda, Punch Out, Balloon Fight, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Donkey Kong, Bubble Bobble and more. The NES packs has much smaller form factor this time around, and judging by the promo shots it sits neatly in the palm of your hand....

Based on the leaked information online, a concept render of the Nokia P1 is seen sporting an all-metal design with minimum side bezels. The Nokia logo is placed above the display and also alongside the selfie camera lens. The render also showcased the camera which appears to be a triple LED flash. The bottom of the smartphone seems to house a rectangular home button that should double as a fingerprint scanner along with capacitive menu buttons....

However, Japanese startup Beatrobo is hoping to change that and therefore, it has created the Pico Cassette to fuel your nostalgia for retro video games. It’s a tiny video game cartridge that plugs into your device’s headphone jack to unlock games. They are built on PlugAir technology, which uses a specially designed iPhone or Android app to draw power from the headphone jack and send data using specially modulated audio signals....

The leaked benchmarks were posted by Twitter user @TUM_APISAK (via Videocardz), which allegedly show the GeForce GTX 1160 Ti performance on the Ashes of the Singularity (AOTS) benchmark database. Reportedly, the GTX 1660 Ti features no ray tracing cores and comes with 1,536 CUDA cores and 6GB of GDDR6 video memory with a 192-bit memory interface. Further, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is apparently powered by a 12-nanometre FF TU116 processor....

Adventure, solitude, winding roads and pressing deadlines. Few occupations in America share the same cultural expression, economic importance, and interesting experience as the trucker. The impact truckers have had on American culture is evident everywhere, from the hats, to the slang, to the books, movies, and magazines that glorify the lifestyle, one this is certain, the career has captured the imagination of the American people. Perhaps that is because truckers often leave their home for days at a time....

Hactivist collective Anonymous, Antisec division, declared a cyber-war against Hong Kong for the treatment of protestors there. The group has already defaced several Hong Kong-based websites, and that dozens more would be affected over the next few days. This added tension comes amidst massive protests in Hong Kong, where citizens has amassed in the thousands to fight for democracy. While Anonymous’s actions are pro-democracy, they may renew fears of cyberwar between the United States and China....

The terrorists used either new phones or phones that were taken from their victims in order to communicate with each other. And the terrorists discarded all of them, with one attacker activating a phone less than an hour before he carried out a suicide attack, according to the report. The newest details revealed by the NY Times also about how at least nine suspects planned and carried out the attacks....

Open source password manager KeePass sports a MitM vulnerability that could allow attackers to trick users into downloading malware disguised as a software update, security researcher Florian Bogner warns. Bogner says that all versions of KeePass, including the latest, are vulnerable. The flaw is considered critical and and has been assigned CVE-2016-5119. Unfortunately KeePass knows about the vulnerability but is unwilling to patch it because it would block ads on the App....

The announcement was made during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live event in Cologne, Germany where an all-electric version prototype of the classic MINI Cooper was showcased for MINI fans and gaming enthusiasts. “A major feature of MINI is the positive and future-oriented approach to individual mobility as well as the distinctive design of the vehicles. Gamification will play an increasingly important role in the MINI of the future and offer a unique experience for our customers,” said Stefanie Wurst, Head of MINI....

Israel has suffered a lot of damage over the internet under #Opisrael, and today popular email service was hacked by Team AnonGhost. The data leaked contains login credentials, (email id and password) in plane text. the data was leaked on the official Facebook and twitter page of the Team AnonGhost and contains a link to the paste containing the Login credentials. The data can be seen from the paste provided here For latest News from team AnonGhost follow them at their official page: Facebook: https://www....

The US government is taking its war on terror seriously and is looking to stop the online ISIS propaganda machinery in its tracks by arresting the known and unknown supporters of the terrorist group who spread its message on social media, be it with tweets or Facebook messages, or even GIFs. Posting such GIF can land even ordinary users in prison despite of First Amendment which guarantees freedom of expression in the United States....

In other areas, stability can be achieved through feedback control. With a desired state in mind, researchers measure the current state and make adjustments as necessary to keep the entire system proportionate. The problem occurring here is that in the quantum world, a vital part of that process destroys superposition so researchers have to rely on their own instincts to get the job done. According to PCWorld, this new research describes a feedback-control system for maintaining quantum superposition that requires no measurement....

Cybersecurity researcher, Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko discovered a non-password-protected database belonging to Razer that was accessible via the Internet. The exposed database contained information of approximately 100,000 individuals, which included the customer’s full name, email address, contact number, customer internal ID, order numbers, order details, billing, and shipping address. According to Diachenko, the data was part of a large log chunk stored on a company’s Elasticsearch cluster that had been misconfigured for public access since August 18th, 2020, and indexed by public search engines....

Features of Recovery Toolbox for Outlook: Recovery Toolbox for Outlook makes it easy to repair damaged PST and OST files In addition to recovering files, you can also convert them. For example, create a PST file from an OST file. Or export individual items to files of other formats, such as EML / MSG / VCF / TXT. If you are lucky, there is even the possibility that you can recover deleted items from Outlook data files, such as deleted mail, files or contacts....

The new policy order applies to “visual surveillance systems” developed by China-based firms that are required by Chinese law to share intelligence with Beijing’s security services. The decision has been undertaken by the Government Security Group after undertaking “a review of the current and future possible security risks associated with the installation of visual surveillance systems on the government estate.” According to the Government Security Group, additional controls are required due to the increasing capability and connectivity of the Chinese surveillance systems in the UK....

Dubbed as ‘Project Sandcastle’, this beta project uses the checkra1n jailbreak exploit to launch a version of Android on older iPhone models by gaining access to their bootloader. The checkra1n jailbreak removes the sandbox security layer on iOS, making your iPhone less secure. “Where sandboxes set limits and boundaries, sandcastles provide an opportunity to create something new from the limitless bounds of your imagination. Project Sandcastle is about building something new on the silicon of your hardware....