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Fybis showed its first signs in November 2014. However, the security researchers from Palo Alto Networks only recently have been able to understand who is behind the danger and how this threat works. Researchers after carrying out a detailed inquiry guess that this is not your run-of-the-mill malware that affects computers for the criminals’ monetary gain (adware, Bitcoin mining, banking operations), but a much more sophisticated threat, that’s only used in cyber-espionage campaigns....

After witnessing a plethora of gadgets ranging from wearables, to crowdfunded projects that have the craziest of ideas, Samsung was the last tech company that we thought of that would ever produce something as interesting as a Galaxy Surfboard. With extreme sports getting smarter, and you continue to see drone racing competitions taking place, we believe that that it should not come as a surprise that Samsung has also ventured into this....

For those unaware, back in December, Pablo’s brother had launched another foldable smartphone, the Escobar Fold 1 that looked eerily similar to the Royale Flexpai for $349. But many weeks down the line, the company has yet to ship this device to users who have paid for it. Now, it turns out that the Escobar Fold 2 too is a huge scam. According to the famous tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), the Escobar Fold 2 is a poorly disguised Samsung Galaxy Fold covered in a gold sticker....

According to CrowdStrike, over the past several weeks, the threat actor was attempting to deploy a malicious kernel driver using a method called “Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver” (BYOVD), which is a well-known and pervasive deficiency in Windows security that enables adversaries to bypass Windows kernel protections and execute code with the highest privileges in Windows. Execute Malicious Code In the latest BYOVD attack, which was noticed and stopped by CrowdStrike’s Falcon security system, Scattered Spider attempted to exploit a malicious kernel driver through a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2015-2291) in the Intel Ethernet diagnostics driver for Windows (iqvw64....

The internet is a fantastic place, we’re sure you agree. Business or pleasure, you can stay in touch people from around the globe, entertain yourself, entertain others, complete your weekly grocery shopping, book a holiday, you name it, the internet will allow the opportunity to do it. However, as amazing as the internet is, security-wise, it can leave a lot of people vulnerable. Nowadays, many passwords are easy to crack as people simply aren’t following the correct procedures....

Remember Shadow Brokers, the shadowy hacker group that made headlines in August 2016 when it leaked advanced NSA hacking tools. Shadow Brokers had claimed that it had access to whole range NSA hacking tools and had attempted to sell some of the tools on the dark web. After failing to get buyers for the hacking tools, Shadow Brokers today announced its retirement. The hacker group said it was “going dark”, but not before leaving a parting gift....

Now, based on feedback from the community, Microsoft has added a biggest new feature, which is add support to the Skype app for group video calls. “We’ve lifted the limitation of two participants in an interview,” the company said in a post on the Skype dev blog. “Whether you want to have peer-reviewed interviews or have all aspects of the interview in one consolidated place, it’s as simple as sending interviewers the same link....

The company said that it is also officially re-launching the China Hero Project programme, which was brought to a halt due to COVID-19. For those unaware, China Hero Project is the incubation project initiated by SIE (Sony Interactive Entertainment) to help China local developers create good console games. According to a report published by Reuters, Sony is planning to invest more than 1 million yuan ($140,080) in each China-developed game that the company incubates through its programs....

With the end of technical support for Windows 7, starting end of this year, the South Korean government will be switching the computers used in its central government, local governments, and public institutions to Linux-based operating systems. The operating systems planned by the government are Cloud OS, Harmonica OS, and TMAX OS, which are based on Linux. Currently, the country’s Ministry of Defense is already using Harmonica OS while the postal service is testing TMAX OS....

While four previous at-sea landing bids had failed, however, a Falcon 9 achieved a successful ground-based touchdown in December, the first ever during an actual commercial space mission. Friday’s feat marked yet another major milestone in the quest for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and his privately owned Space Exploration Technologies in the quest to develop a cheap, reusable rocket, expanding his edge in the burgeoning commercial space launch industry....

Two researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have recently devised a method to turn a smartphone’s vibration motor into a microphone, capable of recording the sound around them. The brains behind the “VibraPhone” research are Associate professor Romit Roy Choudhury and Ph.D. candidate Nirupam Roy. They are planning to present their paper at MobiSys in Singapore later this month. Even though a speaker, a microphone, and a vibration motor have completely different functions, actually, these components depend on very similar basic principles....

Standard Chartered Bank hacked by cyber criminalsReports Reports As of this point, news reports suggest that cyber criminals have succeeded in withdrawing thousands of Pakistani Rupees from from the hacked accounts. No figure has been put to the number of customers affected by the hack, nor is there any clarity of the money that was stolen. However, we do know that the money was withdrawn and moved overseas to UK in a matter of seconds....

— Steam Deck (@OnDeck) June 17, 2022 According to Lawrence Yang, a UX designer at Valve, the new APU driver fixes performance issues with Halo Infinite and many other titles that have regressed recently. — Lawrence Yang (@lawrenceyang) June 17, 2022 Below are the Windows Drivers updates released: APU driver– download here, run setup.exe to install. This driver is updated as of June 16, 2022. Wi-Fi driver– download here, run install....

Given this kind of carelessness, companies or businesses that follow the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) business model may want to have a closer look at actually how well secured is their data. BYOD refers to the policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smart phones) to their workplace, and to use those devices to access privileged company information and applications. Kaspersky has segregated the type of information saved by participants in their personal smartphones, based on the results received through the survey....

For the unversed, Phantom braking occurs when an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), or a self-driving system, applies the brakes for no good reason. The system can be falsely detecting what it thinks might be an object on the road or anticipates a collision that won’t actually happen and brakes in an attempt to avoid it. The lawsuit, which was filed by Jose Alvarez Toledo of San Francisco in Federal Court in the Northern District of California, insisted that Tesla rushed its autonomous driving cars to market with unsafe technology, including its driver assistant system which the company calls Autopilot or Full Self-Driving, and its emergency braking system....

But recent advancement in technology has helped engineers create something which has changed the world of music. How would you feel when someone tells you that he can produce music with the help on his movement only? Isn’t it sounds something unnatural something like that of sci-fi stories but it’s true? An British engineer named Heap met Elly Jessop has made it real with the help of a team hackers, musician and technologists....

The hackers wrote the following statement on the defaced website: The attack seems to be coordinated as a part of #OpAntifa, a campaign that has been brought up against nationalists, racists and fascists. This is a just a few days after December 15, 2013, when Anonymous first broke into nationalist.org. The hackers claimed they had deleted all their files back then. The following screenshot shows how the Nationalist movement website looks when it is not hacked:...

The world’s most popular and most visited torrent website, The Pirate Bay seems to have fallen for the lure of money. According to reports, it is using a cryptocurrency miner on The Pirate Bay website. The cryptocurrency miner’s JavaScript code is tucked away in the footer of TPB and uses the power of visitors computer to mine coins called Monero coins. The Pirate Bay admin stand to make a lot of money as the Monero is trading upwards of $93 a coin as per latest price reports....

According to an announcement made by Martin Aircraft, it will start selling its manned jetpack for about $150,000 in the second half of 2016. The Martin Jetpack is made from carbon fibre and aluminium. It abstains from using the traditional rockets of science-fiction jetpacks, which are powerful but very hard to control, and uses fans as an alternative. https://youtu.be/i8gncCih7Js Martin says its jetpack, which has been developed over the past 35 years, is powered by a 200HP V4 petrol engine that drives two ducted fans for up to 30 minutes of flight time at speeds as fast as 74 kilometers per hour....

This Android App turns any smartphone into security camera.You can view the video stream from any Android smartphone/tablet or desktop Instead of requiring customers to buy additional hardware, Perch lets you use any USB-based webcam, smartphone, laptop or tablet as the point of capture. The Perch app allows you to dictate the area of the screen you wish to monitor and send an alert when it notices unusual movements. Furthermore, you can take action when those alerts happen....