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According to the researchers at Symantec, the custom-built software is nicknamed “Ifwatch” and it is spreading quickly. “We have not seen any malicious activity whatsoever,” said Symantec threat intelligence officer Val Saengphaibul. “However, in the legal sense, this is illegal activity. It’s accessing computers on a network without the owner’s permission.” Ifwatch software is a mysterious piece of “malware” that infects routers through Telnet ports, which are often weakly secured with default security credentials that could be open to malicious attack....

According to Forcepoint’s 2016 Global Threat Report, Jaku (Star Wars reference alert — Jakku) has claimed 19,000 victims across 134 countries so far. Most of its victims are from countries such as Japan and South Korea, which comprise 73 percent of all infections. A six month investigation by Forcepoint’s Special Investigations (SI) team revealed that “Jaku herds victims en masse and conducts highly targeted attacks on specific victims through the execution of concurrent operational campaigns....

Upon being inquired about the battery life of OnePlus 2, the company replied by saying that the capacity of the battery is increased by almost 10%. The OnePlus 2 smartphone will have a 3,300mAh battery in comparison to OnePlus One that has a 3,100mAh battery. Talking about the camera, it said: “Camera-wise, we have a bunch of things that we believe will set the OnePlus 2 apart, but we’ll leave the details for the launch....

Each earbud is equipped with an advanced 10mm dynamic driver to provide richer vocals and deeper bass. This, according to OnePlus, works in collaboration with bass boosting technology and dynamic 3D stereo powered by Dolby Atmos in order to deliver a richer audio experience. It also supports Dirac Audio Tuner digital technology, and panoramic sound fidelity to assist 3D stereo. The weight of each OnePlus Buds Z earbud is 4....

As with all OnePlus smartphones, the 16GB Silky White One model will also be exclusively available via invites. To get an invite, OnePlus customer need to answer a question and fill in an online form. The winners will be chosen at random and will receive their invites on February 23. About the OnePlus One 16GB For starters the 16GB version looks a bad buy considering that adding only Rs.3000.00, a OnePlus fan can get the 64GB variant which carries a price tag of Rs....

Parrot Security OS for Pentesting, Computer Forensic, Reverse engineering, Hacking, Cloud pentesting, Privacy/Anonimity and CryptographyFeatures According to its developers, Parrot Security OS is a security oriented operating system designed for Penetration Testing, Computer Forensic, Reverse engineering, Hacking, Privacy/Anonymity and Cryptography. Instead of installing the OS then painstakingly assembling your collection of security tools (and package dependencies), using something like Parrot Security OS takes care of all that for you It is based on Debian and developed by Frozenbox network....

The police at the airport stopped the man this morning after spotting the black realistic case. They carried out a further search and inspection of the realistic looking gun iPhone case. Officers took to Twitter to highlight the idiocy of the man’s actions and also tweeted that they could charge the man under a section 5 Public Order offence. They also warned that anyone else who might want to walk into an airport carrying a gun-shaped anything that this “makes it much less likely you’ll catch your plan....

News of the data breach comes just three weeks before the country’s national election on March 2. The security flaw was found on the mobile-based application, Elector designed by the Israeli software company Feed-b. This app is being used by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party for campaign management and to offer news and information on the upcoming election to voters. According to Haaretz, the breach discovered by a programmer in the Elector’s system could have potentially exposed the names, addresses, ID numbers, polling stations of eligible Israeli voters along with their phone numbers in many cases, gender and whether they were potential Likud voters....

According to researchers, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura, the printed fake fingerprints were tested on a wide range of devices and they were able to achieve roughly an 80% success rate on average. There are three main types of fingerprint sensors: capacitive, optical and ultrasonic. Each of these sensors operates slightly differently depending upon the material and collection methods used in the mould. The most common type is capacitive, which uses the body’s natural electrical current to read the fingerprints, while optical sensors use light to scan and create an image of a finger....

Thinking of a way to block those annoying pop ups and ads? You want to continue reading but this annoying set of ads keep popping up. Some ads or pop ups may be triggered by leaving and returning to the site, by clicking on the page, or by clicking a link on the page. They can be infuriating, especially when you get to the moment of digesting the content on a web page....

Following the arrests, Pelispedia.tv remained online initially but now it is no longer available. However, it’s sister site Pelisplus is still accessible but is also expected to shut down. The arrest of the operators who are a couple from Uruguay was the result of a collaborative effort by Interpol, Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), and Uruguayan authorities. Following a referral from Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), the U....

The move say some privacy advocates could also help in surveillance far more invasive than the US telephone and internet spying exposed by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in 2013. Launched in 2009, the Aadhaar ID database scheme was established to streamline payment of benefits and reduce huge wastage and fraud. Nearly a billion people have registered their finger prints and iris signatures. Data collected under the project is encrypted and stored within national data centres in Bangalore and Manesar....

PlayStation Network today suffered the first outage of 2016 even as angry fans took to Twitter and Facebook to express their frustration at not being able to either login or play games online. The PSN went down exactly at 11.15 am EST and for past half an hour the hashtag #PSNDown on Twitter is filled with angry tweets from the gamers. https://twitter.com/PTChrisO/status/684049702053097473 — Dennis (@nachtheerser) January 4, 2016 — DemonwrathDeathreign (@VayneCeasar) January 4, 2016...

Qualcomm is also filing a new complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) concerning five of the patents, and it is asking the ITC to ban imports of iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X models that use chips from Intel, aka AT&T and T-Mobile devices in the US. The chipmaker in its new patent infringement claims that many of Apple’s smartphones ranging from the iPhone 7 to iPhone X have infringed upon 16 of its patents related to bandwidth technology, carrier aggregation, memory designs, power saving methods, phone’s actual interfaces, photo editing, technology from dual-camera setups, and even camera autofocus....

The radar devices operate like finely tuned motion detectors, using radio frequencies to zero in on movements as detailed as slight human breathing from a distance of more than 50 feet. They can detect whether anyone is inside of a house, where they are and whether they are moving. Federal officials claim that the information from this device is essential for keeping officers safe if they need to storm buildings or rescue hostages....

The handset device will support Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce NOW to allow easy access to AAA titles when gamers are away from their console or PC. While the accessory maker did not reveal any details about the device, a popular and seasoned leaker Evan Blass (@evleaks), who typically reports on smartphones and other devices, tried to share three images of the upcoming console, called “Logitech G Gaming Handheld”....

EW plays a prominent role in the Russian Armed Forces, particularly in the army, and has been a largely invisible aspect of Russia’s war against Ukraine. EW is any action involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum) or directed energy to control the spectrum, attack an enemy, or impede enemy assaults. It is used by militaries to target communications, radar, or other military and civilian assets, as well as to protect their forces....

Latest leaks suggest that Samsung is releasing a special Galaxy Note 7 Batman Edition with 6GB RAM. The South Korean smartphone giant is working on a Batman-themed Galaxy Note 7, as leaked images of the phone show. The images were leaked on China’s microblogging Twitter equivalent, Weibo and quickly spotted by WCCFTech. The images show a design that’s very much similar to the Galaxy S7 edge Injustice Edition, with the same color combination of gold and black....

A chemist at the Colorado State University, Eugene Chen experimented on the monomer Gamma-butyrolactone to manufacture a biopolymer that can be entirely recycled back to its original monomer state for re-use. With plastics taking the number one spot in years production and waste, on an average more than 200 pounds of synthetic polymers (many of these are not biorenewable/biodegradable) are used per person each year indicate the statistics. Around 10-20 million tons of plastic finds its way into the Earth’s oceans every year, which in total is an estimated 5....

The word ‘teleportation’ evokes images of the fictional Star Trek universe where humans and objects are ‘beamed’ to another location. This research will allow people to use quantum entanglement to send information across large distances that allows information to be transmitted with absolute security, which is essential for a future quantum Internet. Researchers have already had a lot of success quantum teleporting information and they were successful to some extent before as well by teleporting information over 100km of fibre network....