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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....

For those unaware, DoS attack is an attack to slow down the legitimate user’s computer by overloading its resources. This means that one computer and one internet connection is being used to flood a server with packets (also known as TCP/UDP). As a result, this makes the server inaccessible to other computers, which means that whatever form of content was being loaded by the server, ranging from a website, to a hosting service will not be visible to other computers....

Considering the importance, India holds in OnePlus’s scheme of things, OnePlus 2 will also be launched at a special event in New Delhi. So how can a user view the OnePlus 2 launch taking place via a ‘virtual reality’ event? For beginners, you need to download the OnePlus 2 launch VR app from the Google Play store. Click here for the link. You will either need a Google Cardboard or the OnePlus Cardboard to view the event in virtual reality via the app....

OphionLocker Ransomware uses Elliptic Curve for Encryption, Tor for Communication and Malvertising for PropagationElliptic Curve CryptographyWorkingRansomware getting more and more stubborn Elliptic Curve Cryptography Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is a public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. One of the main benefits ECC cryptography is that it provides same level of encryption with smaller size of keys. This algebraic form of encryption is based on solving the discrete logarithm of a random elliptic curve element....

According to Parrot Security, the development process of this version required a lot of time, and many important updates to make this release an important milestone in the history of the project. “This release includes all the updated packages and bug fixes released since the last version (3.11), and it marks the end of the development and testing process of many new features experimented in the previous releases since Parrot 3....

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....

The augmented reality (AR) app places Pokemon in the real world using your smartphone camera whether it’s in your office or down your street. Players are always on the go to catch their favourite Pokemon and expand their collection for the ultimate Pokemon team. The players of the GPS based augmented reality mobile game for Android and iOS are always on the lookout for ways to get ahead in the game by looking for easy and effective ways to ace the game....

This announcement comes following rumors that retailers like GameStop and others were delisting pre-orders for the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake, raising concerns that the project has been canceled. Now, in a statement to IGN, Ubisoft has now cleared the air surrounding the cancellation of the project. “The development of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake will now be led by Ubisoft Montreal. We’re proud of the work achieved by Ubisoft Pune and Ubisoft Mumbai, and Ubisoft Montreal will benefit from their learnings as the new team will continue the work to deliver a great remake,” Ubisoft told IGN....

A couple of days back, The Guardian, reported that Apple is scouting for secure locations to test its self driving cars and in regards to this Apple’s staff was in talks with the officials of GoMentum Station which is a former naval base located near San Francisco and currently serving as a high security testing ground for autonomous vehicles. The Guardian obtained the required documents on the basis of Public Records Act request....

According Digi-Capital, VR and augmented reality is going to become a $120 billion business by 2020, and with Qualcomm already getting a heated amount of competition from other SoC manufacturers, it was high time that the company revealed something that would allow it to get a huge advantage. Right now, Snapdragon 820 has the fastest mobile GPU, Adreno 530 present inside it, and that graphical performance is what will give the chipset the added advantage when smartphone users begin to immerse themselves in VR content....

Rackspace restored after DDOS takes out DNS servers for 11 hoursRackspaceDDoS attack The company in its status report says that DDoS attack on its DNS servers DNS, that were sending both legitimate and DDoS traffic to Rackspace were blacklisted. Thus during this 11 hour period, even genuine Rackspace visitors were inadvertently blocked. Rackspace Rackspace Inc. is a managed cloud computing company based in Windcrest, Texas, USA with branches in Australia, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel, The Netherlands, India, and Hong Kong, and data centers operating in Texas, Illinois, Virginia, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong....

“Right now we are reviewing the [craft’s] nuances, which will take approximately one year,” said Sergei Karakayev, commander of Russian Strategic Missile Forces. “Once we agree on the plans, we will start building the engine itself. In the second year of development — 2018 — we will build the hardware. Perhaps I am rushing things, and some issues may arise, but by 2020 we should have a fully-functioning product.” Called the PAK-DA strategic bomber, the hypersonic aircraft – which will be invisible to radar – will be armed with a special hybrid Turbofan engine, making it capable of low-level space flight....

The Proton-M was carrying a Mexican satellite MexSat-1 which it was supposed to put into orbit. The Proton-M failure is second one in two months, following an April 28 mishap involving an unmanned cargo craft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station. “An emergency situation in the third-stage engine occurred during a Proton-M launch into orbit,” Roscosmos, Russia’s federal space agency, said via Twitter. The Proton-M malfunction developed in about nine minutes after liftoff, when the third stage failed to separate and deploy the MexSat-1 communications satellite, Roscosmos reported....

Denmark, for example, is among the global leaders in e-government and has made using digital tools mandatory for communication between its citizens and the government. Other countries are also using one-stop portals to provide transactional services and public information. These digital channels, however, have become prime targets for hackers. Government portals can be vulnerable and many still fail to implement capable security measures to protect these channels. In 2019, local governments in Florida suffered from ransomware attacks due to poor security, with hackers demanding $1 million from Pensacola City in exchange for stolen documents....

Samsung plans to issue a software update for its recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones that will prevent them from overheating by limiting battery recharges to under 60%. Samsung announced the software update through a front page ad on Seoul Shinmun, a popular South Korean daily newspaper. The Samsung advertisement announces the software update plan for any users of the Note 7 who may be disregarding its recall notice and continuing to use the smartphone....

Called the Samsung W2018, the device packs comparable specs to other company offerings like the high-end phone like the Galaxy S8 or Galaxy Note 8, albeit with one major difference. Samsung’s new W2018 is the first smartphone to feature the world’s widest aperture. It has a rear 12MP camera with the widest F/1.5 aperture and the ability to step to f/2.4 as needed. The Samsung W2018’s f1.5 aperture will help the smartphone capture significantly clearer images in low-light environments while also allowing users to create a higher degree of bokeh effect even with a single camera....

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....

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 researchers who published their study in the journal ‘Scientific Reports’ said that they were able to reverse time by a fraction of a second. “This is one in a series of papers on the possibility of violating the second law of thermodynamics. That law is closely related to the notion of the arrow of time that posits the one-way direction of time from the past to the future,” said the study’s lead author Gordey Lesovik, who heads the Laboratory of the Physics of Quantum Information Technology at MIPT....

We think that bringing together soft and rigid materials will help to create a new generation of fast, alert robots that are more healthy and flexible than their predecessors and can safely work side by side with humans,” said Michael Tolley, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at University of California – San Diego. Tolley said that the thought of blending soft and hard materials into the robot’s body came from nature....