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The Software which known as FinSpy and its different versions are manufactured by a German firm Gamma International. Gamma International is a renowned company which develops powerful software for companies to monitor computers use. According the first reports about this huge leak published by Reporters Without Borders (RWB), “Gamma has offices and subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, including the Channel Islands, and Germany, but also in Southeast Asia and the Middle East....

This is a part of a cyber criminal scam which use socially engineering to get the users to click upon the attachment. The attachment in this case is a Microsoft word document, which contains a malware payload. Forum users on Hoax Slayer stated that the above email is being floated on the internet in spanish language. The Spanish-language email claims that Shakira’s manager was driving the car—she died, while he sustained grave injuries....

According to the new guidelines issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”), which take effect immediately, DPT (Digital Payment Token) service providers will not portray the trading of DPTs in a manner that trivialises the high risks of trading in DPTs, as well as not promote their DPT services in public areas in Singapore or through any other media directed at the general public in Singapore. This includes placing of any form of advertisements or promotional materials in public areas such as Singapore public transport, public transport venues, broadcast media or any newspaper and magazine, third party websites, social media platforms, public events or roadshows....

The Korean victory is a validation of the work of JunHo Oh, the designer of the Hubo family of humanoid robots in development since 2002. The winning Hubo is a clever machine that can kneel and drive on wheels in addition to walking. The Institute of Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola Robotics of Pensacola, Fla., and its Running Man robot was the second place winner who received $1 million and the the third-place winner, Tartan Rescue, from the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, received $500,000....

The result of the test is pretty predictable: iPhone 7 is super-fast, much more so than every other iPhone in the video. The iPhone 7 & 7 Plus shows that Apple has come so far since its first iPhone. The A10 Fusion chipset, for instance, is a quad-core chipset, whereas Apple has gone with a dual-core setup in the past few generations. As the newer iPhone 7 has a pretty high resolution, it succeeds at being extremely fast all while pushing an amazing resolution, outdoing everything that Apple has ever done....

“To get started, we purchased actual direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machines off an online auction site and other equipment to simulate a real-world voting system,” said Symantec. The company claims that their research discovered “three easy ways an attacker with the right level of intelligence and motivation could erode the trust that American citizens have in their election process.” So, how did Symantec simulate the U.S. presidential election hack? Generally, during a voting process, voters use a chip card to cast their votes that are handed over to them while entering polling stations that use electronic voting machines....

Visitors to the www.army.mil were greeted by a pop-up saying, ”Your commanders admit they are training the people they have sent you to die fighting.” They followed it up with a tweet owning up the hack attack on the US Army website : — SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) June 8, 2015 Within minutes, the security team of the US Army spotted the hack and took down the website. They also made a post on the Fort Bragg Facebook page told people to avoid using the Army website because of the hack, saying The SEA fired a second tweet giving the reasons for hacking the US Army website just hours after it had hacked it....

Also read: True Caller hacked, database breached by Syrian Electronic Army

Pulane Lenkoe was trending on Twitter for no fault of her. She is the ex-girlfriend of Orlando Pirates midfielder Thandani Ntshumayelo who leaked her intimate images. The leaked images which are still trending on Twitter also sparked a serious and fierce Twitter debate on whether jilted lovers who expose their ex’s images should be criminally charged. Pulane Lenkoe is South African and is currently studying law. Her inadvertent leaks have somehow caused her to be a minor celebrity with her account already gaining 33K followers after the leak....

But when Netflix started to block subscribers who accessed its service through VPN services and other software tools that happen to bypass geolocation I was stunned and as a legitimate user, of Netflix service I was furious. Movie executives seemed to have successfully coursed Netflix on the VPN witch hunt as the movie studios want full control over what people can see in their respective countries. To be brutally honest I was not even aware I was being blocked at first....

The best course of action that you would have probably heard from others would be to quickly find some dry rice and drop your smartphone in it. This is done under the impression that when you drop your wet smartphone in a bag full of dry rice, maybe after a day or two, or three depending on how damaged the device is, the rice sucks the moisture out and the phone is (usually) fixed!...

Anyone who has used a Windows PC will know about the great Windows tech support scam. These scammers not only waste your time and energy but often leave a big hole in your pockets. One such Windows tech support scammer scammed a programmer. However, the angry programmer turned to tables on the Windows support scammers and declared war on all Windows Support scammers – and now he wants to send a massive army of bots to shut down every fake support line around the globe....

Sepulveda rigged Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s election which saw Neito winning the election by a huge margin and becoming the president of Mexico. A Bloomberg Business article published Thursday told his story for the first time, forcing the Mexican government to deny on Friday that Peña Nieto’s campaign spied on rivals. Sepulveda, now in jail in Colombia, was in the business of the “whole dark side of politics that nobody knows exists but everyone can see,” he told Bloomberg Business....

They 3D printed a three-part lens using something called a “femtosecond direct laser writing system,” which is no bigger than a grain of salt, onto the end of a fiber optic cable the width of two human hairs. “Endoscopic applications will allow for non-invasive and non-destructive examination of small objects in the medical as well as the industrial sector,” its creators wrote in their paper. They added: “The unprecedented flexibility of our method paves the way towards printed optical miniature instruments such as endoscopes, fibre-imaging systems for cell biology, new illumination systems, miniature optical fibre traps, integrated quantum emitters and detectors, and miniature drones and robots with autonomous vision....

The fight against these ISIS propaganda and recruitment networks is a never ending one, but three anonymous British computer experts have taken it on themselves to expose and destroy these networks. They are computer and hacking experts and their language and goal is similar to the global hacktivist collective Anonymous but what differs between the Anonymous and them is that their sole mission is to destroy the pro ISIS networks while Anonymous may be fighting its own ISIS fight, elements within the Anonymous, especially from the Middle East, are pro-ISIS....

Gamification is a marketing strategy that works for many types of businesses beginning with education and social media to retail. We will talk about it in our article. A good choice of products, convenient checkout with an optimal mobile payment gateway and customer service is not enough for a modern retail app. Ecommerce app gamification allows your brand to stand out from the crowd and attract users to your application....

Some of the ethical rules that guide ethical hackers’ intentions include: Express or written permission to probe a system or network to find potential security threats or risks. High regard and respect for organization or individual privacy All vulnerabilities and exploits are revealed to the security experts in the organization that is being tested Once the job is complete, no loopholes that can be exploited are left behind How Ethical Hacking has become a popular career choice Cybercriminals and black hat hackers have always been sophisticated and ingenious in finding ways to breach security systems....

The Japanese tech giants started a revolution with the T1100 laptop, which was technically regarded as the first laptop available to the public. Exit in the Pipeline for a While Toshiba showed their intent in leaving the laptop business when they sold 80.1% of their stake in their computer business to Foxconn owned Sharp back in 2018. Exit in the Pipeline for a WhileKilled by the Competition?The First Laptop for Public...

According to The BBC, some clients’ billing information for Twitter advertisers was inadvertently stored in their browser’s cache, which could have allowed other users on the computer to see this data. Twitter discovered the data leak on May 20, 2020, following which the company reached out to its business users to notify about the incident. The micro-blogging website emailed all its business customers including advertisers “to warn that their information may have been compromised in a security lapse”....

The availability of Twitter Blue with verification is currently available on iOS in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. In this plan, any user subscribing to the Twitter Blue subscription will get a blue checkmark or verification badge for their accounts for a monthly fee. However, this decision led to a widespread debate on the platform, as there was no clarity as to what would happen to the current Twitter Blue subscribers....