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As per the advisory, the malware dubbed as ‘Drovorub’ is designed to target Linux systems, and is part of cyber espionage operations being carried out by Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS) military unit 26165, whose activity is sometimes identified by the private sector as Fancy Bear, Strontium, or APT 28. What Is Drovorub? Drovorub is a Linux malware developed for use by the GTsSS....

CNN had previously reported that the company likes to boast that it is selling its products to the aforementioned clients, which are not small time fish by any means. However, looks like all of that boasting came to bite the company back as a recent blog post published by the company itself stated that the following: This is what will be referred to as a backdoor, and the NSA are being blamed for it....

The very first picture of NVIDIA’s GDDR6-based graphics card indicate that the GPU in the center of the board is missing, which suggest that the board in question is designed to support a next-gen Nvidia GPU. Although the prototype lacks a GPU, it does feature 12GB of VRAMs from Micron, a 384-bit memory bus, three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, a second generation NVLINK connector and a huge VRM setup with four fans....

However, Omegle moved to the court to dismiss all eight claims, holding that each of the claims in the lawsuit was barred under the immunity provision of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”), 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1) (“Section 230”), which was granted by the court. For the unversed, Section 230 is a section of Title 47 of the United States Code enacted as part of the United States Communications Decency Act (CDA) passed in 1996....

The company demonstrated this feature at the very beginning with the very launch of its flagship. However the feature has since been missing in every update. The ‘Ok OnePlus’ feature allows OnePlus One users to give voice commands just like the ‘Ok Google’ on Android smartphones, to the device even when the phone is in standby mode. The OnePlus users who has already updated to the new Cyanogen OS 12 update will have to reupdate their device to get this feature....

Part 3.1 of iCloud hacksCelebrities prepare to sue Google for $100 millionLetter to GoogleDMCA Take Down requests Also Read Celebrity snaps of more than 100 celebrities leaked Celebrities prepare to sue Google for $100 million A report published by the business related website, Business Insider published a report today stating that the Hollywood celebrities are planning to sue the search engine Google for not removing the images as soon as they were reported to Google....

A malware that aims to steal the credentials of STEAM users has cropped up recently. This malware is being spread via the service’s chat feature. It asks users to click on a link which is shortened using the shortening services available on internet. When the user clicks on it, it gets directed to a file stored on Google drive. The file appears to be an image file, complete with an image icon on it....

Basically, an aircraft would be considered hypersonic in case if it travels at about a speed of 3,800 miles per hour which is equivalent to five times the speed of sound and generally referred to as ‘Mach 5’. An aircraft which can manage to run at this speed will be unsafe for travelling of human passengers; however, it can travel across the entire breadth of United States in a time span of half an hour....

The Polaroid Cube+ camera measures 1.4 inches square and can be connected to smartphones and tablets via the Polaroid Cube+ app for iOS and Android. Users can control their Cube+ cameras remotely, which will also allow them to transfer the photos and videos that they can edit and share from their phone or tablet directly with their friends online. It does not look like The Cube+ has any upgraded imaging optics....

Michigan police have recently asked the computer scientists at the Michigan State University to produce a 3D model of a fingerprint to unlock a victim’s iPhone and disclose clues that could help solve an open murder case. In other words, they are attempting to make a 3D replica of a dead man’s fingers in order to access his device. The victim’s body was apparently too decayed for a fingerprint to be directly applied to the iPhone, but the police already had a scan of the victim’s fingerprints from when the man was arrested in a previous case....

This PC with a modular, 10 litre eGPU-like design is built around designed around Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) architecture. It is made out of matte black milled aluminium and lined at the bottom with Razer Chroma RGB. It measures only 210mm x 150mm x 365mm. The Razer Tomahawk N1 chassis will be available as a stand-alone option for gaming enthusiasts and system integrators looking to build out their own custom rig....

For those unfamiliar, the company’s professional cameras have been used to shoot films like “The Martian” starring Matt Damon, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” “Transformers: The Last Knight” and many others. Dubbed as “Hydrogen One”, the new smartphone comes with a 5.7 inch holographic display that can view and capture multi-dimensional images and runs on Google’s Android OS. According to the company’s press release, the smartphone uses “nanotechnology that seamlessly switches between traditional 2D content, holographic content, 3D content, and interactive games…....

Lead researcher, Dr Robert Maher, UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering, said in a press release: “While current state-of-the-art commercial optical transmission systems are capable of receiving single channel data rates of up to 100 gigabits per second (Gb/s), we are working with sophisticated equipment in our lab to design the next generation core networking and communications systems that can handle data signals at rates in excess of 1 terabit per second (Tb/s)....

For those unaware, Astra Linux is a Debian-based Linux operating system developed to meet the needs of the Russian army, other armed forces and intelligence agencies. It provides data protection up to the level of “top secret” in Russian classified information grade and has been officially certified by Russian Defense Ministry, Federal Service for Technical and Export Control and Federal Security Service. In fact, Astra Linux distribution was developed by Russian company RusBITech in 2008 for use by Russian private companies but it was later expanded to the local government sector, where it became popular with military contractors....

One of LinkedIn’s possible suitors whom Microsoft beat was the American cloud computing company Salesforce. Perhaps the LinkedIn promoters feared uncertainties of a stock-and-cash deal offered by Salesforce. Now it is revealed that Salesforce was willing to pay much much more than Microsoft. “The email indicated that Party A would have bid much higher and made changes to the stock/cash components of its offers, but it was acting without communications from LinkedIn,” LinkedIn said in the updated filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission....

The quest to release the Galaxy Note 7 before Apple could release its iPhone 7 seems to have backfired big time for Samsung. After there were various reports of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 exploding, the South Korean firm has nearly completed the massive original recall of 2.5 million units. However, just when it seemed that Samsung had managed put a lid on its worst corporate controversy, a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 from the replaced batch has reportedly exploded....

Joo Sun Choi, Executive Vice President, Memory Sales and Marketing, Samsung Electronics has said the following regarding the company’s progress in mass production of large capacity memory chips for high-end mobile devices of the future. Much faster than any version of eMMC, these new flash memory are based on the company’s most advanced V-NAND flash memory chips and a specially-designed high-performance controller. According to the statistical data, the new UFS 2....

The South Korean company, Samsung has announced that it will begin supplying its “Safety Truck” worldwide after four months of reliability testing. While the tech company showed off the first commercial version of the vehicle to the public at a recent press event in La Plata, Argentina, the idea was conceptualised and revealed by Samsung in a blog post last year. In order to assist drivers while attempting to overtake, the company has come up with a neat “video wall” that live-feeds the view ahead of the truck for cars behind....