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Typically targeting various Linux flavors used to power these devices, IoT malware is seldom seen as danger to the people or companies behind these devices, but everyone else. In the past two years, all IoT malware discovered have been found to be doing the same thing. The infection begins with a cybercriminal or automated service trying to guess thousands of username-password combinations to get into the IoT device’s admin password by using brute-force attacks....

The vulnerability which now known to all via the news wires made it easier for other hackers who soon took advantage of it, including @derGeruhn who used the Vulnerability and tweeted a self Retweeting script which was Retweeted for more than 80K users.

The micro-blogging website had announced last week that it would be cracking down on hate speech, which included the suspension of numerous alt-right accounts. Although, Twitter in the past has been slow to suspend people for hate speech and harassment, it is basically quick to remove accounts that post obscene images or videos. While the micro-blogging website has been slow to suspend people for harassment and hate speech in the past, it is usually quick to remove accounts that post obscene images or videos....

Supported by a series of gas-pressurized cells, the free-standing tower would stand 20 times the height of current tall structures and can be used for wind-energy generation and as a docking platform for space planes that could launch cargo, tourists and satellites directly into lower orbit. Speaking to CNBC, the Ontario-based company, Thoth Technology which is behind the invention said that the elevator could transport 10 tons of cargo at approximately seven miles per hour, while the passengers could be able to reach the top of the tower in about 60 minutes....

British paper Evening Standard reported that 35 year old Mike Crossley’s Uber account was hacked and he was virtually taken for a ride. Crossley alleges that over the course of 10 days, unknown hackers took 142 Uber rides using his account racking up a £3,000 bill which he has to pay. “Most of the time they were using the expensive luxury service to run up the bill,” he said. “They were quite random although there was an address in Westminster they went to more than once....

The hugely successful internet browser in a partnership with Adobe, wants to intelligently sideline or pause flash content that may not be required for tasks you are currently working on and save battery life for laptop users. Chrome, which brags about a number of hidden features and games, was given a speed bump last month too. Google announced the new feature in a blog post, it wrote: “When you’re on a webpage that runs Flash, we’ll intelligently pause content (like Flash animations) that aren’t central to the webpage, while keeping central content (like a video) playing without interruption....

Anthem Inc., CEO and President Joseph R. Swedish said in a statement that attackers gained unauthorized access to Anthem’s IT system and have obtained personal information from their current and former customers and employees such as their names, birthdays, medical IDs/social security numbers, street addresses, email addresses and employment information, including income data. However there is no evidence that credit card or medical, information, such as claims, test results or diagnostic codes were targeted or compromised, he added....

The white hat hackers, dubbed as The White Team, who were responsible for creating the Linux.Wifatch malware last October have once aggain made headlines by compromising more than 70,000 home routers and apparently forcing their owners to make them secure against faults and weak passwords. The White Team is now planning to take over Lizard Squad’s botnet of infected IoT devices in an attempt to shut down their operations by building up a sizeable botnet consisting of hundreds of thousands of home routers, but for a good purpose though....

They are a way to express and communicate within the fast-paced visual chaos of the chat, as your eyes can easily grab onto these easily recognisable images when there is a stream of text rolling by. If you have been streaming or viewing on the Twitch platform, you must have come across the OMEGALUL emote pop up every now and then. While it appears to be just a giant circle at first, it is, in fact, the face of a twitch creator....

Apparently, as per reliable WhatsApp leaks site WABetaInfo, the instant messaging platform is working on a desktop version of the app that would allow users to use it without having to connect their phone to the Internet. The present web version of WhatsApp released in 2015 requires the application on the phone to be connected to the Internet. The development, which was tweeted by WABetaInfo mentions that the company is creating a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) along with a multi-platform system for its app....

Last week, when the company made a declaration of their better-than-expected quarterly results, the shares of the company increased by as much as 16%, and an assurance to bring more control into the company’s expenditure was made. As mentioned by Bloomberg, last Friday, the company shares closed at $672.93, a more than $93 rise in one one-day rise, which in turn encouraged the value of the shares held by both Brin and Page....

Have you wondered what is local host’s IP and 127.0.0.1 what it actually is?How does 127.0.0.1 work? Why is it called so? The basic logic behind this address is that it is used to establish a connection to the same computer used by the end-user. Below is a detailed answer by a user on Super User forum. How does 127.0.0.1 work? Why is it called so? Here is a geeky answer from a techie : Most developers use local host 127....

The hack attack was first noticed when a totally NSFW selfie of Zahra Schreiber, who is a model-turned-NXT wrestler, emerged the wrestler’s WWE co fighter, Seth Rollins’ social media accounts. Apparently even WWE website was showing the NSFW images for a brief period according to WWE tracking website Deadspin. New York Daily News reported that the Seth Rollins’ Twitter account was hacked and the hackers started tweeting NSFW images of Zahra Schreiber just as the popular WWE program “Monday Night Raw” went on air....

Earlier this year, Google created a timeline of your activity that you can browse to see just what the company knows about you and delete it if you want. Be warned that the timeline only handles the data that Google already has. If you want to stop it from getting that data in the first place, follow these steps: On the My Activity page, you can scroll through a selection of different kinds of Google tracking, including web activity, location history, voice recordings, and YouTube history....

For those unfamiliar, Raspberry Pis are cheap, simple, credit card-sized, single-board ARM computers with a focus on education and open-source software. Due to its open nature, small size, and surplus of ports and software, it is loved by hardware hackers and DIYers. Jose Manuel Nieto Sanchez, the developer behind the tool ‘WoA Installer for Raspberry Pi 3’ on the GitHub page of the project says that the tool is “super easy to use” and “no-hassle....

CrossOver is an App that allows you to run Windows programs on non-Windows platforms. The CrossOver developers are now bringing this functionality to Android smartphones/tablets and Chromebooks. According to the CrossOver team the beta version that will be available in the Google Play Store tomorrow, however, you can join them for a technical preview version and help them test out the Apps. CrossOver Technical Preview App will allow you to run programs designed to be installed and run in a Windows system on Android devices and Chromebooks....

“By their very nature of being wearable, these devices, however, provide a new pervasive attack surface threatening users privacy, among others,” Beltramelli wrote in the paper’s abstract. “The goal of this work is to raise awareness about the potential risks related to motion sensors built-in wearable devices and to demonstrate abuse opportunities leveraged by advanced neural network architectures.” In September 2015, a group of students lead by Romit Roy Choudhury, Associate Professor at ECE Illinois had developed a mobile app that analysed the movements of a smartwatch (a Samsung Gear Live smartwatch) to detect the keys pressed by the user....

Priced at Rs.8999.00 the Yu Yureka was launched by Yu Televentures in January, 2014 with Android 4.4.4 KitKat based Cyanogen OS 11. The size of the update is 130 MB and will be delivered to users via Over-the-Air (OTA). Yu Yureka users can check for the update manually by going to Settings>About phone> Software update. On its forums page, the company said, “We are excited to announce a new software update for Yureka which will lead to improved battery performance for Yureka....

OpBangladesh was initiated in early May this year, against The Bangladesh Governments Corruption and actions against the protestors. A Youtube video was released which shows the Anonymous message to Government.