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However, a team of researchers at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle have come up with an unusual technique to combat the COVID-19 virus outbreak: video games, providing a glimmer of hope in this gloom and doom time. Foldit, the crowdsourcing online puzzle video game that was launched in 2008, is being used by the researchers to learn more about the coronavirus. In this video game, humans try to solve one of the hardest computational problems in biology: protein folding....

The Asus NovaGo convertible laptop, the HP Envy x2 2-in-1 tablet, and the Lenovo Miix 630 2-in-1 tablet were some of the first laptops that came with Windows 10 on ARM architecture running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip. Since their launch, these devices were greeted with mixed reviews for being slow, its poor performance and app incompatibilities around the ‘x86’ emulator. Now, the folks behind the AArch64 Laptops have come up with a way to install Ubuntu 18....

iPhone/iPad running on iOS 8.x can be taken over by hackers using Airdrop and other vulnerabilitiesProof-of-Concept videoMitigation The attack allows a potential hacker to install malicious apps on iPhones and Macs via their Bluetooth-enabled Airdrop filesharing feature. Anyone in range of a target device with the feature enabled could plant malware on the phone or PC, even if the victim didn’t tap “accept” for the offered file. Dowd said that Apple had patched the vulnerability in its latest OS release, iOS 9 and has advised all iPhone/iPad owner to update their devices to iOS 9 immediately....

This flaw has been confirmed by Apple, Google Chrome and others. The research has been published in a paper titled Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on MAC OS X and iOS. The researchers involved were: Xing; Xiaolong Bai; XiaoFeng Wang; and Kai Chen joined Tongxin Li, of Peking University, and Xiaojing Liao, of Georgia Institute of Technology. While speaking to the security desk of The Register, the team mentioned that they had brought this vulnerability to the notice of Apple in October 2014....

This notification is a part of the Battery Optimisation functionality offered by iOS 16. Apple says iPhones operate best in the temperature range of 62° to 72° F (16° to 22° C). But if the heat increases Apple puts iPhone charging on hold. This should also be noted that temperature higher than 95° F (35° C), can permanently damage the battery capacity of iPhones. If you received the new Battery Charging Being Held alert then there’s nothing much to worry about....

The Official website of Israel’s Embassy for Uzbekistan (https://www.israelbiz.uz/) was hacked and defaced this Thursday in support of Gaza. Mirror Link (Web Cached Version): https://www.aljyyosh.org/mirror.php?id=172728 The website still shows a deface page with a short message reading: Earlier tweets from the same handle also claim to have hacked Database of website of the Israeli Ministry of Transport

The huge database consisting over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials in plain text was discovered online on December 5 by security researchers from the California-based identity threat intelligence company, 4iQ. The file found is not the result of a new data breach, but an amalgamation of those from several past breaches, collated into a single database that is over 41GB in size. According to Julio Casal, 4iQ founder and chief technology officer, the archive is the most massive aggregation of various leaks that’s ever been found in the Dark Web until date....

10 Best Wi-Fi Hacking Apps For AndroidList of 10 best wifi hacking apps for android- Android smartphones can run penetration testing and security test from hacking Android apps. With the help of a few applications and basic knowledge of the true capabilities of your Android smartphone, you, too, could dig into the world of hacking. In this article, we have discussed some of the best wifi hacking apps for the android smartphone....

Banerjee told a Windows blogger earlier this week that “I discovered that typical Braille printers cost about $2,000 (about Rs 126,000) or even more, and I felt that was unnecessarily expensive for someone already at a disadvantage. So, I put my brain to work, and the first thing that came to mind was to create an alternative using my favorite toy.” Finally, after seven failed attempts, he had a working printer that costed him only $350 to build....

Well, if you have been scouting for the best online games for PC, then this article will help you. In this article, we have listed some of the best paid and free games for PC. So in no particular order, these are the best online multiplayer games for PC that you should play right now. Best Free Online Games For PC Gone are the days when free PC games had bad graphics quality, a weak storyline, and no future updates....

Currently, the Python tarfile module is found extensively in frameworks created by AWS, Facebook, Google, Intel, and Netflix, as well as across several industries such as software development, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and code development, but also other sectors as diverse as web development, security, IT management, and media. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2007-4559 (CVSS score: 6.8), was discovered 15 years ago. This flaw can be exploited by uploading a malicious file generated with two or three lines of simple code and allows attackers arbitrary code execution, or control of a target device....

The flaw, dubbed as CVE-2020-8597 with a 9.3 CVE score, was discovered by an IOActive security researcher, Ilja Van Sprundel. The pppd (Point to Point Protocol Daemon) software is an implementation of Point-to-Point Protocol, which allows the communication and transfer of data between nodes, and is mainly used in the establishment of internet links over dial-up modems, DSL connections, and many other types of point-to-point links including Virtual Private Networks (VPN) such as Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)....

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Three Million Moonpig accounts exposed by simple API flawVulnerabilityAbout MoonpigTimeline Vulnerability A simple API flaw can mean that anybody can access Moonpig’s every account along with customer names, birth dates, and email and street addresses. They can be accessed by changing the customer identification number sent in an API request. Further anybody can place orders through the accounts accessed. And anybody can see or obtain last four digits of credit card numbers and expiry dates using insecure API....

The idea of synthetic data is nothing new. It can be traced back to the 1930s as used in audio and voice synthesis. However, it is gaining prominence as it is utilized in big data analysis and artificial intelligence training in light of growing bias and privacy issues. A 2018 Gartner study projected that 85 percent of algorithms will be erroneous because of bias. On the other hand, big data appears to have become a big business for lawyers, but it is becoming a serious concern for consumers or ordinary people....

We have been giving a lot of articles about hackers exploiting a flaw or using some other method to hack. Most of the articles that we carry contain world like arbitrary execution of code or remote takeover but what really happens if a hacker hacks into your smartphone. Hackers primarily target smartphone or any other gadget to make money. Except for the government hackers, all hackers have only one goal, to make money....

Metro 2033 was released in 2010 and is a first-person shooter game based in the ruins of Moscow following a nuclear war. Players must defeat an evil mutant race, which some gamers refer to as zombies. Christine told Go Public – an investigative news team from Canada’s CBC TV network, “I found it quite shocking … I’m 86 years old, no one has access to my computer but me, why would I download a war game?...

With only 9 days left to avail Windows 10 free upgrade offer for Windows 7/8.1 users, Microsoft is now giving all the familiar ‘Alert Icon’ with Get Windows 10 (GWX) app. This looks like Microsoft’s last ditch attempt to make Windows 7/8.1 users upgrade to Windows 10 before the July, 29 deadline. If you click on the GWX it will open with a countdown timer to July 29 at midnight....

The discovery was made by scientists – including Lancaster’s Professor Iain Bertram – involved in the DZero international collaboration at Fermilab, the US Government’s laboratory specialising in high-energy particle physics. Professor Bertram said: “It is exciting to discover a new and unusual particle that will help us understand the strong interaction- one of the four known fundamental interactions in physics.” DZero is one of the two experiments being carried out at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider....

The world has over 4.4 billion internet users which is over 57 percent of the global population. This increasing access has been largely made possible through cheaper broadband access and the growth of mobile connectivity even in developing countries. Yet, people with disabilities still find it a challenge to be part of this demographic. In the US, where over 56 million people live with some form of disability, disabled Americans are three times as likely not to access the internet compared to those without disability....