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Flaw in MacBook EFI allows attackers to boot ROM with malware using Thunderbolt PortsEvil Maid AttackPersistence Evil Maid Attack The attack is an “evil maid,” replacing the boot code on the computer. His research involves infect Apple EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware using the externally accessible Thunderbolt ports. EFI ROMs are supposed to be cryptographically signed, but Hudson says that the Thunderbolt Option ROMs may be used to circumvent the signature checks in Apple’s EFI firmware update routines....

Based on the initial assessment conducted by the experts, the virus has not affected any important parts of the power plant and wouldn’t pose any major threat. The malware affected only the computer IT systems and not the ICS/SCADA equipment that interacts with the nuclear fuel. The audit revealed that, unlike Stuxnet, the virus wasn’t created to target power plants but was a more commonly seen variant. “After the discovery of malicious software on a computer in Gundremmingen emphasizes the operator, the control of sensitive areas was not affected....

For those unaware, back in 2015, Microsoft and Google had reportedly signed a non-aggression pact under which both the companies had agreed to settle outstanding patent lawsuits as well as financial agreements internally without complaining to the regulators or taking legal action against each other. However, the deal ended in April 2021 which neither of the company extended or renewed, suggesting increasing tensions between the two companies, reports The Finacial Times citing sources....

We had reported last October that a person named Sanmay Ved managed to own the world’s best known and popular website, Google.com for a brief one minute. But at that time we do not know how Google managed to get its domain back. The story has been finally revealed! Ved had purchased the website out of curiosity and had no intentions of actually keeping the domain name, but Google decided to offer a financial reward anyway....

The specification of both the Chromebooks are the same. Both Nexian Air Chromebook and Xolo Chromebook feature a 11.6-inch TFT display with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels. It comes with a 16GB in-built storage capacity that can be expanded via a SD card slot. It is powered by a 1.8GHz Cortex A17 Rockchip quad core processor coupled with 2GB DDR3 RAM.On the connectivity front, it has 2 USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port and Bluetooth 4....

“Orkut” started its journey in 2004, the same year when Facebook was founded. Orkut was able to gain quick popularity and get a good start but it could not maintain the growth momentum too long. The Google’s try at social Networking soon started to loose its relevance with majority of its fans moving on to Facebook. A small part of dedicated fans are now left in the Orkut Community. Facebook has now became the world’s largest Social networking website with more than 1....

The company is shutting down both its Los Angeles and Montreal game studios, which existed under the Stadia Games and Entertainment banner. In a blog post, Phil Harrison, Vice President and General Manager of Google Stadia, rolled the announcement as a move to expand Stadia’s technology and platform rather than create original content. “Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially....

In mid-September, Google learned that Symantec’s Thawte certificate authority (CA) issued an Extended Validation (EV) pre-certificate for google.com domains. The certificate, which had not been requested or authorized by Google, was discovered in Certificate Transparency logs, which Chrome requires for all EV certificates issued after January 1, 2015. When questioned about the same, Symantec said the certificates were only issued for testing purposes by its internal QA team and as such they did not constitute any risk to anybody....

Google is well-known for its high standards and bizzare set of head-scratching questions asked during interviews, which seems to have no answers. As a result, the candidate would apparently lose the race even before it use to start. Thankfully, these interview questions were ultimately banned from being asked completely. In 2009, Seattle job coach Lewis Lin compiled a list of 140 questions that his clients were asked by Google. In this article, we have listed the 17 roughest interview questions in no particular order asked by the search giant....

“Ironically, while the world-famous feline Grumpy Cat and her valuable brand are most often invoked in a tongue-and-cheek fashion, Defendants’ despicable misconduct here has actually given Grumpy Cat and her owners something to be grumpy about,” reads the original lawsuit. For those unfamiliar, Tardar Sauce (born April 4, 2012), is a cat and Internet celebrity known for her “grumpy” facial expression, and thus she got the common name Grumpy Cat....

Hackers bring down Toronto Police Service Website through DDoS attackOne of many targets One of many targets Besides the Toronto Police website, @AerithTOR also threatened to hack other websites including those of the Conservative Party of Canada and Parliament of Canada. However, both these websites were running perfectly fine so far. The Ottawa Police Service and Supreme Court of Canada websites went down. The hack resulted in the screen of the website of the police department going black and replaced with a message attributed to @AerithXOR....

Jose Rodriguez, a Spanish security researcher, and an iPhone enthusiast has managed to find a passcode bypass bug that allows attackers to access the contacts list on a locked iPhone. Rodriguez shared a video (see below) with The Hacker News to show how the bug works. As detailed in the video, the passcode bypass bug is present in a new feature introduced in iOS 12.1 called Group FaceTime. This bug can be exploited by either receiving a phone call or asking Siri to make a phone, and by changing the call to FaceTime....

The United States Department of Justice had arrested two men in May, 2015 for “breaching the computer services of Colorado-based Photobucket.” The two men, Brandon Bourret, aged 39, of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Athanasios Andrianakis, aged 26, of Sunnyvale, California had developed a software known as “Photofucket” for “fusking”. The software developed by these two was capable of hacking into the private Photobucket albums and stealing NSFW images of subscribers....

For those unaware, “Find my iPhone” is an app and service from Apple, which lets you locate, lock down or wipe your lost iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Macbook and requires a password to continue. Apple had introduced this feature in 2013 to safeguard people’s information stored on their iPhones. In order to keep iPhones secure and make it less valuable targets to would-be thieves, iPhones can be associated only to one iCloud account at a time....

For those unaware, RBX.Place is a website where players of the hugely popular online game, Roblox, can buy and sell in-game items in exchange for real money. However, RBX.Place is a site independent of Roblox itself. The exposed data that appears to date from 2018 includes email addresses, transactions, hashed passwords, and other personal information of users of the RBX.Place website. Roblox, an online game platform and game creation system available on Xbox, PC, and mobile devices, allows users to program games and play games created by other users....

Basically this is a week long getaway from the normal schedules to get refreshed and a chance to squander money. People who visit the festival are known as “Burners”. So if you are a “Burner” it adds to your value in the social circle. Some of the biggest names in the technology are regular “Burners” like Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg and other employees from Facebook, Twitter and Uber....

The group which has been identified as Wild Neutron or Morpho by Symantec Corp. and Kaspersky Lab, has broken into the networks of over 45 large companies since 2012. Symantec says that the group appears to be among the few that display significant talent without backing from a national government. “They are very focused, wanting everything valuable from the top companies of the world,” said Vikram Thakur, a Symantec senior manager....

The social media giant uses a mix of complex science and mathematics to narrow down on your friend’s list Have you ever thought how Facebook exactly predicts your friends, sometimes even those whom you have long forgotten. Last week, a Redditor named easyjet posted a thread on Reddit. He mentioned that he signed up with an email address he never, ever used. He even lied about all of his personal information....

Similar to other FPS games, having higher frames is the bare minimum for playing the shooter game properly. And when you don’t own a gaming PC and struggle with the frames, the gaming experience takes a hit. Are you struggling with low FPS in Valorant? but upgrading the computer is out of the equation. Valorant is one the most optimized modern game of current times, and having low frames in that can be a software-level fault in most cases....