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Home Depot Breach is Officially the Largest Breach on RecordThe Home Depot Discloure This record breach has the breaks the previous breaking the previous record of the record for the largest retail card breach went to TJX, which lost some 45.6 million cards. The next in line for making to this unwanted list is Target breach which is supposed to have leaked 40 million debit and credit card number. The Target breach lasted roughly three weeks, but it exposed some 40 million debit and credit cards because hackers switched on their card-stealing malware during the busiest shopping season of the year....

Sometimes the advice is appropriate. It doesn’t hurt to clear the cache once in a while on your web browser. It takes a few seconds, and most of the time, it fixes issues with the webpages you are trying to view. Moreover, people also prefer clearing complete browsing data including history, cache, and cookies for privacy reasons. What is Browser Cache and why was it created? Browser developers designed cache with the assumption that – Your Internet is slow....

This profile option allows each user connected to a Netflix account to have a personalized feed and save their watches without being tampered with by other users. You can even set a pin on these Netflix profiles. As a means of recognizing your profile, an avatar is assigned to each profile available on a Netflix account, along with a name. Thankfully, this profile picture can be changed to the other option within the Netflix avatars....

Don’t worry! In this article, we will show how you can skip this prompt and auto end the tasks without any prompts on your Windows system. Here’s how you can shutdown Windows 10 without getting “Shutdown Anyway” or “Restart Anyway” prompts on your screen: Step 1: Open registry editor. Press Win + R to open Run dialog. Type regedit and press Enter key. Step 2: In registry editor, navigate to this key: HKEY_USERS....

Which Apps made the cut? The 49 banned apps are mere clones of the already banned Chinese apps such as CamScan Advance, TikTok Lite. Therefore, there is no immediate reason for users to panic who are in the middle of transitioning to the alternatives of Chinese apps. Which Apps made the cut?The Development While there is no clear mentioning of which apps were banned, we have tried compiling a list of apps known so far using various online reports....

The hackers announced on Facebook that the hack has nothing to do with the Cyber war between India and Pakistan However the message on deface page blamed Indian Army for wrongdoings in Kashmir which seems to be similar to toeing the official Pakistani Government claim. Looking at the India’s point of view on the Military posting in Kashmir Indian Government says Military posting in Kashmir is to protect Kashmir from being terrorized by terrorists and attacks from Pakistan....

YiSpecter, as the malware was named, has mostly affected users in China and Taiwan through four different methods. Users can be infected with the malware with the help of the Lingdun worm. This work which works via the QQ social network and its file sharing interface, can target a wide variety of device types. Malicious HTML files with pornographic names are uploaded by the worm, which are then shared with other users in the network....

The AOD functionality is widely available on almost all modern Android devices. According to Gurman, the feature will be “exclusive” to Apple’s upcoming iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models. Apple is working on rolling out the AOD feature with the latest iteration of the iPhone’s operating system, iOS 16. For the unversed, AOD is a smartphone feature that continues to show basic information such as the time, date, notifications, missed calls, and more while the phone is asleep....

Apple would have not thought of following the embarrassment that Samsung had gone through last year when several incidences of Galaxy Note 7 exploding due to faulty batteries were reported. In case of iPhone 8 Plus too, faulty or damaged batteries are suspected to be the reason behind the devices to crack open. One victim in question is Ms. Wu, who had recently purchased her gold 64GB iPhone 8 Plus, and had reportedly been in use for five days, reported the Taiwanese media....

The ticket booking website for Indian Railways has been hacked and the personal data of around 1 million passengers are feared to have been stolen from the server of the e-ticketing portal Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). IRCTC is India’s largest e-commerce website, lakhs of transactions are conducted every day. Customers provide details like Pan Card numbers and address while filling up online reservation forms which could be stolen by the hackers....

However, unlike its competitors, CDKeys doesn’t have joysticks, skins, in-game currencies, and software in its niche. They came about the time when digital copies of popular games took off. They started with PC game keys and, later on, expanded to include Xbox Live, PSN, Nintendo Games, and gift cards for Steam and iTunes. The keys work fine just like other keys from their competitors. You need to sign up, select the product you like to purchase, pay for the same, and wait for the keys to be sent via email....

According to the BBF, there are several data models you can use with the consumer-premise equipment WAN management protocol. Each data model in TR 069 contains parameters and objects that define many capabilities and functions of a broadband CPE or other devices. This includes their syntax, addressable name, data types, and a normative explanation of how each can be used. The TR-069 is RPC (remote procedure call) based protocol. That means it consists of two unique applications that directly interact with each other via a set of defined methods....

Researchers will lawfully be able to reverse engineer products and consumers can repair their vehicle’s electronics, but the FTC is only allowing the exemptions for a two-year trial run. FTC introduced a similar change back in 2014 when it announced that you can successfully unlock your own smartphone for security research purposes and not suffer the consequences. The same thing has been introduced for cars and smart TVs and hacking them for the sole purpose of learning about security loopholes is definitely allowed....

For those unaware, Color Message was advertised as an app that allowed users to personalise their default SMS messages. The analysis of the Color Message application done by the researchers through the Pradeo Security engine showed that the app accessed users’ contact list and exfiltrated it over the network to Russian servers. Joker is considered a “fleeceware” form of malware, as its main activity is to simulate clicks in order to generate revenue from malicious ads, intercept SMS to subscribe users to unwanted paid premium services unbeknownst to them and commit billing fraud....

— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) December 29, 2014 Kim had back in February 2013 first announced that Mega would be expanding into email, voice, video and “mobile” area. Kim made it very clear that while servers that hold data are on U.S. Soil including Gmail (Google), iCloud (Apple), and Skype(Microsoft) can be requisitioned at any time and for any reason to reveal the private data of its users. The Mega servers are not only purposefully off U....

Despite the bad name, Kodi still remains popular with the public. Looking at its increased popularity, even Sony Electronics actively promoted Kodi on its website and recommended users of its Android TVs to download Kodi to access add-ons. However, the official Kodi project Twitter account has now directly accused Sony of “actively preventing” owners of Sony-made TVs, powered by Android TV, from installing the Kodi app. For those unaware, Kodi is an open source, cross-platform streaming and media player solution that allows you to access all of your digital audio, movies, TV shows, music collection, and photo library from a single, convenient place....

In a security advisory email sent out to its users on Thursday, the company said that two weeks ago, they detected some unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development environment, and immediately started an investigation. Based on the investigation, they found that an unauthorized party had gained access to portions of the LastPass development environment through a single compromised developer account and took portions of source code and some proprietary LastPass technical information....

However, a new 10-minute-video obtained by Motherboard, shows an Italian surveillance contractor called RCS Lab demo the hacking tool intended for use by police forces and government agencies. It also shows that the cops need very little technical knowledge to remove a scary level of information from a target’s computer. The video shows off a software product from Italian firm RCS Labs called Mito3, which allows the RCS employee to set up these kinds of attacks with ease by just applying a rule in the software settings....

Two IBM-built supercomputers, Summit, and Sierra, installed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, respectively, retain the first two positions in the top 10 list. Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2A (Milky Way-2A), both developed by China hold the third and fourth position on the list respectively. These are followed by the new entrant, Frontera in the top 10 list at fifth position....

This new approach includes a monthly subscription pricing model, deeper involvement with other open source projects, contributing a huge cache of mainframe code to open source and participating in the newly launched Open Mainframe Project. IBM and Canonical are teaming up to create an Ubuntu distribution for LinuxOne and existing z Systems mainframe hardware. IBM’s Power servers, which run Unix and Linux are already supported by Ubuntu Linux. IBM and Canonical did not say exactly when Ubuntu for mainframes will be available....