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Emotet, a kind of malware originally designed as a banking Trojan, can steal data such as user credentials stored on the browser, install other types of malware and ransomware, and form botnets. It scans the networks to determine SSIDs, encryption type, and authentication methods. The newly discovered Emotet sample powers a “Wi-Fi spreader” module to scan unsecured Wi-Fi networks, and then attempts to infect devices that are connected to them by taking advantage of weak passwords and other security flaws....

Excel is an amazing tool to record, manage, analyze data. It has many features that help you do advanced data analysis and reporting. Data entry can be a long and arduous task in Excel. But if you know the right tools and techniques, it can speed up your data entry and help ensure error-free work. Here are six data entry tips for Excel that will help get your work done faster: #1 – Use Drop Down Lists to Enter Data Quickly You can use a drop-down list in Excel to enter data from prespecified options....

This new law was set up as a catch-all for hacking has been widely used to prosecute behaviour that bears no resemblance to hacking. This ruling specifically references the case of David Nosal, a former employee of the International research firm Korn/Ferry, who used a co-worker’s password to access a computer after his access was revoked. “[This ruling] threatens to criminalize all sorts of innocuous conduct engaged in daily by ordinary citizens....

Antonio Garcia Martinez, an ex-Facebook employee wants people to know Silicon Valley is way different in reality than it is actually portrayed. “It’s often painted as a very meritocratic sifting of the best and the brightest,” Martinez told CBS. In fact, he says, “It’s all connections, happenstance, sheer luck, fate, etc.” The employees at the social media site’s office have nicknamed Zuckerberg ‘the little emperor’ as he has a KGB-like internal police force called ‘The Sec’ monitoring every move of the staff, according to Martinez....

In a blog post on Thursday, Facebook said that it has scaled its infrastructure significantly covering over 98% of people in the mainland United States and is on track to hit 100% by the fall of this year. The company has started the rollout in Canada and Mexico, and it will reach Western and Central Europe by early 2022. “Over 1.5 million people are playing cloud-streamed games on Facebook Gaming every month....

For those unaware, China’s Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., which owns the company Tik Tok, the immensely popular 15-second video-sharing app, had acquired Musical.ly, Inc. for a reported US $1 billion in November 2017. According to a report from TechCrunch, the social network giant is developing an app called “Lasso” directed at teens, where users can record themselves dancing and lip-syncing to music. “It’s basically TikTok/Musically. It’s full-screen, built for teens, fun and funny, and focused on creation....

Facebook Lite app was unveiled in the month of January in the selected countries for testing purposes and now it is getting officially launched world over. It features all of Facebook’s core experiences like News Feed, status updates, photos, notifications and more. The app is less than 1 MB in size and takes just a few seconds to download. This app is rolling out across Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, and it will be available in the play store....

However, the social networking giant was forced to apologise after guns, drugs and sex were found to be for sale on its new “marketplace”. In the first hours of its opening, users succeeded to exploit a “technical issue” in the store to sell illicit goods from animals to weapons. The company apologised after finding out the flaw that allowed some users to post adult and illegal items that violate Facebook’s terms of service....

“Facebook’s response comes after video makers and distributors have grown increasingly vocal about pirated videos, which by one estimate accounted for more than 70 percent of Facebook’s most popular videos. In May, Jukin Media, a video licensing agency best known for “Fail” clips, described Facebook’s copyright problems as “massive.” In June, Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos, who runs one of the biggest YouTube video networks,tweeted that he was “getting very tired of seeing our videos ripped there with no way to monitor or monetize,” the news report reads....

The social media giant is testing a new “Accounts Center” feature that will give users more control to manage their connected experiences across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger and also let people cross-post content on these platforms. “Switching apps to post the same content or entering your credit card information dozens of times is a pain. We want to make that easier while giving you better controls to manage your experience,” Oren Hod, Product Manager at Facebook wrote in a blog post....

According to the lawsuit, Facebook violated an Illinois state law by incorrectly using photo-scanning and face recognition technologies on users’ uploaded photographs and gathered biometric information without their explicit consent. The case dates back to 2015, where three Illinois residents, Nimesh Patel, Adam Pezen, and Carlo Licata had sued Facebook for violating a state privacy law on protecting biometric privacy. U.S. Judge James Donato in his ruling on Monday said the claims by the three plaintiffs were “sufficiently cohesive to allow for a fair and efficient resolution on a class basis....

Not just this, cybercriminals also used the fear of coronavirus outbreak to launch email campaigns to infect users’ systems with malware. Exploiting this situation further, a malicious Android app is now doing the rounds that claim to help track cases of the coronavirus but instead installs ransomware and locks users out of their device. Discovered by DNS threat intelligence company DomainTools, the newly discovered ransomware dubbed as “CovidLock” uses techniques to deny the victim access to their phone by forcing a change in the password used to unlock the phone....

United States has in place a legislation called Privacy Act which makes it incumbent upon the federal agencies to give people access to the records that have been collected concerning them “allowing them to verify and correct them if needed.”. The Department of Justice wants to bypass this very act. According to a new proposal being floated in early by the Department of Justice, FBI seeks to exempt the biometric database from public disclosure....

The data leaked are provided in a paste, and are in plain text. The data leaked contains the Personal contact details of The Higher Ranked government Officials. The Data leaked can be seen from below:

All those flip phone fans out their who fondly remember the popular Motorola RAZR in its heydays, now have a chance to get their hands on another flip phone. But this one is from house of Samsung. While there were rumours about Samsung working on a flip phone codenamed “Veyron,” new leaks indicated that the South Korean smartphone giant is working on a separate mid-range Android clamshell smartphone. As usual, the leak popped up on the Chinese Twitter equivalent Weibo which shows a super slim Samsung Galaxy Folder 2....

An aviation expert has claimed that the shocking Germanwings Airbus A320 crash in the Alps may have been caused by hackers. In a letter to the Financial Times Matt Andersson warned of the complexities of aircraft accidents and highlighted the possibilities of secondary contributing factors – including external electronic hacking. Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany, operated by Germanwings, subsidiary of Lufthansa....

According to the report, global average internet connection speed has increased 12 percent to 7.0 Mbps in the fourth quarter of 2016 — a 26 percent increase year-over-year. The quarterly report includes data collected from across the Akamai Intelligent Platform about attack traffic, broadband adoption, mobile connectivity and other relevant topics regarding the internet and its usage, as well as trends over time. “Internet connection speeds continued to show positive long-term trends around the world, with particularly strong year-over-year increases across all broadband adoption metrics,” David Belson, editor of the State of the Internet Report, comments....

The company has contracts in more than 115 countries, of which many are with governments. The company came to limelight in March when it was reported that the FBI used its technology to crack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Since then, there have been reports that Cellebrite was not involved, and the company also refuses to comment. Nevertheless, it is known as one of the world’s leaders in such technology....

With the release of latest Android 5.1, the official code forum filled up with users complaining about downfall in performance after they updated to the latest version. The forum users stated that the reason the slowdown in performance was due to a old Memory leak bug which havent been patched yet. Following the comments from Android users, finally, Google has acknowledge the bug and said that they have internally resolved the same....