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With the increasing number of people buying firearms, number of handgun safes being sold is also increasing. These safes provide a sense of security by limiting the reach of the gun to authorised person only. These also prevent guns from being accidentally used by curious children or some unauthorised person. HandgunSafeResearch is a website that reviews some of these handgun safes and tries to hack them in one way or another....

While there are many cases where the upgrade to Windows 10 has begun all of a sudden and disturbed users in the middle of their work, but nothing equals to what happened in the Central African bush recently. According to a member of the Chinko Project, an effort in the Central African Republic (CAR) that is supposed to protect wildlife in the region and provide rangers support in their fight against poachers, disclosed that the Windows 10 upgrade began on one of their computers and consumed all the bandwidth....

Fortnite made disaster in the smartphone gaming industry when it was first launched on iOS. But now it even did more to Android users. As we all know that this game was exclusively launched for only Samsung devices before. But that exclusivity lasted no longer. Also Read- Fortnite for Android | How to Download and Install it After a few days, an Apk file was available in the market targeting non-Samsung devices too....

Joshua Debner, a Microsoft engineer took an Uber in Seattle to meet a friend when the new notification popped up on the screen. Uber wanted to play a coding game called “Code on the Road.” It’s not clear how Uber knew that Debner was in any way involved with coding, as he has never spoken to Uber or a recruiter, or submitted his resume to the ride-hailing company. He has also not used his Microsoft email address on his account, or used Uber for Microsoft business, nor was he going to or leave from the Microsoft campus....

GhostSec, which is a off-shoot of the online hacktivist collective has said that the ISIS regularly uses cryptocurrencies to fund its operations. DW (Deutsche Welle) previously reported that the Islamic State is experimenting with currency, specifically gold and bitcoin. One bitcoin wallet received around $23 million in a month; anti-ISIS hackers from GhostSec followed a chain of transactions to another wallet with over $3 million in bitcoins. Ghost Security Group confirmed to NewsBTC that ISIS is “extensively using bitcoin for funding their operations” and that the group has “managed to uncover several bitcoin addresses used by them....

Discovered by a Reddit user, this feature is currently hidden to most of the users. The dark mode feature turns all the light surfaces into dark ones to create a pleasant viewing experience in the dark. Also, activating YouTube Dark mode improves the overall look and feel of the website. The dark mode feature is still in its testing stage and has yet to be officially announced by Google-owned YouTube....

Google on Friday publicly announced that it has fired Lemoine for “violating the company’s confidentiality policy”. It highlighted that the engineer’s claims were “wholly unfounded” and that the company worked with him for “many months” to clarify this. “So, it’s regrettable that despite lengthy engagement on this topic, Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information,” Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel said in a statement on Friday....

As spotted by XDA Developers website, Google has opened a new tag in the AOSP (Android Open Source project) repository called as ‘master-p’, indicating the arrival of the upcoming version of Android 9.0. The codes indicate that Google has started to test out Android P or Android 9.0 on smartphones like the Google Pixel (sailfish) and Pixel XL (marlin). The report adds that some of the changes made in the version_defaults....

Previously, the Ukrainian government was using an air raid warning system that currently runs through a third-party app on the Google Play Store to send air raid notifications to Ukrainians in regions with active alerts. — Dave Burke (@davey_burke) March 10, 2022 However, such a system is now being directly integrated into Android and is being rolled out via Google Play services. It leverages a “low latency alert mechanism” that Google built for earthquake alerts....

In addition, an exchange offer is available on the 32GB and 64GB variants of Google Nexus 6 on Flipkart, wherein the sales price can be reduced up to Rs 5,000. This in turn brings down the prices to Rs 29,999 and Rs 34,999 respectively. However, this price cut is restricted to Flipkart only, as it is the exclusive retail partner of Motorola in the country, who manufactured the Nexus 6....

To begin with, the newly leaked renders of Pixel 2 reveal that the HTC-manufactured device will reportedly have a 5-inch screen display and prominent bezels on the sides. The smartphone will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 processor and come in 64GB and 128GB storage options, priced at $649 and $749, respectively. The Pixel 2 smartphone is expected to offer a squeezable frame just like the HTC U11. Pixel 2 will be available in “Just Black”, “Clearly White” and “Kinda Blue” color options....

Security flaws in the Globestar satellite systems makes it easy for hackers to break into Semi-trailersActual working of the Globalstar’s tracking system: About Globalstar and its services: According to the WIRED, Colby Moore, a security researcher working with Synack has discovered certain vulnerabilities in the asset tracking systems of the valuable shipments and cargo which he plans to discuss at the Blackhat and DefCon security conference which would be held next week in Las Vegas....

Countries around the world have deployed such seismometers to measure seismic waves generated by things and give them early warning of natural calamities such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. However, the two researchers found that these seismometers are connected to the internet with no security protections. Giving a demonstration at the Defcon 24 hacker conference, Bertin Bervis and James Jara said they had found ways to hack into and control seismometers placed on the ocean floor or in remote land locations....

Dubbed as SurfingAttack, this attack allows a hacker to control Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant by sending inaudible vibrations through a tabletop from 30 feet away without the phone owner’s knowledge. The research was carried out by a group of academics from Michigan State University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Washington University in St. Louis and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In their paper, SurfingAttack: Interactive Hidden Attack on Voice Assistants Using Ultrasonic Guided Waves, the researchers have demonstrated how smartphone voice assistants can be exploited through solid objects, such as metal, glass or wood table using ultrasonic waves....

On a blog post published on Netflix, the team has decided to show-off some really cool hacks that would definitely bring an upgrade to your viewing experience. The blog post states the following: “Keeping with our roughly six-month cadence, Netflix recently hosted another fantastic Hack Day event. As was the case with our past installments, Hack Day is a way for our product development staff to take a break from everyday work to have fun, experiment with new technologies, collaborate with new people, and to generally be creative....

These are the top 10 pirated movies being downloaded during the week ending 10/12/20151. Southpaw (2015)2. Jurassic World (2015)3. Terminator Genisys (2015)4. Pixels (2015)5. Paper Towns (2015)6. Tomorrowland (2015)7. Dope (2015)8. Knock Knock (2015)9. San Andreas (2015)10. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) The data for the weekly download on BitTorrent chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. 1. Southpaw (2015) Southpaw is a sports drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Kurt Sutter....

Everything that we do online is tracked and recorded with the Google. It is perhaps holding more data about us than anyone else on this Earth. This in turn allows the search giant to provide advertisers with comprehensive profiles of its users. But what about you? But did you ever think what Google exactly really knows about you? Theoretically, all your information that you have included on your Google+ profile such as your age, your gender, your interests, your search habits and your location history should be sufficient enough to provide quite a detailed description....

During a keynote speech at the CyberSat Summit 2017 in Virginia last week, Robert Hickey, the aviation program manager within the Cyber Security Division of the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, revealed the chilling details of the hack. “We got the airplane on Sept. 19, 2016. Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration,” said Hickey. “[Which] means I didn’t have anybody touching the airplane, I didn’t have an insider threat....

Yeah, even if you don’t know anything about it, here you can learn how to do it, so keep reading to become a deployer master. Is kinda obvious, but first, you need to have a Heroku account, is you already have it skip this step, however if you don’t, you can create a Heroku account in like one minute or even less, you can choose the plan that is more suitable for the functionalities you need to have, this platform counts with 4 plans: Free that will cost you $0, and then the ones you need to pay to have, that are hobby, standard, and performance....

In most of these cases, users are being told to restart their PC and launch the GeForce experience again. This issue is currently being reported in Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11. What causes this error? The Nvidia GeForce Experience Error 0x0003 can be caused by many reasons, we have listed a couple of them here: What causes this error?How to Fix GeForce Error Code 0x0003?1. Reinstalling Nvidia Components2. Force Start Necessary Nvidia Services3....