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https://twitter.com/LizardMafia/status/548525026027507712 Lizard Squad then signed up some 3000 Tor relays on the Tor network. The plan was simply to dominate in the numbers game for the ownership of Tor relay by acquiring about half of all tor relays. https://twitter.com/LizardMafia/status/548539099188297730 The news broke like wildfire with privacy concerned users cursing the Lizard Squad for attacking the Tor network. With less knowledge rises more questions Cursing the Lizards for attacking Tor started as someone tweeted, “Lizards have control over half the total number of relays on Tor network” which they believed had lead to Tor network being compromised by the Lizard Squad....

Just visiting a website was enough to allow hackers discreetly gather contacts, images and other data from a user’s iPhone. “Earlier this year Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a small collection of hacked websites. The hacked sites were being used in indiscriminate watering hole attacks against their visitors, using iPhone 0-day,” Ian Beer, from Google’s Project Zero, wrote in a blog post published Thursday. “There was no target discrimination; simply visiting the hacked site was enough for the exploit server to attack your device, and if it was successful, install a monitoring implant....

Calce states that his primary goal was not to hack so he could steal millions of dollars, but believes that his actions had an overall impact in strengthening the poorly developed security laws that were present at the time, since a hacker with a more malevolent intention would have wasted absolutely no amount of time in transferring an abundant number of funds. Mafiaboy managed to get his first computer at the age of 6 and at the age of 9, he managed to hack through the AOL system, which allowed to stay on the service past the 30 day trial period....

Seems that OneDrive users were in for surprise yesterday when Microsoft announced that it wasn’t going to do that after all. According to Microsoft, a small number of paying customers were using OneDrive to store backups of multiple PCs and large collections of movies and TV shows. Some of these outliers used more than 75TB of space, which Microsoft says is 14,000 times the average (putting the average OneDrive user at about 5....

As of May 10, 2021, the company has stopped supporting new deployments or member creations. However, it will continue to support existing deployments until September 10, 2021. Microsoft initially offered Azure’s Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) in 2015, with an offering on the Etherum Platform in partnership with ConsenSys. It was only in 2019 that the company launched the fully-managed consortium network, Azure Blockchain Service for the formation, management, and governance of consortium blockchain networks....

For those unaware, in March this year, Microsoft rebranded the consumer versions of Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family, and it introduced some new apps. One of them is the Family Safety app for Windows and Xbox devices, which is designed to help parents manage kids screen time and app usage, as well as ensure that their family is safe in the physical and digital worlds. “With families working and learning from home, many of us are spending more time on our computers and phones and are looking for ways to ensure our loved ones are safe....

Launched in October 2019, Minecraft Earth – an augmented reality (AR) game for smartphones – was designed to rival Pokémon GO. The game encourages players to move around the real world in virtual blocks and collect resources, crafting items, and building structures. “Minecraft Earth was designed around free movement and collaborative play – two things that have become near impossible in the current global situation. As a result, we have made the difficult decision to re-allocate our resources to other areas that provide value to the Minecraft community and to end support for Minecraft Earth in June 2021,” the Minecraft team said in a statement on Tuesday....

“It’s horrendous. It’s bad enough just to see a child get sexually molested. Then there are murders. Unspeakable things are done to these children,” Ben Wells, one of the attorneys who filed the suit in Washington said. The two plaintiffs, namely Henry Soto and Greg Blauert, were a part of the Online Safety team. According to them, their jobs which involved keeping a check on the company’s online services like e-mail or Bing for illegal content such as child pornography and violent videos, and decide what kind of content should be taken down or reported to the police....

A new Xbox One game titled Rare Replay, a collection of 30 games from developer Rare’s last 30 years, that includes several hits that were originally on the Nintendo 64 were also announced by Microsoft. The company is hoping to make up for the Xbox One’s middling gamepad, however, that would not make the upcoming Rare Replay feel any more authentic when you play. The folks at Hyperkin, who are the makers of the Retron 5 console, a system that combines nine classic game consoles into one are aware of this and came up with a challenge....

The security issue had been brought to light over three years ago as a critical vulnerability, however it was only patched around 2 years ago according to Matherly. Affected older versions of MongoDB lack a ‘bind_ip 127.0.0.1’ option set in the mongodb.conf, leaving their server vulnerable if the user is unaware of the setting, the 2012 security advisory stated. Matherly said it appeared only older versions than 2.6 were affected – a significant problem given most users are on version 2....

Currently, the U.S. space agency NASA is on the hunt for its next “Planetary Protection Officer” (PPO) with an annual pay check between $124,406 and $187,000, plus benefits. The job title requires the PPO to defend the Earth from alien contamination and also ensure that Earth does not contaminate planets, moons, and other objects during their space exploration. It also requires the selected PPO to help prevent possible alien microbes from spreading on Earth....

This scenario though hypothetical, is possible in future. That is why NASA wants to study asteroids up close. What better way than to have your own asteroid in your backyard to take samples and conduct experiments. Thus, NASA plans to redirect an asteroid into our moon’s orbit by 2020. NASA plans include visit a large near-Earth asteroid by developing the first ever robot for this mission, which would gather a multi-ton boulder from its surface, and pass it on into a stable orbit around the moon....

The extension, dubbed “SHARPEXT” by Volexity researchers has been linked to the North Korean-backed threat group, ‘SharpTongue’, which also goes by the name ‘Kimsuky’. SharpTongue has a history of targeting and victimizing individuals employed for organizations in the United States, Europe, and South Korea who work on topics involving North Korea, nuclear issues, weapons systems, and other matters of strategic interest to North Korea.” According to the researchers, in September 2021, Volexity began observing an interesting, undocumented malware family used by SharpTongue....

Software developer TechTac has decided to come to the rescue of these frustrated Pirate Bay users. He has developed an offline searchable torrents library of The Pirate Bay, known as “OfflineBay”. While the application currently downloads and updates dump files with torrents, the developer is hoping to replace it with a blockchain in the future. This would allow the torrent database to be stored and shared among users, without the need to import a dump file....

The fact that groups like these exist even today is a worrying sign for the world and humanity since paedophiles happen to be a stigma on humanity. In a world that is fast moving towards providing better facilities for the generations to come, these scum take advantage of the childs innocence to do unwanted and horrible things to them. — Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) January 27, 2015 Anonymous hopes that the world wide protest march on 13th February 2015 will bring this fact to the world notice....

One of the best Android emulators for Windows and Mac PCs, Bluestacks 2 has been released and it brings with a plethora of new features. For the uninitiated, Bluestacks is one of the best Android emulators for Mac and Windows PCs available in the market and its free. Bluestack works as an emulator and lets you play Clash of Clans and Boom Beach kind of games on your PC and also run Android Apps without any hitch....

Poco M3 features a 6.53-inch full HD+ IPS LCD display on the front paired with a teardrop notch and has a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It comes with a standard refresh rate of 60Hz, 19:5:9 aspect ratio, and 90.3% screen-to-body ratio. It also has Widevine L1 certification. The handset measures 162.3 x 77.3 x 9.6 mm (6.39 x 3.04 x 0.38 in) and weighs 198 g (6.98 oz). Coming to performance, Poco M3 is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor paired with 4GB of LPDDR4x RAM and up to 128GB of UFS 2....

“Today we received information that some users of the Pokémon Go app in Bosnia were going to places which are a risk for (unexploded) mines, in search of a Pokemon,” a Bosnian demining charity, Posavina bez mina said on its Facebook page. “Citizens are urged no to do so, to respect demarcation signs of dangerous mine fields and not to go into unknown areas,” it added. Pokemon Go sees players use their smartphones to hunt for cartoon monsters in the real world....

Promoted as the ‘Popcorn Time for Live TV’, cCloud was one of the first services that offered users access to premium IPTV streams for free through an easy to use interface. cCloud used to work by scraping third-party sources to find free streams, showing them in a single interface that could be accessed on the web and platforms such as Roku and Kodi. How Did cCloud Come Into Existence? The cCloud project was started by ‘Bane’ who developed it as a tool for personal use when he could no longer afford expensive cable subscriptions....

Li Kaixiang, a software engineer at e-commerce platform JD.com, used his programming skills to create a custom chatbot on WeChat that worked 24/7 to promptly reply to each of his girlfriend’s texts while he was busy working. “Baby, this is the 618th day we’ve been together. Wish your mood is brighter than the sun,” was one of the several messages his chatbot sent to his girlfriend. This was followed by a rather unromantic message, which read “Temperature: 18....