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UOL Jogos journalists confirmed the authenticity of the hacked games running on their PS4. For the verifying the authenticity of the hack, the UOL journalists had a number of games installed on their console from an electronics store in the streets of Sao Paulo. PS4 games normally retail at around $ 600 per game but the UOL Jogos journos found out that these stores typically copied 10 games to a PS4 for R$ 300 to R$ 400 (roughly $100 to $150)....

This strange Spotify bug surfaced around five months ago when users reported that the desktop App was overwriting their own data on their PC/laptops. Users reported that Spotify was writing a humongous amount of junk data sometimes measuring in terabytes.Strangely, the bug affects even if you close Spotify or Spotify is idle and is playing/storing any songs locally. Also, the Spotify bug is not limited to Windows. Several subscribers reported that the streaming service’s apps for Mac, Windows and Linux computers have been writing hundreds of gigabytes of data per day to users’ hard drives wiping their own precious data....

It’s impossible to carry on a conversation about first-person shooter video games without talking about Call Of Duty. Activision published the first game of this franchise in 2003, and since then the entire franchise has stood the test of time. Last year Activision published a free-to-play battle royale video game namely Call Of Duty: Warzone. Call Of Duty: Warzone is available for the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Playstation 5, PlayStation 4, and Windows PC....

Having a history in cracking iPhones, Keen Team, in the past have been awarded with $27,500 and $40,000 for getting into iPhones at the 2013 and 2014 Mobile Pwn2Own competitions respectively by cracking Apple’s Safari browser. Given the susceptibilities that can be exploited in Apple’s operating system, many of them will be eager to release their first iOS 9 jailbreak, given the money and credit that can be made. Chinese app stores, in few cases, give money to the researchers for their jailbreaks so that when users install the hack, they are given an option of installing the third-party marketplace....

When the child was 18-days-old, the baby’s father ‘A Duan’ and mother ‘Xiao Mei’ — their names have been changed — used the popular messaging app QQ to sell the baby. The father of the child reportedly found a buyer on the social media and negotiated the entire deal without the consent of the child’s biological mother. The buyer allegedly said he was purchasing the child for his sister. The child is currently living with the man’s sister, as the biological parents are unable to raise the child due to their poor economic conditions....

According to a query replied on their Facebook page, Moly said, “Yes, we are planning to launch a smartphone with dual OS, Windows 10 plus Android.” This is not the company’s first dual OS phone. In 2014, the company had produced the Coship 960 running both Linux and Android; however, the device was not a dual boot, as the users were required to press a button to switch between the two OS....

The tiny surveillance chip, which is not much bigger than a grain of rice, can bypass all security checks and give Beijing secret access to internal networks, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported citing 17 unnamed intelligence and company sources. According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, a unit of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army intruded the supply chain of US-based computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer Inc to plant malicious chips that could be used to steal corporate and government secrets....

According to the vulnerability note published by CERT on Thursday, cookies that have been established via HTTP requests represent a security flaw for HTTPS sessions, due to the fact that they do not provide “integrity guarantees for sibling domains”. The vulnerability is cookie management is due to the fact that the web browsers do not always authenticate the domain that is setting a cookie, which could let an attacker set a cookie that could later be used via an HTTPS connection instead of the cookie set by the actual site....

TeraCopy Ultracopier FastCopy One reason as to why we are recommending all of these is that according to Softpedia, all of them are capable of using the OS buffer size to reduce task time when performing operations between different hard disks. Coming to TeraCopy; after it has been installed the application gets integrated into the context menu of Windows Explorer. The same operation is carried out by UItracopier, which takes over the copy and moves operations that are normally performed by Windows Explorer....

In order to protect the devices against hacks, the engineers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have worked on a new kind of security mechanism— a software system that couldn’t be hijacked. To test out the security mechanism, DARPA allowed “Red Team” hackers six weeks to try and take control of an unmanned military helicopter built by Boeing known as “Little Birds.” Further, they also gave the team additional to its computing network than actually the hackers could ever expect to attain....

Dubbed as Dropbox Passwords and first spotted by Android Police, this is an invite-only (Early Access) Android app, which can be now downloaded from the Google Play Store. Similarly, an iOS version of the app too is available on the Apple App Store. Although the current version of the app can be downloaded from the Stores, you won’t be able to use it unless you have not received the invite....

This new feature will block third-party trackers like Google and Facebook lurking in other apps. This feature is free to use and currently in beta phase. “You’ve probably heard about companies tracking you behind the scenes on smartphone apps they don’t own (like Google hiding in the Nike app). These hidden app trackers are super creepy because they can track everything you do in an app and also can continue to track you even when you’re not using the app....

Microsoft is rolling out another test build just one day after releasing a new Windows 10 preview build for PCs. Yesterday, Microsoft released Build 10158 to its Fast Ring testers. Today, Microsoft released another Windows 10 build for PC, numbered 10159. They have included the new wallpaper that will be the hero image for the OS and also updated the login screen as well. Looks like this build is primarily a bug fix update, as it only one version newer than what was released yesterday....

He will serve as the class II director on the board until 2024, with a stipulation that prevents Musk from owning more than 14.90% of company shares. This is in the company’s bylaw to prevent a hostile takeover of the group. What’s the Stake? Elon Musk is now the single largest shareholder of Twitter, having more than four times the shares owned by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey....

Tweets continued flowing for more than half an hour, before Chris Broussard sent an apology confirming that his Account was hacked

The issue was first noticed by e-Sushi, a well-known anonymous security researcher, and reported by the Daily Beast. — e-sushi (@originalesushi) March 31, 2019 “To continue using Facebook, you’ll need to confirm your email. Since you signed up with [email address], you can do that automatically through [email host website],” the message demands. A form below the message asked for the users’ “email password.” Apparently, the new Facebook users who were asked to give their email password were the ones who tried to register with certain email providers, including Yandex and GMX....

Similar sort of situation seems to have emerged when you try to make a promote a post containing “Scunthorpe.” Facebook wont let you do that. According to Independent, Facebook has enabled profanity filter feature for the use of the word Scunthorpe. It is currently banning all posts with that word because it contains within it a word describing a woman’s genitals. Facebook’s action came to light when the band October Drift was trying to promote its Scunthorpe show....