It’s important to know that, the Bitcoin network’s hash rate showcases how much computing power is performing Bitcoin mining. For several years, China has been the epicenter of Bitcoin mining and roughly 65% to 75% of the mining happened in China. After the ban, more than 50% of bitcoin’s hash rate dropped off the global network. The decline in the Bitcoin network’s hash rate hasn’t recovered fully till today. Data from Blockchain....
The company also said it would start accepting bitcoin as a form of payment method for its products in the future. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company writes: “In January 2021, we updated our investment policy to provide us with more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity. As part of the policy, which was duly approved by the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors, we may invest a portion of such cash in certain alternative reserve assets including digital assets, gold bullion, gold exchange-traded funds and other assets as specified in the future....
The newly released Brave Search beta puts users first and allows them to take complete of their online experience. It will be built into its browser and available to users of other browsers via a website. According to the company, Brave Search is different from other search engines because it uses its own index and follows different principles: “Brave Search is the industry’s most private search engine, as well as the only independent search engine, giving users the control and confidence they seek in alternatives to big tech,” said Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave....
According to a statement from Dixons Carphone, the IT network of one of the firm’s online divisions, was the victim of a “sophisticated cyber-attack” within the last two weeks. Dixons Carphone, the JV parent of Carphone Warehouse, confirmed that details including customers addresses, bank details, dates of birth are feared to have been stolen. Labelling the operation a “sophisticated cyber-attack,” Carphone Warehouse also said that 90,000 customers’ credit card details may have also been accessed by the hackers....
For those unaware, in January this year, “Riot Games, Inc. and Bungie” (Plaintiffs) had filed a joint lawsuit in a U.S. court against the operator and creator behind a number of cheats and hacks for Valorant and Destiny 2 over copyright infringement offenses. The two companies had alleged in the lawsuit that Cameron Santos (defendant), is the owner and operator of the GatorCheats Website, and at times does business under other names, such as “Honeyhacks” and “Voidcheaters....
Xu Xiaochun, CEO of Boyalife Group, which is world’s biggest cloning factory says the company has technology advanced enough to replicate humans. Boyalife Group and its partners are building the giant plant in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin, where it is due to go into production within the next seven months and aims for an output of one million cloned cows a year by 2020. Boyalife has also announced plans to clone thoroughbred racehorses, as well as pet and police dogs, specialised in searching and sniffing....
China’s Ministry of Public Security will set up the units at important websites and internet companies to help them prevent crimes such as fraud, cyberhacking, terrorist group communications and spreading of rumors. The long list also include pornography, which is used as a catch-all offense by the Chinese government. By keeping the definition of pornography vague, it has served as an excuse to close down the sites and social media accounts of political activists....
Finally, Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in Guangdong, southern China, which is one of China’s busiest airport, has introduced AnBot to one of its terminals to help with security checks and provide flight information. The droid will patrol the departure hall of terminal three of the airport, reports the People’s Daily Online. The idea of introducing the robot is to help relieve the pressure off airport police in their daily patrols and save human resources, said the official....
On Thursday, Shane Huntley, the head of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), said on Twitter that they recently detected two separate phishing campaigns. For those unaware, TAG is a division inside Google’s security department, which works to counter government-backed hacking and attacks against the company and its users. According to TAG, staffers working on the U.S. presidential campaign of Biden were targeted by China-linked APT (advanced persistent threat) group. Similarly, an Iran-linked APT group were found to be targeting email accounts belonging to Trump’s campaign staff....
Dyn, is an infrastructure company in New Hampshire in the U.S. that acts as a switchboard for internet traffic, and works as a middleman to ensure that you get to websites you want when you type in the URLs. The distributed denial of service attack against the company Dyn brought down websites and apps across the internet, temporarily barring access to Twitter, WhatsApp, Pinterest and more for millions of users....
A Chinese hacker going by the handle of Daishen which means ‘stupid god’ has claimed that he can hack cars even if they are not connected to the Internet. He told Chinese tech news site Leiphone that he can hack not-so-smart cars including the Volkswagen Toureg, Audi A6, Audi A7, and likely quite a few more. Daishen says that he can access the car’s GPS and stereo systems exploiting the flaws in car’s security layers....
The Top Six dumbest Hacks of All TimeWorld’s Dumbest Cyber criminalSelf proclaimed hactivist Shahee Mirza:Samy Kamkar’s blog post boasting of his hacking featDaquan Mathis clicked his selfies using the stolen phone and sent it via victim’s email IDEduard Lucian Mandru, though a clever hacker, was traced through email IDFoiling Euro Traffic cameras by using Drop Database Tables With advanced technology, high speed internet and availability of much more technologically advanced gadgets it has helped hackers to get easy access to our personal and confidential credentials be it bank accounts or access to social networking sites....
The hackers are allegedly selling personal data of 1.1 million users including their names, addresses, sexual preference, relationship status, phone numbers, email addresses and even private messages according to a report by Forbes. The website was hacked in December 2015, however, and at the time BeautifulPeople.com said the incident occurred on a test server and no user information was compromised. Now, with the data being sold on dark web, Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned....
The Windows 10 update called KB3201845 was released by Microsoft yesterday and is designed to fix various issues with the new operating system. Before releasing it publicly to all Windows 10 users worldwide, Microsoft first tested the KB3201845 Windows 10 update with beta testers by issuing it to Windows Insiders in November. Surprisingly, none of the Windows Insider members flagged the issue then. Another surprise is that the newly released KB3201845 Windows 10 doesn’t even mention anything related to internet connectivity/networking....
Tougher sentences would act as a “significant deterrent” said the government. Analysis The music and film groups that specifically represent the country’s creative industry have been pressing hard for this for some time. The argument by them is that a couple of years in jail is not just enough to discourage and prevent online piracy, and that the law is well out dated. The measures that are put forward are mainly aimed at the distributors of pirated content – the people making copies of movies and releasing them before release, by uploading them to be downloaded by thousands of people....
Downloading films on The Pirate Bay, Extratorrent, RARBG, KickAss Torrents just got much, much harderHow will The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents, ExtraTorrents block work? Although sites such as The Pirate Bay and KickAss Torrents aren’t themselves about to change, search engines such as Google and Bing have confirmed they are going to make them harder to find. Google, Bing and other search engines have agreed to roll out code that would do more to prevent people’s access to torrent and streaming sites following a Digital Economy Bill Committee....
“Musk and Tesla have agreed to settle the charges against them without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations,” the commission said in a statement. However, the billionaire tech entrepreneur will continue to stay on as CEO at the company, CNBC reported. For those unaware, the entire episode started in early August when Musk announced via Twitter that he had secured funding in order to take Tesla private at $420 per share....
According to the reports from the users who found the new Facebook ‘Phone’ App on their screens, the the app will display info about who’s calling you, possibly pooling information from its user database, and will also block numbers that are commonly blocked such as spam. The Android users from Israel, who found the App on their smartphones tried to tap ‘Install or Update’ only to be greeted by an error message which confirms the fact that this App is intended for FB only and a internal version for testing purpose....
