Why Do The Gamers Have To Bear The Brunt Of Hacks Outages In Holiday Season Techworm

This year too, the history seems to be repeating. Only this time, two other groups have joined the DDoS bandwagon against the gaming servers. Phantom Squad and SkidNP are the new hacking groups who have challenged that they will down the gaming servers through the holiday season. Phantom Squad had promised to DDoS the Xbox Live and PlayStation Network servers. Thankfully, Sony seems to have taken added precautions this year, therefore the DDoS attacks could not cause the world wide outage like the last year....

November 19, 2022 · 3 min · 518 words · Coleen Turner

Windows 7 Update Is Causing The Backup And Restore Feature To Fail

The report reads that this affects discs created using the Backup and Restore feature on Windows 7 post-January 2022 update. Fortunately, Microsoft is already working on an update, here’s the complete story. Windows 7 users are facing issues with recovery discs According to the tech support report, Microsoft released an update dubbed as KB5013438 on January 11th, 2022, on Windows 7. Post the update, users who created a recovery disc using the built-in Backup and Restore app on the Control Panel, are facing issues using the recovery disc....

November 19, 2022 · 2 min · 255 words · Scott Daniels

Xiaomi Mi Band Is The World S Second Most Shipped Wearable Idc

On Wednesday, June 3, IDC released a report stating that wearable device vendors shipped 11.4 million wearables in Q1 of 2015, which represents an increase of 200 percent in comparison to the same period in 2014. No wonder that Xiaomi is called the Apple of China with close to 2.8 million units of Mi bands being sold during the first quarter of 2015. Other companies like Garmin, Samsung, Jawbone and others seem to have lost their way somewhere with very less market share....

November 19, 2022 · 1 min · 207 words · Erin Dickerson

Xperia M4 Aqua And Xperia C4 Smartphones Launched By Sony In India

If we do a side-by-side comparison of these two devices, there’s really not much to differentiate between the two. The C4 does include a sharper, 1080 x 1920 display, while the M4 Aqua offers the 720 x 1280 display; however, the latter has the upper hand due the dust and waterproofing features. Both are dual-SIM smartphones and will be available in black, white and coral color variants. Xperia M4 Aqua has a 5-inch IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen HD display....

November 19, 2022 · 2 min · 404 words · Kira Whited

Yahoo Acknowledges Massive Data Breach Email Accounts Hacked Techworm

November 19, 2022 · 0 min · 0 words · Rocky Thompson

You Can Control The Christmas Lights In This House From Your Browser Techworm

Like many, Ken and Rebecca-Ellen, have been decorating their home with Christmas lights for the past many years. However, the Alaskan couple have a unique approach to choreographing their decorative lighting that allows those on the Internet the ability to control them. They run ChristmasInFairbanks.com, a simple website that offers you a live view of the outside of their home. It allows literally anyone play with their decorations as they see fit....

November 19, 2022 · 3 min · 441 words · Helene Fournier

You Could Get Your Very Own Real Life Transformer Car For 600 000 Techworm

A real-life transformer is up for auction at the Big Boys Toys 2016 exhibition that takes place at ADNEC in Abu Dhabi from Wednesday. A BMW 3-series vehicle that transforms into a giant robot will be the star attraction at the event. Letvision is launching the world’s first Letrons car and leader of the Letrons’ clan, Antimon – a red BMW E92 that turns into a robot in approximately 30 seconds....

November 19, 2022 · 2 min · 360 words · Terry Ireland

You Will Love Alienware S New Vr Backpack Techworm

Every tech company knows that VR or Virtual Reality is the future but all have their own ideas to implement it for their buyers. HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are powered by our own computers and hence they tend to be more powerful and feature rich due to the resources they have access to. While Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard/Daydream are powered by our smartphones which makes them a lot less powerful than Vive or Rift....

November 19, 2022 · 2 min · 243 words · Jeremy Henry

Boothole Vulnerability Puts Billions Of Windows Linux Systems At Risk

The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-10713 and dubbed “BootHole”, is a buffer overflow vulnerability in GRUB2 (Grand Unified Bootloader), a piece of software that loads an Operating System (OS) into memory when a system boots up. This flaw compromises all operating systems (OS) that use GRUB2 with Secure Boot, a component designed to protect the boot process from attacks, even if it is active. Also, the vulnerability affects systems using Secure Boot, even if they are not using GRUB2....

November 18, 2022 · 3 min · 602 words · Josephine Slater

I Am Not A Lizard Says Mark Zuckerberg At His Facebook Live Q A Techworm

While Zuckerberg did speak about serious things like whether we would have to pay for Facebook (no) and exciting new technologies like 360° video and VR, but one of the first questions that took him by surprise was, “Mark, are the allegations true that you are secretly a lizard?” read Zuckerberg on Facebook Live. Taking his own time to answer this question, he replied “I’m going to have to go with no on that....

November 18, 2022 · 1 min · 191 words · Guadalupe Bailey

No Ios Zone Security Flaw Lets Hackers Crash Any Iphone Or Ipad Within Wi Fi Range

The researchers presented the vulnerability at the RSA security conference in San Francisco today. The bug affects iOS 8 and takes advantage of the bug in it by manipulating the SSL certificates sent to the iPhone or iPad and making them crash or putting them in a constant restart loop. The SSL certificates are used by all apps on iOS and the iOS itself the authenticate and run. If you thought that not connecting to random Wi-Fi hotspots wont land you in trouble with the above vulnerability, the security researchers have combined the SSL certificate flaw with an older exploit called WiFiGate....

November 18, 2022 · 2 min · 287 words · Genevieve Noyes

Telegram Premium Coming This Month Confirms Ceo Pavel Durov

Called Telegram Premium, this paid subscription plan will go above and beyond the current free experience, says Durov. The new premium plan will offer additional features, speed, and resources to subscribers of this plan. It will also allow users to support Telegram and join the club that receives new features first. According to Durov, there were receiving requests from its users to raise the current limits on chats, media, and file sizes....

November 18, 2022 · 2 min · 339 words · Randall Stubbs

10 Best Rarbg Alternative Sites In 2022 Working

This popular torrent website has outperformed many other p2p file sharing torrent websites due to its simplicity and a humungous collection of torrent files and magnet links of movies, games, tv series, web series, software, and ebooks. Lately, RARBG has been blocked in many countries including the US, UK, Australia, India, UAE, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Finland, and others. If you are a torrent user and you are facing issues opening RARBG then you may be looking for the best RARBG alternative websites for downloading torrent files....

November 18, 2022 · 7 min · 1415 words · Teresa Hall

128Tb Sd Cards May Replace Hdd And Ssd In Future Laptops

The new type of category called SD Ultra-Capacity (SDUC) also known as SD Express, adds PCI Express and NVMe interfaces to current SD cards to offer high bandwidth and low latency storage. It aims to provide a staggering 985MB/s transfer speed, which is three times faster than today’s best-performing SD cards and 30x faster than what’s required to record 4K video. It also comes with a maximum storage size of a whopping 128TB, which is significantly higher compared to the earlier 2TB limit....

November 18, 2022 · 2 min · 359 words · Paul Thompson

15 Best Discord Bots To Improve Your Server For 2022

Discord bots help enhance the overall communication experience on Discord servers. These bots eliminate the need to exit from the discord server for basic tasks. In this article, we will discuss how to add bots to the discord servers and the best discord bots that you should try to enhance your gaming experience and make your discord server look more user-friendly. Top 15 Best Discord Bots To Improve Your Discord Server 1....

November 18, 2022 · 6 min · 1167 words · Jarrett Harris

4 Government Websites Of Ecuador Hacked Defaced By Anonghost Techworm

November 18, 2022 · 0 min · 0 words · James Maye

6 Best Z Library Alternatives In 2023 To Download Ebooks

Z-Library is often described as the largest online library in the world having over 4,960,000 books and 77,100,000 articles. Sadly several domains related to Z-Library were seized by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday in accordance with piracy laws. Active Z-Library users are now searching for Free Alternatives To Z-Library and in this article, we have shared exactly that. So without further ado let’s check out Websites Like Z-Library....

November 18, 2022 · 5 min · 858 words · David Rados

70 Of The Population 27 Million South Koreans Affected By Data Breach Techworm

November 18, 2022 · 0 min · 0 words · Gilbert Cisneros

A 10Gb Favicon Bug Icon Keeps Downloading Until It Crashes Your Web Browser

Andrea De Pasquale posted a tweet saying, “Weird 64MB favicon.ico turning out to be a TAR backup of the whole WP site, downloaded by every browser passing by.” This creepy bug makes Chrome and Firefox download the huge favicon files to the point till they crash the browser. The silliest part is that the users are not at all aware of this download as it is all done in the background and who is truly to be blamed for this....

November 18, 2022 · 2 min · 416 words · Rocky Hart

After A Successful Moon And Mars Missions Isro Now Has Venus In Sight

After a successful Moon and Mars missions, ISRO now has Venus in sightThe next planet which Indian Space Research Organisation plans to explore is Venus along with a nearby asteroid. With Chandrayaan-2 mission already in the progress, ISRO is now also aiming at sending its probe to Venus and another one to a nearby asteroid. Since ages, Venus has been bestowed the title of ‘Planet of Love, Wealth and Prosperity’ by the human race and it has derived its name from the Greek goddess of love and beauty....

November 18, 2022 · 3 min · 629 words · Carlos Guzzi