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Hackers operating under the handle of Rex Mundi have claimed that they hacked into the systems of Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE) and stolen the banks customer information including private emails. Now the hackers are demanding €10,000 for not making the data public. The hackers have given the Banks management a deadline until Friday to deliver the ransom. https://twitter.com/rexmundi14/status/553116466904825856 The threat was repeated again just four hours earlier, https://twitter.com/rexmundi14/status/553443879521746946 The Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE) is a bank based in Geneva....

“Paul did the computer scheduling with me,” Gates said. “Unfortunately for him he was two years ahead of me and he was off to college by then. So I was the one who benefited by being able to have the nice girls at least sit near me. It wasn’t that I could talk to them or anything — but they were there. I think I was particularly inept at talking to girls, or thinking, ‘OK — do you ask them out, do you not?...

The cyber security firm said Wednesday that while Bluetooth devices are not vulnerable for the same kind of attack, wireless mouse and keyboards using radio communication protocols operating in the 2.4GHz ISM band are subject to hacking from up to 100 meters away. “They haven’t encrypted the mouse traffic that makes it possible for the attacker to send unencrypted traffic to the dongle pretending to be a keyboard and have it result as keystrokes on your computer....

As per the report from Science.Mic Jeffrey Tibbetts, the medical officer of Science for the Masses and biochem researcher Gabriel Licina together as a team have got a patent for their research paper known as “A Review on Night Enhancement Eyedrops Using Chlorin e6.” Now the team decided to carry out their first controlled experiment in what seems to be a sort of garage and Gabriel Licina agreed to become the guinea pig....

The KB3119142 update issued by Microsoft for Windows PCs and laptops keeps reinstalling itself even though it appears to successfully deploy at the first attempt. In a thread started on Microsoft Community forum, an user said that KB3119142 installed successfully on his PC but then installs itself 4-5 times a day for last week. Other users confirmed that the KB3119142 update installs repeatedly on users’ computers even though the same update seems to install correctly....

China has finished building the world’s biggest radio telescope, which it will use to explore space and hunt for extraterrestrial life, according to the state media Xinhua. About 300 “builders, experts, science fiction enthusiasts and reporters” watched the installation of the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (aka FAST) in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. The project took five years and $180 million to complete, and the reflector covers the area of roughly 30 football fields....

“Understanding the various ways text is used on Facebook can help us improve people’s experiences with our products, whether we’re surfacing more of the content that people want to see or filtering out undesirable content like spam,” the company said in a blog post. “Every minute, Facebook users make 4,000 new posts,” with 180 million comments made on public Facebook posts per day, says Hussein Mehanna, an engineering director with Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning team....

The new ultralight and foldable Mini 2 weighs less than 249 grams (0.55lb), which allows users to fly the drone without needing to register with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The drone has folded dimensions of 138×81×58 mm (L×W×H) and unfolded dimensions of 159×203×56 mm (L×W×H). DJI Mini 2 supports up to 4K video resolution at 30 fps (frames per second) at a 100Mbps video bitrate, which is up from 2....

They also mentioned the unauthorized access to account information was from a third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure, and was not the result of a vulnerability within Drupal itself. Sites running Drupal are not affected and there’s no evidence that credit card numbers have been intercepted. Information exposed includes usernames, email addresses, and country information, as well as hashed passwords. Drupal have resetted all passwords, which can be seen by users when they are trying to login....

Our lack of contact with alien lifeforms could be due to any number of reasons debated Musk, however, none of them point out that intelligent lifeforms have basically never existed within our Universe. Alternatively, Musk suggests that our isolation is in fact proof that we are living in some form of simulation. He also got one more theory that suggests that we can be part of an experiment being run by an even more advanced alien race that is carefully trying to watch our evolutionary behaviors....

Europol said that it had conducted this operation with the assistance of investigators from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Europol was helped by 3 tech companies, AnubisNetworks, a unit of BitSight Technologies; Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp, as well in dismantling the command and control server infrastructure used by the hackers. Microsoft alongwith Washington-based Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center sought a court order in US court to shutdown the servers in a sealed lawsuit, Microsoft statement said....

Trailing behind The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrent is the second largest torrent site with millions of daily visitors. Several entertainment industry groups put pressure on hosting companies and domain name services to take action against ExtraTorrent due to its popularity. Consequently, ExtraTorrent ended up losing control of three domain names used for its official mirror sites over the past several days. Thus, extratorrent.rocks, etproxy.top and extratorrent.date are no longer available following a complaint from rightholders....

Facebook users over the world are reporting a unique problem with the Facebook App. It is crashing as soon as it is opened. The problem has left many FB users without access to the social media site over the weekend after the Facebook for Android App stopped working. Due to some but, Facebook users were confronted with the error message that “Facebook has stopped” when attempting to open the FB app....

According to Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos, the company will cross-reference the purchased black market passwords with encrypted passwords used on the site. This practice has kept the users’ accounts safe from breaches. Speaking at the Web Summit 2016 technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Stamos said that more than 1.3 billion people use Facebook every day. “Keeping Facebook safe and keeping it secure are two different things. Security is about building walls to keep out threats and shore up defences....

Facebook engineering director shares his experiences in 6-week engineer bootcamp1. It allows engineers to decide how they want to contribute.2. It gives new joinees an internal network3. It fosters unity among engineers It’s one of the first steps that new college graduates to coding veterans are required to go through in the company’s signature “Bootcamp,” a six-week introduction to Facebook that all engineers. In a 2009 Facebook post, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, VP of engineering had said that he had started the program the year before, when the engineering staff was pushing 150 members....

The biggest social media company in the world is really struggling very hard to keep its user’s data safe and sound. But there are some notorious hackers who swiped the sleep of Facebook’s security researchers team. Also Read- Top 10 Ways That Hackers Use To Hack Facebook Accounts Recently Facebook said that over 50 million of its users’ data is left exposed by a security flaw. The company also said that by taking the advantage of this flaw, hackers somehow managed to exploit a vulnerability in a feature known as “View as” to get an access over people’s accounts....

The testing of ads will start with Blaston, an action game developed by Resolution Games and a couple of other developers that will be rolling out over the coming weeks. “Our primary focus at Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is to bring more people into VR, advance the consumer experience, and make progress on our longer-term augmented reality initiatives,” Facebook wrote in a blog post. “We’re also exploring new ways for developers to generate revenue—this is a key part of ensuring we’re creating a self-sustaining platform that can support a variety of business models that unlock new types of content and audiences....

Facebook focused relentlessly on mobile throughout the keynote, positioning themselves as the layer which unites the increasingly fragmented world of mobile operating systems. They revealed that over 1 billion app installs had been driven through Facebook, and over $3bn in payments managed whilst pointing out that their own apps represent more than 20% of the total time spent by users on their phones. Hoping to encourage more developers to take advantage of Facebook sign in within their apps they launched a number of updates which gave users more control of their privacy settings, or even the ability to login anonymously whilst still being able to sync your activity across devices....

“Today we’re launching Reels on Facebook for iOS and Android in the US. We’re bringing short form, entertaining video experiences and tools that have inspired creators on Instagram to more creators and audiences on the Facebook app,” the company wrote in a blog post. “With the ability to create reels and have their Instagram reels suggested to people on Facebook, creators — whether they’re just starting out or already have a large following — will have more ways to express themselves, grow their communities and reach new audiences....