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Avast revealed results of a Wi-Fi hack experiment conducted at the Barcelona Airport the weekend before the start of Mobile World Congress (MWC 2016) to demonstrate how at risk people really are on public WiFi. The experiment reveals that most users (visitors to MWC 2016) threw caution to the wind when looking for a public Wi-Fi connection, risking being spied on and hacked by cybercriminals. For the experiment, Avast researchers set up Wi-Fi networks next to the Mobile World Congress registration booth at the Barcelona Airport....

There are common commands like CD and MD, etc., which you probably know so we won’t get into that. In this article, we have provided the best cmd commands used in hacking. Before we begin sharing the best CMD commands for hacking, let us learn – how to enable the NetBios. First, open your Network Connection and right-click, and select Properties. Then Select TCP/IP and click Properties again. Now Click on Advanced and WINS tab....

Seokheun “Sean” Choi, an engineer at the university of Binghamton, New York, has developed a bacteria-powered battery using only paper and few drops of dirty water. Choi has shown the world that the Japanese art of Origami can also be applied to modern technology in the form of batteries. This foldable ‘origami battery’ is just about the size of a match stick and can be developed for mere 5 cents....

Companies like SmartMetric, Zwipe, and Visa have taken the initiative. It is being said that biometric fingerprint technology has the ability to change the scenario of the manner in which card payments are made worldwide thereby restricting fraudsters to carry out their horrendous activities. However, there is an important implication in this. This concept can be applied for preventing fraud at that takes place at POS or Point of Sale....

This vulnerability’s main problem lies in the fact that Google lets the “continue=[link]” as a parameter in the login page URL that conveys the Google server where to redirect the user after it has been authorized. Google has restricted its usage only to google.com domains using the “.google.com/” rule, where * is a wildcard, as it has expected that this parameter may result in security concerns. Woods determined that this implied that drive....

Bureau 121, North Korea’s elite cyber-warfare cell behind the Sony Hacks?Bureau 121Rich life in Poor North Korea Reuters today reported a sophisticated North Korean cyber-warfare cell called Bureau 121. Most of the information about Bureau 121 is obtained from North Korean defectors to South Korea as North Korea is a iron curtain country with severe restrictions any travel to and fro. Bureau 121 The specially created Bureau 121 comprises of around 1800 hard coded cyber warriors....

Xinhua referred to the data released on Friday that China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), which manages the domain “.cn” had 16.36 million users by the end of 2015 surpassing Germany’s “.de. ‘.cn’ is managed through a branch of the ministry of industry and information. CNNIC head Li Xiaodong said the ‘.cn’ domain is also leading in security, domain resolution service, and the ratio of benign uses in the world....

“In recent weeks, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming presidential election, including unsuccessful attacks on people associated with both the Trump and Biden campaigns,” said Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President of Customer Security and Trust with Microsoft, in a comprehensive Thursday post. “The activity we are announcing today makes clear that foreign activity groups have stepped up their efforts targeting the 2020 election as had been anticipated, and is consistent with what the US government and others have reported....

The Carnegie Mellon’s CERT advisory today warned that Cisco’s Linksys SMART WiFi EA series routers have two firmware vulnerabilities that could expose the administrator password thus allowing the potential hacker complete freedom over the system. Carnegie Mellon CERT Advisory The CERT advisory says that all Linksys SMART WiFi EA series routers firmware contains two severe vulnerabilities, CVE-2014-8243 and CVE-2014-8244. It also said that if the firmware is not updated by the users, potential attackers can get hold your your sensitive information and the administrator password in MD5 hash....

“The 1.1.1.1. app makes your Internet faster and more private. It is darn easy to set up. And, the best part: it’s free! “It is the right thing to do. We are making it easier for everyone to make their experience when they use the Internet more private. People should not have to pay to have a more private Internet. “Beyond that, millions of websites rely on Cloudflare for performance and security....

Fast & Secure Transactions The major benefit of cryptocurrencies is the speed and security of the transactions that are made across the blockchain. The technology behind cryptocurrencies is fully encrypted and due to the public ledger on which the blockchain is based, transactions can be made almost instantly. This is a huge difference when compared to some debit or credit card transactions which can take up to a number of days to be confirmed and for money to be transferred in full....

Fredrik Neij, aka TIAMO, one of the co-founders of TPB, was a prime suspect in the criminal investigation started by Swedish police nearly five years ago when it had raided a data center that was believed to be hosting the notorious torrent site. However, over the past several years, Neij has always denied any recent involvement with the site. Apparently, Neij was in prison for his earlier Pirate Bay activities when the raid took place in 2014....

Apple all set to reveal its latest iPhone today and it looks like someone has camped outside of an Apple Store in Australia. There may be a number of reasons why this person had decided to camp outside the Apple Store but one thing is certain. This particular Apple fanboy is going to have his 15 minutes of fame in tech forums and Reddit. Who knows, he may also go down in history or a fact book as being the first person to camp for iPhone 6s....

Dorian Satoshi NakamotoSuper BlooperSueing NewsweekDonations Super Blooper On March 6, 2014, Leah had reported on Newsweek that she had found the mysterious founder of the worlds most famous cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, in the bylanes of Temple City, California. Leah had backed up her story by giving a interview with our good man, Mr.Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. Lack of any news or information about the original Bitcoin founder, Satoshi Nakamoto and Newsweek’s prestige and goodwill were enough to convince the readers about the Dorian being Satoshi Nakamoto on that particular day....

Dubbed as “Haven”, this app will especially help those in journalism and activism in protecting their information and shield them from online surveillance and hacking. The software has been developed with The Guardian Project and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. According to its designers, it’s designed to be a “‘safe room’ in your pocket, or way to defeat ‘evil maid’ attacks”. Snowden wrote in a separate tweet: “Announcing #Haven, a safe room that fits in your pocket....

Allo’s USP is that AI integration Google Knowledge Graph will bring to it. This will allow users to send custom messages which Allo will analyse from the user’s past usage. Allo is capable of analyzing images in your chat and sending out smart replies just like you would normally do in a standard communication. The problem with Allo is that Google added its “incognito” mode and end-to-end encryption is only as an opt-in feature, rather than as a default setting....

The free event, #webcreators2021, gets underway on June 16 at 11am (EST) and is pitched at web creators, marketeers, and digital designers. Serial entrepreneur and digital marketer Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of New York-based communications firm VaynerX, will be a keynote speaker at the conference while Seth Godin, best-selling author of marketing bible This is Marketing, will make an appearance to discuss the importance of future-proofing your business. Each of the thought leaders will welcome questions from virtual attendees after back-to-back presentations....

To ensure that uploaders and group have one home (just like ExtraTorrent), ETTV, ETHD and DTOne collaborated to launch their own torrent website called ETTV.tv last year. ETTV.tv is operated by different people and only a select group of trusted uploaders are allowed to add new content. Although the groups still allocate their work on other mainstream torrent indexes, the site’s traffic has been growing gradually. However, it’s not been an easy ride for ETTV to keep the site running, as they have been subjected to many blocking efforts for offering pirated content just like any other pirated website....

Assume Every Drupal 7 Site Was Compromised Unless Patched ImmediatelySecond Advisory in a monthAssume your site has been compromisedPatching Won’t Remove Backdoors Second Advisory in a month Earlier this month, Drupal patched a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704) that exists in all Drupal core 7.x versions up to the recently-released 7.32 version, which fixed the issue. You can read about that vulnerability here. The problem that Drupal came up against was that as soon as the above vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704) was announced on October 17, there were a series of automated attacks exploiting the flaw on the websites that ran on the Drupal content management system (CMS)....

Researchers show how to remotely exploit the DRAM “Rowhammer” bug by using JavaScriptProof-of-Concept (PoC) The team claims this to be the first remote software-induced hardware fault attack. The downside here is that it is a hardware flaw and not a software flaw, thus it could be present in any computer which has the Intel Processor built since 2009. The next bad news is that hackers can exploit this flaw through any webpage....