The best course of action that you would have probably heard from others would be to quickly find some dry rice and drop your smartphone in it. This is done under the impression that when you drop your wet smartphone in a bag full of dry rice, maybe after a day or two, or three depending on how damaged the device is, the rice sucks the moisture out and the phone is (usually) fixed!...
Anyone who has used a Windows PC will know about the great Windows tech support scam. These scammers not only waste your time and energy but often leave a big hole in your pockets. One such Windows tech support scammer scammed a programmer. However, the angry programmer turned to tables on the Windows support scammers and declared war on all Windows Support scammers – and now he wants to send a massive army of bots to shut down every fake support line around the globe....
Sepulveda rigged Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s election which saw Neito winning the election by a huge margin and becoming the president of Mexico. A Bloomberg Business article published Thursday told his story for the first time, forcing the Mexican government to deny on Friday that Peña Nieto’s campaign spied on rivals. Sepulveda, now in jail in Colombia, was in the business of the “whole dark side of politics that nobody knows exists but everyone can see,” he told Bloomberg Business....
They 3D printed a three-part lens using something called a “femtosecond direct laser writing system,” which is no bigger than a grain of salt, onto the end of a fiber optic cable the width of two human hairs. “Endoscopic applications will allow for non-invasive and non-destructive examination of small objects in the medical as well as the industrial sector,” its creators wrote in their paper. They added: “The unprecedented flexibility of our method paves the way towards printed optical miniature instruments such as endoscopes, fibre-imaging systems for cell biology, new illumination systems, miniature optical fibre traps, integrated quantum emitters and detectors, and miniature drones and robots with autonomous vision....
The fight against these ISIS propaganda and recruitment networks is a never ending one, but three anonymous British computer experts have taken it on themselves to expose and destroy these networks. They are computer and hacking experts and their language and goal is similar to the global hacktivist collective Anonymous but what differs between the Anonymous and them is that their sole mission is to destroy the pro ISIS networks while Anonymous may be fighting its own ISIS fight, elements within the Anonymous, especially from the Middle East, are pro-ISIS....
Gamification is a marketing strategy that works for many types of businesses beginning with education and social media to retail. We will talk about it in our article. A good choice of products, convenient checkout with an optimal mobile payment gateway and customer service is not enough for a modern retail app. Ecommerce app gamification allows your brand to stand out from the crowd and attract users to your application....
Some of the ethical rules that guide ethical hackers’ intentions include: Express or written permission to probe a system or network to find potential security threats or risks. High regard and respect for organization or individual privacy All vulnerabilities and exploits are revealed to the security experts in the organization that is being tested Once the job is complete, no loopholes that can be exploited are left behind How Ethical Hacking has become a popular career choice Cybercriminals and black hat hackers have always been sophisticated and ingenious in finding ways to breach security systems....
The Japanese tech giants started a revolution with the T1100 laptop, which was technically regarded as the first laptop available to the public. Exit in the Pipeline for a While Toshiba showed their intent in leaving the laptop business when they sold 80.1% of their stake in their computer business to Foxconn owned Sharp back in 2018. Exit in the Pipeline for a WhileKilled by the Competition?The First Laptop for Public...
According to The BBC, some clients’ billing information for Twitter advertisers was inadvertently stored in their browser’s cache, which could have allowed other users on the computer to see this data. Twitter discovered the data leak on May 20, 2020, following which the company reached out to its business users to notify about the incident. The micro-blogging website emailed all its business customers including advertisers “to warn that their information may have been compromised in a security lapse”....
The availability of Twitter Blue with verification is currently available on iOS in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. In this plan, any user subscribing to the Twitter Blue subscription will get a blue checkmark or verification badge for their accounts for a monthly fee. However, this decision led to a widespread debate on the platform, as there was no clarity as to what would happen to the current Twitter Blue subscribers....
The Entity List includes Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) and its subsidiaries, the world’s most popular drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co. and more than 60 other Chinese companies. According to the Commerce Department, the action against SMIC stems from China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) doctrine and evidence of activities between SMIC and entities of concern in the Chinese military-industrial complex. “We will not allow advanced U.S. technology to help build the military of an increasingly belligerent adversary....
In the past, hundreds of thousands of people have been accused by movie companies for sharing pirated movies through BitTorrent. However, often such cases have been settled in private and undisclosed settlements. Kerry Culpepper had plans to use the same approach against Arizona-based Mrs. Parks and her husband after her email address was linked to downloading pirated copies of the films “Lost Child” and “Saving Christmas.” This information was found from the user database of popular torrent site YTS that was shared as part of an earlier settlement and is used by Culpepper to negotiate settlements in and out of court....
While Google and other tech companies have been carrying out tests with their self-driving cars, Uber seems to have quietly gotten down to businesses and made the smart delivery of beers within schedule. The 18-wheeler self-driving truck was followed by a police cruiser, while the driver hung around in the sleeper cab at the back of the pilot seat. The companies said that the self-driving truck was made by Otto, the self-driving vehicle group that Uber acquired in July 2016....
In an announcement posted on Facebook, the CERT-UA said that the spearphishing campaigns are targeting private ‘i.ua’ and ‘meta.ua’ email accounts of Ukrainian defense forces. The spearphishing emails are being sent from two domains (i[.]ua-passport[.]space and id[.]bigmir[.]space). The phishing email targets the victim to click an embedded link to verify their contact information in order to avoid the permanent suspension of their email accounts. Below is an example of the malicious email: “Dear user!...
The statement said that “This new facility will be applicable for all the GSM 2G and 3G pre-paid mobile customers of all BSNL circles across India”, however, the same was stopped in February. BSNL is slowly introducing new 3G mobile internet plans at prices that are lower than industry, in an apparent effort to cash in on huge demand for 3G services. “BSNL recently introduced Rs 68 Data Special Tariff Voucher (STV) which allows 1 GB 3G Mobile Data for 10 days, never given by any other operator at this cheapest rates in the present market,” the statement said....
The OnePlus 2 is going to have a different charging port, which is going to make your smartphone a lot better. Let’s have a look at the benefits that USB Type-C would provide. — OnePlus (@oneplus) June 22, 2015 Like Apple’s Lightning cable, it is reversible. No more clumsiness of the hands to plug it in the right way. It can transmit data at up to 10 Gbps, which is 10 times your crazy Google Fiber connection per second....
“The USB4 specification is a major update to deliver the next-generation USB architecture that complements and builds upon the existing USB 3.2 and USB 2.0 architectures,” the organization announced. “The USB4 architecture is based on the Thunderbolt protocol specification recently contributed by Intel Corporation to the USB Promoter Group. It doubles the maximum aggregate bandwidth of USB and enables multiple simultaneous data and display protocols.” The USB4 specification was first revealed by the USB Promoter Group in March this year....
A study conducted by researchers at Queen Mary University of London has shown that many VPN networks leak information about their users. This information could be as broad in scope as the websites users were visiting, and as detailed as the actual content of messages they were sending to other parties. The have published a paper titled A Glance through the VPN Looking Glass: IPv6 Leakage and DNS Hijacking in Commercial VPN clients....
To resist the fact of their cheap service, the Telecom operators have gone to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to allow them to block apps and websites and charge handsome money from both consumers and business to the deter users from using such free services. As we all know, internet has changed the modern world and how the world is just within your palms. The threat has provoked people from a cross section of society including inert politicians, who were not known for taking any kind of criticism lightly, and celebrities are rallying up to save the future of the nation, The Indian Internet....
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