RCMP said that they were called to the restaurant around 6:30 p.m. last night to disperse a man allegedly disrupting and damaging property at a BC Hydro open house on the Site C dam project. Open House Hydro had been holding the event to update the public on construction timelines for the $8.8-billion hydro dam on the Peace River. An independent investigations watchdog in Canada, IIO said that the RCMP police arrived on scene and encountered a man wearing a mask outside the restaurant, and believed him to be connected to the complaint....

Just like in the San Bernardino terror case, the government agencies are using the All Writs Act of 1789 to force Apple to bypass the passcode locks on the devices used by criminals, reports WSJ, referring to unidentified sources familiar with the matter. While the details of these investigations have not yet been made public, the report claims that none of them involve terrorism charges like the San Bernardino case does....

For those unaware, Sign in with Apple was launched in June 2019 and promoted as a “more private way” to sign into apps and website. It is designed to allow users to create accounts for third-party services with a minimal amount of personal information, only requiring the user to provide a name and email address. Bhavuk Jain, a 27-year-old Indian full-stack developer and researcher, who discovered the flaw in the “Sign in with Apple” system found that the bug affected third-party apps and websites that used user’s Apple ID for authentication, but didn’t implement their own additional security measures....

Other than the 2010 13-inch MacBook, the other three MacBook Pro models to have joined the list of unsupported hardware are 2009 13-inch MacBook Pro, 2009 15-inch, 2.53GHz MacBook Pro, and 2009 15-inch MacBook Pro. Besides these, every version of the iPhone 3G too was added to the obsolete list. However, iPhone 3G continues to be listed under “iPhone products vintage in the United States and obsolete in the rest of the world” raising doubts over its official status....

The vulnerability was disclosed by a user on Tuesday on Twitter. The flaw allowed a user to gain admin access to the PC without the owner’s password just by using ‘root’ as the user name and clicking the unlock button two times to get in. The serious vulnerability has been identified as CVE-2017-13872, which has been fixed by Apple through Security Update 2017-001 for macOS 10.13.1 on Wednesday. While the security update is now available for download from Mac App Store, Apple said it will also be automatically installing the patch on all Macs running macOS High Sierra 10....

These four extensions are Avast Online Security, AVG Online Security, Avast SafePrice, and AVG SafePrice. For those unaware, when you install Avast and AVG antivirus software, it also installs their respective Firefox and Chrome extensions listed above. For instance, the Avast and AVG Online Security extensions alert users when navigating to unknown malicious or suspicious sites. On the other hand, SafePrice extensions help online shoppers learn about better prices, deals, and available coupons at other sites....

Check out these interesting tips and tricks to use your iPhone like a pro1. Keyboard: Double tap the space bar for a period at the end of the sentence in order to start a fresh sentence with a capital letter.2. Ear plug: Do you know that you can click a selfie without touching your iPhone? All you need to do is press the + button of your ear plugs to click a picture without losing the focus....

For those unaware, formed in 2014, NiceHash serves as a marketplace for miners to rent out their hash rate to others, which sees them earn Bitcoin at regular intervals. The breach was announced by the company on social media as well as its website. — NiceHash (@NiceHashMining) December 6, 2017 “Unfortunately, there has been a security breach involving NiceHash website. We are currently investigating the nature of the incident and, as a result, we are stopping all operations for the next 24 hours,” the company said in a statement on Wednesday (December 6)....

As the video shows, it’s a password designed to cause mass confusion and irritation. There are no uppercase letters in “fourwordsalluppercase,” nor are there any dashes or underscores to separate any of the four words. It tries to make people understand that the password is challenging to some extent, as their first instinct would be to try and enter all uppercase letters and separate the four words. Alternatively, as put forward by the main character in the RocketJump video, “fourwordsalluppercase” is “one word, all lowercase, it’s like any other Wi-Fi password....

They have surpassed the nuclear fusion experimental device referred to as the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellerator developed by a team of German researchers from the Max Planck Institute that managed to heat hydrogen gas to 80 million degrees Celsius, and sustain a cloud of hydrogen plasma for a quarter of a second. According to a statement on the institute’s website last Wednesday, the experiment was conducted on a magnetic fusion reactor at the Institute of Physical Science in Hefei, capital of Jiangsu province....

However the Chinese kids are playing a sadistic live version of Angry Birds game by actually tying a live firecracker to a live Sparrow and watching it explode. A Chinese activist, Huang Chu, made this bizarre discovery in Lantian county in north-western China’s Shaanxi province, after he spotted children running away from something in a local park. Chu decided to investigate the team of children running after something and found that it was an unexploded firework....

The attacks replace the operating system used in network equipment from Cisco, the world’s biggest maker of routers, said Mandiant on Tuesday. The router implant, dubbed SYNful Knock, provides attackers with highly privileged backdoor access to the affected devices and continues to exist even across reboots. This is different than the typical malware found on consumer routers, which gets removed from the memory when the device is restarted. SYNful Knock is a modified version of the IOS operating system that runs on professional routers and switches made by Cisco Systems....

The tool is sold to cybercrime gangs, which take advantage from Angler’s exploits mostly for browsers and browser plugins. It’s targeted at anyone with crimeware, such as ransomware or banking credential stealers, who do not have the time or skill to develop and maintain their own database of software exploits. Researchers noticed that the large percentage of infected users were connecting to servers belonging to hosting provider Limestone Networks. After digging out more, they estimated that a single hacker or a group of hackers is targeting up to 90,000 end users a day....

Now, conspiracy theorists have come up with fresh fears that the world will end as early as April 23, as a giant mysterious death star “Nibiru” also known as Planet X, is set to cause destruction across the Earth. Nibiru is supposed to be a large object that is on a collision course with Earth. David Meade, a Christian numerologist and who writes for Planet X News told the Daily Express newspaper that the occurrence of an apocalypse on April 23 will ultimately destroy our Earth....

Those who have accounts, there are three setting groups in order to control your accounts. The first one is “sign-in & security” card wherein you can manage to sign in and control devices and apps that use Google accounts. There is the security setup wizard where you can see and modify your passwords and two-step security controls where you can verify all your phones, computers and tablets. The second step is “Privacy Control“....

Lance Ealy had been charged by the Federal Grand jury for 46 counts of fraudulent activity which included filing false tax returns and also buying the stolen identities. Ealy was also involved in buying stolen Social Security Numbers and Personal information from an online fraud site Superget.info which was later known as findget.me. The online fraud site was run by a Vietnamese national Hieu Minh Ngo who had already pleaded guilty to the Secret service who had been successful in luring him out from Vietnam, he had accepted that he was responsible for running the ID theft service....

Now, a maker who goes by the name ‘Node’ has built a homemade project called the ‘Zero Terminal’, wherein he has converted the Pi Zero W into a phone-sized computer with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen display. The aim to build this project is to develop a small, all-in-one computer that is both portable, and usable. The basis of the Zero Terminal is the Pi Zero W, and an iPhone 5 sliding keyboard case....

In a order to overcome these challenges, DARPA has awarded prime contracts for Phase 1 its Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program. DARPA’s interest and assistance to HAPTIX to revive full and healthy functionality is because of scores of military personnel being wounded and maimed in battles and counter insurgency operations. The DARPA initiative is also a part of the White House programme for rehabilitation of Army veterans. However the military usage is often passed to common man as has happened with Internet and many modern technological innovations....

Most users are getting the below error that reads: “Critical Error – Start menu and Cortana aren’t working. We’ll try to fix it the next time you sign in.” Microsoft has already provided a method to overcome the problem by suggesting the users to reboot to Safe Mode and then normally start their computers. However, despite this somewhat basic fix, it turns out that the problem still persists on many of the PCs....