The FBI claims to have found the server’s location without the NSA’s help, simply by fiddling with the Silk Road’s login page until it leaked its true location. In the latest filing, however, former FBI agent Christopher Tarbell counters Ulbricht’s defense by describing just how he and another FBI agent located the Silk Road server in June of last year without any sophisticated intrusion: Instead, he says, they found a misconfiguration in an element of the Silk Road login page, which revealed its internet protocol (IP) address and thus its physical location....

However due to some reasons it stopped publishing in 2012. The last issue was in April 2012, hacker e-zine made a comeback yesterday with Issue No.69. In the issue, the Phrack editors have apologized for its tardiness, but have promises to publish new, peer-reviewed technical papers and notes on a rolling basis, as they come in, and invite submissions. The current issue features several significant peer-reviewed information security papers, including an excellent piece on a Flash bug and another on the use of hypervisors to abet rootkits....

Try one of these 7 highest paying IT certifications and get yourself a megabucks job1. Certification in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT)2. ITIL Expert3. Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)4. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)5. Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)6. Certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA)7. Project Management Institute-Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) If you are intent on making IT your career choice, then there are a host of certifications available that you should consider pursuing....

The world is filled with creepy sods who do awfully god forsaken things to fulfill their wild fetishes. One such case has come to a light where a creepy cop hacked into a baby’s webcam to spy on its nude mother breastfeeding the baby. These shocking allegations are detailed in a lawsuit filed by Megan Pearce, who accuses officer Michael Emmi of turning into a peeping tom after arresting her fiance....

Checkley’s Batman costume made it Guinness World Record for “most functional gadgets on a cos-play suit.” Checkley’s Batman costume has just about everything the caped crusader needs to fight the extraordinary villains and adversaries. Checkley has also managed to cram in some Bat-gadgets technologies that only exist in comic books. Everything Checkley has included on his Batsuit actually works, and he’s done a good job at making it all blend in to the rest of his costume....

It’s been decades since we recognized the problems created by excess carbon emissions into the Earth’s atmosphere, and scientists have been struggling to come up with an energy-efficient way to transform CO2 into something useful. “This represents a fundamental scientific breakthrough,” Karthish Manthiram, a chemical engineer from the California Institute of Technology who was not involved in the research, told William Herkewitz at Popular Mechanics. “Certainly it will be a years-long process before this is worked into a successful, commercial device....

Râmnicu Vâlcea which is also known as “Hackerville” rose to prominence because almost half of its population are EBay and Craigslist scammers. Râmnicu Vâlcea is just three hours drive from the Romanian capital, Bucharest but it seems to get more attention than the capital city. If you thought Râmnicu Vâlcea was run of the mill town from a Eastern European country, you are wrong! The town is filled with BMWs and Audis and most of the townsfolk seem to be making a killing indulging in some bit of cyber scam....

A French lady, who goes by the name Lilly, has printed the love of her life, got engaged and now wants to marry it. Lilly’s partner is a robot called InMoovator, who she 3D-printed herself and has been living with for a year. She says she will marry when human-robot marriage is legalized in France. On her Twitter page, where she goes by ‘Lilly InMoovator,’ she says: “I’m a proud robosexual, we don’t hurt anybody, we are just happy....

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According to media activist group ‘Raqqa is Being Slaughter Silently’, Junaid Hussain, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Hussain al-Britani, was killed on 24 August outside his house in Raqqa, capital of the IS Caliphate in Syria. Junaid Hussain was killed by a targeted airstrike while he was traveling in a vehicle near the Syrian city of Raqqa. However, it was not immediately clear whether the drone strike had been conducted out of Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where the United States, in addition to stationing F-16 fighter jets, recently began launching armed drone strikes....

For those unaware, the ‘Blue Tick’ is a verification badge given by Twitter to help users identify prominent and popular people on the platform, and let them know that the account of public interest is authentic. Previously, the blue checkmark badge was only given to the verified accounts of government organizations, celebrities, politicians, entertainment, and public figures. The revamped ‘Blue Tick’ subscription service was pushed to Twitter via version 9....

A subscription screen tied to the feature was first spotted by an app security researcher, Jane Manchun Wong who posted a GIF showing how subscribers would undo tweets. — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 5, 2021 Now, in the latest development, Twitter has confirmed to CNET that it is indeed testing the ‘Undo Tweet’ feature. Wong too tweeted the news along with a screenshot on Friday. — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 19, 2021 In a message to CNET, Wong noted that the “Undo Tweet” feature is different from deleting a tweet, a feature that is currently available to all users....

Yesterday, a few Twitter users tweeted out an email they got from the social network’s security staff, in which they were warned of cyber-attacks on their account from what the team suspected to be a state-sponsored group. Twitter has been subject of hack attacks from such state sponsored entities because it hosts accounts of thousands of journalists, political dissidents and other opponents. As said above, until now, Google and more recently Facebook have been the only two companies that have warned users of possible state-sponsored attacks....

Today, people are involved in socializing with the world on popular applications online such as Facebook, and many others. Many people are into blogging and content writing for the websites which need several measures to be fulfilled to attract the traffic on their sites. For the help of these people, two best tools are developed by smallseotools.com: Reverse Image Search and Word Counter. Reverse image search is a CBIR (content-based image retrieval) technique that involves the particular image to be searched to retrieve the information regarding that image....

The move is an indication of the company’s plan to expand into other parts in an effort to provide uniform and streamlined browsing experience for its users. Kenny Ye, Head of Emerging Markets at UCWeb’s International Business Department said “In this era of multi-screens, daily life is now surrounded by different digital devices. People start their day with the smartphone and move on to the laptop.” “We’re making our browser available on multiple platforms to capture this trend,” he added....

The group of computer experts, who calls themselves as VandaSec, communicates mainly through social media and targets child predators online in addition to Daesh (the Arabic acronym for the group also known as the Islamic State, ISIS or ISIL). They told The Daily Mirror on December 14 that they have traced at least three ISIS Twitter accounts back to internet addresses linked to Department of Work and Pensions, the division of the British government which manages unemployment and disability assistance....

The Justice Minister of Denmark has confirmed that the US sent a rendition flight to Copenhagen Airport to capture Snowden.The Justice Minister’s confirmation is just seconding the reports which appeared last month that US landed a private aircraft in Copenhagen intended to capture Snowden in June 2013. In a report published by Danish online media Denfri US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prepared to kidnap Edward Snowden and ship him back to United States....

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In a tweet on Sunday, which was spotted by The Verge, Verizon Wireless Customer Support suggested its users having 5G access on their smartphones (available in some newer phones) to switch to LTE connectivity to preserve battery life in case of battery drainage. The original tweet to preserve battery life by switching to LTE is no longer available and has been since deleted. “Are you noticing that your battery life is draining faster than normal?...

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