The attacks are only expected to increase in the coming days as they are still ongoing. The malware is said to be copying the behavior of the old BrickerBot malware that compromised more than ten million IoT devices between April and December 2017. Larry Cashdollar, Akamai security exploit researcher, who first spotted the malware explained that Silex compromises the devices by gaining access to and destroying an IoT device’s storage, drops firewall rules, eradicates the network configuration, and then stops the device completely....

This kind of sounds like Project Ara, but with computers. However, when you are building your own desktop, you can practically upgrade your components overtime for better performance, so how is this modular PC going to be any different? Well, if we take a look at the images, it looks like the modular components are going to be a part of an AIO, or ‘All in one’ PC, in which all components are soldered inside a computer display, and you will not require a separate computer casing to place all those components....

Designed with gaming in mind, the Red Magic has a very aggressive design, complete with slim bezels around the edges and a black anodized aluminum unibody chassis. There is a vertical RGB strip that runs down the rear of the phone below the fingerprint scanner that can be customized to “mimic your gaming persona”. The strip can display 16 million different colors and comes with four different lighting effects to customize your look....

At the time of writing the Article the website was restored and the security team from website, claims to have fixed the vulnerability that allowed hackers to hack the site.

In other words, the virtualization software will allow users to run Windows 10 ARM Insider Preview and its apps on Macs with an Apple M1 processor. The M1 chip’s superior performance delivers the world’s fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer, revolutionary power efficiency, and was designed to work with macOS Big Sur3—which Parallels Desktop 16.5 transforms into a new standard for a seamless Windows-on-Mac experience. It also delivers M1 support for the most popular ARM-based Linux distributions....

Open source password manager KeePass sports a MitM vulnerability that could allow attackers to trick users into downloading malware disguised as a software update, security researcher Florian Bogner warns. Bogner says that all versions of KeePass, including the latest, are vulnerable. The flaw is considered critical and and has been assigned CVE-2016-5119. Unfortunately KeePass knows about the vulnerability but is unwilling to patch it because it would block ads on the App....

Leblanc’s “Kill all Passwords” presentation, that he has been giving at US and Europe tech conferences highlights the necessity of “true integration with the human body.” Leblanc works with engineers and developers to bring about new identification technologies. He believes that using external body parts like the finger prints, iris scan are all old formulae and now we need to use “natural body identification” which means the heart beat and vein recognition methods will be incorporated in future for online identification and verification....

The announcement was made by the site’s admin Jesse “Omniscient” LaBrocca who said that Hack Forums will be shutting down the “Server Stress Testing” section, in the wake of the massive Mirai attacks on Dyn, which led to last Friday’s massive internet disruption in the U.S. and Europe. The Hack Forums’ admin said: “I’m going to be shutting down the SST forum. No new threads can be created there. All non-stickies are closed....

The hack attack which took place at 10.00 German time took down many German websites and left other sites periodically inaccessible. A group calling itself CyberBerkut claimed responsibility for the hack on its website cyber-berkut.org/en/. In a statement on its website it gave its reasons for blocking Chancellor Merkel and Bundestag’s websites, That’s why we appeal all people and government of Germany to stop financial and political support of criminal regime in Kiev, which unleashed a bloody civil war....

Riffle was not designed to access the broader Internet, the way many anonymous networks like Tor do. However, it can anonymize transactions across a single network of users more efficiently and more anonymously than a Tor-type network or others. The researchers are planning to present Riffle, at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium later this month in Darmstadt, Germany, which they say, has used the existing cryptographic techniques, but in new ways....

“In celebration of this pioneering spirit, the Rolls-Royce Vision Next 100 has been designed as the ultimate expression of the future of super-luxury mobility,” said Adrian van Hooydonk, Head of BMW Group Design. “It is an enlightening vision of the fascinating possibilities of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in the future.” Vision Next 100-style production cars would be configured specifically to customers’ requirements In keeping with Personal Vision. It will be built with innovative manufacturing technologies using the most advanced lightweight materials and zero emissions drivetrain....

According to a blog post by FingerprintJS, a browser fingerprinting and fraud detection service, the bug was introduced in Safari 15’s implementation of the IndexedDB API, which is part of Apple’s WebKit web browser development engine. For those unaware, IndexedDB is a browser API for client-side storage designed to hold significant amounts of data, which is supported in all major browsers and is very commonly used. Like most modern web browser technologies, IndexedDB is following same-origin policy, which is a fundamental security mechanism that restricts how documents or scripts loaded from one origin can interact with resources from other origins....

In an email sent to customers, the company said its systems were compromised in late July 2022, which was discovered by them on or around August 4, 2022. During their ongoing investigation, Samsung found that an unauthorized third party had acquired the personal information of its customers from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems and exfiltrated it out of its network. However, no consumer devices and in-app control interfaces were affected....

For those unaware, The Blue Whale Challenge that became a social media phenomenon, plays out over a period of 50 days, where a player has to successfully complete 50 challenges. These tasks are given by the “curator”, who also asks for photos of the teenagers carrying out the tasks as proof for his approval. Once the 50 challenges are completed, the game directs the player to commit suicide, which is the ultimate task....

Scientists find surprising link between Birth Month and Disease Risk. “It turns out that if a newborn is exposed to high levels of dust mites in their first few months of life then they have higher possibility of a certain type of asthma later,” says Nicholas Tatonetti, PhD, an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University Medical Center and Columbia’s Data Science Institute. The record states that 1.7 million patients treated at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center between 1985 and 2013, the researchers used an algorithm to look at relationships between birth month and disease risk....

On Wednesday, schools in Singapore were closed as part of partial lockdown measures to control local transmissions of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As a result, some teachers are using video conferencing tools like Zoom for home-based learning. According to local media reports, one of the incidents saw hackers joining a virtual geography class with teenage girls and displaying offensive pictures on screens. They also lewd remarks to the students, who were just 13 years old....

Manu Prakash is an Indian by birth. Presently he is an assistant professor of bioengineering at the Stanford University and the one who was in news last year for building a paper microscope. Now, this year the genius has come up with a ‘synchronous computer’ that works by using the physics of moving water droplets. Prakash and his two students have persistently worked for an entire decade to develop this unique computer that can work on moving water droplets instead of electrons....

Several users have reported that they cant access sites hosted on WordPress.com but it looks like self hosted blogs on WordPress.org have been spared. The users who operated blogs on WordPress.com are greeted with the following message : Many users said that the block has been implemented by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) though there is no word of the block from the authorities or the WordPress foundation. Pakistan seems to be following footsteps of its neighbours, China and India in the game of censorship....