Word spread on social media of a particular photograph that is causing some phones to go into a continuous reboot sequence when the photo is set as the screensaver. It’s been tested and yeah, it does trigger the reboot. In some instances, you cannot escape out of the sequence effectively bricking the phone and requiring…
Facebook’s R&D department rolled out their third app this week and this one shows promise – if they can pry off Twitter’s death grip over the second screen market. The new app is called Venue and it’s built to engage fans during live events. It works much like Twitter and its hashtags fans use to…
Have no doubt about it. America’s skirmish with China has more to do with fear than anger. America is about to lose their #1 position on the world’s stage and they know it. And China is posed to step into the pole position. What will it take to overtake the US? Technological advances. And what’s…
Websites are throwing some good shade at Mark Zuckerberg this week after he proclaimed Facebook should not be the “arbiter of truth”. The statement came after Twitter flagged President Trump’s tweets as “deceptive”. In response to Facebook’s announcement, satire websites began place clearly fictional posts on the social network platform as a test of Facebook’s…
The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a division of the Russian military intelligence service, have been attacking email servers running the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA). Also known as “Sandworm,” this group has been hacking Exim servers since August 2019 by exploiting a critical…
A research team from Purdue University has created a tool, USBFuzz, which fuzzes calls to the USB driver stack. Apparently the tool is pretty groundbreaking. The researchers said, “At its core, USBFuzz uses a software-emulated USB device to provide random device data to drivers (when they perform IO operations).” The researchers tested the tool on:…
If the leaks are correct, Motorola’s second foldable phone iteration, the successor to the 2019 Motorola Razr, is getting a big spec upgrade. According to rumors, it’ll be powered by a Snapdragon 765 5G chipset and will come with 8GB RAM, 265GB storage, and a 2,845mAh battery, slightly larger than the origina Motorola Razr foldable.…
This massive crashing wave is actually a anamorphic illusion created on a 265-foot wide screen that stands more than 65 feet tall.
News erupted this week proclaiming the enigmatic hacker, Guccifer 2.0, accidentally dropped his VPN connection, revealing his secret identity. According to Daily Beast, his true IP address was revealed while he visited a social media site – and it tracked directly to Russia’s GRU headquarters. That’s akin to Batman forgetting to put on his mask…
Russian hackers are basking in a lot of cred from their recent hacks against US government institutions. In most cases, their most successful attempts where made via spear phishing attacks. Here’s what a Russian targeted spear phishing email attack looks like.
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