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Jose Rodriguez, a Spanish security researcher, and an iPhone enthusiast has managed to find a passcode bypass bug that allows attackers to access the contacts list on a locked iPhone. Rodriguez shared a video (see below) with The Hacker News to show how the bug works. As detailed in the video, the passcode bypass bug is present in a new feature introduced in iOS 12.1 called Group FaceTime. This bug can be exploited by either receiving a phone call or asking Siri to make a phone, and by changing the call to FaceTime....

The United States Department of Justice had arrested two men in May, 2015 for “breaching the computer services of Colorado-based Photobucket.” The two men, Brandon Bourret, aged 39, of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Athanasios Andrianakis, aged 26, of Sunnyvale, California had developed a software known as “Photofucket” for “fusking”. The software developed by these two was capable of hacking into the private Photobucket albums and stealing NSFW images of subscribers....

For those unaware, “Find my iPhone” is an app and service from Apple, which lets you locate, lock down or wipe your lost iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Macbook and requires a password to continue. Apple had introduced this feature in 2013 to safeguard people’s information stored on their iPhones. In order to keep iPhones secure and make it less valuable targets to would-be thieves, iPhones can be associated only to one iCloud account at a time....

For those unaware, RBX.Place is a website where players of the hugely popular online game, Roblox, can buy and sell in-game items in exchange for real money. However, RBX.Place is a site independent of Roblox itself. The exposed data that appears to date from 2018 includes email addresses, transactions, hashed passwords, and other personal information of users of the RBX.Place website. Roblox, an online game platform and game creation system available on Xbox, PC, and mobile devices, allows users to program games and play games created by other users....

Basically this is a week long getaway from the normal schedules to get refreshed and a chance to squander money. People who visit the festival are known as “Burners”. So if you are a “Burner” it adds to your value in the social circle. Some of the biggest names in the technology are regular “Burners” like Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg and other employees from Facebook, Twitter and Uber....

The group which has been identified as Wild Neutron or Morpho by Symantec Corp. and Kaspersky Lab, has broken into the networks of over 45 large companies since 2012. Symantec says that the group appears to be among the few that display significant talent without backing from a national government. “They are very focused, wanting everything valuable from the top companies of the world,” said Vikram Thakur, a Symantec senior manager....

The social media giant uses a mix of complex science and mathematics to narrow down on your friend’s list Have you ever thought how Facebook exactly predicts your friends, sometimes even those whom you have long forgotten. Last week, a Redditor named easyjet posted a thread on Reddit. He mentioned that he signed up with an email address he never, ever used. He even lied about all of his personal information....

Regardless of the reason, it is highly likely that you might be reluctant to share your account with anyone. After all, sharing personal things isn’t always a wise move, especially when it is a VPN. But, don’t you worry. You won’t ever need to deny your friends’ request and break their heart when you can gift them a premium VPN account for free. Yes, you heard that right! PureVPN has brought you a deal that will allow you to help your friends, family members and colleagues to enjoy the same level of security, anonymity and internet freedom as you....

There are seven ways to discover opportunities, get in touch with companies and make yourself noticeable to recruitersCarry out an auditKnow your privacy settingsKeep it professionalFind job leadsFill out your profileNetworkLeverage social media A billion people logged into Facebook on a single day last week, making it the first time that so many members used the world’s largest online social network in a 24-hour period. The reason for this outburst was that job recruiters are using this network to share job leads and discover candidates....

According to the space agency, Curiosity recorded the black-and-white photos using its Navigational Cameras (NavCams), which are designed to take a wide-angle view of the Martian terrain. However, these engineering cameras are not capable of shooting images in color as the spacecraft’s 34 millimeter and 100 millimeter Mast Cameras can. According to a video on YouTube channel ArtAlienTV, a picture that appears to show a giant mouse scurrying across the surface of Mars was taken by the rover’s right-hand mast-cam at 04:46 on November 1, last year, close to the ridge of the 154-kilometer-wide (96 miles) Gale Crater....

“It’s a relationship that bears watching,” Anne Weismann, the head of the Campaign for Accountability told the Intercept. Numbers crunched by the Campaign for Accountability and the Intercept show that in all 169 Google employees have met with 182 government officials in the White House. It was no surprise that Johanna Shelton, Google’s head of public policy, had the most White House meetings of any Google employee with 128. The data used spans from the start of Obama’s first term in office in 2009 until October 2015, Google officials met in the White House with Obama administration officials once a week on an average for a total of 427 visits....

This vulnerable firmware update driver has been released on hundreds of millions of Dell Windows PCs around the world since 2009. The multiple local privilege-escalation (LPE) bugs exist in Dell’s dbutil_2_3.sys driver, which comes pre-installed on most Dell machines running Windows. The firmware update driver component is responsible for Dell Firmware Updates via the Dell Bios Utility. The five high severity vulnerabilities in Dell software could allow attackers to escalate privileges from a non-administrator user to kernel mode privileges....

According to the patent titled “Copyright Infringement Prevention,” main goal is to ‘restrict’ the functionality of printers, so they only process jobs when the person who’s printing them has permission to do so. The technology works by parsing content for potential copyrighted material. It will not allow the printer to copy or print the job, if such material is found. “The computer, in response to identifying any text, images, or formatting indicative of potential copyrighted material, identifies potential copyrighted material within the file....

Morgan, staring Kate Mara and Paul Giamatti, is a sci-fi thriller about scientists who have developed a synthetic humanoid whose potential has grown dangerously beyond their control. To prepare the machine for the task at hand, the IBM Research system analysed hundreds of horror/thriller movie trailers. In order to get an idea of the dynamics of a trailer, the computer then performed a series of visual, sound and composition studies....

Gupta, who spent nearly a decade at Intel as its Product Marketing Engineer, left the company on January 17, 2020, and joined Microsoft four days later as a Principal of Strategic Planning in Microsoft’s Cloud and Artificial Intelligence department. According to the lawsuit filed by Intel, Gupta took the company’s highly confidential, proprietary and trade secret information in violation of his contractual obligations and federal and state law; leveraged that information in negotiations against Intel while at his new employer; and lied to Intel in the course of the firm’s attempts to locate, recover, and protect its confidential information and trade secrets....

Grumpy Cat shot to international stardom when her photo was posted on Reddit on September 22, 2012. The reddit posts made her celebrity, though there were some who accused Grumpy of being a photoshop. To dispel suspicions that the image had been Photoshopped, she posted two videos to YouTube. The videos went viral, making her the darling of meme-loving macro-makers everywhere. How does it feel to be a legend at Tussauds Apparently, Grumpy Cat is not happy....

4K Video Downloader is a worthy representative of the latter – it’s a multifunctional cross platform application, favored by more than a million users worldwide. Such support was well-deserved by its safety, stability, fast downloading speed, and of course a variety of useful features. Clean, intuitive interface Even though the functionality of the application is quite advanced, working with it is easy for user of any level. Copy the link to a song or a video from a popular service from the browser and click the Paste Link button within 4K Video Downloader....

But before it closed down, the administrators of the 123movies website encouraged their millions of users to migrate to a paid streaming site called WatchAsap.com. However, this website is now suddenly displaying a familiar seizure banner, which says that the domain name was seized by the feds as part of an ongoing criminal case, reports TorrentFreak. Apparently, 123movies, the popular and largest movie pirating website that received millions of visitors per day, prompted the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to label it “the most popular illegal site in the world....

A Japanese Satellite called Hitomi has been officially termed as lost after it disintegrated in orbit, which was a result of being torn apart when spinning out of control. The reason behind this is still under investigation but the individuals carrying out their own research have claimed that bad data in a software package resulted in a loss of $286 million US dollars, not to mention possible 10 years’ worth of research lost....