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In a 36-page report published on Monday, Group-IB, which runs the largest computer forensics laboratory in eastern Europe, provided details of the newly-disclosed hacking group “MoneyTaker” named after a piece of custom malware it uses. According to the Group-IB, the hacking group has carried out more than 20 successful attacks on financial institutions and legal firms in the U.S., UK and Russia in the last two months alone. The MoneyTaker group stole funds by targeting electric fund transfer networks like SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication)....

Smartphones have become a pocket-sized computer that is used for a plethora of purposes besides the good old way to communicate. We use it every day for all sorts of purposes, and therefore store a significant amount of sensitive data including our private photos, videos, chats, messages, bank details and even personal data of our friends and family in form of their email address, phone numbers, photos on our smartphones....

“This vulnerability discovered in Xiaomi’s ‘Guard Provider,’ however, raises the worrying question of who is guarding the guardian. And although the guardian should not necessarily need guarding, clearly when it comes to how apps are developed, even those built in by the smartphone vendor, one cannot be too careful,” Makkaveev said in his blog post. Guard Provider allows users to choose from three antivirus scanners, Avast, AVL and Tencent built-in to detect potential malware....

The teenager stays in downtown Mumbai suburb and has chosen quit school after Class 9 and now works solely assembling computers from scraps. The class 9 dropout is driven by one vision, “I want to make affordable computers. The computer I have made is from leftovers from offices, banks and hospitals,” he told Mid-Day. “The screen is similar to one seen in operation theatres. It’s not a real computer. I used bits and pieces from here and there, and acrylic for the body, which I cut myself....

Dubbed as Sequoia and tracked CVE-2021-33909, this size_t-to-int type conversion vulnerability in the Linux Kernel’s Filesystem layer grants any unprivileged user gains root privileges on vulnerable devices by exploiting this vulnerability in a default configuration. The most important function of a Linux Filesystem is to manage user data. It is also the most important function of any operating system and is ubiquitous on all major Linux operating systems. According to Qualys security researchers, if an unprivileged local attacker creates, mounts, and deletes a deep directory structure whose total path length exceeds 1GB, the Sequoia bug (an out-of-bounds read) occurs in the Linux OS filesystem component, allowing any low-privileged local account to run code with root privileges....

The company is now using a new technology called Neural Machine Translation (NMT), which aims to make computer-generated translations more parallel to those done by humans and to power its translations in seven new languages. The update should make translations in those languages much more accurate and easier to understand, says Google. “At a high level, the Neural system translates whole sentences at a time, rather than just piece by piece,” said Barak Turovsky, product lead at Google Translate during a press event at Google’s San Francisco office on Tuesday....

The new hexagon-shaped fully-electric drone can fly up to 15 miles and deliver packages under 5 pounds to customers in less than 30 minutes. “With the help of our world-class fulfillment and delivery network, we expect to scale Prime Air both quickly and efficiently, delivering packages via drone to customers within months,” said Wilke in a blog post announcing the drone. Wilke pointed out the new drone design includes advances in efficiency, stability and, most importantly, in safety....

The website of American Choral Directors Association is still vulnerable to Sql Injection. Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below 🙂

Android wins the battle against iOS, thanks to poor iPhone 6s salesEuropean performanceUS performance iOS also appears to have been affected by the poor demand for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, which were launched in September 2015 as revives of the core devices launched one year before. With the drop in demand for new iPhones, which is expected to fall below the 200 million mark this year, more users are shifting to Android these days indicate new data provided by Kantar....

At the same time, Microsoft announced earlier on that its Windows 10 user base was standing in at 400 million users, showing the dominance of the company’s desktop OS. In order to help increase that user base, Apple is going to be reviving a few products later in the year. The iMac lineup, which is the company’s desktop computer family is going to be refreshed later this year, while the desktop workstation named Mac Pro is going to be reintroduced in 2018....

Greg Joswiak, Apple’s SVP of Marketing, who made the announcement on Twitter, released an invite for the event with the tagline ‘Peak Performance’ along with a multicolored Apple logo. — Greg Joswiak (@gregjoz) March 2, 2022 While the tease invite does not reveal what we can expect from the upcoming event, the ongoing rumors suggest that we could expect a new iPhone SE (2022), iPad Air (2022), and potentially a revamped Mac computer at the event....

The Woz, told Lateline that cybercrime was the greatest threat the world faced and he likened it to the cold war nuclear hysteria of his childhood. Saying that the cyber threat seems to unstoppable, Wozniak added: Woz hits out at FBI Woz also hit out at the FBI’s attempts to force the tech giant to unlock an iPhone that belonged to a terrorist. . Woz sid it was wrong for the US government to try to order Apple to unlock the phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters Woz left his role as vice-president of research and development at Apple in the 1980s and sold most of his shares, but he is still an employee of the company and receives an annual salary....

The claim was filed in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in London on Monday on behalf of around 19.6 million eligible UK iPhone and iPad users in the collective action. The lawsuit accuses Apple of using its dominant position and breaching the competition law by forcing people to use its own payment processing system, generating “excessive” profits for itself in the process. The claim argues that Apple’s policy of forcing developers to use Apple’s payment systems for in-app purchases and taking up to 30% commission is “excessive” and “unlawful”....

Apple has squashed a number of lingering bugs in the new iOS 9.0.2 update, released Wednesday, including fixes for iMessage activation problems, issues with iCloud backups, and an ongoing bug with cellular data settings. Apps, notably Podcasts, have also been improved. On the security side of things, there was one security fix, according to the iOS 9.0.2 release notes: a flaw in the lock screen that allowed unauthorized access to photos and contacts, without the user’s passcode....

According to a new support article published on Apple’s website, a very small number of customers with 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro computers have experienced an issue with the battery not charging past 1%. The company announced that it will reportedly replace the batteries of such affected MacBook Pro units for free. The battery health status on these devices will also indicate “Service Recommended” within the battery menu when users will be running the said macOS Big Sur 11....

The figure is based on unit sales figures of the five devices that Apple cited in the first patent infringement suit that Samsung continued to sell after the verdict was reached over three years ago. As a result, Apple wants to get paid for sales of those devices dating from the day after the first verdict was announced on August 24th 2012, to present. The company took amount of the verdict that each of the five devices was responsible for, and calculated how much it should receive for each additional unit....

With entry level specs, the Aquarius E5 Ubuntu model is a reasonably priced device that comes with a 5-inch, 1280×720 HD display. It is powered by a quad-core MediaTek processor clocked at 1.3GHz coupled with 1GB of RAM. It also comes with 16GB of in-built storage capacity along with a microSD card slot. Further, it has two unlocked SIM card slots and is backed by a 2500mAh battery. Additionally, it has a 13-megapixel camera with dual flash that can shoot 1080p HD video along with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera....