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Svartholm was was released on parole on Thursday after completing his prison sentence in Denmark, however, he was re-arrested by Danish police several hours after his release. It turned out that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service had issued an arrest warrant for Svartholm in June 2015, reports TorrentFreak. Svartholm is to complete the whole sentence back in Sweden where he has been convicted for his participation in the founding of the Pirate Bay website....

The first pirated copies of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” appeared online late Tuesday, and within 12 hours had been downloaded by about 250,000 people, according to piracy-news site TorrentFreak, which first reported the leak. This number is expected to increase to several millions during the weeks to come. The movie leaked to sites like Kickass Torrents, the Pirate Bay and others. Disney has set April 1 for the home-video release of the film, followed by Blu-ray release on April 5th....

Of these downloads, 444,000 downloads of total installs were from users in the U.S., 299,000 from Japan, 74,000 from Great Britain, 63,000 from Germany and 53,000 from France. For those unaware, Pokémon Home allows two-way transfer to and from the Pokémon Storage System in Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! and Pokémon Sword and Shield using the Nintendo Switch version. Only Pokémon that can be obtained in Sword and Shield can be transferred to those games, and only Pokémon originally caught in Let’s Go, Pikachu!...

Camera360 is a popular photo shooting and editing application with millions of users worldwide. It has been downloaded about 30 million times and has a 4.4 rating from 2 million users. It provides a free cloud service for storage of pictures too; to use the cloud feature, users create a cloud account that can also be accessed via the website www.cloud.camera360.com. FireEye has found that the vulnerability lies in the Apps’s cloud services....

The makers of action film Hellboy have sued MKVCage. Soon after the lawsuit was filled MKVCage went offline. So here’s everything you need to know about this matter. MKVCage Sued By The Makers Of Hellboy Lately, various copyright infringement lawsuits and DMCA subpoenas were filed by a group of movie companies. These lawsuits were filed against leading players of the piracy ecosystem like YTS, Showbox, and many more. MKVCage is a popular torrent site that uploads its encodes across various torrent sites....

For businesses, cybersecurity should now be an intrinsic part of operations. Falling victim to cyberattacks can have dire consequences. Downtime, loss of intellectual property, and reputation damage can all have significant financial costs. Even governments aren’t sympathetic to companies that get breached due to lax security. Data protection regulations can levy significant fines on companies that fail to protect customer data. We recently met with Diane Rogers, Product Manager of Realtime Security of IT management platform Cloud Management Suite, to discuss what cybersecurity has in store for companies this year....

The company also said that the decision was made after selling only 750,000 VHS pieces last year, which is a considerable decrease from 15 million pieces sold per year. Due to decreased production of VCRs, the parts for manufacturing have become rare and costly. Over the years, with the rise of DVDs, Blu-ray and streaming services like Netflix, the old-fashioned VCR have become completely obsolete. In 1983, Funai Electric was the first company to come up with a VCR for compact video cassettes (CVC)....

If you want to keep your business safe from cybercriminals then, it’s important to take ransomware very seriously. It’s not just something that happens to other people and organizations; it’s rampant, and doesn’t look likely to slow down anytime soon. Read on for some tips you can follow to protect your venture today. Protect Your Computers and Networks First up, take steps to protect your computers and networks so that no one can break into them easily....

They are light weight and compatible with different devices, so they are good options for file sharing and file storage. SD cards used to have small storage capacity like 16GB or 32GB, but nowadays modern SDUC cards can have up to 128 TB capacity. This eliminates the capacity limit of an SD card. In addition, an SD card can be formatted with any file system. All those merits make them very popular storage media....

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT), U.S. have designed a 6.6-metre-wide fusion reactor that would be able to provide electricity to 1,00,000 people and as per calculations it can be built in a matter of just a decade. Nuclear Fusion– When two or more atomic nuclei come closer and collide with each other at a very high speed this results in formation of a new type of atomic nucleus and this process is known as “nuclear fusion”....

A team of researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada have demonstrated how hackers can use the simplest of smart household devices, including lights, switches, locks, thermostats, and more, to potentially take down sections of the internet or carry out a full-scale attack on a country’s infrastructure. They showed how easy it is to take control of the devices and employ them for the kind of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack....

Rovinix trojan spreading like fire, already 130,000 Windows PC’s infected in UKCurrent IterationArmour becomes weaponPast History Current Iteration In its current form, Rovinix has been spreading through phishing emails. Although it has maintained its record of targeting Windows machines specifically instead of branching out to other OS. The malware spread via infected Andromedia downloader. Once this piece of software is run by the unknowing victim, Rovinix gets downloaded onto the system and gets to work....

Android-x86 is an open source and freely distributed project that targets to port the latest version of the Android mobile operating system created by Google for several smartphones and tablets, as well as many other wearables and embedded devices, to x86 PCs, including any laptop and desktop computer that are available. It’s a developed OS that you install much the same way you would Ubuntu or another Linux distribution. Android-x86 6....

Russia steals the march of UAVs, Rostec develops world’s first UAV with air cushion speed of 100 KMPHLack of Legal norms UAV, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, is not a new concept and researchers have been constantly working to improve the security and stability of the device. At one point of time Soviet Union used to design the world’s leading UAVs. However, of late Russian UAV was not living up to the mark of international standards....

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, 8-Inch: 1.5 GHz dual-core processor WXGA TFT (1280 x 800) display. 5 megapixel rear camera 1.3 megapixel front camera. 1.5 GB RAM. 4,450 mAh Li-ion battery. 16/32 GB internal memory with microSD card slot. LTE, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth connectivity. Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS. 1.6GHz dual-core processor. WXGA TFT (1280 x 800) display. 3 megapixel rear camera. 1.3 megapixel front camera. 1GB RAM. 6,800 mAh Li-ion battery....

According to a new report from the renowned TF International Securities analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, Samsung is reportedly planning to release three models of the upcoming flagship, Galaxy S10 in the year 2019 to match Apple’s rumored trifecta of iPhones. Ming-Chi Kuo believes that the S10 lineup will be launched in three different models: one with a 5.8-inch panel, another with a 6.1-inch display and a third one with a 6....

Further, to check the smartphone’s water-resistant capabilities, a YouTuber Max Lee had posted a video in which he threw his new Galaxy S7 into an LG washing machine with only a phone case to protect it. Surprisingly, the Galaxy S7 survived without any noticeable damage. Now, a Redditor with the user handle ‘aznprd’ accidentally tested just how long her Galaxy S7 unit could survive underwater, according to SamMobile. The user shared some of the images of his sister’s Galaxy S7, which fell into a lake near Minneapolis in the US while canoeing....

2 years after the serial whistleblower from NSA, Edward Snowden leaked now world famous NSA documents, today the in-house newsletters from the clandestine National Security Agency have been published online. The newsletters form a part of the treasure trove that Snowden had leaked in 2013, but were not published online. The Intercept released on Monday the first batch of nine years’ worth of NSA newsletters. The newsletters which are circulated internally within NSA, offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the NSA’s work....

Swinnen found that all the three biggies use 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication). To deploy the 2FA, these tech companies send short codes via SMS to their users. Optionally, if the user chooses to, they can also receive a voice call from the company, during which a robot operator speaks the code out loud. During his research, Swinnen found out that these phone calls are usually placed to the phone number officially tied to those specific accounts....