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The 11 internal video guides (now removed) gives a sneak peak into Apple’s process of repairing various devices, for instance, it showed the company’s methods to fix some components of the iPhone X, the iMac Pro 2017, and the MacBook Pro 2016 and 2017, reports Motherboard. Just a little over a month ago, a user by the name ‘Arman Haji’ had posted the 11 videos in question on YouTube. These videos were originally discovered by a Reddit user “turnby” on Twitter....

This place is none other than the first floor of Facebook’s sprawling Menlo Park, California, headquarters – Area 404, which is a highly secure, pristine room filled with expensive and potentially dangerous equipment. Only around ten or so Facebook employees are authorized to get in the room, and all have received special safety training. Facebook’s Area 404 is a new 22,000-square-foot hardware lab built at its Menlo Park Campus whose main idea is to provide one big space for all of the social network’s various teams, including the still-very-secretive denizens of Building 8, to apply the “Move Fast and Break Things” philosophy to making real physical objects, not just software....

Telstra decided to atone for a network outage last Tuesday with the launch of “Free Mobile Data Sunday.” The free mobile data day was truly free as there were no restrictions on what could be posted, browsed, shared and streamed, allowing Telstra customers to gobble up a record 1,841 terabytes of data in 24 hours. “As we anticipated, the high demand meant some customers had slower than normal data speeds on 4G services, but overall the network performed as designed,” Telstra group managing director networks Mike Wright said....

Yu says the attacker can leverage this vulnerability to pass as a WPAD or ISATAP server and redirect all the victim’s network traffic through a point controlled by the attacker. The vulnerability is so critical that it means the potential hacker can hijack all traffic, not HTTP and HTTPS. This includes OS updates, software upgrades, Certificate Revocation List updates via Microsoft’s Crypto API, and other OS maintenance operations. In a hypothetical scenario, if a hacker exploits the NetBios implementation exploit, he/she can redirect all of victims traffic to a malware laden point from where he/she can remotely takeover the PC....

The app, BeNews, only requested three permissions from a user when installed, and was able to avoid Google’s automated app checks as no exploit was contained within its code. One the App was installed, its malicious payload would then snoop on the user and report his/her whereabouts back to the command and control server. This was reported by security research company Trend Micro Labs. Trend Micro said that Hacking Team than sold this App to its customers with instructions to take advantage of the app, and a Google Play account that they could use....

Well, if you have been scouting for some of the best SNES emulators for Android or Windows PC, then this article might help you. So in no particular order, these are the best SNES emulators for PC, Mac, and Android. 5 Best SNES Emulators For Android 1. John NESS The first best SNES emulator for Android is John NESS. Well, John NESS is a successor to the very popular John NES and John SNES....

Beware if you have Data Compression Proxy enabled in new Chrome for Android and iOS devices, Google is watching you!Banking transactions and incognito browsing sessions excludedPrivacy questionsConclusion What the features dont say is that your entire day to day web session can be seen /stored or noted by some third party before reaching you. If you have enabled the Data Compression Proxy feature in your smartphone or tablet and are trying to read Techworm....

Bill Gates, the world’s wealthiest person and Microsoft’s co-founder and philanthropist will launch the world’s largest endeavor, the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, at the climate change summit in Paris alongside President Obama and French President Francois Hollande. The announcement comes on day one of the United Nations climate change talks in Paris. The fund will be fed by a group that spans more than two dozen public and private entities — including national governments, billionaire philanthropists, investment fund managers and tech CEOs....

UOL Jogos journalists confirmed the authenticity of the hacked games running on their PS4. For the verifying the authenticity of the hack, the UOL journalists had a number of games installed on their console from an electronics store in the streets of Sao Paulo. PS4 games normally retail at around $ 600 per game but the UOL Jogos journos found out that these stores typically copied 10 games to a PS4 for R$ 300 to R$ 400 (roughly $100 to $150)....

This strange Spotify bug surfaced around five months ago when users reported that the desktop App was overwriting their own data on their PC/laptops. Users reported that Spotify was writing a humongous amount of junk data sometimes measuring in terabytes.Strangely, the bug affects even if you close Spotify or Spotify is idle and is playing/storing any songs locally. Also, the Spotify bug is not limited to Windows. Several subscribers reported that the streaming service’s apps for Mac, Windows and Linux computers have been writing hundreds of gigabytes of data per day to users’ hard drives wiping their own precious data....

Having a history in cracking iPhones, Keen Team, in the past have been awarded with $27,500 and $40,000 for getting into iPhones at the 2013 and 2014 Mobile Pwn2Own competitions respectively by cracking Apple’s Safari browser. Given the susceptibilities that can be exploited in Apple’s operating system, many of them will be eager to release their first iOS 9 jailbreak, given the money and credit that can be made. Chinese app stores, in few cases, give money to the researchers for their jailbreaks so that when users install the hack, they are given an option of installing the third-party marketplace....

When the child was 18-days-old, the baby’s father ‘A Duan’ and mother ‘Xiao Mei’ — their names have been changed — used the popular messaging app QQ to sell the baby. The father of the child reportedly found a buyer on the social media and negotiated the entire deal without the consent of the child’s biological mother. The buyer allegedly said he was purchasing the child for his sister. The child is currently living with the man’s sister, as the biological parents are unable to raise the child due to their poor economic conditions....

According to a query replied on their Facebook page, Moly said, “Yes, we are planning to launch a smartphone with dual OS, Windows 10 plus Android.” This is not the company’s first dual OS phone. In 2014, the company had produced the Coship 960 running both Linux and Android; however, the device was not a dual boot, as the users were required to press a button to switch between the two OS....

The tiny surveillance chip, which is not much bigger than a grain of rice, can bypass all security checks and give Beijing secret access to internal networks, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported citing 17 unnamed intelligence and company sources. According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, a unit of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army intruded the supply chain of US-based computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer Inc to plant malicious chips that could be used to steal corporate and government secrets....

According to the vulnerability note published by CERT on Thursday, cookies that have been established via HTTP requests represent a security flaw for HTTPS sessions, due to the fact that they do not provide “integrity guarantees for sibling domains”. The vulnerability is cookie management is due to the fact that the web browsers do not always authenticate the domain that is setting a cookie, which could let an attacker set a cookie that could later be used via an HTTPS connection instead of the cookie set by the actual site....

TeraCopy Ultracopier FastCopy One reason as to why we are recommending all of these is that according to Softpedia, all of them are capable of using the OS buffer size to reduce task time when performing operations between different hard disks. Coming to TeraCopy; after it has been installed the application gets integrated into the context menu of Windows Explorer. The same operation is carried out by UItracopier, which takes over the copy and moves operations that are normally performed by Windows Explorer....

In order to protect the devices against hacks, the engineers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have worked on a new kind of security mechanism— a software system that couldn’t be hijacked. To test out the security mechanism, DARPA allowed “Red Team” hackers six weeks to try and take control of an unmanned military helicopter built by Boeing known as “Little Birds.” Further, they also gave the team additional to its computing network than actually the hackers could ever expect to attain....