Ulf Frisk, a Swedish hardware hacker has published instructions on GitHub for those users who are interested to build this $300 device known as PCILeech. This device, which only runs on Windows 7 and Windows 10 PCs, uses custom software, and can be used to carry out Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks, which let an attacker to read the memory of 64bit-based operating systems such as Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and Windows....
These ‘shadow networks’ can fake complex network structures, tricking the hackers into believing they have accessed usable information, said the researchers at the Information Security Conference in Honolulu on Thursday. Until now, the team has developed a prototype to exhibit its capabilities, faking both the attack and the defence on a virtual network. While this method could help bounce off some of the malicious traffic that hovers over computer systems that are vulnerable, but it may not be possible to avoid all attacks....
Now a days flying drones are a regular feature in our skies but what happens when one of these flying drones is actually hacking into our smartphone or laptop unknown to us and stealing vital personal and banking information. This is what a drone named Snoopy can do. Named ‘Snoopy’, the hacking drone was demonstrated by its creator, Glenn Wilkinson at conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on Wednesday. The drone targets mobile users with Wi-Fi running on their device, seeking an open connection....
Not many of you may have heard Nintendo’s Virtual Boy. The virtual gaming console was a enormous flop and was shelved by the makers. Virtual Boy has since become a collector’s item now, commanding obscene prices on eBay. Now, thanks to a hack, Nintendo’s most maligned console flop, is getting a new lease on life thanks to some modern VR technology. Reddit user The King of Spain has modified an Android emulator so that you can play Virtual Boy through Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, Hive or other cheap virtual reality setups....
Well there have been many answers to this question. In fact last week, Internet has been abuzz with Apple fanboys remembering exactly what Apple’s “i” stands for. We briefly try to answer the question. In 1998, at an Apple event in 1998, Steve Jobs introduced the iMac. Jobs explained the link between “i” and “Mac.” “iMac comes from the marriage of the excitement of the Internet with the simplicity of Macintosh,” he said....
The 80-year-old Ortega inched past Gates when shares of Inditex (parent company to Zara, Massimo Dutti and Pull&Bear) went up 2.5% on Wednesday. It was an increase which equated to $1.7 billion for Ortega, which lifted Ortega’s net worth from $77.8 billion to $79.5 billion. On the other hand, Gates’ worth was an estimated $78.5 billion. However, the trading day on Friday saw Inditex’s shares drop by 2.8%, resulting in Ortega falling to second position and Gates gaining the top position again....
“My hope is that it will be an interesting tool to teach the periodic table, but also to give people some notion about the idea that the entire Universe is moving around and making noise,” Henry told Gizmodo. “You just can’t hear it.” So, why does every chemical element have a unique musical signature? As everything in the Universe is made up of atoms that are in a constant state of motion, the speed at which these atoms vibrate within the bonds between larger molecules, will give a solid, liquid, gas, or plasma....
kingruudz opened the case and found the interior of the 1TB HD looking like this : As you can see from the image, the company has cleverly included two metal rods in the container to give a feel and heaviness of a actual 1TB hard drive. kingruudz says that he was duped but he knows another person who had reportedly bought a container of these dud 1TB hard drives for $30,000....
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Use these top 10 YouTube Channels To Learn Programming & CodingSo without much ado, here are the top 10 YouTube Channels you should subscribe to if you are a programmer/coder :1. LearnCode.Academy2. thenewboston3. Derek Banas4. Treehouse5. ProgrammingKnowledge6. CSS Tricks – Chirs Coyier7. Tuts+ Web Design8. Adam Khoury9. Coder’s Guide10. Brad Hussey We have already given you tips on how to learn programming, the books you should read about programming and how to start learning to program the easy way....
Redditor, man_on_the_train went a little further and devised his own tests to find out how the Antivirus softwares fare. He tested the most popular security software using Matousec’s SSTS, CLT and his own keylogger software. Man_on_the_train found that almost all top names in antivirus softwares failed in his test save SpyShelter Firewall 10.0 which passed all his tests with a score of 99%. Incidentally, SpyShelter is not a full blown antivirus....
All the Best New Gadgets We Saw at Mobile World Congress (MWC 2016) in BarcelonaLG G5Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 EdgeXiaomi Mi 5 ProHuawei MateBookSony Xperia X Series Here’s our selection of products from the show that stood out in the MWC 2016. LG G5 LG made the boldest move at MWC, betting everything on G5 smartphone modularity. The modular design of G5 is arguably one of the more innovative ideas seen in recent years....
Gaming is one of the most diverse industries as far as technology is concerned. Just like there are athletic brands that separate their product lines to cater to different sports and activities, video game development is as varied as the number of platforms used to play them on. From consoles like Xbox and PlayStation and handhelds to PCs and mobile platforms, game developers have to cater to a very diverse audience....
Roy, who has long list of bug discoveries to his name, contacted Tor Project admin through email, after he discovered the XSS vulnerability in their blog, which allowed potential hacker to build a specific URL that injects malicious scripts into webpages, which can then be executed unknowingly by a user visiting the link. Even after contacting the Tor Project, Roy got no response so he tweeted about the vulnerability along with evidence....
Tor warns against possible attacks to disable its anonymiser network, issues a pleaGentle Appeal Gentle Appeal The Tor project dev team normally does not get involved, but in this circumstance it has decided to raise its voice. They have assured all of their users that their anonymity will not be compromised in the event that the network is successfully taken down. The wide range of Tor users are secure, for now....
Bitmanagement, a German software company, has asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for a partial summary judgment against the U.S. Government for installing its software on hundreds of thousands of computers without permission leading to copyright infringement on a “massive scale”, reports TorrentFreak. Apparently, in 2011 and 2012, Bitmanagement had agreed to license its 3D virtual reality software called BS Contact Geo on a limited and experimental basis. According to the trial agreement between the two, the U....
This decision also overturns an earlier federal court ruling that found the search giant’s use of the API constituting infringement. For those unaware, Oracle had filed a legal lawsuit against Google in 2010 in San Francisco federal court accusing it of infringing Oracle’s copyright by copying the “structure, sequence, and organization” of 37 separate Java application programming interfaces (APIs) into Android. It was seeking a $9 billion pay-day in the copyright case....
Four months after the release of BackBox Linux 4.5, BackBox Linux 4.6 arrives today with several updated hacking tools. It is powered by a kernel from the Linux 4.2 series that is currently being used in Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system and preserved by Canonical for a few more months. Also among these are the Metasploit penetration testing software, WPScan black box WordPress vulnerability scanner, wxHexEditor free hex and disk editor for huge files, the DirSearch Web path scanner, as well as the SE Toolkit for performing phishing attacks....
According to the leaked images, the upcoming laptop will have the following specifications: Skylake processor – Intel Core i7-6500U 2. 2 cores, 4 threads, base clock speed 2.50GHz, Turbo speed 3.10GHz. 3. 8GB RAM. 4. 11” and 13” screen size variants. 5. Supported with Windows 10 operating system. According to this leak’s source, the laptops will not come equipped with a touch screen and would be using Intel Atom processors to cut down the device cost....
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found evidence that indicates the presence of a ninth planet in our solar system that is about 10 times bigger than Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). Nicknamed Planet Nine, the object is 2 to 4 times the size of Earth’s diameter....
