Snap Vulnerability Puts Millions Of Lg Flagship G3 Smartphones At Risk Techworm

The vulnerability named SNAP bug resides in every LG smartphone including its flagship LG G3 due to a native application called Smart Notice. The ‘SNAP’ vulnerability was first discovered by BugSec security researchers Liran Segal and Shachar Korot. It is a critical flaw in one of the LG G3 applications, Smart Notice, which comes pre-installed with all LG smartphones. The security flaw is rooted in a bug in one of the pre-installed LG applications, Smart Notice, which exists on every new LG G3 device....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 490 words · Nelson Wendt

Snapchat Just Reserved Rights To Use And Distribute All Photos Taken With The App

A unique feature of Snapchat is its ability to send messages with a short duration and then making it destroy itself after the user views it. This ability makes most users feel more relaxed with the content they share, due to the notion that the image will not be misused by anybody. Well, that is going to change now as Snapchat has now introduced a reworked privacy policy and terms of service, giving firm rights to photos sent through the application....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 216 words · Thomas Sell

Snowden Approved Encrypted Messaging App Signal Comes To Your Desktop Techworm

Signal Desktop comes from Open Whisper Systems, the same developer who developed Redphone and TextSecure Apps which encrypt calls and messages. Moxie said that both the Apps have now been consolidated into Signal. After the serial whistleblower and former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden’s leaked information on how the NSA was spying on ordinary users, encryption of messages and calls gained particular momentum. Snowden highlighted the need for extra strong security and privacy measures for private matters and endorsed Signal as one of the better options to safeguard communications from prying eyes....

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 203 words · John Gabriel

Software Developer Screws Production Database On First Day Of Job Gets Fired May Face Legal Action Techworm

Redditor, cscareerthrowaway567 made a thread of the ignominy he suffered on the first day of his job and found empathy among fellow Redditors. cscareerthrowaway567 whom we will call ‘Bob’ joined an unnamed company after completing his internship. All things were going smoothly till he was given a document detailing how to set up his own local development environment for him to code. Which involves run a small script to create my own personal DB instance from some test data....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 397 words · Ernest Johnson

Somebody Just Hacked Ex Premier League Star Anthony Stokes Lover Eilidh Scott S Icloud Account And Leaked 240 Explicit Images Techworm

The hackers leaked nearly 240 images of the couple including nudes of Eilidh and an explicit video of ex-Arsenal and Sunderland striker Anthony Stokes, 28, and partner Eilidh Scott, 25. The videos and the images are being widely circulated on social media including WhatsApp. This leak comes after Eilidh’s nude images were similarly leaked by hackers last October when they had similarly targeted her iCloud account. It is not known whether Eilidh’s iCloud account was hacked by the same hackers or a new group....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 378 words · Michael Chavez

Sony Announces Sony Xperia M And Xperia M Dual With 4 Inch Display Techworm

Let us have a look at the specificaton: 4-inch display with FWVGA resolution. 1 GHz dual-core processor. 1GB RAM. 4GB internal storage, expandable by up to 32GB via microSD. 5-megapixel rear camera with auto-focus, an Exmor RS sensor and HDR photography mode. VGA front-facing camera for video chat. Dual-SIM for Xperia M dual (GSM+GSM). Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth4.0 ,GPS, NFC and FM radio. 1,750mAh. Android 4.1 for Xperia M, Android 4....

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 117 words · Christopher Owens

Sony Patents Its Own Esports Bitcoin Betting Interface

The patent application titled “E-Sports Betting Platform” was originally filed in 2019, but got published only this month. It doesn’t directly mention PlayStation but instead contains the phrase “computer simulation.” According to the patent, bets can be placed by using physical currency, Bitcoin, or even in-game assets. Any asset used by a bettor to place a wager can be tied to a digital wallet. Further, betting would be carried out via a user interface overlay to allow gamblers to bet in real-time while watching eSports games....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 340 words · Melinda Kuehnle

Sony Unveils Airplane Shaped Drone That Can Fly Up To 106 Mph Video

On Monday, Sony released video footage of a drone prototype of a camera shaped like an airplane borne out of its relationship with ZMP, which can take off and land vertically and fly for more than two hours at a maximum speed of 106 miles an hour and it can carry weights up to 22 pounds making it world’s fastest drone. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is capable of flying further and faster than traditional drones, in part because it flies like a plane....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 299 words · June Landry

Stolen Facebook Logins Put Up For Sale On The Dark Web For 3

Hackers had exploited the security flaw and stolen “access tokens”, which is equivalent of digital keys that keep users logged into their accounts and include users’ sensitive data. However, the company back then claimed that it did not find any evidence of Facebook Logins being used by hackers. But now, these stolen Facebook logins are being sold on the dark web for as little as $3 with the most expensive being sold for $12....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 245 words · Emily Leclerc

Stream Music Directly Into Brain Elon Musk Claims With Neuralink

Speaking in a podcast, Elon Musk confirmed while talking to computer scientist Austin Howard that Neuralink’s state of the art technology should allow people to “listen to music directly from our chips“. In a similar overtone last year, Elon Musk hinted at his company’s ambition to connect human brains with computers, aiming to solve various brain disorders along with it. Music directly to the Brain Music directly to the BrainAll ChemicalsAiding in resolution to Mental Health ProblemsBrain Chip...

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 377 words · Cindy Slavick

Student Manages To Jailbreak First Generation Microsoft Band Techworm

A student in NYU OSIRIS security lab, who is only known as b0n0n, has found a way to jailbreak the first-generation or version 1 of Microsoft Band. Given as a school project, he figured out how the Band client software communicated. It also paves the way for “third-party” improvements that could be added by the developer community. As he describes in a post on his blog, his jailbreaking method essentially allows for serving the Microsoft Band a modified update file, which could principally mean that the device might acquire some other functionality that’s filled into custom binary files....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 302 words · Jeffrey Straight

Team Japan Accepts Us Challenge To A Giant Robot Duel

Looks like the Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry has finally given its consent to the giant robot fighting challenge from US rival MegaBots Inc. Kogoro Kurata, founder of Suidobashi said: “Yeah, I’ll fight. Absolutely.” Kurata, who designed and built Suidobashi’s 4-ton mech robot, said: “We can’t let another country win this. Giant robots are Japanese culture.” It is unfortunate that neither MegaBots nor Suidobashi have provided any additional details as to where and when would the fight take place....

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 172 words · Shari Ertz

Teen Hacker Who Made 500 000 With Titanium Stresser A Ddos Tool Jailed For 2 Years Techworm

What were you doing when you were a 15-year-old? Probably studying hard to make good grades and enter a decent college. When most kids are busy with their academics, a whiz kid hacker was making $$$s with his DDoS tool. Adam Mudd used his hacking and coding skills to wreak vengeance all across the world from Greenland to Newzealand. As a 15-year-old, Mudd reported earned $500,000 from his nefarious activities which caused mayhem amongst Xbox Live users, and players of the computer games Runescape and Minecraft....

December 24, 2022 · 4 min · 737 words · Carlos Thurman

Teen S Face Disfigured After E Cigaratte Explodes In His Face Techworm

The victim, Ty Greer, 16, was using the device in a car last week in Lethbridge when the e-cigarette exploded. “It lit my kid’s face on fire, busted two teeth out,” Perry Greer, Ty’s father said Wednesday. “It burned the back of his throat, burned his tongue very badly. If he wasn’t wearing glasses, he possibly could have lost his eyes.” Greer said the family raced Ty to hospital. He remembers hugging his son as he squirmed in agony waiting for a dose of morphine to kick in....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 617 words · Richard Ostroski

Tesla Confirms India Launch For Model 3 In Mid 2021

The confirmation from Gadkari comes after Tesla CEO Elon Musk had said through an earlier tweet that the company would enter India in 2021. He was replying to a tweet from a handle called Tesla Club India about when the company plans to bring its vehicles to the country. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 2, 2020 In an interview with The Indian Express on Tuesday, Gadkari said that the country is focusing on developing electric cars and added that a lot of Indian firms companies, including Tata and Ola Cabs, are also working on electric vehicles....

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 210 words · Marilyn Boyer

The 1 000 000 Question About P Vs Np Could Solve Many Questions Of Internet Security

The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. Informally, it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer can also be quickly solved by a computer. It was essentially first mentioned in a 1956 letter written by Kurt Gödel to John von Neumann. Gödel asked whether a certain NP-complete problem could be solved in quadratic or linear time. The precise statement of the P versus NP problem was introduced in 1971 by Stephen Cook in his seminal paper “The complexity of theorem proving procedures” and is considered by many to be the most important open problem in the field....

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 189 words · Carmen Shelton

The State Of Parana Brazil Hacked Database Leaked By Domaineranon Techworm

The leak was Announced From his twitter Account today, The tweet contains the link to the paste containing the database. The data contains Name, User Rank, password and email, Although the passwords are in encrypted format but it can be decryted easily by online tools. Paste here Also read an Exclusive online Interview with DomainerAnon Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below 🙂

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 73 words · Kim King

The Ultimate Pokemon Go Infographic Techworm

Created by augmented reality specialist Niantic Inc, the developer behind Google’s experimental AR game Ingress, it’s a massive-multiplayer, location-based spin-off from the role-playing fantasy series. The ease of playing Pokemon Go has meant that it became the game of the decade for Nintendo and quickly jumped to the top slot on Google Play Store as well as Apple’s store. Using a player’s smartphone camera and GPS signal, the game makes it seem as if wild Pokémon are cropping up on the streets of the real world....

December 24, 2022 · 1 min · 144 words · Athena Brown

This Code Breaker Hacked The Nazi Germany Techworm

Here is how Alan Turing became the real hero for cracking the Nazi codeThe Enigma machine was a very confusing contraption, but here is how the unbreakable Nazi code story was formed So how was this any different compared to the contraptions present in banks or financial institutions? This German machine had an additional layer of encoding. At the front of the machine was something called as a plugboard, which looked like a small switchboard....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 308 words · James Menefee

This Couple Sued Their Lawyer After Hackers Stole 1 9 Million From Them Techworm

A Manhattan couple is suing their lawyer, whose AOL email account was hacked, causing the couple to wire a $1.9 million down payment to an account taken over by scammers. Robert Millard, a managing partner at Realm Partners, and his wife, Bethany, blame their real estate attorney, Patricia Doran, for “cybercriminals” stealing the 10 percent deposit intended for a Manhattan co-op they were buying for $19.4 million, according to a new lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 421 words · Cheryl Shackelford