Coronavirus Effect Samsung Offers Free Smartphone Sanitization Service

The South Korean tech giant Samsung too has decided to do its bit to fight off the coronavirus, as they have already suffered because of it with the closures of several factories in South Korea. Now, Samsung is offering free “Galaxy Sanitising Service” to Galaxy owners through official Samsung Service Center and Samsung Experience Stores to help them get rid of bacteria, germs, and viruses off their devices. The free cleaning service is currently being offered only for Galaxy owners in selected 19 countries across the globe....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 357 words · Monroe Harris

Cyber Thieves Hack Famous Fifa Youtubers

The hackers stole millions of Fifa coins, the in-game currency, and deleted several valuable players from the YouTubers’ accounts. According to the BBC report, the thieves used social engineering by calling Origin customer support and convincing them to transfer ownership of the accounts to email addresses controlled by the thieves. Several other famous players who do not make videos are also believed to have been hit. AnesonGib, W2S, Nepenthez, Nick28T, Bateson87 and matthdgamer have more than five million YouTube subscribers between them....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 434 words · Barry Woolley

D Link S Wireless Twin Routers Ensure That Your Entire House Is Wi Fi Enabled Techworm

The twin routers, AC4300 Tri-Band MU-MIMO Wi-Fi Router and AC1300 Gigabit Wi-Fi Extender when placed cleverly in your home can maximize signal strength and address connectivity issues in a room far away from your router. D-Link says setup is a breeze, mainly because the two devices were made to communicate with one another out of the box. You will also get tri-band Wi-Fi via a single 2.4GHz band and dual 5GHz bands, and multi-user MIMO technology that assigns wireless devices to their own antennae to help ensure that simultaneous data transmissions don’t get bogged down across the network and provide maximize signal strength....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 226 words · Hobert Elliott

Dailymotion Hacked 85 Million Usernames Emails And Passwords Stolen Techworm

LeakedSource revealed that the unknown hackers stole 85.2 million records consisting of usernames, email addresses, and some hashed passwords from Dailymotion. LeakedSource, who provides a searchable database of user details leaked in various hacks, has added the DailyMotion stolen data to its search index. Since opening, LeakedSource has added nearly 3 billion records to its database. The hack was possibly carried out on October 20, which means that the stolen data has been in circulation for a while, says LeakedSource....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 250 words · Jeffrey Harian

Darpa Aims To Make A Computer System That Can Outlive 100 Years Of Technological Change

The four-year project, Building Resources Adaptive Software Systems (BRASS), for which DARPA is currently inviting research proposals, will look at the performing arithmetic and analytical requirements needed for software systems along with the data accompanying it in order to remain operational for a century or longer. The program is designed to make progress in the development of the design and implementation of long-lived software systems that have the ability to dynamically adapt to changes in the resources they depend upon, and the environments in which they operate as stated by the US Department of Defense technology research agency....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 560 words · Barbara Bemis

Delete Anti Putin Tweets Says Autocratic Russia Russian Delete Requests To Twitter Tripled In Last Six Months

The latest report which has been published on Monday indicates that though Twitter has received similar request from countries across the world, the requests received from Turkey, Russia and Germany has been up by almost 40 percent against a comparison between the latest consecutive reports. The transparency report shows a marked increase in the number of content removal requests in comparison to the last report: Turkey 477 , Russia 91 and Germany 43....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 358 words · James Kinsler

Developers Who Use Spaces Earn More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs Techworm

The salary factor The survey intended to aggregate responses from professional developers, therefore, replies from students and people and former developers were ignored. The final group of respondents to the survey consisted of a little under 30,000 people of which, 40.7% said that they use tabs and 41.8% have replied saying they use spaces. The remaining have no strict preferences or use both tabs and spaces. The most interesting aspect of the survey however, came forward when the salaries of these people were analyzed....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 370 words · Barbara Tenbusch

Dna Is It The Hard Drive Of The Future Techworm

Recently, researchers Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) unveiled a new technique that allows DNA to store more data than ever before. In nature, DNA works by storing information about different forms of life and its characteristics using four base nucleotides: A, G, C and T. DNA has been studied for a while as a possible solution for storing human-generated data....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 441 words · Jason Williams

Drones Latest Trends In This Multi Million Dollar Business Techworm

Until a few decades, artificial intelligence may have seemed like something straight from a science fiction novel. But this is a field that has been explored by industrial and military developers for many years, with researchers producing ever more sophisticated examples of unmanned equipment that actually make a lot of the hardware in those space movies look clunky. So what are some of the latest developments in this area? Commercial drones The use of drones for non-military purposes continues to expand, given their enormous potential to carry out hazardous tasks in a diverse range of industries....

December 23, 2022 · 4 min · 657 words · Theodore Adams

Edward Snowden Designs An Iphone Case To Detect Government Snoopers Techworm

Snowden along with his co-author and fellow hacker Huang presented their findings on smartphone “hardware introspection” in a talk at MIT Media Lab’s Forbidden Research yesterday. “This work aims to give journalists the tools to know when their smart phones are tracking or disclosing their location when the devices are supposed to be in airplane mode,” the pair wrote in their technical paper. They contend that you cannot depend on a smartphone’s user interface to tell you the truth about that state of its radios....

December 23, 2022 · 4 min · 712 words · Craig Helgason

Elon Musk May Launch A Phone If Apple Google Remove Twitter From App Store

It all started when conservative podcaster and former OANN host Elizabeth Wheeler tweeted on Friday night, “If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?” To which Musk replied, “I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 531 words · Joseph Greer

Encrypted Credentials From Password Manager Swiped Using Hacking Tool

A recently released hacking tool dubbed as KeeFarce silently decodes all usernames, passwords, and notes stored by the KeePass password manager and writes them to a file. While KeeFarce targets KeePass, there is little that can stop the developers from creating similar apps that target almost every other password manager available today. Hackers and professional penetration testers can run it on computers that they have already taken control of. They can can execute the KeeFarce tool on a computer where a logged in user has unlocked the KeePass database....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 618 words · Bonnie Sartwell

Engineers Unable To Understand The Working Of Google S Search Ai Techworm

The statement was made by Haahr at SMX West, a search marketing conference that was scheduled in San Jose, California between March 1 and 3. — Jonah Stein (@Jonahstein) March 3, 2016 Haahr was responding to queries about Google’s search products in general during the event’s keynote, when someone questioned him about the company’s latest addition, the RankBrain AI. The engineer’s answer, as Barry Schwartz, SERoundtable reporter, and many other conference attendants confirmed on Twitter, was that many of Google’s own engineers don’t quite fully understand how the new RankBrain algorithm works....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 414 words · Nellie Willis

Entire Internet At Risk With This Newly Discovered Critical Bug Techworm

Kaminsky says a flaw found in the Gnu C standard library, aka “glibc,” can trick browsers into looking up shady domain names. Servers could then reply with overly-long DNS names, causing a buffer overflow in the victim’s software. That would in turn let hackers execute code remotely and possibly take over a machine. The bug is new and has been around since May 2008. Kaminsky said “the buggy code has been around for quite some time, so it’s really worked its way across the globe....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 246 words · Derrick Hamilton

Everything You Need To Know About Email Address Verification

However, you do not need to worry, as you can easily find a great email address verification service provider on the internet. What you need to know is that regardless of the service provider you decide to work with, email verification doesn’t have to break your bank, neither does it have to waste a lot of your time. It is a quick process that is geared towards improving your marketing efforts....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 635 words · Sandra Maciejewski

Ex Google Engineer Unveils Bcache New File System For Linux

Ex-Google engineer Kent Overstreet is developing a new file system for Linux called Bcache File System (Bcachefs). Right now he is looking for other like minded Linux developers to help him test it and suggest further modifications required. With so many working file systems already available, Linux users may ask why create a new file system? On his blog, Overstreet explains the need for Bcache, Overstreet explained that the main goal of Bcachefs is to match the speed of the traditional Linux file systems with the advanced scalability and reliability of newer file systems such as Btrfs and XFS....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 441 words · Christina Imoto

Face Recognition App Findface Is A Privacy Nightmare Techworm

The App has quickly become popular and has clocked 500,000 downloads so far. According to Guardian, the app’s servers have processed more than 3 million requests in that time as FindFace matches users using Vkontakte’s database, a very popular social network in Russia and the Eastern European countries. Trinity Digital, the App developer says that it is building its database so that in future users can instantly know who anyone on the street is and what their interests are....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 225 words · Diane Ziemba

Facebook Google Fail To Make It To 10 Best Places To Work In 2020

Google and Facebook are two of the most sought after companies to work in primarily due to employee pay and benefits, office perks, compensations, and a desirable work environment. Of both the tech-giant companies, Facebook has been rated as the ‘best place to work’ three times in the past 10 years. However, this time the social media giant was ranked 23rd in Glassdoor’s best-places-to-work survey for 2020. This is the company’s lowest position since it was ranked number one in 2011 as the top-rated workplace....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 366 words · Kenneth Mccullough

Facebook Launches Express Wi Fi Android App In Kenya And Indonesia Techworm

“Facebook is releasing the Express Wi-Fi app in the Google Play store to give people another simple and secure way to access fast, affordable internet through their local Express Wi-Fi hotspots,” a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch confirming about the app’s rollout. For those unaware, Express Wi-Fi is a part of Facebook’s Internet.org, where it collaborates with carriers, internet service providers, and local entrepreneurs to help expand internet connectivity to underserved locations around the world....

December 23, 2022 · 2 min · 289 words · Martin Schaefer

Facebook Messenger Scam Is Targeting Its Victims Via A Video Link Malware Techworm

The malware campaign was discovered by David Jacoby, a senior security researcher in the global research and analysis team at Kaspersky Lab, who was himself targeted after a Facebook friend with whom he rarely interacts, sent a link to a purported video file in Messenger. “After just a few minutes analyzing the message, I understood that I was just peeking at the top of this iceberg. This malware was spreading via Facebook Messenger, serving multi platform malware/adware, using tons of domains to prevent tracking, and earning clicks,” David said....

December 23, 2022 · 3 min · 518 words · Stacey King