Marcel Lehel Laz?r, widely known as Guccifer or Little Fume, is responsible for number of high level security breaches involving both current and former members of US Government. Just after three years after his debut on the world hacking stage, he is being sent to USA for prosecution of numerous illegal hacking activities. He is currently undergoing a sentence of four years and after his eighteen months in America, he will be brought back to Romania to complete his existing sentence....

The OS maker stated that the Russian hacking group known as Strontium (also commonly known as APT28 or Fancy Bear) was responsible for the new attack that took place in April. This group is also claimed to be responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee (DMC) in 2016, for the NotPetya attacks against Ukraine in 2017, and targeting political groups in Europe and North America throughout 2018. In April this year, security researchers in the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center, one of the OS maker’s cyber-security divisions, discovered that hackers were compromising popular IoT devices such as a VOIP (voice over internet protocol) phone, a connected office printer and a video decoder across multiple customer locations to breach computer networks....

The hackers were so deep into the DNC’s network that they were able to read all email and online chat communications, committee officials and security experts told The Washington Post, which first reported the hack. DNC had called in CrowdStrike to investigate a massive data breach. “They infiltrated the DNC’s network last summer and were monitoring their communications, their email servers, and the like,” CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch told NPR....

According to Samsung, the pocket-sized portable SSD T7 Touch is twice as fast as its predecessor, the T5, and up to 9.5 times faster than external HDDs. Moreover, it can also reach its maximum speed when used with the NVMe interface. However, the highlight of the T7 Touch is the built-in fingerprint sensor feature for enhanced security. This is the first time Samsung has offered an integrated fingerprint sensor on SSD....

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has started mass producing 12Gb LPDDR4 RAM chips using its 20nm process technology. Samsung thus became the first company to mass produce such chips. Samsung itself noted in its press release, this will allow the creation of smartphones with 6GB of RAM. Samsung’s LPDDR4 chips are expected to significantly accelerate the adoption of high capacity mobile DRAM worldwide. The 12Gb LPDDR4 will bring largest capacity and highest speed available for a DRAM chip, while offering excellent energy efficiency, reliability and ease of design – all essential to developing next-generation mobile devices....

It might appear to be a regular belt that goes around your waist, but it is far more than that. According to Samsung, WELT stands for wellness belt, and is loaded with sensors that are easily able to sync with your smartphone. So what exactly is the purpose of having so many sensors present in a wearable like a belt? It becomes your fitness companion, and what better way to have a fitness companion than to have one strapped around your waist....

Scientists create electronic long term memory cells thus taking a crucial step towards building Bionic BrainsThe electronic long term memory cell created by researchers can retain and process information simultaneously mimicking the human brains. The electronic long term memory cell built by scientists at MicroNano Research Facility (MNRF) is quite thin almost 10,000 times thinner when compared to human hair due to which it has become infinitely versatile, scientists are much more excited about the “memristive” abilities of these new cells....

So now you can use Facebook Messenger even if you’re not one of the billion users or so people with a Facebook account – or even if you are, and you don’t want to associate your account with your messages. Facebook made this announcement in its official Newsroom blog, encouraging new users to simply use their phone numbers to create new Messenger profile. Interestingly, this is more or less what makes WhatsApp (which Facebook purchased for a staggering $22 billion back in February) appealing to so many people – both platforms are now essentially an end-run around text messages that at least some carriers still charge for....

Sharp has started accepting preorders for its adorable RoBoHoN robot, a 7.7-inch-tall (19.5 centimeter) humanoid that also comes with all the basic features of a smartphone. The company said it plans to release the robots in Japan on May 26 at a price of 198,000 yen — or more than $1,800. RoBoHoN runs on Android 5.0 mobile operating system and comes with 16 gigabytes of storage and an 8-megapixel camera....

Now, based on feedback from the community, Microsoft has added a biggest new feature, which is add support to the Skype app for group video calls. “We’ve lifted the limitation of two participants in an interview,” the company said in a post on the Skype dev blog. “Whether you want to have peer-reviewed interviews or have all aspects of the interview in one consolidated place, it’s as simple as sending interviewers the same link....

In short, the Xbox One prank can be described as the perfect way to get revenge. The story starts all the way back to 2007 when a YouTube user known as FPS gamer was ‘pranked’ on his 16th birthday. He narrates the story as follows: While the prank is not something out of the ordinary, we have to say that the Xbox One joke can be described as revenge being the sweetest thing ever....

So here’s everything you need to know about Spotify’s launch in India. ALSO, READ: How Spotify Premium APK Works, Is Downloading It Legal? Spotify Launched In India Last year Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced that Spotify will be soon launched in India. Surprisingly, Spotify was silently launched in India on Tuesday evening. Consequently, users can now directly download and install Spotify application from the Google PlayStore. Spotify Launched In IndiaSpotify Launched In India: Subscription Pricing...

Once the victim visits such malicious websites, the vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution on almost all devices that run Android, starting with version 1.0 of the OS released in 2008 to the latest 5.1.1, researchers from mobile security firm Zimperium said in a report scheduled to be published Thursday. Earlier Drake published details in August about critical Android vulnerabilities in the Stagefright media playback engine, he had promised there would be more issues in Android operating system....

Joshua Drake from Zimperium Mobile Security discovered six + one critical vulnerabilities in the native media playback engine called Stagefright. He calls this weaknesses ‘Mother of all Android Vulnerabilities’. Drake said that the vulnerabilities can be exploited by sending a single multimedia text message to an unpatched Android smartphone. While the exploit is deadly, in some cases, where phones parse the attack code prior to the message being opened, the exploits are silent and the user would have little chance of defending their data....

However, P2P lending is a growing and thriving niche in fintech. It has the potential to transform the way loans are executed across the board. This transformation would benefit lenders and borrowers alike. New P2P Decentralized Finance Technology One of the most appealing new platforms is Constant. Built on a decentralized platform that is free of third party oversight and powered by blockchain technology. Constant offers loans at custom rates, matching borrowers and lenders....

Besides winning that money for himself, Chester, from Ohio in the US, also won $US100,000 for a new science lab at his school in the Cleveland suburbs, North Royalton High, and $US50,000 for his physics teacher, Richard Nestoff. In the video above, he uses his parent’s house and a couple of other neat little graphical stunts to explain the theory’s two main postulates: The laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of reference....

The teenager has been arrested on May 11 and Osaka Police have filed a case of obstruction of business charges against him. The police say the teen launched a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the Osaka Board of Educations server which holds the webpages of 444 elementary, junior high, and high schools in the area. Although in high school now, at the time of the attacks last November, the student was in junior high school....

Let’s have a look at the new Telegram features announced: Chat Themes In this update, coordination and decoration come together with new themes for individual chats. Telegram users will now be able to apply new Chat themes to specific private chats. There are 8 new themes that feature colorful gradient message bubbles, beautifully animated backgrounds, and unique background patterns. To set a theme for your chat on Android, tap the Chat Header > 3 dots > Change Colors....

Once upon a time Internet was ruled by AltaVista, GeoCities, Lycos, Netscape & Other Giants Of Web 1.0, do you even remember them?YahooAltaVista GeoCitiesLycosAngelfireTripodNetscapeCompuServeAsk Jeeves ExciteProdigy Yahoo Yahoo Inc and styled as Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 and incorporated in March 1995. Globally known for its web portal and its famous Yahoo! Search engine. From 1997 till 1997 Yahoo remained among the top 3 most visited sites. Till the onset of Google, Yahoo was the most successful sites and ultimately it succumbed to Google’s search engine....