Chinese Hackers Used Malware On Microsoft Technet Website To Target Other Websites

Hackers used the TechNet web portal to host IP addresses for command and control (C&C) servers. The IP addresses for C&C servers were encoded by attackers, the encoded string is found in profiles and posts limited with the “@MICROSOFT” and “Corporation” tags. Microsoft, after receiving information from FireEye about the APT threat has plugged the security exploit. The group, which FireEye has dubbed APT17 is well-known for attacks against defense contractors, law firms, U....

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 242 words · Karen Kint

Chinese Woman Loses Her Eyesight After Obsessively Playing Mobile Game For Hours Techworm

Yes, but true. In a shocking incident, a 21-year-old Chinese woman has gone partially blind after spending an entire day playing a game on her smartphone. The woman who goes by the pseudonym ‘Wu Xiaojing’ was playing a game called ‘Honor of Kings’, which is China’s most popular multiplayer smartphone game and has over 200 million users. According to Mashable, Wu who works in finance was playing the game on her device for several hours when she suddenly lost her sight in her right eye....

December 16, 2022 · 3 min · 487 words · Diane Bibbs

Cyberberkut Release A Video From Senator Mccain S Laptop Which Alleges Is Executions Are Stage Managed

It so happened that Senator John McCain had visited Ukraine on a official visit somewhere in the first week of June 2015. The hacktivists belonging to CyberBerkut somehow managed to access his laptop. This is what they had to say to Senator McCain, According to the hackers, they broke into the laptop of one of the American politicians, Senator McCain and after found a video with staged IS execution, which they decided to show to the world community....

December 16, 2022 · 1 min · 158 words · Fanny Meyers

Do You Know How Steve Jobs Acquired Iphone Trademark From Cisco Techworm

While many of us take pride in owning the iPhone and flash it around, does anyone know how the “iPhone” get its name? Several theories have floated around this question, however, the most popular answer to this remains that Steve Jobs, the late co-founder and former CEO of Apple, had actually “acquired” the iPhone trademark from Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in IT and networking. Well, not really!!! So, how did Apple manage to convince Cisco Systems to do away with the iPhone trademark?...

December 16, 2022 · 4 min · 795 words · Katharine Jackson

Do You Know Why Windows Generic Drivers Are Dated June 21 2006 Techworm

Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006? Doesn’t Microsoft ever update its drivers?Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006 Have you ever wondered why do all Windows drivers have an old timestamp of June 21, 2006, which includes even Windows 10? Why does it also apply to drivers like Storage Spaces, which didn’t even exist in 2006? Why is Microsoft using these June 2006 drivers even for hardware that were released years later?...

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 328 words · Rosa Reitan

Download Apex Legends Mobile On Pc Using Emulator

After months of waiting, Apex Legends Mobile is finally released. You can download this insanely popular battle royale game by Electronics Arts directly from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. To Download Apex Legends Mobile For PC, you must follow a slightly different method. So here’s How To Download Apex Legends Mobile On PC. APEX LEGENDS MOBILE PC DOWNLOAD As the name suggests, Apex Legends Mobile is a game developed for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets....

December 16, 2022 · 3 min · 509 words · Adam Butler

Dutch Police Are Training Eagles To Take Down Drones Techworm

The police, counter-terrorism agency NCTB and the ministries of justice and defence are working on a range of measures to combat drones, broadcaster Nos says. Mark Wiebes, Innovation Manager of the National Unit of the police, said drone use is becoming more common, with people using them to take photographs, for example. But they can be dangerous if they fall from the sky above crowds of people. Drones with built-in cameras also pose privacy risks....

December 16, 2022 · 3 min · 484 words · Raquel Schwartz

Elephone U Disk Is A Most Secured Pendrive With A Fingerprint Reader Techworm

Called the Elephone U-Disk, it is a normal USB stick that comes with a full-sized fingerprint reader on the body of the device, which cannot be opened until fingerprint is used to unlock it. In other words, nobody can access the data contained inside of the memory stick without the correct identification of the user’s finger. Thanks to the sensor integrated fingerprint. In terms of its storage, it has been divided into two parts such as public and private section....

December 16, 2022 · 1 min · 174 words · Wesley Caputo

Elon Musk We Are Already Cyborgs But Could Very Soon Become Pets Techworm

“We’re already a cyborg,” said Musk. “You have a digital version of yourself, a partial version of yourself online in the form of your emails, your social media, and all the things that you do.” We already have “super powers,” contends Musk, quoting the world’s access to personal computers and smartphones. “You have more power than the president of the United States had 20 years ago. You can answer any question, you can video conference with anyone, anywhere....

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 253 words · Norman Modlin

Facebook Google Amazon Microsoft Come Together For Mega Ai Project Techworm

The group notes that it “foresees great societal benefits and opportunities ahead, but we also understand that as with every new technology there will be concerns and confusion associated with new applications and competencies, and we look forward to working together on these important issues. “We intend to come together to address these important issues, including ethics, safety, transparency, privacy, biases, and fairness.” In a press release on Wednesday, the group stated: “The objective of the partnership on AI is to address opportunities and challenges with AI technologies to benefit people and society....

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 400 words · Robert Hairston

Facebook Launches Facebook Lite App For Lower End Smartphones

TechCrunch says that the App was launched in a certain handful of countries in Asia and Africa including Bangladesh, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Zimbabwe where the App is being tested for further upgradation and bug fixing. A report by TechCrunch says that the App has been built to accommodate lower end and Android devices. The Facebook Lite will be packed in just 252KB file size so that any lower end Android phone can run it smoothly....

December 16, 2022 · 3 min · 519 words · Brian Jenney

Facebook Planning To Bring Virtual Reality To Phones

Facebook is working on a standalone video app that would support 360-degree or “spherical” videos, like the ones that debuted on YouTube not too long ago, claims the report. The format, typically compiled from multiple cameras, allows users to change their viewing perspective in the video simply by panning and tilting their phones, as if they were at the video’s location. As conceived, the app is also said to play nicely with the likes of Apple Inc....

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 400 words · Annette Wood

Facebook To Make Use Of Lasers To Beam Internet To Backwaters Techworm

“A large fraction of people don’t connect to the internet because the wireless communications infrastructure is not available where they live, mostly in very rural areas of the world,” said Connectivity Lab’s Tobias Tiecke, who led the team in writing a paper that was published in the journal Optica. “We are developing communication technologies that are optimised for areas where people live far apart from each other.” As lasers can hold huge information and are able to broadcast it a long way, they are a smart way to transmit data over significant distances....

December 16, 2022 · 3 min · 505 words · Phillip Anderson

Fake Mark Zuckerbergs Tried To Scam Facebook Users For Cash

Apparently, the scammers are contacting users via Facebook and its photo-sharing site Instagram, pretending to be Mark Zuckerberg, and informing them they’ve supposedly won a lottery with a huge amount of winnings. However, in order to receive the prize-money, the victims were asked to wire a “delivery fee” to Facebook. While some were asked to send cash, some were told to transfer hundreds of dollars worth of iTunes gift card redemption codes....

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 260 words · Lawrence Rothenberg

First Ever Vaio Smartphone Could Launch Next Week Will Be Running Windows 10 Techworm

VAIO stated last year that its new Windows 10 Mobile handset would target business buyers with mid-range specs. The company also added that the handset would provide support for the operating system’s PC-like Continuum mode, which is great. As for the hardware, VAIO’s unnamed smartphone is expected to pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 chipset, along with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage. While those are definitely not high-end specifications, they are not bad at all, seeing as how Windows 10 is much more fluid without requiring top-notch hardware to run it smoothly....

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 248 words · Belinda Short

Foxconn Cuts 50 000 Contract Workers Early Due To Poor Iphone Demand

Foxconn generally hires thousands of temporary employees throughout the peak season to meet the seasonal demand of newly released iPhone models. The company typically renews workers’ contracts every month from August until January. The company then reduces the influx of temporary employees once the demand decreases. However, this time around, Foxconn has cut many of those contract jobs months earlier than expected. Weaker demand for the iPhone throughout late 2018 is believed to be the reason behind the cut....

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 370 words · Deanna Cambell

Free Lots Of Storage Space On Your Iphone With This Easy Trick Techworm

In this article, we show quick and easy tips you can use to clear the temporary files (cache)from your phone, leaving you with more storage. You can see the trick in action in this video from YouTuber iTwe4kz titled “one weird trick” garbage. Let’s go through the full process that was tested on an iPhone 6 Plus. This method works best if you have less than 1GB of storage left....

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 397 words · Gabriel Bradshaw

Galaxy S7 Edge Injustice Gods Among Us Themed Smartphone To Be Announced Soon Techworm

However, the game was inspired by the graphic novel in which Superman kills The Joker for destroying the city of Metropolis and forcing him to murder the love of his life, Lois Lane and their unborn child. The game allows the player to take up the role of several characters from the DC comic book universe in a 1-on-1 fighting experience. However, it does seem strange that Samsung would be announcing the Injustice Gods Among Us version, especially when the game was announced a long time back....

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 250 words · Jason Michael

German Government To Release The Secret Ufo Files To Public As It Loses The Right To Keep Them Secret

The existence of this report was not accepted until 2008 by the German parliament, the Bundestag, who have struggled hard to keep the files private. However, two years later, Robert Fleischer, an UFO enthusiast from Exopolitic.org found that the Government had actually assigned the job of discovering the existence of extraterrestrial life to its scientific department, said The Express. The fight for the X-files has been to some extent to that of a David and Goliath fight, with Frank Reitemeyer, the German blogger dragging the Bundestag to court over the country’s lack of transparency related to its UFO research....

December 16, 2022 · 2 min · 277 words · Josephine Rediger

Gif Counts As Deadly Weapon In Twitter Seizure Case Court Says Techworm

The GIF in question was sent by a 29-year-old John Rayne Rivello of Salisbury, Maryland, in December 2016 to a Dallas-based Newsweek Journalist, Kurt Eichenwald via Twitter as he was upset with his critical coverage of President Donald Trump. The grand jury along with the U.S. Department of Justice issued a series of indictments against Rivello, who is accused of sending a flashing Pepe the Frog image with the intention of inducing an epileptic seizure in Eichenwald, who is already suffering from epilepsy....

December 16, 2022 · 3 min · 518 words · Vincent Wells