Simon Schräder, from Münster, used the internet website fragdenstaat.de (“ask the state”), to request the Education Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia for “the tasks of the centrally-made Abitur examinations in the senior classes of high school in the current school year”. He was explicitly invoking his state’s freedom of information law. Although Schrader’s first exam is on the 16th of April, he has set the Ministry the legally allowed one-month deadline to comply, which falls on 21st April....

“We’re happy to announce we’re making private repositories with unlimited collaborators available to all GitHub accounts. All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone,” GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote in a blog post. Learn more: https://t.co/fQ3r2ABtTR pic.twitter.com/HHOyG5ypgU — GitHub (@github) April 14, 2020 For those unaware, previously developers could only work with up to three collaborators per repository for their private projects on GitHub Free plan. However, companies had to subscribe to one of GitHub’s paid plans if they wanted to work on their private development with unlimited private repositories and collaborators....

This major Internet crash will even affect major services like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Global Intenet May Crash Due To Some Maintenance Global Intenet May Crash Due To Some MaintenanceGlobal Intenet Crash: Major Issues The main domain servers and related infrastructure controlling the worldwide internet will be powered down by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Well, the reason behind this crash is some important maintenance work....

Teegan, one of the twins born on August 20 to Cassidy and Chad Lexcen of Minnesota, was born with only one lung and a critically deformed heart that had been displaced into her left chest cavity. Doctors in Minnesota deemed the newborn inoperable — “a word we hate here,” said Dr. Redmond Burke, Nicklaus’ director of cardiovascular surgery. As standard 2D images did not provide enough detail of the state of her heart, doctors were too afraid to go ahead with an open-heart surgery....

The tech giant was originally fined by the European Commission in 2018 for abusing its dominant position and imposing anticompetitive contractual restrictions on manufacturers of mobile devices and on mobile network operators, in some cases since January 1, 2011. Europe’s competition watchdog also determined that Google broke EU rules by compelling smartphone manufacturers to take a bundle of pre-installed Google apps – including YouTube, Maps, and Gmail along with Google Search and Chrome – in its Play Store and prevented them from selling devices with altered versions of Android....

Readers will remember that Pakistan banned access to YouTube in September 2012 after an anti-Islam film, “Innocence of Muslims“, was uploaded to the site, sparking violent protests across major cities in the Muslim-majority country of 190 million people. After almost three years, Google managed to circumvent the ban by making a localised version of YouTube just for Pakistan. The top Internet watchdog of Pakistan, the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom said in a statement that under the new version of YouTube, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority can ask for access to offending material to be blocked....

According to a report in The Information citing people with direct knowledge of the situation, “several thousand” Google employees back in 2018 preferred using California-based video meet app Zoom over Google’s own Hangouts Meet. At the time, the unprecedented popularity of Zoom among Google Cloud employees prompted the search giant to consider acquiring the video conferencing app by the end of 2018. Google Cloud engineers “evaluated what would be a reasonable price to pay and calculated the unit economics for the service if it ran on Google’s servers”....

The problem was first reported in late May when a bug was placed in the Debian bug tracker. A binary extension from Google was seen downloaded by Chromium version 43, and there was neither any any source code available for the extension nor the skill to stop this download. The extension, called “Chrome Hotword,” was discovered as the primary cause for giving the browser’s “OK, Google” functionality. Even though it is off by default, both Chrome and Chromium, when put to use Google as their preselected search engine, can forever hear into the microphone and reply immediately to voice queries, with the trigger password used as “OK Google”....

Researchers have found six more apps on the Google Play Store that reportedly steam login credentials and have been successfully removed from the platform. The irony here is that these apps are ‘anti-virus’ programs. Six anti-virus programs were removed from the Play Store According to the researchers at CheckPoint, researchers have found 6 apps on the Google Play Store were downloaded over 15,000 times before the search engine giant removed them....

Now, a new change in Android’s Geritt source code has apparently confirmed that the upcoming Fuchsia OS will support Android apps, which will run in a specially designed version of the Android Runtime (ART), reports 9to5Google. For those unaware, ART is the environment used to run Android apps. This version of ART will not only be compatible with any Fuchsia OS devices, but also be installable with the help of a ....

For those unaware, the EU Commission in July this year had imposed on Google a record $5 billion (4.34 billion euros) fine for illegally abusing the dominance of its Android operating system. Back then, EU said that the U.S. tech giant has been unlawfully using Android’s near-monopoly since 2011 to improve usage of its own search engine and browser and to strengthen its dominant position in general Internet search. Google argued that “Android has created more choice, not less”....

A Chinese hardware hacker who goes by the pen name of ‘SexyCyborg’ has built a penetration testing toolkit built into her high-heeled shoes. She used a 3D printer to get herself a set of hollow high heels, with the purpose of secretly carrying a penetration testing kit around. SexyCyber made a post on Imgur giving details of her creation. Apparently, the gadget is inspired by the currently running and very popular TV show ‘Mr....

Imagine you are searching for a keyword on Google search using Chrome browser on your Android smartphone. The Chrome browser will immediately return the most plausible suggestions matching your search. Click on one of these search suggestions and suddenly you will find your Chrome browser has crashed. This is due to a bug found out by security researchers from Nightwatch Cybersecurity. The researchers discovered that they can manipulate the search suggestions in a way to send big files to the browser and crash it....

In order to execute the attack, the attacker needs to gain local administrative rights to the PC or server. Once they get the access, they can modify the registry to force a reboot into Safe Mode. They could then create attack tools that run in Safe Mode. According to an upcoming blog post outlining its research, CyberArk wrote: “Once attackers break through the perimeter and gain local administrator privileges on an infected Windows-based machine, they can remotely activate Safe Mode to bypass and manipulate endpoint security measures....

Venmo’s flaw could have allowed anyone to use Siri on a locked iPhone to empty your account [Video]How did this vulnerability occur?So, how does it work?Below is a demo video of Vigo’s attack. Venmo is a PayPal-owned money payment service app that allows users to transfer money between one another using a mobile phone or web interface. The users can link their bank accounts, debit cards, or credit cards to their Venmo account and use it to pay bills, friends with just a few taps....

Patreon based in San Francisco, is a crowdfunding platform created by musician Jack Conte and developer Sam Yam. It allows artists to obtain funding from patrons on a recurring basis or per artwork. It is very popular with YouTube content creators, musicians, and webcomic artists. According to Patreon, unknown hackers breached its servers on 28th September and stole user information. As of now no hacker or hacking group has claimed responsibility for the Patreon hack, the website, which has grown to be the lifeblood for many emerging online talent and businesses, is now determining how best to deal with the news that it has suffered such a monumental breach....

The president of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center Allen Stefanek said on Wednesday that his hospital paid hackers a ransom of $17,000 in bitcoins to regain control of their computer systems after a cyber attack. In a statement issued by the hospital Stefanek said that paying the ransom was the “quickest and most efficient way” of regaining access to the affected systems, which were crippled on Feb. 5 and interfered with hospital staff’s ability to communicate electronically....

Recently, Huawei registered “Hongmeng OS” as a patented trademark in China. So here’s everything you need to know about Huawei’s new smartphone OS i.e. Hongmeng OS. ALSO READ: Huawei P30 Pro Costing $1150 Comes Crashing Down To $130 BONUS VIDEO Huawei Hongmen OS: Huawei’s Upcoming Android Replacement As of now, Huawei hasn’t revealed much information about its new OS. We can consider Hongmen OS to be an Android replacement that will allow Huawei to continue its smartphone business....

In a blog post published on Wednesday, Google says since 2019 their team has disrupted financially motivated phishing campaigns targeting YouTubers with cookie theft malware. According to Google’s TAG, the actors behind this campaign are a group of hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum, who have been luring their target with fake collaboration opportunities (typically a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games), hijacking their channel, then either selling it to the highest bidder or using it to broadcast cryptocurrency scams....