Greed did him in The incident was reported in Kansas University (KU) where the student reportedly logged into the school’s systems and changed his grades from an F to an A. The student got the credentials needed to access the system by using a physical key-logger and installing it in one of the systems in the lecture halls. The key-logger was a simple one, available for purchase online for as little as $20....

A large-scale analysis of URLs embedded in 13,500 free android apps downloaded from Google Play were carried out by the researchers. Created by reputable developers, the apps tested were downloaded by many people, among which were the news services, popular social networks, shopping, and entertainment apps. Michalis Faloutsos, a computer science professor in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering, said that most users are not aware that their private information could be compromised, as apps connect to a complex network of websites, both to function and increase advertising revenues....

Turing Robotic Industries (TRI) has unveiled its flagship device which assures an innovative super security to the smartphone along with an unique outer body which is stronger than steel as it is made up of combination of metals. The smartphone is expected to launch somewhere in summer this year. Based in San Francisco, TRI is inspired by vision of two geniuses namely Charles Babbage and Alan Turing, the fathers of modern computer science and artificial intelligence respectively....

Back in 2013, Coca-Cola had launched an ad campaign with a strange series of games, videos and nightmare fuel that populated a series of websites that could all be traced back to ahh.com. It’s called the “Ahh Effect” campaign. Each site was a variation of “ahh,” extending from two Hs way up to sixty Hs in the URL. However, it remains to be seen if Coca-Cola will go the extreme route and get all the way up to 1,999 Hs in their domain....

In an attack on the Washington Post Thursday, hackers supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hijacked parts of the Post’s Web site so that users were redirected to a site controlled by the SEA. The hack was announced by them through their Twitter account Official_SEA16 : — SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) May 14, 2015 Top security analyst, Ken White also noticed the hack — Kenn White (@kennwhite) May 14, 2015 The SEA got entry into the WaPo website through the content delivery network, InstartLogic and defaced it with a message popping up saying “You’ve been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army,” ....

TeamViewer issued a patch for users on Tuesday to fix a vulnerability that allows users sharing a desktop session to gain control of another PC without the latter’s permission. This vulnerability affected versions of TeamViewer running on Windows, macOS and Linux machines. For those unaware, TeamViewer is a popular remote-support software for desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers over the internet from anywhere in the world....

The researchers had observed that the ants get great cooperative force by each using three of their six legs at the same time. And the result is surprising: a team of six microrobots, each the size of a cockroach and weighing 3.5oz in total, managed to pull a car weighing 3,900lb across a polished concrete floor. David Christensen, a graduate student who is one of the authors of a research paper explaining the feat, said, “By considering the dynamics of the team, not just the individual, we are able to build a team of our ‘microTug’ robots that, like ants, are super strong individually, but then also work together as a team....

The car manufacturer Tesla had launched a new Autopilot system last month which assists the drivers to drive without using steering wheel for a brief time. Ever since it was launched, there have been many videos by Tesla car drivers showcasing Tesla’s semi-autonomous technology. Many of these videos show drivers sitting in the steering wheel but an unknown user has released a video which shows to the Tesla owner undertake the daring stunt a bit further and sits in the backseat while filming the Autopilot feature doing all of the work....

Edward Snowden, the US government whistleblower, feels that encoding may make it hard or even impossible to recognize signals from alien species from cosmic background radiation. Snowden on Friday night appeared on the astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk podcast from Moscow, via a robot video link called a “beam remote presence system”. In 2013, Snowden leaked classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The information revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments....

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Smartphones have become a necessity of our life. Today, mostly all of us own an Android smartphone or an iPhone depending on her/his choice. Though you may be using the mobile phones for many days, most probably there would be many things which were unknown to you. Two things that would give even the soberest person out there a little bit heartburn are seeing the “low battery” and “no network coverage“ on their smartphone....

Additionally, he led development of standards for the from, subject, and date fields found in every email message sent today. Most of you might not remember this, despite the fact that you use the service each and every single day of your life but the email has transitioned into more than just a service that you are engaged in your desktop and laptop computers. Dedicated applications for mobile platforms have also been rolled out, and while Tomlinson did not create these, he certainly gave us the stepping stone by which to branch out several communication mediums to millions of users out there....

Different Anonymous Networks on Facebook and twitter are supporting #OperacaoSeteDeSetembro, an operation which was carried out by Anonymous Brazil against the corrupt Brazil Government, The protest is set for a date 7th September of this month, which is thought to be biggest protest in History of Brazil, peoples from all over the Brazil will march over the Roads to protest against the corrupt Government. That is the reason why, the Brazilian Government might have asked The Federal Authorities to issue the warrant and take down the Owner of the Facebook pages supporting the protest, who were Infact able to make millions to attend the protest....

Posh Mobile Micro X,which is basically the anti-phablet comes in a wind to break the trend. In a world overflowing with 6 inch phablets, 1000+ mAH batteries and 13 MP cameras; this device clocks in a 2.4 inch screen, a 650 mAH removable Li-ion battery & 2MP rear camera. On the flip side, it also carries a price tag that’s less than 10th of its peers at $55. Other features of this device include a 1 GHz dual core processor by MediaTek that’s backed by 512 MB of RAM and runs on Android 4....

According to principal analyst at Gartner, Mikako Kitagawa, the PC market is still in the middle of structural change which will reduce the PC installed base in the next few years. “The fourth quarter of 2015 marked the fifth consecutive quarter of worldwide PC shipment decline,” said Kitagawa. “Holiday sales did not boost the overall PC shipments, hinting at changes to consumers’ PC purchase behaviour. On the business side, Windows 10 generally received positive reviews, but as expected, Windows 10 migration was minor in the fourth quarter as many organisations were just starting their testing period....

Ulf Frisk, a Swedish hardware hacker has published instructions on GitHub for those users who are interested to build this $300 device known as PCILeech. This device, which only runs on Windows 7 and Windows 10 PCs, uses custom software, and can be used to carry out Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks, which let an attacker to read the memory of 64bit-based operating systems such as Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and Windows....

These ‘shadow networks’ can fake complex network structures, tricking the hackers into believing they have accessed usable information, said the researchers at the Information Security Conference in Honolulu on Thursday. Until now, the team has developed a prototype to exhibit its capabilities, faking both the attack and the defence on a virtual network. While this method could help bounce off some of the malicious traffic that hovers over computer systems that are vulnerable, but it may not be possible to avoid all attacks....

Now a days flying drones are a regular feature in our skies but what happens when one of these flying drones is actually hacking into our smartphone or laptop unknown to us and stealing vital personal and banking information. This is what a drone named Snoopy can do. Named ‘Snoopy’, the hacking drone was demonstrated by its creator, Glenn Wilkinson at conference in Edinburgh, Scotland on Wednesday. The drone targets mobile users with Wi-Fi running on their device, seeking an open connection....

Not many of you may have heard Nintendo’s Virtual Boy. The virtual gaming console was a enormous flop and was shelved by the makers. Virtual Boy has since become a collector’s item now, commanding obscene prices on eBay. Now, thanks to a hack, Nintendo’s most maligned console flop, is getting a new lease on life thanks to some modern VR technology. Reddit user The King of Spain has modified an Android emulator so that you can play Virtual Boy through Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, Hive or other cheap virtual reality setups....