Apple Issues Security Fix For Its Icloud Users Amidst Reports Of Mitm Hacking In China

Attack in Action (MitM) The hacking attack used is said to be MitM or The man-in-the-middle attack is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker, leading the victim to provide login credentials and other important data to the attackers....

December 4, 2022 · 3 min · 444 words · Eunice Perkins

Apple Macos Camera Mic At Risk Warns Researcher Techworm

Malware with this skill has to be able to detect a user-initiated webcam session, start its own recording, and end it as soon as the legitimate session is over, so that the camera and the hardware-based LED indicator can switch off. Every MacBook that Apple has shipped for more than a decade has come equipped with a built-in camera and microphone. There is an LED light on a MacBook that indicates when the device’s camera is active....

December 4, 2022 · 4 min · 717 words · Tommie Weil

Apple Selects Enlight As The Best App And Lara Croft Go As The Best Game On Iphone For 2015 Techworm

According to the list Enlight has emerged as the best App and Lara Croft GO as the best game in 2015. Apple called Enlight for iPhone “the best all-in-one photo editor [providing] powerful tools that are easy to use,” and said Lara Croft GO “floored us with its beauty and clever design.” Enlight is developed by Israeli developer Lightricks and was designed to take on Adobe. while Japanese developer Square Enix developed Lara Croft GO....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · 223 words · Christine Walters

Apple Teams Up With Lg To Develop A Foldable Iphone Techworm

According to a Korea media outlet, Apple is collaborating with OLED maker LG Display, a display solutions arm of LG, to release an iPhone with a foldable OLED display in the near future. For this development, Apple will take help from LG Innotek, a sister company of LG, who has been tasked with developing rigid-flexible printed circuit board to work in tandem with the screen. The foldable OLED iPhone screen production could reportedly start in 2020, when the LG Display’s new production plant in Paju, South Korea, dubbed as E6 will be finished being built, report unnamed sources....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · 264 words · Stephen Snoddy

Apple Watch Hack Developer Runs A Full Web Browser On His Apple Watch

— comex (@comex) May 10, 2015 In the video Comex shows the Google’s homepage displayed on his Apple Watch. It is worthwhile to remember that Apple watch does not feature Apple Safari. 9to5Mac reports that though this hack is simply impractical it lays a foundation for jailbreaking the Apple Watch. Comex does not promise that Apple Watch jailbreak will come any time soon neither has he leaked the details of the hack public....

December 4, 2022 · 1 min · 96 words · Linda Roghair

Applock Bringing Fingerprint Security To Android Apps Techworm

Basically, we use authentication method like a password or pincode to lock the apps. While there are some apps that provide extra extra coating of security, but what happens in case the app you use doesn’t have security. Enter AppLock -Fingerprint-, which gives you access to those apps by using the fingerprint scanner. This app will lock and secure your apps that only you can unlock using your fingerprint. All you need to do is enable AppLock and this would prevent people from opening your messenger apps like WhatsApp, Hangouts, LINE, Skype, etc....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · 216 words · Angela Kropf

Asus Unveils What Seems To Be The World S Most Unattractive Gaming Keyboard Techworm

At least the perk of owning a mechanical gaming keyboard is that it possesses a much longer life span compared to a regular keyboard that features membrane keys. ASUS has named the keyboard Horus GK2000 and while it might not have that attractive look to it, it does boast an aggressive design and has been forged with 3mm aluminium sheets. GK2000 also sports a topcoat finish and an anodized keyboard plate with a brushed finish....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · 295 words · Robin Kulikowski

Battery Invented By Accident Has The Ability To Last For 400 Years Techworm

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine have accidentally made a battery that can last up to 200,000 cycles of recharging and can last up to 400 times longer. This discovery could bring us closer to batteries that can be charged thousands of times, without the need for any replacement. The original idea of the research was to create a solid-state battery by replacing the common liquid in the lithium batteries with a much thicker electrolyte gel, according to their study published in the journal ACS Energy Letters....

December 4, 2022 · 3 min · 585 words · Brittany Westlie

British Inventor Builds A Real Life Flying Iron Man Suit Techworm

British Entrepreneur Richard Browning, a former Royal Marine Reserve and the company he founded, Gravity, have designed, built, tested and now filed a patent for a piece of human propulsion technology that has been created using six miniature jet engines and a specially designed exoskeleton. Known as Daedalus, the suit has been developed over the last year and uses four miniaturised arm-mounted gas turbine engines and two hip-mounted versions to enable the wearer to effectively take off from the ground....

December 4, 2022 · 3 min · 506 words · Bonnie Holley

Bsnl To Offer Free Calls From 9Pm 7Am To Resurrect Landline Calling

BSNL, has launched a plan that allows fixed-line users to make unlimited free calls to all landlines and mobile phones across the country between 9pm and 7am. The plan, that flags off on May 1, will be at first applicable for six months and then would be analyzed depending on the feedback. However, this plan will not be applicable in Delhi and Mumbai, as BSNL does not offer telecom services here....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · 298 words · Betty Doran

Canon Hit By Maze Ransomware Attack 10Tb Of Data Allegedly Stolen

The attack affected the company’s storage and email services, Microsoft Teams, as well as the U.S. version of its website. Following the incident, Canon’s IT service sent a company-wide notification indicating that it is experiencing “widespread system problems affecting multiple applications, computers, email, and other systems may not be available at this time.” It also added that as part of the outage, the Canon USA website would be unavailable. The outage at the image....

December 4, 2022 · 3 min · 454 words · Leah Wisner

Check Out What Happens When You Boil An Iphone 6 Galaxy S6

Well, you need not waste time to think about it any longer. YouTuber TechRax decided to find out the answer for this burning question. TechRax immersed both the phones in a vessel of boiling water to find out which one would its stand for a long time. To start off, a brand-new, fully working Samsung Galaxy S6 and iPhone 6 priced at $199 from Verizon, TechRax switched on the stopwatch app before dunking the phones in boiling water simultaneously at the same time....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · 344 words · Travis Mckee

China Grows Plant On The Moon For The First Time

The cotton seeds were placed inside an apparatus that were sent as a part of the experiment on China’s Chang’e 4 spacecraft. For those unaware, Chang’e 4 was a robotic spacecraft mission that achieved the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon on January 3, 2019. The experiment began shortly after China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon on January 3rd. The team had installed a sealed canister on the lander of the Chang’e-4 probe that contained the seeds of cotton, rapeseed, potato and Arabidopsis, as well as eggs of the fruit-fly and some yeast, to form a simple mini biosphere – an artificial, self-sustaining environment....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · 364 words · James Philpott

China S Great Firewall Inventor Forced To Bypass It To Load A Website Techworm

The Register reports that, earlier this week, during a public discussion of internet security at the Harbin Institute of Technology in Heilongjiang province, Hong Kong media reported that Fang Binxing, who is credited with filtering mechanism by which the government dictates what Chinese can and can’t see online, had run into some trouble trying to access a South Korean site to discuss that country’s online censorship. Finding his path to the site blocked, Fang turned on a Virtual Private Network (VPN), the digital workaround employed by countless Chinese – 29% of the country’s internet users in Q4 2015, according to Statista – to access forbidden URLs (including online gambling sites)....

December 4, 2022 · 3 min · 465 words · John Bickerstaff

Chinese Hackers Attacking U S Coronavirus Response Reports

According to the officials, hospitals, research laboratories, health care providers, and pharmaceutical companies all have been hit. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) managing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been hit by a wave of daily strikes, an official having direct knowledge of the attacks said. “It is safe to say that there are only two places in the world that could hit (the Department of Health and Human Services) the way it’s been hit,” an official familiar with the attacks told CNN....

December 4, 2022 · 7 min · 1397 words · Russell Davis

Cloudflare To Expose Showbox Yts And Popcorn Time Site Operators

For those unaware, a subpoena is a request for the production of documents, or a request to appear in court or other legal proceedings. It is a court-ordered command that basically requires you to do something, such as testify or present information that may help support the facts that are at issue in a pending case. The group of movies companies that includes Bodyguard Productions, Cobbler Nevada, Criminal Productions, Dallas Buyers Club, and Venice PI recently filed a subpoena through a federal court in Hawaii....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · 371 words · Roseann Boutin

Critical Imagemagick Vulnerability Exposes Countless Websites To Hacking Techworm

The vulnerability, CVE-2016-3714 was discovered by “Stewie” and security researcher Nikolay Ermishkin from the Russian internet services company Mail.Ru Group. Dubbed as ImageTragick, a website, that has been created for website admins and developers, which has comprehensive information about the multiple vulnerabilities. It also includes mitigation advice until a patch is rolled out by the company. ImageMagick is a free, popular open-source, image-processing library used to create, edit and convert images in a variety of formats that is supported by PHP, Ruby, Python and other languages....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · 390 words · Stephen Griffin

Cssreference Io A Beautiful Visual Guide To Css Techworm

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet. CSS can format the document content (written in HTML or other mark-up language): layout, colours, fonts, etc. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of the document content and document format. As a result, we can improve content accessibility, and can similarly format two or more documents. However, in order to go through the frequently confusing and contrary technology used to style and exemplify webpages, it is always a good idea to have a helping hand guide....

December 4, 2022 · 1 min · 203 words · Rose Higgins

Cyberpunk 2077 Launch Delayed Now Releasing On December 10

For those unaware, Cyberpunk 2077 is a first-person action game set in the dystopian Night City, an open world with six distinct regions. The cast is star-studded, with Keanu Reeves playing one of the game’s main characters. The video game developer shared the news via Twitter stating the main reason behind the delay as the challenges juggling between current and next-gen systems from PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series hitting the markets next month all at once....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · 301 words · Ronald Byrd

Dairy Queen Suffers Data Breach Releases List Of Affected Restaurants

Dairy Queen was investigating a Data breach after security researcher Brian Krebs reported that it may have been hit by a data breach. In the last week of August Dairy Queen had confirmed the Data breach however it did reveal details about the number of customers or stores effected by the breach. After almost a month a half, Dairy Queen, after completion of its investigation into the breach confirmed the number at 395 outlets....

December 4, 2022 · 1 min · 157 words · Tanya Carr