If you have been following Techworm you must have read the news of latest Fappening 2.0 leaks of nude images of Harry Potter movie series star Emma Watson, Jennifer’s Body star, Amanda Seyfried and The Sixth Sense star, Mischa Barton among others. Before this NSFW Celebgate leak, we had the hackers releasing similar nude images of Supermodel Emily Ratajkowski in last week of February. In all the above cases, unknown hackers hacked the Hollywood celebrities iCloud account and leaked their nude images and videos....

The sudden spate and steady stream of hacking even stunned FBI and it came out with a advisory warning that the ISIS and its supporters are targeting the US websites that have vulnerable WordPress plugins. WordPress content management system is the post popular CMS world over and small websites including small and medium businesses use WP for their websites. WordPress is also popular because of the countless plugins available to the simple tasks and add features to WP....

This 29655 Bitcoins if sold today (current market price 1Bitcoin = $911.00 will fetch the US Government around $ 24,800,000 or 25 million approximately and looks like the DA’s office is going to sell it. But selling the Bitcoins poses a unique problem for the FBI because whatever Bitcoin exchanges are operating as of now are not legally certified by the Federal Reserve. Second thing is that the amount of Bitcoins (29655) is huge and may cause potential mini crash if sold at once....

Reported first by Bleeping Computer, the fake email pretended to warn the victims of a “sophisticated chain attack” from an advanced threat actor known as Vinny Troia, who is the head of security research of the dark web intelligence companies NightLion and Shadowbyte. “The FBI and CISA are aware of the incident this morning involving fake emails from an @ic.fbi.gov email account. This is an ongoing situation, and we are not able to provide any additional information at this time....

McGrath illegal sites were hosted on onion url and could only be viewed by using Tor or other anonymising browsers. Tor anonymiser network is preferred by not only human rights workers, activists, journalists, and whistleblowers but also millions of normal web users who would like to remain anonymous and not have their traffic snooped upon by anybody. FBI conveniently seemed have forgotten this fact that Tor is used by many people who like anonymity as a matter of practice and were in no way connected to McGrath and his cronies....

The German researchers team that studied the applications in detail discovered 56 million items of unprotected data, which included social networks, messaging, games, bank transfer and medical apps. Siegfried Rasthofer, who is a part of the team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology and Darmstadt University of Technology said “In almost every category we found an app which has this vulnerability in it.” Eric Bodden, Team leader said the number of records that are affected “will likely be in the billions....

Independent website down time detecting website outage.report shows that several players are unable to login into the game. Epic games has confirmed that they are currently undergoing downtime to unblock a small number of players who were affected by a recent backend service update which caused login and matchmaking issues. Once downtime has concluded, we will post an update. — Fortnite (@FortniteGame) April 25, 2018 As of now it is not known till when the services will be up and running properly, but the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented, confirmed Epic games....

Google today announced a new initiative to make an attempt and keep patents out of the hands of patent trolls, entities whose only business is gathering intellectual property and filing legal cases. This new effort is called the Patent Purchase Promotion by Google. The plot is simple: make it simple to sell your patents to Google rather than the wrong people. “Patent owners sell patents for numerous reasons (such as the need to raise money or changes in a company’s business direction),” wrote Allen Lo, Google’s deputy general counsel for patents....

The attack which started on Wednesday, emanated from scripts belonging to the internet giant Baidu. The scripts began directing useless traffic to two specific GitHub pages: one run by GreatFire, and the other offering translations of The New York Times, in the process bringing the entire GitHub down. The useless dataflow resulted in a massive DDoS attack on GitHub and caused it to go down on many occasions throughout Thursday night....

“People tend to focus on visual quality in VR but audio is just as important,” says Nathan Martz, product manager of Google Cardboard. “The way people tend to do 3D audio is a pretty simple approximation…you don’t have the right audio cues.” By utilizing Thrive Audio, which Google acquired last year, Cardboard developers now have the tools to create more accurate audio experiences that go beyond traditional left and right channels; now developers can use top, left, right, bottom, back, and everywhere else....

We all have goals. It could be learn a new language, spend more time with family or exercise more. This new “Google Goals” allows you to enter your goal and how often you want to do it. It will find the time for you to work towards your biggest goals. Google goals will integrate these into the app that runs your life – your calendar. However, the tool relies on you entering almost every meeting and scheduled activity onto the platform in advance to work efficiently....

The programme, which was launched in the capital on Monday aims to train two million Android developers from India by offering a slew of initiatives to train and certify talented students and developers in Android development in the next three years. In order to make its Android app development training programme available in 31 Indian universities — both public and private, the tech giant has partnered with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)....

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It is very detailed as well. In the “leaked” documents, Google explains how their technology called “a proprietary chronocompression technology to instantly transport the user to a place and time of their choosing.” Google claims they have already performed extensive testing with Project Flux and have logged over 3,306 years to date. No wonder they have managed to stay ahead of the curve all these years! Google also goes ahead and warns users about unsafe time travel, stating:

Larry Page had earlier this month announced that Google would be launching a new startup firm called Sidewalk Labs to develop and produce technology for cities. Free high speed Internet in cities is said to be a moonshot project that may not seem as unbelievable as projects such as taking a shot at curing death or developing the self-driving car. However, free city high speed Internet still remains an exciting idea....

“HERO is a great first GoPro for people looking to share experiences beyond what a phone can capture,” says Meghan Laffey, GoPro’s SVP of Product. “HERO makes it easy to share ‘wow’ moments at a price that’s perfect for first-time users.” The HERO, which looks like the HERO5 and HERO6, comes with a 2-inch color touchscreen display on the back. It also comes with a tiny monochrome display on the front, which shows information like video quality, battery and storage remaining....

The authorities in Iowa allege that, Mr.Eddie Raymond Tipton had been hacking the system and the odds to win fabulous amount of jackpot for himself through proxy. In January, authorities arrested Eddie Raymond Tipton, the Director of Information Security for the Multi-State Lottery Association, a non-profit organization that runs multi-state games for 33 different state lotteries, on charges of fraud. The lottery organisers had appointed Tipton to ensure the security of the lottery system but they found that he was allegedly working to undermine it in his own favour....

The website, called VNC Roulette, has given a whole new meaning to the “open” internet, which contains thousands of screenshots of various types of systems, ranging from FreeBSD to the latest Windows 10 devices. All these desktops have something in common: they are running VNC, an open-source software that allows users to remotely access and control a desktop from anywhere else in the world without requiring a password. But if VNC is set up without a password, anyone can browse the web and access an unsecured computer....

According the the police statement, Helton targeted Hollywood stars using social engineering. He used to send these stars emails purporting to be from Google and Apple and use the credentials gained through illicit means to access personal email/iCloud/Google Albums. According to the U.S. Department of justice, he was able to dupe hundreds of Hollywood stars into giving him their usernames and passwords. The scheme, which lasted from March 2011 to May 2013, gave Helton access to “161 sexually explicit, nude and/or partially nude images of approximately 13 victims, some of whom were celebrities,” said DOJ spokesman Thom Mrozek....