This study ranked which countries were best overall, which countries ruled in each type of challenge, which types of challenges were most popular, and which languages each country favoured. The United States and India overall put up disappointing numbers despite having the most participants on the site with U.S. coming at 28th position and India following a little behind at the 31st position. Let’s have a look at who’s made into the top list and why?...

Bitcoin is an innovative payment network which has revolutionized business transactions and taken the cyber world by storm. It is the first “decentralized digital currency.” This is peer to peer i.e. P2P transaction which does not involve any banks or any intermediaries which means the users do not have to bear the fees for their transactions. This has a world wide network as it is joined to the several currency exchanges where the currencies can be exchanged for other currencies of that country....

https://youtu.be/lxjM1yCcqTQ In the episode “Bart to the Future,” Lisa Simpson is set to become the U.S. president tasked with restoring order and repairing the nation in the wake of what the show present’s as a disastrous presidency left by her predecessor, a fictionalized Trump. https://twitter.com/ExpertosParleys/status/796319093028753408 Simpsons writer Dan Greaney told the Hollywood Reporter back in March that the episode was intended as “a warning to America.” “That just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom....

“Codenamed ‘Cosmic Cuttlefish,’ 18.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs,” says Adam Conrad, Software Engineer, Canonical. Conrad further says, “The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 4.18 based Linux kernel, our default toolchain has moved to gcc 8.2 with glibc 2....

The easy to follow installation instructions have been made available on the dedicated snapcraft website. This should be particularly wonderful for operating systems enhanced for mobile and IoT. “Snaps sit alongside the native packages of the base Linux operating system. Each distribution has its own mechanisms to provide the base OS and its updates. Snaps complement the base OS with universal apps that cannot interfere with the base OS or one another”, says Canonical....

For those unaware, U.S. tech company Nvidia had announced in September last year that it would be acquiring a 90 percent stake in Cambridge-headquartered chipmaker, ARM owned by Japanese giant SoftBank, for $40 billion. ARM is one of the UK’s most successful and powerful companies, which licenses its tech to the likes of Apple, Samsung, and Huawei. Although Nvidia said that ARM would continue to operate independently in the UK, in Cambridge, concerns were raised that the deal could lead Nvidia to relocate ARM’s headquarters to the U....

The ‘CyberChoices’ campaign comes after NCA research disclosed the average age of people involved in its investigations was 17. The research indicated few teenagers knew what constituted a cybercrime or what would happen if they were caught. The idea is that with the cops showing up at their doorstep when the kids are near committing a crime that involves jail time, such as when they get access to a tool for denial of service attacks....

Everyday, the country gets an average of 50,000 visa applications from all around the world. A huge quantity of these applications are stacking up while the department is trying to solve the hardware issue connected to biometric data. The computer failure has stopped officials from processing and sending fingerprints and photographs for security checks. “We are working around the clock to fix it,” John Kirby, a department spokesman, said Monday....

The research team presented their work in a paper titled DeepMasterPrints: Generating MasterPrints for Dictionary Attacks via Latent Variable Evolution. How Are Master Fingerprints Generated? The fingerprints dubbed as “DeepMasterPrints” by the researchers can be artificially generated using machine learning algorithm. These can be used to fool databases protected by fingerprint authentication without essentially requiring any information about the user’s fingerprints. The artificially generated prints were able to accurately replicate more than one in five real fingerprints in a database, which should only have an error rate of one in a thousand....

USPS was hacked in mid-September and it had reported the same in November 2014. The hack attack was said to have compromised personal data of more than 800,000 employees including their names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, beginning and end dates of employment, emergency contact information and other information. The investigations which took place after the intrusion was noticed have revealed that health care information of 485K employees stored in the file along with employees’ Social Security Numbers and other personal information, was compromised back in September after hackers managed to exploit a USPS server’s weak default password....

In fact, it is more common to find businesses, hotels, restaurants today that offer complimentary Wi-Fi for their patrons. Even coffee shops these days offer free Wi-Fi. All you need to do is logon to the coffee shop’s free Wi-Fi and start browsing. However, free things don’t come easy. That’s what YaYa’s Thai restaurant in San Antonio, Texas requires people to do by cracking what must be the most complicated mathematical problem in order to use their wireless internet....

The Presser released by the Mumbai International Airport Limited, the company operating the Mumbai Airport said that : The check-in system at terminal 1B of the domestic airport in Mumbai collapsed on Sunday due to crashing of the server resulting in flight delays for some time causing inconvenience to passengers. However, the system has now been restored and operations at the terminal are normal, a Mumbai International Airport Limited official said....

Moving one step further in a bid to curb illegal activity, WhatsApp has announced that it will start taking legal action against users and companies who misuse the app or send bulk messages to people in violation of its terms and conditions. “WhatsApp was designed for private messaging, so we’ve taken action to prevent bulk messaging and enforce limits on how WhatsApp can be used,” a spokesman for WhatsApp said....

The iPhone battery turns yellow when your iPhone is in Low Power Mode. Earlier, when Low Power Mode was enabled, the iPhone battery icon showed a different color. With iOS 16, Apple has changed the way Low Power Mode status appears on the iPhone. It turns the battery icon yellow, leaving many iPhone users worried. Why Does My iPhone Battery Icon Turns Yellow? Your iPhone battery icon turns yellow when Low Power Mode is enabled on your iPhone....

On Wednesday, at a lunch meet hosted by Contrast Security founder Jeff Williams, William Binney said that U.S. government’s mass surveillance program is just congested with data, to a point that they are no longer competent. He further added that terrorists attacks could succeed because NSA is losing its vital intelligence in the strife. Binney feels that in the current scenario wherein NSA has abundant data which is overloaded with vital information it is easier for an analyst to run some simple query and get access through NSA’s various databases....

For those unversed, Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows, originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft. Version 1 of Winamp was released in 1997 and quickly grew popular with over 3 million downloads. It was later acquired by AOL in 1999 and then by Radionomy in 2014. Winamp is best known for its simple user interface, features music visualization, playlist, and a media library, and supports extensibility with plug-ins and retro skins....

“This is the first incident we know of where an attack caused a blackout,” said John Hultquist, head of iSIGHT Partner’s cyberespionage intelligence practice. “It’s always been the scenario we’ve been worried about for years because it has ramifications across broad sectors.” The power outage in the country first took a regional control center offline resulting in half of the homes in Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk region to be left without power for several hours reported Ukrainian news service TSN in an article posted a day after the December 23 failure....

When Xiaomi had originally launched the 64GB model of the phone, it was priced at Rs. 23,999. Now, it will cost Rs. 19,999. Users can also avail a discount of up to Rs. 5,000 on exchange for the phone. “Lower costs have enabled us to reduce the price of Mi 4 64GB, and this translates into savings that our Mi fans can enjoy,” said the company in a post on social media....

As first reported by The Verge, this new tier called ‘YouTube Premium Lite’ will remove advertisements for viewers but will not include any of YouTube Premium’s other features such as ad-free YouTube Music listening, offline downloads, and background playback. “In Nordics and Benelux (except for Iceland), we’re testing a new offering to give users even more choice: Premium Lite costs €6.99/month (or local equivalent per month) and it includes ad-free videos on YouTube,” a YouTube spokesperson told The Verge confirming the development....

The very first step, while using the ‘Lechal footwear technology’ is to enter user’s destination into the Lechal app by using either Google Maps or similar navigation app. With the help of Bluetooth, the smartphone app now gets connected to a small module which slides into the back of each shoe near the heel area. Creators have used the Haptic feedback technology wherein the navigation app provides direction to the module, based on which it produces vibrations either in the right or left foot thus sending signals to the wearer to take the appropriate turns, resulting into a better navigation of the wearer....