The latest report suggests that most of these sites are down by an ongoing DDOS Attack Campaign coming from several unknown sources. TV Torrent group EZTV confirmed that they are dealing with a serious flood of unwanted connections, which renders the site unavailable. whereas Kickass Torrents and ExtraTorrent was also down with Kickass torrent site’s DNS servers not resolving to any IP address, and ExtraTorrent showing a web cached version using Cloudfare....

Largest ever DDoS attacks carried out on Hong kong’s Democracy MomentsDNS AttackLargest ever in historyResponse DNS Attack What is striking about these attacks is the way they are being carried out. The attack involves bombarding DNS servers. A DNS server is responsible for taking a request from a user fro a website, resolving it and forwarding the request onto the website. What has happened in this attack is, the attacker/attackers have been bombarding the DNS servers with multiple request for these specific sites, which is ensuring that the DNS server resolves every request....

Falciani had to flee to France to avoid victimisation from the banking higher ups. Falciani told CBS’s 60 Minutes aired on Sunday night that he had taken help from other HSBC employees in downloading the data. The documents which also reveal that HSBC profited from the lucrative blood diamonds trade going on between the rival war lords and factions in war ravaged region of Africa. The leaks were made public through a report by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which was released yesterday....

In this article, we have listed hacking websites to learn ethical hacking who provides the best tutorial and pdf books on how to learn ethical hacking. What is ethical and unethical hacking? However, hacking is not an easy task, as you need to have basic knowledge of computers and network security. For beginners to know, there are two types of hacking: Ethical (White Hat) and Unethical (Black Hat). Unethical hacking is considered illegal while ethical hacking may be regarded as legal....

Now, popular leaker @OnLeaks has made a 3D video of the upcoming LG flagship in collaboration with @TheMrPhone based on the designs and specifications leaked to @OnLeaks by accessory makers. However, LG G7 is yet to receive an official confirmation. The video below show the device from all possible angles. As you can see from the 360-degree video, the LG G7 sports a similar design to that of LG G6, and will feature a metal and glass design and an edge-to-edge display....

However the system admin of Malaysian Airlines seem to have restored the website but only for a brief moment. Soon the hackers hacked the website again and replaced the earlier Airbus A380 image with the infamous Lizard Squad’s image and mentioning the name of Lizard Squad. Lizard Squad has also acknowledged that it was behind the hacking of Malaysian Airlines website. — KEEM ? (@KEEMSTAR) January 26, 2015 Other names mentioned in the website are UGNazi, NATHAN NYE and HENRY BLAIR STRATER....

Multiple forums including Apple’s own support forums, Reddit, and Twitter have been flooded with user complaints that their computers are no longer turning on and rendered useless after updating to macOS Monterey and are seeking suggestions from Apple’s support team or other MacBook owners. The problem seems to be affecting older MacBook Professional, Mac mini, and iMac running Intel-based processors. “I was updating my MacBook Pro from 2018 and it was doing fine until the screen suddenly turned black and now it won’t turn on,” one MacBook Pro user wrote on the Apple Support Community....

The international cybercrime investigation was jointly carried out by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In May 2018, the FBI had forwarded information about an account generator website called WickedGen.com to the AFP. The man arrested is allegedly behind the website WickedGen.com, which operated for approximately two years by selling stolen Netflix, Spotify and Hulu logins from almost 1 million accounts. The website boasted of having over 120,000 users, according to a police statement....

The browser regularly sends a small encrypted ZIP file containing the user’s entire browsing history, including Google searches, queries and a complete list of software installed on the user’s computer, all without the prior authorization of the user, according to a recent report released by the firms. Information about the system includes the CPU, memory, the adblocker status and the startpage. Using this information, if attackers obtained the user’s email they could send a message, authenticated by its content, containing an attachment armed with a remote code execution exploit that could compromise the user’s device, the report said....

Staying true to its promise, Microsoft has reduced the size of quality updates in Windows 11 by 40%. Now, in a blog post, the company has explained how it achieved its goal using the new compression technology. “With the fast pace of Windows security and quality fixes, distributing this large amount of updated content takes up substantial bandwidth. Reducing this network transfer is critical for a great experience. Moreover, users on slower networks can struggle to keep their machines up to date with the latest security fixes if they cannot download the package,” wrote Microsoft software engineer Jonathon Ready in a blog post....

Microsoft planned to buy Slack for $8 billion back in March 2016 but backed out after stiff opposition from founder Bill Gates and current CEO, Satya Nadella. After failing to convince Gates and Nadella into buying Slack, the Microsoft honchos have decide the next best way to get it, kill it with competition! According to a report on MSPowerUser, the Redmond-based tech giant is reportedly working on creating a Slack competitor — with the help of Skype....

Discovered by Thurrott’s Rafael Rivera, the feature is hidden in Windows 10 build 17650, which is only available to insiders on the “Skip Ahead” option of the Fast ring. Rafael Rivera posted some information on Twitter: (mach2 enable 10397285) pic.twitter.com/PI5JKJAid2 — Rafael Rivera (@WithinRafael) April 20, 2018 Since, the dark theme for the File Explorer is in its very early stages, there is no clarity if the dark mode would ship in File Explorer with Redstone 5, or would it postponed to a later update....

WinFuture, a German site reports that mentions people close to the matter, Microsoft in addition to the traditional DVDs has plan to launch Windows 10 on USB sticks too, thereby, giving another install option for users all over the world. The 32-bit and the 64-bit version of Windows 10 both will come on USB flash pens. However, both the versions will be running on the same drive and users will be given the option to choose which one to install, claims the aforementioned site....

Now, Microsoft’s Jen Gentleman has teased a new feature that will allow users to add support for images in Sticky Notes. This feature will be made available to Windows Insiders first most likely in the upcoming update. — Jen Gentleman ? (@JenMsft) November 20, 2018 For those unaware, Microsoft had recently rolled out the new syncing feature on iOS and Android via the OneNote app. It also rolled out the new full-on Dark Mode that now use a dark grey background color for Sticky Notes....

After Satya took over as CEO of Microsoft, we have seen Microsoft genuinely appreciating all that is beautiful with Linux. In fact, last year, Microsoft brought the ability to use Linux binaries from within Windows 10 using the Bash shell. This made it possible for Windows 10 users to run Linux from within the Windows 10. Satya is now taking a step further towards full Linuxisation of Microsoft. Now Microsoft plans to list popular Linux distros like SUSE, Ubuntu, and Fedora to the Windows Store....

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday sentenced all the three men, Paras Jha, Josiah White, and Dalton Norman, all aged in their 20s, to just five years of probation—no prison time. The decision was announced after U.S. prosecutors said that the three men had provided “extensive” and “exceptional” assistance to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in several cybersecurity matters. The trio will also have to serve 2500 hours of community service and need to pay US$127,000 (A$175,000) in restitution each....

The security issue had been brought to light over three years ago as a critical vulnerability, however it was only patched around 2 years ago according to Matherly. Affected older versions of MongoDB lack a ‘bind_ip 127.0.0.1’ option set in the mongodb.conf, leaving their server vulnerable if the user is unaware of the setting, the 2012 security advisory stated. Matherly said it appeared only older versions than 2.6 were affected – a significant problem given most users are on version 2....

According to the latest data released by StatCounter, Chrome clinches the top position with a mighty 54.89% of the worldwide browser market share, followed by Apple’s Safari with 14.88%, UC Browser with 7.43%, Mozilla’s Firefox with 5.9%, Microsoft Edge with 3.69%, and the remaining belonging to others. However, Mozilla has decided to dethrone Google’s Chrome by giving it a competition with its next major release. The company will call the latest version of its web browsing software as “Firefox Quantum” instead of “Firefox 57”, which will be available to all Firefox users beginning November 14....

NASA just announced that it is making all its publicly funded research available online for free. In other words, any published research funded by the space agency will now be available at no cost on a new portal called PubSpace, than anybody can access. NASA-funded research articles such as the effects of space station living on the hair follicles of astronauts to the chances of life on one of Saturn’s moons can now be found by the public on the new portal....