For those unaware, Emotet, one of the world’s most infamous botnets, is a network of hijacked computers and devices infected with malware and controlled remotely by cybercriminals. This network is then used to send spam and launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. It can also be rented out to other cybercriminals. This specially crafted time bomb by the European authorities instructed the software to self-destruct on Sunday, April 25, 2021....

The incident was first reported by the English-language Ukrainian news site UNIAN. The episode occurred took place in July at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant at Yuzhnoukrainsk, in southern Ukraine. The employees installed several bitcoin mining equipment at one of the plant’s administrative buildings to take advantage of the uninterruptible electricity from the local grid as well as the plant’s internet connectivity. By doing so, they unintentionally disclosed information on the site’s security arrangements at the nuclear facility....

To prove this point, a team at the University of Edinburgh carried out a detailed security investigation of two popular models of wearable fitness trackers, Fitbit One and Fitbit Flex, made by Fitbit. Fitbit secures its devices with end-to-end encryption. However, when Fitbit One and Fitbit Flex were modified to bypass encryption system, the researchers were able to gain access to stored information proving that these devices provided no protection against the hack....

Endless Mobile, Inc., which develops the Linux-based operating system, Endless OS and reference platform hardware for it, has recently announced Endless OS 3.4, which is the company’s latest major release. According to Endless OS’ community manager Michael Hall, Endless OS 3.4 is a “huge step forward in our journey to help you take advantage of an internet connection when you have it, and be respectful of your limited data plan if that’s what you are using to connect....

Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs and a former UK deputy prime minister, in a statement posted to Twitter, said the company has acted after receiving requests from several governments from outside of the EU to block Russian state media. He added Facebook would continue to work closely with governments on the issue. — Google Europe (@googleeurope) March 1, 2022 The company has already started demoting content from Facebook pages and Instagram accounts from Russian state-controlled media outlets, which will make it difficult for users to locate these pages and their content across its platforms....

“Seeing too many photos of your uncle’s new cat? Is your friend tempting you with endless photos of ramen on her Japan trip? It turns out, you’re not alone,” Shruthi Muraleedharan, Facebook product manager said in an announcement blog post. “With Snooze, you don’t have to unfollow or unfriend permanently, rather just stop seeing someone’s posts for a short period of time. The people, Pages, and groups you snooze will not be notified....

Facebook and Instagram outage not due to any hack but some code mis-configuration says FacebookFacebook outage ascribed to hack attack by Lizard Squad At around 2.15 am ET, both the services were up and limping back to normalcy and now they have been restored to their 100 % running state. Facebook officials categorically denied any hacking or third party attack on Facebook and Instagram. A Facebook spokesperson told The Next Web that the reason behind the outage was a misconfigured code....

However, not all personal information can be hidden. Amongst those, it includes your friends list even though there is an option to hide that. It has been found that the actual problem lies in the Facebook’s mutual-friends feature concept, which in the past has been a point of debate giving rise to privacy security. However, now Google has come up with a new Free Chrome extension called “Facebook Friends Mapper”, which can reveal much more than just the list of mutual friends of the two Facebook users....

In a blog post on Thursday, Facebook said that it has scaled its infrastructure significantly covering over 98% of people in the mainland United States and is on track to hit 100% by the fall of this year. The company has started the rollout in Canada and Mexico, and it will reach Western and Central Europe by early 2022. “Over 1.5 million people are playing cloud-streamed games on Facebook Gaming every month....

Facebook Reality Labs (FRL), a division of Facebook that studies long-term tech products and hardware, is supporting a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSFC) who are working to help patients with neurological damage speak again by studying their brain activity in real-time. In an article published in the journal ‘Nature Communications’, the UCSF team “has shared how far we have to go to achieve fully non-invasive BCI as a potential input solution for AR glasses”, said Facebook in a blog post on Tuesday describing the brain-computer interface device....

Apparently, Facebook is pushing its users to download and install a Facebook-owned VPN client called “Onavo Protect” on their devices under the pretext of protecting their account. VPN (short for virtual private network) is used to safeguard users’ online privacy and keep their IP address anonymous particularly when using public Wi-Fi networks by creating a secure connection to another network over the Internet. However, Onavo Protect is just doing exactly the opposite....

To figure out the top ten moments of the year, Facebook counted how frequently a topic was mentioned in Facebook posts made between January 1 and November 27, 2016. Mentions were analysed in an “aggregated, anonymised way”, and then ranked to create a snapshot of the year, the social network says. The last 12 months has been clearly dominated by politics, which is also shown in the list. With the rise of Donald Trump to the American presidency, to the “Brazilian Politics” and, of course, Pokemon Go, all of them have found themselves as the most popular topics, globally....

This unique method enables threat actors to distribute phishing attacks, spread false information or steal credentials and data from users’ WhatsApp accounts, and more. Called ‘FlixOnline’, the app is a fake service that claims to allow users to view Netflix content from all around the world on their mobiles for free. However, instead of allowing the mobile user to view Netflix content, the app monitors the user’s WhatsApp notifications and sends automatic replies to incoming messages using content that it receives from a remote command and control (C&C) server....

Hacking Team is a secretive Milan-based firm which specializes in the sale of surveillance tools, malware and exploits to governments, law enforcement and private firms worldwide. The firm hit news headlines after it was hacked and much of 450GB data stolen from its servers was leaked online by the hackers. Rook has released a tool called “Milano utility” which scans systems for the presence of files associated with the recent Hacking Team breach....

According to the researchers, the malware, named Irongate, was first submitted to VirusTotal in 2014 but seems that it had gone unnoticed until it was identified in the course of FireEye’s research into droppers compiled with PyInstaller in late 2015. VirusTotal is a Google-owned website where users can submit suspicious files to be scanned by antivirus engines. The researchers discovered two malware samples that included a suspicious extension labeled SCADA....

The study, which was a collaboration between University of Sussex (UK), Google, RIKEN (Japan), Siegen University (Germany), and Aarhus University (Denmark), is featured in the journal Science Advances. In the past, scientists had proposed using fiber optic connections to link individual computer modules to obtain efficient computing powers. The invention introduces connections created by electric fields that let charged atoms (ions) to be transported from one module to another. Researchers said they have managed to overcome some important obstacles, developing a “new approach (that) would allow 100,000 times faster connection speeds between individual quantum computing modules compared to current state-of-the-art fibre link technology,” said the study, which would be a leap forward toward building a universal quantum computer....

Due to its enormous benefits in terms of multitasking for people who work with many programs at once, using multiple displays has become increasingly popular. In general, it boosts productivity while also improving a workspace’s appearance. This is the reason why many Youtubers, Programmers, and Video editors prefer a dual monitor setup nowadays Setting up a second monitor is quite easy and can be done in a short period of time....

Windows 10 upgrades have interrupted live weather newscasts and livestreaming of games which have been reported in the media. There may be countless other unreported interruptions Microsoft’s nagware may have caused but this time we have some good news. A Windows 10 upgrade actually did something good. Yes it is true, Windows 10 forced upgrade has worked in favor of at least one user, who was saved from the recent TeamViewer hack....

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Regardless, the single RAM module is able to reach a speed of 5,0002MHz, breaking the previous world record of 4,901.6MHz. The timings of the gaming RAM were 31-31-31-63-2 and the stock frequency of the RAM was 2,133MHz, meaning that the new overclocking record achieved resulted in a 134.5 percent margin. The remainder of the components that made up the entire machine comprised of an Intel Core i5-6600K processor, and an MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC motherboard....