A Maryland man has pleaded guilty in a federal court in Chicago for operating a hacker-for-hire service that shut down company websites and targeted victims for as little as $20 for online harassment. Zachary Buchta, a 20-year-old admitted in his plea agreement with prosecutors confessed to launching cyberattacks and harassment campaigns as a founding member of the hacker-for-hire groups Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp, according to the Chicago Tribune. Butcha pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit damage to protected computers — a charge that can carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison....

According to a Malaysian news website The Star, some 30 computers belonging different authorities and individuals, involved in the multi-nation probe were infected by a malware. The cyber criminals successfully hacked into the systems of the personnel including those of Civil Aviation Department and the National Security Council and MAS with the help of this malware. Star reported that the malware was sent posing as a PDF attachment to a new article emailed to the investigating officers on the next day of the disappearance i....

A Ukrainian man has legally changed his named to iPhone 7 to score a free Apple smartphone. Olexander Turin is now officially known as iPhone Sim (Seven), after an electronics store in Kiev offered the Apple phone to the first five people to rename themselves after the device, reported AP. While the smartphone costs approximately $850 in Ukraine, 20-year-old Olexander Turin aka iPhone Sim (Sim translates to seven in Ukrainian), got one for free as part of an electronics store’s promotion offer....

Speaking to the Tsinghua University in Beijing, Zuckerberg was dressed in his standard gray t-shirt and jeans. He spoke about why he had created Facebook and what was driving him to continue running the company through its rough times. He posted a video of the speech with English subtitles on Sunday, saying it was “my first ever speech in Chinese.” Forbes reports that Zuckerberg has been learning Chinese for several years and surprised the public in October last year when he carried out a Q&A at Tsinghua entirely in Mandarin....

The Noto Project, is a five-year collaboration between Google and font specialist Monotype, to create a typeface that applies to any language and make Android and ChromeOS more accessible. The fonts are available under an open source OFL (Open Font License), both to use and to be modified with more design tweaks. The name Noto comes from the phrase ‘No more tofu’, and its aim is to efficiently free the world of little blocks (‘?...

The penalty stemmed from an investigation that the DPC commenced on April 14, 2021 into news reports that a collated dataset of Facebook personal data on more than 533 million users was made available on the internet, following an instance of scraping. In the data breach, the personal data of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries were leaked on a well-known hacking forum from 2018 to 2019, which included their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and – in some cases – email addresses, making them a potential target for threat actors....

Quick features and technical specs of the new Surface 3: In comparison to the Surface Pro 3 the new Surface 3 is thinner with 8.7 mm thickness, smaller, lighter weighing 622 grams and less-powerful and available in the same silver magnesium casing. Price of Surface 3 is also less and it is available for $499 which includes Surface 3 with 64GB of internal storage and 2GB of RAM however this does not include the accessories....

According to Microsoft, it has identified compatibility issues with some versions of Avast Antivirus and AVG Antivirus that contains an application that is version 19.5.4444.567 or earlier. The affected platforms include Windows 10 version 1909 (November 2019 Update) and Windows 10 Version 1903 (May 2019 Update). As a result, the company is blocking the updates on devices that use affected versions of the antivirus software. “Microsoft and Avast has identified compatibility issues with some versions of Avast Antivirus and AVG Antivirus....

Microsoft also announced the opening of the first Microsoft Transparency Center which provide participating governments with the ability to review source code for Microsoft’s key products, assure themselves of their software integrity, and confirm that there are no “back doors.”open in its software.

After being tested intensively by company employees for six months, Microsoft wants to get more feedback on Cortana from those participating in the Windows Insider program before rolling it out to users in the store. “In the spirit of the Windows Insider Program, we’re looking for a limited number of people to get their hands on an early version of the app. It’s important to keep in mind that this is the first public release of the Cortana for iOS beta,” the company said in an announcement on its Community forums....

Back in April 2014, Microsoft had completed its acquisition of Nokia’s Devices and Services division. In November same year, it revealed the first Microsoft Lumia device, the 535. Also, during the period effective November 2014 until March 2015, the company only manufactured low-end devices, such as the Lumia 430, 435, 532, 540, 636, 638, 640, and 640 XL, indicating that Microsoft wanted to scale back on its mobile hardware production....

Microsoft’s official response is: Throughout the week, Microsoft forced Windows 7/8.1 users to opt for Windows 10 by automatically downloading a 6GB update package and barraging them with incessant popups that their PCs were ready for Windows 10 update. Earlier, Windows 7/8.1 users could opt-out of such process but now there is no longer an option to opt-out of upgrading altogether. The fact that Microsoft wants you to upgrade to Windows 10 come whatever may is not lost when not even GWX Control Panel, a third-party tool that lets you manage or sidestep such updates, is not able to do so....

Microsoft’s trying to make the translator feature available to larger set of users. Since the removal of sign-up process last month, Skype Translator preview has seen a 300 percent increase in the usage, according to the company. Skype Translator was announced in December last year. It lets you translate your speech in real time both as speech and text. Currently the service supports English, Spanish, Mandarin and Italian languages for real time speech translation, but Microsoft will roll out support to more languages in coming months....

https://bma.mil.bd/gh.html The website is left defaced with a message “Hacked by ghost-dz, Algerian Hacker”. The reason for this attack is still unknown. Hacking of a military website shows the high skill of the hacker, it is not clear if any classified data has been leaked or not. BMA is a training institute for officer cadets of Bangladesh Army. while publishing the article, the website was still defaced. Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below

Researcher finds Torrent censorship bypassing proxy websites are loaded with malware injecting scriptsMost of the Torrent site proxies which are used to access the blocked sites have shown to contain malware and pose a great security threat. Some of the big ISPs in UK, Italy, Denmark and France have all blocked the leading torrent sites; however movie and music lovers are still finding out ways and means to bypass these restrictions....

Verizon is hosting the Android 5.1 Lollipop simulator here and No, you can’t actually download the pre-release build of Android 5.1 and install it on your DROID Turbo. However you can visit the simulator website and “get to know” the features Android 5.1 Lollipop will be bringing to DROID Turbo using an interactive guide that walks you through things like downloading apps and adding widgets to your home screen, using Google Now and Google Maps, and browsing the web in Google Chrome....

The file when executed creates and executes the TibanneSocket.exe binary and searches for the files bitcoin.conf and wallet.dat and sends it to remotely located command and control server. Kaspersky have managed to locate of the C & C server and found it to be in Bulgaria. The server was offline at the time of writing of this article. Since most people are curious to see the leaked data, the trojan creator smelled a opportunity and released the malicious code through the binaries....

The crew and two professional environment technicians will travel to Florida International University’s Aquarius Reef Base undersea research habitat, which is 6.2 miles off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. NEEMO 20 mission aims to evaluate tools and techniques that could be used for future spacewalks on various surfaces and gravity levels, including asteroids, moons of Mars and the Martian surface. NEEMO project lead Bill Todd said: “The NEEMO team is particularly excited about this mission as it is a massive milestone to have achieved 20 missions at Aquarius over the past 15 years....

While fingers can definitely be pointed towards manufacturers who do not put in significant amounts of efforts in order to release security and software updates, the fault lies with us as well. The latest study from a firm called Duo Security has found out that in addition to featuring poor security protocols, Android device owners are not doing enough to keep the data stored on their devices safe. The security firm also reported that only one in 10 Android devices has enabled pre-boot passcode device encryption, though this may change as more Android 6....

Although if you have Facebook friends who like Donald Trump or his Facebook Page, your news feed may be littered with his campaign post. However, you’d like a wholesale, comprehensive list, FriendsWhoLikeTrump is the website for you. The site will redirect you to a Facebook search showing a list of your friends who like the GOP front-runner. Once you get the list, you can unfriend them at a click of a button....