Malware Found In Surveillance Cameras Sold Through Amazon Techworm

Olsen said that he was searching for “a simple set of good outdoor surveillance cameras” for a friend, when he found what he thought was a good deal for 6 Sony Chip HD PoE cameras and recording equipment. The seller, Urban Security Group, had mostly good reviews, so Olsen made the purchase. After purchasing the kit, Olsen started setting up the surveillance system, logging into the administrator panel to configure it....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 389 words · John Jean

Mark Zuckerberg And Stephen Hawking Just Had The Most Awe Inspiring Q A Ever

However, the Townhall took a weird twist when a handful of Facebook’s more high profile users, including Stephen Hawking, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arianna Huffington, chimed in with their own questions for the Facebook boss. In the literal sense of the word, the conversation was the most overwhelming of the bunch. It’s hard to imagine this kind of public interaction, between Zuckerberg and one of the world’s greatest scientists, taking place in a world without the Internet, or without Facebook....

January 3, 2023 · 3 min · 490 words · Leslie Cha

Maxthon Browser Caught Sending Sensitive Personal Data To China Techworm

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....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 242 words · Timothy Pal

Meet Hack Rod The World S First Car Designed By Artificial Intelligence Ai Techworm

Hack Rod is a collaboration between Primordial Research Project, design software giant Autodesk and media company Bandito Brothers. The key persons behind Hack Road are Autodesk research fellow Mickey McManus and Bandito Brothers CEO and creative director Mouse McCoy. The idea of building Hack Road came to McCoy. Two years ago, McCoy told Fast Company, he decided to figure out the future of making things. “I knocked on the door of Autodesk,” he recalled, and ended up meeting McManus, who soon became inspired to see how his interest in digital fabrication and machine learning could be applied to the trillion-dollar auto industry....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 399 words · Claude Wilson

Microsoft Dell Skype Kaspersky Msn Bing Domains Of Malaysia Hacked By Bangladeshi Hacker Tiger M Te Techworm

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January 3, 2023 · 1 min · 18 words · John Micale

Microsoft And Facebook Collaborate To Build A Transatlantic Subsea Internet Cable Techworm

The parties have cleared conditions to go Contract-In-Force (CIF) with their plans, and the construction of the “state of the art” undersea cable system will begin in August 2016 with over 6,600 kilometers to be laid by October 2017. Frank Rey, Microsoft Director for global network acquisition described that “this marks an important new step in building the next-generation infrastructure of the Internet.” Christian Belady, General Manager, Datacenter Strategy, Planning & Development, Microsoft Corp, said “As the world is increasingly moving toward a future based on cloud computing, Microsoft continues to invest in our cloud infrastructure to meet current and future growing global demand for our more than 200 cloud services, including Bing, Office 365, Skype, Xbox Live and the Microsoft Azure platform....

January 3, 2023 · 3 min · 588 words · Arthur Woodruff

Microsoft Announces Identity Bounty Program That Offers Payouts Up To 100 000

For those unaware, a digital identity is the body of information about an individual, organization or electronic device that exists online. Digital identities of customers are usually the key to accessing enterprise applications and services and interacting across the Internet. Phillip Misner, Microsoft’s Principal Security Group Manager, in a blog post noted that the company has heavily invested in the “creation, implementation, and improvement of identity-related specifications that foster strong authentication, secure sign-on, sessions, API security, and other critical infrastructure tasks, as part of the community of standards experts within official standards bodies such as IETF, W3C, or the OpenID Foundation....

January 3, 2023 · 4 min · 698 words · David Drayton

Microsoft Is Allegedly Creating A Slack Competitor With The Help Of Skype Techworm

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....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 298 words · Kenneth Klarich

Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Creators Update Here S How To Download It Manually Techworm

The tool installs Build 15063 of the Windows 10 Insiders Build program, which will become the official Windows 10 Creators Update next week. Those interested in downloading the tool can do so via the Microsoft site. This option is intended for advanced users on devices running a licensed version of Windows 10. If you don’t have Assistant, then click here to download it, and follow the instructions to update to version 1703....

January 3, 2023 · 1 min · 208 words · Juan Deleon

Microsoft S Xbox Series S Confirmed By Microsoft With 299 Price Tag

Besides Xbox Series S, the Redmond giant is also expected to unveil Xbox Series X – the more powerful console – with a price tag of $499. Both consoles will reportedly launch on November 10th, 2020. Initially trusted Microsoft leaker Brad Sams leaked a photo render via his Twitter account and Thurrott.com showing the Xbox Series S console is white in color. It is placed next to a white Xbox controller and doesn’t seem to have a disc drive....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 335 words · Shantel Burch

Microsoft To Pay 300 For Your Old Used Macbook Provided You Buy New Windows 10 Pc

Panos Panay, the man in charges of gadgets in Microsoft has made it no secret that Microsoft considers Surface Pro 3 a worthy replacement for the laptops built by Cupertino based firm. And he has mounted a new campaign to convince MacBook owners to switch to Windows 10. As WinBeta reported, Microsoft is offering up to $300 (265 Euro) for your old MacBook if you purchase a new Windows 10 PC that costs $599 (525 Euro) or more....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 265 words · Karin Sirmans

Microsoft To Permanently Shut Down All Of Its Retail Stores Worldwide

The Redmond giant will now focus on selling its products on digital retail moving forward. However, the company’s retail team members will continue to serve customers from Microsoft corporate facilities and remotely providing sales, training, and support. While Microsoft is pulling the plug on nearly all of its retail stores, the four Microsoft Store locations that will remain open are New York, London, Sydney, and Redmond campus locations, transforming these last stores standing into what it’s calling “Experience Centers”....

January 3, 2023 · 3 min · 504 words · Danielle Stracener

Microsoft Warns About Malware Campaign Infecting Chrome Edge And Firefox

According to Microsoft, a persistent malware campaign has been actively distributing an evolved browser modifier malware at scale since at least May 2020. In August 2020, the threat was its peak where over 30,000 devices were infected by the malware every day. “We call this family of browser modifiers Adrozek. If not detected and blocked, Adrozek adds browser extensions, modifies a specific DLL per target browser, and changes browser settings to insert additional, unauthorized ads into web pages, often on top of legitimate ads from search engines,” the Microsoft Team wrote....

January 3, 2023 · 3 min · 635 words · Dorothy Pratt

Netflix Games Adds 10 New Titles This Month

To start with, Netflix Games has immediately made the newly added mobile game, Lucky Luna (Snowman) available to play. Luna is a 2D vertical scrolling platformer in which players will explore the magical journey into the depths of hidden temples and secret dungeons while unlocking the mysteries about the past of the protagonist Luna. Further, Desta: The Memories Between, is another narrative-driven, turn-based tactical rogue-like game centered around throwing a ball, which is set to launch exclusively on the Netflix Games Platform on September 27....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 305 words · Twyla Vanhouten

New Planet Located 1 000 Light Years Away From Earth Discovered By A 15 Year Old Intern

Wagg was able to detect a tiny dip in the light of a star as a planet passed in front of it and thus was able to spot the planet. After further observations and study the planet discovered by Wagg has been given the approval of being a planet and the entire follow up procedure took almost 2 years. Hence, now Wagg is 17 years old. He says: “I’m hugely excited to have a found a new planet, and I’m very impressed that we can find them so far away....

January 3, 2023 · 4 min · 714 words · Robert Barrow

Nintendo And Google Team Up To Bring Mario Kart To Google Maps Techworm

To celebrate this, Nintendo has teamed up with Google to bring Mario straight to Google Maps on Mario Day. Starting today, Google Maps users will have the option to replace the usual blue navigation arrow that marks your car’s position in navigation mode with Mario and his Super Mario Kart appearance. The updated feature will remain active for the following week. According to Google, “We know a true Mario fan when we see one....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 279 words · Albert Messenger

No More Ipv4 Addresses In United States And Canada What S Next

ARIN, the nonprofit organization that handles Internet addresses in America, finally announced the long-predicted exhaustion of IPv4 addresses in North America, with the region’s authority left with no further supply of the 32-bit labels to issue. This means that the free pool of IPv4 addresses has reached zero and the availability of IPv4 addresses no more exists. The announcement came after years of warnings from ARIN and others that IPv4 addresses were running out and that enterprises and carriers should adopt the next protocol, IPv6....

January 3, 2023 · 3 min · 597 words · Janis Page

Nsa Hacked Juniper S Firewall Software Snowden Leaks Techworm

The documents leaked by the serial US whistleblower and former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, shows Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which is the UK’s foremost electronic intelligence and surveillance agency enlisted the American agency’s help to access the firewalls. The revelations come as the Intercept website released a six-page document dating back to 2011 titled “Assessment of Intelligence Opportunity – Juniper” that was written by an NSA employee working with GCHQ....

January 3, 2023 · 2 min · 359 words · Andrea Cardwell

Nsa Spying In Vienna At Chaos Meet Techworm

Möchel’s detailed his findings from documents leaked from secret archives within the NSA and CIA brought to light by Edward Snowden a former systems administrator and defense contractor with Booz Allen Hamilton, currently in exile from the U.S. According to Möchel the documents illustrate a robust clandestine NSA operation within the Austrian capital. With working relations involving more than 17,000 accredited diplomats working within the United Nations, IAEA, UNIDO, CTBTO, OSCE and OPEC....

January 3, 2023 · 3 min · 568 words · Viola Lovern

Ntp Flaw In Linux Mac And Bsd Os Distros Can Be Used To Compromise Encryption

One of the 8 security vulnerabilities discovered by Cisco’s engineers allows attackers to manipulate a target’s clock, making the victim believe they traveled to the future. Cisco engineers have stated that the vulnerabilities affect the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd), responsible for synchronizing time across computer networks (like the Internet, Intranets or smaller LANs). The reported vulnerabilities include an error handling logic error that bypassed proper authentication, procedures letting attackers change local system time; multiple memory corruption issues that open the protocol for buffer overflow or use-after-free attacks; multiple vulnerabilities that caused DoS (Denial of Service) states by crashing the daemon or making it enter an infinite loop; and a directory traversal and file overwrite issue that allowed attackers to overwrite ntpd configs....

January 3, 2023 · 1 min · 150 words · Denise Figueroa