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Unfortunately, that happened recently to millions of customers at a popular bank in the U.S. The bank suffered a data breach late last year but only notified its customers this month that hackers stole the personal details of over 1.5 million users. This included Social Security numbers. Read on to find out how this happened and what you can do about it. Here’s the backstory Flagstar Bank is one of the largest mortgage lenders in the country and has over 150 branches....

Not all are destined to stay in the app stores for long, though. Both Google and Apple are known to remove apps that are problematic or violate their terms of service. Both Apple and Google pulled the social media app Parler recently, too. There are tons of different reasons apps are removed from an app store. Over the years, Google, in particular, has been quick to pull apps for problems with deceptive practices....

The company announced on the Chrome Blog that Data Saver mode will soon eliminate most images on a page when a slow connection is detected. If you want to try load them anyway, you can tap a button at the bottom of the page to do so. You’ll have to wait for the feature to arrive int he U.S., however, as is testing this out in India Indonesia first. Those are key emerging markets for , are commonly afflicted by slow connections....

To help you choose which gadgets deserve their place under the Christmas tree, Mozilla, the nonprofit organization known for its Firefox browser, just released its “Privacy Not Included” list for 2018. From interactive pet cameras, all-knowing parrots, drones and smart speakers, Mozilla evaluated the security and privacy policies of 70 popular gadgets that you will likely encounter this season. Although Mozilla stresses that its list shouldn’t be taken as the ultimate buying guide, it does expose the security weaknesses of connected toys and gadgets and Internet-of-Things appliances in general....

The CyanogenMod team has started rolling out the M12 build of CyanogenMod for all their supported devices. The release focuses more towards stability and security fixes and is “less heavy on features.” On the security front, the CM11 M12 build includes the new upstream patches from Google for the POODLE vulnerability in SSLv3. This is a pretty serious security issue and CyanogenMod strongly encourages its users to update their devices to the latest M build....

I don’t think I’ve ever come across a more rugged smartwatch than the Garmin Instinct Solar. This smartwatch is water-rated to 100m and made to US military standard 810 for thermal, shock, and water resistance. You can take this watch anywhere and everywhere and find your way back home with Garmin’s use of multiple navigation technologies. Review: Rugged GPS sports watch powered by the sun If the battery life on this Garmin Instinct Solar isn’t enough for you, you are also able to adjust features on-the-go to see which features are using the most battery life so you can prioritize the features you love most....

Such bigger and bigger programs are resource hogs, and that is an important issue in the ethics of deep learning for society, a dilemma that has caught the attention of mainstream science journals such as Nature. That’s why it’s interesting any time that the term efficiency is brought up, as in, Can we make this AI program more efficient? Scientists at DeepMind, and at Google’s Brain division, recently adapted a neural network they introduced last year, Perceiver, to make it more efficient in terms of its computer power requirement....

But don’t let the lack of drama fool you: unveiled a wealth of slick-looking devices in San Francisco, seemingly retired the beloved Nexus line. There was also an underlying element of tension, as quietly but effectively stepped on the toes of its staunch hardware partners. t’s dig in. Assistant can do everything from answering basic questions to helping you identify which restaurants you might like near a movie you have tickets for, then help you book reservations let your buddies know what’s up....

The test on this technology of self-destruction has already occurred in France, some of its users have applied this function on Thursday, messenger users later after successfully tested with this technology they will receive an update through which they will be able to find out the hourglass icon at the right-top side in the messenger application. Facebook Testing on Self Destruction Messages Disappear After an Hour What is the exact happening after you select that hourglass icon in messenger app?...

ile the release mostly brings bug fixes general performance improvements, there are a few stout features. Most notably, the new version brings iOS support for the new on-watch ay Store, letting ione users enjoy the same stalone application experience as Android users. Additionally, Android ar apps running on watches paired with iOS devices will be able to perform phone “h-off flows” for launching web pages on the linked ione. The new update also optimizes the available network bwidth for stalone apps, in an effort to save battery life....

Elsewhere, we see the return of a classic Sega gaming franchise in a very new form, as Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire offers up a simple tapper that puts a pretty funny target on Uber. And if you need more Android options this week, we also have a spotlight on Bouncy Hoops, Samsung’s SoundAssistant, the not-actually-bad Really Bad Chess. th Guide Maps other navigation apps can get us anywhere in a hurry, but what if you’re trying to find your way around the inside of a building?...

In the previous article of this series, we discussed how format string vulnerabilities can be exploited. This article provides a case study of how format string vulnerabilities can be used to exploit serious vulnerabilities such as Buffer Overflows. We will begin by understanding what stack canaries are and then we will exploit a Buffer Overflow vulnerability by making use of a format string vulnerability. What is stack canary? Stack Canaries are used to detect a stack buffer overflow before execution is transferred to the user controlled code....

Previously, the game, of course, Fortnite, was only available to download from the Epic Game website. But, now it has found its way to the Google Play Store. Yes, you read that right! The game is available on the Google Play Store and it can be downloaded for free. The Official Statement from Epic Games: Epic Games has released a statement that reads, “After 18 months of operating Fortnite on Android outside of the Google Play Store, we’ve come to a basic realization....

China Took an Advantage of iPhone hack to Target Muslim community A recent report that Techviral published today stated that a lot of hacked websites are exploiting iPhone users’ security and stealing their personal information by implanting malware. The whole research was conducted by Google Zero project members. The report claimed that hackers could easily target a particular demographic, interest, and a nation. According to TechCrunch, the hacked websites were a part of the state-backed attack, China, that were designed to target the Uighur community of Xinjiang state....

This update brings with it some relatively minor changes. According to ‘s Chrome Releases blog, highlights include: Support for Battery Status Screen orientation As Additional Material Design updates ts of bug fixes performance improvements! A fix for the security vulnerability: spoofing with scrollbar. This is yet another example of a app getting its final touches in place before the launch of Android /a>, expected to come within the next few weeks....

Among these notable changes are the fact that Comcast once again detected the downstream traffic on its networks is increasing at a faster rate than upstream traffic, with an 11% rise in downstream occurring during 2021, compared to only a 5% increase in upstream traffic. This could point at fewer students and employees working from home, using upstream-heavy apps like video chat solutions and making fewer cloud storage uploads. In a similar vein, Comcast also recorded peak usage times once again shifting towards the evening for home users....

Sections are similar to what we saw in PE structure like .text, .rodata etc. These sections get merged into unnamed segments which OS loader picks up and maps them into memory. So lets’s go through the complete ELF structure ELF Header Before we begin, it is important to note that in ELF *addr will refer to virtual address where as * will refer to file offset. Important fields for us here are:...

IonCube encoding on the Blackhole Exploit PHP scripts These kits are specifically designed to target vulnerabilities in unpatched system that may be in Java, Adobe Reader or an unpatched installation of Flash. Blackhole Exploit kit obfuscated Javascripts targeting vulnerabilities Functional Analysis Now the question arises, what makes these kits exploit and compromise our systems? The procedure is fairly simple. Firstly, a victim visits a malicious website hosted on hacker-owned machine, which gives him the freedom to play with the security of the website....

A myriad of companies has tried and mostly failed to try to strike an equilibrium in that equation. Dell is one of them, and their new Inspiron 7373 is yet another shot at this. The company introduced the notebook in India a few weeks back for a starting price of Rs 74,490. I have been employing the machine as my primary workstation for over a week, and in a lot of aspects, the laptop does impress....

As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Stack Overflow looked into the wellbeing habits of software developers to determine what steps they took to decrease stress and prioritize their wellness. It found that over 60% of developers have never taken a day off for their mental health – suggesting employers could be doing more to emphasise the importance of prioritizing personal health and wellbeing in the workplace. Tech workers are particularly susceptible to workplace stress....