FireEye Inc. pointed out that the attacks have been designed to collect information, likely from classified government networks and other sources, belonging to political and military issues such as disputes over the South China Sea. Satellite images released recently indicate a major expansion in China’s construction of artificial islands on disputed reefs, thereby increasing concerns about Beijing’s territorial ambitions. Beijing claims in the disputed South China Sea overlap with those of Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Taiwan and the Philippines—a U....

CloudFlare is a service that helps websites stay online in the face of overwhelming traffic. It acts as an intermediary or filter and is a vital protection against DDoS attacks wherein the attacker sends huge amounts of unwanted traffic to a website to throttle it and take it down. Due to this reason, Anonymous alleges it cant bring down certain IS websites. Anonymous member have openly accused CloudFlare of protecting ISIS run propaganda website despite their terror affiliations....

Computer solves 120 year old planarian regeneration puzzle without human helpArtificial Intelligence system proved that it is capable of independently solving a mind boggling Planarian regeneration mystery which had puzzled biologists for over a century As per a recent research article published in the science journal, PLOS Computational Biology, two biologists from the Tufts University, Michael Levin and Daniel Lobo were able to give a solution to the Planarian regeneration mystery with the help of a computer which they had programmed in such a way that it could develop scientific theories independently without taking any help from humans....

Cyber-criminals are using YouTube by posting lots of fake windows 10 “activators” videos. If user activates this fake activator they would be directed to some illicit survey websites which may be a source of generating finance to these criminals. The website might lead users to click unwanted hidden ads and thus make illicit gains for the scam operators. Some of these Windows 10 “activators” can lead the user to download unwanted applications which can lead to PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) and viruses....

Dark Web hackers retaliate to FBI’s ‘Operation Onymous’Notoriety of DoxbinNot as difficult as it seems Notoriety of Doxbin Doxbin attained fame during the trial of Silk Road, the original dark web drug smuggling website which was taken down by the FBI. The judge presiding over the trial had been targeted and threatened by the people behind the Silk Road. During the operation, the FBI only shut down the Silk Road website and did not arrest the owners of the site as they so famously did in the case of Silk Road 2....

Communication is so important that it is not only limited to humans but it’s too important for to pets, the plants and the computers. Sometimes people can talk with their pets, which really needs an effective communication. Unlike pets and plants, computers might one day respond and communicate so so thinks DARPA engineers. DARPA’s new ‘Communicating with Computers’ (CwC) program aims to develop technology to turn computers into good communicators with humans....

The attempt to curb cyberattacks have been in vain, as the system continued to reboot, leaving several hundred without a proper heating system and hot water for more than a week. This is actually a very dangerous time for the heating system to be broken down, especially with a DDoS attack. Apartments and houses comprise up of older aged inhabitants, and the extreme environment without the facility of a heating system could actually result in death....

The original Mavic Air was released in January 2018 immediately gained attention for its unbelievably compact size, quality 4K camera, and portable design. “Mavic Air 2 is another milestone for DJI, demonstrating that our smartest consumer drone does not have to be the largest,” said DJI President Roger Luo. “While the Mavic Air 2 bears all the hallmarks of the Mavic drone family, we had to completely rethink its design and development process....

The reason goes back to the time of manual typewriters. These typewriters in earlier days did have the keys arranged in alphabetical order. However, it was later discovered that the people typed so fast that the mechanical character keys got jammed very easily with this arrangement. To prevent this, the keys were randomly positioned so that the weaker fingers were needed more frequently. This meant that people typed at a speed which the machine could handle....

Election Commission of Nepal is the body responsible for monitoring elections in Nepal as well as registering parties and candidates and reporting Election outcomes in Nepal. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Commission_of_Nepal) The Hacked website was showing a Deface page with short message saying,

The breakthrough can make the Internet superfast and cheap, by increasing data transmission rates for the fibre optic cables, which serve as the backbone of the Internet, cable and landline networks. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego published in the June 26 issue of the journal Science detailing how they were able to increase the maximum power under which fiber optic signals can be transmitted and accurately decoded....

“If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they’re confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms. However, if it turns out that their SEC filings are materially false, then it should not,” Musk tweeted earlier on Saturday. “I hereby challenge @paraga to a public debate about the Twitter bot percentage. Let him prove to the public that Twitter has <5% fake or spam daily users!...

“This status code indicates that the server is denying access to the resource as a consequence of a legal demand,” said IETF in a statement. The 451 HTTP error code was first proposed in 2012 as a tribute to Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, and was suggested by former Google engineer Tim Bray, XML specification author. The code 451 can be used by a website such as Facebook or Twitter, and also by network firewalls and even Internet Service Providers (ISPs)....

However they are actually counter-productive says the new research which was initiated by European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. The research actually shows that the effects of such raids and takedowns are short-lived and relatively limited. In a working paper titled “Online Copyright Enforcement, Consumer Behavior, and Market Structure” researchers examined clickstream data for a set of 5,000 German Internet users to see how their legal and illegal consumption habits changed in response to the shutdown....

“Microsoft’s company-wide policies and practices systematically violate female technical employees’ rights and result in the unchecked gender bias that pervades its corporate culture,” the complaint reads. “The disadvantage to female technical employees in pay and promotion is not isolated or exceptional, but rather the regular and predictable result of Microsoft’s policies and practices and lack of proper accountability measures to ensure fairness.” While Microsoft in a statement said, “We’re committed to a diverse workforce, and to a workplace where all employees have the chance to succeed....

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....

“Social media website Facebook, which currently has 1.5 billion users worldwide, will turn into the world’s biggest virtual graveyard by 2098,” said Hachem Sadikki, a PhD student from University of Massachusetts. This will happen because the website refuses to remove the accounts of deceased users. Instead, it turns the page into a “Memorialized” version of the page. “Facebook’s refusal to automatically delete dead users and the plateauing membership of the site means that the living will be outnumbered sooner than you might think,” the report said....

While the Facebook’s emoji reaction patents go back to 2013, however, a recent document filed on December 23, 2014 explains how the tool may look like on the social network. Users may now have the option to choose from a range of emoji that would best describe their reaction, which can used as an alternative to the usual Like thumbs up button. Currently, Slack’s emoji reaction uses icons found on iOS/Mac OS, and allows users to choose from any of the hundred options available at present....

The patent, called “Techniques for emotion detection and content delivery” was discovered by CB Insights, an organization that works on market intelligence in New York. The designs of the patent date back to 2015, and contain illustrations of a person holding a smartphone, with a camera taking a picture from which“emotion characteristics” like smiling or frowning are detected. The scary patent reveals that the footage collected would be used to analyse your emotions while you browse the site, or scroll, read, search, etc....