Check Your Charger Now 98 Of Phone Chargers Put Users At Risk Of Electric Shock Or House Fires

Problem is, they only come with one cable. So you end up buying one at the drug store that costs $5 and was made by who knows who, with who knows what integrity. Herein lays the issue, fake chargers. Fake chargers can kill Researchers from Electrical Safety First conducted a test on chargers and found that 98 percent of fake Apple chargers have the possibility to cause a deadly electric shock....

April 22, 2022 · 3 min · 483 words · Patty Sutton

Chromecast Update Brings Backdrop Custom Backgrounds Support

Google today started rolling out a new update for the Chromecast app that finally adds the much requested feature to set custom pictures as the background on its 35$ HDMI streamer. With this update, you will be able to set backdrops from a variety of sources including your favorite albums on Google Plus. The full list of sources are as follows: Your favorite photo albums from Google+ Amazing artwork from galleries and museums around the world via the Google Cultural Institute News and lifestyle images from The New York Times, The Guardian, Saveur and more (U....

April 22, 2022 · 1 min · 189 words · Marie Kassis

Codecademy Launches B2B Offering For Technical Training

The new Teams+ platform allows companies to use the platform’s library of technical content and interactive learning features to create a curriculum for their needs. “Employees are retained when they are properly onboarded, given the opportunities to learn and grow from within, and eventually promoted – all of which can be accomplished through technical training,” said Jonathan Naymark, general manager of Codecademy for Business. “Organizations need to invest in training programs that address the entire employee lifecycle; otherwise, they will fall behind when it comes to attracting and retaining talent, as well as keeping their teams’ skills up to date....

April 22, 2022 · 2 min · 419 words · Betty Konkel

Cybersecurity Weekly Active Phishing Attacks Breach Blamed On Password Reuse Insecure Smart Lights

1. Pwn2Own expands into industrial control systems hacking Pwn2Own’s annual hacking competition will focus on industrial control systems in 2020. Hosted in Miami on January 21–23, the contest is offering more than $250,000 in collective prizes for sniffing out flaws in ICS and associated protocols. Remote code execution flaws will have the highest payouts, with prizes up to $20,000. Read more » 2. Active duty U.S. Military now gets free credit monitoring The U....

April 22, 2022 · 3 min · 629 words · Christopher Yockers

Delete These 9 Sketchy Android Apps Now Before They Hack Your Facebook Account

Many of these apps are found on the Google Play Store. A new crop of apps that security researchers have now discovered harbor malware. And it can have devastating consequences for anybody who installed them. The trick to many of these apps is that they seem to be innocent or harmless. But security company Zimperium has determined that the apps will steal personal details and hijack your social media accounts in the blink of an eye....

April 22, 2022 · 3 min · 523 words · Harold Hamby

Digitimes Expect A Whole Bunch Of New Chromebooks To Come Out In H2 2013

According to the Taiwanese supply chain website DigiTimes, which I know some of you hate, but I tend to dig their rumors, we can expect to see a new 11.6 inch Chromebook from Acer in July. Shortly after that we’ll also see new models from ASUS, Samsung, HP, and Lenovo. Curiously, DigiTimes also used a word I’ve never heard of before: “Androidbooks”. I’m going to assume that means devices that look like laptops, but run Android....

April 22, 2022 · 1 min · 195 words · Sandra Crilly

Embraces 360 Degree Video With New Street View Certification For Cameras

On its Keyword blog, has announced a new “Street View ready” certification stard that will let anyone publish an interactive tour fit for Maps. eviously, creating 360-degree videos required a rental of the cumbersome Trekker or some serious video know-how, but the new program looks to make it easy friendly to upload your own interactive experiences. As says, the new program will allow anyone to shoot upload their videos “while we do the heavy lifting of connecting each frame of your video into a traditional, interactive Street View experience....

April 22, 2022 · 2 min · 385 words · Vincent Anderson

Ew Skuzzy Ctf Walkthrough

https://download.vulnhub.com/ewskuzzy/Ew_Skuzzy.ova.tgz After downloading and configuring the machine in the virtual box, we get the IP address of the machine which can be seen in the screenshot given below (The Virtual Machine IP Address may be different in your case as it depends on the network configuration). So, let’s start by running a Nmap scan to gather information about open ports. We get three open ports by the nmap scan....

April 22, 2022 · 7 min · 1442 words · Wilson Kern

Facebook Just Added An Awesome New Feature To Its Messenger App

This change will make it easier especially when we use the mobile app. Instead of sending by email or other types of tool, thus avoiding quality loss by compression, we can use Messenger as well. For obvious reasons, the images, which until now were compressed to pass between conversations, can be sent with all the quality. If you are a Facebook user you will experience behavior change and you can send and receive photos up to a resolution of 4K....

April 22, 2022 · 2 min · 331 words · Catherine Wolfe

Facebook Kills Ai That Invented Its Own Language

The results of the tests of the system began showing that the “bots” were talking in a strange and apparently erroneous language. However, this was not an error, since the system had created its own language. Faced with this type of interaction on its own Facebook has decided to deactivate it, as the technology portal “The Next Web ” points out. The two “bots”, called Bob and Alice, used random and nonsense words, so the researchers thought at first that the AI system was suffering a failure....

April 22, 2022 · 3 min · 431 words · Thomas Holmes

Facebook Launched Notify App In Us For Iphone

From the lock screen, tapping or swiping the warning will permit you to peruse an article or watch a video which you will then have the capacity to share through Facebook or by sending an email to your companions. Clients will have the capacity to choose “stations” taking into account their hobbies and Facebook will join this with data that it will source from a client’s profile which will then push news cautions or highlighted stories to the clients lock screen....

April 22, 2022 · 3 min · 482 words · Vernon Hanes

Facebook Messenger Is Adding Video Calling In Its Next Update

Today, April 27, Facebook has announced that it is bringing video calling, which is available on its desktop platform, to its mobile options. Facebook Messenger will add video calling to its mobile app in its next update, Facebook has confirmed. The social networking giant has also confirmed that it will be cross-platform, so Android users can call their friends and family members that might own an iOS device, and vice versa....

April 22, 2022 · 1 min · 127 words · Samantha Ouellette

Fit Now Tracks Your Calories Distance Throws In A Custom Watch Face

To get distance calorie estimation of your activities you’ll need to input your gender, height, weight. You’ll then notice more colorful charts that break down your activity for the day. Your fitness history is now easier to view with a timeline that groups your past activities by days, weeks, months. also created a widget, which puts the step-tracking circle on your home screen. There’s also a new custom watch face for Android ar, which has a traditional analog look with a small widget that tracks how many minutes you’ve been active that day....

April 22, 2022 · 1 min · 185 words · Andrew Wordlaw

First Cut Redmi 8A Them A Looks

Mentioned to death. Everyone knows. It is out there. Yes. We know. Many attribute this success of the brand to the popular Note series but while the Note is the star performer, there is a relatively less-hyped series from the brand that also brings in the big numbers. The Redmi A series, where “A” is suffixed to the name of the phone. A, as seen in the Redmi 6A, which is already one of the top five selling phones of the year globally....

April 21, 2022 · 6 min · 1163 words · Sandra Smith

Chapter 12 Applications Of Biometrics

Like all controls, whether or not you implement biometrics is a business decision. It is a decision based on data classifications, operating environments, available budget, and opportunity costs. In this chapter, we see how to meet these challenges by understanding the advantages and disadvantages of biometrics in general. We also look at these same characteristics associated with specific types of biometrics solutions; no one solution fits all implementations across businesses or across all operations in a single business....

April 21, 2022 · 22 min · 4667 words · Tamara Munguia

Command Injection Vulnerabilities Exploitation Case Study

Exploiting Simple Command Injection The following example shows a simple Command Injection vulnerability, where the web application gets user input and executes it as a command on the underlying operating system. system($cmd); ?> As we can notice from the preceding code snippet, the user input is passed to the php system() function, which is used to execute operating system commands in PHP. Now, one can simply use the following URL with arbitrary commands to exploit this application....

April 21, 2022 · 5 min · 928 words · Kim Henderson

Common Myths About Sqli Busted

Most websites have an inseparabe relationship with a database. To begin with, databases are used by these websites to store usernames and passwords, which allows the users of their websites to authenticate themselves and gain access to additional services each website is supposed to be providing. Many websites along with usernames and passwords will also store credit card details, online content pertaining to their products, or online forums store the posts made by their authenticated users in the database....

April 21, 2022 · 9 min · 1851 words · Tim Bednorz

Computer Forensics Hybrid And Emerging Technologies

What are some hybrid and emerging technologies? Hybrid technology is an approach to enterprise computing where organizations provide and manage some information resources in-house while using cloud-based services for others. Organizations are able to maintain a centralized approach to Information Technology governance while also experimenting with cloud computing. This has led to the term “hybrid IT,” which is often used interchangeably with “hybrid cloud.” Emerging technologies can be defined as radically novel and fast-growing technologies that are persistent over time, and with the potential to exert a considerable impact on the socio-economic domain....

April 21, 2022 · 10 min · 2018 words · Beulah Killian

Dhs Wants All Government Pcs Updated Because Of This Scary Bug

Why so many bugs? It’s because software updates have to come out fast enough to stay one step ahead of hackers. This means old bugs are sometimes replaced with new ones as the cycle continues. Tap or click here to see just how many bugs were addressed in Microsoft’s latest patch Tuesday update. Some software bugs are more dangerous than others, and security flaws are usually the worst of the worst....

April 21, 2022 · 4 min · 641 words · Alvin Kuszynski

Does The Oneplus 5T Feature An Ir Blaster

Just like last year, OnePlus has unveiled a ’T’ upgrade to its flagship handset —- the OnePlus 5 — from earlier this year: the OnePlus 5T. The handset builds on the OnePlus 5 and improves in key areas and adds some features that were missing on its predecessor. This include a switch to a 6-inch 18:9 bezel-less display at the front and an improved dual-camera setup at the rear. Like the OnePlus 5 and previous OnePlus devices though, the 5T continues to miss out on a small but key feature: an IR blaster....

April 21, 2022 · 2 min · 266 words · Jason Deal