The attack knocked out the web pages of as many as 20 major US banks and financial institutions, sometimes for several days. Speaking to AFP, military spokesman Mikael Abramsson said that a server in the Swedish defence system had a flaw which was exploited by hackers to carry out the attacks, confirming a report in the Swedish daily DN. “The hacking attack was a kind of wake-up call for us and forced us to take very specific security steps to prevent such a thing from happening again,” he said....

In what appears to be a first, a Swiss man in a landmark trial has been slapped a $4,000 fine and a two-year suspended prison sentence in a defamation case by a court in Zurich after he was found guilty for liking slanderous comments on Facebook. The Facebook posts involved the 45-year-old defendant “liking” comments that accused Erwin Kessler, who runs an animal-rights group, of racism and anti-Semitism. The defendant (who wasn’t named in the court documents) clicked “like” on six of the inflammatory comments posted by other Facebook users, and also commented and linked to some of the posts....

Citing an intelligence official, the Associated Press confirmed that the personal email and other accounts connected to Clapper have been hacked. DNI spokesman Brian Hale said on Tuesday that Clapper’s office is aware of the hacking and has reported the incident to appropriate authorities. He declined to provide other details. An individual not authorized to discuss details who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was aware of the hacking incident before it was first reported on Tuesday by Motherboard....

N64 acquired its unique name as a 64-bit central processing unit powered it. If you owned one of the 32.93 million units of N64 that were sold worldwide and want to relive your childhood gaming memories, then a Nintendo 64 Emulator might help you. In this article, we have shared a list of some of the best N64 emulators for Android and PC. Some information about N64 Roms accompanies the list....

When exchanges were introduced into the cryptocurrency arena, interested parties could simply buy bitcoin with their dollars or euros, instead of mining it (or selling pizza). Humans being humans, the opportunity to speculate on bitcoin’s future value using ‘real’ money was irresistible, and it unleashed a pivotal new dynamic on the young market. Even at a price of $0.01, the pizza buyer still overpaid for his dinner by about $60....

Crowd Funded project OLIMEXINO-85S held the title of being the smallest Arduino compatible board around by being barely bigger than an SD card with measurements of about 16.9 x 12.7 mm; but that title now changes hands with the introduction of ?duino board measuring just 12 x 12 mm. The team behind ?duino has designed the board with the objective of providing a shrinkfield device that can be used almost anywhere....

At the Lenovo Tech World 2016 in San Francisco, Lenovo-owned Motorola introduced two new smartphones: the Moto Z and the Moto Z Force, both exclusive to Verizon Wireless and both available in the U.S. this summer. These high powered smartphones have added functionality to the table with Moto Mods. The company has announced the Moto Z as the thinnest and most powerful phone ever released. Further, both the devices will be powered by Qualcomm 2....

Brought up in a small town of Bhadra in western India, nobody expected that one day Anand Prakash would become a multimillionaire. As a kid, Prakash chose to spend his free time playing computer games in cybercafes rather than playing cricket outdoors with the other boys his age. While he has was still struggling to find a job at college that is when Prakash chanced upon Facebook’s bug bounty programme that rewards “whitehat” hackers, who test the website for bugs and help protect users’ data....

Meet Ahsan Tahir from Karachi, Pakistan, who uses his hacking skills to help some of the biggest technology companies discover and fix vulnerabilities in their websites. In return, he gets rewarded for his hacking skills in the form of cash and swag through bug bounty programs. Tahir has already made a name for himself in the cybersecurity world by discovering bugs for biggies like Microsoft and Google. So, how did all start for Tahir?...

Kids these days know how to get their things done by their parents. Also, with most of them being technology freaks, this makes its even more easier for them to do so. That’s what Reddit user nasshole did with his parents. With just a simple iPhone hack, nasshole (real name Brendan, according to the extremely angry texts) pulled an astonishing prank on his parents and later posted the consequences online....

Google’s Nexus 5 is a very popular Android smartphone. In fact, it was one of the best sellers for 2013 when it was launched. However, one of the limitations is that the Nexus 5 comes with a limited storage space, in either 16GB or 32GB variant. One brave soul decided that enough was enough and managed to increase the memory of his Nexus 5 from 16GB to 64GB. The Nexus 5 owner from Ukraine decide to physically hack his smartphone to install a 64GB memory....

While bed, TV, fridge and Wi-Fi connectivity are the basic common amenities that a hotel offers its customers during their stay, i hotel located in the Taoyuan district, which is about an hour’s train ride away from Taipei, provides proper gaming rigs in all its rooms for its gamer customers. The rooms in this hotel come equipped with two gaming PCs with i5-7400 processors and 32-inch screens powered by ASUS....

Here is how you can increase your reduced Internet speed due to Windows 10 Anniversary updateTo do this type netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled into the command prompt and hit enter.In the command prompt, type netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal and hit enter. But now Windows 10 users are reporting a new and unique problem they are facing after updating to Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Many users have noted in various forums that their Internet speeds have greatly decreased once they have updated their PC/laptops with the anniversary update....

However, a Pokemon Go cheat that went viral previously showed how to unban the soft ban using a few easy steps. However, this time around, there is a crazy hack in Pokemon Go that allows you to walk around undetected. But this hack is possible only if you have an iPhone and you are willing to sacrifice your iPhone to be jailbroken for this. In a YouTube video (see below) posted by iCrackUriDevice, it shows how to install the “Pokemon Go” cheat software inside a jailbroken iPhone and install the newly updated Pokemon Go tweak as well....

Fancy, a portable desktop computer Running Chromium OS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Android TV and powered by AMD 5350 Quad-Core x86 processorFancy Configuration Dylan Callahan works with the Chromium OS for All SBCs projects and thought of Fancy as a desktop computer which could bring best features of Chromium, Ubuntu and Android TV on a single platform. And Fancy Computer does just that. Fancy is also a powerful desktop computer which is surprisingly small....

But, thanks to the folks at Redmond Pie, who have come up with the latest 1.12 hack that unlocks the feature for all the levels in the game. Here’s how you can install the latest hack by following the simple step-by-step guide to install the modified version of Super Mario Run on non-jailbroken devices: Step 1: Firstly, install the latest version of modified Super Mario Run IPA file from here....

The Cosmo Communicator is inspired by vintage personal digital assistants (PDAs) such as Nokia Communicator, Sharp Netwalker and Psion Series 5. Last year, Planet Computers started a crowdfunding campaign for a PDA-inspired hybrid smartphone. This campaign managed to attract under 4,000 backers and collect $2.05 million (€1.86m) in funding. About Cosmo Communicator The Cosmo Communicator is a tiny, dual-screen smartphone device. It has a fully tactile, physical backlit keyboard and individually illuminated keys with 5 brightness levels....

TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app, on Thursday said that it will stop its app from constantly copying the data from iOS users’ clipboards after it was exposed by a new feature in iOS 14 beta. For those unaware, Apple has introduced a new privacy feature in iOS 14 beta that sends a notification whenever a third-party app accesses your clipboard, a temporary store for text, and other copied assets....

10 Highest-Paying Job Titles In The Technology Industry In 20161. Executive VP (tech), CTO or CIO2. Engineering manager3. Enterprise level services developer4. Mobile Developer, iOS5. Data Scientist6. Developer with statistics or mathematics background7. Embedded application developer8. DevOps9. Back-End Web Developers10. Mobile Developers Recently, U.S. based StackFlow, one of the world’s largest online community for programmers, released 2016 Developer Hiring Landscape. The annual developer survey that received over 50,000 responses from 173 countries looked across industry segments ranging from software development and web services to more traditional sectors like manufacturing, defense, automotive, and aerospace to find out most desirable job titles in the technology industry....

We had reported a landmark judgement by the United States Supreme Court, which will give FBI powers to hack any computer in the world using a single warrant. The same judgement contains a innocuous para related to Tor and VPN users. The newly approved rule change by the U.S. Supreme Court will allow FBI to search and seize any computer around the world, found to be using privacy tools like VPN or Tor....