The researchers found these holes buried deep in the system through a new cyber-security analysis method. For their efforts, they were rewarded with the Internet Defense Prize, an award presented by Facebook, in partnership with USENIX, at the 24th USENIX Security Symposium that ended Aug. 14. Ph.D. students Byoungyoung Lee and Chengyu Song, with Professors Taesoo Kim and Wenke Lee, of Georgia Tech received $100,000 from Facebook to continue their research and increase its impact to make the Internet safer....

Samsung’s display-making affiliate unveiled the first prototype of a 9.1-inch stretchable OLED panel that bends, folds and rolls at the Society for Information Display 2017 event in the LA Convention Centre. “While current flexible OLED is able to be transformed in only one side, this stretchable OLED can be transformed – whether curved, bended or rolled – in both sides, above and below” a Samsung Display spokesperson told The Korean Herald....

Created by founder of Hanson Robotics, Dr. David Hanson, Sophia is an artificial intelligence robot designed to look like Audrey Hepburn, can respond to questions and whose purpose is to help in elderly care facilities and assist visitors to parks and events. The announcement of citizenship was made by Andrew Ross Sorkin, the panel moderator who is co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box and founder and editor at large of Dealbook at the New York Times....

‘Swish’ been designed by Six major Swedish banks as a cost-effective alternative for credit card processing machines and is used by attaching a card reading device to a mobile phone. The banks also released a free Swish Payments mobile banking app which is available for both Android and iOS devices and acts as a perfect solution for cardless payments throughout Europe. SEB, Handelsbanken, Nordea, Danske Bank, Länsförsäkringar Bank, alongwith Swedbank and Sparbank partnered with HIQ for this one stop solution for realtime payments without the user needing a payment card or a visit to the bank....

To further rub it in, Shadow Brokers said that they will auction stolen surveillance tools and want $500 million from NSA if it doesnt want them to release/sell the tools. To make good their NSA hack claim, Shadow Brokers also released samples of programs they said could break into popular firewall software made by companies including Cisco Systems Inc, Juniper Networks Inc and Fortinet Inc. The Shadow Brokers made their warning through a Tumbler Blog post written in imperfect English....

Happy new year, your Snapchat data may have been leaked!This is running really slow right now, please stand byNOTE: We don’t own this data. We didn’t scrape it, steal it, buy it, whatever. We are just trying to provide a helpful service to the community. NOTE: We don’t own this data. We didn’t scrape it, steal it, buy it, whatever. We are just trying to provide a helpful service to the community....

The State Department said that “obviously things went wrong” in the visa background check for one of the San Bernardino shooters, due to a secret U.S. policy that prohibits immigration officials from reviewing the social media messages of foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas. They were referring to not looking at purported evidence of Tashfeen Malik’s radicalization online. “It’s difficult to say exactly what [went wrong] and how, but for an individual to be able to come into this country – one who the FBI has maintained had terrorist tendencies or affiliations or sympathies at least for a couple years, and then to propagate an attack like that on our own soil, obviously, I think it’s safe to say there’s going to be lessons learned here,” State Department spokesperson John Kirby told reporters....

The scope allows its shooter to ‘digitally lock’ the target and then dial in the required variables such as wind, temperature and weight of the bullet being fired. Once the trigger is pulled, the smart rifle would activate its firing pin only when the barrel has been perfectly oriented to nail the target thus we can say the software actually chooses the exact moment to fire. Further, the gun can also be connected to a tablet or smartphone via Wi-Fi which allows another person to view whatever the shooter is viewing in the scope....

According to Spotify’s Premium for Family Terms And Conditions, “all account holders must reside at the same address to be eligible for the Premium for Family Plan.” However, several Family subscriptions have reportedly been used by groups of friends. Also Read- Spotify to let free users skip all ads more like Spotify premium For those unaware, Spotify’s Family Plan in the US lets customers pay $14.99 per month for up to five premium accounts....

The prosecutor, however, categorically stated that other cases against TPB remain on track and have been accorded high priority. Readers will remember that the Swedish police conducted a mid-night raid on the TPB servers situated at a data center in Nacka, Sweden. The police had seized many TPB servers during the raid and started investigations based on the seized servers. “There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm....

Hackers have stolen the personal details of thousands of TalkTalk customers, which includes account numbers, addresses and phone numbers, the company admitted yesterday. Like most other data breaches, the TalkTalk data breach has also been used to scam its customers into handing further personal information including bank details to the hackers. The company emailed its customers about the hack attack and the data breach, which it says, involves a third party contractor which had legitimate access to customer account details....

Lizard Squad themselves confirmed the link through a tweet https://twitter.com/LizardMafia/status/560210605949214720 Swift confirmed today’s hack on her Tumblr account: The hackers then proceeded to claim that they had nsfw images of Taylor Swift and will release them if their Bitcoin wallet receives certain amount of donation. However the songwriter and actress herself was nonplussed at the hackers claims. Taylor Swift is shaking off claims that hackers possess nude photos of her after her social media accounts were briefly compromised yesterday The 25-year-old singer-songwriter taunted hackers with her response to the hacking on Twitter, saying the claims are bogus....

— Thejesh GN (@thej) June 3, 2015 The Wire.in reports that a brief inspection exposed that the code consisted of few lines of JavaScript that loaded an asset like an advertisement on webpages that Thejesh was visiting. It was called Anchor.js. Using a web-based IP tracker, he was also able to find that the code was originating out of the IP address 223.224.131.144 – which belonged to Bharti Airtel Limited....

Wealth-X, a firm that does research and valuations on ultra-high net worth individuals, has provided a list of the 10 richest couples in the world, who are either self-made billionaires or those who have obtained their wealth through inheritance. These men and women are developers, innovators, CEOs, fashion magnates, and philanthropists. From the US to China to Spain to France, we present to you the world’s wealthiest couples in descending order:...

The best free graphic design software for improving your business and boosting your creativitySVG-Edit:Inkscape: DrawPlus Starter Edition from Serif:Google Developers: Easel.ly: Infogr.am:Visual.ly:Daz Studio:Blender: Sculptris: With millions of advertisements in magazines, newspapers, television and even internet, it is essential that an appropriate software is used to produce the right designing which needs to be simpler as well as unique to achieve the appropriate results. When an entrepreneur starts a new business it is essential to reach the appropriate crowd with the apt design; however it is also essential to keep a check on the expenditure and hence it might not be possible for everyone to go for the most expensive graphic design software....

e-volo’s Volocopter, which is part multicopter, part helicopter and part alien spaceship can take off and land vertically and also hover in the air when need be. Built from fiber composite material with a 450 kg (992 lb) take-off weight, nine individual batteries power the all-electric motors and 18 rotors to make for a top speed of 100 km/h (62 mph). Best described as a drone-helicopter hybrid, the Volocopter has two seats available on it, while it runs on an electric engine with precision control being manned by a single joystick that is accompanied by a handful of buttons....

The humble referral link – direct or anchored in text—however, isn’t intrusive, invasive, or annoying. When people come across a link online; they can choose to click or ignore the link. If the link looks relevant to their needs and they decide to click, they are often inclined to take specific actions such as finding more information, signing up for a trial, or making an outright purchase. In addition, when people receive links to products/services from people/brands/influencers that they trust, they are more inclined to check out the product/service because of the value of trust in recommendations....

“Tangerine” continues that idea as Baker narrates the story of a transgender prostitute named Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) who becomes aware that her pimp is deceiving on her and travels through Los Angeles on Christmas Eve to meet him face to face. Baker’s decision to shoot the unconventional film only using the iPhone 5S is that what has caught hold of people’s attention. Last week, Baker told Business Insider in the Manhattan office of the film’s distribution company, Magnolia Pictures that “I didn’t see any other way the film could be done....

For those unfamiliar, “Surgeon Simulator” lets players operate on people as surgeons would normally do in real life. The update to Surgeon Simulator was released on to the online gaming platform Steam on June 2, 2016. Players will find themselves inside an operating room, much like a hospital’s, and see Trump on the operating table. A heart transplant will be the goal and players must use the available items in order to pull it off....

The video posted on Vimeo, which explains the hack, is given below : https://fpdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/2310/6/161551044/508826461.mp4?token=5704ef22_0x7b0e2170bb650fb3110860fa56f5b7eb29f5e86b#038;profile_id=119 According to the scientists, the software works in such a way that the person on the video clip can say anything that they want. Basically the scientists have invented a software that manipulates any face in a video clip without the use of any 3D cameras. All the scientists require is a 10 second video clip of the personality they want to manipulate, where the target shows a variety of emotions....