While Su, 50, is being celebrated as a hero in his home country, he has pled guilty to conspiring with others to break into the networks of Boeing and other American defense contractors in a federal court in Los Angeles, California. He admitted to conspiring with two unnamed accomplices in China to try to acquire plans for F-22 and F-35 fighter jets and C-17 transport aircraft. According to prosecutors, the hacking took place between October 2008 and March 2014....

The photo which was first uploaded by a user on the Chinese social networking website Weibo clearly shows a Chinese woman sitting in front of a panel consisting of about a 100s of iPhones and she is manipulating the App store ranking. Now, how is she doing this? Actually she is installing and uninstalling the apps continuously which would appear as if the some regular users are downloading the apps....

The bug also affects latest versions of Opera while opening the special characters in Firefox causes the browser to load deformed url. If you want to try out the bug just type out into your browser address bar. However the bug does not affect Chrome on Mac PCs or on Android smartphones. Though some users have noted that the Chrome build on Android smartphones returns the dreadful ‘Aw! Snap’ error page....

Sadly, a Germany-based security firm ERNW has recently uncovered a critical bug in Android’s Bluetooth subsystem. This bug can be exploited to steal data and spread malware on Android smartphones and tablets. According to the security firm, if an attacker can get access to your device’s Bluetooth MAC address, then he/she can execute a computer code to hack your Android device. ERNW has further stated that no user interaction is required for the hacking process to take place....

Researcher discovers new privilege escalation Zero-day in OS X Yosemite including v10.10.5Macs still vulnerable as Apple doesnt know about the vulnerability Apple moved quickly and released a patch for the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE vulnerability with a new OS X point release. However, Italian talian developer Luca Todesco has discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in the Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite operating system, affecting all available updates, including the recently released v10.10.5. https://twitter.com/qwertyoruiop/status/632665422593179649 The exploit which is given on GitHub page here, relies on a combination of attacks including a null pointer dereference in the I/O Kit open-source framework that lets developers write device drivers for Apple’s OS X and iOS operating systems, for dropping a proof-of-concept payload into a root shell....

For the unaware, Cydia App Store for iOS provides user software packages that can be installed on jailbroken iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices. Basically, it allows users to install software from third-party by bypassing Apple’s own App Store lockdown. However, the number of users who have cracked the iPhone has decreased in recent years due to Apple’s iOS ecosystem has grown more strong and secure. While Freeman had initial plans to shut down the store purchases option by the end of 2018, a recently found security vulnerability in the app that would allow hackers to buy apps using other people’s accounts led to the shut down earlier than planned....

According to multiple reports, the clearly illegal website which “went live” last week, consists of a single HTML file, and an image of President-elect Trump in the crosshair of a scope, with the website asking for donations in order to fund the assassination attempt. The Bitcoin wallet associated with the site has managed to amass $88,000 in their bitcoin wallet since March. However, since the website has only been live for about a week, donations believed to be related to the assassination fundraising only amount to $119, CSO reports....

The issue was first noticed by Dani Grant, an ad product intern at BuzzFeed and founder of Hackers of NY, discovered the flaw when she realized she could simply share the URL and anyone can access her boarding pass. She immediately emailed the Delta security team about this flaw and got a stereotype feedback from them. Shocked Dr.Grant took to web and posted her boarding passes and the flaw....

Now, a team of developers behind the “Renegade Project” have managed to get Windows 11 running on a OnePlus 6T smartphone since the operating system supports both x86 and ARM processors. To run Windows 11 on the Android phone, the developers created their own tools and drivers and enabled a custom UEFI environment on the Snapdragon 845. Xilin Wu, the lead developer behind the project, told Windows Latest that “Windows 11 ARM64 can be installed on Snapdragon 845 phones, while Snapdragon 855 is partially supported by the edk2-sm8150 port....

Clicking the menu button in the top-right corner of posts while using the desktop version of Facebook, only shows the following options: Save post, Edit post, Turn off notifications for this post and Show in tab. Delete option is nowhere to be seen. This unusual activity was first spotted by The Next Web’s Director Matt Navarra along with some users who flocked across different social media sites complaining about facing the same problem....

According to the breach notification email sent to affected customers, the data leak took place when a DigitalOcean-owned document from 2018 was unintentionally made accessible on the internet without password protection. “This document contained your email address and/or account name (the name you gave your account at sign-up) as well as some data about your account that may have included Droplet count, bandwidth usage, some support or sales communications notes, and the amount you paid during 2018,” the company said in the breach notification email....

They are testing traffic lights that are created for pedestrians using mobile phones who are not looking at the road and not traffic. Officially dubbed as, the +Lichtlijn, which is developed by local firm HIG Traffic Systems consists of an LED lighting strip in the pavement, which is linked to existing traffic lights and changes colour simultaneously. ‘Social media, games, WhatsAp and music are major distractions in traffic,’ said town alderman Kees Oskam....

As it stands, the tech tycoon is willing to pay a per-share price of $54.20 in cash. Compared to the stock price of Twitter on the last trading day, the 1st of April, the price offered by Musk translates to a 38% premium. Similarly, compared to the closing price on the 28th of January, the current rate represents a 54% premium. Musk serious about Twitter takeover The filing to the US SEC was made on the 13th of April, and Musk tweeted about the same on Thursday....

“As of the end of Q2, we have converted approximately 75% of our Bitcoin purchases into fiat currency. Conversions in Q2 added $936M of cash to our balance sheet,” the company said in its earnings release. Tesla has listed this sum under “proceeds from sales of digital assets” in its second-quarter earnings results. The company said in a shareholder presentation that its year-over-year operating income was mainly affected by several items, including “Bitcoin impairment”, which had a negative impact on its profitability during the second quarter, when it posted $2....

The accused, Anthony Scott Levandowski, a 39-year-old engineer and former head of Uber’s self-driving vehicle efforts, has been indicted on 33-counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1832. Levandowski had worked at Google’s self-driving car unit, which was later rebranded as Waymo. According to the indictment, Levandowski illicitly downloaded thousands of confidential files related to engineering, manufacturing, and business for Google’s LiDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging) and self-driving technology, in the months before he left Google....

Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs and a former UK deputy prime minister, in a statement posted to Twitter, said the company has acted after receiving requests from several governments from outside of the EU to block Russian state media. He added Facebook would continue to work closely with governments on the issue. — Google Europe (@googleeurope) March 1, 2022 The company has already started demoting content from Facebook pages and Instagram accounts from Russian state-controlled media outlets, which will make it difficult for users to locate these pages and their content across its platforms....

Speaking on the cryptocurrency, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he wants to make sending money as easy as sending a photo: digital, immediate, free and secure. Libra is a cryptocurrency that is built on the technology upon which cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are developed. It is intended to buy things or transfer money instantly to others with almost no fees, anywhere in the world with ease. With the Libra project, Facebook aims to help the 1....

The new OS will be built from scratch and Mark Lucovsky, a Microsoft veteran who co-authored the Windows NT operating system, will lead the project. While the report does not provide more information on how the new OS could be used, it notes that Facebook’s Oculus Quest, the standalone virtual reality (VR) headset and Portal, Facebook’s video-call display could benefit from the new software. Both these hardware are currently running on a modified version of Android....

That was one of the key messages that came from a question and answer session with the Facebook co-founder and CEO held on his company’s website on Tuesday. Zuckerberg said the principle of Net Neutrality, which requires that all Internet traffic should be treated equally no matter where it’s headed to or from where it is coming from, making sure Internet service providers like Verizon and AT&T are unable to “discriminate and limit the access to services people want to use....

The fake and malicious version of WhatsApp Business posing as “Update WhatsApp Messenger” is still available to download on Google Play Store with the developer title “WhatsApp Inc*”. The developer has now changed its name to “Update WhatsApp”. While there are several fake versions, one version has been downloaded up to 5,000 times, there is another version under the same name which has a million downloads. The malicious software was first discovered by Twitter user @MujtabaMHaq and later reported by the popular WhatsApp change tracking website, WABetaInfo....