In an announcement Green said “it is no longer appropriate” for him to be the part of the Tor Project, whether his contribution is time-based or financial. Green is one of the people who were part of the Tor Project before the network was known as Tor, to begin with. He is also one of those who ran one of the first five nodes ever introduced in Tor, and across years, he has gained the trust of the Tor Project to allow him to manage special nodes inside the network....

Italy is one such country that is massively impacted by the coronavirus and has been under strict lockdown since March 9th, 2020. People in Italy are only allowed to come out of their homes only to get food, medicines, going to work, or performing essential services. However, this lockdown did not deter a 31-year-old man from breaking the coronavirus quarantine to play the augmented reality (AR) game, ‘Pokemon Go’. The man was detained by the Carabinieri on the streets of San Fermo, in the northern Como province, which was one of the critical outbreak centers at the start of the pandemic in Europe....

When A specially-constructed malformed certificate or a cross-signed is introduced into any Android device running, it may either slow down the device or crash it, forcing the user to reboot. Wish Wu, a mobile threat research engineer has published a report in this regard on TrendMicro blog. Wu says that Trend discovered this vulnerability in Android devices when researching the affects of how Android device handles cross-signed certificates are handled....

These gaming memory sticks also put a lot of focus on aesthetics. The new memory features black PCBs with a digital camo printed on the heat spreaders and while you might not get to see this unique color combination since they will be present inside your gaming notebook, it still gives you a very good first impression of the amount of detail that the company has put on its product....

People in the West Midlands turned to police for help after being harassed on Facebook and Twitter, with the victims ranging from age five to 67. The statistics published on police force website indicates a big increase in the number of officers being asked for help to cope with the abuse on social media. The force website indicates that the number of complainants on Facebook have doubled in number last year compared to the year 2010....

In an interview with The Guardian, Chang talks about how Apple has turned to unfair practices to avoid paying taxes and isn’t helping with the city’s failing infrastructure and lack of funding for public projects. Also, Silicon Valley’s boom has strong effects on surrounding cities in California, particularly in terms of traffic congestion and affordable housing. Chang went as far as blasting Apple for turning to offshore accounts to dodge taxes....

Whether you were gripped by this exciting ‘new’ asset and are just working out how to trade by brushing up on an options trading tutorial, or are concerned about what this means for the future of the established system of currencies and payments, what happens next matters. The challenges faced by cryptocurrency Perhaps inevitably, the rise of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin has led to challenges. Firstly, there are a lot of people with vested interests in the existing system that have been left red-faced by the rise of an asset that is free from regulation by central banks....

An employee working for Domino’s Pizza received a terrifying message for help last Tuesday morning from someone claiming to be held hostage in a residential neighborhood in Sherman Oaks, California. The employee immediately called 911 to notify them about the hostage situation. With guns drawn, a team of police in tactical gear surrounded the house and began searching for the alleged captive, according to NBC San Diego. But no one could be found....

Dropbox Users scammed into handing over credentials through a Phishing Page sent over SSLThe modus operandiLog in pages served over a webpage using a secure protocol It so happens that a new style of stealing Dropbox credentials has emerged. Cyber criminals try steal credentials for Dropbox and web-based email service by having created a fake log-in page that is hosted on the file sharing website, taking advantage of its secure protocol....

After all, housing your web development service on a less than stellar platform will only cause you and your clients unnecessary headache — which can ultimately damage your agency’s reputation. And so the question becomes, which among the myriad of platforms on the internet should you choose to power your web design services? That’s where Duda.co comes in. Duda is among the younger platforms that aim to do more than its predecessors....

In a tweet, Musk wrote, “Much appreciated. This was a serious attack,” responding to a report on Teslarati. He said that the Nevada factory was the target of a “serious cybersecurity attack.” — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 27, 2020 Earlier this week, the U.S. authorities arrested and charged a 27-year-old Russian national named Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov. As per court documents, Kriuchkov tried to reach out to one of Tesla’s employees (a Russian-speaking immigrant) via WhatsApp Messenger to plant a malicious malware in Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada....

To prove this point, a team at the University of Edinburgh carried out a detailed security investigation of two popular models of wearable fitness trackers, Fitbit One and Fitbit Flex, made by Fitbit. Fitbit secures its devices with end-to-end encryption. However, when Fitbit One and Fitbit Flex were modified to bypass encryption system, the researchers were able to gain access to stored information proving that these devices provided no protection against the hack....

Thanks to the rapid developments in technology, Cloud Computing has now become a household name. While using traditional cloud computing/storage services all of your data resides in one large data center, however if anything goes wrong at the data center due to an outage the entire service goes offline. Furthermore, most mainstream cloud computing services don’t offer proper encryption and almost none of them offer confidentiality at an affordable price....

For those unaware, Tesla had filed a lawsuit at the US District Court for the Northern District of California in March this year against its former employee, Guangzhi Cao, who is currently working for Xiaopeng Motors (aka XPeng or Xmotors), an Alibaba-backed Chinese electric vehicle (EV)-startup , for stealing and uploading over 300,000 files and directories related to Autopilot. Tesla accused Guangzhi Cao of illegally stealing company’s confidential information before he began work and later took the information to Xiaopeng Motors....

The message normally reads as follows This message has being doing rounds lately and encourages you to put up a similar message on your feed for your followers as well, if you want your own Facebook walls to be placed “under protection of copyright laws.” This message is actually a hoax and dont fall prey to it. Facebook doesnt own your media nor has it copyrights on your feed messages and further there is no such thing as the Berner Convention....

Created by Facebook, osquery is an open-source framework that converts operating systems to relational databases, which allows users to write SQL-based queries and look for potential malware or malicious activity on their organization’s networks. Companies can use the program for a variety of system maintenance and security functions, such as verifying that a system is running the latest versions of software, monitoring and auditing who accesses a particular file and searching for specific active processes that might indicate malware....

Bloomberg said the contractors working on the project were neither told where the audio was recorded nor informed how it was obtained. The contractors were paid to listen in on countless private audio clips, sometimes occasional vulgar conversations among Facebook Messenger users. They were also not provided an explanation as to why they were doing the transcribing, which made them “feel their work is unethical.” Facebook later acknowledged to Bloomberg that the human transcriptions were being used to test the ability of its automated speech recognition systems in interpreting messages....

Facebook has been urging U.S security agency to let them provide more transparency and flexibility around national security orders they have been complying with. as a result Facebook is now able to include a transparency report all U.S. national security-related requests (including FISA as well as National Security Letters) – which until now no company has been permitted to do. For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests Facebook received from any and all government entities in the U....

The company said that “We are gradually rolling out an experimental new feature that enables people to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile; these keys can be used to ‘end-to-end’ encrypt notification emails sent from Facebook to your preferred email accounts. People may also choose to share OpenPGP keys from their profile, with or without enabling encrypted notifications.” In order to avoid countless spams or alerts, many of the users turn off their email notifications from Facebook....

That’s what happened when Facebook itself started declaring people dead when in fact they are not. The social media giant acknowledged the problem after fixing it on Friday saying that there was a “terrible error”. Some two million wayward memorials were posted on profile pages reported the media. “For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialised profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts,” a Facebook spokesperson told Wall Street Journal....