Jiankui, a former associate professor of the Southern University of Science and Technology, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan ($430,000) for “illegally carrying out the human embryo gene-editing intended for reproduction.” His two accomplices – Zhang Renli, a researcher at the Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, received a prison term of two years and fined 1 million yuan, while Qin Jinzhou, a researcher at the Shenzhen Luohu Hospital Group, received a sentence of 18 months but with a two-year reprieve, and a 500,000 yuan fine....

The cybersecurity expert who goes by the pseudonym “Samm0uda” discovered a vulnerability after noticing an exposed endpoint (facebook.com/comet/dialog_DONOTUSE/), which could be exploited to bypass the CSRF protections and perform various actions on behalf of the victim. “This is possible because of a vulnerable endpoint which takes another given Facebook endpoint selected by the attacker along with the parameters and makes a POST request to that endpoint after adding the fb_dtsg parameter....

According to the Verge, Truecaller will come as a built-in service on Cyanogen OS and users are required to enable it. After enabling Truecaller on their smartphones, Truecaller will pull caller details from its web server and inform the user about the identity of the incoming caller within few seconds. Dave Herman, Cyanogen’s vice president of product says that Truecaller on Cyanogen OS is more than merely identifying numbers. Besides identifying an incoming caller, it lets users report bad numbers and keep spammers at bay....

“Dell is announcing that on November 9, 2018, it detected and disrupted unauthorized activity on its network attempting to extract Dell.com customer information, which was limited to names, email addresses and hashed passwords,” the company said in its press release. “Upon detection of the attempted extraction, Dell immediately implemented countermeasures and initiated an investigation. Dell also retained a digital forensics firm to conduct an independent investigation and has engaged law enforcement....

Also Read- Terrarium TV Down- Best Alternatives To Watch Free Movies In 2018 According to NitroXenon aka Peter Chan, the app’s developer who announced the shut down on September 10 in a notification to app users said, “It has always been a great pleasure to work on this project. However, it is time to say goodbye. I am going to shut down Terrarium TV, forever. I know this day will come eventually....

Developers turn to crimeware and release DroidJack RAT after their Android App failed to take offLegitimate rootsIndian Roots TracedCapabilitiesOther Cases Legitimate roots Researchers at Symantec have been monitoring the evolution of the threat, which was first released in April 2013 on Google Play as Sandroid, a legitimate application for controlling PCs from an Android smartphone. But the App apparently did not catch the fancy of Android users and faded into obscurity....

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2017 Soon after selling the required number of hats, Musk tweeted “Hats sold out, flamethrowers soon!” on the eve of Christmas. While Musk’s message was considered as a joke by many, reddit users on several Musk-related subreddits noticed earlier this month that the URL “boringcompany.com/flamethrower” began redirecting to a white page with a single password box in the center. Earlier this week, a subredditor managed to guess the original password – “flame” – and got access to the page that mimics the Boring Company logo....

For those unaware, Emotet, one of the world’s most infamous botnets, is a network of hijacked computers and devices infected with malware and controlled remotely by cybercriminals. This network is then used to send spam and launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. It can also be rented out to other cybercriminals. This specially crafted time bomb by the European authorities instructed the software to self-destruct on Sunday, April 25, 2021....

The new reaction buttons were in development for more than a year. From now on, instead of using the thumbs up for like, Facebook users will be able to react to friends’ posts with something other than a gesture of pure positivity. Long press on the Like button and you’ll now see “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad,” and “angry,” and posts will now show the mix of reactions they’ve received. While Facebook has given the option of five different reactions, there’s no “dislike” button, as some users have long requested, Facebook says that the new mix of reactions has proven popular with users during testing in Spain and Ireland....

Facebook says the new feature will help Group Admins, who invest their time and energy to maintain their groups, and also help them earn money at the same time. In an announcement made in a blog post, Alex Deve, Facebook’s Product Director of Groups said that, “We hear from group admins that they’re looking for ways to help them earn money to deepen engagement with their members and continue to support their communities....

Biometric data is information about your physical characteristics, and it’s mainly used by tech companies as a form of identification. On Thursday, a federal court in San Francisco ruled that Illinois biometric privacy laws trump California laws, even if users have signed a terms of use agreement that states California laws would apply. The ruling may set a precedent that Illinois strict biometric privacy laws could override other state laws, a possibly significant issue as facial recognition becomes more pervasive in its use by Facebook and other tech titans Facebook filed the motion arguing that the users could not file a complaint under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) as they had agreed in their user agreement that California law would govern their disputes with the company, and that BIPA does not apply to “tag suggestions....

Since the announcement, besides Ireland, the new photo transfer tool has been rolled out to users in countries across Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Facebook has now expanded the availability of the new photo transfer tool to users in the U.S. and Canada also. This new transfer tool is built directly into the Facebook app. You can access the tool in Facebook settings under the “Your Facebook Information” menu on the left....

Two things seem to be making news these days – Game of Thrones Season 7 leaks and Fappening 2.0 explicit leaks. We have already had the leaked NSFW images of about eight celebrities including Danielle Lloyd, Miley Cyrus, Katharine McPhee, Kristen Stewart, Stella Maxwell, Lindsey Vonn, Anne Hathaway and Tiger Woods in past two days and the Fappening hackers promising more. While Danielle has asked her lawyers to take legal action against the website hosting her NSFW images, other celebs like Miley Cyrus, Katharine McPhee, Kristen Stewart, Stella Maxwell are not all that worried about the leaks....

Father of 10 year old impersonates her on Facebook to get a pedophile behind bars.Wayne’s defencePast historyThe verdict But instead, the little child’s father was impersonating her on the Facebook and received the ‘cuddly’ message from Wayne. Further messages only confirmed to the girl’s father that Wayne was trying to groom his little girl for abuse. Inspite of making it clear to Wayne that his daughter was only 10 years old the pedophile persisted....

This could be of help to the Internet user by fetching data in advance but it also poses a potential risk with privacy and security related concerns. Additionally it eats up a lot of data because users tend to hover their mouse around the webpages a lot sending lots of requests. What if a link on which the user hovers on belongs to a malicious website which the user has no intent of visiting....

Authentication Flaw in PayPal mobile APIWhat is the flaw?What is wrong with that?Video demonstration of the flaw : What is the flaw? When a user enters the wrong username and password pair several times, access to the account is restricted on a computer until the answer to a set security question is provided by the PayPal user. However, switching to a mobile device eliminates the security question problem and the account can be accessed with the right credentials....

For the very first time engineered hybrid crystal created for a powerful hyper efficient LEDCreation of Hyper-efficient LED emitting crystals: Suppose, a person has plain oatmeal cookies and a bowl of chocolate chips. Individually, these both have their own identities and taste, however just imagine if these both are combined together, you would definitely get an awesome mixture, isn’t it? Researchers have tried to do the same thing with the two promising solar cell materials to develop a novel Hyper efficient light emitting crystal....

We have the latest news brought to you directly from Foxconn factories. A leak from the Foxconn factories sourced by PriceRaja, shows that the iPhone 7 Plus will have 12MP dual cameras on the back. Remember, the images are directly from Apple’s top supplier and are said to be taken during an in-house symposium at contract manufacturer Foxconn. The image procured by PriceRaja was taken incognito and it doesn’t reveal much but it does show that the iPhone 7 Plus, as the top version of iPhone will be called, will come with a 12MP dual-camera on the back....

Freenode’s IRC server was compromised and passwords were possibly breached by unidentified hackers, Freenode said in a online notice to its users. It has also warned all its users that they should reset their passwords as a precaution. The security breach was identified on Saturday, as a notice by Freenode explains. “Earlier today the freenode infra team noticed an anomaly on a single IRC server. We have since identified that this was indicative of the server being compromised by an unknown third party,” “We immediately started an investigation to map the extent of the problem and located similar issues with several other machines and have taken those offline....