The team, led by Mohammad Al Faruque, director of UCI’s Advanced Integrated Cyber-Physical Systems Lab, showed that a device as ordinary and ubiquitous as a smartphone can be placed next to a machine and capture acoustic signals that carry information about the precise movements of the printer’s nozzle. The recording can then be used to reverse engineer the object being printed and re-create it elsewhere. Detailed processes may be decoded through this new kind of cyberattack, presenting important security risks....

The students involved seems to a part of greater ring of a group who take money and other considerations from students for increasing their school grades. The school authorities said that the actual procedure of hack was not known but the hackers gained illegal entry into the software by using legitimate set of credentials. Most schools in United States use a web application called PowerSchool which offers access to grades to teachers, parents and students....

By using a BitTorrent protocol, people can download a file available on seeder’s system from the torrent sites. It allows users to download media files like music, movies, games, etc. If you’re an experienced torrent user probably you know that in order to browse the internet anonymously you will require to have the best VPN. Since outcomes of copyright contravention are rapidly increasing around the world, everyone is looking for a reliable VPN for torrenting to stay secure and safe online....

Your WordPress blog can be your life’s work and this you need to protect it from all types of hacking and invasion. WordPress in itself is a secure platform, but you can always do something to raise the security a notch higher. There are a lot of ways to help keep your WordPress site secure, many of them can be done simultaneously, very easy to do, and many are free....

Developed by German tech company Infineon, the machine known as ‘Sub1 Reloaded’ was helped by one of the world’s most powerful microcomputers. So, how does it work? At the press of a button, shutters are lifted from the robot’s sensor cameras, allowing it to study the positions of the coloured squares and calculate the moves needed so all six sides show a single colour. It then transmits commands to the Sub1 Reloaded machine who then uses the six motor-controlled arms, which are holding the central square of each of the cube’s six faces and twists, taking just 637 milliseconds to solve the puzzle in 21 moves....

The submissions to the Wikileaks online leak page is accessible only as a Tor hidden service to maintain the anonymity of the whistleblower. The new sumbission page is available at wlupld3ptjvsgwqw.onion. -You can download Tor bundle here. The new submission page has a number of fields where visitors can describe the nature of the leaked material, which groups had access to it, and whether the sources are under any threat from the publication....

Bezos is listed in the credits for “Star Trek Beyond,” the third instalment of the rebooted sci-fi franchise. The producer of the movie, J.J. Abrams and director Justin Lin confirmed his appearance described as a “single tracking shot that includes his character”, which suggests he doesn’t have a speaking role – to the Associated Press in an interview on Friday. Lin said the billionaire CEO arrived with plenty of security for a day of filming and waited patiently for crews to shoot the single tracking shot that includes his character, which is a cameo in the film....

For those unaware, Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which marks the unofficial beginning of the Christmas shopping season. All retailers in the country, big and small, offer various sales including limited amounts of doorbuster/doorcrasher/doorsmasher items to entice potential shoppers. The net worth of Bezos had seen a jump of $32.6 billion this year up until last Thursday, with the additional $2.4 billion landing in his pocket....

The Fire TV Cube is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, Dolby Atmos 7.1 channel sound and support for 4K and HDR-10 content. It has an HDMI 2.0a port, an Ethernet jack, an IR (infrared) port, and a micro-USB port and supports 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Thanks to a combination of infrared technology and HDMI CEC, the Fire TV Cube can be used to control your TV, sound bar, cable box, or other audio and video gear using voice commands....

The new CPU vulnerability dubbed “SQUIP”, which is short for Scheduler Queue Usage via Interference Probing, affects AMD Zen-based Ryzen chips. The vulnerability is related to the multi-scheduler queues in CPUs. While Intel CPUs have a single scheduler queue, the Apple M1, AMD Zen 2, and Zen 3 microarchitectures have separate scheduler queues for each execution unit. While Apple also uses individual scheduler queues for its M1 processors and likely also M2, it has yet to introduce simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) technology, which means its current processors are not affected....

Android Same Origin Policy (SOP) Exploit Is Being Used To Hijack Facebook AccountsThe Bug The Bug The bug, discovered by Rafay Baloch, allows a universal Cross-scripting vulnerability in older versions of Android smartphones. This vulnerability, which affects the WebView component, occurs when replacing the ‘data’ attribute of a given HTML object with a JavaScript URL scheme. An attacker can leverage the UXSS flaw to scrape cookie data and page contents from a vulnerable browser window....

Saudi Arabia has been long believed to be the chief financier of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other jehadi terrorist groups. However, today the Saudi government has dismissed Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s claims that it arms and funds ISIS, describing them as “false allegations” and“malicious falsehood”. The Saudi royals are thought to be terrified of aftershocks that will emerge from the wars in Iraq and Syria and this may be the reason it has recently taken steps to ban private individuals from donating cash to ISIS militants....

It is always good to be spoiled for choices before you purchase anything. But what happens if this choice is offered to you by Apple. Following World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) held in San Francisco, California this month and the unveiling of iOS 10, there are rumors that Apple may be releasing three different versions of the iPhone 7 this fall, including something called the ‘iPhone 7 Pro’, reported 9to5Mac on Thursday....

Biden named 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the late tech innovator is one of them. For the unversed, the Presidential Medal of Freedom is declared the Nation’s highest civilian honor. The award is presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public, or private endeavors. “These seventeen Americans demonstrate the power of possibilities and embody the soul of the nation – hard work, perseverance, and faith,” the White House said in a statement....

Well Apple’s director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, definitely prefers WFH over going to office as he has resigned from Apple over the return-to-office policy. The name says it all, Apple’s return-to-office policy requires the staff to work at its various offices starting 11th April. Intially a hybrid work schedule will be followed where staff has to come one day per week in the office and gradually increase the in-office days over time....

In a note to investors obtained by AppleInsider, Kuo said Apple has decided to incorporate the “function” space on the screen due to the device’s bezel-less design, which it was unable to do before. The function area is mainly composed of virtual buttons and will replace the home button, which is present in the earlier generation of iPhones. Similar to virtual onscreen buttons, the feature could be much more dynamic and adaptive....

Professor David Kipping and graduate student Alex Teachey published a paper in the journal ‘Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society’ on Thursday on how our Earth can conceal itself from other intelligent life that may want to exploit our planet for its natural resources. Several well-known scientists, including Stephen Hawking, have warned against humanity spreading our presence to intelligent life on other planets. It “perverts” the technique scientists already use now to look for distant planets around other stars....

— ASUS (@ASUS) June 5, 2018 While the Precog PC looks similar to the next generation of Lenovo’s Yoga Book, ASUS says it comes with an entire bunch of AI smarts to go with those futuristic looks. The device comes with the main screen, and the keyboard is replaced with a multipurpose secondary screen. Project Precog claims to be designed “to provide a smooth and intuitive experience for industry-leading AI technologies....

The malicious threat was first detected by Kaspersky six months ago when one of the affected banks shared the malware with Kaspersky security researchers. According to security experts at Kaspersky Lab, the malware includes two files, the exe.exe file (injector module: 3fddbf20b41e335b6b1615536b8e1292), and the dll.dll file (module to be injected: dc42ed8e1de55185c9240f33863a6aa4). In order to install the ATMii on ATMs, the attacker needs direct access to the target ATM (either over the network or physically)....