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Confirming the breach to Krebs, Oracle said that it had “detected and addressed malicious code in certain legacy MICROS systems,” and is advising its customers to reset username and passwords for the MICROS online support portal. The MICROS systems are credit card processing terminals used by banks, hotels, restaurants, and hundreds of thousands of other businesses. The breach is rumoured to be carried out by the same hacking group that stole $1 billion from banks and retailers in 2015....

You Can Bypass Android’s Secured Lock Screen In These 7 WaysMethod 1: Use Android Device Manager (ADM)Method 2: Use Samsung’s ‘Find My Mobile’ ServiceMethod 3: Use The ‘Forgot Pattern’ FeatureMethod 4: Perform A Factory ResetMethod 5: Use ADB To Delete The Password FileMethod 6: Boot InTo Safe Mode To Bypass Third-Party Lock ScreenMethod 7: Crash The Lock Screen UI But what happens if you forget the pattern, PIN, or password that locks your Android device?...

The Snapchat update is bound to some smiles to the users face because of the new system of ranking friends with emoji’s. Snapchats new feature explains your “Best Friends” with a emoji. After updating to the latest version, tap on the ghost at the top of the camera mode screen and select “My Friends” to see the new Best Friends feature in action. Once you tap on the My Friends list there will be an emoji next to your friends name based on your Snapchat relationship....

— Ferguson Action (@fergusonaction) June 27, 2015 One such building which was still hoisting the Confederate flag was the statehouse in Columbia. Early this morning, South Carolina activist Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole outside the statehouse in Columbia where the Confederate battle flag was still flying and took it down herself — Ferguson Action (@fergusonaction) June 27, 2015 Bree was still about halfway up the more than 30-foot steel flagpole just after dawn Saturday when State Capitol police told her to come down....

The new study has revealed that Universe may contain fewer galaxies than what was predictedThere may be far fewer galaxies further out in the universe then might be anticipated, according to a new study led by Michigan State University. O’Shea and his team used the National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters processor to run simulations to inspect the formation of galaxies in the early universe. The team simulated thousands of galaxies at a time, including the galaxies’ interactions through gravity or radiation....

Currently, the video calling feature is in Telegram beta and expected to officially roll out with version 7.0 of the application. “2020 highlighted the need for face-to-face communication, and our alpha version of video calls is now available on both Android and iOS. You can start a video call from your contact’s profile page, and switch video on or off at any time during voice calls,” the company said in a statement on Friday....

Smartphones have become a necessity of our life. Today, mostly all of us own an Android smartphone or an iPhone depending on her/his choice. Though you may be using the mobile phones for many days, most probably there would be many things which were unknown to you. Two things that would give even the soberest person out there a little bit heartburn are seeing the “low battery” and “no network coverage“ on their smartphone....

Melting ice sheets, especially in Greenland, are changing the distribution of weight on Earth. This has caused both the North Pole and the wobble, which is called polar motion. “If we lose mass from the Greenland ice sheet, we are essentially putting mass elsewhere. And as we redistribute the mass, the spin axis tends to find a new direction. And that’s what we mean by polar motion,” said Surendra Adhikari, a researcher with Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who conducted the work with his colleague Erik Ivins....

What Are Your Teeth Saying To Others About You Are you tired of yellow teeth and bad breath? Do you want to start taking care of your teeth properly and make them whiter? Are you tired of boring and monotonous toothbrushes that do nothing for you? Now the brushing solution is here. Dental hygiene is gaining more and more importance today. We all know that having visibly white teeth with no plaque or cavities is an indication that your teeth are well looked after....

The passcode, set by default on credit card machines since 1990, has been exposed for so long there’s no sense in trying to hide it. It’s either 166816 or Z66816, depending on the machine. Using either of the two passwords, an attacker can gain complete control of a store’s credit card readers, potentially allowing them to hack into the machines and steal customers’ payment data. No wonder big retailers like Target and Home Depot keep on losing our credit card data to hackers....

Meet, Erik Finman, an 18-year-old high school dropout from Idaho, U.S., who is a bitcoin millionaire and is the owner of a reported 403 Bitcoins. Currently, per bitcoin is valued at $2,622, which puts Erik’s bitcoin amount to $1.06 million, at the time of writing, which could rise or fall in mere hours due to the currency’s extreme unstable nature. He also holds smaller investments in other digital currencies, including litecoin and ethereum....

As per report in The New Orleans Advocate, Gideon Hodge, 35, a novelist by profession, dashed past firefighters into a burning New Orleans house Thursday to rescue two completed novels stored on his laptop. “Anybody that’s ever created art, there’s no replacing that,” Hodge told The New Orleans Advocate after safely making it out of the burning building with the computer. “It’s got pretty much my life’s work.” The story started at 11....

Three days after the Masque Attack report, Apple respondsThreat downplayed by ApplePrevious Flaw Threat downplayed by Apple Apple in an official statement downplayed this very serious flaw, which has made users doubt the superior security claims of Apple. “We designed OS X and iOS with built-in security safeguards to help protect customers and warn them before installing potentially malicious software,” an Apple representative said, adding that the company was not aware of its customers actually falling victim to such an attack....

Its parent company, ByteDance is reportedly testing in-app video games among users under the age of 35 in Vietnam, according to a report from Reuters citing four sources familiar with the matter. By adding games to the platform, TikTok, which has over 1 billion monthly active users, is looking to boost its revenue via in-game ads as well as increase the number of times users engage on the app. The video-sharing service will likely use ByteDance’s library of games for its in-app games, beginning with simpler gaming mechanics and short game times and later expanding to more ambitious titles....

In the memo, Cook said that the company is doing “everything in our power to identify those who leaked” most of the details of Apple’s announcements to the press. He also noted that “people who leak confidential information do not belong” at Apple. The memo reveals Cook’s “frustration” at how details of confidential meetings, as well product news, are being leaked to the media. The news follows an internal company-wide meeting that took place at Apple on September 17 where the company demanded to frequently test unvaccinated employees but failed to meet a vaccine mandate, Apple vs Epic antitrust case, employee pay equity, privacy, sexism allegations, and more....

The comprehensive replica features the entire Enterprise, from its saucer to its nacelles, ten authentic sound effects and complete with working lighting. The drone which is otherwise an accurate restoration of Kirk’s ship allows the four spinning rotors of the toy drone that are kept inside the ship’s saucer section to fly to allow air to pass through, which is almost completely see-through in this version. The USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A drone comes with a branded controller so that you can avoid the mess with awkward touchscreen controls on your phone....

Why do people positively react to an appealing prototype? The secret lies in the human’s nature of perception. According to research data, we perceive up to 70% of information by our vision. If a person sees a beautiful UI prototype, he or she is more likely to believe that this IT team are real masters of their craft. Unfortunately, many software development companies misuse the opportunity to impress their potential clients with a UX prototype....

The Japanese tech giants started a revolution with the T1100 laptop, which was technically regarded as the first laptop available to the public. Exit in the Pipeline for a While Toshiba showed their intent in leaving the laptop business when they sold 80.1% of their stake in their computer business to Foxconn owned Sharp back in 2018. Exit in the Pipeline for a WhileKilled by the Competition?The First Laptop for Public...

The tweet sent from hacked high-profile accounts urged their followers to send $1,000 in Bitcoin to a specific cryptocurrency wallet, with the promise that money sent would be doubled. The link to the Bitcoin wallet is consistent throughout all the tweets, suggesting a cryptocurrency scam. Most of the accounts that were accessed in the scam had at least a million followers. The first known scam tweet was sent from Elon Musk’s Twitter account at 20:17 UTC on July 15, 2020....

Chrome for Windows has been updated to version 103.0.5060.114, which includes four security fixes, of which three were highlighted by Google that were contributed by external researchers: High CVE-2022-2294: Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC. Reported by Jan Vojtesek from the Avast Threat Intelligence team on 2022-07-01 High CVE-2022-2295: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by avaue and Buff3tts at S.S.L. on 2022-06-16 High CVE-2022-2296: Use after free in Chrome OS Shell....