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This article will detail some key findings from Sophos’ “The State of Ransomware 2020” and Malwarebytes’ 2020 “State of Malware” reports, which offer brand-new insight into recent ransomware attacks and uncover the impact of fulfilling threat actors’ demands on overall recovery costs. But before we look at the findings, let’s quickly explore the definition of a ransomware attack to ensure you’re aware of the different attack vectors. What is a ransomware attack?...

Two conceivable show fewer forms of the up and coming era of Google Glass, now called Project Aura, would depend on sound while another rendition for undertakings would even now incorporate a presentation. In September, reports said that Google had redone and renamed its Glass system Project Aura to concentrate on creating savvy eyeglasses and other related wearable innovation. The New Google Glass Version May Not Screen Venture Aura seems to have been propelled in June, around six months after Google declared its choice to drop creation of Glass....

Oppo has recently made official the R7s, which brings plenty of noteworthy features to a device that hovers over the line between midrange and flagship. The Oppo-branded R7s is now official. It features a 5.5-inch AMOLED 2.5D “arc edge display,” which has a resolution of 1920×1080, which is flanked by bezels that are only 2.2mm thin. On the back, there’s a 13-megapixel camera, and on the front an 8MP front-facing shooter....

But it isn’t always internal hardware that is to blame. Phones are jam-packed with applications that run in the background, sapping battery life without your knowledge. There are a few things that you can do about it, but there is one category of apps that is a significant culprit. Keep reading to find out which apps are most likely draining your phone’s battery and how to delete them properly....

The man charged by the Justice Department is Ardit Ferizi, a citizen of Kosovo, who was detained in Malaysia on a U.S. provisional arrest warrant. Ferizi comes from the Kosovo city of Gjakova, which has a large Albanian Catholic and spiritual Sufi population, in addition to its conventional Sunni Muslim. According to the Reuters and other sources online, 100-200 Kosovars have joined ISIS, with 40 killed so far. The case is considered a milestone in the fight against the terrorism online, in particular, the authorities are condemning the hacking practice conducted in support of terrorism operations, practically is it the first time that a man has charged with cyber terrorism....

The newest project is Orfox, is based on the same code base as Mozilla’s Firefox. Because it shares code with a desktop browser, it should be a more capable browser than a previous effort that uses bView, which is typically designed for a one-time view of a webpage inside a mobile app. If you want to try it out, head to The Guardian oject’s site follow the instructions (there are several steps)....

Cisco’s Talos security analysts say Lazarus hackers are exploiting flaws in Log4J – an open-source application logging component – in unpatched internet-facing VMware Horizon servers to gain initial access at energy providers in the US, Canada, and Japan. The North Korea-backed attackers deploy custom malware for long-term espionage. Lazarus, also tracked as Hidden Cobra and APT38, is known for stealing hundreds of millions in cryptocurrency from crypto firms. The US Treasury sanctioned Lazarus in 2019 for crypto and banking system heists that it said helped raise revenues to fund North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs....

The good news is companies are trying to lend a hand by offering free stuff like movies, fitness tools and educational materials. Tap or click here for a huge list of free items and how to get them. Another way to stay busy? Download some new apps for your smartphone or tablet. But be careful where you get them! One popular app store just suffered a massive data breach, and your personal information could be exposed....

The initial review units of the Nexus 6 featured Double Tap to Wake functionality, which was removed by Google in an OTA update before the handset’s public launch. The exact reason for the company removing such a handy feature is still not known. Either ways, developer naxir has created an app that allows rooted Nexus 6 users to once again re-enable Double Tap to Wake on their devices. The feature is still a bit unreliable and stops working if your Nexus 6 has been laying idle for a long time....

So, we have the whole industry “pie” estimated at $75 billion. Among them, $25-30 billion belong to products. Who shares this amount and how? What are the most interesting trends? These questions are not as difficult as it may seem. Let’s divide the market by region and product type. In fact, market segmentation on the ground of region is a trite practice. At least half the money belongs to the USA, half of the rest is in Europe; Asia, Latin America, and Japan follow with nearly half the shares declined each time; something of minor importance is taken by Africa....

But there’s another problem. Apple’s continuing obsession with creating a feature gap between the iPhone and the iPhone Pro line could very well turn the iPhone 14 into a second-rate choice for those wanting to make the switch from Android. Also: Don’t waste your money on these Apple products: August 2022 edition Take the upcoming iPhone 14. We already know a lot about what will differentiate the “budget” iPhone 14 and 14 Max from the more energetically priced iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max....

The Pirate Bay Is Down: Here Are The Top 10 Alternatives If we look back at the month of July we saw the demise of Kickass Torrents and Torrentz. The Founder Of Kickass Torrent was arrested. His arrest sent shockwaves across all other torrenting community in no time. Now almost every popular Torrent site was blocked. With almost all top torrent Sites are going, The Pirate Bay currently dominates the torrent world....

s from the Cisco Talos Group published the results of in-depth research on the threat actors behind the Angler Exploit Kit revealing the profitable business behind such kind of threat. The researchers from Talos gained an inside view of one of the health monitoring servers utilized by an Angler Exploit Kit instance active throughout the month of July 2015. The server analyzed by the experts was monitoring 147 proxy servers, allegedly generating approximately $3 million in revenue over the span of that single month of July....

After over half a century of unmatched global security dominance, the United States and its western allies are now faced with a rapidly-changing playing field in what is now considered the fifth domain of battle: cyberwarfare. Russian, North Korean and Iranian hackers are beginning to push the limits of our current bounds of war, making this period of international relations trickier for military leaders and policymakers to decide not only if they should respond, but how....

Detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint, the job fraud campaigns attempt to lure people in with the promise of upfront payments for simple jobs that can be done while working from home. Nearly 4,000 of these email threats are being sent every day – most are sent to people in the United States, but Europeans and Australians have also been targeted. SEE: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (ZDNet special report) In over 95% of cases, the attackers are aiming at email accounts linked to universities and colleges, targeting students who are likely to be open to flexible and remote work opportunities....

However, Samsung’s next flagship handset will be Samsung Galaxy S8, and it is expected to feature a major redesign. The smartphone will lack physical home button and will have dual-lens rear camera setup just like iPhone 7 plus. As we saw earlier that how a new rumor coming from one of the China’s popular leakster, Ice Universe, suggests that the upcoming Galaxy S8 is expected to feature 8GB RAM and a newer UFS 2....

The Pirate Bay Now Allows You To Play Its Movies And TV Shows Online The Pirate Bay now includes “Stream It” links adjacent to all its video torrents in order to let users play movies, TV Shows and video files in your browser while you surf their site. This feature is in beta and you can easily play its video files in your browser. When you click on “Stream It” on The Pirate Bay, you will be asked to install Torrents Time Plug-in....

These Are The Google Features That Microsoft Disabled In Chromium Edge After several months of waiting, with leaks and some previous photos, we can finally download the new Microsoft Edge browser based on Chromium for Windows 10 in its Dev and Canary versions, with a performance that is even better than the tech giant Google’s used Chrome browser currently offers. The only fault of this improvement is the tech giant Microsoft has disabled 53 Google functions in its new browser....

Knowing the prestige and history behind the Adobe brand, one would not dare to doubt its plans for the future, but still less to know its new idea to transform our erasers or sketches into incredible images. A new alternative that could save a lot of time in artistic processes, design, and creation. Adobe and Artificial Intelligence As we say, Adobe has long been working in the development and implementation of AI, its new software is called Adobe Scribbler and allows to apply Artificial Intelligence to the world of design....

Rockwell Automation provides industrial digital and automation solutions, including digital twin solutions, engineering products, and factory floor optimization hardware. On March 31, CISA pointed customers to two recent advisories, “ICSA-22-090-05: Rockwell Automation Logix Controllers” and “ICSA-22-090-07: Rockwell Automation Studio 5000 Logix Designer,” which detail severe vulnerabilities in controller products. The first advisory describes CVE-2022-1161, a vulnerability assigned a CVSS severity score of 10.0, the highest possible. The bug impacts a range of CompactLogix, Compact GuardLogix, ControlLogix, FlexLogix, DriveLogix, and SoftLogix controllers....