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The internet is a beautiful place and many of us have established an unbreakable relationship with the same. However, it looks like that even a wrong key press can prove to be fatal for the worldwide internet infrastructure. The same happened when an engineer of TeliaSonera–an internet infrastructure company–committed a little mistake. S weden-based internet infrastructure company TeliaSonera is one of the few companies that are responsible for maintaining the basic infrastructure of the internet. TeliaSonera’s transatlantic cable network plays a major role in connecting the US to various European countries. A recent internet outage has affected many services like WhatsApp, Facebook, Slack, Reddit, and CloudFlare. After this massive outage was reported across many countries, TeliaSonera sent a note to other network operators and informed them about the mishap. As the problem was affecting a very large chunk of people worldwide, it was assumed tha...

What is Windows 10 Fast Startup? W indows Fast startup is one of the built-in features that can help us accomplish fast boot of Windows 10 by combining the hibernation and shutdown properties to make Windows 10 faster.When the fast startup is enabled, Windows 10 will save some of your computer’s system files to a hibernation file upon shutdown. And when you turn your computer back on, Windows will use these saved files to boot up quicker. In short, Windows 10 will boot from the hibernate mode instead from the scratch. You can also turn on this feature if you are using older version of Windows. Turn on Fast startup on Windows 10: Open settings on your Windows 10 PC. A settings Window will pop up. Select the ‘System’, the first option in the image below Under the System Window, click on ‘Power & Sleep’ . Under this window, click on ‘ Additional Power Settings’ When the Additional Power Settings option opens up, you will see ‘ Choose what the po...

What lies have been written about you online? We all know that employers do background checks on potential employees, and it’s important for you to know exactly what could pop-up. Most people just Google themselves, but that basic search won’t reveal everything that’s out there. Think you’ve got nothing to hide? You probably don’t – really – but you could still have a damaged record. Whether some disgruntled ex lied about you on social media, you missed paying a bill years ago that went to the collectors, or someone has used your identity fraudulently, that information could ruin your future. Instant Checkmate is the leading background search site chosen by people all over America. It lets users perform background checks on themselves, friends, family, neighbors and acquaintances. Instant Checkmate finally gives you peace of mind, through quality searches across hundreds of millions of criminal, traffic, arrest records and much more. Through searching and...

German scientists transmit data at a world record 6 Gigabit per second over a distance of 37 Kms They say nothing is impossible for humans and scientists from Germany have proved it by achieving world record data transmission speeds ten times faster than what has been achieved so far. Researchers from the University of Stuttgart, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF, achieved a new world record in wireless data transmission by sending the contents of a conventional DVD in under ten seconds using radio waves. In other words, they have set a new record in wireless transmission using millimetre-waves to transmit at a data rate of 6 Gigabit per second over a distance of 37 kilometers, which is 10 times faster than any data transmission method. The extremely high data rates of 6 Gbit/s was accomplished through efficient transmitters and receivers at a radio frequency of 71-76 GigaHertz in the so-called...

This guy refused a whoppping $80,000 offer to sell kanyeforpresident.com to Kanye West You may already know Kanye West who has been making more news off the stage than on it. West who is also married to one the top celebrities of Hollywood, Kim Kardashian managed to deliver one hit album, The Life of Pablo. However West has other dreams also. He wants to be the President of the United States of America However to make a successful bid for presidency, he needs to own the domain called www. kanyeforpresident.com . Sadly, he can own it because its owner refused a whopping $80,000 offer to sell it. When you visit kanyeforpresident website, you will be taken to the Instagram page of Tramall Ferguson. Tramall Ferguson is a graduate from Australia and turned a paltry $10 into whopping $80,000, all in a nights surfing. Tramall told ABC that he was purchased the domain for $10 a year ago while surfing aimlessly. “I was just trying to do something out of the box,” Trama...

U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Net Neutrality Rules In Full Various public interest groups and free speech activities held victory celebrations when a federal appeals court on Tuesday fully upheld the so-called Open Internet rules , regulations backing the principle of net neutrality. Net neutrality has been a bone of contention between free Internet advocacy groups and telecom companies ever since the Internet boom in 2000s. The telecom companies want to milk Internet for windfall gains while most activists want that phone and cable companies should treat all of the traffic on their networks equally — no blocking or slowing their competitors, and no fast lanes for companies that can pay more. Tuesday’s verdict by the The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was a clear cut victory for free Internet and Federal Communications Commission as it rejected the petition filed by telecom, cable and wireless industry associations alongside AT&T, CenturyLink and severa...

Internet Access Is Now A Basic Human Right Along with your right to live, eat, and other basic rights, Internet access is also your basic right from now onwards. This was conveyed by United Nations Human Rights Council and has passed a resolution for the “promotion, protection, and enjoyment of human rights on the internet.” The resolution also provides for all countries of the world to provide their citizens with Internet access and condemns any country that intentionally disrupts the internet access of its citizens. The resolution stresses that “the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online” particularly with regards to the freedom of expression already protected by articles 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The resolution was passed last Friday, but was opposed by countries including Russia, China, Saudi Arabia. The surprising opposition came from countries li...

List of top 10 countries with the quickest internet Electronic devices, multimedia and computers are things that we deal with every day and which have a huge influence on our daily life. Especially the Internet is becoming more and more important for nearly everybody, and is now our preferred medium of everyday communication. Internet is definitely one of the newest and most forward-looking media and the medium of the future. However, to enjoy the uninterrupted services of the internet, you need to have good connectivity. There are two important metrics in bandwidth allocation (measured in Megabits per second or Mbps): download and upload speed, denoting the speed of inbound and outbound data respectively. The average web page loads at 6.3 Mbps universally, a number that denotes how many million bits of data can be moved in a second. While 6.3 mbps is quick enough to send an email or watch a Netflix show, it’s still very slow. Akamai Technologies, a Massachusetts...

Here are some of the most whackiest and bizarre searches people make on Google Nowadays we rely more on Google than books for information. As time goes, Google is becoming more and more wiser and dishing out exact results we want. But there are people on this Earth who have the most whackiest questions for Google. These people are taking Google search to a whole new level altogether. From wanting to know what happens if they drink blood to whether passing wind burns calories, these folks are more hilarious than curious. A marketing agency,  Digitaloft , did some research into these nerdy creatures and came out with some rib-tickling data about Google searches. As strange as it can get, here are a few strangest Google questions people have asked the search engine. The top whackiest search made on Google is “am I  pregnant?”. Seems like there are people on Earth who trust Google more than doctors or pregnancy tests. According to the chart, 49...

Huawei, Vodafone hit 20Gbps in 5G e-band outdoor field test and FCC approves 5G for the United States We could be enjoying 5G speeds soon thanks to the successful outdoor field testing of 5G e-band. Huawei and Vodafone have successfully reached 20Gbps peak rate following the completion of a 5G e-band outdoor field test at Vodafone Emerald House in Newbury, United Kingdom. According to Huawei, the test covered a single-user multiple input multiple output (SU-MIMO) with a strong reflection path to reach 20Gbps user equipment (UE) peak rate, and multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) for long-range UE to reach 10Gbps peak rate. According to Huawei spokesperson, this is the first time in the world that the 5G outdoor field test using e-band to reach 20Gbps peak rate for a single user device has been done. Huawei believes that the successful testing of 5G e-band now opens new ways for applications like Virtual Reality (VR), Pokemon Go type Augmen...

A hacker is selling a database of all US voters for $7,800 on the dark web In recent times, all data breaches that are taking place are finding its way to the principal black market known as ‘Dark Web’. One can easily find any kind of data that they are looking for here. It is now learnt that a hacker is trying to sell a database that supposedly contains registration records for voters in all 50 US states, Tech Insider reported. A seller using the pseudonym of ‘DataDirect’ is offering US voters’ registration records on the dark net marketplace “The Real Deal.” The Real Deal, a popular site many cyber criminals use for buying and selling everything from illegal drugs to zero-day software exploits. The seller is offering US voters’ records for each state at 0.5 BTC (around USD 340). The seller is also ready to offer the records at a “bulk rate” of 12 Bitcoin, or about $7,800. “US voter registration records. Selling the DB on a State-by-State basis. 0.5 BTC per state...

NYPD Captain Gets Threats Over Police Radio Frequency By An Anonymous Person Cybercriminals have hacked into banks, hospitals, government agencies, and much more. This time around the hackers decided not to spare the police too. Last weekend, someone managed to access the NYPD-only radio frequency and threatened a captain and reported a fake officer shooting. The first call apparently came on Saturday evening in Bronx, where a message was broadcasted across several divisions of the NYPD radio frequency asking to talk to a captain assigned to the Midtown South Precinct and started threatening him. The separate messages went on for several minutes. First, there was a false call from an anonymous person that a police officer had been shot in the Bronx. Police responded and realized it was a hoax. He said: “South Duty captain to Central. Remember you put me in jail? I’m out now and I am going to put a bullet in your head.” In another instance, the man said, “Remem...

PS Vita Hacked To Allow Running Homebrew Apps, Games, Emulators It was anticipated for a long time, and it has now finally happened. Sony’s PS Vita handheld has finally been hacked! A group known as Team Molecule have hacked the Sony’s PS Vita through the console’s web browser, which gives homebrew users full access to the Vita hardware. You can now reinvent it as a console emulator. The relatively simple jailbreak is known as Dubbed HENkaku and it works with the latest 3.60 Vita firmware. All Vita owners with the latest 3.6 version can simply browse to the HENkaku website and tap install. However, remember that the jailbreak isn’t permanent, which means that you will have to reinstall it every time you turn your Vita on and off. The method of repeated switching power off and on in the Vita is the only drawback to this experience. “HENkaku simply lets you install homebrew as bubbles in LiveArea. It is a native hack that disables the filesystem sandbox. It installs ...

Hackers steal $72 million from Hong Kong Bitcoin exchange, Bitcoin price fall by 20% Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex suspended trading after almost 120,000 units of digital currency, together worth $72 million at the time, was stolen by the hackers from online customers. This cyberattack is said to be the second-biggest security ever of such an exchange. After the news of the theft broke out, the value of Bitcoin plunged more than 20 percent early on Wednesday in the trading market. Bitfinex, which is one of the largest exchanges for Bitcoin, and known in the digital currency community said it had halted trading, deposits and withdrawals while it probed which users had been affected. Zane Tackett, Director of Community & Product Development for Bitfinex, told Reuters on Wednesday that 119,756 Bitcoins had been stolen from users’ accounts. “The bitcoin was stolen from users’ segregated wallets,” he said. The volume stolen amounts to about 0.75 percent...

Venmo’s flaw could have allowed anyone to use Siri on a locked iPhone to empty your account [Video] Martin Vigo, a product security engineer for SalesForce recently discovered that by just using Siri, anyone could empty a Venmo account on a locked iPhone in less than two minutes, stealing as much as the weekly limit of $2999.99. Venmo is a PayPal-owned money payment service app that allows users to transfer money between one another using a mobile phone or web interface. The users can link their bank accounts, debit cards, or credit cards to their Venmo account and use it to pay bills, friends with just a few taps. Besides sending money, you can also request people to pay you. One of the app’s features is that it allows one user to “charge” other users for something, which results in an SMS notification being sent to the person who was charged. When that happens, the recipient can reply to the SMS with a six-digit code that was sent in the original message, which comp...

200 million alleged Yahoo account details leaked on Darknet A huge cache of personal information that includes usernames, hashed passwords, and dates of birth of some 200 million alleged Yahoo users have been put for sale online on a Darknet marketplace called the Real Deal. The cybercriminal with the name “Peace” who is behind this leak has in the past successfully breached social platforms like MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr and sold millions of passwords and email addresses online. Motherboard, who was the first to report about the potential breach based on the sample obtained by them, said that the data dump put up online also includes backup email addresses, country of origin and even ZIP codes for some users. When Motherboard tested the details of two dozen allegedly stolen contact details from a sample of 5,000, it found that they matched with genuine Yahoo accounts. However, when it tried to contact 100 of the addresses its attempts were returned with erro...

This tiny $6 hacking tool lets you break into hotel rooms or compromise point-of-sale (PoS) systems A security researcher has developed a hacking tool which allows anybody to break into hotel rooms with ease. The tool is also capable of compromising point-of-sale (PoS) systems used by almost all retailers and hotels. Rapid7 security researcher Weston Hecker revealed the tool at Black Hat USA. Hecker said that he assembled the tool with off-the-shelf components and cost him only $6 to build. As reported by Forbes , the device can read and duplicate hotel keys, but if a potential hacker is really keen on disrupting a hotel chain, the $6 tool can also be used to “brute force” attack every guest room in the building — by guessing the keys to each room. Hecker’s tool works by guessing possible combinations used by the hotel room lock.  After being placed near a door’s card reader, Hecker’s device can make 48 guesses a minute and additional hardware antennas prevent...

Love Hack : Man hacks Tinder App’s ‘swipe right’ feature to send introductions to 200,000 women Hacking is mostly done to either find bugs in a code or to make money if you are a cyber criminal. But this man from California developed a hack for love. Sebastian Stadil hacked Tinder to help him automatically ask thousands of women out on dates through the matchmaking App. If you are on Tinder, you will know that the popular dating App requires both parties “swipe right” on profiles they like, before they are allowed to exchange messages. But Sebastian Stadil developed a string of code to automatically swipe right and send a few messages of introduction to as many women as possible. His hack was so successful that he was able to send intros to more than 200,000 women. Out of the 200,000 women, Stadil was able to date 200 women during a four-month period last year. Sadly, even after dating 200 women, Stadil says he has not found true love. In fact, the Silicon Valley ...

Researchers fool Tesla Model S AutoPilot System The debate surrounding the reliability of autonomous vehicles has been going on for a long time. If that was not enough, the potential danger associated with hackers successfully influencing the underlying software of a self-driving car has cropped up. Researchers from the University of South Carolina, Zhejiang University in China, and Qihoo 360 (a Chinese security firm) has found a potential flaw in Tesla’s AutoPilot semi-autonomous driving system. The team was able to exploit weaknesses in the system that lead researcher and USC Professor Wenyuan Xu said “highly motivated people” could use “to cause personal damage or property damage.” The group will report its findings at the DEFCON Hacking Conference in Las Vegas, which used off-the-shelf products to carry out the hack. According to Wired, “Tesla’s autopilot detects the car’s surroundings three different ways: with radar, ultrasonic sensors, and cameras. The re...

Try one of these 7 highest paying IT certifications and get yourself a megabucks job After reading our articles on ethical hacking courses, several of our readers requested us to make a post on IT certifications. For those who have not read the old posts, launching a career in information technology (IT) requires some kind of certification preferably from the best in the class. If you are intent on making IT your career choice, then there are a host of certifications available that you should consider pursuing. These certifications are for various fields in IT like networking, security and hacking, or systems administration and can help launch or enhance your career. At the end of the day, everything depends on the $$$ you aspire to earn by opting for a career in IT. With that in mind, this article lists the top seven highest-paying IT certifications, what each job pays, and what the work entails.The list has been prepared based on the salary data by Global Knowledge, ...