Microsoft recently warned that the Windows 11 2024 Update (version 24H2) may cause Office apps like Excel and Word to stop responding and freeze after installation. According to the Redmond giant, the issue occurs on Windows 11, version 24H2 devices when “antimalware security solutions enable certain features.” The company further clarifies that devices running CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor software are encountering application crashes when specific features, such as the “Enhanced Exploitation Visibility Prevention Policy” setting, are enabled in the Prevention Policy applied to the host....

Windows XP is still third-most popular OS after Microsoft snuffed it two years ago Launched 15 years ago, Windows XP is still the third most popular operating system (OS) even after two years since Microsoft ceased support, which means the platform no longer sees updates of any kind — not even critical security patches. Considering how vulnerable these systems are and also not exactly covered in terms of security, people are still using the outdated OS, which is quite astonishing....

10 Sure Signs That Your Windows Run PC/Laptop Has A Virus Out of all the operating systems in the world, Windows is the most popular. Due to its popularity and vulnerabilities, Windows run PCs run the maximum risk of getting infected with viruses, trojans, malware etc. If you have a Windows run PC or laptop at home, it is often difficult to find out if you have been infected by a virus....

10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Greatest Inventor, Nikola Tesla Billed as archrival of Thomas Alva Edison, Nikola Tesla is considered to the greatest inventor to walk on Earth. Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan (now Croatia), Nikola Tesla died a poor man’s death on 7th January 1943....

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Cord-cutting has become the new norm in this era of OTT services like Netflix, Hulu, amongst others. Our favorite TV shows and movies are available on-demand for watching it whenever and wherever we feel like. Most of these OTTs have started their self produced content which has gained much popularity and has begun competing with the content by, ABC CBS, NBC, etc. Local over-the-air (OTA) TV broadcasts are available for free to watch, offering channels such as CBS, MSNBC, PBS, PBS kids amongst other popular public channels....

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Looking for some of the Best Windows 7 Themes, Skins, and Backgrounds to enhance the look of your windows 7 PC or laptop? In January 2020, Microsoft ended support for one of the greatest computer OS of all time namely Windows 7. Despite the lack of technical support and software updates Windows 7 is still used by over 100 million users globally. That’s an astonishing number since Windows 7 was released in 2009....

Almost 2% of the top-grossing 1,000 iOS apps on Apple’s App Store were scam apps that deceived unsuspecting customers of $48 million. “Of the highest 1,000 grossing apps on the App Store, nearly two percent are scams, according to an analysis by The Washington Post . And those apps have bilked consumers out of an estimated $48 million during the time they’ve been on the App Store, according to market research firm Appfigures,” the report states....

Security auditing firm Qualys has discovered a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer that can allow attackers root access on most modern distros, such as Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora. Dubbed as Sequoia and tracked CVE-2021-33909 , this size_t-to-int type conversion vulnerability in the Linux Kernel’s Filesystem layer grants any unprivileged user gains root privileges on vulnerable devices by exploiting this vulnerability in a default configuration. The most important function of a Linux Filesystem is to manage user data....

Acer, the Taiwan-based electronic manufacturer, and computer giant, recently confirmed that it suffered a data breach after a threat actor offered to sell 160GB of data allegedly stolen from the company’s systems on a popular cybercrime forum. According to the electronics giant, the threat actor had infiltrated one of its internal servers, which hosted confidential private documents of the company meant to be used by its repair technicians. However, no customer data was stolen in the intrusion, it added....

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Researchers use Side-Channel attack to steals Encryption keys from Android and iOS Devices Side-channel attack has been used earlier to hack into air gapped computers but this is the first time researchers have used this vector to steal encryption keys from Android smartphones and iOS devices. Five researchers from universities in Tel Aviv and Adelaide have devised a new crypto side-channel attack that can extract encryption keys from electromagnetic emanations coming out of Android and iOS devices that are running cryptographic operations....

Samsung to fix Galaxy S10 flaw that allows any thumbprint to unlock the phone Beware, if you are a Galaxy S10 owner, as a vulnerability in the smartphone allows any fingerprint to unlock the device. The news was confirmed by Samsung who told Reuters that the company is going to soon roll out a software patch to fix the flaw. When Samsung had launched its Galaxy S10 series phones in March, it had described fingerprint authentication as a “revolutionary new biometric authentication feature”....

The upcoming Apple Watch 8 will reportedly include a body temperature sensor that will be able to determine if the wearer has a fever, according to Bloomberg’s notable Apple tracker Mark Gurman. As per Gurman, the Cupertino giant will be adding the body-temperature detection tool, assuming that the sensor passes Apple’s internal testing and becomes a standard on the upcoming Watch Series 8 model as well as an updated rugged edition aimed at extreme sports athletes....

BreachForums, the infamous cybercrime and hacking forum, has returned to the clearnet and dark web within two weeks after the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized control of its infrastructure. On May 15, 2024, the FBI and Department of Justice (DoJ), with assistance from international partners, took the BreachForums website and Telegram channel offline , displaying a message on both websites that they were now “under the control of the FBI....

Chinese researcher He Jiankui and two of his colleagues were sentenced to prison by a court in Shenzhen on Monday for creating the world’s first genetically altered babies, reported China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency . 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....

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a directive mandating federal agencies to promptly address a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel, identified as CVE-2024-53104. This high-severity flaw affects the Android Kernel’s USB Video Class (UVC) driver and has been actively exploited in targeted attacks. For those unaware, CVE-2024-53104 is a privilege escalation security flaw affecting the USB UVC driver in the Linux kernel. The issue arises from improper parsing of frames labeled as UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in the uvc_parse_format function, which can cause the buffer size of frames to be miscalculated, resulting in out-of-bounds writes....

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Kentucky man hospitalized after his e-cigarette battery explodes in his pocket A customer at an Owensboro, Kentucky convenience store was hospitalized on Saturday after an electronic cigarette battery apparently exploded in his pocket, and it was all caught on surveillance video. Josh Hamilton, the victim, is recovering from severe burns on his right thigh. Hamilton was paying for snacks at the counter at his local Shell gas station when flames shot out from his leg through his clothes....