The official website of Imperial College London and Lomonosov Moscow State University Breached by a hacker from Turkey using twitter handle @1923Turkz. The hacker has breached into the database of the two university Lomonosov Moscow State University: msu.ru and Imperial College London imperial.ac.uk . The data leaked contains Name, email address and phone number. the database dump from Lomonosov Moscow State University: also contains admin login credentials. and other users’ usernames and encrypted passwords....

Chinese company Alibaba and its co-founder, Jack Ma, has been summoned by a district court in Gurugram, India. The court has asked him to appear before it by July 29, regarding a case of wrongful termination from the company, filed by a former employee of UC Web mobile company. In 2014, UC Web was acquired entirely and merged into Jack Ma’a Alibaba, after over 6 years of consistent investments into the company as a part of the acquisition plan....

The Indian government on Tuesday introduced a proposal to levy a flat 30% tax on Cryptocurrency and NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens) in its country budget for the financial year. Along with that, it rolled the red carpet for its official digital currency, the digital rupee, backed by RBI, the country’s central bank. Any income from the transfer or transaction of cryptocurrency in India will attract a flat rate of 30% tax. This does not include the 1% TDS on any crypto-related transaction that will occur on every virtual digital asset (including crypto) in the country....

Instagram is one of the most popular photo and video-sharing platforms in the world. In December last year, Facebook had promised to update the Instagram application on Windows 10 to a Progressive Web App (PWA) application. Back then, the social media had replaced its own Windows 10 OSMeta app for Instagram with a PWA instead. The old Instagram app was rarely updated, with the application receiving its last update on July 13, 2018....

Google Photos Format Loophole Can Give iPhone Users Free Unlimited ‘Original Quality’ Storage A vulnerability in Google Photos allows iPhone users to get free unlimited original quality backups photo storage on Google Photos albeit unofficially. For those unaware, Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service that gives users free, unlimited storage for photos. Further, Google Photos has three backup modes: “Express”, “High quality” and “Original quality”. The Express and High Quality modes compresses photo size to 3MP and 16MP respectively, and offers unlimited photo and video storage for free without taking up Google cloud storage....

LastPass, a freemium password manager that stores encrypted passwords online, on Wednesday revealed another data breach incident that allowed unknown threat actors to access its cloud storage through information stolen from LastPass’ systems in August this year. For those unaware, LastPass was involved in another data breach incident in August 2022 that allowed an unauthorized party gain access to portions of the LastPass development environment through a single compromised developer account for four days until they were detected and removed....

LG Electronics (LG) on Wednesday announced in a press release that all its premium smartphones currently in use will receive up to three iterations of Android operating system updates from the year of purchase. This news comes shortly after LG had officially confirmed that it would be closing down its mobile business unit by the end of July to focus resources in growth areas such as electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial intelligence, and business-to-business solutions, as well as platforms and services....

South Korean tech giant LG Electronics will finally begin selling Apple products like iPhones, Apple Watch, and other products at its South Korean stores from August, reports ZDNet . However, iMac, Mac Pro, and Apple’s desktop computers will not be sold at LG‘s stores. For those unaware, back in 2018, LG and Samsung had agreed to sell their own smartphones in their existing stores to avoid competing with smaller phone distributors and give them an opportunity to earn money....

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a loophole in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace that enables attackers to reuse deleted extension names, potentially allowing malware to infiltrate developer workflows under the guise of trusted tools. Researchers at supply chain security firm ReversingLabs (RL) uncovered the issue after tracking a string of malicious extensions called ahbanC.shiba in June. The extension turned out to have the same capability as the previous two extensions flagged earlier this year, ahban....

Micron Technology, Inc. on Tuesday announced the world’s highest-capacity microSD card with an extraordinary density of 1.5 terabytes (TB) at the Embedded World 2022 conference in Nuremberg, Germany. Micron’s new i400 is the world’s first microSD card to use 176-layer 3D NAND storage technology with a focus on performance and endurance. It is specifically designed for edge storage applications with a focus on handling tasks like continuous high-quality video recording and multiple AI (artificial intelligence) capture events concurrently....

In a major leap into the handheld gaming market, Microsoft in collaboration with ASUS on Sunday officially announced two new handhelds—the “ROG Xbox Ally” and “ROG Xbox Ally X”. Designed to blend the performance of an Xbox console with the portability of a gaming handheld, both devices aim to deliver console-level gaming performance capable of competing with high-end handhelds and lightweight laptops alike. “When you power on your Xbox Ally, you’ll boot directly into the Xbox full-screen experience, a new feature optimized specifically for handheld gaming,” Microsoft said in a release....

Microsoft announced that it will modify its new AI-powered Recall (preview) feature for Copilot+ PCs to address privacy concerns raised by privacy and security experts. The Redmond giant said that the Recall feature will now be an opt-in feature, which means it will be turned off by default. In other words, Windows will activate Recall only if users manually opt-in to use this feature during the setup of a Copilot+ PC using Windows 11 ....

Microsoft is preparing to close the chapter on two of its long-standing Office suites, Office 2016 and Office 2019 . The Redmond giant has confirmed that both versions will officially reach the end of extended support on October 14, 2025. After this date, while users can still open Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company will no longer provide security patches, bug fixes, or technical support, leaving them at risk if they continue using the aging software....

McAfee Mobile Research Team recently discovered 38 copycat games of the wildly popular 3D sandbox game, Minecraft with hidden advertising on the Google Play Store. These Minecraft-like games that infected devices with the Android adware ‘HiddenAds’ have been found to be installed by at least 35 million users around the world. These HiddenAds apps generated huge amounts of stealthy advertising packets in the background and exploited players while generating advertising revenue for their operators....

A team of researchers with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been working to push the speed limits of a type of a previously developed human-made analog synapse, which is cheaper to build and is more energy efficient, and promises faster computation. The multidisciplinary team used programmable resistors, which are the central building blocks in analog deep learning, just like transistors are the core elements for building digital processors to produce “analog deep learning”....

Trustwave SpiderLabs has discovered a new strain of Instagram “Copyright Infringement” phishing emails that aim to steal the victim’s Instagram backup codes by bypassing the two-factor authentication (2FA) offered on the account. Two-factor authentication is a method of adding additional security that requires two forms of identification to access resources and data when logging into the account. This extra layer of security is an effective way to protect your account against many security threats that steal personal information, such as phishing, brute-force attacks, credential exploitation, and more....

Cyber criminals hack UN nuclear power plant, try to steal nuclear fission material Here is a scenario that security researchers and experts have been warning us for a decade now. Cyber criminals somehow getting access to the nuclear power plant and nuclear fission material which can be used to build dirty bombs. Apparently, the experts were not fooling us! The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which oversees United Nations nuclear operations, says a nuclear power plant was successfully hacked three or four years ago....

In the wake of the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, payment processor PayPal has expanded its services in Ukraine allowing users to send and receive money both inside the country and internationally with a Ukrainian PayPal account. This move was greatly appreciated by the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov of Ukraine. You can send and receive money in Ukraine on PayPal PayPal waives off transaction fee till June 30th Helping hands for Ukraine You can send and receive money in Ukraine on PayPal As per the latest update coming from PayPal, the payment processor has expanded its services in Ukraine....

Scammers are exploiting PayPal’s address settings to send phishing emails that appear legitimate, tricking users into thinking their accounts have been compromised. According to a new report from BleepingComputer , users have been complaining for more than a month of receiving emails from PayPal confirming a newly added shipping address. “You added a new address. This is just a quick confirmation that you added an address in your PayPal account,” reads the scam email....

The Raspberry Pi Foundation on Monday announced “Raspberry Pi 400”, which according to the company, is a complete personal computer, built into a compact keyboard. Inspired by classic home computers like BBC Micros, ZX Spectrums, Commodore Amigas, and others, Raspberry Pi has integrated the motherboard directly into the keyboard for Pi 400. The Raspberry Pi 400 is powered by a quad-core 64-bit processor (an Arm Cortex-A72 CPU running at 1.8GHz) with 4GB of LPDDR4-3200 RAM....