Phantom Squad apparently couldnt wait till the Christmas Holidays and took down both Xbox Live and PlayStation servers yesterday. Sources indicate that this was a dry run of taking down the gaming servers ahead of fulfilling their promise in Christmas holidays. However their hacking of the gaming servers did not go well with another hacking group called SkidNP which today hacked their website, phantomsquad.ml. SkidNP member @Obstructable took to Twitter to announce their exploit....

Here is a good news that Digiarty is giving away WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe for its 12th Anniversary. It is a multifunctional video processing program that combines the functions of converter/compressor UHD-video, advanced video editor, online video downloader and more. How to enter this giveaway? Step1. go to giveaway page: https://www.winxdvd.com/giveaway/ Step 2. click “Grab now”, then hit the “Get Free” button to download the zip file. Step 3: Unzip the file, you will get a license code and setup file....

For the uninitiated, though widely adopted, SSDs available in markets today have no more than 6TB of storage. Fixstars SSD-13000M will more than double that capacity. Fixstars announced that a pair of exceptionally voluminous 2.5-inch SSD-13000M at 13TB, and the Fixstars SSD-10000M with 10TB of capacity, can now be pre-ordered. The company expects the shipments for US customers to start in late February. Previous Fixstars drives managed their capacity feats by employing flash memory chips normally destined for use in small-scale mobile devices....

The Angler exploit kit, once infected, will either install the TeslaCrypt ransomware or Bedep Trojan. In other words, users either found their files locked and held for ransom, or got a flood of other malware on their system. While malicious ads are not a new phenomenon, the newly found infections are alarming. Most big ad networks have good security mechanism to deal with them but cyber criminals always find ways and means to bypass these security checks....

However, to launch the game and play, you need to input special phrases. BetaNews shares the instructions: So, for example, you’d type @fbchess Pd4 to move it to that space. If more than one piece can go there, you’ll be asked which one to move. if you want a larger view of the chess board, click on the chat menu settings icon and select “See Full Conversation.” Sounds a little complicated....

Programming always fascinates people. Programming forms the core of all computers and “Hello World” is the first phrase that we try out when trying a new coding language. Writing the code for “Hello, world!” program outputs “Hello, World!” on a display device. Hello World is normally tried because it is one of the simplest programs possible in almost all computer languages. As such it can be used to quickly compare syntax differences between various programming languages....

Also many websites have articles are saying the above to be true. Especially a website which is going around cloning popular US news website and has a deceptive URL “usatoday.com.co” instead of the legitimate one which is “usatoday.com”is carrying a story saying that “New Facebook Dislike Button Will Delete Posts With 10 Dislikes” We can reassure our readers that this article is completely made up. Most of the ‘news’ on this website is completely over the top and obviously made up, like when they recently said Kim Davis was getting an award from ISIS....

Many digital assets are able to stay decentralized thanks to a process known as cryptocurrency mining. This process works by temporarily using a device’s resources in order to verify the integrity of all transactions on a cryptocurrency network. Back in the early days of Bitcoin, the average user was able to earn money as a reward for running mining software on their computer or device. While this is still the case to some degree, the popularity of the cryptocurrency landscape has led to the emergence of businesses dedicated solely to crypto mining....

An Instructables member with the handle of ASCAS recently published how to project for a smartphone projector that looks extremely easy to make and which doesn’t need a whole lot of materials. It is a fun, simple and easy physics experiment that you could do at home. The project has a lot to do with kids, especially if they are learning about light reflection and refraction in science. Check out the video below to know how to make your own smartphone projector....

Unleash the full potential of your Android device by installing Linux OS on itStep 1: Installing the BusyBox librariesStep 2: Installing a Terminal Step 3:Putting required files in placeStep 4: You’re almost ready Step 1: Installing the BusyBox libraries Before you start you’ll need: -Android Device -4 GB SD card(or more) Root Access Full Backup of your data(for recovery if something goes wrong) You can get BusyBox from Play Store by clicking here....

This Google app allows you to translate just by clicking an image with your smartphone’s cameraHow It WorksDisadvantagesWhere to Get It Initially, Quest Digital introduced the app as Word Lens, an augmented reality (AR) project that was free to try. However, a purchase of $5 language packs was required to be done for it to be of any practical use. Later, Google acquired Word Lens and now the technology happens to be a part of the Google Translate app on iPhone, Android, and Google Glass, which is completely free to use....

Top Wireshark’s features are: Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time. Live capture and offline analysis with powerful display filters. Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI or via the TTY-mode TShark utility. Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek … it’s a long list. You can also export to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text. Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802....

Ability to delete WhatsApp messages is definitely useful in many instances. That said, there are instances when you accidentally delete important messages. Well, if you are curious to read those deleted messages then this article might help you. So here’s how to read deleted messages from WhatsApp. How To Read Deleted WhatsApp Messages? 1. WhatsApp Chat Backup The first and one of the most reliable methods for reading deleted WhatsApp messages is by using WhatsApp chat backup....

One stop solution to repair damaged/corrupt Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Zip and Outlook PST filesError Notification that indicates Files have been corruptedCauses of Data CorruptionSolutions to Corrupt DataWord RepairExcel RepairPowerPoint RepairRepair Outlook PST files Error Notification that indicates Files have been corrupted Sometimes when you try to open a file on your computer or device, you may receive a pop-up message indicating that the document has been corrupted. Some of the errors that one may receive include;...

The police are enquiring whether the smartphone was Samsung make which has long history of exploding in user’s hands and has been banned onboard planes almost all over the world (the police have clarified that the fire was due to the high tension wires going overhead). According to a Times of India report, the 15-year-old was on the terrace speaking to someone on the mobile, when it burst into flames....

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) on Wednesday confirmed that one of the computers of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), located in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, was hit by a malware attack in September. The acknowledgment comes a day after the plant authorities denied social media posts and some media reports of a cyberattack on its systems. In an official press release on Wednesday, NPCIL Associate Director A....

Although Samsung has been using its own chip brand, Exynos on its smartphones, these chips aren’t just limited to the company’s devices, as they are also used by other smartphone makers such as Oppo, Xiaomi, Motorola, and Vivo. The reason behind the push to develop the new custom chip is the backlash that the South Korean giant received in March for throttling over 10,000 popular Android apps on its Galaxy S22 series smartphones following the Game Optimization Service....

While the company was not the first to prove that such tech exists, they were the first to provide a real-world test result, which is very similar to what consumers will be using in the near future, if it actually becomes a practical successor. The demonstrations showed data transfer speeds of around 1Gbps, which is equal to 100 times the speed of your average Wi-Fi speeds. Even though this is most impressive, we immediately cannot conclude Li-Fi to be the immediate successor of Wi-Fi and here is why....

You can easily create a playlist and even listen to your favorite music offline Well, if you are a JOOX Music user and want to use this reliable music streaming application on your PC, you are reading the right article. So here’s how to download and install JOOX Music for PC. Note- Joox Music currently officially has Android AND iOS apps and doesn’t have official apps to run it on Windows or MAC PC....

CoinVault which is a sophisticated form of Ransomware encrypts data on hard disk of the victims Windows PC and in order to unlock the files it demands a ransom in Bitcoins to be paid. Unlike any other Ransomware CoinVault allows victim to see the list of encrypted files and decrypt one for free. The tool is not 100% foolproof as the Ducth police has not secured all potential CoinVault keys from the server, but they said they are investigating further to find new keys that may help improve the tools efficiency....