The win came in the first tie of the five-match series being held in Seoul, South Korea. The tournament, “Google Deepmind Challenge match”, started on March 8 and will conclude on March 15. “Lee resigned after about three-and-a-half hours, with 28 minutes and 28 seconds remaining on his clock. The series is the first time a professional 9-dan Go player has taken on a computer, and Lee is competing for a $1 million prize,” The Verge’s Sam Byford reported Lee is a South Korean professional Go player....

And the results are pretty dismal. Only six companies out of the 16 put to test, scored at least 50 percent of the total possible points to indicate that they have good digital protection mechanism. Out of the six, Google was a distant leader with the highest score of 65 percent. It is followed by Yahoo with 50 percent, Microsoft with 50 percent and Twitter making it at 50 percent....

‘A sweet Lollipop, with a kevlar wrapping: New security features in Android 5.0‘Android 5.0 lollipopMany Screen LocksEnd to end encryptionSecurity Enhanced LinuxFactory Reset Protection Android 5.0 lollipop The entire blogpost on the Official Android can be surmised in three features which will enhance the security of the Android 5.0 users in future. Many Screen Locks It is a well known fact that most Android users dont user the screen lock facility despite it being available on all Android OS generations....

Facebook is apparently under attack from the Great Cannon, the hacking and censuring tool clandestinely used by the Chinese government. The hack attack follows a simple method, redirect and confuse users so that they dont visit Facebook. Even the sites that are using Facebook Connect login widget are not spared. Sites using the Facebook Connect login widget are seeing their traffic hijacked or redirected to the above two websites. Incidentally, neither of the above two sites have any remotest connection with the PLA or the Chinese governement; wpkg....

That’s what happened when a hacker deceived Facebook gained access to someone else’s account. The hacker posing as a user reportedly got in touch with Facebook to seek assistance to access his account, as he was unable to do so. He provided them with a fake ID and requested the tech giant to turn off login approvals. It was no surprise that the hacker was able to get Facebook to grant access to the account....

The site, DLH.net, that provides news, reviews, cheat codes, and boards, was breached on July 31 by an unnamed hacker. While the name of the hacker is not known, it is speculated that it is the same hacker responsible for an earlier compromise of a Dota 2 forum that resulted in the theft of nearly two million user accounts record. According to breach notification site LeakedSource.com, that received a copy of the stolen database, says the DLH....

Last weekend, a user on GitHub claimed to have obtained the source for AMD’s Navi 10, Navi 21 and Arden GPU devices, where the latter is slated to be used in the upcoming Xbox Series X video game console. AMD has filed at least two DMCA notices against GitHub repos that contained the stolen source code and have forced the development platform to remove the files for violating the chip maker’s copyrights....

As many as 200,000 websites use Magento e-commerce platform, which is owned by eBay. The security companies have warned the owners and webmasters using Magento’s e-commerce platform to ensure they’re using its latest software. Check Point, which found the flaw, reported it to Magento, which issued a patch (SUPEE-5344) on Feb. 9. Since Check Point revealed the flaw earlier this week, it appears attackers have picked up on it and are trying to find unpatched applications....

Bitdefender analysts recently uncovered a series of attacks that leverage office tools and image-editing software cracks to compromise computers, hijack crypto-currency wallets, and exfiltrate information via the TOR network. “Once executed, the crack drops an instance of ncat.exe (a legitimate tool to send raw data over the network) as well as a TOR proxy,” said Bitdefender’s Bogdan Botezatu, Director of Threat Research and Reporting and Security Researcher Eduard Budaca in a blog post....

This year another hacking group Phantom Squad has promise to do something similar and spoil gamers holidays. They announced on Twitter that they will take down the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for Christmas. For the past week, hacker group Phantom Squad has been issuing threats to knock out both systems’ online services with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. “We are going to shut down Xbox live and PSN this year on Christmas....

However, now there is a new open source project to get iMessage up and running on your Android smartphones. It isn’t easy, and it’s only partially functional at present. This is not an official application from Apple, so don’t get too excited just yet. Dubbed as PieMessage, it enables cross-platform iMessage support that allows Android users to communicate using Apple’s iPhone messaging platform. The PieMessage project was put together by GitHub user Eric Chee, the app developer, and to complete it you’ll need a Mac and an Android phone....

Home Depot Breach is Officially the Largest Breach on RecordThe Home Depot Discloure This record breach has the breaks the previous breaking the previous record of the record for the largest retail card breach went to TJX, which lost some 45.6 million cards. The next in line for making to this unwanted list is Target breach which is supposed to have leaked 40 million debit and credit card number. The Target breach lasted roughly three weeks, but it exposed some 40 million debit and credit cards because hackers switched on their card-stealing malware during the busiest shopping season of the year....

Sometimes the advice is appropriate. It doesn’t hurt to clear the cache once in a while on your web browser. It takes a few seconds, and most of the time, it fixes issues with the webpages you are trying to view. Moreover, people also prefer clearing complete browsing data including history, cache, and cookies for privacy reasons. What is Browser Cache and why was it created? Browser developers designed cache with the assumption that – Your Internet is slow....

This profile option allows each user connected to a Netflix account to have a personalized feed and save their watches without being tampered with by other users. You can even set a pin on these Netflix profiles. As a means of recognizing your profile, an avatar is assigned to each profile available on a Netflix account, along with a name. Thankfully, this profile picture can be changed to the other option within the Netflix avatars....

Don’t worry! In this article, we will show how you can skip this prompt and auto end the tasks without any prompts on your Windows system. Here’s how you can shutdown Windows 10 without getting “Shutdown Anyway” or “Restart Anyway” prompts on your screen: Step 1: Open registry editor. Press Win + R to open Run dialog. Type regedit and press Enter key. Step 2: In registry editor, navigate to this key: HKEY_USERS....

Which Apps made the cut? The 49 banned apps are mere clones of the already banned Chinese apps such as CamScan Advance, TikTok Lite. Therefore, there is no immediate reason for users to panic who are in the middle of transitioning to the alternatives of Chinese apps. Which Apps made the cut?The Development While there is no clear mentioning of which apps were banned, we have tried compiling a list of apps known so far using various online reports....

The hackers announced on Facebook that the hack has nothing to do with the Cyber war between India and Pakistan However the message on deface page blamed Indian Army for wrongdoings in Kashmir which seems to be similar to toeing the official Pakistani Government claim. Looking at the India’s point of view on the Military posting in Kashmir Indian Government says Military posting in Kashmir is to protect Kashmir from being terrorized by terrorists and attacks from Pakistan....

YiSpecter, as the malware was named, has mostly affected users in China and Taiwan through four different methods. Users can be infected with the malware with the help of the Lingdun worm. This work which works via the QQ social network and its file sharing interface, can target a wide variety of device types. Malicious HTML files with pornographic names are uploaded by the worm, which are then shared with other users in the network....

The AOD functionality is widely available on almost all modern Android devices. According to Gurman, the feature will be “exclusive” to Apple’s upcoming iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models. Apple is working on rolling out the AOD feature with the latest iteration of the iPhone’s operating system, iOS 16. For the unversed, AOD is a smartphone feature that continues to show basic information such as the time, date, notifications, missed calls, and more while the phone is asleep....

Apple would have not thought of following the embarrassment that Samsung had gone through last year when several incidences of Galaxy Note 7 exploding due to faulty batteries were reported. In case of iPhone 8 Plus too, faulty or damaged batteries are suspected to be the reason behind the devices to crack open. One victim in question is Ms. Wu, who had recently purchased her gold 64GB iPhone 8 Plus, and had reportedly been in use for five days, reported the Taiwanese media....