The software, known as Remote Control System or “RCS,” is capable of hijacking phone calls, texts, and social media messages, and can secretly switch on a user’s webcam and microphone as well as collect passwords. Government records show the agency paying $2.4 million for a RCS that could be embedded in a suspect’s phone. Once the phone is infected, the spyware can record texts, emails, passwords, and even tap nearby conversations through the onboard microphone....

NuScale Power, a U.S.-based company that designs and markets SMRs, submitted a design certification application (DCA) to the NRC on December 31, 2016, to certify the company’s SMR design for use in the United States. It was accepted by the NRC in March 2017. Later, the NRC issued a final safety evaluation report (FSER) for NuScale’s 50-MWe module design in August 2020 as part of a Phase 6 review — the last and final phase —of NuScale’s Design Certification Application (DCA)....

Streamline your operations As your startup grows and becomes more complex, you need to maintain streamlined processes in the somewhat less-than-normal environment. Information accuracy, storage, and backup strategies are changing, and you need to be sure that you don’t lose important business data in case of a catastrophic systems breakdown. Having the right system and pieces of equipment in place can eliminate minor mistakes such as tech workers misclassified as independent contractors....

Vensmile K8 packs an Intel Atom Cherry Trail processor (1.44 GHz base frequency, up to 1.84 GHz boost), 4 GB of low-power DDR3 RAM, and 64 GB of eMMC storage. It offers a 10-point touchpad and a flexible keyboard (without the numeric keypad) that you can wrap around the base. Given its size, Vensmile K8 manages to offer decent connectivity, with one USB 2.0 port, one USB 3.0 port, HDMI and VGA video outputs....

The new Vi Games app will be offering Vodafone Idea users access to over 1200+ Android and HTML 5 based mobile games as part of their new subscription plans. The games will spread across 10 popular genres such as Action, Adventure, Arcade, Casual, Education, Fun, Puzzle, Racing, Sports, And Strategy. It also has games based on Disney cartoons and movies, such as Big Hero 6 Bot Fight, Castle of Illusion, Ducktales Remastered, and Disney Kickoff, among others....

This not only shows us that the receiving machine is alive and working, it also helps us to identify a number of things such as total time taken, loss of packets, etc that are used to judge the reliability of the connection. To run a ping from your Linux machine, you will need to open a terminal and write a command. The syntax of the command is “ping destination_ip” – replace “destination_ip” with the actual IP address of the machine you want to connect with....

Much like Android, iPhone and iPad users will see a new Call tab in WhatsApp dashboard once they update their App. WhatsApp has said that the rollout is in a phased manner so not all users will be use the voice calling feature immediately. The latest update to the iOS version of WhatsApp also includes primarily support for the iOS 8 share extension which allows you to send videos, photos and links to WhatsApp chats from other apps....

The company’s sites are used for local news services, often by councils and councillors to communicate with residents. London districts preferred with sites powered by the service include Shepherds Bush, Wimbledon, and Hammersmith. Tierney says that before publishing his findings overnight, he disclosed the flaws to NeighbourNet two months ago. The NeighbourNET platform is susceptible to cross-site request forgery, username tricking, and logins that require only an email to access forum accounts, according to the consultant....

Speed WiFi as most would have experienced, has become pretty fast over the years with standards such as 802.11ac and 802.11n being able to give us speeds of 866.7 Mb/s and 150 Mb/s, respectively. That is pretty fast and meets most of our needs,especially when it comes to using the internet. What about the capability of an Ethernet cable? The maximum speed will vary based on the cable you are using, but most cables in common use give around 1 Gb/s speeds and it can go all the way to 10 Gb/s, if you have a Cat6 cable....

On Tuesday, WikiLeaks was brought down by the elite hacking group called OurMine, which has earlier hacked the social media accounts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. After the DDoS attack, WikiLeaks reached out to OurMine, the exchange between the two was leaked by Buzzfeed. In screenshots, the person speaking for WikiLeaks advises OurMine on obtaining information by impersonation. Wikileaks said that OurMine should have impersonated their previous targets, including Zuckerberg and Pichai, instead of attacking their site, calling it a “huge waste”....

According to some users who did get the Windows 10 October 2018 Update have now found another bug that does not allow the system to display the ZIP files overwrite confirmation popup when copying files. One 1809 user reported on Reddit, that the version of Windows 10 is missing the “Do you want to replace these files” dialog box while copying from a ZIP archive to another folder containing another file with the same file name....

At a press conference in Vienna, Austria on Friday, Canavero has claimed a surgical team led by his collaborator Dr Xiaoping Ren of Harbin Medical University, China have successfully performed a groundbreaking 18-hour operation on a corpse reconnecting the spine, nerves and blood vessels of a severed head. For those unaware, Dr Ren had grafted a head onto the body of a monkey last year. “The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done,” the maverick surgeon said in a video of the conference that he posted to Facebook....

So here’s everything you need to know about Mi Gaming Laptop 2019. Mi Gaming Laptop 2019: Specifications And Features The Mi Gaming Laptop 2019 sports a 15.6-inch display with a considerable amount of bezels and a screen to body ratio of around 81%. Fortunately, this display has a refresh rate of 144Hz which helps in offering smoother gameplay. Mi Gaming Laptop 2019: Specifications And FeaturesPrice and Availability Similar to the previous generation Mi Gaming Laptop these laptops also have an RGB-backlit keyboard with five-programmable keys....

Xiaomi’s Android based MIUI operating system has been in circulation for more than 5 years now and is known to have its own fan following. Xiaomi hopes to take this further in Mi 5 which a new and improved version of MIUI called v7. Making an announcement, Xiaomi said that its next gen smartphone Xiaomi Mi 5 will run on MIUI V7 operating system based on Android Lollipop 5.1 and will be launched soon....

Hold Security, a Wisconsin-based security firm famous for obtaining troves of stolen data from the hacking underworld, announced on Wednesday, that it had persuaded a fraudster to give them a database of 272m unique email addresses along with the passwords consumers use to log in to websites. The database of 272.3 million stolen accounts includes a majority of users of Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft email users, said Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security....

YouTube user reveals YouTube’s secret keyboard shortcuts through a viral videoSo which key can pause the video in YouTube? So which key can pause the video in YouTube? YouTube user, GradeAUnderA did some plain old style detective work and found out that pressing K while watching the YouTube video pauses it. He also found that pressing J will take the YouTube video back 10 seconds and similarly pressing L will take it 10 seconds forwards....

Not even waiting for Google/Huawei to begin shipping of its flagship, Nexus 6P, the ZTE’s Marketing Director Lu Quin Hao took to the Chinese microblogging website, Weibo to accuse Google and Huawei of copying its smartphone design. The post is in Chinese and roughly translated, Hao is accusing Huawei and Google indirectly of blatantly copying the ZTE Grand S Anthena design for the Nexus 6P. Hao used sarcasm to pan Huawei and Google because the post says the phone “pays heavy tribute” to the ZTE Grand S and is directed at Huawei’s Yu Chengdong....

Kids like activities and games that don’t feel like work. Cool Math Games For Kids We have jotted down the math games into three sections, according to different levels of school level for the maths in question. These Math games not only help to develop the mental abilities such as logical reasoning of your kids but also utilizes some of their physical abilities. These include free online math games, puzzles, brainteasers, Problem-solving, and logic quizzes as well....

Effective today, Microsoft’s security solutions will no longer get updates on the 14-year-old operating system, as the anti-malware support for Windows XP has come to an end, something that it had been warning users about for months. Those still running Windows Server 2003 will be increasingly vulnerable to hackers. In other words, it means that newly found security holes won’t be fixed and will remain available for cybercriminals to exploit, encouraging the risk of a security breach....

Apps with Youmi SDK were found to be listed though Apple explicitly prohibits app developers to make their apps call private APIs. Apple normally spots such kind of behaviour,when the app is submitted for approval to be included in the App Store. According to security analytics company SourceDNA, who alerted Apple about this problem, some 250+ apps with an estimated total of 1 million downloads have been built on the problematic SDK....