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When you turn on a computer, the manufacturer’s logo is displayed on the screen before the operating system boots. This logo can actually be changed — a function intended to be used by laptop and desktop manufacturers. But there’s nothing stopping an ordinary user from using it and replacing the def...

Memory storage technology has come a long way from compact disks. Or has it? In a recent paper, scientists report they were able to fit petabits of memory onto a compact disk using new laser technologies and advanced material design. Is this the future of data storage? Let’s have a look. https://www...

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Dutch-headquartered chipmaker Nexperia was victim of a hacking attack by cyber criminals last month, the Chinese-owned company said on Friday, and was investigating the incident with the help of outside specialists. "Nexperia has become aware that an unauthorized third party accessed certain Ne...

Researchers said the 41GB massive archive, as shown below, contains 1.4 billion usernames, email, and password combinations—properly fragmented and sorted into two and three level directories. The archive had been last updated at the end of November and didn't come from a new breach—but from a colle...

https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20230104164245/EH-11.png The word "hacker" is used to define programmers who obtain unauthorised access to computer systems via exploiting flaws or vulnerabilities, either for malicious or mischievous purposes. This includes the creation ...

The German police have seized infrastructure for the darknet Nemesis Market cybercrime marketplace in Germany and Lithuania, disrupting the site's operation. The Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the Frankfurt cybercrime combating unit (ZIT) conducted the action on Wednesday, March...

After a making several threats to publish breached information, hackers took to social media to boast about a data dump that exposed details of 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation employees last Monday. This was a quick follow-up to the posted information bragged about a day before by the same gr...

March 2024 March 20 Vans Data Breach: Vans customers have been told they might be at risk of fraud and identity theft following a breach of the company's systems. “On December 13, we detected unauthorized activities on a part of our IT systems, apparently carried out by external threat actors,” the ...

The malicious code inserted into the open-source library XZ Utils, a widely used package present in major Linux distributions, is also capable of facilitating remote code execution, a new analysis has revealed. The audacious supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094 (CVSS score: 10.0), came ...