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The hacker becomes well-known on the internet simply after hacking the emails of the Hollywood celebrities to steal the unreleased movie and television scripts, their private messages, and sex tapes to sell them. The sentence was doubled to Alonzo Knowles because, according to the Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, the hacker “would be a constant danger and could commit the same crime again.” On the other hand, Knowles commented in court that “what he did was wrong,” adding that the action itself “could have ruined many people’s lives....

The technique has been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Mandiant, who says the exploit is being used in hacking campaigns by APT29 – also known as Cozy Bear – a hacking and espionage operation widely believed to be linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Other offensive cyber-threat groups are thought to be using the same tactics. Multi-factor authentication is a useful tool for organisations looking to prevent account takeovers and cyberattacks against cloud services and other parts of the network....

Self-driving cars are one possible future the automotive industry is looking towards. Tesla’s Autopilot and GM’s Super Cruise are making strides, and you can find this developing tech from other manufacturers, including Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, BMW and Audi. Even Apple may be adding autonomous driving to its rumored production car. Though autonomous vehicles are in the minority of car sales, news from Ford indicates how much the technology is catching on....

In the mailbag this week: After upgrading to Windows 11, a reader reports that their local Documents, Pictures, and Desktop folders are now being synced to OneDrive. What happened? When you upgrade to Windows 11 Home Edition, the default settings configure your system to “back up your files” to OneDrive. In practice, that means your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders are relocated to OneDrive, and they’re synced with any other system where you sign in with that account....

Don’t despair, if you are an Android user, there is one fix that can assist in troubleshooting and fixing your phone. It’s called safe mode, and it’s a way to open up your operating system without firing up everything else on your phone. By doing so, you will prevent third-party apps from running. That will help narrow down what is causing your device to malfunction. The good news, if your Android phone runs without issue in the safe mode, it is an indication that a third-party app is the problem and not your hardware, saving you from costly repair or replacement....

XDA member, “ztc1997” has managed to devise an Android app, “Fingerprint Quick Action” that lets you define various quick tasks when you interact with your phone’s fingerprint scanner. The application works on any non-rooted or rooted phone running Android Marshmallow 6.0 or higher. You can assign actions like put the phone to sleep (requires administrative permissions), go home, expand notifications panel, or toggle notifications panel. As of now, it only has a single tap gesture detection....

Check out FlashLynx Video Download Software. It is a very practical download manager, specialized for downloading video clips from YouTube, MySpace and Google Video. To download a video, you just have to enter the URL for the video in “ADD Url” box. If not, you can check “Search related video” option, which is very useful, especially if the video has several parts. FlashLynx will find all the parts and show them in the main window....

In both systems, the tool offers an improved typing experience, capable of recognizing non-alphabetic characters such as “%”. Users can change the QWERTY pattern by points and dashes of Morse code at any time. The feature makes the Gboard more inclusive, as many people with reduced mobility use Morse code to communicate. Thinking about it, the tech giant Google also allows the tool to be used with various external devices....

Unfortunately, sometimes a Wi-Fi signal is spotty or weak. If you’ve set up your workstation and are ready to start a Zoom meeting and the signal dies it can be incredibly frustrating. Tap or click here for simple solutions to fix slow Wi-Fi. But there is a new tool that will help survey your Wi-Fi signal to find the strongest connection and troubleshoot problem areas. This software can help with your Wi-Fi problems....

Most of the Google apps for Android have already received a partial or complete Material Design makeover except for Gmail, which is undoubtedly, the most important app of them all. Today, the folks over at Android Police have received some information about the upcoming v5.0 update for the Gmail app, which suggests that Google is gearing up to handle all your email needs with it. This means that besides Google Apps and Gmail account, you will also be able to sync emails from your Yahoo, Outlook or any other popular email service out there....

As the name suggests, the tool will help users who want to be extra cautious about how their emails are accessed. “Confidential Mode” will, for starters, prevent recipients from sharing the email’s content. Once turned on for a specific message, the user won’t be able to copy, download, forward, or even print it. In addition to that, it will also let you secure emails by enabling password protection which will be automatically generated through SMS....

The Moto 360 has been available for awhile now, in several variants, but the gold option has shied away from the limelight since the wearable’s launch earlier in 2014. That ends now. While Motorola has officially launched the Nexus 6 on its site for pre-order, they have also taken the wraps off the gold-tinted Moto 360. It is similar to the 18mm option in silver, but with the gold tint instead....

Ever since Android Wear was unveiled, it has been known that syncing notifications with a connected phone or tablet would be one of the major features of smartwatches and other devices running Google’s wearable platform. Today, we can see how those notifications would work, thanks to some images posted by a Google employee. Unless things change as Android Wear is developed further, it looks like users will simply see the content of a notification on a fully white background (rectangular or circular depending on the type of display the wearable is using), or a custom one if the app supports it, with the app’s icon on top....

It was really an expected move since Chainfire ceded the development of SuperSU to CCMT in 2015. 3 years after this acquisition SuperSU is officially dead, as well as the year that we have been carrying out without updates in the development team’s social networks and the deactivation of the tool’s support forum. In fact, the last update we can find the application dates from January 2019. Many people wonder why a company like CCMT bought an application to let it die in such a way because we are talking about a tool used by millions of Android users across the globe....

Lytro has been around for a bit of time now, as one of the most ground-breaking companies in the camera field, but it looks like some big changes are on the way. Based on a report from TechCrunch, Lytro is on the way to being purchased, and it sounds like Google is the frontrunner in the process. Sources speaking to the publication state that Lytro could be bought for around $40 million, in what is referred to as an “asset sale”....

Up until this point, Google Translate was already a very powerful tool for providing information in a foreign land whenever it was needed. But now it’s becoming even better. Via the official Google blog, an update for Google Translate has been revealed, which will improve not only the instant visual translation tool, but also give a big boost to the real-time voice translation mechanism that helps so many people around the world say what they need to say in a different language....

The method that hackers mostly use to steal credit card data is known as formjacking. Basically, formjacking is a process in which hackers inject malicious Javascript codes into the checkout web pages of various shopping sites. So, when any user enters the credit or debit card details to complete the purchase, the information immediately passes through the hands of hackers. The hacking attempt is easy to implement, and any hacker who have enough technical knowledge can perform the Formjacking attempt....

Why should you care about Dual-band GPS? The new technology is said to offer accuracy to within about 30cm which is phenomenal, considering the present day accuracy is up to 5m only. For those of you keeping count, that’s about 16 times more accurate than your current smartphone! Xiaomi showed us a quick demo of this technology during the launch event today in Shenzhen, China, where a car with completely blacked out windows is driven through a closed path with the driver using nothing, but just Xiaomi’s Mi 8 smartphone with dual GPS receivers to navigate his way, and still manages to make sure the car is within the stipulated bounds....

In the rest of the free world, when you buy a device that can connect to a cellular network, you simply shove a SIM card inside that device and you’re golden. America on the other hand, the operators are so tight assed about which devices connect to their network that you practically have to submit a urine sample in order to be able to make a phone call. Case in point, the brand new LTE enabled Nexus 7....

PDF is one of the most trusted file formats which is mostly used by business persons all across the world. However, its worth to note that PDF is also one of the most secure formats which can only be viewed. Many computer users struggle while modifying PDF files. Users got very little choice when it comes to editing PDF files, they need to go through lots of things just to edit PDF files....