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Dussmann group’s data has been stolen by ransomware operation. Dussmann Group is the multi-service provider in Germany. The company has subsidiaries mainly focusing on facility management, corporate childcare, nursing and care for elderly and business systems solutions like electrical work, elevators and HVAC. The company has confirmed that one of their subsidiaries, Dresdner Kuhlanlagenbau GmbH (DKA) is attacked by ransomware and the data was stolen. Business Giant Dussmann Group Data Leaked The stolen data of DKA was published by Nefilim ....

Photo by Mohamed Hassan from PxHere Setting a new record Researchers from UC San Francisco (UCSF) at Reality Labs have leveraged the machine learning to a great cause today. The team recorded a height BCI (Brain-Computer Interface), which is reading the data directly from the brain and transcoding it onto a computer screen. While there have been similar researches in the past, they’ve just recorded the transcriptions with a 60% error rate for a 100-word vocabulary....

Facebook’s cyber espionage team claims to have cracked a malicious campaign happening on its platform, which is targeted at roughly 500 users. The campaign was said to be operated by Chinese hackers, who are aiming to infect a few selected journalists, activists, and Uyghurs dissidents living in various countries, and spy on them. Chinese Hackers Malicious Campaign China is believed to be tracking not only its own citizens vigorously, but also other wanted people from around the world through illicit methods....

The Wordfence team has discovered two critical vulnerabilities in Facebook for the WordPress plugin, which, if exploited, can lead an attacker to inject malicious code into the site. As said, exploiting these vulnerabilities requires fair access and can eventually lead to site takeover. The authors of the plug-in have released an updated version to patch them. WordPress Plug-in Vulnerability The Threat Intelligence Team from Wordfence has discovered two vulnerabilities in a WordPress plug-in, which could affect over half a million sites now....

Facebook has patched a bug in its Messenger for Android client, which would have allowed an attacker to listen to the target’s surroundings even without his consent . To exploit this, both parties have to be friends on Facebook already, and one should initiate a Messenger call to the other. He then sends a customized message to trigger the bug and listen to others before lifting the call. Google Spots Facebook Messenger Bug Natalie Silvanovich , a researcher from Google’s Project Zero, has discovered a critical bug in Facebook’s Messenger for Android, which would allow a malicious user to spy on his friend’s surroundings by listening through a Messenger call....

It has been observed multiple times that Windows users keep receiving a particular Gmail alert: “Be careful with this message. It contains content that’s typically used to steal personal information.” Although Google is known for providing extreme security and safety to its users, Windows users often encounter this common warning mail and thus get worried about it. Well, in this article, we will see the major cause behind this alert and how you can fix it....

As reported by Nine News, researchers at vpnMentor have found an exposed server which potentially leaked over one billion records of PII, belonging to 20 million users. The server is being shared by over seven free VPN providers and failed to safeguard their server online. Some have blamed personal reasons for this cause, and some said it’s now secured. Free VPN Server Exposed Users Data Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are something that hides users’ online identity and helps them browse securely without any being snooped by authorities....

GitHub on Thursday announced to deprecate the password-based authentication system for verifying the Git operations on its platform. Instead, users should follow a token-based or SSH-based authentication system. This ensures that user accounts are better protected against hackers, who may use reused passwords for hijacking accounts. Ditching Password System For Good GitHub, the popular version control system, has just announced to deprecate a traditional password-based authentication for all Git operations on its platform....

Following the legal request from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), GitHub has taken down 18 projects from its platform. While one of those 18 projects is an original YouTube-dl code, the rest were its copies – all made for downloading the YouTube videos illegally . These are alleged to be used without YouTube’s permission, thus removed. Softwares For Downloading YouTube Videos While many websites and apps convert videos into MP3 formats, hosting them on public platforms can cause trouble....

A fresh report from the Freedom House this year revealed that internet freedom has declined for the 5th year in a row in the US, and the 11th year in a row globally. Reasons cited for this are increasing authoritative governments globally, which are cracking down on activists and free speech. Also, the lack of regulation in the domestic tech industry causing more misinformation to spread online. Threat to Internet Freedom Every year since 1973, a Washington DC-based democracy advocacy group called Freedom House is releasing a survey report on universal internet freedom, which determines the freedom of expression over the internet in every country....

Google is found to be stuffing a new support feature into the Chrome browser, where users can stream the content from OTT apps like Netflix, Disney Hotstar, Prime Video right from their browser. While these platforms do support web versions, the new feature named as Chrome Kaleidoscope may make it slightly different. It’s available for Chrome Canary and not fully functional yet. Chrome to let you stream video content in a dedicated section Google has been adding several features to its Chrome browser to make it more resourceful, and stand out of the league....

Old, unused files can take up a significant amount of your storage space. Not only do these old files occupy your storage space, but they can also significantly slow down your PC. If you find your PC running out of storage, then you can delete these old files. But doing this manually can be time-consuming, especially if you have many files. Many people don’t clear old files, like desktop files, downloads, recycle bins, etc....

Windows Error Reporting Service helps diagnose issues you face with your system and send the reports to Microsoft. This service is enabled by default, but you do have the option to disable Windows Error Reporting service on Windows 11 . You will be able to report any error you might have encountered to Microsoft. The service collects various information about the error, including where the error occurred, how severe it was, information on software and hardware, and various others....

Windows 11 has PowerToys, a free tool and a part of system utilities that can be used for various tasks. The PowerToys feature originally came up for Windows 10 users, and now it has been added for Windows 11 users. A new feature was recently introduced to PowerToys, which allows users to extract text from images. For various reasons, you may want to extract text from images; it may be when an image has a document you want to copy, or for other reasons....

In this guide, we will fix the error DLG_FLAGS_INVALID_CA in Windows 11. This error happens when you try to access the website, but the site doesn’t load. Instead, you encounter this message or the notorious “This Site is Not Secure” warning. The DLG_FLAGS_INVALID_CA error is not limited to any particular web browser. This error may show up on any prominent web browser. If the website’s security certification has expired, the browser will throw this warning....

The screensaver was one of the most beautiful elements in the Windows system I love in my childhood. I used to write my name in 3D text to see what it looks like. However, evolving variety of technologies, screensaver’s popularity has declined nowadays. But screensaver is still relevant to a vast majority of users. Even I have set up a screensaver on my old PC. But some Windows 11 users can’t use it for some specific reason....

Is the mouse or trackpad becoming unresponsive after your Windows PC wakes up from sleep? This issue has been reported by several Windows users on various forums. In this guide, I will mention a few troubleshooting tips that will help you to fix the issue of the Windows 11 mouse not working after sleep. If your Windows device has a touchscreen interface, you may not require the mouse to perform the actions....

Are you trying to figure out how to hide your Instagram account from searches to protect personal details from other people due to privacy concerns? Then we got you covered here. In the era of social media, Instagram is a mainstream medium for connecting with family, friends, and colleagues easily. Connecting people has no boundary on Instagram, as it has billions of users to connect with. But many of us prefer to limit our connections on Instagram to maintain control over our privacy....

NCAA 14 was a hugely popular college football game in the NCAA series. Unfortunately, the game discontinued its services long ago due to legal issues. It was also the last game in the NCAA series. However, some gaming enthusiasts are buzzing on the internet about possibly playing NCAA 14 on a PS4. If you’ve encountered such statements, you’ve come to the right place. Here, we’ve discussed whether Can I play NCAA 14 on PS4 and how to play NCAA on PS4 ....

Windows 11 was released recently, and though we all just wish to try it out. But, of course, we all know that Microsoft is already famous for its “good-bad-good” reputation with operating systems, where a good release will be followed by a not-so-great one, followed by another good one. Well, although it’s been a month since the Windows 11 stable version was officially released, many errors still bother users. However, many users make some changes in their Windows settings to fix them because they now face many issues....