Security experts from Colorado University have shown that it is very easy to exploit the government message system and send out fake alerts. During one of the test they sent a spoof message to each phone located within a football stadium which contained nearly 50,000 spectators. They said that exploitation of this weak message system…
Prime Minister of Malaysia Mohamed Mahathir announced late last week that he will conclude the expansive Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement without including India in it for the present. He was referring to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) that includes 16 nations located in Asia Pacific. The negotiations for such an agreement started way back in…
Information from the mighty NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory was recently stolen by a Raspberry Pi computer and it was reportedly used to steal around 500 MB of data. The theft was revealed during a recent audit and it showed that they contained data dealing with international transfer of restricted space and military related technology. Apparently…
Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters has put a halt to Facebook efforts towards the development of its crypto-currency named ‘Libra’. The company has set a target of next year for its release. Waters requested the company to give an opportunity for the regulators and the Congress to know in-depth about the scale, impact and conformity of…
Researchers at Joint Institute of Nuclear Astrophysics Center for Evolution of Elements, part of Michigan State University are trying to find origin of heavy metals like gold, platinum, plutonium and uranium. They are concentrating their research on surface of some of the oldest stars of the universe to see if they can find traces of…
Exim Servers, the company responsible for looking after 57 per cent of world’s internet servers, is allegedly under attack following a security flaw. The number of attacks are massive and are carried out by individual hacker groups. The report first came out ZDNet that warned that hackers are capable of taking over all vulnerable servers…
The climate is just getting worse year by year, with almost every attempt to stop the drastic changes looking as ineffective as it can get. However, that doesn’t mean that attempt to control these changes should stop. On the contrary, the size of these attempts should increase to bring about some noticeable change. Doing just…
Apple Watch will receive its latest update this fall. Noise, an upcoming feature, will tell you if noise levels in a user’s immediate environment are high enough or capable of damaging hearing. Available in this software’s beta version, it could send a notification when the watch detected certain noise thresholds to be breached. WHO-recommended noise…
CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai paid a visit to the data center of the Company at Pryor in Oklahoma on Thursday to reveal plans of investing $600 million for expanding its business in the city. In order to do that, Google is to generate 100 new vacancies and extend support to the local schools. Google…
For protecting their satellites orbiting in space, a rather small satellite will be bombarded by space radiation of all sorts by NASA. The SET project is set to launch by June 24, 2019, aboard a SpaceX rocket, It is intended to test their technology is called STP-2. This would be useful in studying weather conditions…
