Articles by Krishnendu Banerjee

Apple's Famed T2 Security Chips' Unfixable Vulnerability Allows Hackers Easy Access to Macs

Combining two iOS jailbreaking methods and exploiting a vulnerability in Mac's T2 security chips, hackers can decrypt data and plant malware

Oct 6, 2020

Cybersecurity

Chinese Hackers Steal Personal Data of Half of Taiwan's Workforce, What Next?

The data sets belonged to Taiwan's popular online job site 104 and hackers were selling the data on the dark web for $500 to $1,000 each

Oct 5, 2020

Cybersecurity

MIT Develops AI Tool That Warns of Heart Attack by Reading Lung X-Rays

The artificial intelligence tool can read X-rays and corresponding reports to determine the exact level of excess fluid in the lungs that can help prevent heart attacks

Oct 5, 2020

Artificial intelligence

Google to Turn off Beauty Filters by Default in Pixel Phones, Says It's Bad for Mental Health

Google and Snapchat are collaborating to bring more awareness about body dysmorphic disorder and want phone makers to follow suit

Oct 4, 2020

Concealing Truth About US President's Health - Thy Name is Historic Secrecy!

Throughout American history, US presidents kept the public in dark about their health and Donald Trump is not new from the tradition

Oct 4, 2020

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Cyberattack on US Software Provider Slows Down AstraZeneca Coronavirus Clinical Trial

The ransomware attack at eResearchTechnology that provides software to manage clinical trials data forced researchers to switch to pen and paper, halting their progress at a crucial time

Oct 4, 2020

Coronavirus Ransomware

Hackers Hijack Verified Twitter Profiles, Impersonating Elon Musk to Promote Cryptocurrency Scams

Verified Twitter accounts of Cincinnati Bengal player Jonah Williams and Canadian Olympian Nicole Sifuentes were hacked and altered to look like Elon Musk's

Oct 3, 2020

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New Strain of IPStorm Malware Infects Thousands of Smart Devices in 84 Countries

IPStorm malware uses brute force attacks to infect IoT devices that are run on Linux besides Android, Windows and Mac systems

Oct 3, 2020

Cybersecurity

Chinese Hacker Group Hijacked Facebook Accounts Using SilentFade Malware, Report Says

The Chinese group infected thousands of victims with SilentFade malware to defraud $4 million by running fake ads from hijacked accounts

Oct 2, 2020

Facebook Cybersecurity

Facebook Sues UpVoice and Ads Feed Chrome Extensions Makers for Scraping Thousands of Users' Data

Both Google Chrome extensions harvested users' personal information from social media profiles without Facebook's and sold them as marketing intelligence

Oct 2, 2020

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Amid Escalating US-China Tensions, Chinese Authorities Ponder Antitrust Probe Against Google

Huawei filed a complaint to China's market regulators alleging that Google used its market position to suppress competition

Sep 30, 2020

Huawei

SpaceX Observes 'Excessive Erosion' in Crew Dragon Capsule's Heat Shield During First Manned Mission

The Crew Dragon capsule which will carry four NASA astronauts next month saw unexpected erosion to the heat shield and has already been replaced with 'better material'

Sep 30, 2020

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Deepfake Videos Featuring Kim Jong Un, Putin Go Viral Before US Local Networks Ban Them

The ads were supposed to warn Americans of the fragile nature of democracy and to take actions and vote during the U.S. Presidential elections 2020

Sep 30, 2020

Artificial intelligence

Hackers Release Sensitive Data on Thousands of Students After US School District Refuses to Pay Ransom

Clark County School District was targeted by hackers last month and when it refused to pay the ransom, sensitive data including social security number and addresses were leaked

Sep 29, 2020

Ransomware

Hackers Launch Major Cyberattack Targeting Top Hospital Chain UHS

Universal Health Service (UHS) with over 400 facilities across the globe has been hit with a Ryuk ransomware attack leaving doctors with no access to patient records

Sep 29, 2020

Ransomware

US Army Plans to Use Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites for Better Navigation as GPS Alternative

A software upgrade will allow the LEO Starlink satellites to relay GPS signal that would help the U.S. army in better navigation

Sep 28, 2020

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Months After Wuhan Doctor's Death, Beijing Prepares to Protect Medical Whistleblowers Now

The new law that is similar to what Shenzhen passed recently will aim to free the flow of information and would protect the health workers from legal consequences

Sep 28, 2020

Coronavirus

Google Removes 17 Apps From Play Store With Joker Malware for WAP Billing Fraud

Those apps with over 120,000 downloads evaded Google's scrutiny with a dropper technique that could download the malware later through a multi-stage process

Sep 27, 2020

Cybersecurity

Young Physicist Proves You Can Time Travel Without Any Paradox

Physics student Germain Tobar and his professor Dr Fabio Costa's mathematical model proves that paradox-free time travel is possible

Sep 27, 2020

Borderlands 3 Game Could Help Scientists Unveil Coronavirus Secrets

The creators of the AAA game Borderlands 3 have added a science puzzle minigame that asks players to match tiles but in reality, they are sequencing ribosomal RNA

Sep 27, 2020

Coronavirus

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