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How would you feel about spending £800,000 or the equivalent of $1 million for an 11-year-old laptop? Let’s up to the ante – for the above-mentioned price tag you can buy a decade-old laptop that’s been deliberately infested with every bit of malware code known to humankind. Why would one …

Despite Tor becoming more or less synonymous to illegal dark web escapes, up to date, it’s the best solution for preserving anonymity. In a bid to offer an open-source product which basically levels all online users, making them impossible to trace, Tor has unveiled its plans to deliver an Android …

Google Play Store has recently begun what one would call the great app purging. Ever since BTC prices have gone through the roof, hundreds of fake crypto apps surfaced in Google’s Play Store. Disguised into legit crypto wallets, these apps only phish the users’ credentials without making a single deposit …

A security researcher has recently revealed a major Windows 10 vulnerability that could potentially give a hacker full access to a computer. The researcher, which goes by the GitHub handle SandboxEscaper, said that the exploit had been successfully tested on machines running the 32- and 64-bit version of Windows 10. …

Earlier this week, Google wrote in its Cloud blog that a zero-day vulnerability had been identified and fix. The issue, which dates back to Gmail Suite’s 2005, would store plain-text passwords on a server that could have been easily targeted by hackers. Why would Google store plain-text passwords? In or …

In response to Google revoking Huawei’s US license for Android, the company has announced that it will continue to supply tech support, security, and after-sale services to US consumers. Since Trump’s decision of barring foreign telecom agents from using or deploying tech on US soil, Google has been forced to …

In a bid to push the boundaries of computer technology ever further, a team of scientists from the University of Texas has taught an AI how to ‘see’ and interact with the surrounding environment just human beings. Though still far from super-intelligent robots bent on world domination, this next-gen AI …