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The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has revealed that multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google browser which can allow fraudsters to cause denial of service on your device.Google Chrome is the most popular web browser across the globe and it is accessed by millions of users everyday. Google Chrome is known for its regular updates and for the ease of use, people often store and share a lot of our personal information including…

The man who struck Bebe Rexha in the face with his flying phone at a New York concert last summer may get away with only facing 40 days of community service for the attack. During a recent court hearing, Nicholas Malvagna accepted an offer from the court to have his charges dismissed if he completes 40 days of community service and does not violate an order of protection for 6 months, Rolling Stone has learned. At a Feb. 9 compliance update hearing, Malvagna informed the court that he had been serving…

The trial of the man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie has been postponed because of the publication of the author’s memoir about the attack.A lawyer representing Hadi Matar, who was charged with attacking Rushdie on stage in New York state in 2022, successfully petitioned judge David Foley to delay the trial shortly before it was due to begin on 8 January.Matar’s lawyer argued that they are entitled to see the memoir, which is due to be released in April, and any related materials before Matar stands trial, as the…

mmSpoof spoofing technique is based on a mmWave reflect array, and it does not require prior knowledge about victim radar, to spoof arbitrary distance and velocity values. Credit: mmSpoof: Resilient Spoofing of Automotive Millimeter-wave Radars using Reflect Array (2023) Modern cars and autonomous vehicles use millimeter wave (mmWave) radio frequencies to enable self-driving or assisted driving features that ensure the…

Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure have become a growing concern since war broke out in Ukraine. After the 2014 annexation of Crimea, a sustained barrage by Russian-linked groups pummelled infrastructure in Ukraine. The next year, the country endured the first confirmed hack to take down a power grid. The attacks have continued since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022. According to a recent report from Google’s Threat Analysis Group, Russia’s military intelligence agency…

Rainbow Six Siege operator Grim is currently planned for a rework, according to a round table on game balance and onboarding at Ubisoft’s HQ, along with remarks from NME’s interview with Siege’s creative director Alex Karpazis. Grim hasn’t made much of an impact in Rainbow Six Siege since his addition in Operation Brutal Swarm back in August 2022, and comments from the balancing round table have shown that the Siege developers are keen to look at how they can make him more interesting, admitting that while Grim is…

Sometime around 2 a.m. Friday, a private security guard noticed a man dressed in all black and walking with a backpack near the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi.Authorities say that man was David DePape and the bag contained zip ties, a rope and a hammer. His goal, federal prosecutors allege, was to kidnap and torture the House speaker and then potentially move on to other high-profile targets.What he didn’t know was that Nancy Pelosi was not at home that morning, and the only person in the house was her husband, Paul…

Last Friday morning, as news about the attack on Paul Pelosi was still seeping out, I pulled up in front of a run-down Victorian on Woolsey Street in southwest Berkeley. Two short school buses were parked out front, in various states of conversion into God knows what; a weather-beaten banner hanging over the garage touted a “Natural addiction treatment” with an “over 90% success rate.”Houses like this one aren’t exactly rare in Berkeley. They evoke a decades-long history of degradation, as the city’s youthful idealism has…

WhatsApp, Meta's instant messaging and calling service, has published details of a 'critical' vulnerability that has been patched in a newer version of the app but might still affect older installed versions that have not been updated.The details regarding the vulnerability were revealed in a September update of WhatsApp's page on security advisories affecting the app and came to light on September 23.WhatsApp, in the update, shared a detailed issue related to vulnerability CVE-2022-36934, according to which "an integer…

Rainbow Six Siege is receiving a new operator – an attacker called Grim. This character will be released with the upcoming Operation Brutal Swarm expansion, the full details of which will be revealed on August 21. Judging from his teaser trailer, the Singaporean attacker Grim employs a swam of insectoid drones that appear to disable enemies. Grim’s trailer depicts an insect drone flying toward an individual who’s already been swarmed by other drones in a dark jungle. Grim then approaches the prone individual, saying…