The culprit in question, Sami Adel Ammar, is said to have hacked into his professor’s computer to change a failing grade into a passing one. According to a surveillance video, two students are seen walking down the hallway in the Math and Science building on campus just after midnight on May 5th, say UCF police. That’s around the same time when an auto email was sent to the professor of the class, thanking him for approving his grade roster....

According to the description, “Coding with Chrome is a Beta Google project that provides a programming platform that works offline. Students are able to program in Blockly, Coffeescript, HTML, JS with output to Logo Turtle and/or connected toys (e.g. Sphero, Lego Mindstorms).” However, the app is still in the beta stages, so there are chances that it may have some twists to it. Other than that, it seems to work just fine....

In a study conducted at the University of Utah, brain scans were performed on about 100 boys, aged 10 to 19, who had sought treatment for what is termed Internet gaming disorder – the condition has been listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as needing further research. It usually involves gamers who give up eating and sleeping in order to keep playing. For comparison, similar scans were made of about 80 boys who did not have the disorder to see how the neural activities matched up....

“Massive snowstorm blanketing East coast clearly visible from @Space_Station! Stay safe,” Kelly wrote. — Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) January 23, 2016 Kelly, who has spent more than 300 continuous days aboard the ISS is currently on a year-long mission in space, which will end in March — took the photo shortly before the sun rose over the US East Coast. By that time, “he will have compiled 522 total days living in space during four missions,” NASA said in a statement....

“WireLurker” which infected iOS and Mac users using OS X application reportedly infected hundreds of thousands of Apple users. Later a older version of WireLurker was also discovered which used Windows Applications to spread into Apple devices, the threat becomes very real as the Windows version was downloaded thousand times. The WireLurker malware has hogging headlines in the world for all the wrong reasons. Why WireLurker is considered as a bigger threat?...

It is worth noting that Fortnite is a free to play battle royale game, but Epic Games has earned more than £1bn from Fortnite. The company did this by selling rare and expensive skins that enhance the visual appearance of the in-game player character. A recent report by BBC has revealed that children as young as 14 are making thousands of pounds a week by selling hacked Fortnite accounts. So here’s everything you need to know about the issue mentioned above....

When iPhone X was launched, there were some many similarities between iPhone X and iPhone 8. That’s why people started searching for the internet similarities and differences between iPhone X and iPhone 8. Today, we will help you to find out what are the main differences between iPhone 8 and iPhone X. we will briefly compare every feature and function between these two devices. Performance: Chipset and RAM The first thing to consider is the performance of both of these devices....

Ace hacker, Samy Kamkar, who recently revealed the built OwnStar device that could breach GM cars wirelessly, unveiled his latest gadget that exploits a basic vulnerability in car and garage key remotes that has existed for quite some time. Car key remotes, like garage remotes, use rolling code to authenticate access. Rolling code is basically just code that changes every time so that no one can use it later. So typically when you hit “unlock” on your remote key, a unique code is sent to the car’s system, the doors open, and that code will never be used again....

Rapid7 security researcher Weston Hecker revealed the tool at Black Hat USA. Hecker said that he assembled the tool with off-the-shelf components and cost him only $6 to build. As reported by Forbes, the device can read and duplicate hotel keys, but if a potential hacker is really keen on disrupting a hotel chain, the $6 tool can also be used to “brute force” attack every guest room in the building — by guessing the keys to each room....

Mendu won the grand prize in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge on Tuesday for her work in creating a profitable “solar leaves” design to generate energy. She also gets $25,000 for her achievement along with the winner title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” Costing around $5 to make, the leaves are designed to help developing areas in need of inexpensive power sources. Mendu and nine other finalists along with a mentor provided by 3M worked on their projects over the last three months....

According to the Fresno Police Department, the the student was going to his home when he was approached by an unidentified mugger who attempted to steal his laptop bag. The thief brandished a black semi-automatic handgun and then fired one shot at the victim, which struck the iPhone 5s in his pocket, rather than entering his body. Much has been harped about the iPhone’s other qualities like camera and superior specs but this life saving virtue made it possible for the student to see another day....

You and I are afraid of somebody hacking our smartphones and stealing critical information, but what happens when hackers hijack a whole cellular network by hacking into cellphone towers? No, this is not an empty threat because, security researchers from the mobile security firm, Zimperium have discovered three serious security flaws in BTS stations which can allow potential hacker remotely hijack the entire cell phone tower. The Zimperium researchers have said that the flaw is so critical that it allows hackers to abuse, hijack, and crash mobile cell towers....

Many TeamViewer users are claiming that their accounts have been hacked and the hackers have emptied their PayPal and banking accounts. Those TeamViewer who have lost quite a bit of money posted their grievances on Reddit, Twitter and other social media tools expressing their anguish over TeamViewer’s official statement. Many TeamViewer users claimed that hackers used the hack making purchases while others stated that hackers were taking control of their PCs to install to malicious malware....

Wahl wanted to show that some Newtonian laws of circular motion wherein how objects with a centripetal force compel objects that are traveling to trail a curved path, speed up as they nearing a central point. The best way to demonstrate this Wahl thought was to hang 14 meters (46 feet) off a hazy-looking Norwegian warehouse, which would display it much more effectively rather than the sterile laboratories with little pulleys and weights....

In its fight against the botnets, malware and hackers, Facebook has realised that on its own it can only do so much so for ThreatEchange it has teamed up with several tech and big Internet companies. Facebook says that the ThreatExchange will be worlds first scalable threat fight data center and will be used for exchanging security threat information. Hammell says that Facebook toyed with the idea of having such a kind of threat based analysis exchange a year ago, when Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, and Yahoo had to collaborate and exchange attack information in order to stop a massive botnet-powered malware-slinging campaign that used all of their services to reach as many users as possible....

Before, cloud mining was a simpler way to enter the crypto mining market without making large investments. Now, in some cases, it is the only way. Popular cryptocurrencies are becoming less and less profitable to mine independently – or balancing on the edge of unprofitable, as in the case of Bitcoin. To mine successfully today, we have to mine effectively. This means using specialized equipment and optimizing the process by all available means....

Here are the top 5 tools you can use to automate your marketing1. GetResponseOverview2. AweberOverview3. MailChimpOverview4. InfusionSoftOverview5. MarketoOverviewWhat’s next? Well, I don’t blame you. Considering how a person can earn thousands of dollars from having an epic website, anyone would be a little touched in the head not to pursue creating and growing their own blog. Inasmuch as I’d like to tell you, however, that creating a money making blog is as effortless as riding a bicycle downhill, I’m afraid that just isn’t the case....

The dumped documents reveal that the TTP trade agreement, if and when it will come into being, compels Internet service providers to hand over the identities of copyright infringers to rights holders. The dumped documents were studied by ZDNet and it has found that ISPs are about to be responsible for keeping track of which of their customers frequently infringe upon copyrighted material and for reporting those infringing users to content creators....

The Twitter Inc will host US citizen accounts while a separate subsidiary called Twitter International Company which will be based in Ireland will handle all non-US Twitter accounts. Twitter has chosen Ireland because of Ireland’s lax privacy laws. The reason for doing so is ostensibly to escape the court request which come from NSA and other US authorities about user details. Ireland has one of the most relaxed privacy laws in Europe and as per the current Irish laws any data processed in Europe is not made available to NSA without explicit consent of an Irish court....