If the answer to that is yes, then P does not equal NP. The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. It was essentially first mentioned in a 1956 letter written by Kurt Godel to John von Neumann. Godel asked whether a certain NP-complete problem could be solved in quadratic or linear time. If solved, it could open new doors for providing security to the Internet....
CyPhy Works, a Boston based company has come up with a solution for long battery life of drones. The drones permanent connectivity provides unlimited power, thereby, providing unlimited flight time. Though, of course, where it can fly is distinctly limited. For a while now, the military has been using it to monitor its compounds. Thanks to a microfilament attached to it that can simultaneously power the drone and transfer data....
Legit apps, such as the official clients of Facebook, Twitter etc. The problem is that the repackaged apps are highly functional, and so the malware is hard to detect. In many cases, the apps are still fully functional and doesnt alert the machine owner. Three distinct families of trojanized adware have been found. source: www.techworm.net
The ProtonMail was still unreachable at the time of writing this article. The DDoS attack on ProtonMail started somewhere on Tuesday morning. We are experiencing a DDOS attack and some of our services will be unavailable. We will post updates on Twitter as we have more info. It said that the DDoS attack which hit ProtonMail servers, came in four different attacks. Since there was no letup between this attacks, the datacenter could not recover from the attack....
Smart Reply suggests up to three responses based on the emails you get, said Google. Smart Reply technology is a part of an update to Googles Inbox app for managing and organizing email. The machine-learned system, by contrast, implicitly captures diverse situations, writing styles, and tones. These systems generalize better, and handle completely new inputs more gracefully than brittle, rule-based systems ever could. However, the experts on deep learning say that such systems have their limitations....
Thieves create history by stealing Bitcoin ATM in Atlanta Thieves in Atlanta, Georgia created history this week by being the first to steal a Bitcoin ATM in the United States. The thieves hauled the entire Bitcoin ATM machine in a waiting car in the incident which happened in Village Smoke Shop on Juniper Street. According to the police, two hooded bandits, one who was armed with a handgun, entered the Village Smoke Shop on Juniper Street late in the evening Tuesday and immediately approached theLamassu Bitcoin ATMwith one of the suspects unplugging the machine and picking it up before hauling it out the door....
Looks like this may become a reality very soon. The glass contains aluminum oxide compounds, which are well known for their toughness. Glass is based on silica (silicon dioxide), which is the main component of sand. When mixed with silicon dioxide, it results in an exceptionally safe, tough and indestructible glass. The Japanese team manufactured their glass without a container to avoid the formation of any pesky crystals. The glass underwent hardness, strength, and elasticity tests including Youngs modulus and Vickers methods....
As far as looks go, Cortana on Android isnt all that different from the PC version. You also wont be able to open apps from Cortana or toggle tweaks. All of these features are currently only available on Windows 10 PCs. source: www.techworm.net
explained Lorenzo Bicchierai on Motherboard. The hackers even took to Twitter to boast about the hack. However, the screenshots provided were not convincing enough to prove the hack. The hacking news of whether Giulianos email account was breached was neither denied or confirmed by the FBI spokesperson. The teenager also said they found Giulianos cellphone in the email accounts contact lists and called him. However, the numbers voicemail indicates that it belongs to a Mark Giuliano....
Security researcher Nikolaos Chrysaidos from anti-virus maker Avast who discovered the OmniRAT and calls it aRemote Administration Tool. In hisblog post, Chrysaidos describes how he believes hackers have infected Androids with OmniRAT after sending an SMS. The OmniRAT spreads through phishing which takes the victim to a website laden with the installation file of OmniRAT. A German Android user explained on the Techboard forum on how he was lured into a website with OmniRAT....
YIFY/YTS shut down several days ago after undergoing a massive DDoS attack. The shutdown of the website raised many queries among torrent lovers. The Motion Picture Association of America was also responsible for shutting down of the popular Popcorn Time service. This is pretty much what we had suspected at that time. The year 2015 has been a pretty bad year for the torrent websites. The MPAAs shutdown of YIFY and Popcorn time only spells doom for the entire torrent infrastructure....
Hackers and professional penetration testers can run it on computers that they have already taken control of. The point of KeeFarce is to actually obtain the contents of the password database. This prevents malicious apps from scraping random access memory and bringing back the credentials. The extracted data is in clear text and includes user names, passwords, notes, and URLs. If KeeFarce was folded into Metasploit or other hacker frameworks, it could end up being very scary....
The other illustration using the same technology showed a prototype app that was targeted at visually impaired users. We need systems that can help us understand the world and help us filter it better, he added. Facebook is pursuing a world where it only displays to you things that you are interested in. source: www.techworm.net
