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Jul 29, 2022
Cyber-Criminal Offers 5.4m Twitter Users’ Data
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: cybercrime/malcode
A database containing 5.4m Twitter users’ data is reportedly for sale on a popular criminal forum. Twitter is investigating the issue, which the seller said exploited a vulnerability in its systems reported in January.
The seller, using the nickname ‘devil,’ advertised the data on the Breached Forums site and demanded at least $30,000 for it. They said that the database contains the phone numbers and email addresses of users, including celebrities and companies.
The hack reportedly exploits a vulnerability first reported by a HackerOne user known as ‘zhirinovskiy.’ That bug enabled “an attacker with a basic knowledge of scripting/coding” to find a Twitter user’s phone number and email address, even if the user has hidden them in privacy settings. The attacker explained how to exploit the bug in their HackerOne report. Twitter acknowledged the bug and fixed it five days later.
Jul 29, 2022
Elon Musk — People Will Understand — Finally It’s Happening!
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: Elon Musk, existential risks, information science
Explains why we can meet aliens soon. He is on to something. Elon Musk disagrees with the research that argues that there are not aliens,. Elon Musk explains why drake equation is important and why Fermi paradox is wrong.
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Jul 28, 2022
Twin physically unclonable functions (PUFs) based on carbon nanotube arrays to enhance the security of communications
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: computing, encryption, internet, nanotechnology, security
As the amount of data stored in devices and shared over the internet continuously increases, computer scientists worldwide are trying to devise new approaches to secure communications and protect sensitive information. Some of the most well-established and valuable approaches are cryptographic techniques, which essentially encrypt (i.e., transform) data and texts exchanged between two or more parties, so that only senders and receivers can view it in its original form.
Physical unclonable functions (PUFs), devices that exploit “random imperfections” unavoidably introduced during the manufacturing of devices to give physical entities unique “fingerprints” (i.e., trust anchors). In recent years, these devices have proved to be particularly valuable for creating cryptographic keys, which are instantly erased as soon as they are used.
Researchers at Peking University and Jihua Laboratory have recently introduced a new system to generate cryptographic primitives, consisting of two identical PUFs based on aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays. This system, introduced in a paper published in Nature Electronics, could help to secure communications more reliably, overcoming some of the vulnerabilities of previously proposed PUF devices.
Want to mix two fluids? Researchers have developed a path to optimize the stirrer shape and velocity to give the best outcome.
New paleomagnetic research suggests Earth’s solid inner core formed 550 million years ago and restored our planet’s magnetic field. Swirling liquid iron in the Earth’s outer core, located approximately 1,800 miles beneath our feet, generates our planet’s protective magnetic field, called the magn.
Jul 28, 2022
Ancient Rocks Hold Clues to How Earth Avoided a Mars-Like Fate
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: space
New paleomagnetic research suggests Earth’s solid inner core formed 550 million years ago and restored our planet’s magnetic field.
Swirling liquid iron in the Earth’s outer core, located approximately 1,800 miles beneath our feet, generates our planet’s protective magnetic field, called the magnetosphere. Although this magnetic field is invisible, it is vital for life on Earth’s surface. That’s because the magnetosphere shields the planet from solar wind—streams of radiation from the sun.
However, about 565 million years ago, the magnetic field’s strength dropped to 10 percent of its strength today. Then, mysteriously, the magnetic field bounced back, regaining its strength just before the Cambrian explosion of multicellular life on Earth.
Jul 28, 2022
Why Do Some People Never Get Sick? Harvard Scientists Are Close to an Answer
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: biotech/medical
Why do some individuals always seem to be healthy while other people often get viruses and bacteria? Despite sleeping close to their sick partner every night, how can a sick person’s spouse avoid contracting their illness? During the COVID-19.
First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It has spread globally, resulting in the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.
Jul 28, 2022
Apple’s VR: A flurry of patent applications, a focus on user ‘behavior’
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: virtual reality
Revised Apple patent claims emphasize watching VR users’ gestures, such as facial expressions and head movements.
Jul 28, 2022
DoD signaling demand for satellite support services in geostationary orbit
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: computing, military, mobile phones, satellites
WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Unit is funding space projects that the agency hopes will spur commercial investments in satellite refueling technologies and support services for geostationary satellites.
“Imagine a world where every 18 to 24 months, you could simply upgrade the processor on a satellite in GEO the way that you upgrade your smartphone to take advantage of new processing power and new functionality,” said Steve “Bucky” Butow, director of the space portfolio at the Defense Innovation Unit.
DIU, based in Silicon Valley, is a Defense Department agency established in 2015 to help bring privately funded innovation into military programs.
Jul 28, 2022
European Commission says member states need to double down on 5G rollout
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: internet
The European Commission has published its DESI 2022 report, which looks at how much digitalization progress member states are making. It highlighted that the deployment of 5G is going too slow.