WiFi Map is an app that shows over 2.1 million Wi-Fi hotspots around the world. The free version only shows the Wi-Fi hotspots within 1.2 miles of location.
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Hackers deface Malaysia Airlines website, upload rap song
The Malaysia Airlines website has been commandeered by hackers who referenced Islamic State and claimed to be from the "Lizard Squad", a group known for previous denial-of-service attacks. The website’s front page, malaysiaairlines.com, was replaced with an image of a tuxedo-wearing lizard, and read "Hacked by LIZARD SQUAD – OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE".
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OAT – Oracle Auditing Tools For Database Security
Oracle Auditing Tools is a tool kit that could be used to audit security within Oracle database servers.
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Mouse-Box — An Entire Computer inside a Mouse
Smartphones in our pockets are exponentially smaller and more powerful that they don’t realize the need to carry laptops with us everywhere. Now imagine if a small mouse meets the need of the entire PC? Not just imagination, it has been proved and done by the engineers at a Polish startup.
Poland-based Przemysław Strzelczyk and a team of software developers working on a new concept have created what they believe is the future of desktop computing — a mouse that’s also a PC.
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How to update Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 using Windows Update
The only options you had previously to upgrade from an older copy of Windows to a new one was to run the installer either while the installed operating system was running or by booting from an installation disc or Flash drive to initiate it. Microsoft wants to make things more comfortable and has added an option to upgrade to Windows 10 using Windows Update.
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Microsoft releases Sysmon 2.0
Sysmon is a Windows system service and device driver that, once installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log system activity to the Windows event log.
It provides detailed information about process creations, network connections, and changes to file creation time.
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Hard-Coded FTP Credentials Found in Schneider Electric SCADA Gateway
The parade of easily exploitable, critical vulnerabilities in ICS software shows no signs of ending anytime soon, with the latest entrant being two flaws in Schneider Electric’s ETG3000 FactoryCast HMI Gateway that allow unauthenticated remote access to the device’s FTP server and configuration file.
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Use a New Command in Windows 8.1 to Find out how Your Disk Space is Being Used
If you would really like to find out the details of what is using space on your hard drive, Windows 8.1 has a new tool that will give you as much detail as you are likely to want. The command line in Windows 8.1 has added a powerful new space reporting function to the File System Utility command Fsutil.
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If You use these Passwords, You will get hacked
Have you heard of iDict? It’s a tool that hackers can use to get passwords via what’s called brute force attacks. It’s designed to crack into iCloud’s passwords, and supposedly it can circumvent Apple’s anti-brute force attack security.
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What you need to know about ‘The Silk Road’
What’s The Silk Road? No, not the ancient trade route.
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