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Personal Data from 533 Million Facebook Accounts Including Phone Numbers, Email Addresses Leaked

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Ridgewood NJ, Personal data from 533 million Facebook accounts was recently leaked online. The dataset was scraped by exploiting a vulnerability that was fixed in 2019. It contains information such as phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birth dates, email addresses, and more. Portions of the dataset were available for purchase earlier this year through a Telegram bot. The leaked emails have been uploaded to Have I Been Pwned, but the owner of the site is still debating whether to make the leaked phone numbers available.

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Space the Final Frontier

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Ridgewood NJ, Virgin Galactic unveiled the VSS Imagine on Tuesday, the first of its next-generation SpaceShip III class of vehicles. It is the third spacecraft the company has built to date. The VSS Imagine was designed with lessons taken from flight testing on VSS Unity in mind. SpaceShip III class spacecraft can be manufactured faster and take less time to maintain between each flight compared to SpaceShipTwo class spacecraft due to their modular design. Virgin Galactic is on track for a test flight in May, after a delay in December.

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Energy-mining Card Treats 5G networks as Wireless Power Grids

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Ridgewood NJ, A team from Georgia Tech has unveiled a 3D-printed rectifying antenna that can harvest electromagnetic energy from 5G signals and use it to power devices. The playing card-sized device could turn 5G networks into wireless power grids. It is flexible and works well even when bent. Millimeter-wave energy harvesting has been possible for some time, but it hasn’t been practical due to the large size of previous antennas. The device can harvest more than enough energy to power a range of small sensors and devices by using energy that would otherwise have been wasted.

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Apple to Add Two New Siri Voices

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Ridgewood NJ, Apple is adding two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS . We we were looking forward to Apple would introducing  the voice of Mr. T from the 1980s television series The A-Team, but no luck.

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Columbia University Researchers Successfully Store ‘Data’ Inside DNA of Living Bacteria

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New York NY, A team led by Columbia University ’s Harris Wang has been working on doing just this for the last couple of years. Most recently, the team managed to electrically encode 72 bits of data to write the string of letters “Hello world!” into a population of bacterial cells.

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UK to Build World’s First Airport For Flying Cars And Drones

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Coventry UK, Urban Air Port will build its first Air-One transport hub for autonomous delivery drones and electric flying cars in Coventry, UK. The facility will launch later this year and support delivery drone and air taxi technology, and it will eventually transport cargo and people across cities. Urban Air Port aims to install over 200 similar sites worldwide by 2025.

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Microsoft Exchange Servers Targeted by Hackers and Cryptocurrency miners

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Ridgewood NJ, hackers continue to target vulnerable Exchange servers, with a ten-fold increase in the number of attempted attacks from March 11 and March 15, 2021 alone. In addition to the nation-state hackers that first exploited several zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange, ransomware threat actors and cryptocurrency miners are also targeting vulnerable servers. According to Microsoft, a new ransomware family known as DearCry is infecting networks after initial Exchange server compromises.

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Unique Bacterial Inhabitants Discovered on the International Space Station

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Ridgewood NJ, according to a study published  in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. The International Space Station has become the host for unique bacterial inhabitants. And these microbes could prove useful.

Four strains of bacteria, three of which were previously unknown to science, have been found on the space station. They may be used to help grow plants during long-term spaceflight missions in the future.
The study published Monday in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.

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Drones to Make it Rain?

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UAE, the United Arab Emirates is testing drones that can make clouds produce rain by giving them an electric shock. Cloud-seeding technology is already used in the country, but the UAE wants to generate more rain. The country only averages 100mm of rain per year. In 2017, the government provided $15m (£10.8m) for nine different rain-enhancement projects.

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FBI Reports Huge Increase of over 300,000 More Cyber Crime Complaints in 2020 than 2019

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Ridgewood NJ, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report. The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019—and reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion. State-specific statistics have also been released and can be found within the 2020 Internet Crime Report and in the accompanying 2020 State Reports.

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Tinder Dating App to Add Background Checks

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Ridgewood NJ, The owner of massive dating apps Tinder and Match has just announced a new partnership to help keep its users safe. Match Group, which owns Tinder, Match, OK Cupid, Hinge and several other services, has made an investment in Garbo, a non-profit, female-founded background check platform. As part of the deal, Garbo’s platform will be available to people using Match Group apps, starting with Tinder later this year.

The platform collects data about people from numerous sources and returns information about any arrests, convictions, restraining orders, harassment, or violent crimes. Most times, only a first name and a phone number is required. How Garbo will be integrated into Match Group’s apps remains to be seen.

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Netflix Begins Crack Down on Password Sharing

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Ridgewood NJ, you may have noticed that it might be a bit harder to “borrow” someone’s password for a Netflix account.

Some password sharers received a  prompt, telling customers  that “If you don’t live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching.” In order to continue, they need to verify the account with a E-mail or Text Code, or create a new account with a 30-Day Free Trial.

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4 Security Standards Every Online Retailer Must Follow

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Frankly, the cornerstone to any successful e-commerce business is its website security. As an online retailer, you may put in all other marketing tactics and efforts but if your website security is not on point, you may not see impressive results. As a matter of fact, the complexity involved in the online transaction ecosystems is extremely vast and keeps on changing. There is no individual out there who would be willing to give their hard-earned money to an organization or company they can’t trust.

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Microsoft : Hackers gained access to Email Accounts, and the Ability to Install Malware On Exchange Servers

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Ridgewood NJ, Microsoft was made aware of initial attacks exploiting 4 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server in early January, two months before issuing patches, according to a new report Monday by security journalist Brian Krebs.

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The Benefits of OnlineOCR as an Effective Converter

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OCR has taken the process of data entry to the new level. This online technology enables quick conversion of scanned documents to editable text formats. Luckily, there are currently a lot of OCR instruments to choose from. They accept different doc formats and image types, and convert them into the requested file formats, such as word, excel, or plain text. Now that you need to transform PDF to Excel, make sure to check the information below.

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