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LokiBot Hybrid Android Malware Is worth $ 2000 on the Dark Web
eTeknix For example, the very first hybrid Android malware, LokiBot, is currently worth about $ 2,000 in Bitcoin on the Dark Web. A banking trojan at heart, the malware turns into ransomware when the user tries to remove its admin privileges. The news was … |
Intel
AMD announced its new high-end desktop (HEDT) platform, the 16 core 32 thread ThreadRipper a couple of weeks ago. At Computex in Taipei, it’s Intel’s turn to update its HEDT platform, and it’s one-upping AMD in the process. The Intel platform, consisting of the new X299 chipset and new X-series processors, will go all the way up to 18 cores and 36 threads.
The HEDT segment is aimed at gamers, video streamers, and content creators with deep pockets or an insatiable desire for more concurrent threads than the mainstream processor segment has to offer. The value proposition for this segment is always a little skewed, with the chips being as much prestige parts as anything else. Straightforward gaming workloads may struggled to make full use of the chips’ resources, but serious Twitch streamers, for example, can make good use of the extra cores. Software developers are another group that can make good use of all those cores.
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You can check out any time you’d like, but you can never… well, you know the song. (credit: Aurich Lawson)
Even under the best of circumstances, trying to get a refund from a cable company can be a trying ordeal. But when a small condo association in Florida was inadvertently billed $ 2,000 by Comcast, an obvious mistake that should have been solved with a quick refund became a months-long bureaucratic nightmare.
The Riggs Landing Condo Association, a nine-unit development in Sarasota, Florida, had been paying for TV service since 1990 under a series of bulk contracts with Comcast and predecessor companies. The latest 10-year deal with Comcast was due to expire at the end of 2016, but at the beginning of this year, Comcast agreed to let Riggs Landing opt out of the deal early.
“In reference to your inquiry about termination of the bulk cable service at Riggs Landing, we can de-bulk the residents effective April 1, 2016,” a Comcast employee told the association in an e-mail on January 22. The condo association then sent Comcast a letter via certified mail to complete the early termination and received a receipt confirming that it was delivered to Comcast on March 1.
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MSPoweruser.com |
Zero-Day Exploit discovered that affects all versions of Windows from 2000 to Windows 10
MSPoweruser.com Researchers from Trustwave's SpiderLabs team (a team of ethical hackers, forensic investigators and researchers helping organizations fight cybercrime, protect data and reduce risk) have uncovered a zero-day exploit on a Russian underground malware … |