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Huge Security Flaw Discovered in Windows 10 Naturally, the flaw could allow hackers to steal passwords   The Daily Mail reported that a Google researcher discovered a huge security flaw in Windows 10 that could have allowed hackers to steal the passwords of thousands of users. For around eight days this month, some versions of the operating system shipped with a password manager with a massive security flaw. The bug meant cybercriminals could easily take the passwords stored in the third-party app and use them to break into people's online accounts. John Steven, senior director of software security at Synopsys, said: "Rather than defeating the underlying encryption that protects users’ credentials, many of these vulnerabilities attack password (PW) managers’ interfaces or the APIs that connect them and the browser they service. Security practitioners  advise users to use PW management plugins rather than visiting the PW manager’s website in order to avoid the classic ...

Office 365 down: Users across Europe unable to access Exchange Online Microsoft blames 'connectivity issues' for widespread borkage   Office 365 down: Users in Europe unable to access Exchange Online   MICROSOFT HAS CONFIRMED  that Office 365 is suffering borkage across Europe, leaving many unable to access their email accounts. In a post on Twitter, the company said that "connectivity issues" are to blame for the Exchange Online downtime. We are investigating connectivity issues to Exchange Online for some customers in Europe. Admins check EX119696 for details. — Office 365 Status (@Office365Status) September 18, 2017 According to Down Detector , problems began at around 8am on Monday, with its live outage map showing that those in London and The Netherlands the worst hit ( below ) by the borkage.   "Outlook 2016 client via office365 playing up for multiple users on two distinct sites and tenants. 'Outlook is trying ...

AMD charges back into the HPC fray with new systems AMD claims its new EPYC 7601 processor has a three-fold performance advantage over Intel’s best server processors. After years of watching its presence shrink on the Top 500 supercomputer list, AMD is battling back with a new set of EPYC-based server processors and specially-tuned GPUs for high-performance computing (HPC) in a complete server system. The company and its partners announced new servers with the EPYC 7601 processor, which it claims is three times more performance-efficient than Intel’s best Xeon server processors, the Xeon Platinum 8180M1, as measured by SPECfp[i] benchmark. The news came at the Supercomputing ’17 show taking place in Denver. Target workloads for AMD solutions include machine learning, weather modeling, computational fluid dynamics, simulation and crash analysis in aviation and automotive manufacturing, and oil and gas exploration, according to the company. OEMs offering AMD's...

A Manager at Google Wrote the Perfect Email on Time Management "If you don’t have time to read this . . . read it twice." A Google manager wrote a fantastic email to his team about the importance of "making time."   “Why can’t I focus on the same task for more than five minutes?” I keep thinking this to myself. I’ve stared at this screen for 45 minutes, deciding what I can write that you all will want to read. I’m on a deadline. And the pressure is getting to me. So, instead of doing what I should be doing (writing something you’ll want to read and share), I’ve decided to procrastinate. I’ve checked Facebook five times, sent six text messages, refreshed my email more than a few times, answered a couple messages on Slack, and decided that I’m going to take up woodworking in the 45 minutes since I’ve decided to procrastinate. But alas! In my hopeless quest to avoid what I should really be doing ( a hobby I know all about ), I discovered a video from...

Dual WhatsApp: How to Run Two WhatsApp Accounts on One Phone If you’ve got a dual-SIM phone, you can use the different SIM cards to make calls using separate numbers, and send texts using different numbers. But did you know that you can set up dual WhatsApp accounts, and use them both on the same phone? If you’ve ever wondered how to install two WhatsApp accounts on one phone, then you’ve come to the right place. There are a few different ways to do this, and some phone-makers are offering this as a built in feature. In other cases, you’ll have to resort to third-party apps instead, but it’s actually pretty easy to run two WhatsApp accounts on one Android phone. Sorry iPhone users, you are out of luck without resorting to the kind of methods we wouldn’t recommend. Obviously, this method of running two WhatsApp accounts on one phone requires a dual-SIM phone – WhatsApp uses the phone number as your identity, and detects this via an SMS or call, so it has to be a ph...

NEW PASSPORT RULES YOU NEED TO KNOW Recently, the Ministry of External Affairs declared new rules for applying for a passport. And here we have rounded up some of the major changes that these new rules have bought in. DOCUMENTATION FOR PROOF OF BIRTH As per old rules, submission of a birth certificate was compulsory for all applicants born on or after 26th January 1989. But the new rules have bought in some relaxation in this regards. Now, any of the following documents containing the Date of Birth (DOB) of the applicant will suffice: Birth Certificate (BC) issued by the Registrar of births and deaths or the Municipal Corporation or any other approved authority to register the birth of a child born in India Transfer/school leaving/matriculation certificate issued by the school last attended/recognized educational board PAN card Aadhar card/E-aadhar The copy of the service record of the applicant’s (of govt. servants) or the pay pension order (of ret...

Locky Ransomware Attacking Chrome and Firefox Users Eight companies already hit in the capital, New Delhi After the return of Locky in India via spam emails, ransomware now targeting Chrome, Firefox and IE users. Eight organisations in the capital are already said to be infected! "Locky" is a deadly ransomware that encrypts all the files in a system and renames them to a .locky extension. The decryption key to the encrypted files is held only by the creator of the malware. When a system gets infected with Locky ransomware, all of the victim's files gets encrypted and a pop-up appears on the screen which ask the victim to pay the demanded ransom if he/she wants the files back else all of the files will get deleted. Locky ransomware was first released in 2016, and was delivered via email. The victims received an email masquerading as a company's invoice and contained a Microsoft Word file. On opening the file, the user would get some scrambled text and a message ...