A wearable glove-like device that can “hack” and influence dreams, Team of MIT researchers is developing this device called “Dormio”. It senses the users slipping into hypnagogia which is the semi-lucid state between wakefulness and sleep. It plays prerecorded audio, typically comprising one word. The researchers have found that the audio content successfully showed up in people’s dreams. They have experimented with 50 people. The possibilities are endless to help cure traumatic memories or bad nightmares. However, if they move closer to commercialization there could be serious ethical concerns as…
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Critical Zoom Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Steal your Password
A critical vulnerability with the Zoom client for windows allows attackers to steal Windows login credentials.
Zoom is an online video communication platform that has features such as video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration.
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Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a sustained malicious campaign dating back to May 2018 that targets Windows machines running MS-SQL servers to deploy backdoors and other kinds of malware, including multi-functional remote access tools (RATs) and cryptominers.
Read MoreHackers Hack Routers’s DNS to Inject Malicious Covid-19 Apps
A new cyber attack is hijacking router’s DNS settings so that web browsers display alerts for a fake COVID-19 information app from the World Health Organization that is the Oski information-stealing malware. For the past five days, people have been reporting their web browser would open on its own and display a message prompting them to download a ‘COVID-19 Inform App’ that was allegedly from the World Health Organization (WHO). After further research, it was determined that these alerts were being caused by an attack that changed the DNS servers configured on their…
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