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Two days ago, Microsoft encountered a rapidly spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware that infected almost 500,000 computers within just 12 hours and successfully blocked it to a large extent. Dubbed Dofoil , aka Smoke Loader , the malware was found dropping a cryptocurrency miner program as payload on infected Windows computers that mines Electroneum coins, yet another cryptocurrency, for attackers using victims' CPUs. On March 6, Windows Defender suddenly detected more than 80,000 instances of several variants of Dofoil that raised the alarm at Microsoft Windows Defender research department, and within the next 12 hours, over 400,000 instances were recorded. The research team found that all these instances, rapidly spreading across Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine, were carrying a digital coin-mining payload, which masqueraded as a legitimate Windows binary to evade detection. However, Microsoft has not mentioned how these instances were delivered to such a massive audie...

Your Wi-Fi network is your conveniently wireless gateway to the Internet, and since you're not keen on sharing your connection with any old hooligan who happens to be walking past your home, you secure your network with a password, right? Knowing, as you might, how easy it is to crack a WEP password, you probably secure your network using the more bulletproof WPA security   In the first section of this post, I'll walk through the steps required to crack a WPA password using Reaver. You can follow along with either the video or the text below. After that, I'll explain how Reaver works, and what you can do to protect your network against Reaver attacks. First, a quick note:  As we remind often remind readers when we discuss topics that appear potentially malicious: Knowledge is power, but power doesn't mean you should be a jerk, or do anything illegal. Knowing how to pick a lock doesn't make you a thief. Consider this post educational, or a proof-of-concept intellectu...

Printing ‘Hello World’ is the most famous program. It is the first example in nearly every programming language for every programmer. Traditionally, it’s the first program developers use to test systems. For programmers, seeing the two words on the screen means their code can compile, load, run and they can see the output. In this article, Let’s talk about how to write  HELLO WORLD  program in 25 different programming languages. You’ll also know the difficulty and simplicity of these programming languages after looking at their syntax. 1. C  PROGRAMMING #include int main(void) { puts(“Hello, world!”); } 2. C++ PROGRAMMING #include int main() { std::cout << “Hello, world!”; return 0; } 3. C# PROGRAMMING using System; class Program { public static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine(“Hello, world!”); } } 4. JAVA PROGRAMMING import javax.swing.JFrame; //Importing class JFrame import javax.swing.JLabel; //Importing class JLabel public class HelloWorld { public ...

We love Linux but most of us want to keep our Windows too. So usually we go for dual booting Linux with Windows to resolve that problem. But if you are an absolute beginner you could have a lot of doubts about dual booting Linux with Windows. Majority of novice users face some after installation trouble — missing GRUB, GRUB rescue,brick system — while they try to dual boot Linux with Windows. This usually happens because they forget to do some essential settings before dual dual booting Linux. In this article we are going to list 5 such important things you have to do before dual booting Linux with Windows. 5 Things to do before dual booting Linux with Windows 1.  Disable Secure Boot  : This is the most important step you have to do if you are planning to dual boot Linux with Windows —  Disable Secure Boot . Secure Boot helps to make sure that your PC boots using only firmware that is trusted by the manufacturer which usually only supports OS Micr...