A former employee of one of the world’s most powerful hacking companies NSO Group has been arrested and charged with stealing phone hacking tools from the company and trying to sell it for $50 million on the Darknet secretly. Israeli hacking firm NSO Group is mostly known for selling high-tech malware capable of remotely cracking…
Adobe Muse preview Since the launch of Adobe InDesign; designers have had an integrated set of tools to handle their print workflow. Using InDesign for page layout; Photoshop for photo editing; Illustrator for creating impressive artwork and Acrobat for output the possibilities are endless; but until now there’s not been a similarly integrated tool for…
Photography is no different than other artistic pursuits like painting or writing or music. If you want to get good, you need to understand the tools, learn the philosophies, and complete the training to truly master the craft. Sure, you can noodle around with a digital camera until you’re blue in the face (which actually…
Maintainers of the Gentoo Linux distribution have now revealed the impact and “root cause” of the attack that saw unknown hackers taking control of its GitHub account last week and modifying the content of its repositories and pages. The hackers not only managed to change the content in compromised repositories but also locked out Gentoo…
Adobe Edge review Adobe’s new web design tool Edge lets you build Flash-style animations by adjusting the attributes of elements in an HTML file. The results are rendered using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. This means modern browsers, including Safari on iOS, can display the results without the need for Flash Player. Edge is at the…
So… apparently there’s been another kerfuffle on the Twitter about some asinine things that a certain wealthy, rocket-building, payment-revolutionizing, electric vehicle company-creating entrepreneur has written in tweets to millions of followers. This billionaire is, by all accounts, incredibly difficult to work for, very visionary and … a bit thin-skinned for someone with such a habit…
The other day, a friend called me and said that his Google Chrome browser is acting weirdly and may need reinstalling. According to him, every time he searched for something on Google some unknown website appeared with suspicious results. I asked him to remove every Chrome extension and only add those few that he really…
Hacker himself got hacked. It turns out that most samples of the LokiBot malware being distributed in the wild are modified versions of the original sample, a security researcher has learned. Targeting users since 2015, LokiBot is a password and cryptocoin-wallet stealer that can harvest credentials from a variety of popular web browsers, FTP, poker…
BannerZest Standard 3 review It was only seven months ago that we reviewed BannerZest, but the animated advertising maker is back in version 3, with timely support for HTML5, incidentally. To bring everyone up to speed, we should explain that Bannerzest is a simple, wizard-based animation tool for chucking together animated advertising banners. You can…
Here is what you should take away from the state of the global venture capital market: late-stage deals dominated Q2. Using projected data provided by Crunchbase, Crunchbase News reported that Q2 2018 marks new post-dot com highs for both VC deal and dollar volume around the world, the latter of which was propelled by a surge in late-stage deals…
