Ransom-ware Now Found In Subtitles of Your Favorite Movies And Shows

We at Dell Laptop Repair in Gurugram have found out for you that hackers now a days can hide computer viruses in online video subtitles and use them to take control of computers, security experts have warned. The attacks are embedded within the subtitle files that accompany many illegally downloaded films, and easily bypass security software and antivirus programs designed to keep computers safe. Check Point, the security group that discovered the flaw, said millions of people who use video software including to stream or play films and TV shows on computers could be at risk.

They warned that the attack lets hackers take "complete control" over any type of device using the software, including smart TVs. It identified four programs - VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Stremio - but said there could be more. "We estimate there are approximately 200 million video players and streamers that currently run the vulnerable software, making this one of the most widespread, easily accessed and zero-resistance vulnerabilities reported in recent years," they said.

Many videos do not come with their own subtitles, but computer media players often automatically download special files from a central online repository.  Because they are perceived as harmless text files and use a variety of different formats, the software does not check them for viruses. However, Check Point showed it was possible to include debilitating computer viruses within the files that are activated as soon as subtitles are switched on. They were also able to manipulate the rankings on opensubtitles.org, the popular online database, so that video software would automatically download the virus-filled files.

"This method requires little or no deliberate action on the part of the user, making it all the more dangerous," the researchers said. VLC, Popcorn Time and Kodi are commonly used to stream or download pirated films, as well as those from legitimate sources. They could be breached when run on smart TVs and mobile devices as well as PCs. In order to make sure that none of our clients and readers are not affected by this ransom-ware, we at Dell Laptop Service Center urge you to update your video players as soon as possible.

Check Point warned that once attackers took control of a system, they could steal files or demand a ransom from victims. "The potential damage the attacker can inflict is endless, ranging anywhere from stealing sensitive information, installing ransom-ware, mass denial of service attacks, and much more," they said. VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Stremio said they had developed patches to protect against the attack, although many users will not have updated to the latest software. The latest versions of the software are available to download on their websites.

HP Unveils New Computer For Big Data Generation, Say Bye Bye To Cloud Services

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Co, better known as HP in India, has unveiled a new computer prototype that it claims could handle more data than any similar system in the world. The California-based firm said the prototype contains 160 terabytes of memory, capable of managing the information from every book in the U.S. Library of Congress five times over. It is the latest prototype from 'The Machine' research project by HP, which aims to create super-fast computers by designing them around memory.

 

Traditionally, the way processors, storage and memory interact can bog down computers. 'The secrets to the next great scientific breakthrough, industry-changing innovation or life-altering technology hide in plain sight behind the mountains of data we create every day,' said Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 'To realize this promise, we can't rely on the technologies of the past, we need a computer built for the big data era.' The prototype underscores HP's ambition to lead computer technology as huge data sets place new strains on devices. It has never been possible to hold and manipulate whole data sets of this size in a single-memory system, and this is just a glimpse of the immense potential of Memory-Driven Computing. With that amount of memory, it will be possible to simultaneously work with every digital health record of every person on earth; every piece of data from Facebook; every trip of Google's autonomous vehicles and every data set from space exploration all at the same time—getting to answers and uncovering new opportunities at unprecedented speeds.

We at Laptop Repair Service Center would like to also tell you about the real life application of this new super computer. Where on one hand because the computer is capable of simultaneously analyzing every person in the world's medical records, it will have the information needed to identify matches of people, diagnoses and treatments or therapies that worked best for people most similar to the patient as opposed to treatments that work best for the average patient. While on the other hand systems built on HP's Memory-Driven Computing architecture could deliver enormous gains in analytic capacity and provide actionable insights within the attention span of a shopper and can affect the retail sector in a huge way.

In the future HP foresees the unit having a memory-based system with up to 4,096 yottabytes of data – more than 250,000 times the size of today's digital universe and the firm has suggested that when it is capable of analyzing that much data at once, it will have the ability to 'discover correlations we could have never conceived before'. 'And that ability will open entirely new frontiers of intellectual discovery, HP shared in a press release.

In addition to assisting in different areas on Earth, the  technology could also be useful in space - the computer could also assist astronauts in missions to mars. Those making the journey could rely on the machine to figure out a range of issues that could arise, allowing them to formulate solutions and save them for future events. Teams could also rely on the on board computers for help, rather than communicating with Mission Control.

While the prototype remains years away from being commercially available, HP is already bringing some of the tech from its research program to market. Still, companies and the scientific community have yet to concur on what technology will best serve users. 'You need computing that scales up with the size of the data set,' said Kathy Yelick, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. This is it for now, stay tuned for more informative and knowledgeable articles and don't forget you read it first here with us at HP Laptop Service Center in Indore.

National Technology Day And All The Reasons Behind Its Celebration

On May 11, 1998, India successfully test fired the Shakti-I nuclear missile at the Indian Army’s Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan in an operation led by aerospace engineer and late President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. Two days later, the country successfully tested two more nuclear weapons as a part of the same Pokhran-II/Operation Shakti initiative (Pokhran-I was the 1974 test firing of the ‘Smiling Buddha’ missile). Following this, the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared India a nuclear state, making it the sixth country to join the ‘nuclear club’ of nations and the first one that was not party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) – an international treaty signed by the US, Russia, the UK, France, and China which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and hopes to achieve nuclear disarmament.

Becoming the world’s sixth nuclear state wasn’t the only feat India achieved on that day. The country’s first indigenous aircraft, the Hansa-3, was flown in Bengaluru while the nuclear tests were being conducted in Rajasthan. Developed by the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) lab, the Hansa-3 was a light two-seater general aviation plane used in flying institutes for pilot training, sports, surveillance, aerial photography, and environment-related projects.

That isn’t all. May 11, 1998 was also the day on which the Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) completed the final test-fire of the Trishul missile after which it was inducted into service by the Indian Army and Indian Air force. A short-range, quick-reaction, surface-to-air (SAM) missile, Trishul was a part of India’s Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme – a Ministry of Defense initiative that has resulted in the creation of the Agni, Prithvi, and Akash missile systems.

Based on these tremendous breakthrough achievements by the country’s scientists, engineers, and technicians, Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared May 11 as the National Technology Day. Every year since 1999, the Technology Development Board (TDB) commemorates the day by honoring technological innovations that have positively impacted the nation. The TDB also selects a theme for each year’s event, and the 2017 National Technology Day theme is ‘Technology for inclusive and sustainable growth’.

Celebrated as a symbol of quest for scientific inquiry and technological creativity, and their translation into the integration of science, society, and industry, the National Technology Day sees the TDB confer National Awards to the most noteworthy individuals, institutions, and businesses of the year. It is a large-scale event which sees the Department of Science and Technology, Department of Bio-Technology, the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and several other scientific departments in attendance. The event, conducted in New Delhi, also sees India’s President give out the National Awards and launch a range of innovative products as the Chief Guest. Furthermore, several state governments organized local events that see academic institutions, research organizations, and NGOs come together to generate awareness about the latest technological advancements in the country. This amazing and informative post is powered by Dell Laptop Service Center in Gurugram that also offers Laptop Home Service in all major cities.

Quantum Computers Invented In China But Could Soon Become A Worldwide Revolution

This article is sponsored by Laptop Repair Service Provider in Mumbai. Quantum Computers are the hype of the 21st century as everyone is talking about them, as well as every country or group of scientists are trying to make a better model of quantum computer in comparison to what already exists. But it looks like that China has taken a leap in the future, from being a country based on human power, scientists in China claim to have built the world's first quantum computer or quantum computing machine as they like to call it.

It the developers are to be believed this thing is almost, times faster than its international counterparts, yes you read it right that is where rest of the world is in building a quantum computer. There are 24,000 times slower compared to what Chinese Scientists have built. Apart from this they also claim that this machine of theirs is 10-100 times faster than the first electronic computer known as, ENIAC. Even though according to the Indian Scientists this machine does not have any practical use at present, but it sure is a big achievement for China and the team of Scientists who worked on building it.

Even though the basic reason behind the hype that has been building around the concept of Quantum Computers is because they are claimed to be much faster than our now a days systems and apart from this scientific use of them can be deduced to predicting the behavior of subatomic particles, which can be used in several fields like medical, defence as well as technology and producing power. But there is a long way to go from today's technology to achieve all this.

Pan Jianwei, a quantum physicist, and an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that quantum computing makes use of quantum superposition principle for ultra-fast parallel calculation and simulation capabilities. If compared to other developments around the world, the performance of this incredible new machine is exceptional and the output is much better in all relative terms.

Even though this development might come as a surprise to most of us, but for people working in the filed of quantum computing this news was long overdue. As last year itself, China had created the world's first hack proof quantum satellite. One of the researchers also added that they had been working on to scale up to a larger number of photons and a higher rate. This is it for now, stay tune for more articles and tech news from our guys at Dell Service Center Gurugram. To get Dell Laptop Service Center in Gurugram contact on the link.