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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has released an announcement to advise its customers that it has placed an “unscheduled suspension” on all deposit and withdrawals, due to the loss of 342,000 Ether (ETH) which equates to $52,479,900 (USD) at the time of writing. In the statement, Lee Seok-woo, CEO of Dunamu (the exchange’s operator) claimed that the ETH were moved from the exchanges hot wallet to an unrecognised wallet “0xa09871AEadF4 994Ca12f5c0b6056BBd1d343c029” (Link  bellow), He has also claimed that their clients funds were not contained within the breached wallet. To avoid anymore unauthorised transactions from occurring, Upbit has moved all of its cryptocurrencies into offline cold wallets so the funds are no longer accessible to a malicious actor, If they where to breach or have breached the security of the exchange. Upbit have stopped all deposit and withdrawals, and will not recommence transactions for 2 weeks while an investigation is performed. Currently ther

Mighty Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,the president of the Republic of Uganda will in few hours from now officially open the first phone manufacturing and assembling plant in Uganda at Namanve Industrial Park. This company will be producing 2000, Smart Phones 1500, laptops 800, Chargers 2000, USB cables 4000 and 4000 Ear phone.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has identified space as an operational domain, alongside air, land, sea and cyber area, the alliance’s Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, said. "We have agreed that space should be a new operational domain for NATO alongside air, land, sea and cyber. Space is part of our daily life here on Earth. It can be used for peaceful purposes. But it can be also used aggressively", Stoltenberg told a news conference on the results of the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Wednesday. The alliance’s chief continued by explaining that satellites could be jammed, hacked or weaponized, which could lead to disrupted communications and affect various services and areas. Moreover, space was essential to NATO’s defence and deterrence, such as the alliance’s ability to detect missile launches and gather intelligence, Stoltenberg argued. Stoltenberg emphasized that NATO remained a defensive alliance and did not intend to put weapons

The Tonopah Test Range is a restricted military polygon located in the vicinity of the eponymous town in the state of Nevada. It is currently used for nuclear weapons stockpile reliability testing, research and development of fusing and firing systems, as well as testing nuclear weapon delivery systems. A YouTube blogger nicknamed TheArea51Rider yesterday  uploaded a video in which he claims that he filmed an unidentified aircraft at a restricted test range southeast of Tonopah, Nevada. In the video, the authenticity of which cannot be confirmed, the blogger recorded himself ostensibly nearby the military site, located in the vicinity of the notorious and highly-classified Area 51 . The YouTuber showed images of an open hangar with what appeared to be an aircraft inside. However, he failed to identify the vehicle, pondering whether it is some sort of new secretive military plane. The Tonopah military site is a hotspot for various conspiracy theories surrounding the use of experimen

A few days ago, It was reported that the Facebook app was using the camera feature on certain versions of iOS without the user’s permission. Now, it has been discovered that a vulnerability in Google and Samsung’s Camera apps on Android enabled other apps to breach users’ privacy. Apparently, this includes recording videos & call audios, capturing photos and extracting GPS data from the phone’s media data unauthorizedly while uploading it to a C&C server. Furthermore, subtle hacks such as the silencing of the camera’s shutter could also be implemented to further conceal any hidden activity. Termed as CVE-2019-2234 ; the vulnerability has been disclosed by Checkmarx in coordination with both Google and Samsung alerting users, the former stating : To understand how this entire process takes place without the user’s permission, it is to be noted that an app needs the following permissions for engaging in any of the aforementioned actions: 1. android.permission.CAMERA, 2. and