For those who are new to CTF challenges and are not aware of the platform, VulnHub is a well-known website for security researchers. It provides users with a method to learn and practice their hacking skills through a series of challenges in a safe and legal environment. Please Note: For all of these machines, I have used Oracle Virtual Box to run the downloaded machine. I am using Kali Linux as an attacker machine for solving this CTF....

Gartner today is out with its latest report concerning the smartphone industry during the fourth quarter of 2016. According to the data, global sales of smartphones to users totaled 432 million units during the quarter, an increase of 7 percent compared to the year before. Perhaps most notably, Q4 2016 saw Apple leapfrog Samsung to become the number 1 global smartphone vendor…. In Q4 2016, Apple sold roughly 77 million iPhones, up from 71....

The US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has today penned a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook with a list of questions about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug. The letter is signed by Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky. In the letter, the committee says it is “deeply troubled” about the bug, as well as how long it took Apple to address the issue....

Left 4 Dead developer Turtle Rock Studios announced earlier today that it was working on a brand new zombie co-op shooter called Back 4 Blood. The new game will be developed out of a partnership between Turtle Rock Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Turtle Rock Studios is most famous for innovating co-op shooter gameplay with the Left 4 Dead games, which were wildly successful on Valve’s Steam platform. To many, Left 4 Dead laid the groundwork for what a successful zombie mode should look like, and the series’ fingerprints can be found all over future iterations of survival horror cooperatives, even if they don’t necessarily involve the walking dead....

Here we will guide you on how to install the firmware flash file on Lenovo Z5s L78071. The guide is simple and easy to follow. You can watch our complete video guide. These days there is a great number of smartphone enthusiasts interested in learning the technical aspects of smartphones. So, they keep tweaking the phone in terms of hardware and software. However, sometimes, unfortunately, they end up bricking their device....

Last few months we have been seeing a lot of hype on the upcoming LG V40. This device is becoming the talk of the town for its Penta camera set-up. Earlier this month V40 received NRR Certification in Korea. Last month some LG V40 live images also surfaced on the web. There were speculations regarding the device that it will pack flagship grade specs. Its true up to some extent and also a bit disappointing....

Update: Adobe has retracted their claim (via MacRumors) that OS X Lion disables Flash Player hardware acceleration. Great news: In addition to the goodies Lion brings to your everyday computing, some unwanted side-effects surface with Adobe writing in a knowledge base article yesterday (via TUAW) that the operating system disables hardware acceleration while exhibiting other issues with their Mac apps: Other affected Adobe products include Fireworks, Illustrator, Acrobat, Lightroom, Photoshop and Premiere Pro....

Do you want to Install any Custom ROM for Samsung Galaxy J7 2016 (j7xelte) device? then you are at the right place. Here we will list all the Custom ROM for Galaxy J7 2016. If you have a Galaxy J7 2016 device, then you may be knowing that this device runs on Android OS. Well, the biggest advantage of Android is that it is an open-source project. This allows every community to develop and Customize ROM for their phone....

Do you want to Install any Custom ROM for Samsung Galaxy Note 5 device? then you are at the right place. Here we will list all the Custom ROM for Galaxy Note 5. If you have a Galaxy Note 5 device, then you may be knowing that this device runs on Android OS. Well, the biggest advantage of Android is that it is an open-source project. This allows every community to develop and Customize ROM for their phone....

Wondering whether your Oukitel device will get the latest Android Oreo update? We have compiled a list of Oukitel devices expected to get the most recent taste of the Android OS. Here is the list of Oukitel Devices Getting Android 8.0 Oreo Update. Oukitel is a Chines Smartphone manufacturer which makes a stunning smartphone with a reasonable price. They are also very prompt in updating their devices to the latest version of Android OS....

Load testing is subset of performance testing, while Performance testing is superset of load and stress testing, whereas Stress testing is subset of performance testing. Generating increased load on a web application is the main aim of load testing, while The aim of performance testing is to get an indication of how an application behaves under regular parameters, whereas Stress testing aims to ensure that under a sudden high load for a considerable duration the servers don’t crash....

One of the most beloved characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy The Lord of The Rings is none other than Legolas, son of Thranduil, Elvenking of Mirkwood. As prince of the Woodland Realm, the Sindarin elf was well-versed in the tale of the One Ring, which, combined with his own Elven skills, made him a prime candidate for the Fellowship of the Ring. Legolas served the Fellowship well, and without his presence, the members of the quest would have indubitably experienced greater losses....

A pair of newly granted Apple patents shows a MacBook wirelessly charging an iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. They describe two-way charging coils that can be used to charge the MacBook itself, but also used to allow the MacBook to charge other devices. The patents also show an iPad charging an iPhone and Watch (right), and follow a separate patent application for a MagSafe battery case, which can charge both an iPhone and a set of AirPods …...

The Macoda mattress packs in multiple layers of high quality, eco-friendly materials and boasts a five-zone pocket springs layer, guaranteeing restful sleep. Affiliate Disclosure: This page may include links to our partners’ products and services, allowing us to keep our website sustainable. That means when you sign up and/or buy a product or a service using our links, we could receive compensation. However, all opinions expressed in this article are unbiased....

UPDATE: macOS 10.14.1 beta 1 is now available to public beta testers. Just one day after releasing macOS Mojave to the public, Apple has today seeded its first macOS 10.14.1 beta to developers. Apple doesn’t mention specifically what is included in this beta, but we’ll update this post with new information as we dig through the beta. macOS Mojave includes an all new dark mode, Home and News apps, and more....

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige almost quit due to conflicts with Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter, Disney CEO Bob Iger reveals. Before Feige gained autonomy managing the MCU, he was answering to Perlmutter. However, a series of unfortunate events, including very nearly resigning from his post, led to The Walt Disney Company CEO granting the producer extraordinaire creative and financial freedom from his former boss. Notoriously known to be a private person, Perlmutter became the chairman of Marvel in 2001 and then the chief executive officer of Marvel Comics in 2005....

A fresh report from Ming-Chi Kuo gives KGI’s take on the recent stories of poor market reception for HomePod. The report suggests that Apple could sell 2-2.5 million HomePods across all of 2018, with a million of those from first month pent-up demand. Most analysts have predicted sales for HomePod around ten million a year, so Kuo’s prediction is quite pessimistic. He says the high price has cut off a lot of the potential market (in the face of tough, cheaper, competition) and that Apple is ‘mulling’ a lower-cost model....

King Kong came roaring back to life in Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures’ Kong: Skull Island, which easily topped the U.S. box office in its opening weekend with about $61 million. However, the film has quickly dropped off in subsequent weeks after its opening as the competition stiffened with the likes of Beauty and the Beast and Power Rangers crowding the field. With a MonsterVerse planned from Warner Bros. and Legendary, producers were likely hoping for more from Kong: Skull Island’s domestic box office numbers....

Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ Kylie Jenner have split due to the rampant rumors of Travis Scott cheating on her. Now that the world knows that they are no longer together, both Kylie and Travis have spoken out, separately, about the rumors. Kylie, who found fame with her family’s reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, started dating rapper Travis Scott back in April 2017 when they were spotted packing on the PDA, around the time she became the youngest billionaire....

The Los Angeles Unified School District is exploring the possibility of litigation against Apple over the failed project intended to provide every student with an iPad, reports the LA Times. The project ran into early problems when students figured out how to bypass the restrictions designed to ensure the devices could be used only for school work, shortly before the district was accused of having miscalculated the cost of the program....