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On Thursday, the DeFi platform said their protocol was exploited by a hacker who eventually stole 206,809 binance coins from Qubit’s QBridge protocol, worth more than $80 million according to PeckShield. An hour after the first message, the company explained that they were tracking the exploiter and monitoring the stolen cryptocurrency. They noted that they contacted the hacker and offered them the maximum bug bounty in exchange for a return of the funds, something a number of other hacked DeFi platforms have tried to middling success....

CrowdStrike was chosen as one of the platforms to support the initiative at multiple federal agencies and will use its CrowdStrike Falcon platform to “secure critical endpoints and workloads for CISA and multiple other major civilian agencies.” Executive Order (EO) 14028, which President Joe Biden signed in May, listed a variety of measures that needed to be taken across the government to better secure systems in the wake of the SolarWinds scandal and other breaches....

1. Hidden costs of a data breach Don’t consider just the initial costs. Hidden factors include remediation, revenue loss, reputational harm, national security — even human life. Read more » 2. CISA, FBI issue warnings on WhisperGate, HermeticWiper attacks The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released indicators of compromise to help threat hunters look for signs of WhisperGate and HermeticWiper, two destructive malware files seen in recent attacks....

1. Rebirth of Emotet: New features of the botnet and how to detect it One of the most dangerous and infamous threats is back again. In January 2021, global officials took down the botnet. Read more » 2. SharkBot malware poses as Android antivirus SharkBot financial malware has been found in the Google Play Store, the official Android software repository, and is masquerading as an antivirus with system cleaning capabilities, according to researchers....

One of the developers of the upcoming action-adventure survival game Days Gone is insistent that the freakers in the game are not zombies. That stance has been made clear several times by the studio, but Days Gone fans have continued to label the enemies as zombies regardless, so often that Bend Studio is putting its foot down and making its stance clearer than ever. One of the features that sets the game apart, though, is that players have a choice of completing missions in multiple ways: they can use stealth or shoot their way through the hordes....

Developed by Paradox Development Studio, the sequel of Crusader Kings and Crusader Kings 2 is Crusader Kings 3. It is a strategy game, or you can also say it’s a dynasty simulator. Even more, the environment of the game is set in the Middle Ages, like from Viking Age to the Fall of Byzantium. Crusader Kings 3 is different from its predecessors. Here dynasties can form cadet branches. Even more, characters in the game have a full 3d-rendered body instead of 2D images....

The Twitter user L0vetodream has become one of the most reliable sources of Apple leaks over the last year, but their tweets are often cryptic and tricky to decipher. Today, L0vetodream is teasing that Apple will have a “Christmas surprise” to announce this year… L0vetodream’s track record is nearly rock solid. Most recently, accurately predicted that the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air would be the first Apple Silicon Macs. The leaker also accurately reported that Apple would introduce a HomePod mini this year, a new Apple Watch Series 6 color, the iOS 14 release date, the iPad Air price, and much more....

Next-gen is quickly approaching with Microsoft recently providing even more details on the Xbox Series X, including technical specs like variable shading and the ability to quick resume for multiple games. To go along with this, CD Projekt Red announced that anyone who buys Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox One will receive a free upgrade to Xbox Series X, when it’s available. Cyberpunk is the first big game that has acknowledged any kind of cross-gen deal, and it’s something that should be the precedent going forward....

D-Link’s Omna 180 Cam was the first home security camera to support HomeKit, and now D-Link is teasing a handful of new features. The features are detailed in an update the Omna app on iOS, but the actual firmware update to the camera itself still appears to be rolling out. According to the Omna app changelog, the camera is adding a new arm and disarm feature. This feature allows you to enable and disable motion detection for your Omna cameras with a single tap in the Omna application, the company says....

Dave Bautista is joining Gears 5 as a playable character after the WWE Clash of Champions pay-per-view event on September 15, 2019. Bautista has long been the subject of fan campaigns petitioning for his inclusion in the game, as he already has the physique and attitude of many of the Gears franchise’s most popular and enduring characters. Gears 5 is out in just a few days, and the game represents a major shift in the way that developer The Coalition will explore the universe’s story....

Cut the Rope 2 free-ish game I’m saying that the game is free-ish in the Google Play Store because the developers have used the “freemium” model. You do get the game itself for free, but a lot of power-ups, which you’ll end up needing as you progress through the game, cost money. It’s also ad-supported and, at times, you’ll be able to watch an ad or a cartoon in order to get some more candy coins, solutions and other items....

Popular iOS photo editor Darkroom has released some great updates recently including major under the hood changes to improve overall performance and full mouse and trackpad support for iPad. Now the app has expanded beyond photos in the newest update and can handle video editing too. Darkroom detailed the new video capabilities of version 4.6 in a blog post touting the same “ultrafast editing experience” for your video library as it offers with photos....

Josh Brolin’s casting as Cable in Deadpool 2 has certainly got fans buzzing. The announcement came after weeks and weeks of hearing all kinds of possible names, from Russell Crowe to Pierce Brosnan, from David Harbour to Stephen Lang. Not long before the official word dropped, Michael Shannon was considered the frontrunner for the role, which made Brolin’s casting seem to come out of nowhere. After all, he already has a Marvel character, though with Deadpool not considered part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, his role as Thanos won’t have any impact on Cable....

For over ten years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has not only been consistently good in terms of the quality of their movies but also gained a strong fanbase. In turn, these fans have maintained the movies’ popularity with various tributes including mashups. A term generally used to describe combining different things, mashups often refer to fan-made combinations on the Internet either in art or video format. The reason these are popular is that they fulfill speculations about what would happen if someone like Deadpool were in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast....

It seems that the Death Stranding PC players are the most victims when it comes to the performance or stability of the game. Almost each and every Windows video game comes with plenty of bugs and errors. Death Stranding is no exception here and it also throws out several errors or bugs that PC players can’t take for granted at all. As the title suggests, we’re talking about the death stranding no audio or sound syncing issue among others....

So from the release, we know that this is not a major release and that only a number of packages have been upgraded for bug fixes and security reasons. Users on Debian can just update their system to take advantage of these improvements. Now let us take a screenshot tour of Debian 9. 1 – Debian boot screen 2 – Debian Installer (GUI) has been updated to include the fixes incorporated into a stable by the point release 3 – You can also use the text-based installer 4 – Default desktop appearance 5 -Activities Overview 6 – Show applications in Activities Overview 7 – Use Extensions with Gnome Tweak Tool 8 – Activating the Applications Menu 9 – Multiple clocks with World Clock 10 – New Document with Inkscape 11 – Five or More game screen 12 – Quick Settings Area 13 – Notification Area with Time, Date and Calendar 14 – Power Off menu 15 – Standby screen 16 – All Settings Screen 17 – Background and Lock Screen Changer 18 – Nice selection of new and old wallpapers 19 – Default Applications including Firefox ESR and Evolution 20 – Add online accounts including Google....

Snapchat posts usually disappear after 24 hours from the time of posting. But thankfully, there is an option to preserve them, and its called “Memories.” It gives us the option to save either when posting or after the story is posted. You can delete single or multiple Snapchat Memories at once if you wish to. But letting these memories is not enough; you also need to remove them from your app cache....

Longtime Arrowverse producer and writer Marc Guggenheim has confirmed yet another DC adaptation is linked to The CW’s five-part Crisis on Infinite Earths mega-event: HBO’s currently airing Watchmen series. A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to the show was seen in Tuesday’s episode of The Flash, which served as a midway point for the crossover before a brief break for the holidays which sees the final two parts airing in January 2020. The franchise-merging crossover, based on the classic comic event from 1985, has been jam-packed with many DC Comics easter eggs and return appearances, ranging from ones which were known ahead of time (like both Tom Welling and Brandon Routh reprising their roles as Clark Kent/Superman and Kevin Conroy finally portraying a live-action Bruce Wayne after voicing the character for decades) to complete surprises no one saw coming, such as Robert Wuhl returning as Alexander Knox from the 1989 Batman film or Tom Ellis appearing as Lucifer Morningstar (of Netflix’s Lucifer) after having denied rumors of doing so....

Crisis on Infinite Earths redeems Brandon Routh’s Superman. The Arrowverse brought Superman to the forefront of its crossover with multiple versions of the Man of Steel. Out of all of them, Brandon Routh’s Superman was an absolute show-stealer, redeeming Routh’s version of the titular character in the film Superman Returns. The CW’s five-part Crisis on Infinite Earths event featured many iconic Supermen from the past. From Tom Welling’s iconic rendition of Clark Kent making an appearance, to Brandon Routh reprising his version of Superman once more, it was a good event for any Superman fan, but mostly for Routh himself....

The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight claimed to be a man with no actual plan, but his actions through the whole movie proved the contrary. Batman and his archenemy the Joker have been adapted to the big screen many times, all of them with a different style and tone. Nolan’s vision of these characters (along with many others from Batman’s universe) was very well received by DC fans and casual viewers, as he offered a darker and more realistic version of Gotham City and its heroes and villains, starting in 2005 with Batman Begins, which introduced Christian Bale as the new Caped Crusader....