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BENGALURU: Unlike elsewhere in India, edible bugs are part of the diet of the indigenous tribes in the Northeast. A team of Bengaluru-based researchers found that bugs, insects and snails are widely consumed in most parts of the region. Insects are consumed in various forms and for multiple purposes — food, health benefits and even neurotoxic effects. So far, they …

Paul Nelson is used to doing battle with an invasive fruit fly called the spotted wing drosophila, a pest that one year ruined more than half the berries on the Minnesota farm he and his team run. The researchers, using a concept called “gene drive,” manipulated the insects’ DNA so that the female offspring would be sterile, and the method …

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The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team released multiple vulnerability notes detailing security bugs detected in commonly used software from Apple, Google, and Cisco. The security bugs could be exploited by attackers to gain elevated privileges, execute arbitrary code, access sensitive information by bypassing security restrictions, and could even lead to denial-of-services on targeted systems. Google Chrome for Windows and Linux …

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, released multiple vulnerability notes throughout the week for security bugs detected in commonly used software. The bugs found to exist due to flaws in Android OS’ Framework, media framework, system components Google play systems, MediaTek components, Qualcomm components, and Unisoc components, could allow attackers to remotely bypass security restrictions thereby compromising the security of affected …

Meta’s Horizon Worlds has been designed to let people build and interact in virtual worlds using individual avatars, and is one of the key elements of the virtual interactions on the platform. But the company’s flagship app is now suffering from several quality issues that members of the very team behind the app are not using it much, according to …

On Friday, Computer Emergency Response Team released notes on bugs affecting Chrome. The security bugs can allow cybercriminals to bypass security restrictions on the browser, execute arbitrary codes and cause denial of services on computer systems running vulnerable versions of the software. According to vulnerability notes from CERT-In, these security flaws in Chrome existed due to use-after-free in CSS, which …

The company has urged users to update to the latest security fix to ensure safety of their systems. The update fixed security for multi-vendor BIOS security vulnerabilities that could cause information disclosure, privilege escalation, denial of service on affected systems. Earlier, on Monday, The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team released notes for the bugs found in Lenovo products urging users …

Google’s Android Red Team Had a Full Pixel 6 Pwn Before Launch

When Google launched the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro in October 2021, key features included its custom Tensor system-on-a-chip processor and the security benefits of its onboard Titan M2 security chip. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today, members of the Android red team are recounting their mission to hack and break as much as they could …

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Adobe software carries multiple bugs that can be harmful to your system, this warning has been issued by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team on Thursday. “Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe products which could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges, execute arbitrary code, write arbitrary files on the file system and cause a memory leak on the …

Indian government's CERT-In or Computer Emergency Response Team has cautioned against multiple severe vulnerabilities in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers that are capable of revealing sensitive private user information to remote attackers who can breach security protections. According to India's nodal agency that deals with cyber security threats, hacking and phishing, Google Chrome versions prior to 96.0.4664.209 are affected …

OnePlus recently launched the Android 12-based OxygenOS 12 update to the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro earlier this week. Addressing people?s concern, OnePlus has said that it is aware of the issues that the OxygenOS 12 update is causing and its team is fixing them. A report in 9to5Google said,?For a so-called stable release, OxygenOS 12 is riddled with …

Xiaomi on Saturday confirmed that some of its Mi and Redmi devices are encountering the issue of continuous rebooting and have taken customers' feedback into consideration. "It has come to our notice that Mi and Redmi devices are showing an error, causing unwanted rebooting of the device. While the team is working on fixing the issue with the App developer …

Google on Wednesday released an update for Chrome to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild. While the first three vulnerabilities were discovered by Google’s security research team, the recent two bugs came to Google’s knowledge through anonymous sources. “We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to …