Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans By 2006, the United States was losing two wars simultaneously in Iraq and Afghanistan, and many of the entrenched interests in the country—political, military, economic, journalistic—were whistling past the proverbial graveyard and pretending that everything was fine. Ten years later, the…
Hacker Cracks Lumia Bootloader, Releases Tool To Grant Root Access For Custom ROMs
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Microsoft and Nokia have done a great job of making Lumia smartphones difficult to break into at a low-level, but software hacker Heathcliff has just proven that it’s not impossible. He’s just released a great-looking tool called Phone Internals, and it…
How to fix that annoying SwiftKey lag on Galaxy S6 and Note 4 (root req’d)
Samsung’s SwiftKey keyboard on TouchWiz acting out? Well, despite the latest Android 5.1.1 update you might have noticed that there is a perceived lag between tapping on a text entry field, and the keyboard popping up afterwards in a few long, excruciating seconds. That delay is due to forceclosing and…
Apple killing ad blockers that install root certificates
Apple has had a few security issues popping up recently between new iOS malware variants that attack both jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices, and now there is an issue with the new content blocker system in iOS 9. It seems that some content blocker apps have been installing root certificates on…
This app can solve your Android device’s lag by “trimming” NAND storage [root]
One of the factors that contribute to lag creeping up in your Android smartphone is the fragmentation of NAND data storage chips. Because of the way they work, NAND chips store data differently than other storage mediums, such as hard drives, do. When one deletes a file, the chip doesn’t…
ASIS 2012: Global security depends on addressing root causes of strife
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: cbrne_detection Image Caption: Mohamed Baradei at ASIS 2012 Addressing complicated global security issues like peace in the Middle East and a non-nuclear Iran depends on addressing the root causes of problems there and not the symptoms of strife, said the former head of the International…
Anonymous threatens root Internet servers
An campaign announced by the hacking group Anonymous directed against the Internet’s core address lookup system is unlikely to cause much damage, according to one security expert. In a warning on Pastebin, Anonymous said last Thursday it would launch an action on 31 March as part of “Operation Global Blackout”…
Changing the Apache root www directory in XAMPP – Lucid Nerd Tutorial
Changing the Apache root www directory in WAMP XAMPP. In this tutorial I will cover how to change the default www directory that Apache looks for, to some other folder of your choosing on your harddrive. LINKS: LUCID NERD LINKS: Subscribe: www.youtube.com Lucid Nerd Channel Page: www.youtube.com Lucid Nerd Blog:…