New Weird Gigantic Furry Blob That Washed Up In The Philippines

As is well known by now, the dark and scary sea is full of absolutely bizarre, unusual things. On occasion because the creature faces a bit of vertical exploration near the shoreline, or just because it’s died, some of these unusual lumps of matter float up to the surface and say hello in their own novel way.

This week’s edition of “what the hell is that thing” comes courtesy of the beaches of Cagdainao, part of the Philippines’ Dinagat Islands.

The enigmatic white lump is smelly, hairy, about 6 meters (20 feet) in length, weighs 2 tonnes (2.2 tons), and has no eyes or discernable head. It actually appears to be part of a troupe of trophic travesties washing up on beaches in the region recently after a spate of (perhaps unrelated) earthquakes.

Is it a DIGIMON or a POKEMON ?? joking aside..

As you’d expect, plenty of suggestions have popped up online as to what it might be. These attempts at identification range from fictional animated characters brought into the real world through some sort of magic to a gigantic, dead Shih Tzu dog. Someone has even (playfully?) suggested it is a twisted blob of plastic bags that was once plugging up an underwater volcano. (Hint – it is not.)

Scientists, always wanting to spoil everyone’s fun, have actually said it’s a decomposing whale that died about a fortnight ago. All that white fluff is a result of it being in an advanced stage of decomposition, with the apparent hair actually being exposed, rotting muscle fibers.



So, to recap: It’s not aliens, not a mythical creature, nor a giant floofy dog monster. It’s a dead whale. Again.

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Hacker Demonstrate How to Hack on Public Places

From smartphones to connected printers and even coffee makers, most of these IoT devices have good intentions and can connect to your company's network without a problem.
However, as the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are growing at a great pace, they continue to widen the attack surface at the same time, giving attackers a large number of entry points to affect you some or the other way.

The attackers can use your smart devices to gain backdoor entry to your network, giving them the capability to steal sensitive data, such as your personal information, along with a multitude of other malicious acts.

An interesting attack scenario has recently been demonstrated by one of the renowned hackers, Jayson Street, who said all it is needed is to walk around with the right device to get into someone's device.
Before we jump into the technical details of the attack, let's watch out a video showing that how easy it is to hack smartphones and laptops in a crowded place by setting up an EvilAP (malicious access point).

Here's How the Attack Works:



Street used a simple penetration testing device and an internet connection to pwn people around him.
Technically, Street hacking device automatically set up an 'Evil Twin Attack,' in which an attacker fools wireless users into connecting their smartphones and laptops to an evil (malicious) hotspot by posing as a legitimate WiFi provider.


Watch a Cyber Attack in Progress


Once connected, all of the victim's information flows directly into the attacker's device, allowing cybercriminals to secretly eavesdrop on the network traffic and steal passwords, financial and other sensitive data and even redirect you to malware and phishing sites.

Product of https://www.pwnieexpress.com was featured on MR. ROBOT TV show.

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AMD has just announced its new line of chips called the Ryzen 7

AMD has just announced its new line of chips called the Ryzen 7 with performance benchmarks touting to match those of rival Intel’s at a more affordable price.

AMD Ryzen 7 Lineup Includes the World’s Highest Performing and Lowest Powered 8-core Desktop PC Processors; Immediate Pre-order Availability From More Than 180 Retailers and Boutique OEMs​

AMD has specifically designed the new Ryzen 7 processors for PC gamers, creators, and enthusiasts with 8-cores, 16-threads, and the new AM4 desktop platform, with two of its new chips bagging ‘highest-performing octa-core processor’ and ‘world’s lowest power octa-core processor’ for its 1800X and 1700 models, respectively. The new line of chips also bears new 8-core silicon design that runs 4.8 billion transistors and features 200m of wiring.

The company has also touted its new flagship 1800X chip ‘outperforming a similarly configured 8-core, 16-thread Intel Core i7-6900K in Cinebench R15 multi-threaded and Handbrake-based video transcoding, as well as showing comparable 4K gaming performance.’

The Ryzen 7 will initially be available in three models bearing eight cores and sixteen threads, and is now up for pre-order in select markets today with prices and specifications as follows:

Here are the local prices for the said processors:

* Php27,000 for 1800x

* Php21,000 for 1700x

* Php17,500 for 1700


 source: AMD


 

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