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10 Facts about Computer Viruses

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10 Facts about Computer Viruses Facts about Computer Viruses talk about the malware program which disturbs the program of your computer. The viruses may infect the boot sector, data files or even computer programs for they can replicate themselves. There are various disadvantages that you can get from the viruses hidden in the computer. Let’s check other interesting facts about computer below: Facts about Computer Viruses 1: the disadvantages of computer viruses There are various disadvantages that you can get from the infected computer. The virus may corrupt the data, access the private information, steal the CPU time, steal the hard disk space, log the keystrokes, spam the contact, and display the humorous messages and many more. Facts about Computer Viruses 2: the writers of viruses The people who can write viruses must able to notice on the security vulnerabilities of the computer system. They also master the social engineering. Facts about Computer Viruses 3: Mic...

11 Interesting Facts About The Panama Papers Leak

11 Interesting Facts About The Panama Papers Leak The most recent whistleblower leak was a political nightmare, but a journalistic feast. 1. Journalists researched for more than one year to publish the leak. Süddeutsche Zeitung, the largest German national subscription daily newspaper, was first contacted by the whistleblower in February of 2015. 2. 400 journalists from more than 100 media in over 80 countries were involved in this project. Süddeutsche Zeitung turned over the received data to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). An international team of journalists participated in the research behind the final published leak—including reporters at BBC, the Guardian and Le Monde in France. 3. It was the largest leak in history. The leak included 2.6 terabytes of data, and implicated a significant number of current leaders in various countries around the world. According to statistics...

The 10 most important WikiLeaks revelations

The 10 most important WikiLeaks revelations From Iran to Yemen to Israel to North Korea to the U.N. — what the leaked documents tell us about the world The AP has concluded that there is nothing "particularly explosive" so far in the archive of State Department cables that has begun to be released by WikiLeaks. That assertion is debatable in itself. But anyone who takes time to browse through the documents will find both fascinating and solidly new and newsworthy information about U.S. foreign policy and international relations. WikiLeaks says the documents will be released in stages "over the next few months," so much of what we know now comes through the filter of the handful of media organizations who had access to the full archives. Only a few hundred cables have been released. Here are the top 10 revelations so far: Diplomats as spies: As part of an intelligence gathering effort, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009 ordered diplomats overseas a...

20 Interesting Facts about WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

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Julian Assange is one of the famous journalists of this time due to his founding of WikiLeaks. He is an Australian publisher, journalist, and computer programming expert. He found the WikiLeaks , a non-profit organization in 2006. He has been the editor-in-chief since the establishment of the WikiLeaks. Although there is much information already floating on the internet about Julian Assange but there is much more about this legend still to discover. His interesting personality makes us more curious to know more about him. 20 interesting facts about Julian Assange His interesting personalities have many facts which can be list down but we have gathered information about his personal and work life which altogether makes him very professional and complete man. The interesting facts about Julian Assange are as follows: #1: Julian Assange was born on 2nd July 1971 in the city of Townsville north Queensland. #2: His father John Shipton was an antiwar activist and his...

25 Interesting Facts About CIA

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25 Interesting Facts About CIA 1-5 Interesting Facts About CIA 1. In the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where undergraduate student were humiliated and subjected to “brutalizing psychological experiments”. The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the Unabomber. – Source 2. In the early ’80s the CIA helped facilitate the widespread sale of cocaine in poor Los Angeles neighborhoods to help finance the covert war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. – Source 3. Gary Webb, the journalist who wrote CIA contra-crack story of the 1980s was ruled to have died from suicide (2 gunshots in the head) – Source 4. In 1954, American CIA overthrew a democratically elected Guatemala government for the United Fruit Company. – Source 5. In a CIA program called “Operation Midnight Climax”, Prostitutes were enlisted by the CIA to lure men to ‘safehouses’ in San Francisco where they were administered LSD without their consent...

Interesting Facts About C Language

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Interesting Facts About C Language MOST POPULAR C PROGRAMMING FACTS C Programming language Evolution: ALGO->BCPL->B->Tradition C-> K&R C-> ANSI C-> ANSI/ISO C-> C99. It was developed & released around the year 1972. One of the most interesting facts is that It was developed at Bell Laboratories in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie . The first programming language for the computer was Plankalkul, but C language is seen as the first high-level programming language. It’s really easy and fun to write a C program. Most popular Linux Kernel and most UNIX utilities, what you would call the operating system are written in C.  Evolution in C Programming Language:  1. ALGOL (Internation Group) 2. BCPL (Martin Richards) 3. B (Thompson) 4. Tradition C 5. K&R C (Kernighan And Ritchie) 6. ANSI C (ANSI Committee) 7. ANSI/ISO C (ISO Committee) 8. C99 (Standardization Committee) C is one of the most widely used programming languages of all...

10 Alarming Cyber Security Facts that Threaten Your Data

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10 Alarming Cyber Security Facts that Threaten Your Data This may sound like a movie plot, but it’s not  Don’t think that hackers are only targeting corporations, banks or wealthy celebrities. They go for individual users like you and me also. As long as you’re connected to the Internet, you can become a victim of cyber attacks. So that’s why we wanted to walk you through some of the most shocking cyber security facts that you maybe wish you’d known until the present moment. These will give you a much more accurate idea of how dangerous it really is to go online without proper protection. 1.The most wanted cyber criminals in the world In 2016, there were 19 individuals on FBI’s Most Wanted List for cyber criminals you. Each of them was responsible responsible for consumer losses ranging from $350,000 to more than $100 million. In 2018, that same list has 41 cybercriminals from around the world. For example, on the list of FBI’s most wanted cyber crimi...