Feb 21, 2017 01:00 PM (This post was last modified: Feb 21, 2017 01:11 PM by Hydra.)
Recent Downtime
Recently Hack Forums has been down for quite some time.Omniscient is advising that members should not panic at all and states that, "These aren't attacks or any drama. Just regular server crap." The cause of these random moments of the site going on and offline is either done by the NGINX or Hack Forums PHP CGI as Omni states. >>Source
MariaDB SQL Updated
Around the Afternoon (Eastern Standard Time) the board was closed due to maintenance. Omniscient had been updating the MariaDB SQL when he had ran into a problem. While this was happening, he states that it was not building correctly and this was the reason the forum needed to be closed to the public temporarily. >>Source
Server Problems - Omniscient
An abrupt change in the Hack Forums server has caused hardware failure. As a result of this failure, HF has been having server problems. Possible downtime may occur until the problem is fixed.
MariaDB SQL Updated - Omniscient
MariaDB SQL has been updated. Let us hope that any of the downtime problems Hack Forums has been receiving will stop.
Basic Traceroute Script - FriendOfRaven
The Python section of Hack Forums is finally getting some love. A very interesting and well written thread by the user FriendOfRaven who will teach you how to create a basic traceroute script.
Context Managers - (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━━┻
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━━┻ gives a pretty simple, yet detailed tutorial on what context managers are and some code to go along with it.
Pokemon GO - Generation #2 Coming This Week!!! - eCoLoGy
Will the popularity of Pokemon Go make a return? If you have put the game down and are a true Pokemon fan, you will give the game a second chance. Niantic is implementing new features into the game, as well as the introduction of the second generation Pokemon!
If we missed your thread this edition, please report it in our Weekly Reports thread!
Entertaining Threads
Mousepad - Maradonnie
Have a custom mouse design that you would like to show off? Think yours is top notch? Why not share with Hack Forums what kind of mousepad you have.
What do you think of Parkour? - Ted™
Think parkour is lame? Think its cool? Well, why not share what you think in this parkour discussion thread.
3 Years, 3+3+2 days, 30k posts - bοxxy
In celebration of 30,000 posts, what better way to celebrate than to make a feedback thread? In the three years that bοxxy has been here, bοxxy has achieved countless amount of milestones, such as more than 2,000 rep and over 4,000 post reports. Congrats!
I want to upgrade you to EPIC :: PART 2 - Jason
Ever wanted the chance to win an 3P1C upgrade? Well now is your chance thanks to the user Jason. Up to five members have the chance to win this contest!
Tsundere: Hello Spooky Hacker and welcome to the 331st edition of the Hack Forums news. Before we begin, would you like to give any shout outs? spooky hacker: shout out chrissy thechiefe and andyand nikki shout out krabe --ve krave
Tsundere: Thanks for the shout out! I'm sure the others would be glad too. Now, what are your current goals on Hack Forums? Is there anything in particular that you would like to learn? Possibly improve on? spooky hacker: yes.. let us see here my goal is to be a mentor or staff member also i want to be in the nottorius group . for learn. i will like to learn to hack /// root a modem router to take it for a vpn also i want to learn to code and sell programs like rat botnet or account hacker... and to improve i want to improve in my anger manegement i think i get to mad at people at hack forum so im going to be really better and say nice at everyone also i want to report more posts of attackers on the forum...
Tsundere: That sounds really awesome, Spooky. Outside of Hack Forums, are you taking any classes that will help you achieve these things you would like to accomplish? Possibly any computer courses? spooky hacker: hmmmmm awesome ! outside of hack forums i go to school. i take a coder class and i right now on=line i buy a online course . sponser by technobuffalo for this cheap and it is a cyber security course i will learn alot so yes i have extra help from this courses
Tsundere: Your posting quality is definitely different than others on the forum. Would you agree with that statement? You have been banned multiple times for posting etiquette. spooky hacker: my post quallity is defintely different from the other hackforumiems yes i agree with that statement but it dose not mean am a diefferent person no im a human been and i should be treated like im the same as all.... just because im black or white or chinase dosent mean i need to walk like a white person i can walk whatever way i want ? understand me also like talking this is me.. some time i feel like the staff picks on me because im the odd balls and they laught behind the curtain on me .. i just shake my head because i dont like it -_-
Tsundere: I completely understand what you are saying. How has your time on Hack Forums been? Are you enjoying the present or do you miss the past at all? spooky hacker: time on hack forums oh gosh were can i start yes hack forum is great ... my time is great on the hack forum present to past it is al ways positive in me . but i wish i can go back and live back when it was super cool and awesome and so much people and fun now everyone they scam and exit scan they get closed and its not fun but it is still fun ... i miss the past at all but as martain luther king says live on people LIVE ON !
Tsundere: Those are some outstanding statements, Spooky. If there was one thing you could change on the forums at the current time, what would that be? spooky hacker: well i will like to change the forum from a hacking from to a printer disccusion forum and if this not posible i want to go back in time and remove krebson secrity so we will not have trouble in the media so yea..... and have sst all that sap
Tsundere: That is really something interesting. Well, since that most likely will not happen, do you ever think you would purchase a group for printer discussion? spooky hacker: if i ever get that much money that will be my highest priorty sooo yes
Tsundere: Since we are talking about groups, what are your current opinions on the groups of today? spooky hacker: am ban right now i forget the group but the order is really nice group for talking a lot of people there r nice like krave callum ya....... red lions realyl nice hack forum group the most high quality i heard rumors that they r reqruiting so i will soon be in maybe next notorus really high qualty group the best owner is reallly cool nice man the chef aafter that i will say royals wooot they r cool . baka is look nice got some anime like that yep nice member.. that is all the group i remeber sorry !
Tsundere: That is quite alright. Well, that's all the time we have for this interview. I'd like to take the time to thank you for your time. Do you have any last words for the members of Hack Forums? spooky hacker: yes thank u so much for having me sips drink now i will say my quote [if the water pushs u . u stand up put ur swimsuit on and push it back] thanks for the time nikki thanks hack forums members stay c00l !
Feb 21, 2017 01:16 PM (This post was last modified: Mar 12, 2019 04:31 PM by Omniscient.)
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Air Conditioning Without Energy
Scientists have recently created a new material that may not only work to cool your house, but also increase the lifetime and efficiency of today's solar panels. Similar to the way a dark colored shirt will absorb much more heat than a light colored shirt, scientists engineered a material that serves to completely reflect any sort of radiation from the sun, allowing whatever is on the other side of the material to cool. Only about the size of typical aluminum foil and with the slight transparency of plastic, tests showed that this material blocks about 96% of all sunlight and is extremely cost-effective to produce on a mass scale. This material could help cool plants, heavy machinery and maybe be the new standard of insulation to cool your homes. >>Source
Is Gum The Reason Your Sick?
Researchers at the Binghamton University have conducted a series of tests on gum to show whether or not there are adverse effects for the chronic consumption of gum as well as other common foods and candies that contain titanium oxide. Tests showed that "acute exposures did not have much effect, but chronic exposure diminished the absorptive porojections on the surface of intestinal cells". What this means is the barrier in your intestines are weakend to the point of causing your body difficulty in absorbing common nutrients essential to your health such as iron, zinc, fatty acids and more. Not only did it show a decrease in absorption, but also increased inflammatory signals throughout the body. More tests are still being done to learn more of the long term effect it has on our health. >>Source
New Battery Could Run Over a Decade
With lithium ion batteries being the current standard for production batteries, scientists at Harvard may have realized a new flow battery to not only increase the battery output, but that only loses one percent of its capacity per 1000 cycles. "Lithium ion batteries don't even survive 1000 complete charge/discharge cycles". This new means of technology portrays significant improvements in production costing less than $100 per kilowatt-hour. By understanding what was happening to the degradation of batteries at the molecular level, scientiests were able to pinpoint Ferrocene as the culprit. Previously able to store charge, but insoluble -- scientists managed to functionalize Ferrocene molecules and turn it into a "highly soluble one that could be cycled stably". >>Source
Samsung's Lee Jae-yong Taken Into Custody on Bribery Charges
The vice chairman of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong was taken into custody Friday morning on charges of bribery, perjury, hiding assets overseas, and perjury. Lee's arrest comes as part of an investigation into corruption and influence-peddling that caused Park Geun-hye, the former president of South Korea, to be impeached. He is accused of paying $36 million in bribes to Parks' secretive confidante, Choi Soon-sil, in return for political favors. Those are alleged to include government support for a merger of two Samsung affiliates in 2015 that helped Lee inherit corporate control from his incapacitated father, Lee Kun-hee, the chairman.
Youtube's Unskippable 30-Second Ads Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past
YouTube's annoying, unskippable half-minute advertisements are due to become a thing of the past. The Google-owned video service revealed Friday that beginning in 2018 brands will not be able to buy the 30-second ad format instead offering other lengths of unskippable pre-roll ads like 20-second promos and 6-second bumper ads. Google explained that its aim is to provide a better advertising experience for online users. "As part of that, we've decided to stop supporting 30-second unskippable ads as of 2018 and focus instead on formats that work well for both users and advertisers."
Unreal Engine 4.15 Released With Native Nintendo Switch Support
Last year, Unreal Engine announced that it had partnered with Nintendo "to help Unreal Engine 4 developers bring their games to Nintendo Switch." The Unreal Engine 4.15 was released Saturday by Epic Games, which officially adds native support for Nintendo's upcoming new platform, making it easier for developers to port games to the system. The update allows developers to develop for the Nintendo Switch "as experimental as part of the platform improvement". Epic Games writes that Switch support is considered experimental for now, but the developer aims to offer support "in a shippable state" with the next engine release.
Yahoo Hacked Once Again
Yahoo have done it again and successfully detected that their systems were compromised from another attack. It was only last year that Yahoo released information regarding a breach which happened in 2013, which compromised one billion user accounts. The recent attack happened by hackers that used a method which forged cookies to log accounts without passwords. The affect that this attack has on its users is still unknown. Using software that was stolen from Yahoo's internal systems, the flaw allowed state-sponsored attackers to use a forged cookie to gain access to Yahoo account without passwords. >>Source
JavaScript-based ASLR bypass attack simplifies browser exploits
A new attack has been revised by security researchers that can bypass one of the main exploit mitigations in browsers: address space layout randomisation (ASLR). As this JavaScript-based security flaw uses the functionality of how modern processors cache memory, meaning it's a difficult bug to fix as it's not software related. ASLR is present in all major operating systems; it makes vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows more difficult to exploit. Applications such as browsers take massive advantage of the feature. >>Source
Donald Trump’s Website Hacked
A hacker claiming to be from Iraq naming themselves 'Pro_Mast3r' claims responsibility of hacking US President Donald Trump's website. The server that seemed to have been affected was server2.donaldjtrump.com, which supposedly sat behind CloudFlare's content management and security platform. The certificate for the server does seem legitimate, but the page itself displayed a black background with a man wearing a fedora. This defacement took place on Sunday. The identity of the hacker currently remains unknown, although the website's source code at the time contained no malicious code, just a link to JavaScript on a now-nonexistent Google Code account that is under the name of 'masterendi'. >>Source
Elder Scrolls 6: Rumors?
Believe it or not Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim still has a million daily players. Those players will no doubt be excited when reading this knowing that there will be a sequel to the very popular open world action role-playing video game. Sadly, there is no current information on what systems the game will be released, as well as what date it will be released. Not too much is known about the game, but don't fret, this game is guaranteed to be released. Eventually. >>Source
Crash Banditcoot Exclusive Release for PS4
It is pretty evident that consoles have exclusive games specifically for that console. Xbox has things such as the Gears of War and Halo series, well Sony has a pretty cool exclusive that is going to be released soon. If you grew up with Crash Bandicoot game series then this news is something you do not want to miss. The game will be launched this summer on June 30 and will be exclusive to PS4 owners only. The topic has started a pretty big fire, in which many people are debating are different consoles better because of their game exclusives? You can participate or check out the debate here. >>Source
PS4/PS Vita Exclusive Blue Reflection Gets New Gameplay Trailer Showing Turn-Based Battles
Most of the anime styled games are usually PS4/PS Vita exclusives. Well, this is another one. Blue Reflection is an upcoming PS4/PS Vita exclusive that will be released sometime in March of this year. If role-playing games are your style, you might want to check this out. Best described as a magical girl rpg, you will battle in a turn based strategy style matchup. Battles take place at school in which you will spend a majority of your day in. The game will have a cycle of morning, afternoon, and night, and during these different times your character will have different events that they can participate in. If cute anime girls and battling monsters is something you would like to add to your agenda, check the trailer today here. >>Source
Coming Soon: Watch Dogs 2's Second DLC
The second game in the Watch Dog series will be releasing another DLC. The release dates are scattered across between two months. This DLC will be available on all the platforms, but if you have a Playstation 4 device you will have access to the DLC earlier than those on PC and Xbox. The DLC has been titled, "Human Conditions" and will be released on Playstation 4 first, on Feb. 21. Then, on March 23, gamers on the Xbox and PC will get the chance to purchase and download the DLC. If you are a season pass owner, you will get to download the content for free, of course. For those who do not own a season pass, there has been no information on the price that the DLC will sell, so stay tuned for that in the future. With the release of this information was a video trailer too. That video can be seen here. The contents of this DLC contain three new story missions titled, "Automata, Bad Medicine, and Caustic Progress". In addition to these three missions, players will get the chance to get some new co-op missions to play with their friends. >>Source
Nintendo Switch Digital Game File Sizes Revealed
For those unfamiliar with the DS devices that Nintendo produce, the data is saved on an SD card. Gamers can add a bigger one for more size, or keep the stock one that comes with the DS device. With the introduction of the Switch, the storage system will be the same. With the age of technology advancing (although this has been the case for quite sometime - nothing new,) players will be able to download games on the Switch device itself, rather than having to go out and get the physical copy. With that being said, some games that plan to release for the Switch have had their storage space size revealed. The list (source: Nintendo and Gamespot) is as followed:
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 13.4 GB
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 8.00 GB
Puyo Puyo Tetris - 1.09 GB
Disgaea 5 - 5.92 GB
Snipperclips - 1.60 GB
I Am Setsuna - 1.40 GB
Dragon Quest Heroes I & II - 32.00 GB
Nobunaga's Ambition - 5.00 GB
Of course the stock micro SD card can be taken out and replaced with an even bigger one. The release of the Switch has been marked down on March 3 and is listed at US $300/£280/AU $470. >>Source
New Final Fantasy 7 Remake And Kingdom Hearts 3
Square Enix, developers of the New Final Fantasy Remake and Kingdom Hearts 3 have tweeted out some teaser photos that may interest some fans of the series. No current date has been announced in which these two new games are going to be released, but Square Enix is not shy in letting the fans know what they are working on. At the Magic Monaco 2017 event, Square Enix showcased their latest projects as well as tweeted out images of both the games. Those tweets can be seen here. Final Fantasy 7 remake will only be available for the Playstation 4 while the new Kingdom Hearts game will be available for purchase on Playstation and Xbox consoles. Square Enix developers say, "Last year, I didn't put out much information on either title, but this year I want to show our progress at an event somewhere. The release of the titles themselves have still have a way to go. But there are many titles releasing this year, if you can wait for any 'surprises.'” >>Source
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