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Ngo Minh Hieu (also known as Hieu PC; born October 8, 1989) is a Vietnamese cyber security specialist and a former hacker and identity thief. He was convicted in the United States of stealing millions of people's personally identifiable information and in 2015 he was sentenced to 13 years in U.S. federal prison . [ 2 ]
The final important element in the CPU is the program counter (PC) register. The PC is a 16-bit binary counter whose low 15 bits specify the address in instruction memory of the next instruction for execution. Unless directed otherwise by a branching instruction, the PC increments its value at the end of each clock cycle.
The original PC Tools package was first developed as a suite of utilities for DOS, released for retail in 1985 for $39.95. [1]With the introduction of version 4.0, the name was changed to PC Tools Deluxe, and the primary interface became a colorful graphical shell (previously the shell resembled PC BOSS and was monochrome.)
The Blackhole exploit kit was, as of 2012, the most prevalent web threat, where 29% of all web threats detected by Sophos and 91% by AVG are due to this exploit kit. [1] Its purpose is to deliver a malicious payload to a victim's computer. [2]
Hackaday.io started as a project hosting site in 2014 under the name of Hackaday Projects. [10] [11] [12] It allows users to upload open-source hardware designs. [6] As of 2015, it had grown into a social network of 100,000 members. [13] In 2015, Hackaday's owner, Supplyframe, acquired the hardware marketplace Tindie. [14]
ROM hacking is generally accomplished through use of a hex editor (a program for editing non-textual data) and various specialized tools such as tile editors, and game-specific tools which are generally used for editing levels, items, and the like, although more advanced tools such as assemblers and debuggers are occasionally used.
Hydra can launch attacks on multiple targets at once using threads, called hydra heads. The tool keeps track of the threads using another structure, the hydra brain. Each target is attacked using a module that corresponds to a protocol(eg. if the target is an SSH server, the SSH module is used).
The tool has been recommended in TechAdvisor, [8] The Guardian, [3] and PC World, [9] and is a tool suggested by the United States government Computer Emergency Readiness Team. [ 10 ] See also