Dubbed MoonBounce by the security sleuths at Kaspersky who discovered it, the malware, technically called a bootkit, traverses beyond the hard disk and burrows itself in the computer’s Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot firmware. “The attack is very sophisticated,” Tomer Bar, Director of Security Research at SafeBreach, told Lifewire over email. “Once the victim is infected, it is very persistent since even a hard drive format won’t help.”...

Add a Chart in Excel Charts and graphs are visual representations of worksheet data. These graphics help you understand the data in a worksheet by displaying patterns and trends that are difficult to see in the data. The best way to learn about the various charts in Excel is to try them out. Graphs are used to illustrate trends over time, and charts illustrate patterns or contain information about frequency. Select the Excel chart or graph format that best fits your needs....

The already eye-popping recording time is expandable via microSD up to 32GB of total storage for nearly eight times the recording space. The backlit displays add quick access to the date, time, and current recording mode, while a built-in earphone mini-jack offers private playback. Transferring files off the Sony is a snap, thanks to a built-in USB port that plugs right into both Windows and Mac computers. Storage: 4GB internal | Battery: 159 hours | Microphone: Stereo Playback speed control doesn’t alter pitch, so musicians learn new music and journalists can transcribe audio, free from concerns over quality shifting....

“Password use should become obsolete, and we should look for different ways to log into accounts,” CEO of security vendor Gurucul, Saryu Nayyar, told Lifewire via email. The Problem With Passwords In December, The Sun reported that the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) supplied over 500 million passwords to the popular Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service, which it had uncovered during an investigation. HIBP enables users to check if their passwords have been leaked in a breach and are prone to abuse by hackers....

Free Driver Scout will search for, download, and install all of your outdated device drivers for you, automatically and without any further taps, clicks, or other work from you. More About Free Driver Scout Support for most versions of Windows, along with a nice feature that’s helpful prior to a major Windows upgrade, are a few of the features you’ll find in Free Driver Scout: Free Driver Scout finds and installs device drivers for Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP....

On this day, thousands of online retailers, both large and small, offer free shipping and guarantee your items by Christmas Eve. In 2022, Free Shipping Day will be Wednesday, December 14. This shopping day has been going strong since 2008, and it gets bigger every year, generating more sales than even Black Friday in 2010. Participating retailers waive minimum ordering requirements, making it a great way to finish last-minute holiday shopping, save money, and steer clear of the crowds....

Inexpensive webcams opened up internet video to the masses. For less than $100, anyone can start recording video and uploading it to their favorite site. There are no fancy camcorders, and you don’t even need a phone to take high quality video and audio. Which one is right for you? We ran the Genius WideCam F100 through a series of popular tasks to see if it’s right for streaming, recording, or video chat....

Smart displays provide additional benefits over smart speakers, allowing you to visually interact with a voice assistant as well as communicate via voice. Google’s Nest Hub 2nd Gen is the successor to the brand’s original Nest Hub (previously called Google Home Hub). Design: A similar look The Nest Hub 2nd Gen looks similar to the original Nest Hub, and it’s tough to tell the difference between the new and old models at first glance....

One generation ago, with the introduction of the HERO8 action camera, GoPro decided to adopt a cageless design, make the device itself waterproof, and build mounting hardware right into the body. Now, the GoPro HERO9 Black takes things a step further, making the body of the device larger for the first time in quite a few generations. GoPro more than makes up for the minor size increase with a bevy of new features, including replaceable lens covers....

For the most part, lighting in the “real world” tends to just happen. The sun rises, we flick a switch, or we open the blinds and voilà: light. We might put some thought into where we place a lamp, how we angle the blinds, or where we aim the flashlight, but ninety percent of the time our experience with light is fairly passive. Things are different in the computer graphics industry....

Video Resolution You can find camcorders that record video in either standard or high definition resolution. As a general rule, HD camcorders are now the standard, don’t buy anything with lower resolution. 4K or better resolution will be more expensive, but the quality may be worth it. Even if you don’t own a 4K television, it’s worth considering a higher definition camcorder to “future proof” your videos for the time when you get around to trading in your current television....

Built-In Memory Error If you see this error message with your Panasonic camera, the internal memory area of the camera is either full or corrupted. Try downloading photos from the internal memory. If the error message continues to appear, you may need to format the internal memory area. Memory Card Locked and Memory Card Both of these error messages are related to the memory card, rather than the Panasonic camera. If you have an SD memory card, check the write-protect switch on the side of the card....

The troubleshooting process you follow will depend on the type of failure that you’re dealing with. With that in mind, it can be tremendously useful to start off by looking at whether both, or just one, of your headlights have failed, and whether or not the high or low beam mode still works. Common Situations and Fixes For Headlights Not Working When headlights stop working, it’s usually an electrical problem or an physical issue with the bulbs themselves....

Using the updated Street View app on an Android phone, you can just hold up your phone, walk down a street, and take photos. Behind the scenes, Google uses augmented reality, and the positioning data from your phone, to automatically line up all the images with the existing Street View images. “Now that anyone can create their own connected Street View photos, we can bring better maps to more people around the world, capturing places that aren’t on Google Maps or that have seen rapid change,” writes Stafford Marquardt, a Street View product manager....

Ithaca, a machine learning model built by AI researchers at DeepMind, can guess missing words and the location and date of written language, according to a new paper. The effort could help historians decipher ancient manuscripts. “Ithaca is a deep neural network, and as such, it is incredibly capable of finding hidden patterns in vast amounts of data, ’’ historian Thea Sommerschield, co-author of the recent paper, told Lifewire in an email interview....

The Vulcan Coalition in Thailand hopes to use AI to help find employment for people with disabilities. The organization plans to hire workers capable of labeling the large amounts of data produced in the Thai language. It’s one of many efforts to use AI to improve the lives of people with disabilities. “AI can be used to improve communication for people with speech impairments by helping them to interpret facial expressions and other body languages, or by providing translations for communication between cross-linguistic and cross-cultural speakers,” Amey Dharwadker, a machine learning engineer at Facebook, told Lifewire in an email interview....

Google finally is starting to roll out its Federal Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) system in Chrome in an effort to do away with third-party cookies. While FLoC promises better privacy for users, privacy-centric browsers like Vivaldi and Brave have taken hard stances against the new tracking system. Instead, these companies claim that FLoC is a bigger threat to user privacy, and some experts agree. “FLoC is likely worse for consumers because Chrome users’ weekly web history will be analyzed and put into groupings that were not data previously provided to marketers,” Debbie Reynolds, a global data privacy and protection expert, told Lifewire in an email....

A new report by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) finds that self-driving vehicles are vulnerable to hacking because of the advanced computers they contain. The hacks could be dangerous for passengers, pedestrians, and other people on the road. Fortunately, cars aren’t yet being hijacked off the streets by hackers. “The good news is most of the attacks we have seen are in a lab or controlled conditions,” Vyas Sekar, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering, who was not involved in the study, said in an email interview....

DineSafe shows customers real-time and updated information on a restaurant’s safety and cleanliness, so people can feel safer and more secure if they decide to eat out. Restaurants have dealt with some of the strictest regulations since the pandemic began, but DineSafe wants to shed light on everything the industry is doing to keep both workers and customers as safe as possible. “We see that there’s a way to start going back to restaurants now, and we’ve found customers appreciate restaurants hearing their concerns and what they’re worried about,” DineSafe CEO Ryan O’Donnell told Lifewire in a phone interview....

Blending these two worlds, the streamer has amassed a large following across platforms despite all the odds and obstacles as her unique point-of-view guides her to success. “We’ve been so incredibly shocked and grateful for the growth we’ve seen. It all seemed so far away and so impossible to reach,” she said in a phone interview with Lifewire. “I am representing an underserved community and a lot of my community sees my content and are so excited to see a Muslim streamer, a hijabi streamer, and they’re so on board to be a part of the community....