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Steam Summer Sale Starting Date Revealed by Online Information Leak

Until recently, a big secret was wrapped around Steam’s important upcoming sale starting date, but some information leaks are firing up the online environment by stating that the event will start on June 21st this year. It shouldn’t surprise us that the organizers kept this as a secret since Valve has never revealed any of the Steam sales starting days. However, they found a way to let people know when the event will take place and they did that in real, useful time.

What is the Steam Summer Sale all about?

The Steam Summer Sale is an event dedicated to passionate gamers. It is organized by the Steam Database, a website that follows any changes that might appear within games hosted by it. According to the organizers, June 21st is gamers’ lucky day this year. Although we don’t know when it will end, we might have an idea if we look at last year’s edition. In 2017, the event lasted for 13 days, so probably Valve will follow the same pattern this year as well.

Can we mark the Summer Sale starting date into our calendars?

So far, we don’t have an exact confirmation, but we know for a fact that the date isn’t quite secret. If it were, no information could have leaked until the organizers would have told us. Also, Valve has an interesting marketing strategy – it sends emails to developers which sell games on their Steam platform and notifies them about sale dates. In this case, sellers don’t lose the chance to offer discounts and special offers for their games, if they were planning to. Now that you know the starting date, don’t lose the chance to buy new games, because the variety will be so wide that you might even end up with unnecessary acquisitions.

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Crypto

About 700 Ethereum (ETH) Scams Are Currently Active And Making Victims, According To The EtherScamDB

The Ethereum Scam database (EtherScamDB), which records and documents Ethereum (ETH) scams, recently filed about 700 active scams, out of a total of 4,237 detected since its inception in 2017. The addresses specified for receiving the funds from the fraudsters have so far accumulated more than 8,140 ETH, the equivalent of more than $3.87 million at the current ETH price.

EtherScamDB was created in 2017 to document the various scams linked to Ethereum (ETH), and also as a means of trying to stop them. Currently, the database is managed by the MyCrypto team.

When each of the ongoing scams is examined in detail, EtherScamDB allows you to access the respective website. It is also possible to view in Etherscan the transactions of the recipient wallet, or at least those made more recently by the person carrying out the fraud.

One of the programmers who analyzed the data through EtherScamDB’s APIs, John Backus, published on his Twitter account the amount accumulated by the scams so far, which reaches 8,140 ETH.

From the date of the tweet, it appears that more than 200 additional active Ethereum (ETH) scams were added in only five days prior to his tweet.

About 700 Ethereum (ETH) scams are active and rise thousands of ETH

On the other hand, Brandon Arvanaghi and Bryce Crawford processed all transactions for each wallet involved in the scams and, through the use of the Etherscan APIs, obtained information for each fraud from those reported by EtherScamDB, such as the total scam, the most affected victims, and the most recent victims.

Arvanaghi and Crawford’s interactive report shows, for example, that the most affected victim lost 880 ETH, and the most successful scammer (OmniseGO.com) scammed people of 3,291 ETH.

Assuming that two other scammers identified as OmiseGO.net (1,731 ETH) and omisegotoken.com (1,694 ETH) are associated with the most successful scammer, then the group’s spoils rise to 6,718 ETH, 82% of the total scammed amount.

The scammers’ preferred resource, a website where the misleading offer appears, is promoted through social networks, predominantly with Twitter ads, after Facebook and Google adopted cryptocurrency ads bans.

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Crypto

Blockchain Technology Market To Exceed $10 Billion By 2024, But Security Risks Will Also Get Higher, According To McAfee

The blockchain is set to become one of the technologies of the future. By 2024, the blockchain market is expected to exceed $10 billion, according to the McAfee IT security firm. However, the same company warns of a possible increase in security risks, which could put the evolution of this phenomenon in jeopardy.

McAfee especially pointed out that the danger would come from the blockchain technology’s relationship with cryptocurrencies that are also booming at this moment, but that can hide identities.

Experts talk about four different attack vectors, from phishing or malware fraud to exploits and technology vulnerabilities.

McAfee IT security firm is optimistic the blockchain technology will reach $10 billion by 2024, but the price for this would be security risks

Cryptojacking or illegal cryptocurrency mining, for example, is already a headache. McAfee estimates that mining malware skyrocketed 629% in the first quarter of 2018, from 400,000 such malicious programs recorded in the last quarter of 2017.

Accordingly, now there are over 2.9 million cryptojacking malicious programs.

“Like other great technologies, blockchain technology can have a huge impact on solving real business problems, as long as security is not addressed urgently,” said Raj Samani, the chief security researcher at McAfee.

“Given the potential of blockchain to create value and the tremendous enthusiasm for implementing this technology, cybercriminals will look for every possible opportunity to attack any human and technical vulnerability in the blockchain ecosystem,” added Samani.

On the other hand, Samani thinks that all those involved in the blockchain technology, as well as those who adopt it and rely on it, should work together to minimize the security risks.

“Governments, security providers, and businesses must be aware of these threats and try to minimize the risks,” says Samani. “Without proper education, the adoption of blockchain technology by major industries and governments could end up costing billions of dollars and affecting millions of people.”

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News Tech

iOS 11.4 Jailbreak Video Appeared Online

Recently, social networks were overfloating with news about a jailbreak of iOS 11.4. Nobody had expected to hear about this, but it happened and iOS users are wondering what will follow. The whole fuss was started by the hacker Richard Zhu when he posted a video demonstrating what a successful iOS 11.4 jailbreak looks like.

Most people couldn’t believe it at first, but during the footage they saw how it works. Although there wasn’t any information on the exploit used for the experiment, viewers witnessed how Cydia installed on an iPhone 7 and how it Terminal got it root access.

Another mystery is wrapped around the question whether a developer account is necessary to accomplish the jailbreak. Also, experts in the field of iOS are not sure if and how Zhu is planning to use his ”work” or if he intends to release the jailbreak. Most likely he will keep it for personal use or he will sell it to a bounty program with large pockets, like he did in other cases.

On the other hand, developer CoolStar has been working on another jailbreak. Called Electra jailbreak of iOS 11.3.1, the creation will soon be available on iOS 11.2-11.2.6. CoolStar also mentioned the fact that their jailbreak won’t require any developer account. This is good news, considering the fact that such account can worth $99.

For more news on this subject you can follow iClarified on social networks. You can find it on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or RSS. Only by following their updates you will be the first to know what ”they’re cooking”.

In case you still have questions or doubts maybe you haven’t seen the video so far. Watch it and maybe you will be prepared for what’s coming.

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News Tech

Download Videos Faster with SnapTube 4.42.1.4425001 Beta Update

SnapTube is a great app that was developed with one purpose in mind, to give smartphone owners way of downloading online videos from websites that don’t feature a “Download” button. Considering that popular streaming platforms such as Vimeo are filled with thousands of interesting videos, this makes SnapTube a “must-have” app for people who enjoy getting entertainment on their smartphones.

SnapTube 4.42.1.4425001 Beta Update

The reason why SnapTube is making headlines today is because the app has just received a brand-new update. The update is available in the form of APK which means that Android users are the only ones who get to install it. The reason behind this being that the update is targeted towards beta testers who need to make sure that there aren’t any issues with it.

Nonetheless, the update sports the “4.42.1.4425001 Beta” version number and it comes with a bunch of software tweaks. With that said, let’s check out everything there is to know about the new SnapTube APK.

Improved Performance

SnapTube is used to download online videos and this means that the amount of time it requires to take down a video is quite important, especially when considering that some people download longer content such as podcasts which last between one to three hours. Therefore, the new update introduce a couple of software tweaks that improve SnapTube’s performance and the speed at which it downloads videos.

Improved Stability

Downloading online videos with SnapTube is a fast and efficient way of getting entertaining content. However, this would be really annoying if SnapTube bugged out and randomly interrupted downloads right before they finish. Luckily, the developers keep adding new bug fixes alongside every new update such as this latest one and this increases the app’s overall stability.

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