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A new Facebook vulnerability that allows any user to delete anyones Facebook Photo AlbumsProof of ConceptVideo of the bug Laxman Muthiyah, the researcher who discovered the bug states on his blogpost, Laxman says the bug in Facebook Graph API mechanism allows any potential hacker/user to delete your complete Facebook photo album without having authentication. Laxman exploited the bug in the Graph API to first experiment in deleting his own photo albums without authorisation token and later on proceeded to try it on other users and found that he was able to do it without a hitch and that too within few seconds....

On 13th of April a meeting of robotics experts was held at the CCW (Convention on Conventional Weapon) Geneva, to discuss the future of ‘Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems’ (LAWS) or the ‘Killer Robots.’ A similar meeting was held way back in May 2014 when the then acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Michael Møller had said: “All too often international law only responds to atrocities and suffering once it has happened....

“Over 332 million people worldwide use Snapchat every day to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. We’ve always enjoyed creating new features for our community, and historically we’ve tested new features in different ways, rolling them out to various Snapchatters and geographies,” Team Snap said in a news release about Snapchat+. “This subscription will allow us to deliver new Snapchat features to some of the most passionate members of our community and allow us to provide prioritized support....

The researchers who have published their research here (pdf) said that they took a large data set from different social media apps and removed any traces of user identities. The researchers stated that, “Almost every interaction with technology creates digital traces, from the cell tower used to route mobile calls to the vendor recording a credit card transaction; from the photographs we take off the ‘status updates’ we post online....

Sony has launched Xperia Z3+, its new flagship phone in India at Rs 55,990. The phone will be available starting today. However, only the 32GB variant will be available in India. The Xperia Z3+ was announced late-May. The model had earlier been launched in Japan as Xperia Z4, but Sony renamed it as Xperia Z3+ for the international release. That launch event was not hyped up by the company, and only a few news outlets knew about it....

Boeing, which also holds a contract to fly crew to the Space Station for NASA, gave a new name to its spacecraft for crewed missions just last week, calling it the CST-100 Starliner. The Starliner is designed to carry seven astronauts, and is expected to make its first flight to the ISS in 2017. “Step inside Crew Dragon,” SpaceX invited on a new page of its website on Sept. 10....

And they seemed to have started with Steam today. https://twitter.com/mikko/status/812347791414595584 The DDoS attack mounted by PhantomNations on Steam servers is so severe that almost all regional gaming servers are down and the report now shows as 0.00 % online. It is worthwhile to remember that Steam operates about 17 regional servers including 3 for US, 4 for Europe and Australia, India, Brazil, Japan etc. All Steam activities including the Steam community and the Steam Store are down so you cannot buy Steam games as Christmas gifts for your near and dear ones....

$100,939 : This is what it would cost Apple to help the FBI hack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhoneThe company said in a court filing that the effort would take “six to ten Apple engineers and employees dedicating a very substantial portion of their time.”This nightmare dream team of employees working full-time to create a big back door — something CEO Tim Cook calls a “cancer” — would only cost the company $100,939....

The FT blog showed a message “Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army” and Twitter accounts including the Lex Column and FT Markets tweeted “The Syrian Electronic Army was here”. All though the blog post was removed soon after the attack. but it surely took a lot of time to recover those twitter accounts. The twitter accounts hacked: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 10....

Prenda is a Law firm which specialises in suing torrent downloaders after baiting them to download the torrents. It has already been in the notice of the law when federal judge referred the lawyers behind the Prenda Law “copyright trolling” scheme to investigators in 2013. Over the past months two Pirate Bay co-founders have been questioned by Swedish police, acting on behalf of the FBI. The officers were looking for information on Pirate Bay backups and logs as part of an investigation into the honeypot scheme of the notorious Prenda copyright trolls....

Hundreds of ‘pirate’ sites are available on the Internet today, which are mostly run by groups who choose to keep their identity a secret. In the torrent and streaming worlds, identities are valued pieces of information that are extremely tightly guarded. However, there are exemptions to these of course. For instance, while the original people behind The Pirate Bay are popular public figures, the same can be told for Gary Fung of isoHunt....

Lets check the different changes that have been incorporated in the new version i.e. Android M and how it scores over its predecessor Android Lollipop (Android L) App Permissions Control: With the Android M, users can now confirm permission to an individual app as per their function and requirement. Further, users will also get an option to revoke individual app permissions again, if need be. On the contrary, with Android L, it was essential to allow all app permission before users could download the required app from Google Play Store....

An act of solving neighbor’s internet connectivity problems by a lady in UK led to the development of B4RN, an Internet Service provider that offers fast one gigabit per second broadband speeds. It provides 35 times faster broadband speeds than the 28.9Mbps average UK speed Internet connection. The lady in question is Christine Conder, who modestly says, “I am just a farmer’s wife.” It all started in 2009 when the trees that separated Chris’s neighboring farm from its nearest wireless mast – their only connection to the internet, provided by Lancaster University – grew very big....

Squawkr, is a new service, which alerts people when a high-quality pirated film appears online and allows them to maintain a watchlist of films. All the user needs to do is sign up and inform the service of the upcoming films they wish to see. Once a title on the list becomes available Squawkr will send out notifications via email. Squawkr regularly polls the PreDB database of scene releases. After logging in, the users can start adding movie titles, which is pretty much all there is to it....

The trick involves a slightly roundabout way of removing the animations that make it look like apps are flying around the screen as they are opened or closed. Not many iPhone users like these animations and so they could very well have a faster iPhone instead. Apple added a way of getting rid of some of the animations using the “reduce motion” setting that can be found in the accessibility menu....

It is just like Windows and Mac OS and is one of the most popular OS on the planet. In fact, even the highly used mobile operating system Android is powered by Linux. Linux is OS used to control hardware like desktop and laptop computers, supercomputers, mobile devices, networking equipment, world’s stock exchanges, airplanes, and automobiles. Also, unlike Windows and Mac-based PCs, its rugged command line structure makes Linux popular among coders and hackers....

The Tor instant messaging service is a beta release and took Tor Project developers more than a year to make, promises to create a more private, seamless, accessible way for people to chat securely on the web. The Tor Messenger is built on the instant messaging client Instantbird, works a lot like Adium, but all chat traffic will be through Tor anonymity network for added privacy.

Traffic Migration The shut down has led to a surge in people across the globe looking for newer avenues of torrents with the searches for the term ” torrent sites ” seeing an unprecedented surge as evident in the graph below: Usually in such scenarios, quite a few users migrate to other established websites. TorrentFreak has spoken to several people connected to top torrent sites who have confirmed that they had witnessed a significant visitor boost over the past week and a half....