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The lawsuit [PDF] also alleges that these car manufacturers deliberately misled consumers by hiding the dangers associated with computer car systems and failing to address subsequent safety concerns. Connected car hacking is a very big problem which was recently brought up by the TV program ’60 Minutes’ episode which shows that hackers could use a laptop to take over total control of a connected car, allowing them to remotely operate everything from the horn to the wipers to the brakes....

It is now learnt that a hacker is trying to sell a database that supposedly contains registration records for voters in all 50 US states, Tech Insider reported. A seller using the pseudonym of ‘DataDirect’ is offering US voters’ registration records on the dark net marketplace “The Real Deal.” The Real Deal, a popular site many cyber criminals use for buying and selling everything from illegal drugs to zero-day software exploits....

Shortly before his death, Murdock tweeted in the evening that he had been beaten up by police near his home on Green Street, San Francisco, and was threatening to kill himself. Murdock started detailing his experience online. “They beat the s— out of me twice, then charged me $25,000 to get out of jail for battery against THEM,” he tweeted. “I’m committing suicide tonight.. do not intervene as I have many stories to tell and do not want them to die with me....

But now, thanks to cutting-edge technology and a 10-year project from the University of Plymouth and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, Johnson has made her first music in 27 years using her brainwaves and also have it played to her in real time by a professional string quartet. The technology is called the Brain Computer Music Interfacing software, and it basically allows the user to select musical notes and phrases by focusing on desired colors on screen....

Linux was designed around a strong and highly integrated command line interface. Windows and Mac don’t have that. This grants hackers and coder far greater access and control over their system and awesome customization. This is the reason that most hacking and pen testing tools are built into Linux have greater functionality above and beyond their windows counterparts. In contrast, Windows was built around the graphic user interface (GUI). This restrict user interaction to point-and-click navigation (slower) and application/system menu options for configuration....

The Turla spyware trojan which was discovered in August 2014, was found to be operating and targeting governments and militaries worldwide since 2008. In fact Turla and its precursor called Epic were so powerful and stealthy that United States government had created the US Cyber Command after its discovery. Turla had been targeting municipal governments, embassies, militaries and other high-value targets worldwide, with particular concentrations in the Middle East and Europe....

“What I feel strongly about is that this decision was politically based, of that I’m very confident. There is no reason for it in fact or in law,” he said. Cook said he would fight closely with Ireland to overturn the ruling wherein Apple has been asked to pay Ireland 13 billion euros in back taxes. “No one did anything wrong here and we need to stand together. Ireland is being picked on and this is unacceptable,” Cook was quoted as saying by the Irish Independent....

According to reports by TechCrunch, you can post animated GIFs on Facebook; however, you may immediately not be able to see the added functionality as the update is still rolling out. “We are rolling out support for animated GIFs in News Feed. You can share more fun, expressive things with your friends on Facebook,” a spokesperson was quoted as saying. Facebook has always distanced itself from supporting GIFs, asserting that by doing so it would make its News Feed “too chaotic”....

Facebook apologizes for popping up unwarranted Year In Review messages in users timelineFacebook apologises It may sound freakish but in case you have put up a photo of death of a near and dear one in the family, and the photo has been most liked, Facebook’s Year In Review algorithm will rather cruelly put up that photo in your timeline with a rather inhumane and insensitive tag “It’s been a great year!...

The Deep Face program works for strangers’ pictures as well as ones from friends, but users can only see the identities of people they already know. But with good or bad intentions, Facebook holds all the cards and will still be able to identify you in any picture and hold on to that very valuable personal data. Additionally, other entities who are researching similar technology specifically the government and private companies such as Google may very well have access to this data as well....

Facebook Reality Labs (FRL), a division of Facebook that studies long-term tech products and hardware, is supporting a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSFC) who are working to help patients with neurological damage speak again by studying their brain activity in real-time. In an article published in the journal ‘Nature Communications’, the UCSF team “has shared how far we have to go to achieve fully non-invasive BCI as a potential input solution for AR glasses”, said Facebook in a blog post on Tuesday describing the brain-computer interface device....

Facebook had been testing the ‘Watch Party’ feature for almost six months now and the company has plans to release the feature sometime in the future, which could see it compete against Google’s YouTube in the video streaming sector. “Watch Party is a new way for people to watch videos on Facebook together in real time. Once a Watch Party is started, participants can watch videos, live or recorded, and interact with one another around them in the same moment....

According to tech website Venture Beat, businesses which are switching to Facebook Messenger for all service interactions will soon regret their decision because of possible customer information leaks. If people want to get the tracking information of their orders online, chatbots are a perfect solution for a successful communication, but the story is not same when it comes to sensitive data like bank account information or insurance company details. “Conversations with these businesses can be complex, emotionally-driven and often require sensitive and personal information to pass between the two parties....

“At Messenger we are always trying to create new ways for people to communicate seamlessly with everyone,” said a Facebook spokesperson. “Right now, we’re testing the ability for people to easily bring all their conversations — from SMS and Messenger — to one place. It’s a really simple way to get, see and respond to all your SMS messages in just one app. By choosing to access your SMS messages in Messenger, they’re right alongside all the other enhanced features that Messenger offers....

Security researchers from PhishLabs have uncovered a new phishing trend that targets smartphone owners, mostly Facebook users. This phishing scam conceals the URLs of fake websites by making it appear that they are forwarded from a trusted source. As a result, victims are tricked into clicking malicious links, thereby giving away their credentials for login request. “The tactic we’re seeing is a tactic for phishing specifically mobile devices,” said Crane Hassold, a senior security threat researcher at PhishLabs’ Research, Analysis, and Intelligence Division (RAID) to Bleeping Computer....

This move is planned to establish his control over the company’s sprawling divisions. It was necessary because “in past” it was clearly evident by the fact that the company’s business has been thumped by scandals. The move is described by four people involved in the effort requires thousands of Facebook employees to reconfigure how WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger function at their most basic levels. Though all the three services will continue operating as stand-alone apps....

Recent media reports that one could now get three-year jail sentence as well as a fine of $4,500 for trying to visit URLs blocked by the Indian government spread like wildfire creating frenzy among the people in India in the last 24 hours. However, there is something you should know the next time you use a proxy site or a VPN (virtual private network) to open a torrent site. “Visiting any website, even if it is a blocked site is not illegal either under the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1957 or the Information Technology Act, 2000,” says Prasanth Sugathan, Counsel at the Software Freedom Law Centre India, a registered society that works on the intersections of law and technology....

Two other alleged hackers a North Carolina resident and an Australian teenager have also been identified and found involved in the operation however they haven’t been charged. A federal grand jury last July returned a sealed indictment against Nathan Leroux, Sanadodeh Nesheiwat, and David Pokora, a Canadian resident. FBI agents last week arrested the trio involved in hacking. According to the indictment, the trio and their coconspirators identified vulnerabilities and “network weak points” to illegally access computer systems at Microsoft and video game developers Valve Corporation, Activision Blizzard, Zombie Studios, and Epic Games....

Isis Agora Lovecruft, who is a lead software developer for Tor has been characterised by secretive threats at the hands of US law enforcement from the first time she met them six months ago. Apparently, the FBI would really like to talk to her, but won’t tell her (or her lawyer) exactly why. Now, Lovecruft has published a blog post accusing the FBI of harassment for the past six months....

Sabu has claimed that the U.S. government disregarded his interactions with the Turkish hacker group RedHack, with which he brokered an alliance with his own group, AntiSec. Sabu, formerly a hacktivist when caught by the FBI in June 2011, was given a choice of collaborating in taking down other hacktivists as an FBI informant. Sabu chose to be an informant and proved to be an efficient asset for FBI, playing a key role in the arrest of Jeremy Hammond, a wanted hacker with Anonymous at the time....