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After Canarevo announced his plans to cut off a man’s head and put it onto another body, he drew a lot of fascination and criticism for the same. There were many of them who believed that the operation would probably never happen until the team was announced. According to Russia Today, Canarevo is hoping to finish the procedure, which will take 36-hours, and cost $11 million by December 2017. The operation is set to take place at a hospital affiliated to Harbin Medical University in Heilongjiang, China with a team made up largely of doctors from the country....

To remind you, the USB killer does not comprise up of any flash memory soldered on the PCB, but several capacitors that send out a huge surge of current that pretty much fries anything you plug the device into. There are ways that manufacturers have prevented the USB killer from carrying its destructive objectives and in some instances, when you plug in the flash drive, it will not necessarily kill the device, but it will fry the charging port....

EMSense treats your body as a giant antenna as you touch objects so that it could read their otherwise invisible electromagnetic (EM) signals and “see” what you touch. Carnegie Mellon graduate student Gierad Laput says “[Most devices] have EM signatures. But for passive objects like steel ladders—which are conductive—they pick up EM signals from their immediate environment, like fluorescent lights or power lines. Meanwhile, non-conductive objects like pens and plastic chairs are not capable of generating EM signals....

Two researchers at the Michigan State University have found a cheap and faster method of hacking smartphones that use fingerprint biometrics to secure and lock the user’s data. Kai Cao and Anil K. Jain from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University have devised a simpler technique that uses an off-the-shelf printer and special photo paper to spoof fingerprints that can be carried out under 15 minutes....

Anvitha Vijay, a nine-year-old Indian-origin girl who develops educational applications for children, was one of the youngest attendee that Apple selected to attend the WWDC 2016 in San Francisco. Vijay is attending the annual WWDC’s event this year as part of Apple’s scholarship program, which gives free tickets to developers around the world who build applications for Apple devices. She had applied for the scholarship online. This event is quite a huge opportunity for developers and coders worldwide, being able to attend it is dream come true for Anvitha Vijay....

An Indian security researcher has discovered a zero-day in the Facebook Page which allowed him to hijack any FB Page belonging to any organisation. Arun Sureshkumar discovered a zero-day in how the Facebook handles requests for its business accounts. Arun has described his bug discovery on his Blogspot where he says he can take over Facebook Page belonging to anybody like President Obama, Prime Minister Modi etc. Facebook Business Manager lets businesses more securely share and control access to their ad accounts, Pages, and other assets on Facebook....

And it happened again, this time in India. Meet Mr.Mohammed Javed Shaikh from Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Bragging about his status on social media proved costly to a Shaikh who is a local builder. Shaikh was seeking divorce and filed a petition in the court to prove that he was ‘poor’ to save on the alimony money. On the moment of boast, Shaikh posted an image on Facebook flaunting his expensive Rada watch....

For those unfamiliar, this newly discovered bug is an upgraded version of an annoying old bug known as concon. This was a computer bug that appeared in the Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating systems and was considered as a security vulnerability because malicious web pages would crash systems with links such as file:///C:/con/con. So, how does this new iteration of bug work? This bug allows a malicious website to load an image file with the “$MFT” name in the directory path....

In a video explaining the design, the creators show how the phone case contains a slide-out drawer, inside of which lies a tiny four-propeller drone and a camera. The little drone is hidden inside a compartment between the case and the back of the phone, which works by connecting to one of the case’s tethered, detachable cameras. When the drone is taken out of the case, the foldable propellers move into the correct position....

Every hacker and security researcher loves Kali Linux. The developers of Kali Linux ethical hacking distro have released the second Kali Rolling ISO release i.e. Kali 2016.2. Just like the previous one, Kali promises to deliver lots of new updates and changes in this release. Over the course of past few months, Kali developers have been busy adding new tools to Kali and fixing multiple bugs. For example, they have added HTTPS support in busybox that allows secure installation over SSL....

Here are some tips to go invisible on WhatsApp and get some privacy1. Hide your Last Seen:2. Hide your Status:3. Hide your profile photo:4. No Blue Ticks please:5. Snooze or pause WhatsApp: However, it is not easy to become invisible in the recent popular messaging service, WhatsApp. So, what can you do to get rid of continuous pings and get some momentarily peace and privacy on WhatsApp. Check out the methods explained below that can help you become invisible on WhatsApp:...

Tor has announced that it is shuttering down the Tor Cloud service platform. The reasons given for the closure is some major bug that is present in the service. Tor explained the reasons in blog post,

Screenshot showing domain New York Times domain registered with Syrian Electronic Army While this Article was being Written, Twitter U.K went down. Screenshot showing domain Twitter U.K domain registered with Syrian Electronic Army Soon After twitter U.K twitter.ae went down. DNS of all these websites were changed to: ns1.syrianelectronicarmy.com ns2.syrianelectronicarmy.com Which is same as that of Official Syrian Electronic Army’s website, due to which Visitors visting on New York Times, Huffington Post were redirected to official SEA website....

AnonGhost, a pro-Palestine hacker collective has been on a unending hacking spree. The latest victim of AnonGhost cyber assault is United Nations. AnonGhost today defaced the United Nations (UN) website. They have released a statement on stating that they hacked United Nations website under the #OpSaveAlAqsa following rising tensions between Israel and Palestine surrounding the future of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. The latest attack has seen AnonGhost hit a UN website which is used by officials to log into the UN system....

Here are a few ways that can help you preserve battery life of your smartphone1. Use the screen less—or at least turn brightness down2. Turn off Wi-Fi when network is poor3. Make changes to your email settings4. Check the battery usage lists and stop the apps consuming most!5. Disable unwanted push notifications6. Disable unwanted location tracking7. Play downloaded music instead of streamingBattery-saving mythsTurn off BluetoothClose (quit) unused appsUse a task manager or battery-saving utility on AndroidDisable location services completelyAlways choose Wi-Fi over cellularDisable Hey Siri or Ok GoogleAdjust your battery to extend its lifeUse only the charger that came with your phoneConclusion...

As said above, Microsoft decided to remove the graphical interface to the Windows Experience Index (WEI) starting with Windows 8.1 which was also applicable for Windows 10 so that the users cannot figure out the performance of their devices using the built-in OS features. Luckily for us, a Reddit user found out a Cheat Code in Windows 10 which lets us find out our PC/Laptop Rating. Reddit user, Logan made this Reddit thread to make his find public....

At the trade show taking place in Las Vegas, Vivo has revealed a smartphone that features a nearly bezel-less display but the fingerprint reader is not present at the back of the device but at the front instead. The in-display fingerprint sensor will sit between the mainboard and the OLED panel where it will illuminate the finger and then process the beams of light. Phones like the Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+ and Galaxy Note 8 all features great designs for a smartphone, but it can become a difficult procedure accessing the fingerprint reader from the back....

In January 2011, an isolated employee had gained access to “call charge records and text messages,” the company said on Saturday. Natalie O’Brien, a Fairfax Media journalist had uncovered a serious security flaw in 2011 in the company’s data storage methods. This meant that all the details of millions of customers that used generic passwords were available online, such as their names, addresses and credit card details. In 2012, Vodafone Group’s former Australian fraud boss, Colin Yates has sent an email highlighting his concern regarding the hacking of O’Brien’s phone that may become known to the public, disclosed the Internal Vodafone documents obtained by News Limited....

In order to install and upgrade to Windows 11, your PC needs to meet minimum requirements as officially shared by Microsoft. The company has released a completed list of supported Intel CPUs and the full list of supported AMD CPUs that can be upgraded to Windows 11. The list also includes some of AMD’s 2nd-gen Ryzen CPUs. On the other hand, in the case of unsupported CPUs, users can upgrade to Windows 11 by installing ISOs but with the risk of being left in an unsupported state....

At the time of writing the Article the website was still showing the deface page. Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below 🙂