Imagine if you were the king or queen of a kingdom. Apart from purchasing the best gaming consoles and an iPhone 7, like I would do, you’ll want to spend your resources elsewhere too. If you were smart, you’d concentrate more on your security and privacy and will try to maintain your anonymity. To do this, you’ll have your army safeguard your capital and your palace and provide you with adequate security elsewhere....
“The vision for the 5G network and its global standardization schedule has been agreed based on our suggestion. This has shown that Korea is leading the world’s mobile communication technology and related policies,” an official from The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said. “We will beef up international cooperation to have the agreement approved without any problems.” The ministry said that the group decided to define 5G as a network that will have to transmit data speeds of up to 20Gbps (Gigabits per second), which is 20 times faster than the 1Gbps specification for 4G....
You will agree with me that job interviews are stressful, difficult, and most importantly, unpredictable. Even if you have a good resume and good recommendation from industry reputed personalities, it is tough to find a job these days. And if that’s not enough, you need to go through the dreadful interviews. Job interviews can be pressure situations not only for fresh graduates but also for experienced campaigners. This because of the fact that your future job may decide completely on how you answer the job interview questions and the unpredictable nature of the interview....
Here are 8 absolute badass hacking tools which were demoed in this year’s Black Hat ConferenceInfection MonkeyProject DeltaAblationKeystone EngineAVLeakSwizzlerDPTraceBLE MITM Proxy This year’s Black Hat is being held in Las Vegas and like every year this year also brought out big vulnerability revelations. Hackers and security researchers are pulling out all the stops yet again, using Black Hat as a platform to explain, release and/or promote a ton of great tools for pen testers and security operations experts....
Now, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced a recall affecting 2.8 million Samsung Electronics Co. washing machines, as more than 700 reports of excessive vibration on the machines or the top detaching and nine reports of injuries including a broken jaw were reported, said the agency on Friday. The recall affects 34 top-loading models sold at various stores starting in 2011. According to a US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announcement, “The washing machine top can unexpectedly detach from the washing machine chassis during use, posing a risk of injury from impact....
A controversial decision this summer by Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp to share data of its users with its parent company — including for advertising purposes has put it at war with civil privacy groups as well as European privacy watchdogs. In a strongly worded blog post information commissioner Elizabeth Denham noted that, “I had concerns that consumers weren’t being properly protected, and it’s fair to say the enquiries my team have made haven’t changed that view....
While the havoc about the telecom companies breaking the laws of the internet is very new to India with last year Airtel trying to introduce differential pricing mechanism for mobile Internet usage where it wanted a differential pricing for VoIP. Airtel tried to have differential pricing, data capping or providing access to any websites or application (their partners) for free. But is it really so that the telecom companies has started breaking the laws governing Internet by past few years!...
Many whistleblowers claim to have worked at many of the underground alien-government research facilities, such as the top-secret Area 51 military base in the Nevada desert. Many of these whistleblowers joined Area 51 as government scientists and engineering contractors. Conspiracy theorists believe that alien UFOs found at crash sites are being stored at top-secret government facilities, such as Area 51 and the Dulce underground facility. In addition, they also believe that besides recovering severely burned alien corpses from the Roswell crash site in 1947, the military authorities also saved alien survivors from inside the same crashed UFO....
Unfortunately, AMIDuOS was discontinued on 8th March 2018. The reason behind the discontinuation of this fastest android emulator for Windows 10 was not clearly specified. So here’s everything you need to know about AMIDuOS. What Is AMIDuOS? As mentioned above, AMIDuOS was one of the most reliable Android emulators for low-end PC. This Android emulator ran on Android Lollipop and it supported graphics acceleration coupled with native ARM extensions to Android apps....
Apparently, Android smartphones since the beginning of 2017 have been collecting addresses of nearby cellular towers even when location services are turned off and sending this data back to Google when the device is connected to a Wi-Fi network or has a cellular data enabled. While Google confirmed the practice to Quartz, the search giant said it would end the practice by the end of November and Android smartphones will no longer send cell-tower location data to Google, reports Quartz....
Dubbed as “BlackRock”, the most significant feature of this Android malware is that its target list contains 337 applications that include banking and financial applications, as well as non-financial and popularly commonly used brand name apps on an Android device that concentrate on social, communication, networking and dating platforms. “It can steal credentials and credit card information from over 300 plus apps like email clients, e-commerce apps, virtual currency, messaging or social media apps, entertainment apps, banking, and financial apps, etc,” the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) said in an advisory....
5elafabook which is pronounced Khelafabook and meaning “Caliphate book” went live with a message that it was a independent website/FB page and did not have links to the Islamic State. However, Facebook, which has been pretty strict with pro-IS fan pages, found that khelafabook shared the same ideology as IS, so banned its Facebook account. Khelafabook was espousing the martyrdom tenets of IS as well wanted a worldwide implementation of Sharia....
The death of 37 year old Paul Gaston, who was shot and killed by Cincinnati police officers on Wednesday, has sparked controversy, as he was unarmed at the time. According to sources, Gaston was driving a truck and hit a telegraph pole, when a 911 caller said he stumbled out of the vehicle, “dropped a gun, and then picked up the gun and took off”. Based on the details given 911 caller, police reached the spot within an hour....
As always, the cyber criminals are exploiting the Anthem hack to further their nefarious activities by sending phishing emails to the victims of the Anthem hack. Anthem Inc yesterday warned its customers to be on a lookout for emails targeting them to divulge further personal information and other details. The “phishing” emails to current and former Anthem customers claim to come from Anthem and advise recipients to click on a link so they can get credit monitoring....
That Mars is suited for human habitation is a well documented fact. In fact, out of the billions and billions of planets in our home galaxy, Mars seems to be the nearest and most obvious choice for future space settlement. However, Elon Musk has other reasons for colonizing Mars. As per scientists, Earth has seen five mass extinctions throughout its history, due to cataclysmic disasters like giant asteroids and massive volcanic eruptions....
In a complaint filed in the federal court in California, the tech giant said that NSO Group employees are “amoral 21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.” The complaint provides new information on how NSO Group infected victims’ devices with its spyware, called Pegasus, which had been used to attack a small number of Apple customers, such as journalists, activists, dissidents, academics, and government officials, around the world....
However, gadget repair community iFixit discovered that Apple isn’t really using that “extra space” it got after getting rid of the headphone jack. In their teardown of iPhone 7, they found how Apple uses a lot of adhesive, which is supposed to assist in waterproofing, in addition to a larger 2900 mAh battery. In addition, they discovered a piece of plastic that sits behind the ingress protection (waterproofing), right where the headphone jack would have been....
“Many other iPhone owners have communicated with Apple’s employees and agents to request that Apple remedy and/or address the Touchscreen Defect and/or resultant damage at no expense. Apple has failed and/or refused to do so,” part of the complaint reads. Codenamed online last week as ‘Touch Disease’ by iFixit, Jason Villner of STS Telecom says that the “issue is widespread enough that I feel like almost every iPhone 6/6+ has a touch of it (no pun intended) and are like ticking bombs just waiting to act up....
According to Apple the app is in breach of developer terms and conditions because it enables access to content of which the company disapproves. One of the prime reasons for Apple’s strictures is that the CCC’s app allows watching publicly given talks, which among others deal with security holes in the widely used Bluetooth technology, or help “jailbreaking” Apple devices. CCC says that these very talks are available on many websites and even on YouTube but Apple has approved YouTube App....
According to Bloomberg who cited “people familiar with the plans”, say that the new plan is part of an initiative named “Kalamata”, which is expected to help all Apple devices, including Macs, iPhones, and iPads, and work more seamlessly together. The Kalamata initiative will allow Apple’s design and engineering teams to have a much greater control over the power and features they wish to implement. The Cupertino giant already designs its own ARM-based chips that it uses in iPhones, iPads, Watches and Apple TV devices....
