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Generally, a judge’s approval is not required for the planes’ surveillance equipment, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations. The FBI said it uses front companies to keep the pilots and aircraft safe from danger. It also protects the identity of the aircraft so that suspects on the ground do not know that they are being observed by the FBI. At least 50 aircraft have been traced back to the FBI, and more than 100 flights in 11 states were identified over a 30-day period since late April, circling both major cities and rural areas, as reported by the Associated Press....

Ford Motor posted a statement on its website which says there is a flaw in the body control module software in the vehicles. As a result of the problem, the engine could keep running after the key is turned to “off” and removed, or after the start/stop button is pressed to turn the engine off. The recall covers some model 2015 Focus cars, C-Max hybrids and Escape sport utility vehicles....

A group called Cyber Caliphate which is rabid pro-ISIS managed to take a French TV network off air, and hijack its website and Facebook page. 11 channels belonging to the French-language TV network, which broadcasts to more than 200 countries worldwide, stopped transmitting programmes after what was described as an “extremely powerful cyberattack”. After calling an emergency meeting to discuss the issue, the TV network’s director general, Yves Bigot, stated that it might take days for the TV5MONDE to recover from the attack, After hijacking TV5MONDE’s social media accounts, the attackers posted threats against French troops, publishing documents purporting to be the ID cards and resumés of French soldiers involved in anti-ISIS operations....

G20 summit security breached, secret projectors found inside the venue in BrisbaneG20 SummitSecurity Breach G20 Summit The Australia 2014 G-20 Australia summit will be the ninth meeting of the G-20 heads of government. It will be held in Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia, on 15 and 16 November 2014. The hosting venue will be the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. It is expected to attended by a galaxy of world leaders....

Israel-Palestine conflict : New feature of the conflict rides to success on malware attached NSFW videosThe attackTwo of a kindDirty road to success Trend Micro has discovered this new wave of cyber attacks being carried out against the Israeli government, military network and research infrastructure which has taken the aid of NSFW videos. Trend Micros states that there are two separate but similar cyber attacks and both seemed to be interlinked as the trail leads back to Gaza based hackers....

DLR researchers have rebooted their efforts of developing hyper-sonic passenger plane that would be boarded on suborbital space planes. German aerospace research center, the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), is planning to revive a decade-old plan which aims at developing hyper-sonic flights by 2030. Referred as SpaceLiner, it would carry 100 passengers and would be used to transport passengers from Europe to Australia in just 90 minutes. Besides the journey between Europe to U....

The Federation of German Consumers Organisation (vzbv) [advocacy website], was based on the country’s Federal Data Protection Act. According to the Federal Data Protection Act, personal data may only be collected and used with the consent of those involved. Providers are required to provide clear and understandable information about the nature, extent and purpose of the use of the data for the users to make informed choices. However, these requirements were not met by Facebook and users were automatically opted into features....

Germany’s steel mill damaged as hackers gain total control of production networksThe AttackReminiscent of Stuxnet The Attack The attackers gained access to the network connected to the production line of the factory. Once they got access, they used the authority to tamper with the factory’s furnace. The attack used spear phishing and sophisticated social engineering techniques to gain access to the factory’s office networks, from which access to production networks was gained....

The search giant has changed the version numbering of Android Studio to more closely align with IntelliJ IDEA, the IDE upon which Android Studio is built. With this change, the latest Android Studio version is now called Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) Canary 1 or just, Arctic Fox. Under the previous naming scheme, it would have been called Android Studio 4.3. Going forward, here is how the Android Studio version number scheme will work: ....

In order to help mobile users efficiently manage and control their data usage, Google has launched a new Android-based mobile app called ‘Datally’. Developed by Alphabet Inc’s Google, this app not only helps one to understand where the data is being used, it also provides suggestions to reduce the data they are using. The Datally app will show the exact applications that use the most amount of data in a user’s phone....

Well, the Mountain View, the California-based company has officially announced in a blog post that Duo has now started rolling out on Android and iOS in few regions with the “next few days” spreading the app “worldwide.” The company feels that this one-on-one video chatting app will feel more “human” than others currently on the market. “Today, we’re releasing Google Duo — a simple 1-to-1 video calling app available for Android and iOS,” the search giant said in the blog post....

For the unversed, Hangouts, which was originally a feature of Google+, became a standalone product in 2013, when Google began integrating features from Google+ Messenger and Google Talk into Hangouts. The now-defunct cross-platform instant messaging service included messaging, video chat, SMS, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) features. Starting Monday, mobile users will see an in-app notification asking them to upgrade from Hangouts to Chat in Gmail or the standalone Chat app....

Like the front side of the phone, the back where the 16 MPx camera is centrally located can be used in either way. The round photosensor in the phone allows you to switch the angle of camera view to portrait or landscape, anytime you want. Also, thanks to the 12 MPx dual cameras located on opposite ends of the phone, it allows to create depth in the selfie. The side edges of the smartphone are touch sensitive that allows you to scroll without having your finger touch on the screen....

In a recent blog post, Rockstar stated that GTA 6 needs to be “the best it can possibly be“. The developers also claimed that over the past few years they had been steadily moving more development resources towards the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series. After the underwhelming launch of GTA Trilogy, Rockstar wants GTA 6 to be the best it can possibly be. At the time of writing this article, GTA V is almost a decade old....

Pr0x13 has described this as a “100% working iCloud Apple ID Dictionary attack” and it was possible due to a “painfully obvious” bug and that it “was only a matter of time” before hackers or cyber criminals found it. Proxy13 intends to alert Apple of this serious bug therefore he has uploaded the tool on GitHub. Business Insider says that Pr0x13 won’t take responsibility for the exploit is used but wants everyone to know that his intentions were to alert Apple to the bug so that the company could patch it as soon as possible....

The attack works by bypassing the HTTPS encryption which is supposed to prevent this happening. HTTPS would normally prevent the operator seeing the URLs visited by users, but a new technique abuses Web Proxy Autodiscovery and exposes browser requests to any code the network owner wants plug in. The bypass attack is specifically dangerous for those Windows, Linux and Mac users who use public Wi-Fi and public hotspots. The HTTPS bypass can also be used by your ISP provider to snoop directly on you without your knowledge....

“We can now hack the monitor and you shouldn’t have blind trust in those pixels coming out of your monitor,” Ang Cui, the lead researcher who came up with this creative hack, told Motherboard. Cui, the chief scientist at Red Balloon Security and a recent PhD graduate from Columbia University, along with Jatin Kataria were inquisitive to know how Dell monitors worked. That’s where their curiosity resulted in reverse-engineering on one of the Dell monitors....

Richard Gladstein suggests the search giant has the ability to wipe out piracy but is throwing up a ‘fair use’ camouflage to divert from the phenomenon. However, a Google spokesperson told Business Insider that the company “continue[s]e to invest heavily in copyright tools for content owners and process takedown notices faster than ever,” and its “partnerships and distribution deals with the content industry benefit both creators and users, and generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the industry each year....

Lets talk about the game itself. It is being said that it is one of the most violent and disturbing games ever made. Here is what its intro sounds like(as given on steam). The right to free speech and expression is often a double-edged sword, meaning it lets you speak, but it also allows everyone else to say what they want, even if they don’t like it. It’s the same for Hatred, a game that most people would say shouldn’t be available for publishing....