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Two years ago, during the month of September, hackers had systematically targetted iCloud accounts of Hollywood stars and leaked their private explicit images and videos on image boarding websites in tranches. The entire episode was named a Fappening by users of image boarding site, 4Chan where these images were first leaked. The media preferred to call the entire episode as more politically correct Celebgate. While the Fappening hacker has been caught and sentenced but a Fappening leak victim’s iCloud account has been hacked again and the hackers have leaked her private and explicit images online....

For those unaware, Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc., first released in 2014. Initially a proprietary language, Swift was made open-source software under the Apache License 2.0 on December 3, 2015, for Apple’s platforms and Linux. “Porting Swift to Windows is not about simply porting the compiler, but rather ensuring that the full ecosystem is available on the platform. This includes the compiler, the standard library, and the core libraries (dispatch, Foundation, XCTest)....

The lines are white on the gold and “rose gold” iPhone models, and gray on the silver and “space gray” models. It was discovered that the stripes are in fact the smartphone’s antennas, which are very significant as that’s how the device communicates with the network. These aerials cannot be hidden inside the handset, because the smartphone’s all-metal construction would stop the emission of the radio waves, averting the antennas sending and receiving information....

Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget blocks The Pirate Bay, other torrent websites like RARBG, ExtraTorrent, KickassTorrents, 1337X to be blocked soonThe Bredbandsbolaget and The Pirate Bay v/s media companies court caseWhat’s Next? However, there are indications that the Swedish authorities may further seek to block other popular torrent websites like Rarbg, Kickass Torrents, 1337X, Torrentz2, and ExtraTorrent. After tasting blood in The Pirate Bay and Bredbandsbolaget versus the media companies likeUniversal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Nordisk Film, and the Swedish Film Industry, the authorities are eager to block as many torrent websites as possible....

We had recently reported that Kickass Torrents had its domain kickass.im was seized within 24 hours of moving to it leaving Kickass Torrent no option but to return to Kickass.to domain. Now Kickass Torrents has switched domains again to a Costa Rican location and the new domain will be Kat.cr according to Kickass admin. The admin stated that till such time the move to at kat.cr is completed, Kickass will be available at Kickass....

Known as Poke Radar for Pokemon Go, which premiered on July 14 is now the second-most-downloaded free app (currently iOS only) in Apple’s App Store. The reason is that the app helpfully maps where Pokemon are hiding all over the world and lets you search for specific Pokemon near you. The tool (which is really just Google Maps with Pokemon scattered all over it) is available both on the web and as a mobile app....

If you are on Tinder, you will know that the popular dating App requires both parties “swipe right” on profiles they like, before they are allowed to exchange messages. But Sebastian Stadil developed a string of code to automatically swipe right and send a few messages of introduction to as many women as possible. His hack was so successful that he was able to send intros to more than 200,000 women....

“As a 19-year-old, I have coded the entirety of the robot on my own, and I think it does a reasonable job of replacing parking lawyers. I know there are thousands of programmers with decades more experience than me working on similar issues. If it is one day possible for any citizen to get the same standard of legal representation as a billionaire, how can that not be a good thing,” said Browder....

For those unaware, TikTok app is a popular video streaming platform with more than 800 million monthly users. According to the researchers, the latest versions of the TikTok app still uses the company’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) to pull videos, which has insecure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) or no encryption instead of the encrypted hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) protocol. This means that a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack can hijack and alter the data that’s being shared between the user and TikTok’s CDN....

These simple Facebook tips and tricks will help you use it like a pro1. Change your profile pic into an animated GIF2. Get to know how your profile looks like to the public and individual friends3. You can save interesting news in your News Feed for later viewing4. See your Facebook activity done on the same day in the past5. Turn off auto-playing videos in your News Feed6. What’s trending on Facebook allows you to stay updated on the hottest news7....

The Register reports that these extensions are open to attacks that can quietly compromise machines and pass Mozilla’s automated and human security tests. Boston University Ph.D. Ahmet Buyukkayhan and Northeastern University Professor William Robertson demonstrated how the attacked dubbed Extension Reuse can be leveraged by hackers to install malware on users computers. The two researchers said that had researched the vulnerability for two years by creating malicious extensions which use a so-called “extension reuse” mechanism to make malicious calls to other extensions, which then pass them along to the underlying system....

Some of the victims of the spyware hack belong to the United States, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Mexico, Pakistan, and India. WhatsApp on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California against Israeli surveillance software company, NSO Group. The company has been accused of building and selling a hacking platform that exploited vulnerabilities in the WhatsApp messaging app. As a result, it helped unnamed entities’ spies to hack into phones of roughly 1,400 users around the world between April and May 2019....

Soon after posting of the message by Thomas, tech and underground forums were agog with the rumours of raids by authorities. Tor has been in news for some time now since the revelation that FBI had exposed Tor users IP addresses to catch a criminal. However, at 23:54:32 UTC, Thomas posted another message to assuage the fears of Tor users of a possible raid by authorities and stop the rumour mongering going on in the forums and chats....

Torrents related news aggregator, Torrent Freak down, Lizard Squad claims Lizard Stresser at workLizard Stresser at work? The TorrentFreak website is up now but is suffering from intermittent downtime. Exactly four hours ago the official Twitter account of TorrentFreak tweeted about it being down — TF (@torrentfreak) January 12, 2015 Followed by another tweet around two hour ago saying they were up and running — TF (@torrentfreak) January 12, 2015 This was followed by another tweet saying that they again offline...

Torrentz search engine was not a torrent website in the strictest of terms but a BitTorrent meta-search engine. It hosted no torrents of its own but linked to other popular BitTorrent sites including The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrents, RARBG, KickassTorrents, 1337x, and others in a style like search engines do. Torrentz was used by millions of users to download movies, games, softwares, series, and other torrent files. However, after it shut down users started looking for its mirror, proxies, and alternate torrent sites like torrentz....

Although Microsoft has already launched a beta version of Windows 11 for Windows Insider Program users under Beta and Dev channels, the full version of the OS will be rolled to Windows 10 users with compatible PCs later this year. Now, a developer named Blue Edge has built an open-source web simulator for Windows 11 for those who are curious to try out Windows 11 within their browser without having to install or download the Windows 11 ISO....

Games developer Ubisoft deactivating keys it says were “fraudulently” obtained and resoldUbisofts stand The deactivation decision has hit mainly Far Cry 4 and Assassin’s Creed players who had purchased the keys legally and yet find themselves unable to play the game due to Ubisoft’s arbitrary decision.The Ubisoft forum was filled with huge number of complaints from gamers all over the world over the weekend when they found that games like Far Cry 4 have been removed from their libraries....

Scientists have further warned that cables and fiber optics will not be in a position to take data from a single optical fiber and this will be the major cause of Internet collapse. The cables and fiber optics are responsible for relaying information to our computers, smartphones, laptops etc. What are optical fibers? They are transparent strands that bears the thickness of a human hair; the information first gets transformed into light and is sent down the optical fiber and it then gets transformed back to information....