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The hacking contest held over last weekend – October 16 and 17 – saw China’s top hackers take part in the Tianfu Cup 2021 International Cyber Security Competition – the country’s top hacking competition – to test some of the world’s popular software products and operating systems. For those unaware, prior to 2018, Chinese experts had successfully dominated Pwn2Own, the world’s largest hacking contest, by winning the competition years in a row....

While searching for free games, movies, software, and applications you might have stumbled upon the popular freeware website Softonic. Founded in 1997, Softonic serves millions of users every month. Over the past few years, questions regarding the safety and legality of Softonic have been raised regularly. So let’s see whether Softonic is safe and legal to download freeware. What Is Softonic? What Is Softonic?Is Softonic Safe And Legal to Use?...

Judge Tugendhat also rubbished Googles claim that the relevant data was not private as it was anonymized. The Judge ruled that being Anonymized does not mean private. The privacy activists are partly happy with the ruling however Google said it will appeal against the ruling in higher courts.

The Followers who have mistakenly clicked the link should change their password, and warn their followers in case Direct messages and tweets were sent by the malicious apps, through their Accounts.The Malicious links like these are very common on twitter, most of which reads to “get free followers”, and once a victim clicks on it, his/her Twitter Account is compromised and starts sending Tweets/Direct Messages containing the malicious payload to the followers of the person....

Kaspersky says that the hack attack was so sophisticated that it was almost impossible to find that the networks had been breached. Eugene Kaspersky, the company’s CEO described the attack as “almost invisible” and said the software was so sophisticated it could have cost $10m “maybe more” to build it and support it. According to Kaspersky, the attack on it used three previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities to breach its systems, and left very few traces in the aftermath....

In fact, due to its simplicity and a humungous collection of torrent files, Kickass Torrents outperforms many popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing torrent sites and torrent search engines in multiple aspects. The original KAT site was banned in 2016, however many look-alikes kickass proxy sites, and mirrors appeared after its shut down. Even the original staff of the Kickass team tried to revive Kickass movie torrents at a new address katcr....

After the takeover of its mobile devices division by Microsoft, the Finnish-based technology company can re-enter the smartphone market only after 2016, as per their agreement. Once Nokia’s contract with Microsoft ends, the company can sell smartphones that do not run on the Windows Mobile platform and it would be free to launch its own Android-powered smartphones. A bunch of leaked images that have surfaced online recently hint that the company has already started to work on an Android-powered smartphone, dubbed the Nokia C1....

For the uninitiated, Geohot, is a hacker known for unlocking the iPhone, allowing the phone to be used with other wireless carriers. This was done in a time when AT&T’s and Apple advertised hack proof qualities of iPhone. He developed the limera1n jailbreak tool and bootrom exploit for iOS, which forms the basis of Jailbreak tools even today. He is also noted for his technical efforts and publicity with reverse engineering the PlayStation 3 video game console, and for subsequently being sued by and settling with Sony....

LG said that the Band Play variant announced in Korea is a single-SIM device with 4G LTE connectivity but a dual-SIM variant should also be in the works. LG also stated that LG Band has a powerful 1-Watt loudspeaker for clear sound and Band Play buyers will also get LG’s QuadBeat headset within bundled with the smartphone. LG Band Play comes with 2GB RAM onboard and 16GB internal memory which is expandable via microSD slot....

On Thursday, the section that went live on the App Store is meant to pay tribute to the June 28, 1969 Stonewall riots that served as one of the most famous historical events that lead to the gay liberation movement. App Store visitors will find books, apps, TV shows, movies and podcasts that represent the LGBT community. In “Philadelphia,” a gay lawyer with AIDS who gets expelled, and finds help suing his former company and “Milk”, a biography of Harvey Milk’s struggles as a gay activist who became first openly elected gay official in California are some of the more famous movies that are included....

Kdramastars states that Lizard Squad have allegedly successfully jailbroken the PlayStation 4 and now are going to go public with the same. The base of the rumour is that during the Lizard Squads DDoSing of Xbox Live and PS4 in Chritsmas holidays, Cyberland said that the Lizard Squad hacker group was reportedly able to find a security flaw in the latest 2.03 firmware of the PlayStation 4 which allowed them to look into the root files of PS4’s OS and modify it to run their own code....

From the time it was exposed last month, looks like the Ashley Madison has come to a halt. The hackers had last month leaked the names of two Ashley Madison users along with a number of links claiming to have thousands of Ashley Madison user names. This misleading information only made people get directed to old porn user email lists or surveys or something similar to that. However, the most recent viral reports on the Ashley Madison hacking that includes the 87-page report explains in detail as to how the site for fraudsters were able to get so many users in the first place, exposing themselves to hacking....

The big daddy or Grand Jury prize is a cool $55,000 as well as two tickets to the Assassin’s Creed movie premiere. The prizes for runners-up include Watch_Dogs 2 Ps4 bundles, a Playstation 4 Pro and Parrot drones. The competition runs from 15th October to 15th November and winners will be announced on 17th November. Other rules include that your movie must be between 5 seconds and 5 minutes long, no more, no less....

Currently, the ad campaign is put up at Pennsylvania Station in New York City promoting WhatsApp over SMS or iMessage. The ad also pokes fun at the green bubble / blue bubble divide. It shows three text bubbles: the first one in green, the next one in blue, and the third one in white. For those unaware, text messages received from Android users appear in a green bubble on Apple-exclusive iMessage while messages received from iPhone users are shown in a blue bubble....

The screenshot shared by the Microsoft employee on Twitter revealed an internal version of Notepad with Tabs. However, the post was deleted within minutes but not before it was spotted by Windows Central and several Windows enthusiast Twitter accounts. “Notepad in Windows 11 now has tabs!”, the Microsoft employee excitingly tweeted with a loudspeaker emoji. The screenshot also included a Microsoft internal warning: “Confidential Don’t discuss features or take screenshots” suggesting that the tabs feature is still in the early stages of internal testing....

The course, which as said above, is totally free and will teach wannabe programmers to create Universal Windows Platform apps that can potentially work on a variety of devices including PCs, phones, tablets, a Raspberry Pi, HoloLens, and Xbox. However you can only learn Windows 10 app coding if you know C#. If you dont know C#, Microsoft offers a separate free course called C# Fundamentals. C# Fundamentals teaches you basics of C# programming and approaching coding....

Tay was an Microsoft experiment in “conversational understanding.” The more you chat with Tay, said Microsoft, the smarter it gets, learning to engage people through “casual and playful conversation.” However, Twitter can turn even the most eloquent of diplomats into zombies and the same happened to Tay. Soon after Tay launched, Twitter users starting tweeting the bot with all sorts of misogynistic, racist, and Donald Trumpian remarks. And Tay started repeating these sentiments back to users and in the process turning into one hatred filled robot....

While Microsoft has been introducing a series of new chat and video features to its Teams in recent times, the company earlier this month updated its Teams roadmap to increase the Team meetings limit to 300 to take on competitors such as Zoom and Google Meet. “To help customers meet rapidly changing communication and meeting needs, we are increasing the maximum number of participants allowed in a Teams meeting to 300....

In its 29 year history, Microsoft’s Windows operating systems have been pirated millions number of times. On some levels, it is a practice that Microsoft has accepted with regular consumers largely trying to keep away from the company’s aggression. However, the same cannot be said of those pirating the company’s products on a commercial scale. According to documents filed with a U.S. District Court in Seattle last week, Microsoft targets individuals behind a single IP address 74....