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On November 24 (Tuesday), the price of the world’s most widely traded cryptocurrency was trading above $19,300. However, the crypto began to fall at rates with the price sliding from $18,824 at 2 a.m. Thursday to $16,857 by 9 a.m., according to data from industry site CoinDesk. Antoni Trenchev, a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Nexo, a large crypto lender, told CNBC: “Long term I don’t see anything derailing Bitcoin’s irrevocable rise higher....

According to local news outlet Tass (translation), Dmitry Fedotov, aka “Paunch,” who is well known as creator of Blackhole exploit kit is among those convicted. Fedotov was arrested in October 2013 by Russian authorities together with twelve other suspects. Fedotov who is well known in underground forums as ‘Paunch’ is the master coder behind the dangerous Blackhole exploit kit. Paunch made the kit available to cyber criminals on a rental scheme for years on the dark web underground forums....

However, Microsoft itself has announced yesterday that the latest cumulative update comes with a known bug that makes several PCs very slow once it is installed on Windows 10. Fortunately, there’s a possible fix if your PC is affected. Microsoft’s John Wink, Senior Program Manager Lead working on Windows 10 updates, said on Reddit that “if you find that your PC is abnormally slow after installing the update, you may be seeing a problem that I’ve been trying to track down for a couple of weeks....

Exactly fifteen minutes after posting the comment on FB he went into a branch of Tesco at King’s Lynn with a knife and demanded cash. After stealing around £410 ($600), he also used the knife point to steal a car from a retired couple who had come to Tesco to use the ATM. Police tracked Hennells down to a nearby pub where he still had the knife, as well as £410 he had stolen....

Joe McCloskey operated a Facebook page called ‘Keeping Our Kids Safe From Predators 2’ with the purpose of naming and shaming child abusers in public and acting as a deterrent for such kind of acts. However based on a complaint filed by man identified only as CG, Mr.Justice Stephens held that Facebook will have to pay £20,000 ($30000) in damages to CG. The judge also held the page operator, McCloskey equally liable for misusing private information and ordered the closure of the ‘Keeping Our Kids Safe From Predators 2’ Facebook page....

The DoJ made the submission in the second circuit court of appeals is between the US and Microsoft over the US government’s right to demand user emails from Microsoft held on a Hotmail server in Ireland. Microsoft holds the position that the United State government has no right over the emails as they are hosted in a country outside the jurisdiction of US. Big tech firms and media houses like Apple, the government of Ireland, Fox News, NPR and the Guardian have filed amicus briefs with the federal court, arguing the case could set a precedent for governments around the world to seize information held in the cloud....

An ethical hacker, who goes by the username of @cowereth has revisited the issue that was reported a year back on Github as a bug. It was brushed under the carpet then due to various overlapping reasons. The Issue at Hand – Again DuckDuckGo stores the favicons(a small website icon that shows in the address bar or bookmark tabs) of the websites on a different internal server hosted at a subdomain icons....

Apparently, this man who left backdoors in the websites he developed has left email accounts of 20,000 people being hacked, warns law enforcement. The Leeuwarden man portrayed himself as a legitimate webmaster building e-commerce sites, but instead stole customer logins using the backdoor. A notice published by Dutch police says that “Various companies used him to build sites with web shop functionality. The man was able to capture usernames and passwords by installing a special script....

How do you listen to your audio? Headphones have been around for ages, and although you’ve probably been through a few different styles, little has changed in the actual parts that count, the drivers. The best standard drivers are tuned to sound great and have diaphragms engineered to widen frequency range. With all this tech you still can’t beat the physical limitations of a single driver. When a single driver is pressed to produce a full range, it will distort much easier than if it was only covering a smaller range....

Margrethe Vestager, EU Antitrust Chief who is in charge of the competition policy, said that the U.S. tech giant has been unlawfully using Android’s near-monopoly since 2011 to improve usage of its own search engine and browser and to strengthen its dominant position in general Internet search. “Today the commission has decided to fine Google 4.34 billion euros (USD 5 billion) for breaching EU antitrust rules,” Vestager told a press conference in Brussels....

Apparently, too much smartphone usage could cause convergent strabismus. Strabismus, commonly known as cross-eyed or wall-eyed, is a vision condition in which someone cannot align both eyes concurrently under normal conditions. One or both of the eyes may turn in, out, up or down. The study also found that the children held smartphones too close to their face. During the study, it was noted that the children were holding smartphones eight to twelve inches from their face....

Facebook officially launches its dating service in ColumbiaHow Does Facebook Dating Works?Facebook Dating feature now rolling out in Columbia For those unaware, Facebook had originally announced the feature at the F8 developer conference in May this year. The online Facebook Dating feature will allow people able to create a dating profile that is separate from their Facebook profile – and potential matches will be recommended based on dating preferences, things in common, and mutual friends....

According to Cjrobe, it all began when he sent a Google Sheet link comprising of his work portfolio with “anyone with the link can view” permission to his brother through Facebook Messenger using his web browser. However, the link displayed an error, “Sorry, this feature isn’t available right now” instead of getting delivered to his brother. It yielded the same result for Cjrobe when he tried sending the link after a while....

How does this Facebook bug work: The bug discovered by Melamed is similar to another bug made public by a security researcher, Pranav Hivarekar. Hivarekar had discovered a way to attach theFacebook victim’s video to a comment in order to delete it. In order to exploit this vulnerability, Melamed first created a public event on the Facebook page and uploaded a video on the Discussion part of the event. While uploading the video, Melamed tampered with the POST request and replaced the Video ID value on his video with the Video ID value of any other video on the social media platform....

Facebook in one of its blog post announced about the Hashtag feature to be implemented by this coming week. Hashtag is used to mark keyword or topic in a tweet or post, as in twitter and google plus and is very popular feature. you can know what is popular and hot by looking at trending Hashtags in these social networks. or can search for any topic you are interested in by searching the Hashtag related to it....

Slate’s Jennifer Golbeck reports that these discarded thoughts don’t completely disappear — rather, Facebook uses a code that keeps track of every time you delete a would-be message and sends metadata about that message back to its own data bases. Facebook calls these unposted thoughts “self-censorship.” Two Facebook users, Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have prepared an online article on self-censorship behavioral study....

On April, 25, 2015, the Himalayan nation was shaken by a powerful earthquake that measured 7.9 on Richter Scale leaving over 6,000 dead and injuring more than 10,000 people. According to a status posted by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) said that “We gave people the option on Facebook to support local relief efforts. In two days, more than half a million people donated and raised more than $10 million to support the International Media Corps relief effort....

Ruja Ignatova, also known as the “Cryptoqueen”, who is believed to be in her 40s, was the founder of OneCoin Ltd., a Bulgaria-based company that marketed a purported cryptocurrency called OneCoin launched in 2014. In order to execute the large-scale fraud scheme, Ignatova allegedly made false statements and representations to individuals in order to solicit investments in OneCoin. In order to purchase OneCoin packages, she apparently instructed victims to transmit investment funds to OneCoin accounts, causing them to send wire transfers representing these investments....