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As of now, the world’s number one torrent site is alternatively available on new GS, LA, VG, AM, MN and GD domain names. “Congratulations to Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad. Two years hard work to get us to change two little letters at a cost of $20,000 per letter,” the TPB team tells TF in a comment. “He could have given us $35,000 and we would have left the domain, thus saving the Swedish tax payer $5,000....

The Pirate Bay ashes were created when the Swedish police raided their data center in Nacka, Sweden and seized more than 50 servers including the ones in the storage room. Amidst all the brouhaha, hundreds of clones, ISOHunts Pirate Bay copy and Open Pirate Bay initiative- The Open Bay, the torrent fans are still missing the The Pirate Bay of the old. Since midnight, the Pirate Bay website has started showing a image of Phoenix suggesting imminent comeback from 1st Feb....

An Indian, Mudit Grover who is also a Redditor made a website called theSnappening.org to host the images. The site was un-searchable but you did not have to download 13 gigs of torrent on your PCs. However Mudit soon realised that he was playing with the law and got spooked. TheSnappening.org which was yanked off by him contained many images that were illegal as per the law. As already reported in our article, most of SnapChat users fill in the 13 to 17 years bracket, as many as 75 percent of them and hosting these kind of images gave Mudit some bad sleep....

This is how you can remotely turn off Android smartphones/tablets by sending a SMSSteps To Remotely Turn Off Any Android Smartphone/Tablet By Sending SMS In this article, we will discuss about the apps that will allow you to remotely shutdown Android smartphone/tablet by sending a single SMS that you will set in the app. This feature comes in handy if you have forgotten the phone at home and want no one to attend your calls....

Robotic Submarine injects poison and kills ‘Crown of Thorns Sea Stars’ to save Coral ReefsMajor causes for the infestations of these COTSS:Autonomous Robotic submarine used to inject poison and kill the COTSS: As per a research by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, it was observed that over the past 30 years, there has been a severe decline (almost 50 percent) of the coral cover on some surveyed reefs. Surprisingly, the study also reflected that besides climatic changes, pollution, over fishing by humans and fins of the scuba divers one of the major attribution to the destruction is by the Crown-of-thorns starfish a....

Developed by Donut Robotics, the “C-Face” smart mask is made of white plastic and silicone, which fits on top of standard face masks. It connects via Bluetooth to your smartphone or tablet via a dedicated app, which then translates speech into text messages, makes calls, or amplify the mask wearer’s voice. The mask also includes a built-in microphone to create recordings of business meetings, which will be then stored on the connected smartphone....

Microsoft itself has now given up on Windows 8 and 8.1 and is pushing out its latest OS, Windows 10 which hopes will rework the magic of Windows XP. Lets see the numbers as per NetMarketShare: The reports indicate that last year Windows 8 and 8.1 combined showed 11.3%, Windows 7 showed 48.8% whereas market share of Windows XP showed 27.5%. Now lets check the market shares this year: Windows 8 and 8....

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....

The latest repo to shut down last week was Supremacy Kodi add-on. The popular Supremacy repo was mysteriously closed down without warning or explanation on the same day a 40-year-old man in the north of England was arrested by the UK police on suspicion of developing and maintaining a Kodi add-on that supplied illegal online streams. “The scale of the offending was significant and affected broadcasters and rights owners in the UK and worldwide....

There used to be a time when nothing felt better than sticking a DVD disc in the DVD player and sitting back with a bowl of popcorn on the couch with your family for movie night. But with the increasing popularity of streaming services and digital platforms, DVD discs have become a thing of the past. Besides the annoying Windows 10 update errors, the inbuilt Windows Media Player no longer supports or plays DVDs, and paying $15 for the Windows DVD Player is nothing more than a waste of resources as it often fails to decode DVD, is unable to read the disc, freezes during playback, and does not support DVDs from other regions....

Apparently, the law firm represented by a lawyer named Kerry Culpepper is using this data of YTS users and sending them threatening emails that demand them to pay cash settlements to make their potential lawsuits disappear. For those unaware, in April this year, YTS had settled a piracy lawsuit filed in January 2020 by a group of seven related movie companies. The torrent site had agreed to a consent judgment totalling $1,050,000 in damages....

On June 16, at a conference named VLSI Technology Symposium held on semiconductor devices in Kyoto, Japan, it was announced that the method is expected to help in the making of safe and secure cloud services for smart communities. PUFs help in improving security technologies for encoding and validation by making use of a chip’s “fingerprint”, which is a unique identifier that is the outcome from variations in the devices in an electronic circuit....

Due to the closed nature of the Apple ecosystem, it becomes quite tricky for Android smartphone users to connect their smartphones with macOS notebooks and desktops. Luckily there are many programs and services like Airdroid, Samsung Smart Switch, Dropbox, and many more that can help you transfer data from Android to macOS with ease. However, a majority of these services have certain limitations, and at times they are exclusively available for a particular smartphone brand....

Looks like an Israeli cybersecurity firm is helping FBI to crack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone without Apple’s intervention. The Israeli digital forensics firm that’s had a history of working with the FBI has been reportedly working with FBI in the past in matters of hacking. Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Cellebrite, a company that specializes in extracting information from cell phones, was the mysterious “outside party” that came forward and offered to help the FBI gain access to an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers....

Brandon Bourret, 39, and Athanasios Andrianakis, 26, were each arrested on Friday at their homes, the DOJ said. According to the DOJ press release the two men knowingly conspired to commit acts and offenses against the United States, namely computer fraud and abuse, access device fraud, identification document fraud and wire fraud between the period July 2012 and July 2014. DOJ says that the two aimed to make money by selling passwords and unauthorized access to private and password-protected information, images and videos....

The resolution stresses that “the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online” particularly with regards to the freedom of expression already protected by articles 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The resolution was passed last Friday, but was opposed by countries including Russia, China, Saudi Arabia. The surprising opposition came from countries like South Africa, India, and Indonesia which are democracies....

This is one University open day which the officials of University of New South Wales would love to forget in a hurry. Unknown hackers hacked its Facebook page and flooded it NSFW content much to the embarrassment of university officials. The hackers posted graphic sexual images and links to soft-core adult websites on the University of New South Wales Facebook page early this morning, shortly before it kicked off it’s Open day....

UPI’s feed said that the Pope said World War III had begun and the New York Post’s business section Twitter feed mentioned that Bank of America’s CEO was calling for calm after a Federal Reserve decision. Series of Identical tweets were posted to the feeds of the New York Post and United Press International which involved “active combat” between U.S. and Chinese navy vessels in the South China sea. Jenny Tartikoff, a spokeswoman for the NYPost said the hacks are being looked into....