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After months of waiting, Apex Legends Mobile is finally released. You can download this insanely popular battle royale game by Electronics Arts directly from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. To Download Apex Legends Mobile For PC, you must follow a slightly different method. So here’s How To Download Apex Legends Mobile On PC. APEX LEGENDS MOBILE PC DOWNLOAD As the name suggests, Apex Legends Mobile is a game developed for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets....

These malicious mobile apps, which disguised themselves as photo editors, games, VPN services, business apps, and other utilities were listed on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store. These apps stole the login details of around 1 million users. According to Meta, malicious photo editors apps accounted for the most downloads at 42.6%, followed by mobile apps like Business Utility (15.4%), Phone Utility (14.1%), Game (11.7%), VPN (11.7%), and Lifestyle (4....

A former employee told Gizmodo that when he or she would log on, they noticed popular conservative topics were left off the homepage list. The employee, a conservative, guessed that the person running the list “didn’t recognize the news topic” or was biased against a conservative figure involved. Last week, Gizmodo published a story explaining the conditions behind the trending team, which is required to write headlines and summaries for dozens of news stories to be included on the website’s ticker....

However what makes this clone different is it installs a malware on your smartphone and starts stealing images that you may have saved. Infact the researchers state that this very well could be the same ring of hackers who gathered naked pictures of more than 100 celebrities and leaked them online, the same came under the popular news “iCloud hack” which was reported on TechWorm and also in the media....

To that effect, we had even recently reported of Samsung collaborating with the renowned gaming firm, Epic Games to launch “Fortnite” on Android with its upcoming flagship, Galaxy Note 9 next month. Apparently, the game will be “exclusive” to the Galaxy Note 9 for 30 days and then arrive on other Android handsets shortly after that. Also check out – Install Fortnite on Android Now, Epic Games has officially disclosed the list of 40 Android devices, which would support Fortnite Android version....

2014 Protests in Hong Kong The 2014 Hong Kong protests, which is also known as the Umbrella Movement or Umbrella Revolution, began in September 2014 when activists in Hong Kong protested outside the government headquarters and occupied several major city intersections after the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC) announced its decision to nominate only the Mainland China vetted candidates. The protesters who are made up of mostly students and pro-democracy advocacy groups based in Hong Kong dont want a Beijing controlled puppet government in Hong Kong and also want that they be allowed to nominate and choose their own leaders....

During a show called “Varney & Company” on Fox Business Network, host, Stuart Varney asked the guest on the show John McAfee to tell the views how the hackers were able to break into the Sony’s computer systems. Varney got a hack lesson of his life! The McAfee Inc. owner decided to give Varney first hand knowledge of hacking. From a remote location, McAfee hacked into Varney’s phone via its voicemail, accessed the contacts and then faked a call from one of those contacts....

The biggest highlight of this browser is that Chrome will now automatically warn you if your password has been compromised in a data breach. The new feature was also tweeted by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. With the latest release of Chrome, anyone whose login credentials has been leaked in a data breach previously will get a notification when logging into a site. How does the new password feature work? Google always stores a hashed and encrypted copy of the username and password exposed by another company’s data breach on its servers....

The Tagansky District Court has ordered Google to pay an administrative fine of about 7.2 billion rubles (about $98.4 million), which is around eight percent of the search giant’s annual revenue in Russia. “In the case of an administrative offense provided for in Part 5 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code <…> Google LLC was found guilty … A punishment was imposed in the form of an administrative fine in the amount of 7,221,916,235 rubles,” Tagansky District court told in the press service....

After Xolo and Nexian Chromebooks, Google now ventures into business segment with Chromebox for Business priced at Rs.90,000Price of Rs.90,000 too high? The Chromebox for Business runs on Chrome OS operating system as with the Chromebook laptops. Speaking on the launch function, Smita Hashim, global product manager, Chrome OS said that, “The Chromebook was launched in India a year ago. Now we are launching three new Chromebooks.” While the Xolo and Nexian were targeted at schools and educational institutions, the Chromebook for Business are targeted that SOHO segment....

According to Android Police, the search giant has updated Hangouts app to version 36.0.340725045 killing the group video calling feature on both Android and iOS as well as the web version. When users open this version, they will be greeted with a warning message at the top of the app’s homepage stating “Video calls in Hangouts now use Google Meet. That gives you live captions, screen sharing, and more.” followed by a link to a Google support page....

According to an APK teardown of Google Messages by XDA Developers, the folks at the publication spotted new strings within the Messages app that points out to app code notice which reads, “On March 31, Messages will stop working on uncertified devices, including this one”. The strings was spotted in the app code of beta app version 7.2 of the Google Messages app. For those unaware, a certified Android phone is a device that comes pre-installed with Google’s G Suite of apps including Google Play Services....

For those unfamiliar, Project Zero (Google), is a team of security analysts employed by Google to find zero-day exploits in the hope that they can find them before they are exploited by malicious people. Google gives company 90 days after disclosure of vulnerabilities to fix the issue. However, if the time period elapses without a patch that is made available to the public, the vulnerability is then disclosed to the public so that users can protect themselves by taking necessary steps....

“This year, people will take about a trillion photos, and for many of us, that means a digital photo gallery filled with images that we won’t actually look at,” Google writes. “This is especially true with new parents, whose day-to-day experience is full of firsts. “During moments that can feel precious and fleeting, users are drawn to their smartphone cameras in hopes of capturing and preserving memories for their future selves....

For the unversed, last week, Meta released its video AI generator, “Make-A-Video” which produces videos from text. “Our work aims to generate videos from the text. We introduce Imagen Video, a text-to-video generation system based on video diffusion models that is capable of generating high definition videos with high frame fidelity, strong temporal consistency, and deep language understanding,” Google states in their research paper. Google’s Imagen Video AI, which is still in the development phase, was trained with an “internal dataset” of 60 million image-text pairs and 14 million video-text pairs as well as the LAION-400M image-text dataset....

Google has maintained such bug bounty programs for a number of their platforms such as Chrome and Chrome OS among others. This program’s scope for now is restricted to RCE (remote-code-execution) vulnerabilities and corresponding POCs (Proof of concepts) that work on Android 4.4 devices and higher. How it Works Within the bug bounty program, a researcher needs to find a vulnerability among the apps covered. Once found, they will have to report it to the app developer via their current reporting process....

Facebook is apparently under attack from the Great Cannon, the hacking and censuring tool clandestinely used by the Chinese government. The hack attack follows a simple method, redirect and confuse users so that they dont visit Facebook. Even the sites that are using Facebook Connect login widget are not spared. Sites using the Facebook Connect login widget are seeing their traffic hijacked or redirected to the above two websites. Incidentally, neither of the above two sites have any remotest connection with the PLA or the Chinese governement; wpkg....

According the the police statement, Helton targeted Hollywood stars using social engineering. He used to send these stars emails purporting to be from Google and Apple and use the credentials gained through illicit means to access personal email/iCloud/Google Albums. According to the U.S. Department of justice, he was able to dupe hundreds of Hollywood stars into giving him their usernames and passwords. The scheme, which lasted from March 2011 to May 2013, gave Helton access to “161 sexually explicit, nude and/or partially nude images of approximately 13 victims, some of whom were celebrities,” said DOJ spokesman Thom Mrozek....

The leaked information includes customer’s details such as credit card number, expiration dates, 3-digit card verification value (CVV) number, cardholder’s name, associated bank name, card type, physical address, email address, Social Security number, phone number, according to a report by BleepingComputer. This free data dump of 1,221,551 credit/debit cards can be used by threat actors to carry out phishing campaigns, financial fraud, and even identity theft. While most of the credit cards belonged to users from the United States, the remaining belonged to users from Australia, Brazil, China, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom....

China has been at the forefront of digital and economic transformation. The Red Dragon reaped the benefits of authoritarian political structure to build state-sponsored technological infrastructure. The same infrastructure that would put cold war prepped Russian tech finesse to test. USA and China have locked horns for long in the cyberspace over the latter’s notorious activities in Cyber-Warfare, termed “Network Warfare” in Beijing. Recently over growing concerns with China spying through its exported devices, the FCC declared Huawei and ZTE as “national security threats,” effectively barring companies from using subsidies to purchase them in the USA....