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Computer hid in a ceiling Officials from Ohio are claiming that inmates at one of their state prisons, built their own computer and used the prison’s internet access to download hacking programs and carry out identity theft. A report by the Office of the Ohio Inspector General has been published detailing the incident which apparently took place at the 2,500-prisoner Marion Correctional Institution north of Columbus. The agency first realized something was fishy when the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) got alerted that one computer had exceeded its daily internet usage threshold....

However, P2P lending is a growing and thriving niche in fintech. It has the potential to transform the way loans are executed across the board. This transformation would benefit lenders and borrowers alike. New P2P Decentralized Finance Technology One of the most appealing new platforms is Constant. Built on a decentralized platform that is free of third party oversight and powered by blockchain technology. Constant offers loans at custom rates, matching borrowers and lenders....

However, there seems to be change of heart in the creator of TeslaCrypt. Not only is the developer sorry for all the havoc it has caused, he/she has also shut down the ransomware. The developer has also made the master key for TeslaCrypt public which means that anti-ransomware researchers could easily create a fool-proof decryption app, TeslaDecoder. TeslaCrypt ransomware was unique in the sense it would hunt down and encrypt video games on your Windows PC....

Doom is a series of first-person shooter video games developed by id Software. The classic FPS game was first released in 1993 and focuses on the exploits of an unnamed space marine operating under the UAC (Union Aerospace Corporation), who fights hordes of demons and the undead in order to survive. The game is so popular that even now modders make different maps of their own and release them online for other players....

The FBI claims to have found the server’s location without the NSA’s help, simply by fiddling with the Silk Road’s login page until it leaked its true location. In the latest filing, however, former FBI agent Christopher Tarbell counters Ulbricht’s defense by describing just how he and another FBI agent located the Silk Road server in June of last year without any sophisticated intrusion: Instead, he says, they found a misconfiguration in an element of the Silk Road login page, which revealed its internet protocol (IP) address and thus its physical location....

Locky and Zepto, The Two Deadly RansomwareMartin BeltovLocky TroublesEnter ZeptoLocky and Zepto Are Part of Every Hacker Arsenal The situation with Locky is quite different – this ransomware has shown that it can evolve and change. In fact, cyber security experts no longer speak of Locky as a single type, but a whole family of related threats that are spread across the world. The most recent discovery is that Locky infects with DLL files now....

You can now keep your Facebook clean, secure and private with these 6 simple tips1. Secure your account2. Review your privacy settings3. Make enemies…..or at least unfriend some4. Watch those apps5. Control your data6. Plan ahead As we are in the new year, it is a good time now to do some digital cleanup and get rid of the unwanted games, apps, etc. that you no longer use. Also, it is a good time to review your security and privacy settings to ensure that your casual acquaintances are not receiving intimate details of your life....

“The approach was to look at every aspect of making a shoe and try to reimagine it. Freeing yourself of what is here now can be an enjoyable and rewarding exercise, typically it also speeds up change”, says Adrian van Hooydonk, Senior Vice President BMW Group Design. BMW Group Design had introduced the BMW GINA Light Visionary Model – a concept car with a seamless fabric outer shell in the year 2008, which consisted of a flexible material stretched over a movable substructure where functions were only enabled when actually needed....

It was 30 years ago on March 15, 1985, that the first dot com domain was registered changing the way we live operate and see things and off course, Internet. The world’s first domain name was registered by Symbolics, Inc. as www.symbolics.com. The url symbolics.com is a record in itself for completing 30 years with the dot.com itself. Today we are using TLDs, country domains and g-TLDs while surfing the net on our Apple, Android or any other device....

Even though he does not have an engineering background, he has knowledge on automating things such as data processing, and other things. In order to apply to several companies in the shortest time possible, he made a tool to automate his job application processing. In a nutshell, his tool comprises of crawlers, spreadsheets, and scripts to help with the entire process. According to Fast Company, his tool was so effective that by the time he came back with a cup of coffee from down the street, the tool sent around 1,300 job applications....

So, what do you do when you are out trekking, or on a wildlife expedition and your smartphone is running out of battery and there are no power outlets to charge your device? In such a scenario, all you require is a little inventiveness that can turn random junk into a working hydro-electric generator. That is what YouTuber Thomas Kim showed in a video posted on YouTube. In the video, he demonstrated how he MacGyver’d some water bottles, disposable platters, 3 Phase stepping motor, rectifier circuit, metal pipes, and other materials into this hydro-electric generator....

The Register reports that Johnson was working in a paper making factory called Georgia-Pacific for several years. On the fateful Valentine’s Day of 2014, the company decided to fire him. Johnson did not take the company’s decision in the right spirit and decided to get even with it. Johnson hacked into Georgia-Pacific servers using VPN once his employment was terminated. Once back inside the corporate network, he installed his own software and targeted the paper factory’s Port Hudson branch, which produces paper towels and tissues 24 hours a day....

Top 10 Android smartphones under Rs.20000.00 for the mid budget buyersSamsung Galaxy S4 One Plus One Xiaomi Mi4 Huawei Honor 6 Lenovo Vibe X2 Samsung Galaxy E7 Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo Sony Xperia C3 Lenovo Vibe Z K910 This is because some companies pack in additional features on the mid budget smartphones rather than the basic low budget ones. This instead however doesn’t make the user smart because you had to have depth knowledge of smartphone so that you can choose your own phone that suits you best according to your needs....

Redditor, man_on_the_train went a little further and devised his own tests to find out how the Antivirus softwares fare. He tested the most popular security software using Matousec’s SSTS, CLT and his own keylogger software. Man_on_the_train found that almost all top names in antivirus softwares failed in his test save SpyShelter Firewall 10.0 which passed all his tests with a score of 99%. Incidentally, SpyShelter is not a full blown antivirus....

Here are the top 5 tools you can use to automate your marketing1. GetResponseOverview2. AweberOverview3. MailChimpOverview4. InfusionSoftOverview5. MarketoOverviewWhat’s next? Well, I don’t blame you. Considering how a person can earn thousands of dollars from having an epic website, anyone would be a little touched in the head not to pursue creating and growing their own blog. Inasmuch as I’d like to tell you, however, that creating a money making blog is as effortless as riding a bicycle downhill, I’m afraid that just isn’t the case....

Tor has announced that it is shuttering down the Tor Cloud service platform. The reasons given for the closure is some major bug that is present in the service. Tor explained the reasons in blog post,

In the lawsuit filed by Twitter on July 5, the company alleged that the Indian government’s takedown orders amounted to abuse of power by officials to remove content shared on the website. The lawsuit filed in the Karnataka High Court in southern Bengaluru city comes after Twitter received a letter from the IT Ministry last month asking it to act on the content take-down notices sent under Section 69 (A) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 along with non-compliance notices issued for not taking the content down....