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This was brought to notice by Anonymous member, GhostSec who said “by far the largest offender” was CloudFlare along with Google, Yahoo! and GoDaddy. GhostSec said that the Anonymous had compiled a list of websites and their hosts and found that most of the ISIS websites hid behind the CloudFlare curtain making it difficult for Anonymous to bring them down. Speaking with IBTimes UK, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare, Matthew Prince, said that his company would not be blocking its service to websites listed, as it would mean submitting to “mob rule”....

Congressional candidate, Mike Webb must have had the most terrible Monday in his career. One little mistake on his part and the whole world came to know that he enjoys viewing porn websites. Mike Webb, candidate for U.S. Congress in Virginia’s 8th congressional district, used a screenshot of his browser to illustrate a story in a Facebook post but forgot to close a few tabs sitting on porn sites before taking the screenshot, as noted by Gawker....

The draft law will introduce rules that will allow schools to to carry out background checks on the students search history and social media activity. It goes as far as to allow examiners to examine a student’s laptop log files and more when deemed necessary. The proposal has already been forwarded for further consideration. We should note however, that schools cannot force each and every student to hand over their personal laptops for examination instead, student have to give their consent before their laptops can be examined....

For those unfamiliar, vaping was invented in 2003 to help those individuals who are trying to quit smoking. In turn, vaping became so famous that even non-smokers tried it and were impressed, which increased the number of individuals using this. The vaping, which is executed through what is called an electronic cigarette or a vape pen, is a little more complicated than lighting up an organic cigarette. The practice is which is barely lethal or dangerous turned out to be nightmare for this 30-year-old man....

Musk purchased the company at $54.20 a share. Well, this is the same price stated in his initial offer on the 14th of April. In a statement, Elon Musk stated that, “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” He further added that, “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spambots, and authenticating all humans....

The video enclosed here is one of its first UHDs which NASA posted into its YouTube account- ReelNASA. The one given here is a short tease however the magnificent ones are yet come in near future. ReelNASA is one of NASA’s official YouTube accounts and it has most of the International Space Station’s video content. NASA said: “The view of life in space is getting a major boost with the introduction of 4K Ultra High-Definition video....

The accused, 22-year-old Trevor Graves has reportedly changed his grades more than 90 times during the period between March 2015 and December 2016 and changed grades for at least five fellow students on numerous occasions, said the FBI, according to the New York Times. Graves who worked with an unnamed accomplice in the hi-tech hacking scheme secretly installed plug keyloggers into university’s computers’ for classrooms and labs, which allowed him to see whatever his professors typed, including their credentials to login in the university’s grading and email systems....

The EZTV takedown hit the torrent fans hard as EZTV specialises in TV torrents. But fortunately for EZTV, its crew had managed to recover several servers after the raids and takedowns, which they used today to restart the services and serve the latest TV torrents again. EZTV crew told TorrentFreak that getting the entire site up and running was a difficult challenge but they have successfully completed it today. With it being up, torrent fans seem to queuing up for their fresh dose of TV shows....

For those unaware, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook were involved in a privacy scandal wherein the former had illegally lifted data of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge and consent and used it to influence voter trends in several countries. Facebook allowed thousands of app developers to harvest data through third-party online games and quizzes and then used it to target American voters with emotionally specific messaging. Facebook believes that as many as 87 million users’ personal data have been collected without their permission....

Similar sort of situation seems to have emerged when you try to make a promote a post containing “Scunthorpe.” Facebook wont let you do that. According to Independent, Facebook has enabled profanity filter feature for the use of the word Scunthorpe. It is currently banning all posts with that word because it contains within it a word describing a woman’s genitals. Facebook’s action came to light when the band October Drift was trying to promote its Scunthorpe show....

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....

When the feds arrested ulbricht, and took over the silk road site. they were able to seize all 26000 bitcoins found in the personal wallet of ulbricht. and they tranfered it into their account. but since the bitcoin transiction can be tracked publicly. users finally find the wallet address of FBI. and they took over to transfer the bitcoins to FBI’s wallet by adding comments.as tag to the wallet address as ‘Silkroad Seized Coins’ the comments can be seen from the screenshot below, which comes in block chain of FBI....

Yesterday we had reported that the 2013 Moto X (1st Gen) had started receiving Android 5.1 Lollipop update in Canada, United States and Brazil so maybe Motorola will follow the same pattern for the Moto X (2nd Gen) smartphone. Motorola’s David Schuster, Senior Director of Software Product Management, last week had confirmed that Motorola Moto X and Moto X (Gen 2) entered soak test in several markets. Adding further, Schuster had noted that “If all goes well we would expect full deployments to start next week....

It is believed that the weapon will be imported to European criminals within days, as officials fight to control the borders amid terror fears following a series of terrorist attacks in Europe in recent months. Made by the Minnesota-based manufacturer, Ideal Conceal, the 9mm double-barrel pistol known as the “iPhone Gun” has been pre-ordered 12,000 times. The company behind the legal gun said: “In today’s day and age, carrying a concealed pistol has become a necessity....

Blair C. Armstrong, postdoctoral researcher and his colleagues from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language noticed that the brain signals of 45 people as those subjects read a list of 45 acronyms such as DVD and FBI, according to the reports by Engadget. The difference between the volunteers’ brain reactions was enough for the system to find their identities with accuracy of up to 94%. New Scientist explained that these results suggest that brainwaves could finally be a way for security systems to verify a person’s identity....

Former American Major League Baseball right-handed Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling who is a World Series MVP proved that he can be handful to the Twitter trolls who used his proud fatherly tweet to troll his 17 year old daughter with explicit and voilent tweets. It all started with a simple tweet from Curt congratulating his daughter Gabriella Schilling aka Gabby on her acceptance to Rhode Island college Salve Regina University, where she’ll play softball....

Apparently, Apple employees have already been using the updated features to access offices and buildings at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino via their iPhones. For those uninitiated, the NFC (near-field communication) chip feature was added in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S in 2014 to allow for contactless information exchanges and is limited to Apple Pay and mobile payments. Compared to Bluetooth, NFC is a more secure way of authentication. According to MacRumors, “The change to the near-field communication, or NFC, chip, which is expected to be announced next month, could pave the way for people to use iPhones for other security-sensitive interactions, from paying transit fares and opening car doors to verifying their identity in other ways....

Check out the 7 rumored Features for Galaxy S8 Vs iPhone 85.8-Inch Curved Display (OLED)64GB Internal StorageIris/Facial RecognitionNo Home ButtonWater ResistanceWireless ChargingUSB-CBonus: “Plus” Name Let’s have a look at the specifications and features expected for both the Galaxy S8 and the iPhone 8. 5.8-Inch Curved Display (OLED) Several generations of Galaxy S have been sporting the dual-edge curved display that has been Samsung’s signature look. Rumors suggest that the South Korean giant has some rather impressive plans for its Galaxy S8 releases, which will come in two models, one with a 5....

The hacker announced the data leak on Twitter and posted a link to a PasteBin URL where he wrote that the leak was aimed at raising awareness “about what happens when you decide not to even add a username and password as root or check for open ports.” The users also can find a statement regarding his reasons behind the hack, screenshots from all the hacked servers, and several links from where users can download the data....

Google launches two new Pixels on Wednesday, Google Chromebook Pixel 2 for $999 and Google Chromebook Pixel “Ludicrous Speed” (LS) version for $1,299Pixel 2 specsNew Apps Comparing to its previous avatar the Google Chromebook Pixel 1, the new Pixel is faster and has a higher resolution screen but lack of Apps means that users will have to shell out 1K for a super speed web browsing laptop which cant do anything else....