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A representative of the Dubai Chess and Culture Club said: “The Armenian noticed the Georgian was oddly frequenting the toilet after each move during a crucial part of the game.” Immediately the officials checked Nigalidze however they did not find any gadgets on him. Next, the officials investigated the toilet that he was visiting and here they found an Apple iPhone that was wrapped in a toilet paper and hidden behind the toilet....

China has finished building the world’s biggest radio telescope, which it will use to explore space and hunt for extraterrestrial life, according to the state media Xinhua. About 300 “builders, experts, science fiction enthusiasts and reporters” watched the installation of the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (aka FAST) in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. The project took five years and $180 million to complete, and the reflector covers the area of roughly 30 football fields....

The South Korean tech giant Samsung too has decided to do its bit to fight off the coronavirus, as they have already suffered because of it with the closures of several factories in South Korea. Now, Samsung is offering free “Galaxy Sanitising Service” to Galaxy owners through official Samsung Service Center and Samsung Experience Stores to help them get rid of bacteria, germs, and viruses off their devices. The free cleaning service is currently being offered only for Galaxy owners in selected 19 countries across the globe....

According to the Verge, Truecaller will come as a built-in service on Cyanogen OS and users are required to enable it. After enabling Truecaller on their smartphones, Truecaller will pull caller details from its web server and inform the user about the identity of the incoming caller within few seconds. Dave Herman, Cyanogen’s vice president of product says that Truecaller on Cyanogen OS is more than merely identifying numbers. Besides identifying an incoming caller, it lets users report bad numbers and keep spammers at bay....

1923Turk. just fired a Tweet using twitter handle @1923Turkz, claiming to hack database of Department of Police, State Government of Jharkhand, India. The database contains the login credential including email and password, Majority of the password used is 123. It seems like its the default password, and they have not changed it. The database can be seen in the paste here For those who don’t believe it, 1923Turk released a screenshot, showing the vulnerability in their website....

The Nokia 3310 has more or less kept the shape of the original Nokia model but given it the features you need in 2017. The new Nokia 3310 features a 2.4 inch touchscreen QVGA resolution display, which is polarised and curved for better sunlight legibility and comes with a resolution of 240 pixels by 320 pixels. The dimensions of the phone are 115.6 x 51 x 12.8 mm, which makes it much sleeker than the original phone, which measured 113 mm x 48 mm x 22 mm....

Windows 10 has been a successful launch for Microsoft with a million plus users and hoping to reach a billion users in three years. But there are many among you who dont like Windows 10 for various reasons and may want to go back to your old Windows 7/8.1 version. For those wanting to downgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 7/8.1, it’s a surprisingly straightforward process. Unfortunately there’s no automatic system for older versions — you’ll have to backup your files, track down some installation media, and find your software key to get back to your “old” computer....

The updated version of DOOM and DOOM II games are available for all platforms such as Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. These games are also now available on PC via the Bethesda.net Launcher. Those who already have the classic original DOS-based games will get the updated versions for free. The biggest highlight of the update is add-ons support for Doom and Doom II. This includes TNT: Evilution, The Plutonia Experiment, No Rest for the Living and John’s John Romero’s SIGIL....

To explain this, security researcher Ross Bevington showcased a presentation at BSides London that revealed how an e-cigarette could be used to attack a computer either by interfering with its network traffic or by deceiving the computer to make it believe that it was a keyboard. For those unfamiliar, E-cigarettes, also known as electronic cigarettes and vaporizer cigarettes are battery-powered smoking devices that are designed to look and feel like regular cigarettes....

A Houston area man who is also a ex-military man spoke to Click 2 Houston about his involvement with the global hacktivist group Anonymous and why he severed all ties with the elusive organization. Mike Jones claims he is one of the original members of Anonymous and has been at the forefront of several cyber attacks on government institutions, large corporations and terrorist groups. “We were looking for new ways, new ways of thinking,” Jones said....

The Extratorrent admin took to Twitter to tell its fans about the DDoS attack — Extra Torrent (@Extra_Torrent) January 10, 2015 About Extratorrent ExtraTorrent was one of the more popular torrent websites in 2014. It has grown in size due to more traffic and has moved up again in the top 10, now placed as the 4th most-visited torrent site by torrent ranking websites. This success didn’t go unnoticed by rightsholders groups such as the MPAA who recently called out ExtraTorrent as one of the top pirate sites....

Discovered and posted by Joshua Maddux on Twitter, the issue secretly activates users’ iPhone camera without their permission while they scroll through their Facebook feeds via the app. The bug keeps the camera active even if the users are not taking or looking at a photograph on the social network or doing some other task with any of the imaging sensors. — Joshua Maddux (@JoshuaMaddux) November 10, 2019 Similar unusual behavior was noticed by a number of users who posted videos online demonstrating it....

This platform makes it easy for the students to find and start conversations within their college community. “This year, students across the country are facing new challenges as some campuses shift to partial or full-time remote learning, so it’s more important than ever to find a way to stay connected to college life. College is a time for making new friends, finding people who share similar interests, and discovering new opportunities to connect – from clubs to study groups, sports, and more....

Facebook’s 31-year-old CEO explained how Facebook aims to reach the planet’s 7 billion people — half of whom do not have Internet access. He also took direct aim at those who would limit free trade and immigration. “We are one global community,” he said. “Whether we are welcoming a refugee fleeing war or an immigrant seeking opportunity, coming together to fight a global disease like Ebola or to address climate change....

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....

The new feature called Wi-Fi Discovery is being tested and is designed to highlight places where Facebook users can access free and public Wi-Fi places. The testing is currently going in select countries and should be released world over by next month. “To help people stay connected to the friends and experiences they care about, we are rolling out a new feature that surfaces open Wi-Fi networks associated with nearby places,” a Facebook spokesperson told VentureBeat....

Sabu has claimed that the U.S. government disregarded his interactions with the Turkish hacker group RedHack, with which he brokered an alliance with his own group, AntiSec. Sabu, formerly a hacktivist when caught by the FBI in June 2011, was given a choice of collaborating in taking down other hacktivists as an FBI informant. Sabu chose to be an informant and proved to be an efficient asset for FBI, playing a key role in the arrest of Jeremy Hammond, a wanted hacker with Anonymous at the time....

The document also describes 3 of the Major Security threats given below:

FBI ends legal battle with Apple, as it accesses San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone without Apple’s helpAnd Apple still doesnt know how FBI did it The move comes a week after Justice Department officials put a sudden hold on their demands that Apple assist the FBI with an announcement that an outside group had offered a way to hack into the iPhone. Aided by the unnamed group, FBI technology experts had been at work since, testing the method to confirm it could open the iPhone without jeopardizing its contents....