One question that laptop users perennially have is whether overcharging laptop will cause any damage to the laptop battery. Most of the laptop users prefer to use those laptop connected to the DC plug. Does this harm the laptop battery? Will overcharging damage the battery and require replacement? These are some of the questions that we look into in this article. First of all, let us understand what overcharging is....
Readers should understand the seriousness of the the vulnerability as almost all of banks, financial institutions and other websites which gather personal identifiable information (PII) use HTTPS for secure communication between the user and the web server. The attack exploiting this, dubbed DROWN(Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption), is estimated to be able to kill off at least one-third of all HTTPS servers. The researchers who discovered the flaw stated that as many as 11....
Smartphones come in various casing varying from metal to entirely plastic but what if someone offers you a smartphone with a casing entirely made out of grass? A pioneer in recycled products, Design Works has been testing a mobile phone that’s composed of entirely recycled and natural products, with one major ingredient being blades of grass. Designer Sean Miles has managed to create a complete smartphone case out of grass which not only would stand out in the crowd but also look pretty neat....
Somebody used the Twitter account of 2UE News and tweeted a text saying It is believed that this tweet was a work of a disgruntled ex-employee of the network following the sackings of high profile staff as a result of the Macquarie/Fairfax Radio Network merger. The news company however says that the ROGUE tweet is a random hack rather than an act of revenge by a former employee. The alert security team of 2UE removed the tweet 11 minutes after it was posted but not before many noticed it...
Trailing behind The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrent is the second largest torrent site with millions of daily visitors. Several entertainment industry groups put pressure on hosting companies and domain name services to take action against ExtraTorrent due to its popularity. Consequently, ExtraTorrent ended up losing control of three domain names used for its official mirror sites over the past several days. Thus, extratorrent.rocks, etproxy.top and extratorrent.date are no longer available following a complaint from rightholders....
At the time of changing the password or while logging many users were able to similar messages, and were asked to answer few security questions and finally to change their password.‘We actively look for situations where the accounts of people who use Facebook could be at risk—even if the threat is external to our service,’ said Nancarrow, ‘When we find these situations, we present messages like the one in the screenshot to help affected people secure their accounts....
Dubbed as “Project Storm,” Parikh explained the effort to the audience of invited engineers at the third annual @Scale conference held in San Jose this week. @Scale brings together engineers who build or preserve systems designed for huge numbers of users, including companies like Google, Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify, Dropbox, and others. The wake-up call for Facebook as to how natural disaster could cause a shut-down disaster was the mammoth 2012 hurricane, Super Storm Sandy that pushed its way up the East Coast from the Caribbean and made landfall near New York City, causing havoc on the East Coast internet infrastructure....
David Wehner, Facebook CFO was reported as saying by Mashable that “We think that enabling that B2C (business-to-consumer) messaging has good business potential for us.” “As we learn those things, I think there’s going to be opportunities to bring some of those things to WhatsApp, but that’s more longer term,” Wehner said at a tech conference in Boston recently. However, all that functionality is only available for “select companies in the US, and only on Messenger....
The message on the Facebook page with the Dodge Charger 1970 giveaway is placed at the top and has over 300,000 likes, with the post dated April 15. The scam attempts to fool Facebook users into commenting on, liking and sharing the page, in order to have a chance to win one of the cars. By liking, sharing and commenting on the fake prize post, Facebook users inadvertently promote the Page across the network and expose all of their friends to the scam....
However, the excessively high cost of designing and manufacturing the satellite lead to the abandonment of the plans. The cost, according to conflicting reports are anywhere from US$500m to US$1bn. With such a heavy price tag, it is no surprise that Facebook has lost interest in satellite internet, according to media reports. Facebook is dropping its plans for a geo-stationary satellite over concerns that it will not get return on its investments, according to reports....
Christen Dubois, IP Litigation Director for Facebook, in a blog post on Monday, stated that the domains created by the Indian company “were designed to deceive people by impersonating our family of apps, like: facebook-verify-inc.com, instagramhjack.com and videocall-whatsapp.com.” He further added, “We regularly scan the internet for domain names and apps that infringe on our trademarks and today’s lawsuit is part of this ongoing effort to protect people from phishing, credential theft and other methods of online fraud....
What is alarming that the spoof app looks like has got past Google’s self-praised Bouncer app vetting system. The company thinks that the malicious version of the BatteryBot battery indicator app was most likely making an effort to bring together an army of compromised devices for premium SMS scams, click fraud and ad fraud. The bogus BatteryBot Pro that has now been removed from Play Store was offered for free (the real thing sells for Rs....
This could be of help to the Internet user by fetching data in advance but it also poses a potential risk with privacy and security related concerns. Additionally it eats up a lot of data because users tend to hover their mouse around the webpages a lot sending lots of requests. What if a link on which the user hovers on belongs to a malicious website which the user has no intent of visiting....
According the the security agencies Junaid Hussain is a British hacker believed to be working for ISIS, and Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, an American recruited by the Somali terror gang al-Shabaab in 2008. Simpson had asked his Twitter followers to follow Junaid Hussain in one of his final Tweets before launching the attack in Texas and Hussain congratulated Simpson after the attack, according to security agencies. Hussain’s hacking group, CyberCaliphate had hacked into the U....
After all, some retailers receive as much as 30% of their annual sales during the winter holidays. And overall, holiday sales represent nearly 20% of the retail industry’s total sales. Simply put, there’s too much to gain by pushing through and getting proactive instead. You can’t let those customers go to your competitors just because you got too busy to attract them to your website, can you? Of course, you’ll need visual marketing assets to make it work....
According to an FCC document unearthed by Brian Benchoff at Hackaday, the internet giant applied for an experimental radio license to be built in the New Mexico desert. Google has asked FCC to treat some information relating to radio experiments as confidential however Hackaday was able to decipher some of the things in the report. These experiments involve highly directional and therefore high power transmissions at 2.5 GHz, 5.8GHz, 24GHz, 71-76GHz, and 81-86GHz....
Google releases Nogotofail tool to test vulnerability to Man-in-the-Middle attacksSecurity ProtocolsMan-in-the-MiddleNogotofail Tool Security Protocols Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols designed to provide communication security over the Internet. Both these layers are used for securing internet communications. SSL was the one of the earliest and hence is the most popular protocol. It used a 128-bit encryption which is theoretically next to impossible to crack, which should make it the near perfect security mechanisms....
Google, an Internet search engine, will now enter the world of telecom and compete with the local wireless providers like Verizon and AT&T. The service will be launched for the U.S. customers and it will let customers pay only for the data that is being used on the network. In simple terms Google wireless customers will have to pay only when they make calls or use any apps or listen to music hence Google will not levy bulk rates which is the common procedure of other telecom service providers where they charge a bulk rate for certain amount of data....
For those unaware, Google had temporarily suspended paid extensions earlier this year, as a measure to pause a tide of fraudulent transactions involving the extension marketplace aiming to exploit users. “The web has come a long way in the 11 years since we launched the Chrome Web Store. Back then, we wanted to provide a way for developers to monetize their Web Store items. But in the years since, the ecosystem has grown and developers now have many payment-handling options available to them,” Google said in the announcement blog....
