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The vulnerability, which was first reported by The Financial Times, has named Israel’s cyber surveillance company, NSO Group that sells to security companies and governments to fight terrorism, behind the spyware. According to WhatsApp, the spyware allowed attackers to inject the surveillance software on to both iPhones and Android devices using a single WhatsApp call. In other words, the code developed by NSO could be transmitted even if users did not answer their WhatsApp call....

In other words, in order to run WhatsApp, iPhone users will need iOS 9 or later, and Android users must not have versions 2.3.7 or older. Further, users of these iPhones and Android phones will no longer be able to create new accounts, nor re-verify existing accounts. The reason behind withdrawing support for older operating systems is because WhatsApp will no longer actively develop for these platforms. As a result, some features on older versions of Android and iOS may stop working abruptly....

Much like Android, iPhone and iPad users will see a new Call tab in WhatsApp dashboard once they update their App. WhatsApp has said that the rollout is in a phased manner so not all users will be use the voice calling feature immediately. The latest update to the iOS version of WhatsApp also includes primarily support for the iOS 8 share extension which allows you to send videos, photos and links to WhatsApp chats from other apps....

— Chris Roberts (@Sidragon1) April 15, 2015 Later came the prosecution documents filed in a US court which revealed that Roberts had told FBI on countless occasions that he could make a plane fly sideways by hacking it. Can a Airplane be hacked? Was Roberts right in hacking a plane? Was he right in boasting it public through social media? Had he crossed the sacred white hat hackers line in hacking a plane?...

Wall Street is one of the places where blockchain technology can have the biggest applications. Blockchain simply provides trust in an environment where trust is a limiting factor – Wall Street won’t exist if there no trust among stakeholders. The very idea of investing in stocks, commodities, ETFs, mutual funds, and forex among others is built on trust between the buyers, sellers, and brokers. However, Wall Street despite its legacy systems is still grossly inefficient in some of its industries....

Users complain about Touch ID not working in App Store with the new updateFixes in iOS 8.3WiFi / Bluetooth FixesUI fixesMessaging App fixesFamily SharingIssues with the update The most obvious are additions in Apple iOS 8.3 are emoji and CarPlay. The default keyboard’s emoji selector has been updated with a scrollable list view, categories, and a skin tone picker for each face. A few brand-new emoji resemble Apple’s family of products — the iPhone, iMac, and Apple Watch....

Xnote a new multi-purpose backdoor Linux trojan authored by ChinaZ, converts Linux systems into botnetsThe working The researchers have named the malware as Xnote and they believe it to be authored or at least handled by a Chinese hacker group called ChinaZ. The researchers have noted that the Xnote is delivered on the target computer through a brute force attack and once the brute force is successful, the malware establishes a SSL connection with the machine for further communications with the Command and Control server....

According to a report by India Today, you can now get three-year jail sentence as well as a fine of Rs. 3 lakh for trying to visit URLs that are banned by the Indian government. Over the past few years, the Indian government with the support Internet Service Providers (ISPs) or under the directive of the courts have blocked thousands of websites and URLs. In August 2015, the government banned at least 857 sites for their pornographic contents....

The Asus NovaGo convertible laptop, the HP Envy x2 2-in-1 tablet, and the Lenovo Miix 630 2-in-1 tablet were some of the first laptops that came with Windows 10 on ARM architecture running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip. Since their launch, these devices were greeted with mixed reviews for being slow, its poor performance and app incompatibilities around the ‘x86’ emulator. Now, the folks behind the AArch64 Laptops have come up with a way to install Ubuntu 18....

iPhone/iPad running on iOS 8.x can be taken over by hackers using Airdrop and other vulnerabilitiesProof-of-Concept videoMitigation The attack allows a potential hacker to install malicious apps on iPhones and Macs via their Bluetooth-enabled Airdrop filesharing feature. Anyone in range of a target device with the feature enabled could plant malware on the phone or PC, even if the victim didn’t tap “accept” for the offered file. Dowd said that Apple had patched the vulnerability in its latest OS release, iOS 9 and has advised all iPhone/iPad owner to update their devices to iOS 9 immediately....

The suspect has been identified as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, of Southern California, who wounded four people before shooting herself dead, said two law enforcement officials on the condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to discuss the case. San Bruno police said in a statement that the suspect did not know the victims when she opened fire on Tuesday afternoon before killing herself. The suspect’s father, Ismail Aghdam, told CBS Los Angeles that she was angry with the company because it had stopped paying her for videos she posted on the platform....

An advertising model being tested by the leading online social network is part of a “Suggested Videos” feature designed to recommend clips for people based on snippets they tune into in News Feed at Facebook. Robert Kyncl, head of content and business operations at YouTube, told the Financial Times the online video market was expanding so fast that “it will be a decade before we bump into each other”. The arrival into the market of Facebook, disappearing-messages app Snapchat and Twitter’s video app Vine is a sign that online video is “becoming mainstream”, but none of them would derail the YouTube juggernaut, he said....

This is because the upcoming iPhone 7 Plus is rumored to feature 3GB of RAM. Though more amount of RAM will obviously equal more battery consumption, we have a feeling that Apple will reduce this drawback through a large battery capacity. However, 3GB RAM is not the only impressive hardware spec that is going to be present inside the upcoming beast of an iPhone. iPhone 7 Plus has also been rumored to feature a dual-camera processing sensor, and if the rumor holds true, this iPhone is going to be the very first phone belonging to Apple to feature such a configuration....

Linus Torvalds, creator and principal developer of the Linux kernel, confessed that he doesn’t “trust security people to do sane things”, saying some security professionals are just “fcking morons.” Torvalds ranted on the Linux developers forum that security professionals concentrated on process-killing rather than debugging. This reaction came from Torvalds when Google Pixel security team developer, Kees Cook submitted a pull request for version 4.15 of the Linux Kernel. Cook said, “Please pull these hardened usercopy changes for v4....

Called Telegram Premium, this paid subscription plan will go above and beyond the current free experience, says Durov. The new premium plan will offer additional features, speed, and resources to subscribers of this plan. It will also allow users to support Telegram and join the club that receives new features first. According to Durov, there were receiving requests from its users to raise the current limits on chats, media, and file sizes....

Using a Windows 10 video player that supports mainstream file formats, can playback high-res video files, and syncs audio with subtitles will definitely enhance your watching experience. The default Media player in Windows 10 has limited features and responds very slowly. In this article, we have enlisted some of the best Windows 10 media players that are fully feature-packed and can help you enjoy music, songs Movies, And TV Shows in different formats including AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MKV, MP3, or MP4....

Glassdoor browsed its huge database of company reviews and ratings from current and former employees to find the companies with the most satisfied workers. Ranking includes companies with more than 1,000 employees, and it’s based on employee reviews submitted since November 2016. Organizations were ranked based on employee ratings across several factors, such as overall satisfaction, career opportunities, compensation and benefits, work-life balance, culture, values and business outlook. Based on employees’ reviews, companies received overall ratings on a scale of one to five, with five signifying the most satisfied employees....

Any of these 10 online activities could land you in jail in some part of the world10 Online Activities That Can Get You Arrested#1 Having An Open Wi-Fi#2 Deleting Your Search History #3 Offensive Posts, Messages or Tweets#4 Using VOIP services#5 Dancing in a Video#6 Leaving Internet Comments#7 Translating Articles#8 Gambling#9 File Sharing#10 Posting Lyrics on Facebook Cyber crimes and terrorist attacks have dramatically increased over the years and that may be one of the reasons that if one is seen violating rules of Internet, he/she may be put behind the bars....

The 18-year-old high school student had participated in a bug bounty competition known as ‘Hack the Pentagon’ organised by the newly formed Defence Digital Service (DDS) division of the U.S. Department of Defense. The project invited hackers to test the cyber security of some public Defense Department websites. More than 1,400 participants had taken part in Hack the Pentagon project that launched this year. The participants found 1,189 vulnerabilities, of which 138 valid reports of vulnerabilities, the Pentagon said....