The FT blog showed a message “Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army” and Twitter accounts including the Lex Column and FT Markets tweeted “The Syrian Electronic Army was here”. All though the blog post was removed soon after the attack. but it surely took a lot of time to recover those twitter accounts. The twitter accounts hacked: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 10....

Prenda is a Law firm which specialises in suing torrent downloaders after baiting them to download the torrents. It has already been in the notice of the law when federal judge referred the lawyers behind the Prenda Law “copyright trolling” scheme to investigators in 2013. Over the past months two Pirate Bay co-founders have been questioned by Swedish police, acting on behalf of the FBI. The officers were looking for information on Pirate Bay backups and logs as part of an investigation into the honeypot scheme of the notorious Prenda copyright trolls....

Hundreds of ‘pirate’ sites are available on the Internet today, which are mostly run by groups who choose to keep their identity a secret. In the torrent and streaming worlds, identities are valued pieces of information that are extremely tightly guarded. However, there are exemptions to these of course. For instance, while the original people behind The Pirate Bay are popular public figures, the same can be told for Gary Fung of isoHunt....

Lets check the different changes that have been incorporated in the new version i.e. Android M and how it scores over its predecessor Android Lollipop (Android L) App Permissions Control: With the Android M, users can now confirm permission to an individual app as per their function and requirement. Further, users will also get an option to revoke individual app permissions again, if need be. On the contrary, with Android L, it was essential to allow all app permission before users could download the required app from Google Play Store....

An act of solving neighbor’s internet connectivity problems by a lady in UK led to the development of B4RN, an Internet Service provider that offers fast one gigabit per second broadband speeds. It provides 35 times faster broadband speeds than the 28.9Mbps average UK speed Internet connection. The lady in question is Christine Conder, who modestly says, “I am just a farmer’s wife.” It all started in 2009 when the trees that separated Chris’s neighboring farm from its nearest wireless mast – their only connection to the internet, provided by Lancaster University – grew very big....

Squawkr, is a new service, which alerts people when a high-quality pirated film appears online and allows them to maintain a watchlist of films. All the user needs to do is sign up and inform the service of the upcoming films they wish to see. Once a title on the list becomes available Squawkr will send out notifications via email. Squawkr regularly polls the PreDB database of scene releases. After logging in, the users can start adding movie titles, which is pretty much all there is to it....

The trick involves a slightly roundabout way of removing the animations that make it look like apps are flying around the screen as they are opened or closed. Not many iPhone users like these animations and so they could very well have a faster iPhone instead. Apple added a way of getting rid of some of the animations using the “reduce motion” setting that can be found in the accessibility menu....

It is just like Windows and Mac OS and is one of the most popular OS on the planet. In fact, even the highly used mobile operating system Android is powered by Linux. Linux is OS used to control hardware like desktop and laptop computers, supercomputers, mobile devices, networking equipment, world’s stock exchanges, airplanes, and automobiles. Also, unlike Windows and Mac-based PCs, its rugged command line structure makes Linux popular among coders and hackers....

The Tor instant messaging service is a beta release and took Tor Project developers more than a year to make, promises to create a more private, seamless, accessible way for people to chat securely on the web. The Tor Messenger is built on the instant messaging client Instantbird, works a lot like Adium, but all chat traffic will be through Tor anonymity network for added privacy.

Traffic Migration The shut down has led to a surge in people across the globe looking for newer avenues of torrents with the searches for the term ” torrent sites ” seeing an unprecedented surge as evident in the graph below: Usually in such scenarios, quite a few users migrate to other established websites. TorrentFreak has spoken to several people connected to top torrent sites who have confirmed that they had witnessed a significant visitor boost over the past week and a half....

Over the next two years, the company expects the TrueCaller app to be pre-installed in more than 100 million new smartphones. Truecaller is platform agnostic and aims to work with as many smartphone makers as possible in the future. Despite the app being pre-installed on the smartphone from the factory, Truecaller said that consumers are free to exercise their choice of using other phone apps with no guarantee of a new active user from start....

FBI has arrested two men from North Carolina for supposedly participating in the Hack The Pentagon program to target high-ranked federal officials. If you remember, Pentagon had undertaken the Hack The Pentagon bug bounty award program in April 2016 to find bugs on its website. The Hack The Pentagon bug bounty program was undertaken in association with HackerOne and hackers and security researchers were paid $150,000 for finding bugs and flaws....

RSA is a public key cryptosystem which is majorly used when one needs to ensure security during the transmission of potential data. This method of transmission of storing data and sending it in a particular format to specific person is known as cryptography. Generally, a cryptosystem would comprise of three algorithms: one for Key generation, second for encryption and third for decryption. The security of RSA cryptosystem depends on a public key which is used for data encryption and from this a private key is generated which is used for data decryption....

However, the cyberattack carried out by the boy, who is believed to be 14-years-old, was unsuccessful, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgium. They stressed that “it appeared there were no terrorist motives.” Belgian investigators traced the cyberattack to a property in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and provided the information to U.S. law authorities. In a statement, Belgium officials said: ‘Within the framework of this investigation, the FBI proceeded to a house search in Pittsburgh upon a request for legal assistance from the Belgian Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, and interrogated a minor of American nationality....

Many Government organizations and ISPs have completely blocked users’ access to torrent websites. Countries like the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India have banned several torrent sites. Consequently, it becomes very difficult for users to unblock torrent sites and access them. While you can always use Torrent proxy and mirrors to unblock bittorrent websites but sometimes these might not be enough. So here’s how to unblock torrent websites and access them to download free movies, tv shows, and other torrent files....

1)Download Evasi0n for Windows 2) Download Evasion for macPlease note that jail breaking can void your warranty, so if you run into any problems and ruin your device, Apple has the right to refuse to fix it for you.But its Legal in US by the rule passed by the Us Government in July 2010.

As per the ruling Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg will have to hand over documents and electronic mails to Ceglia’s attorney Fogg. Paul Ceglia is undergoing a criminal trial for claiming that he owned majority ownership in the social media giant in lieu $1,000 he lent in startup money to Mark Zuckerberg. With trial listed for hearing on May 4, Ceglia fled after cutting off his electronic ankle bracelet alongwith his wife, two children and dog from their home in Wellsville, 70 miles southeast of Buffalo....

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, announced Friday that it hit a new milestone in the development of fast, lightweight drones that can navigate themselves. DARPA’s drone is loaded with sensors and can hit speeds of 40 mph or 20 meters per second while flying through a cluttered warehouse. In fact, the DARPA drone could navigate the turns and avoid objects at awesome speeds with ease. In another test in the aircraft hangar turned warehouse, the drone spotted boxes in its path and could fly around them....

However, there is a very interesting story behind this. In 1996, a number of companies – Intel, Ericsson, Nokia, and later IBM – were looking to standardize the industry around a short-range radio link for doing a number of things. Each company had been developing their own short-range radio technologies, but all the names they came up with sucked. That is when an obscure Scandanavian king came from the Middle Ages....

The new social networking website named WT: Social or WikiTribune launched on November 6 has now surpassed more than 200,000 members within days of its launch, claimed Wales. Unlike its rival Facebook and Twitter that is data-driven by ad-funded models, the new site makes money by depending on “the generosity of individual donors” rather than ads. Wales plans to use the “news focused” social network to retaliate against the “fake news and low-quality content” that proliferates across other social media platforms....