After the Bangladesh Bank hack, Swift authorities went on record to say that there was nothing wrong with the interbank gateway. However, as the investigations into Bangladesh Bank progressed it became clear that the hackers who were after $1 billion in deposits, used Swift vulnerabilities for the hack. Now a Ecuador bank says that it was hacked similarly in 2015 and the hackers managed to steal $12 million in that attack....

The ability of the bigger and more established tech-giants in achieving accuracy in the business of prediction lie within some established factors. These factors include; access to scarce and extensive data science PhDs, proper models per prediction, unlimited access to expensive and limited scales among others. Therefore, the exclusivity of these factors entails that the same group who retain access to them continue to enjoy the inherent benefits, while smaller groups remain sidelined, and depend on natural probabilities most of the time for their forecasts....

Stan Chudnovsky, Facebook’s head of product management for messaging products, said that Facebook Messenger does not receive location information about you unless location services are enabled on your phone for the app. According to him the Facebook Messenger app does not gather location data in the background and does not ask for new permissions for your information. The new feature is active in both Android and iOS devices, to disable location tracking on your Android smartphone, go to Settings > Location sharing and switch it to off....

“For the moments when we can’t be together IRL, Messenger video chat helps you connect in real-time with the people you care about most. Today we’re excited to make connecting with your friends in video chat even more fun – and competitive! – with multiplayer video chat AR games,” Facebook said in the announcement on Wednesday. Currently, there are two AR games, ‘Don’t Smile’ and ‘Asteroid Attack’ that are available to play....

While Facebook’s Messenger is great for many things, its most recent among them is tracking sleep. There is now a tool that uses the data collected from Messenger to track just how much sleep your friends are getting. Soren Louv-Jansen, a Danish coder at Tradeshift, discovered a way to track his friends’ sleeping habits through Messenger by coding a simple program that collects digital IDs and receipts left behind by the platform....

Apparently, the data sharing was allegedly an issue as early as 2012. “This was flagged internally as a privacy issue,” Sandy Parakilas, who then led Facebook’s privacy compliance, told The Times. “It is shocking that this practice may still continue six years later, and it appears to contradict Facebook’s testimony to Congress that all friend permissions were disabled.” However, Ime Archibong, Facebook’s vice president of product partnerships, responded to The Times’ article with a blog post titled, “Why We Disagree with The New York Times” and stated that these data agreements were a matter of necessity....

According to a report by The Verge, the new smartwatch will feature a stainless steel frame and have a display with two cameras that are detachable. This will allow the wearer of the watch to take photos and videos and quickly share them on social media platforms like Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Further, the device is reported to have a front-facing camera for video calling along with a 1080p camera with auto-focus on the back for capturing footage when detached from the frame on the wrist....

The fake Google email asks the potential victim to update his/her Google Chrome, which the email claims, has become outdated and insecure. The executable file pretending to be the Chrome Update is not attached with the mail itself but following the link from the mail leads to one of the several compromised websites hosting the malware laden files. The file named as “ChromeSetup.exe” is not a Chrome Update but a Ransomware variant, CTB Locker/Critroni Ransomware....

The App is in beta vesion and will be launched 5:00 PM EST today. The developer claims there is a heavy demand for the App which may be true in a sense because everybody is ready to pick up fights these days. How this will affect young males, law enforcement, or the public health system is yet to be seen, but here’s how it’ll work. Rumblr is also a lot like Tinder....

Your fingerprints can be lifted from your public images without your knowledge!Future of fingerprint identification As surprising as it may sound, Starbug managed to generate the fingerprint of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen without even being physically close to her. He simply scanned her thumb in photos that have been made public by media outlets. Making a presentation as the ongoing Chaos Computer Club hacker conference in Hamburg, Starbug explained how the biometric feature can be reproduced from images of victims finger....

The year is 2019 and you are able to download the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy movie set in just 10 minutes!!! Sounds too good to be true. But this will be the future according to Steven Mollenkopf. As of now, we are surfing the net at 4G speeds which means that we can theoretically download movies/tv-shows/files etc. at 100Mbps speeds where it is available though, in reality only Japanese and South Korean telecom companies give near that of speeds....

In this article, we bring you 25 Google Chrome tips and tricks will help you make the most out of your web browser, Search sites that aren’t Google right from the omnibar If you go into Chrome’s settings, you’ll see a “Manage search engines…” button under the “Search” section. Click that, and you’ll see a list of sites you can search directly from the omnibar. Chrome will add most of these naturally....

For the first time, scientists have observed polar bears devouring white-beaked dolphins in the Arctic due to global warming.Frozen dolphin carcass could provide a large source of food for the polar bears as climate change impacts their habitat Dolphins do not typically go that far up in the Arctic Ocean as they normally prefer to stay in the subarctic region with less ice and more open water.The researchers said in a commentary published online on June 1st in the journal Polar Research that in April 2014, a male polar bear with a full belly was seen near a recently devoured white-beaked dolphin, which could have weighed 120 to 680 lbs (54 to 308 kilograms) and measured 5 to 9 feet long (1....

According to a report from Bloomberg, Chief of Google’s cloud business, Diane Greene while addressing Microsoft’s GitHub deal at Fortune’s annual “Most Powerful Women Evening” event in San Francisco, said, “I wouldn’t have minded buying them, but it’s OK.” According to sources familiar with the GitHub deal, said that representatives from Alphabet’s Google were also in talks with the company about an acquisition in recent weeks but the deal eventually went to Microsoft....

The flaw aims users with user mode code integrity (UMCI) and Device Guard enabled, which Windows 10 S has by default, says Project Zero. This vulnerability allows an attacker to run arbitrary code to jailbreak Windows 10 S, which is basically designed for “streamlined for security and superior performance.” For those unfamiliar, Project Zero is a team of security analysts employed by Google to find zero-day vulnerabilities before they are found and exploited by malicious people....

The envisioned devices would listen for a direction or order and interact with homeowners upon a simple vocal command such as switching lights on and off or turn on household appliances. The patent describes as being able to hear for someone, turn a head to make “eye contact,” hear what they say before sending orders to remote computer servers and reply with pre-recorded phrases. BBC News reported that the three-year old patent was recently noticed by the legal technology firm, SmartUp....

For those unaware, RCS is a new online protocol between mobile-telephone carriers and between phone and carrier that aims to replace current texting standard SMS (Short Message Service) messages with a text-message system that is richer and can transmit in-call multimedia. RCS is an upgrade of the SMS text messaging technology that allows users to send and receive better quality photos and videos, chat over Wi-Fi or data, know when their message is read, share reactions, and enjoy more dynamic and engaging group chats....

Google’s findings were published in the Nature partner journal Digital Medicine in May. In one major case study in the research, Google applied its neural networks, a form of AI, on a woman with cancer who had arrived at a city hospital with late-stage breast cancer, fluids already flooding in her lungs. The hospital’s Early Warning System predicted that the woman had a 9.3% chance of dying during her stay, while Google’s AI said the risks of death were higher at 19....

Google’s DNS server serves the queries of 150 billion users a day, Now you can Imagine the amount of traffic which might be redirected within the 22 minutes time.For the time being primary investigations have been initiated but due to the anonymous nature of the attack the questions like why? who? and how the DNS was hijacked is still a mystery.

Google will hide applications that aren’t updated actively Starting November 1st, Google will stop recommending to users apps that the developers have kept outdated for a said duration. This goes in line with the similar policy rolled out by Apple for the their App Store. According to the official blog post, developers are required to keep their apps updated and compatible with the API level within two years of any major Android release....