In reality, there are several important features that are missing in Edge, even though it may look strong on paper. The browser certainly needs a lot of improvements in desktops and tablets, for which some of the changes are expected to be rolled out soon. Currently, for the regular web surfers and for the ones who install Windows 10, Edge is certainly not the favorite choice, as the new browser has failed to make itself notice in the August 2015 market share statistics....

Jacob Holcomb creates proof-of-concept worm for Network-attached storage devicesWhat is a Network-attached-storage device?Vulnerable NAS devicesDevices still unpatched Earlier this year, Jacob Holcomb, a security analyst at Baltimore-based firm Independent Security Evaluators, started researching the security of NAS devices. He selected popular devices from 10 manufacturers and found that they were all were susceptible to root compromise. To his further indignation, he found that exploiting half of them did not require any authentication....

McAfee has now appeared on national television to show the world how how to hack a iPhone. Basically it involves a hardware engineer taking the phone apart physically, copying “the instruction set, which is the iOS and applications and your memory” A software engineer then runs a program called a disassembler, gathering all the ones and zeroes of inputs “and gives you readable instructions” A coder then reads these inputs and looks for the elements relating to the users PIN....

JQuery.com the popular JavaScript library hosting webite compromisedFlaw in the website not known! One of the reasons for its popularity is that, jQuery is free, open source software, licensed under the MIT License. And the same popularity also makes compromised JQuery.com website, much more dangerous as per RisqIQ blog. James Pleger of RisqIQ says that due to the vast popularity and wider usage of the library across the globe, this breach is more harmful then normal breaches....

“We’re excited to announce that you can now download & install Kali Linux via the Windows Store,” said Tara Raj, Program Manager at Microsoft in a blog post. “Our community expressed great interest in bringing Kali Linux to WSL in response to a blog post on Kali Linux on WSL. We are happy to officially introduce Kali Linux on WSL.” For those unaware, Kali Linux is a free, and open-source Linux-based operating system designed for digital forensics, penetration testing, reversing, and security auditing....

The secret UEFI level spyware installer kit discovery was made by a user, willSmith1701 on Ars Technica Forum. He had purchased a Lenovo G50-80 and did a clean install using a retail disc. However when he tried to reboot the system he got a pop up message saying The popup has a option to either cancel, or to agree and install. However that is not the issue here. Since the user tried a clean install, he shouldnt be getting such a message in the first place....

Announced in June 2016, Linux Mint 18.x series follows the pattern set by the 17.x series, by using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as a base. After 5 good years of service, Linux Mint 18, 18.1, 18.2, and 18.3 has now reached EOL this month and will no be longer supported with security or software updates. If you are running one of these releases, your operating system will continue to work but you will no longer receive security updates from the repositories, says Clement....

The five students had spent months planning to record the perfect GoPro shot before launching the helium balloon high into the atmosphere above the desert. After reaching a maximum altitude of about 18 miles, during a flight time of slightly more than 90 minutes, the equipment fell to the desert floor where it remained for about two years. The team was using the Global Positioning System (GPS) on the smartphone to track the package, but they encountered a problem during the descent....

4G Security: Hacking USB Modem and SIM Card via SMSThe vulnerability4G modemSIM Card vulnerabilityVideo The research team which comprised of Sergey Gordeychik, Alexander Zaitsev, Kirill Nesterov, Alexey Osipov, Timur Yunusov, Dmitry Sklyarov, Gleb Gritsai, Dmitry Kurbatov, Sergey Puzankov and Pavel Novikov, presented briefing about the above vulnerabilities at the recently concluded Choas Computer Club hackers conference in Hamburg, Germany as well as at the PacSec Conference held at Tokyo. The vulnerability Researchers from Positive Technologies made a detailed briefing about how detailing how to compromise 4G USB modems and how the SIM cards are vulnerable to exploitation via SMS over 4G networks....

Courthouse News Service reported that the former Ashley Madison user, Poyet, has filed the case saying that he was tricked by Ashley Madison into believing he was interacting with beautiful females while all the time he was interacting with ‘an army of fembots.’ He says that he came to know that they were fembots or female robot users only after the hack attack and subsequently stolen data was leaked by the Impact Team....

Simon Weckert, a Berlin-based performance artist and prankster, who published a video on his YouTube channel and his blog, is seen wheeling 99 smartphones filled in a red handcart with the location turned on through the city streets (including the street right outside Google’s office in Berlin). For those unaware, Google is dependent on the number of Google Maps users in a particular area to assess traffic jam. For instance, if a large number of smartphones in a particular area are stationary or are moving slowly, Google Maps’ servers interpret this as traffic congestion....

Masque Attack : Your iPhone Apps may actually be malwaresHow does Masque work?All Apple iOS devices affectedPrecautions against Masque attack In July, the FireEye mobile security team discovered that an iOS app installed using enterprise or ad-hoc provisioning could replace another genuine app installed through the App Store if both applications used the same bundle identifier. The vulnerability exists because iOS doesn’t enforce matching certificates for apps with the same bundle identifier, according to the firm....

The FireFly starts from American engineer Tom Markusic who has been working in the space industry for 20 years already. The Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, and Jeffrey Preston Bezos’ Blue Origin are the main projects from his portfolio. All the companies mentioned above support the idea of “New” space and set the goal of making space flight more affordable through the implementation of technological innovations. In 2014, Markusic takes a decision to create his own company that would work to develop launch vehicles for satellites....

The palm-sized robot was built using a combination of molding for the body and 3D printing for the legs. The design is totally soft without a hard part in sight, meaning there’s no conventional circuits or batteries. It’s actually powered by gas, which Octobot can autonomously direct around its artificial body. Octobot may not be commercially exploited but it opens a new way we view at robotics. “This research is a proof of concept,” said Harvard grad student and researcher Ryan Truby....

As soon as it was looking everything is fine, Melbourne IT suffered a breach again and got their blog (https://www.melbourneit.com.au/blog/) defaced by SEA, SEA was having control over there server, emails and other data late night yesterday. but the service provider might have changed their login credentials after twitter, New York Times, Huffington post suffered the Attack. but after few hours a tweet fired from Official Syrian Electronic Army twitter Account stated that they have defaced Melbourne IT blog....

It appears that there’s a bug in the latest build of Windows 10 that despite having a fully functioning Internet connection displays false internet connection warnings. Due to these warnings, most installed applications like Spotify, Cortana, and Microsoft Store don’t function properly. However, the bug doesn’t impact browsers. Windows 10 False ‘Not Connected’ Alert As mentioned above, the “No Internet Access” warning is creating havoc among users. The warning is visible on the taskbar of every affected Windows device....

Making the Windows Driver Frameworks source code public, the MSDN Blog states that the repo is now live and can be accessed here. Microsoft says that it has made source code public because it wants interested users to debug their drivers with it. It hopes that the source code will give developers, students and other interested users a knowledge of what the framework does. Microsoft said that it has published the source code behind KMDF and UMDF v2....

The Redmond based tech giant has designed a custom ROM for Xiaomi Mi 4 which, a elite band of users are testing. The custom ROM is pretty much like what other Android ROMs are available worldwide, the only difference is that these custom ROMs like CyanogenMOD run on Android which Microsoft’s version will run on Windows 10. The testing which was done in collaboration with Xiaomi and will mean installing Windows 10 ROM on Xiaomi Mi 4....

A previously disclosed flaw in Windows can allow an attacker to steal usernames and passwords of any signed-in user — simply by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website. But now a new proof-of-exploit shows just how easy it is to steal someone’s credentials. The flaw is widely known, and it’s said to be almost 20 years old. It was allegedly found in 1997 by Aaron Spangler and was most recently resurfaced by researchers in 2015 at Black Hat, an annual security and hacking conference in Las Vegas....

Tor aka“The Onion Router” is a famous weapon to beat censorship laws around the world. It also provides a private method of communication for journalists, activists, dissidents, students etc. If you are worried about government snooping on your online behaviour, Tor is the answer. But this seems to be a false hope as two researchers say they’ve uncovered snoops inside the Tor network that may be listening in on what you’re doing....