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The demand was made after FBI seized an iPhone from one of the terrorists involved in San Bernardino shooting attack in December. While the FBI has a warrant to access the contents of the iPhone 5c as part of its investigation, it doesn’t know the passcode to the device. Thus a debate has arisen on whether Apple should do what FBI asks or stick to its privacy policy. Understandably, the debate surrounding issue is contentious....

“M2 starts the second generation of M-series chips and goes beyond the remarkable features of M1,” said Johny Srouji, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Hardware Technologies. “With our relentless focus on power-efficient performance, M2 delivers a faster CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine. And along with higher memory bandwidth and new capabilities like ProRes acceleration, M2 continues the tremendous pace of innovation in Apple silicon for the Mac.” Coming to M2, the new chip is built using enhanced, second-generation 5-nanometer technology consisting of 20 billion transistors, which is 25 percent more than its predecessor, M1....

Astronomers discover three super Earths orbiting a star located 21 light years awayAstronomers uncover a ‘secret planetary system’ which comprises of three super-Earths and one outer giant planet that is situated at a distance of 21 light years from Earth. Named as HD219134, this new planetary system is in the constellation Cassiopeia and it comprises of three super-Earths orbiting an outer giant planet, one of which which transits in front of the star....

The pre-order price of Asus ROG GX700 starts at $4300, and while the machine is definitely impressive for its hardware, Asus should definitely dial that pricing variable down when it releases another high-end gaming laptop in the future. CNET

The RT-AC5300 is a tri-band router that operates on 2.4 GHz and dual 5 GHz frequencies. It’s capable of speeds of up to 1Gbps on the 2.4 GHz band and 2.167 Gbps on each 5 GHz band for a total (potential) potency of 5.3 Gbps. According to CNET, the new Asus product qualifies as a tri-band router due to its three Wi-Fi brands. In addition, it contains the newest Broadcom’s Wi-Fi chip....

Belgacom, Belgium’s largest telecom company allegedly hacked by UK’s GCHQRegin One of the few Belgian newspaper covering this report was De Standaard. “In its digital attack on Belgacom, the British secret service was able to intercept more communications than was previously realised,” De Standaard said. De Standaard in partnership with Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and The Intercept pieced together the entire hack attack on Belgacom. Regin First instances of the hack attack were noticed in 2012 but it was only in 2013 that Belagcom’s security team could figure out what was actually wrong with their systems....

According to Endgame, particularly typing “.om” instead of “.com” at the end of a website address after you’ve typed in some popular urls on the browser is a progressively risky error. Ill-willed cybercriminals are taking advantage of the “.om” website suffix. Endgame discovered this scam after a company employee incorrectly typed “Netflix.om” rather than Netflix.com when he tried to watch the newest episode of “House of Cards” early this month....

Though this is done under the garb of helping the Facebook user remember a link he/she has copied, having spied on your clipboard is a bad idea. The feature which was rolled out during Facebook’s latest mobile update on October 7, is right now present only on iOS 9 run devices and a select few. “This feature is currently testing with a small percentage of people who use Facebook for iPhone,” Facebook spokesperson Daniel Harrison told the Daily Beast....

The DTEK50, or ‘the world’s most secure Android smartphone’ as Blackberry claims to be features a 5.2-inch FHD 1920 x 1080 scratch-resistant display, 3GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage (added microSD card support). It will sport Snapdragon 617 SoC 8 Cortex-A53 processing cores running at a speed of 1.5GHz that would provide adequate processing power. It will also be powered by a 2,610mAh battery with support for Quick Charge 2....

Seth Nolan-Mcdonagh was just 13 when he joined a network of online hackers. It was a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in which attackers bombarded servers with so many requests for data that they can no longer cope. This made them crash or stop working. In March 2013, one such attack was launched on Spamhaus, a firm that provides details of spammers to email and network providers. The attack on this anti-junk mail slowed the internet around the world....

For those unfamiliar, Cellebrite is an Israeli company, which specializes in extracting data from mobile phones for law enforcement agencies. UFED, which is the company’s main product is designed to extract smartphone data and is used extensively by the U.S. and UK police. The newest product called ‘UFED Premium’ can determine any and all passcodes and perform unlocks for app, and then perform a full file system extraction on Apple devices....

However, there is now a new app called “Hacked?” that lets you find out if any of your accounts was impacted by security breaches. This is a universal app for Windows 10 that finds out if your own accounts were involved in the latest hacks happening online. The best part about this app is that to check your accounts on any Windows 10 device, it connects to the haveibeenpwned API....

Edward Majerczyk, 29, from Illinois, Chicago, was engaged in a phishing scheme during the period November 2013 to August 2014 wherein he illegally accessed more than 300 email and other online accounts, including stars such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kaley Cuoco and Kirsten Dunst. He has also been ordered to pay $5,700 to an unnamed individual for “restitution for counselling services.” Last year, Majerczyk pleaded guilty to a count of “unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information....

At present, visitors could see a new form of Qianshou Guanyin, a statue with 1,000 hands, in Dazu County, southwestern Chongqing Municipality, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The re-establishment of the important landmark in Dazu County in Sichun province had begun in 2008 and was completed at a cost of about 60 million yuan (USD 9.8 million). Workers restored 830 hands and 227 instruments using one million gold foils, while consolidating the dated pieces of the statue and cleaning it thoroughly....

Liu Tianyi, at LLVision, the firm that developed the GLXSS Pro smart glasses, says the glasses are so light that the police officers can wear them all day. The special glasses are currently being used by four officers patrolling a crowded train station in Zhengzhou, Henan province during Chinese New Year, the busiest time for the country’s transport system. More than 389 million train trips are likely to be made between the peak period of February 1 and March 12, which is when people return home for holidays The glasses have a small camera attached to a smartphone-like device that allows the officers to take photos of suspicious individuals and run the headshot in their database....

Also, we’ll give you a quick overview of a recently launched website builder software – WebDo.com – and go through what it has to offer for each of the must-have features mentioned on this list. 1. User-friendly, intuitive website builder interface A good website builder must be, first of all, easy to use. Website builders are targeted to people who are not that tech-savvy and don’t have any design or coding knowledge, thus the whole in-app user experience must be flawless....

This was brought to notice by Anonymous member, GhostSec who said “by far the largest offender” was CloudFlare along with Google, Yahoo! and GoDaddy. GhostSec said that the Anonymous had compiled a list of websites and their hosts and found that most of the ISIS websites hid behind the CloudFlare curtain making it difficult for Anonymous to bring them down. Speaking with IBTimes UK, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare, Matthew Prince, said that his company would not be blocking its service to websites listed, as it would mean submitting to “mob rule”....

According to a listing of contract award on FBO.gov, DARPA was apparently paying $500 to an unknown agency to spy on white hat hackers. DARPA made a mistake to publish details of this project. The project called “Internet Cyber Early Warning of Adversary Research and Development” or ICEWARD appears to be designed to monitor the activities of information security researchers with the goal of anticipating what vulnerabilities they might be looking for....

The difference between landed properties at different locations at any given time is the function of the quality of the social and infrastructural community that centres around them. The available natural or artificial resources also explain what value is attached to a piece of land. This is why the same perimetre of land at different locations will attract different prices in value at the same time. Real Estate in cyberspace Applying this concept unto the virtual world has proven to be an exceptional innovation as just a few months ago, the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) of internet-based decentralized real estate, Decentraland, sold out in record time, raising $24 million in 35 seconds....