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Dubbed as “BlackRock”, the most significant feature of this Android malware is that its target list contains 337 applications that include banking and financial applications, as well as non-financial and popularly commonly used brand name apps on an Android device that concentrate on social, communication, networking and dating platforms. “It can steal credentials and credit card information from over 300 plus apps like email clients, e-commerce apps, virtual currency, messaging or social media apps, entertainment apps, banking, and financial apps, etc,” the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) said in an advisory....

5elafabook which is pronounced Khelafabook and meaning “Caliphate book” went live with a message that it was a independent website/FB page and did not have links to the Islamic State. However, Facebook, which has been pretty strict with pro-IS fan pages, found that khelafabook shared the same ideology as IS, so banned its Facebook account. Khelafabook was espousing the martyrdom tenets of IS as well wanted a worldwide implementation of Sharia....

The death of 37 year old Paul Gaston, who was shot and killed by Cincinnati police officers on Wednesday, has sparked controversy, as he was unarmed at the time. According to sources, Gaston was driving a truck and hit a telegraph pole, when a 911 caller said he stumbled out of the vehicle, “dropped a gun, and then picked up the gun and took off”. Based on the details given 911 caller, police reached the spot within an hour....

As always, the cyber criminals are exploiting the Anthem hack to further their nefarious activities by sending phishing emails to the victims of the Anthem hack. Anthem Inc yesterday warned its customers to be on a lookout for emails targeting them to divulge further personal information and other details. The “phishing” emails to current and former Anthem customers claim to come from Anthem and advise recipients to click on a link so they can get credit monitoring....

That Mars is suited for human habitation is a well documented fact. In fact, out of the billions and billions of planets in our home galaxy, Mars seems to be the nearest and most obvious choice for future space settlement. However, Elon Musk has other reasons for colonizing Mars. As per scientists, Earth has seen five mass extinctions throughout its history, due to cataclysmic disasters like giant asteroids and massive volcanic eruptions....

In a complaint filed in the federal court in California, the tech giant said that NSO Group employees are “amoral 21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.” The complaint provides new information on how NSO Group infected victims’ devices with its spyware, called Pegasus, which had been used to attack a small number of Apple customers, such as journalists, activists, dissidents, academics, and government officials, around the world....

However, gadget repair community iFixit discovered that Apple isn’t really using that “extra space” it got after getting rid of the headphone jack. In their teardown of iPhone 7, they found how Apple uses a lot of adhesive, which is supposed to assist in waterproofing, in addition to a larger 2900 mAh battery. In addition, they discovered a piece of plastic that sits behind the ingress protection (waterproofing), right where the headphone jack would have been....

“Many other iPhone owners have communicated with Apple’s employees and agents to request that Apple remedy and/or address the Touchscreen Defect and/or resultant damage at no expense. Apple has failed and/or refused to do so,” part of the complaint reads. Codenamed online last week as ‘Touch Disease’ by iFixit, Jason Villner of STS Telecom says that the “issue is widespread enough that I feel like almost every iPhone 6/6+ has a touch of it (no pun intended) and are like ticking bombs just waiting to act up....

According to Apple the app is in breach of developer terms and conditions because it enables access to content of which the company disapproves. One of the prime reasons for Apple’s strictures is that the CCC’s app allows watching publicly given talks, which among others deal with security holes in the widely used Bluetooth technology, or help “jailbreaking” Apple devices. CCC says that these very talks are available on many websites and even on YouTube but Apple has approved YouTube App....

According to Bloomberg who cited “people familiar with the plans”, say that the new plan is part of an initiative named “Kalamata”, which is expected to help all Apple devices, including Macs, iPhones, and iPads, and work more seamlessly together. The Kalamata initiative will allow Apple’s design and engineering teams to have a much greater control over the power and features they wish to implement. The Cupertino giant already designs its own ARM-based chips that it uses in iPhones, iPads, Watches and Apple TV devices....

In an exclusive interview with ABC News this Wednesday, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said that iPhone users will soon be able to turn off the power management feature on their devices that slows down iPhones when batteries are low on charge. According to Cook, the upcoming update will shows users the health of their batteries and how much they are reducing the performance. Users will also be able to decide whether they would like their iPhones to slow down and save battery life....

Joaquín Sorianello told MSA, the company that manufactures the Vot.ar e-voting system, that the SSL certificates used by the system to encode transmissions between the central election office and voting stations could be downloaded without any difficultly, providing the opportunity for possible voting fraud (or just a good traditional DDOS attack). Sorianello says that after informing the company regarding the flaw, he never received a phone call from MSA. However, he found out that his home was suddenly raided by Argentine police, who seized Kindles, computers and many storage devices (from a Google translation of the source): Speaking to numerous news outlets, Sorianello has pointed out the fact that he is a programmer and not a hacker....

As it is rightly said in India : “Don’t mind, its Holi.” Well Holi is a festival which people of all ages celebrate with much vigor throughout India. It is festival of colors, happiness, a festival of meeting dear and near ones, playing pranks and everyone enjoys the festival. People use colors and colored water for enjoyment. Also, they consume Gujiyas AND “Thandai” i.e. sweet milk. People in villages and cities meet up and apply colors to each other throw water and then have delicious lunch....

For those of us who don’t want to be in the shackles of predefined features and questionable privacy, Linux saves the day for the rest of us. Best Linux distros for Old Laptop and Computers I will cover some of the best Linux distros that are lightweight and can be used on older computers, especially laptops. They deserve some love too. Best Linux distros for Old Laptop and Computers1. MX Linux2....

Market Bubble The tulip bulbs that Dimon referred to is the Dutch Tulip Bulb crisis – a famous market crash that occurred in the 1600’s and is considered the first financial crash. A recent example, would be the real estate crash in 2008 that led to the period of recession across the globe. “If you were in Venezuela or Ecuador or North Korea or a bunch of parts like that, or if you were a drug dealer, a murderer, stuff like that, you are better off doing it in bitcoin than US dollars,” he said....

According to reports both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Destiny were affected by the DDOS attack. A DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attack is an attempt to make the service from a network unavailable through multiple requests. In this method hackers commonly uses botnets to flood the server with get request which the servers cant cope up with, causing data overload and service disruption. Several Gamers reported that they lost their connections to the servers in the middle of the game, with a error message which read “cattle” on the disconnection message....

Read how a person named Jennifer Null can break the computersWhen Jennifer Null tries to buy a plane ticket, she gets an error message on most websites. The site will say she has left the surname field blank and ask her to try again.Instead, she has to call the airline company by phone to book a ticket – but that’s not the end of the process.“I’ve been asked why I’m calling and when I try to explain the situation, I’ve been told, ‘there’s no way that’s true’,” she says....

“It will be the first quantum communication through a satellite in the world,” said Pan Jianwei, professor with University of Science and Technology of China. Quantum technology is seen as a future cornerstone in field of technology. Quantum communication boasts ultra-high security as a quantum photon can neither be separated nor duplicated. “It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it,” Pan said. The CAS’s project includes launch of a satellite and building of four ground stations for quantum communication and one space quantum teleportation experiment station....

The hacker also claims to breach into the database which contains server details, login credentials of many accounts from CNN that contain usernames and encrypted passwords. the paste can be seen here Although CNN has managed to delete the fake Articles Published, one of the screenshots is still available. Showing an Article Bill Gates horrifies children by injecting poison into their buttocks. According to the hacker group, the vulnerability in CNN’s Website have been fixed now....