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Protect your privacy in Mozilla’s Firefox using these 12 cool About:Config tips and tricksHow to access About:Config in Firefox :Tips and Tricks for tweaking Privacy settings in Firefox If you are using Mozilla’s Firefox browser you can add/edit certain features to enhance privacy using the awesome About:Config. The about:config page contains most (if not, all) of Firefox configuration options. It is so far the most effective, and the most powerful way to tweak and enhance your Firefox performance....

A 12 year old girl scores the highest in Mensa IQ test beating Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking!Lydia Sebastian, an Indian origin, British schoolgirl has beaten Einstein and Hawking with her exceptional IQ score in the Mensa IQ test which according to her is ‘pretty easy’.What is this Mensa IQ test and why is it so important: Lydia who is British school girl and from Langham in East Anglia, appeared for her Mensa paper during her school holidays and had scored the highest possible score in this IQ test....

1. Free VPNs may track and sell your data VPNs require special infrastructure such as servers for them to run efficiently. Maintaining the infrastructure is expensive, and like any other business, costs will be incurred. If you have ever wondered how free VPNs make money, here is how: you are the product. Most free VPNs log all your internet activities, and others have been found to have trackers. To make money for maintaining the VPN service, free VPNs (unlike reputable VPN providers) sell your data to third-party organizations....

What is surprising is that each of these VPNs claims to follow a “no-log” policy, which means they do not record any user activity on their respective apps. According to the vpnMentor research team who uncovered the unsecured live server, a massive 1.207 TB of data with 1,083,997,361 records were found exposed to public access. The compromised user data include activity logs, PII (names, emails, home address), cleartext passwords, Bitcoin payment information, support messages, personal device information, tech specs, account info, and direct Paypal API links....

A DDoS attack is a common method for taking down a server by overloading it with requests. Amped Attacks takes down a website and tweets announcing it to the world. He/she uses the hashtag #tangodown in the tweets to announce the downing of website. This a hashtag commonly used by the online hacktivist group, Anonymous. However, other than #tangodown, there doesnt seem to any connection between the hacker and Anonymous....

Facebook said that it would expand its ad network of third-party apps and sites, which it calls Audience Network, to allow advertisers reach people who don’t use Facebook. By providing better and more relevant ads, the company believes that it will help both users and advertisers. Previously, only Facebook users who visited these apps or sites saw the ads. Now, Facebook will attempt to identify and track third-party site visitors with its own mix of cookies, buttons, and plugins, according to The Wall Street Journal....

How would you like to take someone’s speech available online and put your words into it? Till now this was impossible but now Adobe has been testing a software which could let you do just that. Adobe has demonstrated its latest software — codenamed Project VoCo — that’s capable of easily editing the speech of people by simply cutting, pasting, and adding words to a digital transcript. Adobe VoCo lets you edit recorded speech so that you can alter what that person said or create an entirely new sentence using their voice....

Called Reading Sidekick, this innovative Alexa feature is aimed to make reading more fun and help kids ages 6 to 9 become strong readers. It makes it easy for kids to read independently by exploring the stories they want to read, when they want to read. This feature will help kids grow into confident, independent readers, especially as they are still developing their reading skills. It is basically designed to complement the time kids spend reading with grownups....

In a blog post on Friday, the company announced that its Everyday Robots Project — an unit under Google’s experimental X laboratories dedicated to creating “a general-purpose learning robot” — has moved out several of its robot prototypes from the lab to some of Google’s Bay Area campuses to do useful cleaning duties. These robots are autonomously performing a range of useful tasks around Google facilities in the U.S., including as wiping tables, sorting trash, gripping cups, and even opening meeting room doors to check if the room needs to be tidied or if it’s missing chairs....

https://twitter.com/0x2Taylor/status/751427727748628480 “When they first got Kindles and set them up, all their stuff was being logged and put into a database,” @0x2Taylor said. He added that the database includes a user’s email, password, city, state, phone number, zip code, user-agent, LastLoginIP, Proxy IP and street. “Personally I don’t want to leak the data,” he said. https://twitter.com/0x2Taylor/status/751419300582395904 “They’re a big company and they should have enough money to have the proper security defenses,” he added....

The updated Keyboard 5.1 app has one of the better new features of Android N and comes with a range of new coloured themes and more emojis and ever, plus the ability to add your own typing background images. It will also find the key boarder toggle, which gives keys a bit of extra visibility when you type. The new version also includes Unicode 9 emoji with selectable skin tone, which will only work on Android N and not older versions of Google’s mobile OS....

Apparently, around 40 percent of Android device owners prefer using popular screen pattern lock as compared to using PIN codes or text passwords. Pattern lock is a screen unlock tool that allows user to unlock their touchscreen based devices such as smartphone or tablet by drawing a specific pattern using the nine dots divided into a 3×3 grid without lifting the finger. While one may think that having screen pattern lock is more secure than using PIN codes or text passwords, then you may have to think again....

Case Files The actions of the United States government against this man has been termed fierce by many. Prosecutors in the Northern District of Texas have written that Brown, along with the activist group Anonymous, sought to overthrow the U.S. government. He was arrested under hacking charges that put him on the way to get a 100 year long prison sentence. A lot of what was happening never made the headlines as the prosecution succeeded in getting a gag order on the case, limiting what part of the case could be made public....

A KKK leader says you shouldn’t believe Anonymous after Anonymous release details of KKK membersKu Klux Klan says dont believe Anonymous Anonymous released the list on Saturday as part of Anonymous’ larger data hack of the KKK. Anonymous had declared cyber war on the KKK after the white supremacist group threatened to use “lethal force” on protesters of the 2014 Ferguson, Missouri, protests after the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown....

Under the new authentication protocol setup, a iCloud user will have to opt for the new Two-Factor authentication. The two-factor authentication process requires the input of an additional dynamically generated four-digit pass code, sent to a user’s smartphone in addition to the login and password details. Users are required to verify their accounts with a SMS-capable phone number for their accounts in order register a trusted device and use the security system....

The overall design aesthetics of the Apple Watch Series 6 are still similar to that of the Series 4. However many new sensors have been added to the Series 6 smartwatch. On the other hand, Apple Watch SE is an upgrade to the beloved Apple Watch Series 3. So here’s everything you need to know about the two new Apple Watches. Apple Watch Series 6: Features And Pricing Apple Watch Series 6 is powered by a faster S6 processor....

“As part of Apple’s commitment to security, this program is designed to help improve security for all iOS users, bring more researchers to iPhone, and improve efficiency for those who already work on iOS security. It features an iPhone dedicated exclusively to security research, with unique code execution and containment policies,” the company says. These special iPhones that are less locked down than consumer devices will be given to skilled and vetted researchers....

However, Apple refused to acknowledge the issue then, leaving many users dissatisfied. At that time, repair vendor iFixit had clearly reported that the issue stemmed through a faulty controller chip soldered to the logic board. The repair solution provided by him required opening up the phone and soldering the two chips that cover the touch responsiveness on the iPhone. This led many users paying for more expensive logic board replacements....

According to the recently revamped guidelines of Apple, developers cannot list apps on the App Store that collect and share data with third-parties for any reason other than enhancing the app’s experience or ads. Onavo Protect, a Facebook Inc. owned free security app, is a VPN (virtual private network) service. Facebook acquired the Tel Aviv-based mobile analytics company, Onavo in 2013. The Onavo Protect app was primarily designed to help users keep their data safe, block potentially harmful websites, secure their personal information and keep tabs on their mobile data usage....

This is the second bug-fixing update (18R402) for watchOS after Apple released watchOS 7 in September this year. The Cupertino giant had released the first bug-fix update on September 24 just a week after it released the original version. This watchOS 7.0.1 update contained improvements and bug fixes, including fixing an issue where some payment cards in Wallet were disabled for some users. According to Apple’s release notes, watchOS 7....