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Verizon Enterprise Solutions is the B2B unit in Verizon’s huge portfolio that offers a variety of services for other companies or governments around the world, that range from cloud hosting to cloud computing, from private IP services to communications, and even online security. The breach came to light Thursday in a post on the blog Krebs on Security. Krebs reported the hacker stole contact information for about 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customers and offered it for sale for US$100,000 on a cybercrime forum....

This eerie bug will brick your iPhone if you change the date to 1st Jan 1970.Note : Dont try this with your iPhone The bug came to light on Thursday when Reddit users started experimenting on their own iOS devices to see if it worked. Some recorded the process, which involves changing the date in the Settings app and rebooting the device, and shared videos on YouTube. It’s unclear what causes Apple’s operating system to crash from changing the date....

Some of the most weird Things Swallowed By PeopleCellphoneSpongeBobA fitness trackerDental instrumentCigarette Lighter Cellphone A 29-year-old prisoner in Ireland was rushed to the emergency room after he claime to have swallowed a cellphone. The X-ray taken confirmed that the phone was in the man’s stomach. As the phone didn’t pass through the digestive system on its own, doctors tried to remove it using medical tools to pull the device up through the esophagus....

Greed did him in The incident was reported in Kansas University (KU) where the student reportedly logged into the school’s systems and changed his grades from an F to an A. The student got the credentials needed to access the system by using a physical key-logger and installing it in one of the systems in the lecture halls. The key-logger was a simple one, available for purchase online for as little as $20....

A large-scale analysis of URLs embedded in 13,500 free android apps downloaded from Google Play were carried out by the researchers. Created by reputable developers, the apps tested were downloaded by many people, among which were the news services, popular social networks, shopping, and entertainment apps. Michalis Faloutsos, a computer science professor in UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering, said that most users are not aware that their private information could be compromised, as apps connect to a complex network of websites, both to function and increase advertising revenues....

Turing Robotic Industries (TRI) has unveiled its flagship device which assures an innovative super security to the smartphone along with an unique outer body which is stronger than steel as it is made up of combination of metals. The smartphone is expected to launch somewhere in summer this year. Based in San Francisco, TRI is inspired by vision of two geniuses namely Charles Babbage and Alan Turing, the fathers of modern computer science and artificial intelligence respectively....

Back in 2013, Coca-Cola had launched an ad campaign with a strange series of games, videos and nightmare fuel that populated a series of websites that could all be traced back to ahh.com. It’s called the “Ahh Effect” campaign. Each site was a variation of “ahh,” extending from two Hs way up to sixty Hs in the URL. However, it remains to be seen if Coca-Cola will go the extreme route and get all the way up to 1,999 Hs in their domain....

In an attack on the Washington Post Thursday, hackers supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hijacked parts of the Post’s Web site so that users were redirected to a site controlled by the SEA. The hack was announced by them through their Twitter account Official_SEA16 : — SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) May 14, 2015 Top security analyst, Ken White also noticed the hack — Kenn White (@kennwhite) May 14, 2015 The SEA got entry into the WaPo website through the content delivery network, InstartLogic and defaced it with a message popping up saying “You’ve been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army,” ....

TeamViewer issued a patch for users on Tuesday to fix a vulnerability that allows users sharing a desktop session to gain control of another PC without the latter’s permission. This vulnerability affected versions of TeamViewer running on Windows, macOS and Linux machines. For those unaware, TeamViewer is a popular remote-support software for desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers over the internet from anywhere in the world....

The researchers had observed that the ants get great cooperative force by each using three of their six legs at the same time. And the result is surprising: a team of six microrobots, each the size of a cockroach and weighing 3.5oz in total, managed to pull a car weighing 3,900lb across a polished concrete floor. David Christensen, a graduate student who is one of the authors of a research paper explaining the feat, said, “By considering the dynamics of the team, not just the individual, we are able to build a team of our ‘microTug’ robots that, like ants, are super strong individually, but then also work together as a team....

Tekken is a popular arcade game under the fighting category. The original game had a limited Japanese release in November 1996 and then an international release in March 1997. Later the game was ported for PlayStation in 1998. If you are from the 90s, you must have heard of Tekken 3. I spent an enormous amount of time playing Tekken 3 at gaming stations. Now, let’s talk a little bit about the game, as we have already mentioned, it is a single or double-player game....

The car manufacturer Tesla had launched a new Autopilot system last month which assists the drivers to drive without using steering wheel for a brief time. Ever since it was launched, there have been many videos by Tesla car drivers showcasing Tesla’s semi-autonomous technology. Many of these videos show drivers sitting in the steering wheel but an unknown user has released a video which shows to the Tesla owner undertake the daring stunt a bit further and sits in the backseat while filming the Autopilot feature doing all of the work....

Edward Snowden, the US government whistleblower, feels that encoding may make it hard or even impossible to recognize signals from alien species from cosmic background radiation. Snowden on Friday night appeared on the astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk podcast from Moscow, via a robot video link called a “beam remote presence system”. In 2013, Snowden leaked classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The information revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments....

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Smartphones have become a necessity of our life. Today, mostly all of us own an Android smartphone or an iPhone depending on her/his choice. Though you may be using the mobile phones for many days, most probably there would be many things which were unknown to you. Two things that would give even the soberest person out there a little bit heartburn are seeing the “low battery” and “no network coverage“ on their smartphone....

Additionally, he led development of standards for the from, subject, and date fields found in every email message sent today. Most of you might not remember this, despite the fact that you use the service each and every single day of your life but the email has transitioned into more than just a service that you are engaged in your desktop and laptop computers. Dedicated applications for mobile platforms have also been rolled out, and while Tomlinson did not create these, he certainly gave us the stepping stone by which to branch out several communication mediums to millions of users out there....

Different Anonymous Networks on Facebook and twitter are supporting #OperacaoSeteDeSetembro, an operation which was carried out by Anonymous Brazil against the corrupt Brazil Government, The protest is set for a date 7th September of this month, which is thought to be biggest protest in History of Brazil, peoples from all over the Brazil will march over the Roads to protest against the corrupt Government. That is the reason why, the Brazilian Government might have asked The Federal Authorities to issue the warrant and take down the Owner of the Facebook pages supporting the protest, who were Infact able to make millions to attend the protest....

Posh Mobile Micro X,which is basically the anti-phablet comes in a wind to break the trend. In a world overflowing with 6 inch phablets, 1000+ mAH batteries and 13 MP cameras; this device clocks in a 2.4 inch screen, a 650 mAH removable Li-ion battery & 2MP rear camera. On the flip side, it also carries a price tag that’s less than 10th of its peers at $55. Other features of this device include a 1 GHz dual core processor by MediaTek that’s backed by 512 MB of RAM and runs on Android 4....

According to principal analyst at Gartner, Mikako Kitagawa, the PC market is still in the middle of structural change which will reduce the PC installed base in the next few years. “The fourth quarter of 2015 marked the fifth consecutive quarter of worldwide PC shipment decline,” said Kitagawa. “Holiday sales did not boost the overall PC shipments, hinting at changes to consumers’ PC purchase behaviour. On the business side, Windows 10 generally received positive reviews, but as expected, Windows 10 migration was minor in the fourth quarter as many organisations were just starting their testing period....