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Venezuelans military website hacked

2017-01-09T00:57:00.001-08:00

The Official website of Military of Venezuela has been hacked and published on the website Pastebin.com by a user named Kapustkiy on 8 January 2017.

The hacker targeted the official website (www.esguarnacpuntademata.mil.ve) and the Twitter account linked to this website (@GNBesguarnaccli).

According to the post on pastebin.com, the hack was carried out to protest against the President. Kapustkiy wrote on his blog, "In protest against Nicolas Maduro .'' In his post he further wrote, "WE ARE NEW WORLD HACKERS. EXPECT US: GREETINGS TO: ownz - cyric - shadow - prophet - sadfurry - gustavo" and also posted the link to their website (www.newworldhackers.com).

The hacked database includes the personal information like full name, telephone number, email id, their ethnicity, military unit. The compromised file contains the 2189 entries.

Recently Venezuela is facing a crisis as its murders and lynching is increasing at an alarming rate.

Approximately one person is being lynched every three days as frustrated residents have taken justice into their own hands and they usually take revenge on suspected criminals.

A crime monitoring group reported that mob killings have become a generalized phenomenon across the country, with 126 deaths reported in 2016 versus 20 last year.

"Due to being repeated victims of crime for more than a decade, and the feeling of not being protected, many people have decided to take justice into their own hands," The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV), which monitors crime said in its latest annual report.

OVV in its report said that last year, lynchings of suspected murderers and rapists were relatively uncommon, but this year angry crowds have increasingly attacked petty criminals too, with police often turning a blind eye.

Venezuelans have long suffered alarming levels of violent crime, in part because of the widespread availability of guns, inadequate policing and a bribe-riddled justice system.

A crushing economic crisis has added fuel to the fire in crime.

Sharing accounts may get banned: Pokemon GO

2016-07-28T23:48:00.002-07:00

The Pokemon Go players who shared their accounts with each other might soon get banned. Sharing account helps the players to conveniently and collectively grind accounts to level limits easily. This is counted as "cheating" in the game.
You want to know why you shouldn't share accounts in Pokemon GO, here it is:

According to the official Pokemon GO support page on Trainer guidelines, account sharing is considered cheating in the game. Similar to GPS Spoofing, players will also get banned if they’re caught account sharing, as seen inCaptain_Grimjoy’s thread on the Pokemon GO Reddit. Alternatively, using multiple accounts is also considered a bannable offense in the game.

For now, Niantic still hasn’t announced if they’re done fixing Pokemon GO. Additionally, the company has been simultaneously releasing more servers while fixing the game. While Niantic’s focus is on making servers available and fixing the title, the game’s security may be less of a priority for now.
However, getting caught sharing accounts only yields a soft ban. This ban only prevents offenders from accessing the game for a few hours, but they can start playing again afterward. Due to the unimposing nature of this short ban, players can repeatedly share accounts and just wait out the soft bans. However, the soft bans may prevent players from maximizing the account’s experience gain which may discourage mass account farming.

Previously, Niantic was quick to punish offenders during the game’s closed beta,and dataminers and leakers’ devices were blocked once they’re caught sharing game info to the public. However, Pokemon GO’s developers may just be minimizing potential problems now as the game’s current buggy system may trigger a bad string of incorrect bans and hurt the gaming community immensely. The game’s buggy build may be the reason why Niantic is only doling out soft bans instead of device blocks since the official release of Pokemon GO.

Pokemon GO has beaten Twitter when it comes to active users, so it is crucial for the game’s servers not to experience a major system issue. For now, it would be best to avoid cheating in Pokemon GO despite the current inconsequential banning. It’s possible that Niantic may include previous offenders if they start a crackdown against the game’s cheaters.

So, Don't be a "cheater" and play the game wisely.
Good luck

Top 5 Android Apps of the week

2016-07-24T23:31:00.001-07:00

Top 5 Android apps of this week are:

1. Teeny Titans- Teen Titans Go!
Teen Titans Go is an RPG game for Android which lets you play as Robin and two other squad members. The turn based game pits your squad against other 3-member squads, so make sure you pick the right team. Use your super moves with the battle bar to finish off your opponents and switch between character to execute awesome strategies. The game also features the original voiceover for Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Raven and Beast Boy.

Available on iOS and Android

Price: Rs 270

2. Exam Preparation -- UPSC,IBPS,SSC

Exam Preparation helps users prepare for any government examination including SSC, IAS (CSAT), Bank PO, UPSC, LIC and much more. The app features study materials, question banks, practice tests and mock tests from well-known publishers in India. Students can keep up-to-date on exam information, syllabus, current affairs, real-time analysis of user test results and peer ranking. Users will also get alerts when new government job become available.

Available on Android

Price: Free

3. My GHMC

This app is a must have for any professional with no time to spare. With integrated services that let users pay property taxes, trade license fee, view status of Layout Regularisation Scheme (LRS) applications, download birth and death certificates. Users will also be able to issue civic grievances reports on manholes, potholes, open dumping points, streetlights, etc.

Available on Android

Price: Free

4. VidMate

With VidMate Android users can download their favourite video online. The app also comes with a built-in browser and download manager, so users never have to leave the app.

Available on Android

Price: Free

5. Creative Collage Editor

Creative Collage Editor comes equipped with many frames and filters, giving you ample options to use. You can unleash your creativity and customize ordinary photos and turn them into masterpieces.

Available on Android

Price: Free

Seagate launched 10TB, high capacity drive

2016-07-21T23:38:00.000-07:00

Latest news in the field of technology is that The Seagate company, popularly known as hard drives manufacturer, launches a 10 TB, high capacity drive.

The purpose of this launch is to help the computer users to better manage and move the huge amounts of digital data they consume and create, the 10TB Seagate BarraCuda Pro desktop drive, Seagate IronWolf for NAS applications and Seagate SkyHawkfor surveillance introduce new brand names and imagery.

“Consumers and organisations today face a similar challenge -- what to do about the massive deluge of data and video they confront every day,” said Matt Rutledge, senior vice president of Client and Consumer Storage at Seagate. “Whether it’s dominating in the latest game, producing compelling multimedia content, mining data to help create new apps and business services, helping to protect people and places around the world against new threats, and more, the Seagate Guardian series is designed to preserve your most critical data and move it where it’s needed fast so you can make the most of it. By incorporating powerful new features and capabilities, our 10TB products also make it easier for everyone to create, consume and use data.”

Innovative capabilities in the new 10TB drives include multi-tier caching technology (MTC Technology), an intelligent caching architecture for maximised performance; AgileArray, designed to optimise drive performance through error recovery control, dual-plane balancing, and power management; and ImagePerfectfor surveillance, supporting more high-resolution cameras than any other industry drive.

Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive On Amazon

How to kick out other devices from a Wifi network

2016-07-19T00:32:00.000-07:00

Hello friends! I am here with a new post for you " HOW TO DISCONNECT OTHER DEVICES CONNECTED IN A WIFI NETWORK" .

We can do many things with our android phones. Infact, we can do a little bit of hacking from our smartphones.

So here is a new trick of disconnecting other devices from a wifi network.

Step 1. For running this app on your phone, make sure your phone is connected to your wifi network.

Step 2. Install WiFi Kill android app on your phone.

Step 3. Tap on Play icon and this app will scan all the devices that had connected with your wifi network.

Step 4. When scanning is finished, tap on grab all and kill all button for kicking out all of your devices from your WiFi network.

Step 5. That’s all, now you can see no one is connected to the internet.

Keylogger

2016-07-18T10:40:00.002-07:00

Keylogger is a type of surveillance software. It comes in the category of spyware, and some types of trojans.
As you can guess from the name, Keyloggers are used to get records of every single keystroke.
If an attacker installs a keylogger in the victim device, he can get the record of all keystrokes of the victim.

Keyloggers are very dangerous as it is hidden in the victim Pc, and can send every keystroke to the attacker through which the attacker can get access to your accounts or he can find victims password or credit card information.

The record of keystrokes are stored in a log file, and a keylogger can send this log file to the attacker email or from instant message.

Some of the popular keyloggers are:

Actual Keylogger
Ardamax Keylogger
G3 isam Keylogger
Spyrix Keylogger

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Hackers developed a Phishing scam for the users of the game "Pokemon GO"

2016-07-18T08:48:00.001-07:00

The reality game "Pokemon GO" suddenly got a lot of success. But where there is something successful, the cyber criminals find a way to commit a crime from that.

In simple language, Facebook is a most successful social media website. And cybercriminals use different techniques to hack facebook account or to make a profit by fooling them to submit their credit information or something else. Mostly Facebook hacking is done from the phishing technique.

By the way, it was just an example. The main topic and news are that The cyber criminals or you can also say hackers, made a phishing scam for the most popular and successful game "Pokemon GO".

In this new Phishing scam, the user receives an email pretending to be from the developer of the game Niantic.Inc. and demands the players to pay approx $13 ($12.99) a month for to use the full version of the game.
The victims (who get trapped in this phishing scam) delivered to a page which is designed to steal their passwords and credit cards.

Note:Niantic Labs does offer purchases of virtual goods within the game itself but the app is completely free and users are able to use it that way indefinitely.

Conclusion: Do not fool by this phishing techniques and does not click to this type of links which you don't trust.

You can read my previous post, of how to stay safe from phishing

attacks here

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Smartphones users temporarily blinded

2016-07-18T04:47:00.001-07:00

You will be shocked to know that two women went temporarily blind from constantly checking their phones in the dark, say doctors who are now alerting others to the unusual phenomenon.

As Medical reports the two women's experienced "transient smartphone blindness" from constantly checking their phones in the night.

In Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, doctors detailed the cases of the two women, ages 22 and 40, who experienced “transient smartphone blindness” for months.

The women complained of recurring episodes of temporary vision loss for up to 15 minutes. They were subjected to variety of medical exams, MRI scans and heart tests. Yet doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with them to explain the problem.

But minutes after walking into an eye specialist’s office, the mystery was solved.

“I simply asked them, ’What exactly were you doing when this happened?’” recalled Dr. Gordon Plant of Moorfield’s Eye Hospital in London.

He explained that both women typically looked at their smartphones with only one eye while resting on their side in bed in the dark — their other eye was covered by the pillow.

“So you have one eye adapted to the light because it’s looking at the phone and the other eye is adapted to the dark,” he said.

When they put their phone down, they couldn’t see with the phone eye. That’s because “it’s taking many minutes to catch up to the other eye that’s adapted to the dark,” Plant said.

He said the temporary blindness was ultimately harmless, and easily avoidable, if people stuck to looking at their smartphones with both eyes.

One of the women was relieved the short-term blindness didn’t signal a more serious problem like an imminent stroke. He said the second woman was more skeptical and kept a rigorous monthslong diary tracking her fleeting vision loss before she finally believed him. But she couldn’t stop checking her phone for messages from bed, he said.

Dr. Rahul Khurana, a spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, called it a fascinating hypothesis but said two cases weren’t enough to prove that one-eyed smartphone use in the dark caused the problem. He also doubted whether many smartphone users would experience the phenomenon.

Khurana, who acknowledged that he’s an avid cellphone user, said that he and his wife tried to recreate the scenario on a recent evening, but had difficulty checking their phones with only one eye. “It was very odd,” he said.

Solution: Use your both eyes while looking at smartphones.

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Pokemon GO attacked by a hacking team

2016-07-17T12:48:00.000-07:00

According to the report, Pokemon Go was attacked on Saturday by a hacking team.

A cyber-collective hacking team known as PoodleCorp, which has previously targeted YouTube stars has announced that it was behind the Distributed Denial of Service, or DDOS, attack. PoodleCorp also threatened to do “something on a larger scale soon.” Their claim of responsibility has not yet been verified.
Pokémon Go servers also crashed shortly after the game launched earlier in July

Since the game has been launched, it becomes the most popular and most downloaded game of the world. All peoples became crazy about this game and running everywhere to find and catch thee Pokemons.
There were also several weird incidents which I stated in my previous posts.
You can read it here: Worst Highway accident caused by the game "Pokemon GO"

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Katrina Kaif finally joins Facebook

2016-07-17T12:20:00.000-07:00

If you use social media sites then you are aware of that Katrina Kaif has never preferred social media like Facebook, Twitter etc.

But now, the latest news is that she joined Facebook. It seems she has changed her mind and joined Facebook.
Yes, you heard it right! Finally,Katrina joined Facebook on this Friday on her 32nd birthday and gave surprise to all of her fans by uploading a video.
You won't believe that just within 15 hours her Facebook account gets nearly 4 million followers.

It's a good news for the fans of Katrina. And Katrina fans are very happy.
Do you want to know what does Katrina posted first on her timeline?
She posted a video of her in a green balcony of her home.

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Here's the video:-
Click here to watch the video directly from Katrina Facebook timeline.

Katrina Kaif posted this pic as the first day on Facebook:

Katrina first cover pic:

As report, Katrina Kaif gave a birthday party on Friday evening.All her friends like . Reshma Shetty, Sidharth Malhotra, Mini Mathur, Kabir Khan, Ali Abbas Zafar, Ayan Mukerji, Karan Johar was invited in the party.

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TOP 10 BOLLYWOOD CELEBS WITHOUT MAKEUP

2016-07-17T11:47:00.003-07:00

We all have seen Bollywood actress with makeup on the screen. You want to see that how do they look without makeup.

Here are the pic of Top 10 Bollywood celebrities without makeup:

1. Parineeti Chopra

2. Kareena Kapoor

3.Priyanka Chopra

4.Sonam Kapoor

5.Deepika Padukone

6.Rani Mukherjee

7.Bipasha Basu

8.Katrina Kaif

9.Shraddha Kapoor

10. Alia Bhatt

So Friends, See them all without makeup and comment below that which is most beautiful without makeup.

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NO COMPARISON: Sultan 11th day Collection VS Great Grand Masti 2nd day Collection

2016-07-17T11:12:00.001-07:00

Sultan 11th-day collections are out. Want to see how much money does Sultan make till now:
Here is it:
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1st-day collections- 36.54 crores!

2nd-day collections- 37.32 crores!

3rd-day collections- 31.66 crores!

4th-day collections- 37.10 crores!

5th-day collections- 38.21 crores!

6th-day collections- 15.54 crores!

7th-day collections – 12.92 crores!

8th-day collections- 10.82 crores!

9th-day collections- 9.52 crores!

10th-day collections- 7.43 crores!

And finally,

11th-day collections- 11.46 crores!

TOTAL=248.05 CRORES!

'Sultan' breaks many records in the box office whereas the Opening of the Great Grand Masti was not so Great!!

Great Grand Masti the third sequel of the hit movie "Masti" has a very poor opening.

The movie Great Grand Masti was going to be released on 22nd July, but due to the online leak of the movie it had been decided to prepone the release to 15th of July.

As the movie get leaked on the internet, it didn't get much support by the people after realising. And thus, the opening collection of the movie 'Great Grand Masti' was only 2.5 crores.

Now, do you want to know how much the movie collected on the second day on Saturday?

Unfortunately, the movie didn't collect as much as the people thought, that the movie will collect a pretty well amount of money on Saturday.

The 2nd-day collection of the movie 'Great Grand Masti' remained same as the first day:

2nd-day collection-2.5 crores!

TOTAL = 5 CRORES!

The cast of the movie Urvashi Rautela, Ritesh Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Aftab express their disappointment over the collection. They stated that the online leak killed all the collection of the movie.

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Worst Highway accident caused by the game "Pokemon GO"

2016-07-16T04:17:00.000-07:00

As the craze of the game 'Pokemon GO' increases among the people, there are several incidents which takes place.

As I informed in my previous post that 'Pokemon GO' suddenly became the most popular among the people. If you not read that post you can read it here .

So returning back to the topic.

According to the latest news, In Massachusetts, a 26 year old driver named "Lamar Hickson has been arrested by the police on charges of causing one of the worst highway accident after stopping in the middle of the highway to catch the Pikachu.
Here is the pic of the accident:

Lamar was playing "Pokemon GO" while driving. And, while driving, at the middle of the highway he stopped his vehicle to catch a Pikachu.

Lamar admitted police that he was playing the newly release Pokemon game "Pokemon GO".

He said “Sh*t if you wanna catch them all you gotta risk it all so I put my car in park and started tossing these balls”.

The charges against Hickson is still unknown.

In the words of the officer, FREDRICK JONES,
“Texting and driving was already a very serious issue, but now playing Pokemon Go and driving could make things worse.”

Fortunately, nobody was seriously injured, but this type of problem might raise in future if "Pokemon GO" craze among the people increases in this way day by day.

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You must know that How much 'Pokemon GO' earns daily.

2016-07-16T02:58:00.001-07:00

You all have heard about the viral game 'Pokemon GO' which get popular worldwide over a short period of time. It has more than 15 million downloads in a week.

You won't believe that how much 'Pokemon Go' earns daily. You will be shocked to know that 'Pokemon GO' earns about $1.6 million as daily revenue.

The 'Pokemon GO' breaks all the records of other apps and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Here is the chart:

Pokemon GO vs other social media

Pokemon GO vs Twitter

Pokemon GO vs Tinder

The craze around the game is a huge step up from its humble beginnings as an April Fools joke launched by Google in 2014.

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What is Pokemon Go?

2016-07-16T01:52:00.000-07:00

The biggest question in Today's date is that what is Pokemon Go. Everybody is talking about this on

all social networking sites. You all may come to hear about much weird news from some days related

to Pokemon Go that

1. Man Finds Pokémon on Wife’s Hospital Bed While She’s Giving Birth

2. A driver stops his car on the highway to catch Pokemon. and many types of such other news.

What is Pokemon Go?

Pokemon Go is a free-to-play, real-world-based game developed by Niantic published by The

Pokemon Company. It was released on July 6 in 2016 for Android and Ios devices.

The game allows players to capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon, who appear

throughout the real world. It makes use of GPS and the camera of compatible devices. Pokémon GO
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is built on Niantic’s Real World Gaming Platform and will use real locations to encourage players to

search far and wide in the real world to discover Pokémon. Pokémon GO allows you to find and

catch more than a hundred species of Pokémon as you explore your surroundings.

According to Wikipedia, The game quickly became one of the most used smart device apps after
launching, surpassing the previous record held by Candy Crush Saga in the United States, and was a
boon to the stock value of Nintendo, which owns a part of The Pokémon Company. It was praised by
some medical professionals for potentially improving the mental and physical health of players, but attracted some controversy due to reports of causing accidents and being a public nuisance at some locations.

Pokemon Go became the most popular game in U.S

Here is the chart:

'Pokemon Go' release was just a week and suddenly it becomes the most popular and most downloaded game of the world. In the time period of one week, it has more than 15 million downloads worldwide.

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All About Malwares

2016-07-13T00:51:00.000-07:00

According to Wikipedia, Malware, short for malicious software, is any software used to disrupt computer operations, gather sensitive information, gain access to private computer systems, or display unwanted advertising.Malicious software was called computer virus before the term malware was coined in 1990 by Yisrael Radai.

Malwares are generally used for stealing accounts, passwords and confidential data. Malwares are very dangerous if they get install in our computers or cell phones. Malware can open a backdoor if they enter in our Computer and then an attacker might able to steal confidential information and can do whatever he want.

He can even turn on our webcam or can access to any file or folder.

Generally, malware gets install on our computer or cell phones if we click on any malicious link which redirects us to a malicious website and the malware automatically gets install in our devices.

Spyware or other malware is sometimes found embedded in programs supplied officially by companies, e.g., downloadable from websites, that appear useful or attractive, but may have, for example, additional hidden tracking functionality that gathers marketing statistics. An example of such software, which was described as illegitimate, is the Sony rootkit, a Trojan embedded into CDs sold by Sony, which silently installed and concealed itself on purchasers' computers with the intention of preventing illicit copying; it also reported on users' listening habits, and unintentionally created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF MALWARE

Adware:. The least dangerous and most lucrative Malware. Adware displays ads on your computer.
Spyware:. Spyware is software that spies on you, tracking your internet activities in order to send advertising (Adware) back to your system.
Virus: A virus is a contagious program or code that attaches itself to another piece of software, and then reproduces itself when that software is run. Most often this is spread by sharing software or files between computers.
Worm: A program that replicates itself and destroys data and files on the computer. Worms work to “eat” the system operating files and data files until the drive is empty.
Trojan: The most dangerous Malware. Trojans are written with the purpose of discovering your financial information, taking over your computer’s system resources, and in larger systems creating a “denial-of-service attack ” Denial-of-service attack: an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to those attempting to reach it. Example: AOL, Yahoo or your business network becoming unavailable.
Rootkit: This one is likened to the burglar hiding in the attic, waiting to take from you while you are not home. It is the hardest of all Malware to detect and therefore to remove; many experts recommend completely wiping your hard drive and reinstalling everything from scratch. It is designed to permit the other information gathering Malware in to get the identity information from your computer without you realizing anything is going on.
Backdoors: Backdoors are much the same as Trojans or worms, except that they open a “backdoor” onto a computer, providing a network connection for hackers or other Malware to enter or for viruses or SPAM to be sent.
Keyloggers: Records everything you type on your PC in order to glean your log-in names, passwords, and other sensitive information, and send it on to the source of the keylogging program. Many times keyloggers are used by corporations and parents to acquire computer usage information.
Rogue security software: This one deceives or misleads users. It pretends to be a good program to remove Malware infections, but all the while it is the Malware. Often it will turn off the real Anti-Virus software. The next image shows the typical screen for this Malware program, Antivirus 2010
Ransomware: If you see this screen that warns you that you have been locked out of your computer until you pay for your cybercrimes. Your system is severely infected with a form of Malware called Ransomware. It is not a real notification from the FBI, but, rather an infection of the system itself. Even if you pay to unlock the system, the system is unlocked, but you are not free of it locking you out again. The request for money, usually in the hundreds of dollars is completely fake.
Browser Hijacker: When your homepage changes to one that looks like those in the images inserted next, you may have been infected with one form or another of a Browser Hijacker. This dangerous Malware will redirect your normal search activity and give you the results the developers want you to see. Its intention is to make money off your web surfing. Using this homepage and not removing the Malware lets the source developers capture your surfing interests. This is especially dangerous when banking or shopping online. These homepages can look harmless, but in every case they allow other more infectious

CREDIT TO:http://www.malwaretruth.com/the-list-of-malware-types/

How to stay safe from malware

Here are the tips to stay safe from malware:

Install Antivirus/malware software
Keep your software up-to-date
Keep your OS up-to-date
Run scan regularly
Secure your browsing via web antiviruses.
Do not click on links or sites which you don't trust
Do not use Public Wifi
Backup your files
Use strong passwords

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What is Android OS?

2016-07-12T23:52:00.000-07:00

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google as an open source Linux-based platform for third party companies to build off. The open nature of Android means developers and manufacturers can work with the platform for free and change it to their own designs. Since its inception, Android has gone through many guises and has positioned itself as the most used mobile platform in the world, while also branching out into other areas (TV, cars, and wearables). However, the Android ecosystem remains deeply fragmented and the platform is deemed as insecure compared to rivals by many commentators.
In today's date, almost half of people use Android smartphones.
As the users of Android smartphones increases day by day, threats related to Android are also increasing day by day.
By the way Android is a good OS.

'HummingBad' malware creators making $300k a month.

2016-07-12T12:23:00.000-07:00

'HummingBad' Malware creators are making $300,000 a month. 'HummingBad" malware, ANDROID infecting malware already infected 10 million android devices which I have mentioned in my earlier post.

You can read here: Cell phone Malware infected 10 million users worldwide

Researchers have revealed that they are making $300,000; increasing daily as more are more devices are infected.

The HummingBad malware was reported to have spread in China, India, the Philippines, and Indonesia. However, Android phone owners living in other countries are not safe from the said mobile infection as there have been 288,000 reported infections in the United States also, CNET reported.

The malware does not just act as a spy to download and steal information from one's phone like what a malware usually does. Instead, HummingBad can transfer personal information, spy on the victims, and turn the infected phones into botnets, since it also has the ability to get root access. The malware is being used purely for revenue generation by remotely clicking on ads to make them seem popular than they actually are. They also try to install fake versions of popular apps, Digital Spy reported.

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Millions of Xiaomi phones are at risk due to Malware.

2016-07-12T11:25:00.000-07:00

Xiaomi Phones

According to the latest news, Millions of Xiaomi phones are vulnerable to that an attacker can install Malware remotely to it.

The vulnerability was found in the analytics package inn Xiaomi's custom built Android-based operating system. Security researchers at IBM, who found the flaw, discovered a number of apps in the package that were vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw through a man-in-the-middle attack -- one of which would allow an attacker to run arbitrary code at the system-level.

In other words, an attacker could inject a link to a malicious Android app package, which is extracted and executed at the system level.

Xiaomi, the world's third-largest smartphone maker with more than 70 million devices shipped last year, fixed the flaw in a recent update.

Users should update their devices as soon as possible -- though, updates aren't (as far as we can tell) delivered over an encrypted channel.

This kind of attack vector, however, isn't new, and has been seen in other platforms.

These flaws rely on a lack of encryption and code-checking and verification. Because these updates aren't provided over an encrypted TLS (HTTPS) connection, they can be easily modified. Encryption prevents anyone from modifying the data in transit, and ensure that a man-in-the-middle attack is almost impossible to carry out.

It's not even the first time this kind of attack was discovered this year.

Earlier this year, a similar set of flaws were found in preinstalled software on Windows PCs -- so-called bloatware. This meant millions of laptops and desktops were at risk of having malware injected as it's being downloaded from the internet.

The researchers who found the vulnerabilities said that the "average potted plant" could exploit the flaws.
Fortunately, the vulnerability has been fixed now.

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Cell phone Malware infected 10 million users worldwide

2016-07-12T10:54:00.000-07:00

There is a latest news in the field of cybersecurity. A cellphone virus infected 10 million people across the world.

A ~~virus~~ Malware from China called "HummingBad" was downloaded by the users who keep insecure apps from unknown sources in their phones without having knowledge about that.

“And what it does is it gets route access to your device. It collects all your information and it also does an additional thing where it clicks on ads and all the ads essentially pop up and all your information gets sent out to those ads,” said Alex Hy with StayMobile in Spartanburg.

User can also get Malware by clicking on malicious links.

Today Michael Holmes came in to get his phone repaired. He says safeguarding his most important possession from accidents is hard enough, let alone hackers.

“To know you can get a virus that easily on your phone and it’s doing all kinds of stuff that’s out of your control, that scares me,” said Holmes.

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE IT?

To figure out if you have a virus, download antivirus software like Zone Alarm, AVG orAvast, and do a scan.

HOW DO YOU GET RID OF IT?

The only way to get it off your phone is to do a complete factory reset. So that means you’ll lose any data that you’re not able to save on an SD card.

HOW DO YOU AVOID IT?

Make sure you only download apps from Google Play or iTunes, and avoid clicking on links in social media or texts. The anti-virus software for your phone will also help.

HummingBad is one of the first widespread cell phone viruses, but it certainly won’t be the last.

“It makes me real nervous because that’s probably just the beginning,” said Holmes.

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The Top 8 Twitter tricks to enhance your Twitter experience.

2016-07-12T06:44:00.001-07:00

The top 8 Twitter tricks to enhance your Twitter experience, to make your profile looks better and to increase followers are below.

CUSTOMIZE YOUR PROFILE

Use your real photo as the Twitter profile picture. It makes your profile be a personal account.

Create and upload your background image or you can say the cover photo of a recommended size of 1600x1200 for a large image.

Include keywords in your Twitter bio which helps users to find you easily.

USING THIRD-PARTY TOOLS

Use third-party tools to enhance your Twitter experience. Some of my favourites tools are below:

Qwitter: It's a great service which sends you an email anytime if a user unsubscribe (unfollow) you and also mention a post made by you or a reason by which the user leave or unfollow you.

TwitPic: As you can guess from the name. It is used to post pictures on your tweets.

Twitterific (app): To post pictures on Twitter when you're away from your computer, you can use this app.

WeFollow: It's a great website from which you can make an about page of yourself using different tags you find interesting. You can also add yourself to a list of Twitter users.

Manageflitter: It's a site from which you can manage your Twitter followers, can get an overview of users not following you back, followers, unfollowers etc.

SocialOomph: Collection of free Twitter tools which you can use for different purposes.

Twitter Fan Wiki apps: As same as above this is a collection of hundreds of different types of Twitter tools which you can use.

TWITTER SEARCH

You can use Twitter search in many ways. Some tips for using Twitter search are:

You can search for your blog or your website URL and can see if others people mention your blog or website.

You can search for your nearby places like I live in New Delhi, so I can search for 'NEW DELHI' , and it will show the current latest tweets using New Delhi keyword in them.

You can search for the people you like in a particular category searching for the keyword you interested and want to find that type of people.

If you want to see tweets without any links you add ?filter:links at the end of your search.

If you need more options in search, you can use Advanced Twitter search.

You can also save your search results if you find any search result best, by clicking on "Save this search" button. After saving your search result, you can found them under "Saved Searches" on the right-hand part of your profile.

FOLLOWERS

Do not follow too many peoples. This not seems quite good to see that a person having 20 followers follow 1000s of peoples.

Engage followers by tweeting interesting posts.

Retweet interesting posts.

Participate in conversations with peoples or in any interesting topic having a lot of followers.
It may help you to increase followers.

CREATING USEFUL AND INTERESTING TWEETS

Make interesting, useful or funny tweets.

Do not post your personal and boring tweets, for e.g. feeling good, eating snacks etc.
Make many tweets frequently. You can tweet 10 times a week or 5 times a day. More no. of tweets more no. of followers.

Add hashtags(#) in your tweet keywords.

Make useful and valuable tweets at the times they just happened and when people are more likely to see them.

You can use special characters such as smiley in your posts.

FOLLOW THE MASTERS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES : TWITTER

Follow some great peoples or yo can say masters of Twitter which gives you knowledge about how to tweet.

Such top 10 twitters are:

@GuyKawasaki

@kevinrose
@timoreilly
@donttrythis
@zappos
@brainpicker

@Scobleizer
@jeffbullas
@briansolis

@tonyrobbins

Use Twitaholic to get top 10 users of Twitter according to followers.

USE MOBILE APP

Use the Twitter mobile app on your android, ios blackberry, windows phones to tweet quickly.

ADVERTISE

Advertise your twitter profile on your website or blog.

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117 million LinkedIn Emails and Passwords are on sale on DarkWeb

2016-07-12T06:42:00.000-07:00

There was a hack in LinkedIn databases in 2012 which still cause problems to users. As you may or may not remember that many time passed when hackers broke into the LinkedIn's network in 2012 and about 6.5 million encrypted passwords and posted it to the Russian hacker forums. As many of the passwords were stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes, hundreds of thousands were quickly cracked.The passwords are encrypted with 'no salt' which makes them easier to crack.

That hacking is still creating problems for LinkedIn users as many of the users didn't change their passwords yet.

By the way, it was an old news. I just wanted to remind you.
Now the main topic and the latest news is that a Hacker knows by the name "Peace" is trying to sell a huge LinkedIn database which contains 167 million LinkedIn users account on a dark web(dark market) called TheRealDeal just only for 5 Bitcoins or $2,200. In all of these 167 million accounts database, only 117 million accounts data include both email and password encrypted.

=>So now, in my advice change your password to stay protected and safe from hackers.

Top 10 Features of Apple ios 10

2016-07-12T06:40:00.000-07:00

There is a great news for Apple fans. Apple has released its latest operating system for Apple iPhone called ios 10.

It's touted as the best iOS ever as they touting since their first iOS.

On June 13, the Cupertino company presented all the new features using the phrase "Top 10 Countdown" for the quick interaction of people.

So, I will not bore you with the wish to tell you this is the top 10 features.

And here are these Top 10 features of latest Ios 10:

Voicemail Transcriptions

This feature allows you that you not have to listen to those boring voicemail anymore. Because the new ios will transcribe your voicemail into text which you can read instead of listening.

Deleting Default Apps

As you all aware that smartphones come with pre-installed apps which we didn't want sometimes. The new ios 10 have features to delete default apps like Podcasts, calendar, and Reminders etc.

Adorable Emojis

ios 10 brings a new feature for apple phones. Now you can use emojis instead of words.

It means if you type a sentence and then select emojis keyboard, the words itself get highlighted which can be replaced by emojis. It's is a good feature in new ios 10 as this is the year 2016 and using emojis instead of text looks creative.

Upgraded Siri

The upgraded Siri in new ios 10 has given it a new lease of life by opening the personal assistant up to third party developers.

This means you'll be able to ask Siri to send a WhatsApp, order an Uber and so on.

Apple new music app

In ios 10, the Apple music app makes new changes in his structure and appearance to navigate easily. ios 10 also added lyrics option in Apple music.

Widgets

Widgets make our work easier to open the apps quickly. You can add all apps which you want to access in widgets option.
Now ios 10 introduced widgets option for Apple phones. Now you can access apps from the lock screen of iPhone and while using 3d touch on an app.

Markup photos

Now you can add text and can draw all over the photo.

Apple iMessage

Like Facebook or WhatsApp messenger, now you can send Pictures, GIFs, videos using the iMessage app of new ios 10.

Finding your car

Using Siri, now you can find your car and get directions of your car if your car equipped with Bluetooth.

Sleep Reminders

You can use sleep reminders to schedule your time to get sleep and to get awake.Then the new ios 10 sleep reminder will send reminders when it's time to go to bed and when it's time to get awake.

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This man wrongly sent £45,000 which he spent on cocaine and gambling.

2016-07-12T06:38:00.000-07:00

A man who was mistakenly overpaid by a huge amount more than £45,000 by the Barclays Bank has been in trouble after spending about ten thousand pounds on gambling, cocaine. drinking etc.
Steven Burke, of Grosvenor Crescent, Scarborough said that he lived a millionaire lifestyle after receiving an unexpectedly huge amount of money in his Barclays account on January 29.

This 43-year-old man Steven Burke was supposed to have received £446 for his work. But by the typing error of the director, he was sent 100 times more money than his intended money.
Instead of returning the money, Burke started spending them all over on drinking, cocaine, alcohol, buying expensive clothes and many more items of his needs.
Varlow told Scarborough Magistrates' Court on Monday (4 July): "He spent the money on a car, an electronic-cigarette, hotel rooms, designer clothes, a gold chain, cocaine and vodka as well as online gambling. In total, he spent more than £28,000 and approximately £15,000 was recovered."

Burke was eventually caught by police after a request by his employer to hand the money back went unanswered.Despite initially telling police he thought he had been a victim of "cyber crime" when he noticed the money in his account, he eventually pleaded guilty to receiving wrongful credit. He will be sentenced at York Crown Court on 25 July where he could face time in prison.
This is just one latest case in the line of many such cases in which public find themselves being overpaid and not paying back that money which they had been given by mistake.
There is one such case, in 2014, a single-mother Michaela Hutchings ordered to pay back an amount of £52,000 which had been sent accidently to her. She spent about £8,000 on designer clothes, expensive shoes, handbags, sunglasses etc. in just two days.
She agreed to pay the money after being caught by the police and thus escaped from prison.
In law, Under Section 24A of the 1968 Theft Act, anyone who fails to pay back the money they know was sent in error could receive a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

What is Phishing?

2016-07-12T01:25:00.000-07:00

Phishing

Many of you've heard about phishing or the word phishing. If you hadn't heard this before, then, there are certain questions which may come to your mind like,

1. What is Phishing?

2. It seems like the word 'Fishing'?

3. How does it work?

This post is for those who have the above questions in their mind.
The topic 'Phishing' may be clear to you in this article.

The definition of phishing is very simple and easy to understand.

Phishing is a form of fraud in which an attacker fools you to take your confidential data, passwords, bank account information, credit card details, email or any other communication details.
Phishing is very popular among cybercriminals as it is easier to trick someone for one click on their malicious link through which an attacker can take access of the data, account or any other information.
The word 'Phishing' is the homophone of 'Fishing'. As you all know that Fishing is the activity of catching fishes in which a person tries to catch fishes in his trap.
Just as same, in Phishing an attacker tries to fool a victim in his trap.
I think, the definition of Phishing has become clear to you all now.

Now, the question is that How does it work?
In simple language,
In this technique, an attacker sends a malicious link to the victims and tries to fool him to click on that link.

In long, an attacker designs a malicious web page and sends it to the victim via email or some other communication. The victim receives a message or emails which seem to have come from some organisation or company which contains a malicious link. When the victims click on that malicious link, the victims redirect to a fake website or web page that look same alike as the real website or web page. When the victim enters his personal data like (passwords, emails) on that web page, the attackers receives his personal data mostly in a .txt file.
I hope that you understand.

Facebook, twitter, Gmail and other social networking sites can be hacked using this technique.

Conclusion

Never click on the link on which you don't trust.

Always check the URL of the link. Because the malicious link URL never same as the real website URL. For example, if an attacker sends you a fake malicious link of Facebook. It never be same as www.facebook.com, it may be www.faccebok.com but not same as the real facebook URL.

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