According to the government’s Office of Personnel Management, 19.7 million background were affected who underwent a background investigation, each of which includes a large amount of personal data. Further, 1.8 million others, mostly spouses or cohabitants of applicants for government jobs were affected. The exceptionally large figure added to the intensity of the breach, which resulted in a series of hearings in Congress and widespread criticism of the state of US cyber-defenses....

These keyboard shortcuts will help you move around in Facebook on desktop with easeHere we go with the keyboard shortcuts for FacebookWindows :Apple MacThe ShortcutsNavigating the News Feed You will find that you can jump around the Facebook with ease using these keyboard shortcuts. To use them you have to press a key or two and a number which Facebook calls an access key. Facebook has been good enough to give access keys for all major browser like Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari, though the keystrokes may differ from browser to browser....

29 year old Erik Johnson from Long Island has had a bad experience with iPhone 5C he owns. The man claims he cannot work after he suffered burns from his iPhone when it burst into flames. Speaking the CBS News reporter, Sophia Hall, Johnson said that he was still in pain. Talking about the incident from his Lindenhurst home, Johnson said that he was in New Jersey with his cousin and all of a sudden all hell broke loose out of blue....

Any hacker who had the right resources could “bruteforce” a target’s voicemail PIN using easily accessible technology and gain access to the phone subscriber’s voicemail messages. For the uninitiated, ‘Bruteforcing’ involves a hacker using a bruteforce software and trying various combinations and permutations to gain access to the service. It is similar to the normal zip password cracker softwares available on the net. However in the zip password cracker case, the file is on your system but normally large corporations employ security systems against bruteforce....

Everybody’s talking about the future of Bitcoin and it’s price in short and long terms. And that’s what we’re about to discuss as well, but first… let’s cast our minds back and go through all the record points of the BTC to USD rate in 2017. This will help us with future predictions. Bitcoin price throughout 2017 January – $1000. As early as the first days of January 2017, Bitcoin reached the price of one thousand dollars....

Back then, talking about the multi-device support Zuckerberg had said, “It’s been a big technical challenge to get all your messages and content to sync properly across devices even when your phone battery dies, but we’ve solved this and we’re looking forward to getting it out soon!” Facebook has now officially announced the limited rollout of multi-device support feature to beta testers of WhatsApp. According to the company, the updated multi-device capability will allow you to use WhatsApp on your phone and up to four other non-phone devices simultaneously without the need to keep your phone connected....

The Facebook-owned social messaging app recently rolled out the much-anticipated Dark Mode for its smartphone application in the beta update version 2.20.12 onwards on Android and version 2.20.30.25 on iOS. According to a new report by the WhatsApp tracker WABetaInfo, the company is currently internally testing the Dark Mode for the Web and Desktop platforms. WABetaInfo has also posted the screenshots of what the Dark Mode will look like on WhatsApp Web and Desktop (see below)....

So, Mozilla’s Firefox is the most popular browser among Linux users. But is it really the fastest. After all, the speed of the browser not only saves money but also makes surfing that much more fun and interesting. Imagine a slow browser where the cursor is spinning and spinning and the website takes years to load like the Internet Explorer of the bygone era. Now, who would want that kind of a browser?...

Apparently, users who are trying to install the update on Atom Clover Trail PCs are met with an error message that states “Windows 10 is no longer supported on this PC,” reports ZDNet’s Ed Bott. The PCs that are affected are the first 2-in-1 PCs, announced in 2012 and sold through 2013 to 2015. What is even more confusing is the message that accompanies it, which states “Uninstall this app now because it isn’t compatible with Windows 10....

If you want that particular dark and broody theme, you will have to tinker around with the Windows Registry setting a little bit. So the statutory warning goes that if you are not aware of registry settings, kindly dont touch them. Tinkering the settings can be potentially dangerous and it is always better to take a backup of your data on external storage. Now that we have done with the warning part, tinkering a little bit with the Windows 10 registry lets you can unlock a whole new look for the operating system, taking Windows 10 to the dark side....

Available for Windows users WinRAR is an unzipping tool able to decompress .ZIP, .RAR and .7Z files, among others. Mohammad Reza Espargham, an Iranian researcher from Vulnerability Lab discovered the bug and reported the vulnerability to Full Disclosure, a popular forum for disclosure of security information. The bug only affects the latest version, 5.21, according to the vulnerability disclosure details, and can be used by any attacker clever enough to put the malicious HTML code inside the “Text to display in SFX window” section when creating a new SFX file....

A recycling center in the Silicon Valley has been looking for a woman who has dropped off an old Apple computer that has turned out to be a jackpot, a collectible item worth $US200,000 ($A261,470). The computer was inside a box of electronics items that she had cleaned out from her garage after her husband passed away, said Victor Gichun, the vice president of Clean Bay Area. She did not want a tax receipt or leave her any contact information, and it wasn’t until a few weeks later that the workers opened the boxes to discover a jackpot an Apple I computer inside it....

The IBM Simon arrived as a ‘personal communicator’. The term ‘smartphone’ did not arrive on the scene until 1995. It was only within a year after the launch, that the term smartphone appeared more widely, and it was retrospectively applied to the device. Although it’s been 21 years since its launch, Simon is still instantly recognized by people today, even though its size and weight would make it inappropriate for modern pockets....

As a kid or as a teenager, when most of us are trying to understand the bright and fun side of the world and its surroundings, there are some kids who are busy exploring the dark side of the world for fun and curiosity. In this case, we are referring to hacking. 10 Best Black Hat Hackers In The World In this article, we bring you the top 5 juvenile hackers that we think are hacking legends of all time....

For those unaware, Worldwide Torrents (WWT) launched around three years ago after the shutdown of KickassTorrents (KAT), has a dedicated following and an active community, which include users and uploaders of KAT and even ExtraTorrent. While it’s common for websites to suffer downtime for a few hours or days or taken down for the upkeep of the site, the disappearance of Worldwide Torrents for over a week now has left many users uneasy....

Though its online sales only model helped Xiaomi notch up good sales figures for its smartphones, it hasnt been able to reach the last mile buyers who prefer brick and mortar stores. Buyers who like to feel the smartphone or a gadget generally prefer the physical store to online retailers. Redmi Note 4G is already being sold to Airtel outlets but they are sold in a locked model where the buyers are required to buy Airtel 4G connection with the smartphones....

Due to the fact that large number of Indian’s visit Nepal and may have been caught up in the destruction, the state run telecom major has announced that all calls originating from India to Nepal will be charged at rate of local call. The Indian government has also sent relief materials and doctors in addition to the National Disaster Management Authority NDMA) personnel to assist the Nepalese government to overcome their tragedy....

The security research report was published by researchers at Freedom to Tinker – a digital initiative by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. According to the report, personal identifiable information such as “name, email address, age range, gender, locale and profile photo”, are collected by the third-party trackers. “Some third parties use the Facebook Login feature to authenticate users across many websites. However, hidden third-party trackers can also use Facebook Login to deanonymize users for targeted advertising....

Notepad is the best option when you want to create a quick note. The files created by Notepad are saved in the .txt format which is supported by every text editor or document processor. So, the files created by Notepad can be opened, edited, and modified on almost every PC/laptop and even your smartphone. People take Notepad for a general note saver but it is much beyond that. Notepad is a light-weight text editor is wrong because it can open many unknown extensions files and the Notepad itself allows you to execute unbelievable commands, tricks, and hacks to make it more productive for you....