If the user visits the website, they will be met with the following message: According to details reported that by Vocativ, the site’s administrators had identified the hack on Thursday, and several ISIS forums have also reported about the incident. The virus was apparently impersonating as a Flashplayer.apk which is the Android OS file format. Since Android is also vulnerable to a slew of malware, Anonymous most likely thought that it can infect the least protected operating system out of the mobile OS out there....

The Anonymous had announced two campaigns called #OpWhales and #OpKillingBay to bring world attention to the illegal whaling being carried out around the world. Iceland has been carrying out commercial whaling despite of ongoing global moratorium against killing whales established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986. That is the reason Anonymous has targeted Icelanding government websites. According to local Icelandic website Grapevine.is, activists belonging to Anonymous took down 5 Icelanding government websites through a Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack, however, the sites are online as of now....

Like exiled whistleblower Edward Snowden, the contractor worked for consulting firm Booz Allen, which is behind many of the NSA’s most sensitive cyber-operations, law enforcement and intelligence sources told the New York Times. Booz Allen, which also formerly Mr Snowden, has a major contract with the NSA, assisting in numerous issues including identifying employees who might steal confidential documents. In 2013, Mr Snowden leaked more than 1.5 million documents relating to the agency’s surveillance programmes, including some that targeted U....

The patent application titled “Mirror Tilt Actuation,” was first reported by Apple Insider which says the filing describes an image sensor for small, multifunction devices like an iPhone that would compensate for the user’s hand movement to improve picture quality. The Free Patents Online gives following description for the “Mirror Tilt Actuation,” According to the patent application, the new camera will have a specialised outer lens element which will focus incoming light onto a mirror....

The iPad Pro is powered by the new “desktop class” 64-bit A9X chip from Apple, which promises 1.8 times faster performance than that of the existing second-generation 64-bit A8X chip that runs iPad Air 2. Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President Worldwide Marketing at Apple claimed that the iPad Pro is faster than 80% of portable PCs that shipped in the last year. The device is 6.9mm thin and weighs 1....

Known internally as T310, the chip is being designed to handle low-power mode functionality. The chip itself is said to be a variant of the T1 SoC that Apple first introduced on the recently released MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar. Apple new chip is being designed to carry more of the system load for certain tasks. Apple engineers are planning to offload the Mac’s low-power mode, a feature marketed as “Power Nap,” to the next-generation ARM-based chip....

For those unaware, the fall detection feature in Apple’s Watch Series 4 is enabled by default only for users aged more than 65 years. This feature detects when the wearer falls, beats the wrist, sounds an alert, and displays a message on the screen. If the wearer does not respond in time, it will then automatically call for help. Dotty White, an octogenarian, was on her way home from grocery shopping when a driver ran straight into her at a busy intersection in downtown Kennebunk, Maine....

The support page spells out possible problems – not limited to tattoos. “Many factors can affect the performance of the Apple Watch heart rate sensor,” the Apple page states. “Skin perfusion” – which explains how much blood flows through your skin – is one factor. “Skin perfusion varies significantly from person to person and can also be impacted by the environment. If you’re exercising in the cold, for example, the skin perfusion in your wrist may be too low for the heart rate sensor to get a reading,” the Apple support page states....

What data will be collectedHow can an Australian escape this metadata retention scheme How can an Australian escape this metadata retention scheme Instead of using the cellular network, use free apps to make calls or send text messages. For e.g., TextSecure for encrypted text messaging, RedPhone for encrypted phone calls and Signal for both encrypted messaging and phone calls. Use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) that help hide your Internet traffic by encrypting the connection....

The interception was in breach of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, which allows ASIO to use listening devices and computer access on on anti-state actors and websites. The breach or the error was reported by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) itself and was revealed in the agency’s annual report blaming on a ‘technical glitch’. ASIO deleted the intercepted information and says processes have been put in place to prevent the error occurring again....

Dyson Animal 2 Living up to the stellar reputation of Dyson brand, the Animal 2 can clean up all messes and debris from your flooring and carpet with a single sweep. Although it might take a bit more time to clean scattered flour, the ultimate performance metrics of the Dyson model is way above its contemporaries. It becomes easy to manoeuvre the vacuum around furniture coupled with its swivel head....

Elaborating further on this topic, the former Microsoft CEO while speaking at The New York Times’ DealBook conference on November 6 said that people would have been using Windows instead of Android if they were not caught in the U.S. antitrust investigation. “There’s no doubt that the antitrust lawsuit was bad for Microsoft, and we would have been more focused on creating the phone operating system and so instead of using Android today you would be using Windows Mobile,” Gates said....

According to a report from Variety, BitTorrent is looking to expand its live streaming offerings by launching a TV news network “BitTorrent News” ahead of the U.S. presidential election. The network’s journalistic efforts will be based out of San Francisco, with “a worldwide network of stringers” helping operations. The news network is expected to be an expansion of the OTT News app the company released for Apple TV, iOS and Android earlier this year, as well as its BitTorrent Live offerings....

A 22-year-old Russian blogger could end up being jailed for up to five years after it was alleged that he insulted “religious sensitivities” by playing Pokemon Go in the church. Ruslan Sokolovsky is a political blogger who regularly posts his opinions on his YouTube Channel. Sokolovsky also happens to be a Pokemon Go fan and he did something which Russian authorities up in arms against him. On August 11, he filmed himself playing Pokémon Go in a Yekaterinberg cathedral....

Dubbed ‘BLURtooth’ and tracked as CVE-2020-15802, the vulnerability was discovered independently by two groups of academics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Purdue University. The flaw exists in Cross-Transport Key Derivation (CTKD) of devices supporting both Bluetooth Basic Rate/Enhanced Data Rate (BR/EDR) transportation methods as well as Low Energy (LE) connections, also known as “dual-mode” devices, in Bluetooth Specifications 4.2 through 5.0. The current version of the Bluetooth specification is 5....

The bug that was discovered by an independent hacker, Sachin Thakuri says that it is not a technical flaw. However, this flaw is enough to fool people into believing some fake news. So, how did he fake this Facebook post? Here’s the original URL of Mark Zuckerberg’s original life event. If you see the URL carefully and remove the ustart=1 parameter, the work status of ustart=1 parameter. Take a look at the changed and misguiding Facebook post without ustart=1 parameter:...

The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) passed the resolution at an annual meeting in Ottawa, calling for the legal measure to unlock digital evidence citing that criminals are increasingly using encryption to keep their illegal activities a secret. In a statement, the CACP said it “urges the government of Canada, for the purpose of community safety, to identify a legislative means for public safety agencies inclusive of law enforcement, through judicial authorization, to compel the holder of an encryption key or password to reveal it to law enforcement....

George Garofano, 26, had hacked into more than 200 iCloud accounts of Hollywood stars including Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, Kate Upton as well as ordinary members of the public, and had posted their intimate pictures on Reddit. The North Branford man admitted to posing as a member of Apple’s online security team and using a phishing scheme to send emails to the victims asking for their usernames and passwords. He then used the information from victims to steal personal information, including photos and videos....

For those unaware, WeChat, is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent, and claims to have over 980 million active monthly users. WeChat is one of the largest social networks in China that is used by people in the country due to the ban of Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. The confession came from the anti-corruption watchdog, the Chaohu Municipal Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission in eastern China who on Saturday revealed on social media that it has “retrieved a series of deleted WeChat conversations from a suspect” as part of an investigation, reports the newspaper....

Here is how to download the top 10 Albums of 2015 on your Windows 10 Microsoft has been springing surprises under Satya Nadella and now it is the time of Windows 10 users to rejoice upcoming Christmas because Microsoft is gifting top 10 Albums of 2015 to them. Microsoft has decided to give away not one, not two, but ten different music albums launched in 2015 to those who have already upgraded to the new operating system....