Earlier this year, a senior HR executive at Seagate fell for a phishing scam, which resulted in thousands of employees’ tax information being exposed. The employee was fooled into giving away personally identifiable information (PII) of 10,000 past and current employees and W-2 forms that include their Social Security numbers along with their wage, salary and tax information to the scammers who posed as the CEO Stephen Luczo of the company....

Hope you still use the good old, traditional way of keying in password to access your mobile and never used the fingerprint scanner to unlock your phone. You may want to ask why. The Forbes reports stated that the researchers at FireEye, a security firm have found a very serious security defect hidden inside the Galaxy S5’s fingerprint scanner. This has the potential to allow hackers to copy your fingerprints and use them for their own vicious intents....

For Sending money: Sender needs to start a message with a friend Tap the $ icon and enter the amount which sender wants to send Tap Pay in the top right and add sender’s debit card to send money For Receiving money: Receiver needs to open the conversation from the friend who is sending the money Tap Add Card in the message and add receiver’s debit card to accept money for the first time...

Hacked websites were showing a short message in Spanish, translated version can be read below.

The brain behind the invention, Navid Azodi and Thomas Pryor, both college sophomores, say the gloves will help create a communication bridge between deaf and hearing communities. “We wanted to develop something that would help the deaf and mute better communicate with the rest of the world, without changing how they already interact with each other,” explains Azodi. “By simply putting on a pair of gloves, those who utilize American sign language can now communicate with the rest of the world the same way they communicate with each other....

Apple’s Siri digital assistants has been hailed as one of the best digital assistants around. It is fast, it is quirky and it has a great sense of humour but it is as much risky according to Trend Micro. Researchers at Trend Micro state that it poses a serious privacy risk for iPhone owners by leaking personal information. According to Trend Micro, even if your iPhone is protected with a PIN or passcode, it could still be possible for someone else to use Siri to glean personal information about not just you, but your relations and other contacts, as well as details about your schedule....

On Tuesday, after two years, the White House finally responded to the petition to pardon Snowden with a “No” and saying thanks for signing. The White House’s response also added that while there is a lawful need for intelligence reform, Snowden chose the wrong way to do it. The pardon petition was signed by more than 167,000 people. “Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs,” the petition says....

#GOP Sony Hackers had demanded ransom from Sony CEO or warned them of massive cyber attackAlso read : FBI says that North Korea is not linked to Sony Hack attack The email which was sent on Nov. 21, was addressed to Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, Chairman Amy Pascal and other executives. This ransom email is accidentally the part of the trove that is being leaked by the hackers after the hack....

Samsung, the South Korean tech giant has successfully developed a technology that will enable it to double the capacity of lithium batteries effectively. In other words, the research team of Samsung Electronics has come up with a technology that basically involves the development of a silicon cathode material for the purpose of coating high crystal graphene on a silicon surface. In comparison to the existing current lithium batteries, this is said to double the energy density....

The mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi has a commanding influence and control in the mobile manufacturing industry in China. It has became one of biggest manufacturer of mobile phone in world in just a short span of time. The leaked mobile information on the site gives the details about the features of the Xiaomi Mi 5 and Mi 5 Plus mobile phones. According to the information, it says that the phone Xiaomi Mi5 will feature a 5....

Unfortunately, the same happened to my trusty HP Pavilion Notebook. After researching for quite some time, I found out a feature-packed tool, namely BoostSpeed 11. As advertised, BoostSpeed 11 drastically improved the performance of my Windows 10 device. What intrigued me more was the fact that this tool was completely free to use, and in addition to enhancing the performance of my PC, BoostSpeed 11 also optimized my Notebook. Recently, Auslogics reached out to Techworm for a detailed review of BoostSpeed 11....

Popcorn Time uses BitTorrent’s P2P technology and enables you to stream content without having to wait for the download to complete, making it easy for you to watch your favorite films and television series. The content is downloaded in a secret folder on your hard drive and gets deleted on system reboot. Another alternative is Stremio has been around for a while, it is not all that popular. Stremio is an application built with Electron that streams and plays TV shows, movies, TV channels, and YouTube channels, from torrents....

The Syrian Electronic Army took on the site yesterday and altered a news feature written by one of IBTimes reporters, Alessandria Masi. The SEA which takes pride in just hacking websites and defacing pages to make their views known to world did not touch other articles on the website. They also left a message on the deface page which said that,“This time we only deleted the article that [contained]false information about Syria and the Syrian army,” the message posted online read....

Currently, the video calling feature is in Telegram beta and expected to officially roll out with version 7.0 of the application. “2020 highlighted the need for face-to-face communication, and our alpha version of video calls is now available on both Android and iOS. You can start a video call from your contact’s profile page, and switch video on or off at any time during voice calls,” the company said in a statement on Friday....

The car dubbed as “Cybertruck”, according to Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, could survive a 9 mm handgun. However, the attempt to prove so failed miserably during the demonstration. In an effort to demonstrate the car’s durability of its “Armor Glass” windows, Musk ordered Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s chief of design, to hit the driver’s side door with a sledgehammer, which did not make a dent. However, the windows shattered when Musk asked Franz to throw a metal ball at the driver’s side window....

In 1977 Tom Baker was the fourth actor to play the character of famous nerd “Doctor Who” and then the robotic canine made its first appearance in the series. Now, we have this K9 toy for real which has the same look as the one which appeared in the opera years ago. The robotic K9 has many interactive features including the moving ears and the illuminated key pad. The eyes, nose probe, ears and all movements of this robotic K9 can be controlled using a smartphone....

The newly developed quantum computer is only made from five atoms, and is one of the significant steps leading towards developing new devices. “We tried to make a quantum processor of five qubits with trapped ions that is reconfigurable, and by that I mean that you can literally program algorithms into it,” Shantanu Debnath, an optical engineer, a quantum physicist at University of Maryland and the lead author of the Nature paper, from the US University told WIRED....

Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym of the Federal District Court for the District of Central California ordered Apple to bypass security functions on an iPhone 5c used by Syed Rizwan Farook, who was killed by the police along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, after they attacked Mr. Farook’s co-workers at a holiday gathering. Judge Pym ordered Apple to build special software that would essentially act as a skeleton key capable of unlocking the phone....

Prima facie it seems that someone hacked her smartphone to obtain the images and later used her Instagram credentials to post the images. The images are very grainy and extremely NSFW but the captions put the hackers are more saucy and too hot to handle. Her spokesman confirmed that Charlotte had been hacked, “Charlotte has once again become a victim of hacking,” the spokesman told The Daily Caller. “It is disgusting someone does this and hopefully laws will change to protect people from these cyber attacks....

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