Here is today’s best news for the Linux and open-source enthusiasts. The popular open-source desktop environment GNOME has released the latest stable update- GNOME 3.16. Over the years, GNOME desktop has seen its share of ups and downs evolving to become one of the most loved open-source environments. Each GNOME release continues to make it […]
If you are using a PC without Start Menu and are feeling lost, you are not alone. Not putting start menu in Windows 8 was the biggest mistake committed by Microsoft. Continuing my series of simple how-to tips and tricks, today I’m going to tell you a quick way to bring back the start menu in […]
After Indian’s Governor Mike Peace signed the controversial “religious freedom bill” as law, the next thing the government knew was that their website (in.gov) got attacked and went offline with a powerful DDoS attack. The attacker is a group calling itself @YourVikingdomon on Twitter and has been taken down another 34 state, local, tribal and […]
All of the mysterious cell phone towers in the U.S. can now be pinpointed – But most of them are not the U.S. government’s. That’s the word from Les Goldsmith, the CEO of ESD America. His company, which made public last year the existence of the interceptors, is today announcing the launch of its real-time Overwatch […]
Update: GitHub is fully functional now. Everything operating normally. — GitHub Status (@githubstatus) March 31, 2015 GitHub is one the most popular websites among programmers and developers and is currently having 3.4 million users with 2.2 million active repositories. This software development web site used for collaborative projects is currently being hit by a massive […]
Short Bytes: Here is this handy operator developed by Daniel Russell who comes in as a handy trick when you are googling stuff. It’s a handy trick, particularly when you’re looking for the combination of search terms (containing two or more search keywords) when one dominates the results, but you’re interested in the relationship between two query terms. […]
In March this year, Kaspersky Lab, an international software security group based in Russia and with business operations in more than 200 countries worldwide has recently been put in the spotlight for an accusation closely associating them with Russian intelligence agencies and thereby posing a threat to their very own US clients. Of course, Kaspersky […]
Congratulations people! The app that we had been waiting for the since a long time, has finally arrived. Regretting a wrong message will soon be a thing of the past with this new messaging app. The wish to “unsend” a drunken message has come true. RakEM, the messaging app developed by New York-based Raketu, allows […]
Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) has reported that two of its backup hard drives containing information of about 40000 people involving their health and insurance details have been stolen during the transportation of the hard drives to offsite stores. The incident took place on 13th of February 2015. ISMA is unaware of how this is […]
A Carnegie Mellon University study has discovered that a selection of Android apps collect location data on their users on average every three minutes, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Paypal got itself into a heavy fine totaling $7.7 million after being alleged to have processed payments for highly suspicious customers that led to the breach of US sanctions. Paypal made a settlement with the U.S Treasury Department to pay the fine for having processed the suspicious payments amounting to $44000. Paypal however did not […]
It seems that the EU citizens might have to give up their Facebook accounts if they want to protect their online privacy. The European Commission recently told that there were serious privacy issues concerning users’ data of EU citizens on Facebook. The Safe Harbour legislation does not provide for the protection of the data from […]
After the release of Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Beta 2, Ubuntu 15.04 Final Beta, Ubuntu Kylin 15.04 Beta 2 and Kubuntu 15.04 Beta 2, its time to greet the final beta release of Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vernet). Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2 has been released and you can download it to test and use. This Ubuntu release is […]
The voting system used by the Eurovision Song Contest was briefly forced offline after a suspected cyberattack caused an “extreme” surge in activity,.
On March 21st, a group of pro-ISIS hackers from Morocco, going with the handle of Team System DZ hacked into the server of Wisconsin’s Richland County, defacing several high-profile websites including the country’s Sheriffs department website. Other targeted sites include City of Richland Center Municipality, Parks Commission, Ambulance Service, Richland County Fair & Recycling, Land Conservation department and Richland county Fitness center. Hackers […]
Remember that time while installing an app, you agreeing to all the terms and conditions without giving much thought. Well, here is some news for you. You are under constant vigil of your beloved apps. The apps you had installed for your assistance are spying on you. The news came into limelight when a team […]
ESET’s Mark James on the issues employees have with business security measures, and how to counter the difficulties without compromising safety.
Point of Sale credit card terminals are under threat from a new malware named PoSeidon, thought to be more dangerous than the Zeus exploit kit that was used to steal millions of card details from Target customers.
Exceeding your data limit could be your biggest nightmare if you don’t have an unlimited data connection. Listening your prayers, Google has silently launched a new extension for its Chrome browser. This extension is called Data Saver and is currently in beta. Data Saver uses Google’s data compression proxy service for optimization and saving the […]
A hacker has discovered that the openness of Tinder’s API allowed him to set up unknowing men via a fake female profile they both believed that they were talking to.
Privacy advocates are not happy with new Hello Barbie toy for kids – Researchers claim the Barbie with ability to have conversation with kids actually records, stores and sends conversations to the company’s headquarters in real time via wifi connection. Mattel, Inc. an American toy manufacturing company has introduced a new toy for children called Hello Barbie. It can communicate […]