Short Bytes: File History is a data backup feature for Microsoft Windows operating system. You can use it to automatically backup files to external, internal or network connected storage and restore them at a later stage. It’s visible as an option in the Control Panel. File History was intended to be the successor to the […]
Bitcoin Price Climbs as High as Ever reaches $2000 without precedent for history. The cash’s value ascended as much as 2.62% amid the session according to Coindesk’s BPI. The cost has shot up by 60 percent in the course of the most recent month and that has pulled in numerous Indians to this digital money. […]
The modern computer password was introduced to computer science and the wider world in 1960 by Fernando Corbató. We look at its history and impact.
Four Bitcoin Hot-Wallets of South Koren Bitcoin exchange Firm Yapizon Hacked and Stolen Around “3816.2028 Bitcoin” ( Nearly 5 Million USD) and its makes Massive Impact for Yapizon which is 36.594% of Total Users Founds. According to the Report from Yapizon (Transulate) This Massive Hacking Attempted at On Saturday, April 22, 2017, a hacker attack between […]
Google is known to be in the spotlight for its success mostly, but this wasn’t the case last night. Yesterday, some prominent media outlets including Daily Mail, RT, and an Australian news site reported that Google would share search history of the users with potential employers under a new project “Google hire.” What is Google […]
Short Bytes: In a big blow to the privacy of American internet users, President Donald Trump has signed a resolution to repeal the FCC rules that forced the ISPs to seek customers’ consent before selling their browsing information. This has happened as ISPs argued that internet companies like Google and Facebook have an unfair advantage as […]
Short Bytes: The US Senate has voted to discard the broadband privacy rules that would have forced the ISPs to seek consumers’ permission before selling their personal and web browsing data. The Senate, with Republican Majority, voted 50-48 and made sure that FCC will be prevented from issuing similar rulings in future. The House, also […]
Short Bytes: Web graphics have come a long way from the time images were the only graphics on mostly static pages, to WebGL’s powerful animation, GPU and gaming capabilities, all powered by canvas HTML element’s 2D and 3D contexts. Now Webkit browser engine has proposed a new low level web graphics API standard to leverage the […]
Elcomsoft is a Moscow based firm that creates forensics software said it was possible [Pdf] to retrieve your deleted browser history beyond a year. Elcomsoft CEO Vladimir Katalov stumbled upon this while he was testing out his new hacking tool to view his safari history on his iPhone. He discovered that Apple was storing consumer data […]
Short Bytes: Your Facebook search history is saved in the form of a list in your Facebook account. You can access this data whenever you want by visiting the Activity Log on your desktop and the Facebook app on your phone. There you can delete individual searches or delete all the Facebook Search history at […]
Short Bytes: The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 5.3. Calling it one of the biggest releases so far, Foundation has labeled this release as a big step forward. LibreOffice 5.3 ships with Microsoft Office-like Ribbon UI called MUFFIN. You can download the suite for Windows, Linux, and Windows. This release also marks the first source release of […]
You may find yourself needing to recover your deleted internet history to determine what a previous user was browsing, to discover a lost URL, or simply to retrieve deleted information. While your internet history may be deleted on your browser, your Windows computer caches this information and it can be accessed in a variety of […]
Short Bytes: Snooper’s Charter or the Investigatory Powers Bill enables the collection of people’s internet activities on a mass scale. The internet providers are required to maintain an Internet Connection Record for the websites visited by their users and provide it to authorized government bodies upon request. The Investigatory Powers Bill aka Snooper’s Charter has […]
Press the “up” arrow in the Mac or Linux command line and you’ll see the last command you ran. Keep pressing “up” and you’ll see more commands; you can go back days, months, or even years. This is called your history, and it’s very convenient. If you made a mistake typing a long command, simply […]
As we continue to do more things with our smartphones, the threat posed by mobile malware increases. Here’s a short history of its development.
Although Locky sounds like fun, it actually denotes one of the today’s prevalent ransomware families. Discovered in mid-February 2016, this file-encrypting epidemic proved to be sophisticated enough to fly under the radar of conventional antimalware defenses. Furthermore, the creators of this nasty infection are proficient in implementing cryptography, leveraging a data locking mechanism that security […]
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how BackConnect Inc. — a company that defends victims against large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks — admitted to hijacking hundreds of Internet addresses from a European Internet service provider in order to glean information about attackers who were targeting BackConnect. According to an exhaustive analysis of historic Internet records, BackConnect appears to have […]
Short Bytes: The FBI is expecting a new change in the law that would grant it powers to get a complete picture of a person’s online life. The new change will allow the FBI to access a person’s browsing history and other “electronic communications” data without a warrant in any spy cases or terrorism. The FBI […]
Short Bytes: Long before Linus Torvalds wrote Linux, Microsoft was the king of Unix world. The company, somehow, developed Xenix, the most popular version of Unix of its time. However, IBM’s decision to go ahead with MS-DOS in its PCs acted as a death blow to Xenix and Microsoft lost interest in the OS. Writing […]
A group of security researchers has found a security flaw in the Apple iMessage that exposed chat history and sensitive data with a single click. Recently WhatsApp has introduced the end-to-end encryption to protect its users from eavesdropping, many other companies are adopting the technical improvement, but there are some circumstances that still open their customers to cyber […]
Short Bytes: As a result of one of the biggest data leaks, 11.5 million documents have been leaked by ICIJ. This data leak, known as The Panama Papers, has revealed the names of some of the most famous world leaders and celebrities who are allegedly involved in using offshore structures to launder money and save […]