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A group from Brazil has started an unusual campaign against the people who make racist comments on the Internet. What they do is they pick up comments from the virtual (online) world to the real world where they post those comments on the billboards near the place where online commenters live. The group is known […]
Google has denied all the accusations that were put forward regarding monitoring or censoring of those YouTube videos that are made for inciting attacks on Israel — Google claims their recent meetings were routine and had no such agreements. Though, a statement from Israeli foreign ministry last week said that the Google’s executives had agreed […]
Researchers have found a vulnerability in VPN networks that could allow hackers or scammers to access real IPs of the users. Though, for the vulnerability to actually work there are some special conditions that are needed to be fulfilled but for hackers that are not something difficult. What researchers found was if a VPN provider […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous shut down 8824 Twitter accounts of ISIS members + followers in the first phase of OpParis — In the second phase the hacktivists claim to shut down more 20,000 twitter accounts — 20,000 + 8824 = 28,824. By enduring the death of more than 120 people in Paris attacks, the ISIS has made […]
Al-Hayat, an agency that spreads all the content relevant to ISIS on different online platforms has announced the ISIS intentions on moving their operations to Dark web. There are a number of blogs and forums the agency posts regarding ISIS activities. Most significant of them are the Ansar Khilafah blog and the Shamikh forums. In […]
The US government has started arresting people who are showing support for the so-called Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) on social media. Whether it be a Facebook status, tweet or even GIFs. If you are found showing support to the group, you could be put behind bars. Recently, a 25-year-old Akron posted a GIF showing photographs and names […]
A Bosnian music group has released a song in support of The Pirate Bay (TPB) and bashing the authorities on copyright related rules and regulations. A Bosnian music band Dubioza Kolektiv on Friday released the official video of their song “Free.mp3 (The Pirate Bay Song)” which the band has dedicated to the founders of the […]
Short Bytes: Kim Dotcom, the founder of notorious file-sharing website Megaupload, has said that he is working on an internet alternative called Meganet. He revealed that it’ll be a P2P-based internet service that will come with strong encryption methods, making it impossible to hack. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is building his own internet alternative called […]
PayPal has been one of the most attractive platforms for the hackers and spammers. During a recent year, PayPal users have been played around them. But, PayPal’s own security has not been a problem rather cyber criminals has been launching phishing attack on the PayPal’s users. Mind you PayPal has one of the best security layouts […]
The most common problem you may face on social media platforms like Facebook is receiving unwanted messages from strangers. But, Facebook’s new feature will help you overcome this problem and will make it easier for you to identify the strangers and the people you already know. The new feature that Facebook will be rolling out over […]
Short Bytes: Russia got the US intelligence agencies into a frenzy as its naval submarines and spy ships got too close to the global undersea Internet cables. The US officials panicked as speculations that Russia might be trying to sever the fiber-optic cables came up. The world experienced a déjà vu when reports of the US intelligentsia getting […]
Microsoft announced the launch of a new transparency website in order to provide free access to the transparency reports published by the firm. Microsoft’s latest Transparency Hub entails a report comprising of information about the requests received by the tech giant from various parties regarding the elimination of online content. This new website also lets users […]
Short Bytes: The FCC is on the receiving end over its proposed rules to alter WiFi routers to make them secure as the experts are telling a different story. In an open letter, Vint Cerf – the co-inventor of the Internet – along with 260 other experts, has outlined some changes in the proposal. When […]
Facebook is a great platform for those who are looking for new friends, finding old ones or to promote their business. In fact, Facebook drives more traffic on websites than Google but did you know using Facebook can also create a lot of problems at work or invade your privacy and let’s not forget stalkers keeping track of things you […]
The Internet will soon be quite different, as downloaders of illegal software, movies and songs will be seen as criminals and will be cracked down as criminals under the TPP. You might be wondering how come this will happen? Well, the WikiLeaks documents dump from Trans-Pacific Partnership trade (PDF) calls for internet service providers to provide […]
Social media sites are storehouses of people who are easily duped into believing almost anything which is posted and some proof of this is another circulating ‘shocking footage’ video link that has once again taken over Facebook. The video link, like many others, shows a particularly distressful image of an African woman with the caption […]
A man is now in jail for having been part of a video that showed him abusing two dogs in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The video was uploaded on Facebook by another individual who retrieved the video from the girlfriend of the man in the video, now identified as Nicholas Snowden. The video shows Snowden […]
A Saudi woman created a furor by scandalizing her cheating husband by posting a video of him kissing their maid on social media; she might just be the one facing a jail term. A woman caught her husband cheating on her with their maid by using a hidden camera but even though she proved him […]
For hackers, routers are an easy target, perhaps because they are seldom updated and virus-scanned and are also easily cracked. But shockingly, a report from Symantec claims that a new router virus may make devices safer. A bug that is dubbed ‘Linux.Wifatch’ is like a normal malware and also behaves like one: infecting vulnerable devices, […]
Scientists are constantly working on user-friendly products for those with physical disabilities. In the past, these wearable glasses came out to help blind people see again. Now in an another amazing development, scientist and researcher Hadeel Ayoub has created Futuristic Smart-Glove which will translate sign language into text and speech. In an attempt to open up the […]
Do you think that using anonymity software like Tor will protect your online presence from spies? A new spyware has been developed by the FBI, having the ability to track and catch the suspects of child pornography even if they are using Tor to access, view and download sexually explicit images of children. For those […]