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In order to disperse protesters, Police in India will now use drones equipped with pepper spray. Is it possible to register police misconduct complaint against a machine? This is the question that protesters in Uttar Pradesh, India, may need to find answer of soon because Uvalde and Lucknow police departments are now going to be […]
Facebook can Track Non-Users through ‘a bug’ — Working to fix it as fast as possible. Researchers at Facebook identified a “bug” that allowed them to track people who haven’t ever visited the website. The discovery was made public by Richard Allen, the European policy vice president of the social networking giant, in a blogpost […]
Two officers from Georgia’s correction facility had to resign when the picture of a beaten teen inmate having a leash bent around his neck was posted online on Facebook seemingly with a contraband mobile phone. According to authorities, two prisoners from the Al Burruss Correctional Training Centre involved in the March 27 incident were transferred […]
Facebook is back in the news, this time again for violating its users’ privacy by gathering a huge mass of facial data. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the social media giant last week and it is claimed that the Facebook’s data-collection program titled automatic face-tagging feature has helped Facebook create “the largest privately held stash […]
Researchers have found a new ransomware which shows your files are quarantined, actually the are not. Trend Micro has recently reported that a new ransomware variant targeting Russian speakers, was detected by their threat response engineer, Michael Marcos. BAT_CYRPVAULT.A or CRYPVAULT was evidenced to have been distributed as an attachment to spam emails. This particular ransomware […]
Child’s Crib Footage Found Online by Minnesota Family – Apparently, their nanny cam was Hacked! Now this piece of news sounds like something right out of Poltergeist but the difference is that this is real life. A Rochester, Minnesota-based family claims that their “nanny cam” was hacked as it emitted bizarre music automatically and some of […]
On Friday, Microsoft revised its approach to “Do Not Track” for all upcoming and future versions of its browsers. The company confirmed that it will “no longer enable Do Not Track feature in its web browser by default.” The DNT used to be a default option in Microsoft Internet Explorer since 2012 – meaning that it […]
Tax Refund Emails From the Australian Taxation Office just a Malware. Reportedly, an email message is being circulated that appears to be sent from ATO/Australian Taxation Office and informs the recipients that they have become eligible for tax refund. To know the details about the surprise windfall, users are encouraged to open an attached file […]
The email informs the recipient that if your account is not verified in 24 hours then you will be termed as a fraudulent user and your email account will be taken down. However, if you click on the “verify” button, you can resolve the issue. Let us inform you that this email is just another […]
Remember the time when Swedish police took down The Pirate Bay in late 2014? The online torrent files index and repository, IsoHunt announced its Open Bay Project, the idea behind this was “a new way for Internet users to work together so the torrenting service would always be available on a domain”. But with The Pirate Bay is back online, it […]
Cyber criminals are targeting Facebook users with yet another Phishing scam — This time users are receiving a warning message in their Facebook inbox which claims their account will be disabled soon…. Don’t worry, your account won’t be blocked nor it’s a legit warning, it’s same old lowlife cyber criminals try to hack your account with […]
Last week we reported on the Overwatch service that pinpoints every fake cell tower spying and tracking your smartphone. Now we present an Android app known as SnoopSnitch that can track Stingray, the favorite smartphone tracking gear of the FBI and NSA. Stingrays or IMSI catchers are surveillance tools that are being widely used by the government. These tools pretend […]
Good Bye GPS — DARPA to present another position-tracking technology. The U.S government’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has prioritized the development of a more dependable and efficient real-time location tracking technology due to the incompetence of GPS in specific situations. The information was made public on Thursday by a document on DARPA’s research projects. […]
A new email that has been targeting PayPal users states that the company is examining a payment reversal regarding Apple and user’s account has been restricted “due to login from an unknown device.” The email informs that user needs to click a “Login Now” button for resolving the problem. In reality, PayPal isn’t the sender […]
Following Kaspersky Labs’ identification of a unit issuing attacks on distinct high-end hotel guests in Asia and the US, ANTLabs, a technology company based in Singapore, has recently uncovered that a number of their InnGate routers apparently possess a firmware authentication flaw. This means that their highly-regarded and widely-accepted InnGate routers now pose an imminent opportunity […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new study reveals our own smartphones are constantly tracking our movements after every 3 minutes – Our apps love to know where are we. It is a widely known fact that smartphone apps collect a huge amount of data regularly. The data usually includes users’ location information. But startling new facts on this data […]
On Thursday, the Prime Minister of France Manuel Valls revealed debatable new laws that will allow intelligence agencies to gather cellphone and Internet data from alleged jihadists. The new set of laws will let officials and authorities to spy on the mobile and online communications of the alleged terrorist organizations and anyone who shares connection […]