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How To Run Windows Applications On Linux

The applications coming these days generally are cross platform supportive but yet there are many Windows applications such as office suite of applications by Microsoft etc which are platform specific and cannot be directly run on different operating systems like Linux or Mac. So this article will help you run Windows applications on Linux using any one of […]

Decade Old Software Bug Sets 3000 US Prisoners Free

A software bug in Washington State Department of Corrections (DoC) has been handing freedom to the inmates well before their sentence was due to end — Each year, over 3200 prisoners benefitted from this bug since 2002. Supreme Court ruling- The starting point All this started when a Supreme Court amended the 1995 law on […]

Unpatched Security Flaws Openly Solicited by US Navy

Governments unsurprisingly are trying to buy unpatched security exploits in the name of surveillance or cyber defence but refrain from admitting it. US Navy however, was caught by the Electronic Foundation soliciting for unpatched security flaws. The Electronic Foundation revealed that the US Navy is involved in soliciting of zero-day exploits and less than 6-months old […]

How To Add Pattern Lock Security On Windows

Every Android user should be familiar with pattern lock security system. Every Smartphone has the option called Patter Lock which is very popular security system. Its easy to use, by joining the dots together to form a pattern and lock/unlock the screen. At least 4 dots must be join together for security reasons. If you are […]

How to Find Duplicate Files Using Duplicate Files Finder

I am always a victim of lots of useless and redundant data in my PC. Out of all these useless files, a good percentage of the content is the duplicate data. It’s always difficult to find duplicate files and delete them manually. So today I am going to show how can you find the duplicate files […]

Snowden used a cheap software to gather secret NSA files

Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, used a very simple ‘Web crawler’ to collect controversial NSA data, according to a senior intelligence official quoted by The New York Times. He further added that the collection process was ‘quite automated’ and the software did the ‘search, index, and backup’ of files while Snowden went about his daily […]