A million people now access Facebook over Tor every month

The Tor code is open-source and its servers are operated by volunteers. We hope they will continue to provide feedback and help us keep improving. However, it’s crucial that you remember one thing. source: www.techworm.net

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 35 words · Stephen Mcguire

Addicted to Facebook? This brilliant Chrome extension will help you snap out of it

Facebook with 1 billion users and counting, has become a routine for all of us. Focusbook uses straight faced logic to help you beat your addiction with a simple concept. You scale back your Facebooking by setting a specific purpose for each session and sticking to it. If you might stick to the purpose, Focusbook is successful and you are fully de-addicted. Focusbook also has a built in reminder, which tells you to get off Facebook....

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 103 words · Mrs. Shelley Bennett

Anonymous hacktivist member arrested over 50 million Comelec leak

He even took a selfie with me. He asked me, Sir, can I have my picture taken with you? Mendez said, shaking his head as he recalled his meeting with the suspect. He wanted to show how vulnerable the website is to hacking, Bautista said. He said the defacement only affected some features of the Comelec website such as the precinct finder. Mendez said the agency will apply for a series of search warrants for the remaining hackers....

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 146 words · Monica Stevens

CERN releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data to public

The data comes in two types and is available on the CERN Open Data Portal. The primary datasets are in the same format used by the collaboration to perform research. Simulations play an important role in particle physics research. The data release is complemented by analysis tools and code examples custom-made to the datasets. The benefits are numerous, from inspiring high school students to the training of the particle physicists of tomorrow....

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 148 words · Travis Carpenter

Here is how you can fix Linux schedule bug

Linux scheduler bug got you down? The desktop users are not affected by the bug. In certain circumstances, the algorithm used by the scheduler to balance the load across cores flops. It looks like the patches suggested by the researchers have not yet been submitted to the Linux kernel maintainers. source: www.techworm.net

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 52 words · Sean Vargas

How to run two WhatsApp accounts on single Android smartphone (rooted and unrooted)

It has almost 700 million users worldwide. And almost every user group uses WhatsApp these days. The messaging service has seen an exponential growth after being taken over by Facebook Inc. The story of WhatsApp is one of the motivational stories taught to entrepreneurs. Lets move on to the interesting part. Many people like to have multiple accounts for a service. For example some people use two Facebook accounts, one dedicated to family and friends and another to work....

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 122 words · Tonya Harris

Hundreds of meetings were held between White House and Google: Report

Its a relationship that bears watching, Anne Weismann, the head of the Campaign for Accountability told theIntercept. This includes government meetings with representatives of Google-affiliated companies Tomorrow Ventures and Civis Analytics. In just the first quarter of this year, Google spent $3.8 million to lobby the government. It said Microsoft had made 270 visits in that same time and Comcast made 150. Obama just recently endorsed it. source: www.techworm.net

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 69 words · Regina Kelly

Microsoft to soon reduce free OneDrive storage from 15GB to 5GB

The Redmond giant will also eliminate the 15GB free camera roll bonus on OneDrive accounts on that same date. We are also discontinuing the 15GB camera roll bonus. We realize these are big changes to a service you rely on. We want to apologize for any inconvenience these changes may have caused you. Weve made a difficult decision, but its one that will let us sustainably operate OneDrive into the future....

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 73 words · Nicole Williams

SpyEye Trojan Creators Sentenced to 15, 9 Years in Jail, Respectively

One of the two sentenced is Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, 27, from Russia. Panin was known in the cyber crime world by his handle, Gribodemon and Harderman. SpyEye malware affected nearly 14 million computers infecting around 10,000 Bank accounts at 235 financial institutions. Panin has sold this malware to more than 150 Cyber criminals, according to FBI. The FBI used a honeypot campaign to arrest Panin by approaching him as a buyer for SpyEye malware....

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 134 words · Joe Randolph

This man hacked Windows 10 to run on in-car display

Using a Pioneer in-car display, connecting a phone to its HDMI-in port seems to make this hack possible. @Daniel_Rubinois Continuum bidirectional? source: www.techworm.net

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 23 words · David Greene

Top 5 reasons why you should move to Linux

Even though other OS (e.g. Linux is still regarded as the OS that mostly geeks use. Further, when it comes to servers and mainframe computers, Linux is the dominant OS. Basically, people abstain from using Linux because they consider its too complex to work with. Actually, there are quite a few reasons why you should be using Linux. Also, the open-source nature of Linux allows anyone to make changes to its source code and distribute it....

April 23, 2016 · 2 min · 231 words · Meghan Dickerson

World’s highest capacity Anker PowerHouse powerbank with 400Wh

It also conducts active cell balancing to optimize battery performance, thus extending battery life. source: www.techworm.net

April 23, 2016 · 1 min · 16 words · Rebecca Davidson

$10 router blamed for the massive $80 million Bangladesh Bank hack

Can you believe it! Also, Bangladeshs central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it did not have a firewall. Better security and hardware would have hampered the attackers, Reuters said, quoting an official investigator. SWIFT on its part had stated that its data pipe wasnt what was breached. source: www.techworm.net

April 22, 2016 · 1 min · 50 words · Tina Pierce