You Can Now Play Counter Strike 1.6 On Android Smartphones

Developer Alibek Omarev has ported Counter-Strike 1.6 based Android version and you cangrab the APK here. The game is a bit cranky to be paid on Android smartphone or tablet as you might expect. Omarevs APK has the Counter-Strike screen littered with touchscreen controls which are fully customisable. Being a gent, Omarev hasexplained the entire making of the APK on an Redditthread. Note that this is actual CS 1.6 running on the mobile OS....

April 18, 2016 · 1 min · 82 words · Jamie Lucas

‘Drone’ strikes British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Airport

It transpired that an object, believed to be a drone, had struck the front of the aircraft. No arrests have been made and inquiries continue. A British Airways spokesperson said the Airbus A320 was examined by engineers who said no major damage was done. Safety and security are always our first priority and we will give the police every assistance with their investigation. The airline will give the police every assistance with their investigation, the spokesman added....

April 18, 2016 · 1 min · 87 words · Michael Gilbert

Facebook employees to Zuckerberg whether they should stop Donald Trump

Gizmodo points out that such questioning shows that Facebook can and will influence the future presidency in United States. More than 1.04 billion people use Facebook. Its where we get our news, share our political views, and interact with politicians. Its also where those politicians are spending a greater share of their budgets, Gizmodos Michael Nunez reports. This is not the first time Facebook had a brush with politics. In 2010 the social networking firm conducted a 61-million-person experiment to discover if Facebook could affect Americans voting behaviors....

April 17, 2016 · 1 min · 144 words · Melvin Murphy

FBI Informant, Sabu says he helped Turkish hacker group RedHack

Everybody who is linked with the online hacktivist group knows Sabu aka Hector Xavier Monsegur. Sabu was the chief informant of the FBI team that brought another Anonymous member, Jeremy Hammond in. Bharara was the key person in getting Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab arrested in Miami last month. Zarrab was arrested on allegations of evading U.S. sanctions on Iran. Bharara was the same U.S. attorney who released Monsegur in return for his cooperation with the FBI in 2014....

April 17, 2016 · 1 min · 149 words · Laura Duncan

Infamous cyber attacks where the hackers were never caught or identified

In addition, hacking has few other forms which are less known and talked about .e.g. brain hacking, phone hacking etc. Hacker was a term used to denote a skilled programmer who had competency in machine code and operating systems. While many others do it for monetary gain or Lulz, while some do it in protest. We take a look at such mysterious hack attacks where the perpetrator has neither been identified or caught....

April 17, 2016 · 2 min · 267 words · Amanda Jones

Intel Apollo Lake with 14nm technology will make low cost PCs more efficient

Additionally, USB-C will also be able to transfer up to 100 watts of power. source: www.techworm.net

April 17, 2016 · 1 min · 16 words · Mr. Joseph Mckinney

Microsoft is suing US government over customer data requests

A Justice Department spokeswoman said the agency is reviewing the lawsuit. The US Justice Department has not commented on the lawsuit. Microsoft supported Apples position that co-operating with the government would turn businesses into arms of the state. source: www.techworm.net

April 17, 2016 · 1 min · 40 words · Catherine Curtis

Social media apps can disclose identity of Anonymous users through location data

Once done, they only used the geolocation data of the sample set. The geolocation data is available when user posts an update on Facebook or tags a photo on Instagram. From this geolocation data the researchers were easily able to identify the anonymous users. The objective was to test whether this data could identify users or not. The same testing was done on credit card transactions information to cell tower pings....

April 17, 2016 · 1 min · 94 words · Tyler Green

The Hacker Who Hacked Hacking Team Explains How He Did It

Further, there was no information about the offender or how it was done. However, that secret has finally been disclosed. Hacking gives the underdog a chance to fight and win. And thats all it takes to take down a company and stop its abuses against human rights. Hacking Team is an Italian company that sells spyware and hacking services to police and intelligence agencies worldwide. The hacker at that time promised he would declare to the world....

April 17, 2016 · 1 min · 203 words · Anthony Cole

Top 5 NoSQL Databases of The Last Year

let me explain myself. a relational database stores data as tables with numerous rows and columns. (I think this one is easy to understand). Rest of the columns of that row are called values. The following video might be helpful for understanding what Ive discussed above. And if you also think why that O is not capital in NoSQL, then we are similar. Blame the people who named it. Why use such databases ?...

April 17, 2016 · 2 min · 418 words · Monica Harris

URL Shorteners Can Weaken User Security And Privacy

The researchers warn that such a folder could be easily exploited, once people find it. However, it is no comfort to existing users who still remain exposed. Source:ArXiv Read More source: www.techworm.net

April 17, 2016 · 1 min · 32 words · Ryan Foster

Apple recovers $40 million worth of gold by recycling old iPhones/iPads

The most valuable of them was of course, Gold. Apple was able to recover 2,204 pounds of gold, which is well over a ton. source: www.techworm.net

April 16, 2016 · 1 min · 26 words · James Cole

Apple to soon rename OS X to MacOS

For more than a decade ago, OS X has been the name for Apples computer systems. Daily usage patterns are specific to each product and are a mixture of actual and modeled customer use data. Apple could announce this change in June at its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). Now, over the last two years Apple has been moving towards a more unified naming scheme. Some of Apples newer products have very clear branding....

April 16, 2016 · 1 min · 117 words · Alexander Berry