The Buzzfeed report has not been confirmed by Twitter as of yet. What better method than to protest against Twitter than using Twitter itself. Furious twitterati have been trending#RIPtwitter, ever since the report became public. Twitter chief Jack Dorsey sought to squash rumours of a Facebook-like feed arriving next week. It was never planned, he says. Regarding#RIPTwitter: I want you all to know we’re always listening. We never planned to reorder timelines next week....

Apparently, only damaged iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus units will be accepted. Apple believes that this new program will encourage new iPhone upgrades versus a standard iPhone screen repair. Apple Store employees will use a protector installation machine that can ensure a good fit with minimal air bubbles. If something does go wrong, Apple will offer a free screen protector replacement and re-attempt the installation. source: www.techworm.net

However, Kovah posted numerous tweets that confirm that he is working in Cupertino now. LegbaCore was best known for developing a proof-of-concept virus-worm hybrid called Thunderstrike 2 that targeted Mac computers. Its a valued kind of attack because it usually cant be detected by antivirus and other security software. Thankfully, Kovah and his team informed Apple of the vulnerabilities, and these have been patched up since. source: www.techworm.net

Nowadays everyone has a mobile while some have more than one. These spam callers call on your mobile day in and day out, sometimes at ungodly hours. What if you are using a simple feature phone which does not have options to install such apps? Worse still if you dont like having Truecaller installed on your smartphone. Well, Kipkay has made a DIY video of how to make a spam call destroyer....

As for Ubuntu, the most recent version is 15.10, and is code-named Wily Werewolf. Recent Ubuntu editions have a user interface that has placed attention on the touch interface. While Ubuntu is used in servers and PCs, it is regarded as an unpopular operating system. source: www.techworm.net

With each passing day, we rely more and more on technology for the storage and transfer of information. For the most part, large businesses have developed strategies and can hire multiple employees to cover these concerns. But this can leave you incredibly vulnerable. Anything less could leave your customers vulnerable and also lead to you unwittingly accepting payments from a stolen card. A lot of digital security still comes down to common sense and discipline....

Heres how it works: an attacker sets up a store page with listings for products. By clicking the download button, the user will unintentionally download the code and put their rig at risk. The main threat is spreading malware and stealing private information. eBay has said that its been in contact with Check Point following their discovery. We have not found any fraudulent activity stemming from this incident. source: www.techworm.net

After successful Plasma test, Germans now in hunt for Nuclear Fusion Building a true and fully functional nuclear reactor might have been one of the biggest struggles of the modern era but the Germans have finally managed to succeed in making this possible through a successful trial of plasma generation and stabilization test at the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Greifswald, Germany. According to the test results, the hot gas only managed to stabilize for a fraction of a second, but the test confirmed the functionality of many aspects of the system, which can now be pushed to the next stage....

This is permanent damage. Curious at the incident, Leung decided to inspect the dodgy cable. Leung analysed the cable with a breakout board and a multimeter. What he found was really quite shocking: seems like they completely miswired the cable. The GND pin on the pop in-A plug is tied to the Vbus pins on the pop in-C plug. The Vbus pin on the pop in-A plug is tied to GND on the pop in-C plug....

They also hijack DNS options, among other shady practices, notes Ormandy. Comodo has said that the fault was not in the web app but in an add-on. An attacker could mimic the companys built-in checks and run their own code on a users machine. The patch would be released in three to four weeks states the blog. source: www.techworm.net

On the other hand, Movidiuss new chips do not need a lot of power to run. Google wasnt available immediately to provide information on how it hopes to use Movidiuss chips. The announcement has some pretty wide-ranging repercussions. Still others are looking for ways to include this low-power computer vision tech into robots. source: www.techworm.net

The company is going to do this by blocking BCLK overclocking. Intel could be doing this because of two reasons. source: www.techworm.net

A central server would then use the same random-number generator to keep up with the ever-changing keys. An attacker could then trigger the same side-channel attack thousands of times, with the same key. Two design innovations allow the MIT researchers chip to thwart power-glitch attacks. The MIT research team has collaborated with Texas Instruments to built several prototypes of the new hack-proof RFID chip. They have already presented their research at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference held in San Francisco recently....