Chinese hacker Steals $170,000 by hacking airline website and offering ticket booking

They needed to pay extra fees if they wanted to rebook. This is how the hacker made his money, by offering a re-booking link that pocketed him re-booking fees. It took the airline three weeks to notice the data breach. The airline lost more than 80,000 yuan ($12,365 USD) from people demanding a refund. The suspect coded the hacking software himself, a police officer said. source: www.techworm.net

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 67 words · Christopher Carlson

Facebook Hack : How to to use two profile pictures at the same time

However Facebook lets you use only one image as your display pic as well as the thumbnail pic. This can be changed according toAshwin Shahpurkar of Hacker9. Remember this hack works only for profile pictures. double-check you have at least 2 or more pictures in your profile pictures album. Now copy the highlighted code from the URL as shown in the below picture. (code held by attributefbid) Step 2.Now go to your mainprofileand hover over thedisplaypicture....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 157 words · Brenda Ward

Hacking group vows to disrupt PlayStation and Xbox Live servers on Christmas

This year another hacking group Phantom Squad has promise to do something similar and spoil gamers holidays. They announced on Twitter that they will take down the PlayStation data pipe and Xbox Live for Christmas. We are going to shut down Xbox live and PSN this year on Christmas. They claim to have already started making attacks on these networks. It says that it is going to carry out the attacks because cybersecurity does not exist....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 197 words · Matthew Bell

How to add Star Wars Light Saber to your Facebook profile picture

Wouldnt it be cool to have a profile picture showing you possessing the light saber. That is just few links away now. The How-to Portion: I tried it on my profile too, and here it is Read More source: www.techworm.net

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 40 words · Laura Sullivan

Meet the world’s largest smartphone battery that can last up to 15 days on a single charge

Oukitel K10000 is the first Smartphone in the world with the largest battery at 10,000mAh. The equipment also supports reverse charge functionality. This means that the rig can serve as a power bank as well. Also, the K10000 may last up to 15 days with normal usage. The K10000s sensational longevity gives it quite the unique selling point. Oukitel K10000 features a 5.5-inch HD IPS display with 720 x 1280 pixel resolution....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 161 words · Adam Nunez

Reddit is banning users who post Star War 7 spoilers

Star Wars 7 : The Force Awakens will be released in American theaters over weekend tomorrow. However several users who saw the movie began posting spoilers about the ending. Weve banned dozens of users so far for this, said TheGreatZiegfeld, one of Reddits moderators. I think all the mods have had it spoiled for them by now. Well do our best to ensure you guys dont suffer the same fate....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 114 words · Ian Massey

Surprise, there are more Bible malware apps than poker malware Apps

The study revealed that there were more malicious Bible apps than there are poker apps, even percentage-wise. There were only 200 Torah apps to scan, but Proofpoint eventually found 2 apps that contained malicious code. Clearly, one cannot judge a book by its cover,' they concluded. source: www.techworm.net

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 48 words · Jennifer Wood

Terrafugia’s flying car model given approval to use US airspace for testing

Terrafugia has been developing a flying car since 2013. The cars upgraded prototype was unveiled back in July 2015. The upgraded version of the car had a cruising speed of 322 km/h with an 805 km flight range. It has no particular runway requirements for landing or take off. In addition, the FAA test run will allow the company to evaluate the hovering capabilities of the drone. Their scale model is permitted to reach maximum altitudes of 121 meters and maximum speeds of 160km/h....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 115 words · Jose Hunter

This is how to easily hack a car using a smartphone (video)

But cars that are privately altered and equipped with internet devices could be hacked cautions Inoue. Internet-linked technologies such as self-driving vehicles are also being developed by Japanese manufacturers. This left the driver unable to move the car even when hitting the accelerator. Inoue said that the maneuver could not start the engine or move the steering wheel. Other cars could also be subject to hacking in the same way....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 91 words · John Ramos

This router like box can hack into your smartphone and steal all your credentials

Further, almost all websites and apps gather users data for various reasons like advertising etc. According to the systemswebsiteit can collect any intimate information of any phone user… in the systems proximity. An enabled Wi-Fi in a smartphone is enough for InterApp to steal all the information according to its makers. InterApp is fully transparent to the target and does not require any cooperation from the phone owner. The company is quick to state that InterApp is not meant for hackers or cyber criminals....

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 130 words · Jennifer Jackson

You Can Hack Into a Linux System by Pressing Backspace 28 Times. Here’s How to Fix It

Heres How to Exploit the Linux Vulnerability Patch Read More source: www.techworm.net

December 17, 2015 · 1 min · 12 words · Angela Perez

Has Sony’s PS4 just been hacked to run pirated games?

Other PS4 hackers have been reported to be working on more kernel exploits. source: www.techworm.net

December 16, 2015 · 1 min · 15 words · Alyssa Terrell

Netflix vs. Comcast over new technology to beat data caps

It plans to soon offer high quality videos with less bandwidth usage to its users. More than a third of all North American internet bandwidth at peak times is Netflix. At the same time, the image quality should look the same or better than it did before. If this happens, Netflix users will not have to worry about exceeding their usage limit now. source: www.techworm.net

December 16, 2015 · 1 min · 65 words · Philip Nelson