Facebook Germany HQ attacked by vandals with rocks, paint and smoke bombs

A group of unidentified masked assailants attacked Facebooks Germany headquarters building in Hamburg. After their attack, the masked assailants fled the scene. No injuries were reported in the incident. Police and the law enforcement were still searching for the attackers, who fled on foot according eyewitnesses. The motive for the attack and the financial cost of the property damage were not yet known. Facebook established its German headquarters in Hamburg in 2010....

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 89 words · Daniel Munoz

Man faces up to 32 years imprisonment for liking Facebook picture

Liking a Facebook post can land you behind prison for 32 years in Thailand. Such prosecutions have become more common since the army grabbed power last year. source: www.techworm.net

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 29 words · Kelsey Wade

Microsoft and US Army Hacker flees overseas, says his case is going no where after 3 years

He was under police radar following a joint international investigation into five suspected hackers, most of them US-based. Facing a possible sentence of ten years, Mr. Wheeler fled the country almost after three years later. He says that it was really scary how easily he made way and was able to flee the country. The authorities had kept a tab on him since he was 17. As the case was still technically before the court, the WA Police denied 7....

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 110 words · Cynthia Cline

Microsoft: We are sorry you can have free 15GB OneDrive space back

It also reduced storage on free accounts from 15GB to 5GB. Therefore, on Friday, Microsoft apologized to these customers and announced it is changing its policy, again. It also said that are giving the customers the chance to get their 15GB of free storage back. However, Microsoft is not going back to its promise of providing unlimited free storage. Microsoft blamed customer abuse as the reason for reversing the promise while making the formal announcement....

December 13, 2015 · 2 min · 297 words · Douglas Vargas

Now Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai comes out in support of Muslims

In a detailed post onMedium, Pichai stated, Lets not let fear defeat our values. We must support Muslim and other minority communities in the US and around the world. Reiterating his own experience, Google CEO said let us not let fear defeat our values. I came to the US from India 22 years ago. I have built a career and a family and a life here. My experience is obviously not unique....

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 92 words · Robert Martinez

Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay says fighting for torrenting community is hopeless

Early versions of BitTorrent required centralized trackers to operate, but have later become able to utilize trackerless torrents. It has now developed into a massive internet downloading community with hundreds of millions oftrackersare recorded each year. Moreover, the last couple months have seen the termination of popular torrent-hosting sites YTS and Popcorn Time. So whats next in the seemingly-endless fight for free downloading? It was founded by , Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundstrom....

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 139 words · Stephanie Anderson

Researcher says Microsoft Edge has inherited many of Internet Explorer’s security holes

We have designed Microsoft Edge to defend users from increasingly sophisticated and prevalent attacks. Leonhard argues that nothing of that sort happened. The reason for my skepticism:Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures(CVEs). Each CVE entry is supposed to identify a unique security hole. In yesterdays Patch Tuesday, Microsoft claims to have plugged 15 CVE holes. There are 14 identified CVEs for Microsoft Edge. Of those, 13 are also identified security holes for Internet Explorer....

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 74 words · Joseph Kelley

Samsung unveils Piano Made Up Of Galaxy Tab S2s

South Korean electronics major Samsung Electronics has been finding innovative ways to promote and market its product. The Samsung Tab S2 piano is a real first and nothing like Ive ever played before. My youngest has just learned jingle bells and I know shed love to try it on this piano! The Tab S2 comes with an 8-megapixel camera on the rear and a 2.1-megapixel camera on the front. source: www....

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 71 words · Craig Cooper

Scientists believe that secure quantum teleportation is now achievable

This quantum teleportation involves phenomenon such as Quantum steering, first proposed by Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger. The researchers have now shown that to avoid this. Only then can the quality of the transported state be perfect, said Reid. The beauty is that quantum mechanics guarantees that a perfect state can only be transported to one receiver. Any second eavesdropper will get a fuzzy version. This research has been published inPhysical Review Letters....

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 75 words · Jacob Church

This website explains how a car works from basics to advanced

If you are not a good mechanic, you bang your head every time your car stalls. You also stomped in the head every time you open a bonnet or crawl under the car. The website prepared with a single goal of explaining cars and has over 236 articles. The website was established in 2011 and has now expanded to include several thousand historic car manuals and documents. It has everything about every car....

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 131 words · Jessica Anderson

Twitter Starts Warning Users of State-Sponsored Cyber-Attacks

Twitter said it was investigating the attack but did not provide details of the origin. source: www.techworm.net

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 17 words · John Shields

Unique lie-detecting software can spot liars by examining gestures and words

Researchers from University of Michigan have created a foolproof software to detect liars. Earlier studies indicated that giving a hesitant answer and avoiding eye contact are foolproof signs of lying. However, the University of Michigan found out that the exact opposite true. (Image Credits- Michigan News) In laboratory experiments, its difficult to create a setting that motivates people to truly lie. The stakes are not high enough, lead researcher Rada Mihalcea said....

December 13, 2015 · 1 min · 161 words · Tina Rodriguez

Your VPN might not be protecting your privacy

Two weeks have passed and most affected providers still havent fixed the problem. Perfect Privacy recommends anyone using a VPN service to ask their support desk whether this issue has been fixed. The users connection then travels unencrypted to their final destination (a website). This way, websites cannot see the users VPN and only see the VPNs IP address. The security company said that they have tested this vulnerability with nine prominent VPN providers that offer port forwarding....

December 13, 2015 · 2 min · 233 words · Brittney Juarez DDS