$10 hacker tool can guess and steal your American Express credit card number along with its pin

Dubbed asMagSpoof, Kamkars deviceis about the size of a U.S. quarter and a hackers dream. Based on a cancelled cards number, MagSpoof can predict the new American Express card number. If I were doing fraud, that would be pretty useful. In a phone interview on Tuesday, Kamkar said One hundred percent of them followed my predictions. The card generation algorithm is not very random. Kamkar said he only needs the old card number and the expiration date to do the calculation....

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 206 words · Morgan Medina

Anonymous’s hit list for ISIS contains President Obama and other US officials email ids

Since the announcement, Anonymous have downed more than 5,500 Twitter accounts that were promoting ISIS activity. Since then a further 15,000 are said to have been taken offline or targeted with Rickroll links. The surprising entries among these targets are President Obamas non-POTUS account, BBC News and New York Times. Newsbeat has looked through the list and discovered many more unlikely targets. source: www.techworm.net

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 64 words · Carol Swanson

Apple Pencil hacked to give iPad Pro 3D Touch capabilities

3D touch detects how hard a user is pressing on the screen effectively enabling right click style gestures. The peek and pop features are activated, the moment certain thresholds for pressure are met. However, they are not supported on the iPad. So, how does it work? The hack is demonstrated in the video above. Interested users may go ahead and find the complete details of the work including the source code onGitHub....

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 74 words · Teresa Weber

GhostSec takes down hidden ISIS website on dark web and replaces it with an advert of Viagra

and a message for the ISIS : Too much Isis. Too many people are into this ISIS-stuff. source: www.techworm.net

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 19 words · Tiffany Johnson

Google can remotely bypass the passcode of at least 74% of Android devices

Forensic examiners are able to bypass passcodes on some of those devices using a variety of forensic techniques. This process can be done by Google remotely and allows forensic examiners to view the contents of a equipment. Even though users need to keep in mind to turn on the disk encryption setting. This way investigators can gain access to data on the gear. A post from Googles Adrian Ludwig attempted to clarify the situation....

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 138 words · Christopher Perez

Google removes 440,000 links over Europeans’ ‘right to be forgotten’ requests

According to the data, Google has received 348,085 requests and evaluated more than 1.2 million links for removal. Of those, it has removed 441,032 URLs. Google opted not to remove 608,169 more URLs; the rest are pending review or require additional information. Googles link removal only affects search results on its European sites. source: www.techworm.net

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 55 words · Robert Pham

How to backup your WhatsApp conversations, photos and videos on Google Drive

These sharing of memories help us reconnect with whats really important. What happens if your phone is lost, or damaged, or stolen? You will lose all the memories collected on your phone forever. You surely dont want your memories to get stuck on your phone. So, what can you do? If you dont see the option yet, you should soon. To pull up the Google Drive options, choose Chat backup, and edit the various options....

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 152 words · Blake Davenport

Raspberry Pi unveils its ultra low price computer, Pi Zero for $5

Its the smallest Pi yet, while still keeping the core experience. Really everything weve learned has been packed into this one gear. Composite video remains on an unpopulated header, and storage is through a microSD card slot. source: www.techworm.net

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 39 words · Jeffrey Johnson

Second root level rogue CA called DSDTestProvider found in new Dell PCs and Laptops

Revoking the certificate helps prevent reinstating trust if DSD is reinstalled. They will also have tokillDell.Foundation.Agent.Plugins.eDell.dllto prevent the DSDTestProvider from reinstalling itself. source: www.techworm.net

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 24 words · Doris Bates

This Extraordinary App Visualizes Radio Waves From Cell Towers And Satellites Around You

We are increasingly dependent on a global ecosystem of digital signals. you’re able to now download the $3 iOS app for iPhone or iPad fromhere. The Android version of the app is expected to roll out soon. source: www.techworm.net

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 39 words · Anthony Alexander

Tor Project looks to crowdfunding to reduce its dependency on US Government money

According to The Verge, currently up to 90 percent of its funding comes from government donations. Tor is an essential tool that is needed by people to do what they do. It fosters free speech and independent voices. It fosters free speech and independent voices. It is how Snowden and her communicated and shared the information that was essential to breaking his story. Poitras says: Theres no way I would have been able to protect the initial source without using Tor…...

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 108 words · Morgan Glover

Windows Phone hacked! Now unlock Lumia bootloader, get root access, flash custom ROMs

Windows Phone Internalsallows Lumia owners to unlock their bootloaders, gain root access and even flash custom ROMs. He says, I am proud to announce the immediate availability of Windows Phone Internals 1.0. This tool allows you to unlock the bootloader of selected Lumia Windows Phone models. I created a short introduction video to show the features of the tool. Apps can escape from their sandboxes. The tool can also create backup-images of the phone and reach the file-system in Mass Storage mode....

November 26, 2015 · 1 min · 124 words · Leah Russell

Ahmed Mohamed wants $15m in compensation over ‘clock bomb’ arrest

Ahmed never threatened anyone, never caused harm to anyone, and never intended to. The school and city officials involved knew what they needed to do to protect Ahmeds rights. They just decided not to do it. The incident gained worldwide attention with people saying that it was an example of racial stereotyping. Ahmed subsequently left the school in question. The teenager and his father claimed he had been a victim of Islamophobia....

November 24, 2015 · 1 min · 103 words · Amanda Robertson