Power Over Wi-Fi (PoWiFi) router that can transmit both energy and Internet

Everywhere you go these days does have a Wi-Fi facility available. But is the potential of this technology tapped completely? Earlier in the year, the system was first announced by the researchers. However, energy leakage predictably occurs, due to the way the signals are sent only at irregular intervals . However, one cannot ignore the sheer convenience of wirelessly charging all your small devices around you. If PoWiFi gets a consumer release, one could see one heck of an impact....

November 20, 2015 · 1 min · 82 words · Rebecca Hall

Revealed : ISIS OPSEC manual to deal with cyber attacks

The manual is in Arabic and offers nitty gritty of using the Internet for terrorist and propaganda operations. ISIS does not like Googles Gmail. The manual notes that Gmail is safe only if used with fake credentials and only on Tor anonymity connection. Similarly, the ISIS have a dislike for Android smartphones and iPhone. The manual states that Android and iOS platforms are only secure when communications are routed through Tor....

November 20, 2015 · 1 min · 124 words · Patricia Martin

Siri’s Flaw: Apple’s Personal Assistant Leaks Personal Data

Researchers at Trend Micro state that it poses a serious privacy risk for iPhone owners by leaking personal information. They can learn your email address just by asking, and create or delete alarms. Even non-iOS users may be at risk. Tens of millions of iOS mobile devices have been sold around the world. source: www.techworm.net

November 20, 2015 · 1 min · 55 words · Michael Potter

Anonymous hack ISIS in revenge for Diesel the police dog killed by terrorists

The shootout lasted 7 hours and the Police were able to kill Abaaoud. The police did not suffer any casualty but for Diesel the police dong. A statement from the hacktivist organisation said: We love people, we love you. We love people, we love you. We love Diesel, we love Lebanon, we love Paris. I hope that clarifies our position on and in #OpISIS. source: www.techworm.net

November 19, 2015 · 1 min · 66 words · Mary Kramer

Apple vs Google : Which account could be bigger trouble for you, if you get hacked

Apple vs Google : Which account is more secure from hackers? If you get hacked, what account could be put in bigger trouble,AppleorGoogle? Well, several factors determine the outcome. Katalov says that more information is stored here than the typical Android phones. Shortly after the celebrity hacks, Apple started sending out alerts but stopped at some point, he added. This does not mean that is very easy to find out exactly what or how much there is....

November 19, 2015 · 1 min · 195 words · Michael Dunlap

Bug that can make Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg quit his job

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook has just quit his job. Cannot believe it? Well, dont be astonished or shocked, as what you just saw was only an illusion. Thanks, to a bug in Facebook, you have been misguided. The bug that was discovered by an independent hacker,Sachin Thakurisays that it is not a technical flaw. However, this flaw is enough to fool people into believing some fake news. So, how did he fake this Facebook post?...

November 19, 2015 · 1 min · 123 words · John Fletcher

Can Snowden be blamed for the recent attacks on Paris?

Is increased encrypted communications helping the cause of such large-scale terrorist attacks Ever since Edward Snowden revealed to the public that security agencies have been using every resource they have to spy on the public, perhaps that is the time when encrypted communication started to rise heavily. Perhaps that is also the time that when jihadist groups starting using this opportunity to use these encrypted communications to stay out of the radar of surveillance, which eventually allowed them to launch their attacks....

November 19, 2015 · 2 min · 416 words · Charles Moran

Carnegie Mellon University says it helped FBI break Tor anonymity network

The statement says that this claim is inaccurate. The same statement has been issued by the Software Engineering Institute. source: www.techworm.net

November 19, 2015 · 1 min · 21 words · Shari Callahan

CloudFlare refutes Anonymous claims of helping ISIS to mask their websites

CloudFlare is a service that helps websites stay online in the face of overwhelming traffic. Due to this reason, Anonymous alleges it cant bring down certain IS websites. Anonymous member have openly accused CloudFlare of protecting ISIS run propaganda website despite their terror affiliations. https://twitter.com/offical_Xsec/status/665836158706917376 Once again,@CloudFlarehave been found to be providing services to pro-#IslamicStatewebsites. I did see a Twitter handle said that they were mad at us,he told The Register....

November 19, 2015 · 1 min · 133 words · Lisa Hartman

Drone startup which collected record $3.4 million through Kickstarter campaign collapses

It was able to find backers for its Zano drone within two months. To date, Torquing Group has only shipped 600 of the more than 15,000 drones ordered. All creditors will be contacted by an insolvency practitioner next week. Thecompany websiteappears to be offline, while theTwitter feedhas not been updated since earlier this month. source: www.techworm.net

November 19, 2015 · 1 min · 56 words · Gregory King

Facebook unblocks the account of woman named ISIS

Facebook thinks I’m a terrorist. Apparently sending them a screenshot of my passport is not good enough for them to reopen my account. MY REAL NAME IS ISIS ANCHALEE/facepalm. She also included a screenshot of a Facebook page telling her account was disabled. Facebook researcher Omid Farivar has since reached out to Isis Anchalee on Twitter to publicly apologise for the issue. Isis, sorry about this, he wrote I dont know what happened....

November 19, 2015 · 1 min · 155 words · Brad Moses DDS

Microsoft’s new video shows off Windows 10 Continuum

Thanks to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) introduced with Windows 10. At the same time, the Display Dock also charges your phone. The external display will show up in Windows 10 Mobile as a Second display in configs when connected. However, the Lumia 550 is not supported. source: www.techworm.net

November 19, 2015 · 1 min · 49 words · Bradley Carter

Optical illusion changes black and white picture into color by simply staring at it

This optical illusion tricks your brain into seeing colour What is an optical illusion? Check out the optical illusion in action in a video below. This is how it works. you better stare at the dot in the centre of the false-colour image for around 30 seconds. In other words, the false-colour image acts like a kind of negative for the scene. I find this absolutely fascinating. In my head a full colour image was created of a photograph that clearly contains no colour....

November 19, 2015 · 1 min · 170 words · Gene Sanders