Steve Wozniak: “Steve Jobs and I Were Once Robbed at Gunpoint Outside a Pizza Parlor”

The incident involving Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak took place in Sunnyvale, California in 1972. This is Steve Zero, Wozniak replied. you’ve got the option to watch the entire interview below : Read More source: www.techworm.net

October 4, 2015 · 1 min · 36 words · Robert Hernandez

Details of 4.6 million customers may have been compromised in Scottrade security breach

Scottrade security breach affects 4.6 million customers, personal information stolen. It says that it has no reason to believe that Scottrades trading platforms or any client funds were compromised. Client passwords remained fully encrypted and that it hasnt noticed any fraudulent activity as a result of this incident. It also said that it was notifying customers of the hack as a precaution. Scottrade is offering affected customers a year of complimentary identity protection services through AllClear ID....

October 3, 2015 · 1 min · 98 words · Ricardo Rogers

Does iPhone 6S Plus bend and can it survive boiling water?

Does iPhone 6S bend as much as iPhone 6 and can iPhone 6S survive boiling water? It has been only a week and iPhone 6S has been in news for all the right reasons. It has emerged as Apples fastest selling hardware and critics have like it. But can it survive the ultimate Bend Test. source: www.techworm.net

October 3, 2015 · 1 min · 57 words · Todd Fields

Journalists And Activists Now Get a One-Stop-Shop For Security With This New Pocket App

Were basically building the tool we wish we had ourselves. It really helps me as an individual and a trainer. It keeps me to up to date on the go. It also keeps me updated with the newest tools, which is hard to do with my busy job. Human rights groups are now facing a global crackdown not seen in a generation. In spite of that security is difficult. Currently, free to download, the Umbrella app is available for Android only....

October 3, 2015 · 1 min · 97 words · Sherry James

Linux Malware XOR.DDoS uses your Linux PCs to mount DDoS attacks

The gaming sector is the primary target, followed by educational institutions. Akamai SIRT released a threat advisory this morning authored by Security Response Engineer Tsvetelin Vincent Choranov. The XOR.DDoS rely on Linux machines that were compromised by cracking weak passwords used to protect the command shell. To check whether your Linux machine is infected by XOR.DDoS malware, usenetstatto print any current web connection/internet connections. Usetcpdumpto get a more detailed analysis of which packets you are sending out to identify unknown packets....

October 3, 2015 · 1 min · 118 words · James Smith

New ‘Vigilante’ Malware Protects Routers Against Security Threats

According to the researchers at Symantec, the custom-built software is nicknamed Ifwatch and it is spreading quickly. We have not seen any malicious activity whatsoever, said Symantec threat intelligence officer Val Saengphaibul. However, in the legal sense, this is illegal activity. Its accessing computers on a data pipe without the owners permission. However, it has been found to infect more than 10,000 Linux-based routers, mostly in China and Brazil. It looks like the Ifwatchs creator wanted it to be discovered....

October 3, 2015 · 1 min · 82 words · Eric Rios

Reports of iPhone 6s randomly shutting down after upgrading to iOS 9

Some say they have since upgraded to iOS 9.0.2 and are waiting to see if the problem reoccurs. Heresone post from the MacRumorsforum that details the new problem: Rose Gold iPhone 6s running IOS 9.0.1. The screen was off, and the phone rang. The screen remained dark, but the ringing kept going, but couldnt be answered. Just pulled phone out of pocket and its dead. iPhone 6s 128GB SG iOS 9....

October 3, 2015 · 1 min · 96 words · Gregory Hall

Windows 10 critical error “Taskbar and Cortana not working” related to Avast Anti-virus

So Installed Windows early this morning and once I was able to sign on onto my personal account. I got a pop up saying Critical Error Start Menu and Cortana arent working. Well venture to fix it the next time you sign in. I read online to try a different account. Another user also shared: Upgraded my system yesterday and it was working well until an hour ago. I decided to restart my system and after that, the problem occurred to me as well....

October 3, 2015 · 1 min · 132 words · Kevin Ferguson

11% of Americans Think HTML is a Sexually Transmitted Disease and 27% say Gigabyte is an Insect

HTML is a Sexually Transmitted Disease(STD). This scenario was revealed whenVoucherclouda coupons website conducted a study which was later published byLA Times. The study involved 2,392 men and women all of whom were 18 years or older. In the survey, people were presented with such words which included both technical and non technical terms. It seems that quite a few of us need to brush up on our tech definitions....

October 2, 2015 · 1 min · 114 words · Carol Fletcher

Apple fixes the lock screen issue in latest iOS 9 update

Apps, notably Podcasts, have also been improved. The reported dead simple lock screen bypass was published last week. Anyone with physical access to the rig could gain access through the lock screen if Siri was available. Rodriguez later confirmed the flaw was fixed in iOS 9.0.2. The update can be done by tweaks menu as usual. source: www.techworm.net

October 2, 2015 · 1 min · 58 words · Kathleen Camacho

Experian Data breach exposes roughly 15M T-Mobile customers data

The companysaidthe breach did not expose payment or banking information, nor did it affect its consumer credit database. Experian said it took immediate action upon finding the breach: it secured the serverand initiated a comprehensive investigation. It has also notified both U.S. and international law enforcement. Experian North Americas parent company, Experian is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. We take privacy very seriously and we understand that this news is both stressful and frustrating....

October 2, 2015 · 1 min · 194 words · Thomas Green

Hackers leak 13.7 Gigs of personal user data from Patreon hack

Patreon based in San Francisco, is a crowdfunding platform created by musician Jack Conte and developer Sam Yam. It allows artists to obtain funding from patrons on a recurring basis or per artwork. It is very popular with YouTube content creators, musicians, and webcomic artists. According to Patreon, unknown hackers breached its servers on 28th September and stole user information. Bcrypt is non-reversible, so passwords cannot be decrypted. We do not store plain-text passwords anywhere....

October 2, 2015 · 1 min · 77 words · Ronald Fernandez

Meet Neeb Karori Baba whose followers include Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg

Joshi had no clue who Mark Zuckerberg was, as Facebook was not the behemoth that it is today. He was wearing a trouser which was torn at one knee, he told Economic Times. It consists of five shrines, of which one is dedicated to his favourite Hanuman. Many of the Babas devotees believe that he himself was the human incarnation of monkey God. The sage used to live in a white building with square columns opposite the shrines....

October 2, 2015 · 2 min · 247 words · Sharon Hall