Former US federal agent investigating Silk Road admits he stole $820000 in bitcoins

Silk Roadwas an online black market which was launched in February 2011. Months after courts had sentenced Ulbricht, these two agents, Bridges and Force were charged in March. Sentencing for Bridges is set for December 7th. source: www.techworm.net

September 3, 2015 · 1 min · 38 words · Haley Rogers

Google launches new ‘fun fact’ and ‘I am curious’ feature to keep you entertained

Feeling bored or curious? You now have a new friend to give you company. The tool will give various fun facts and trivia on your desktop to keep you immersed for hours. To start enjoying Googles new feature bang out Fun facts or Im feeling curious. Google will pop up a random fact from the Internet. Examples produced during testing included Do your eyes ever grow?, Is there any sugar in Tic Tacs?...

September 3, 2015 · 1 min · 100 words · Mr. Henry Gonzalez Jr.

How To Use Facebook To Land a Perfect Job

LinkedIn is already used by professionals to make themselves known to future employers. Facebook is also a useful tool to land a cushy job, if you use it correctly. 66 percent of recruiters were reported as using Facebook for recruitment, according to Jobvites 2014 Social Recruiting Survey. Carry out an audit Go to your favorite search engine or Google and search for your name. Make a note of what comes on the first page of search results....

September 3, 2015 · 2 min · 215 words · Elizabeth Mills

Stop Forced Updates For Windows 10 With These 3 Simple Methods

These forced updates which download and install automatically have been creating nightmares for many of the users. So, how do we stop them? Read below to find out which option is more feasible for you. However, you’re free to download it from Microsoft by clicking here. The Show/Hide Tool is not aggressive as the three options above. This means that it would not reinstall Windows Update automatically, if you have uninstalled it....

September 3, 2015 · 1 min · 97 words · Elizabeth Wallace

Alphabet owned Google gets a new logo

Over the years, the tech giant has tweaked its official logo at least six times. Google last updated its logo in September 2013. The logo also strikes a similar resemblance to the logo of Alphabet. So, why was the change needed? One key challenge for the designers, it said, was to refine what makes us Googley. The new logo is still a colorful typographic that features six simple letters on a plain white page....

September 2, 2015 · 1 min · 101 words · Nicole Lowe

Blood Moon: A rare Super Moon lunar eclipse will occur on 28 September

Besides, the moon will be closest to Earth hence being referred asSuper Moon. September 28th 2015 also marks theend of Lunar Tetradand the full moon is also referred to asHarvest Moon. Lunar Tetradmeans occurrence offour consecutive total lunar eclipseswhich are separated by six lunar months. However, this fourth and final total lunar eclipsecould be apocalypticaccording to some Christian ministers. Scientists and atheists instantly mocked the pronouncement made by Hagee. Now, will this Total lunar eclipse occurring on September 28 be apocalyptic?...

September 2, 2015 · 1 min · 120 words · Sarah Williams

French hacker hacks electronic signpost and posts a vulgar poem

But he did have one last tongue-in-cheek comment about his prank. source: www.techworm.net

September 2, 2015 · 1 min · 13 words · Brittany Campbell

Google Chrome says Goodbye Flash, Welcome HTML5!

Finally that day has arrived and Google Chrome has bid adieu to Adobe Flash. This change is scheduled to start rolling out on September 1, 2015. Earlier this summer, Facebooks Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos too called for the death of Flash. This move has been made by the company to try and convince advertisers to stop using Flash technology altogether. HTML5 technology has been recommended as an alternative by both Google and the Interactive Advertising Bureau....

September 2, 2015 · 1 min · 104 words · Kevin Henry

Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox to stop supporting RC4 cipher by 2016

The net online gate behemoths have decided to completely stop using RC4 cipher from 2016. For Firefox, that means version 44, currently scheduled for release on Jan 26,notedMozillas Richard Barnes. Microsoft has made the official announcement yesterday. Microsoft had intended to deprecate the SHA-1 algorithm in 2013. Internet Explorer does not offer RC4-based cipher suites during the initial TLS/SSL handshake as the first option. source: www.techworm.net

September 2, 2015 · 1 min · 66 words · John Thomas

Marie Curie’s belongings will be radioactive for another 1,500 years

Table Of Contents Personal belongings of Marie Curie will continue to be radioactive for another 1,500 years! In a way, the discoveries made by Curie were also the reason due to which she died. Marie Curies life was totally flooded in ionizing radiation. It was really a lovely sight and one always new to us. The glowing tubes looked like faint, fairy lights. source: www.techworm.net

September 2, 2015 · 1 min · 65 words · Candace Smith

No Fixes Released yet from Belkin for Zero Day Vulnerability in its router

The zero day were notified by Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT). A LAN-based attacker can bypass authentication to take complete control of vulnerable devices. Unfortunately, there are no easy mitigations for the DNS spoofing or firmware over HTTP issues. source: www.techworm.net

September 2, 2015 · 1 min · 40 words · Michael Potter

Patent trouble for Apple as Blackberry patented its Force Touch technology years ago

There is nothing new about the combination of fully-integrated touch screen mobile phones and haptic feedback. This concept was invented by BlackBerry years ago when it released the BlackBerry Storm in 2008. For instance,BlackBerrys patent filing No. The user experience would be somewhat similar to using a physical keyboard. A patent violation suit against Typo, a company owned by Ryan Seacrest was recently settled by Blackberry. Resource:Cantech Letter Read More...

September 2, 2015 · 1 min · 72 words · Joseph Vega

Pluto may have alien life, says physicist Brian Cox

Table Of Contents British physicist Brian Cox claims there could be alien life beneath the frozen crust of Pluto Over the years, science fiction movies and novels have captivated humans to an extent that some of them actually believe in the existence of extra terrestrial life or alien life. Though it is a fact that in reality space researchers have not yet discovered any such evidence to prove there is any real life outside our planet, Earth; however a British physicist recently claimed there could be a possibility ofalien life beneath the frozen crust of Pluto....

September 2, 2015 · 4 min · 682 words · Jonathan Holmes