Facebook hack: Your personal data can be harvested by cyber criminals using your cellphone number

Writingon the company blog, he says he discovered the flaw by mistake. This post is an attempt to catch Facebooks attention to get this issue fixed. Once he had done that, Moaindin says that user profiles and personal data soon began pouring in. The Who can search for me? source: www.techworm.net

August 10, 2015 · 1 min · 51 words · Brenda Freeman

HTC storing images of your fingerprints unencrypted and as readable cleartext

Earlier this month, HTC reported its worst quarter in history. The fingerprints were stored in an image file named dbgraw.bmp in an open, readable and unencrypted folder. Not all the vendors store the fingerprints securely. One example is HTC One Max XX the fingerprint is saved as /data/dbgraw.bmp with 0666 permission (worldXreadable). The FireEye team also added Any unprivileged processes or apps can steal a users fingerprints by reading this file....

August 10, 2015 · 1 min · 143 words · Laura Fisher

NASA’s Curiosity rover captures an image of a ‘Dark Lady’ on Mars

Many claim this shadowy rock formation to be a female however as of now it remains a mystery. In the end, this research will concrete the way to coordinate a manned mission in the 2030s. Meanwhile, people on Earth are speculating that the image actually resembles like a woman partly cloaked. Another nearby formation resembles a cave dwelling. It was another picture taken by NASAs Curiosity rover on Mars. Its usually some sort of animal, but occasionally even weirder objects such as automobile parts....

August 10, 2015 · 1 min · 112 words · Antonio Sanchez

Pilot episodes of TV series, Minority Report, Lucifer and Blindspot leaked online

Most popular among the torrent lovers is upcoming sci-fi crime dramaMinority Report. Along with the above two, the third one to join the torrent party is upcoming U.S. dramaBlindspot. Again, the leak comes courtesy of Scene group LOL/DIMENSION. A pair of releases are available, SD at around 300MB and 1080p closer to 5GB. source: www.techworm.net

August 10, 2015 · 1 min · 55 words · Timothy Howard

Xiaomi’s first make-in-India phone ‘Redmi 2 Prime’ launched for Rs. 6,999

Table Of Contents Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime Made in India Smartphone Launched at Rs. 6,999 at Foxconn Facility at Sri City under the Make in India, Made in Andhra Pradesh programme. Lets have a look at the specs of the newly released smartphone. The dual-SIM dual standby and Android 4.4 KitKat-based smartphone comes layered with companys own MIUI 6. It is powered by a 64-bit 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor (MSM8916) coupled with Adreno 306 GPU....

August 10, 2015 · 1 min · 113 words · Mrs. Yvonne Morales

Drone Hack : Blasting a sound at a drone can knock it out of the air

You want to take down a drone which is pestering you, blast it with sound. Their research works on the vulnerability is all due to resonance which is a natural property of all objects. Once they singled out the threshold level of a drone, they attached a speaker to the drone. It took off normally, but crashed as soon as they played sounds at the resonant frequency. The paperdetailing their findings will be presented in Washington, D....

August 9, 2015 · 1 min · 86 words · Molly Thompson

Here’s how you can play DVDs on Windows 10 for free

In fact Microsoft is charging $15 for the DVD player App on its Windows Store App. However, note only certain versions of 7/8/8.1 qualify. Microsoft has provided the free version of Windows DVD Player only for a limited time. If among the available updates, if you have KB3081704, then start downloading the update. Once downloaded, go ahead and roll out the program. If youre looking for more range of functionalities on your Windows, you have to use another program....

August 9, 2015 · 1 min · 150 words · Joshua Simmons

Microsoft releases Translator App for its Android and iOS users

On the other hand, Google supports only 27 languages for text and voice conversion. The Microsoft Translator app also works across smartphones, tablets, Apple Watch and Android Wear devices. Users can speak or key in the word or phrase that has to be translated. The new app in response will display the translated text on the screen and then speak it aloud. Text can also be copied and pasted from and to other apps by the users for quick translation....

August 9, 2015 · 1 min · 130 words · Mackenzie Harper

This $32 hacker tool opens almost any car or garage door

Car key remotes, like garage remotes, use rolling code to authenticate access. Rolling code is basically just code that changes every time so that no one can use it later. For RollJam to work, the hacker has to place a wallet-size unit somewhere on the targeted car. This has been sort of a theoretical attack for many, many years. This is not by any means brand new or a big surprise....

August 9, 2015 · 1 min · 114 words · Jasmine Thompson

Windows updates can be intercepted and injected with malware

Context researchers demonstrated how hackers can compromise corporate networks by exploiting a weakness in Windows update mechanism. PCs on a corporate connection update through a separate Windows Update (WSUS) server on the connection. But insecurely configured implementations of the corporate update server can be exploited in local privilege escalation and connection attacks. What is WSUS? Instead, it uses the non-encrypted HTTP. source: www.techworm.net

August 9, 2015 · 1 min · 63 words · Eric Morales

A Hack That Turns The Square Card Reader Into A Credit Card Data Skimmer

Unfortunately, in spite of its convenience, that may be about to change. Also, do not hand over your card, if the app looks like a piece of third-party software. source: www.techworm.net

August 8, 2015 · 1 min · 31 words · Eric Hines

Carphone Warehouse hacked by unknown hackers, 2.4 million customers’ details breached

Reports suggest only customers who connected through the retailers ecommerce brands; e2save, OneStopPhoneShop and Mobiles.co.uk are affected. source: www.techworm.net

August 8, 2015 · 1 min · 19 words · Robert Ward

Hackers can remotely steal data using your printer, washing machine and air conditioner

Security researchers claim that hackers can steal the data without setting off any alarm! This sounds unbelievable and too much of a science fiction! The researchers actually swapped the chips energy output in such a manner that the printer started emitting electromagnetic radiations. However suppose one cranks it way up then the printer starts giving radio waves. These highs and lows together form the 1s and 0s, which is the basis of computer code....

August 8, 2015 · 1 min · 142 words · Paula Smith