Your smartphone battery could be snooping on you

Your online activity can now be tracked with your smartphones battery life. You hit the power saver mode whenever your smartphone or your laptop goes low on battery. All the features or apps that take up extra battery get disabled. Technology like VPNs are basically more than enough to stop people from following a user around the internet. However, those measures could be played around due the security problems in the battery software....

August 4, 2015 · 1 min · 92 words · John Buchanan

5 frightening hacking targets that everyone should be scared of

Lets have a look at the 5 most dangerous things that can be hacked today. Once you combine this data and create very rich profiles of people. Two sources are believed to bring dangers according to Westin and other experts. This might be the kind of software bug most likely to kill someone. And the danger is not limited to one brand. The Europeans are a little bit ahead. The Japanese are a little bit behind....

August 3, 2015 · 1 min · 196 words · Lauren Hill

Ads on Yahoo, Yahoo Finance, Sports and other Yahoo pages contain malware

According toBusiness Insiderthe Malwarebytes has informed Yahoo about the issue. Yahoo is committed to ensuring that both our advertisers and users have a safe and reliable experience. We take all potential security threats seriously. Unfortunately, disruptive ad behavior affects the entire tech industry. source: www.techworm.net

August 3, 2015 · 1 min · 45 words · Patricia King

Chinese factory increases production after replacing 90 % staff with robots

It wont be a surprise that sometime in future all of human jobs would be taken over by robots. The result have been fascinating. The company consisting a staff of 650 people has been reduced to only 60. At the same time, the number of robots will rise to close to 1,000. However, there are still people working at the factory, though. Three workers check and monitor each production line and there are other employees who monitor a computer control system....

August 3, 2015 · 1 min · 209 words · Laurie Martin

Chrome vulnerability can be exploited to disable extensions without any user interaction

He has stated on his website,Detectify Labsthat he exploited a vulnerability in HTTPS Everywhere. After some hours of analysis I managed to disable it by just viewing a HTML page. In fact, this didnt only work on the HTTPS Everywhere extension, but all Chrome extensions I tested! This build contains a number of bug fixes and security updates, a partial list of which is availablehere. However, older versions of Chrome may still be vulnerable to this exploit....

August 3, 2015 · 1 min · 79 words · Valerie Collins

Government of India bans 857 websites on grounds of ‘morality and decency’

The list of the blocked websites can be foundhere. source: www.techworm.net

August 3, 2015 · 1 min · 11 words · Christina Johnson

Hactivists hack Donald Trump’s website and use it to pay tribute to Daily Show’s Jon Stewart

Anonymous generally oppose anything to do with infringement of freedom where TelecomixCanada work on digital rights of Internet users. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZsT-8Xy30 The defaced page can be accessedhere. source: www.techworm.net

August 3, 2015 · 1 min · 28 words · Devon Perry

iPhone survives 9,300-foot fall and located using Find My Phone App

He realized that his iPhone had been sucked out of the plane during the accident only upon landing. Later I checked the iCloud and could see it was outside of Joplin (Texas). Joplin is a wide spot in the road ain rural Jack County. Guided down a ranch road, Bill soon was going over a fence to find it. It was by the side of the road south of Jacksboro, under a mesquite tree, he said....

August 3, 2015 · 1 min · 85 words · Philip Williams

Microsoft’s chatbot ‘Xiaoice’ chats with millions of Chinese fans like in the movie ‘Her’

What if such movie like situations can actually happen in reality too. The bot has more than 20 million registered users as of today. Though friends initially, the relationship soon deepens into love. They often tell her, I love you. The ability to keep in mind information from previous conversations is the strong point of Xiaoice. source: www.techworm.net

August 3, 2015 · 1 min · 58 words · Jason Parsons DDS

Researchers create ‘Thunderstrike 2’ the first firmware worm to attack Apple Mac

However, how far is this true? For the first time someone had demonstrated a Mac bootkit, i.e. The malware was one of the dangerous forms because it granted the attacker total control of the Mac computer. Additionally, the attacker could arbitrarily read or write to the SMRAM region. Lastly, the attacker could corrupt the platform firmware and cause the system to become inoperable. Resume scripts is usually re-configures pieces of the hardware which change when they are in low-power state....

August 3, 2015 · 2 min · 275 words · Allison Woods

Windows 7/8/8.1 Users Have Only 30 Days to Downgrade After Installing Windows 10

Luckily, Microsoft provides a faster way to back to your previous Windows version. There are certain things that one may have to consider before downgrading to Windows 7/8/8.1. Once this period expires, you cannot go back to the previous version of Windows. The only way to go back is to perform a clean install. The options screen also has same message when you attempt to attempt to downgrade to a previous Windows version....

August 3, 2015 · 1 min · 132 words · Amanda Atkins

Cyber Warfare : United States decides hack back against China

For instance, legislators are urging for immediate action, according to The Hill. The hacking claims have been dispersed by China as irresponsible and unscientific. source: www.techworm.net

August 2, 2015 · 1 min · 26 words · Michelle King

Huawei Overtakes Microsoft In The Smartphone Market

First, it was competing against Apple and Samsung in the smartphone market. Now, it has one more competitor added to that list: Huawei. The Chinese smartphone maker, Xiaomi is in the fifth position. Smartphones accounted for eight in 10 of total mobile phone shipments during the quarter. Apple outperformed as consumers in China and elsewhere upgraded to bigger-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models. Huawei has finally overtaken Microsoft to become the worlds third largest mobile phone vendor for the first time ever....

August 2, 2015 · 1 min · 98 words · Amy Wright