Yesterday GitHub tweeted : 87 hours in, our mitigation is deflecting most attack traffic. We’re aware of intermittent issues and continue to adapt our response. Attack traffic continues, so we remain on high alert. The attack which started on Wednesday, emanated from scripts belonging to the internet giant Baidu. Security analysts have said that this may be one of the biggest DDoS attacks faced by any website. you might check the status of GitHubhere....

There are 2 types of theMicrosofts Notebooksone for educational purpose and the other is for consumer market. ThoughGoogle Chromebookshave succeeded only in the U.S., Microsoft is still competing with the Chromebooks. Along with Microsoft its ASUS who is also in the competition with Googles Chromebooks. TheASUS Chromebookwas rumored to be powered by Rockchip RK3288 and expected to be priced at $179 / 167. source: www.techworm.net

NSA officials presented a forceful rebuttal that helped shaped public opinion. The president insisted that legislation is required to adopt his proposal, and Congress has not acted yet. Except their success stories didnt pan out.. Read More source: www.techworm.net

Announcing the hack on Twitter, SEA posted the screenshots of the control panels of these web hosting companies. The screenshots show that SEA had complete access to the control panel of these hosting companies. source: www.techworm.net

Buyers who like to feel the smartphone or a gadget generally prefer the physical store to online retailers. Xiaomi has said that both the smartphones will be available at the same price as it is available onFlipkart. source: www.techworm.net

This was discovered by the system admins of Beau Chene High School in Arnaudville, Louisiana. This set of credentials may have been passed on to the hackers according to him. source: www.techworm.net

This is what happened with a Redditor, Sunday_Account, about six months ago. Mr.Sunday_Account had a nice job with a company which worked for a federal agency. The only thing about working with this company was the security clearances which Mr.Sunday_Account got. I passed with no problem and about 6 months from the initial tool, I started working. Everything as going quite well when one day Sunday_Account spilled coffee on his laptop and it went bust....

However a Chinese businessman and owner of Android smartphone manufacturing unit, LeTV did something very unnatural. He put up a ad campaign equating Apple to Hitler. The ad which is meant to take a dig at restrictive and closeted Apples iOS operating system. APPLE INC SHOWN AS HITLER IN LATEST POSTER WAR Apples logo is on Hitlers dress, which symbolizes the comparison in a clear way. Not that LeTV is popular, in fact it is yet to release any smartphone under its brand name....

Zuckerbergs statement at that time had caused quite a stir among cyber fraternity. source: www.techworm.net

She tried to find out the thief but met with no luck. Two days later, her Facebook timeline was flooded by selfies of unknown girl. Bingham who vaguely recollected the iPhone thief, immediately identified the girl posting the selfies as the iPhone thief. She leaned in to say something into my ear. Things were loud, and I felt a tug on my purse, Bingham said. The iPhone thief posted nearly 13 selfies an app that automatically uploads pictures to her Facebook....

He made this observations while launching a real-time service called Overwatch to pinpoint these interceptors. They mimic legitimate cell towers and reroute nearby cell transmissions through them. But theyre not phone company equipment. (Image: esdoverwatch.com) ESD found 17 towers initially across the US and now the figure had jumped up to 54. Goldsmith said that the interceptors could be a listening/call-handling box. Surprisingly ESD discovered more than a dozen interceptors near the U....

How about a Star Wars Droid that projects a Virtual keyboard on any surface, you gonna love it if you are a Star Wars Fan This little Star Wars Droid is pretty awesome, well it can project a keyboard on any surface and connects with almost any machine or OS (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows PC) with its powerful Bluetooth connectivity. Built by Japanese electronics brand imp, the gadget throws a qwerty keyboard on flat surface and emits the original voice of R2-Q5 when in use....

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