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For those unaware, the Official Trump 2020 App has been downloaded from Google Play Store and the App Store more than 780,000 times since its launch in mid-April. However, it has been found that the Official Trump 2020 app asks for more than twice the amount of permissions in comparison to its competitor and Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden’s official campaign app, Team Joe. “Purpose-built applications distributed through the App Store and Google Play Store allow the Trump and Biden teams to speak directly to likely voters,” Jacob Gursky and Samuel Woolley, who are members of the center’s Propaganda Research Team, wrote in an article for MIT Technology Review....

CDs and DVDs, which are considered as the standard storage type for installing Windows on personal computers, are now things of the past. Today, we have USB flash drives that are not only small, portable but most importantly they are fast. In a worst case scenario, where you have to reinstall the operating system on your computer or help out a friend, it is sensible to create an emergency bootable USB drive irrespective of the Windows version you are using, whether it’s 10, 8....

According to several news outlets citing current and former U.S. government officials say the CIA has been asked to deliver options to the White House for a wide-ranging “clandestine” cyber operation. The goal of such an attack is to “harass and embarrass” the Russian government in retaliation for alleged Russian meddling in the American presidential election. “The sources did not elaborate on the exact measures the CIA was considering, but said the agency had already begun opening cyber doors, selecting targets and making other preparations for an operation,” the report states....

Italian economist Guido Menzio, 40, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was solving a differential equation related to a speech he was set to give at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He said the woman sitting next to him passed a note to a flight attendant and the plane headed back to the gate. Menzio was offloaded for questioning by agents in Philadelphia, after the woman next to him said she was too ill to take the Air Wisconsin-operated flight....

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has spotted the US Navy publicly soliciting people to sell security vulnerabilities to well-known software. It seems that the US Navy was also buying the Zero-days as NSA, to build backdoors into the software. The offer for the buying of Zero-days was listed on government website FedBizOpps, which was deleted shortly after being highlighted by the EFF. On the website, the US Navy detailed why it needed the zero-days....

Way back in October, security researcher Hemanth Joseph was able to crack the Activation Lock on an iPad by entering extremely long strings of characters in all fields of the Wi-Fi setup. This made iOS freeze and, when combined with opening and closing of the iPad’s Smart Cover, gave Joseph access to the device’s home screen. However, Apple definitely caught the attention of this little workaround and managed to close the loophole with the official release of iOS 10....

There are currently two families of technologies: wired and wireless. The most popular are 2G and 3G networks. Although there are others focused on short-range radio frequencies such as NFC or long-range radio frequencies such as Wireless M-Buss. Let’s discover what an m2m network is about. Learn more about the m2m network? The m2m network is a communication technique that is mainly used for remote surveillance. The most concrete example is stock replenishment, where vending machines will send a message to anothers when an article starts to run out....

What is Bitcoin and Bitcoin Mining? Everything that you should know about the cryptocurrency that is touching $2500New Age Currency- Bitcoin CryptocurrencyBitcoin Mining However, we are much interested in the second reason. Bitcoin touched a lifetime high of $2400 last week and will soon be touching $2500. Which means if you had bought Bitcoins in the period July 2010 to December 2013 when it was $7 to $25 a piece, you could be a multimillionaire now....

Lately, we’ve been coming across plenty of news stories that talk about the web and being true to the media roots, quite a few terms end up getting lost in translation when the news gets into unknown territory. This isn’t restricted to just the news, even mainstream media has expanded its horizons with a fair number of shows and films venturing into the cyber security and hacking. All this while having a positive effect on the spread of information, also results in the spreading of incorrect information – especially so when it comes to terms such as deep and dark web being used liberally....

In a quiet update to an old blog post titled “support for older operating systems” on WhatsApp’s mobile devices support page, the company has revealed a list of devices and their operating systems that will become incompatible with the chatting application in 2018. While some devices featuring in the list have already stopped supporting the chat app, other devices may lose the support by the end of this calendar year....

A majority of smartphones that will lose WhatsApp support are quite old at the time of writing this article and some of them are even a decade old (iPhone 5). One of the primary reasons why these smartphones won’t be supported is that they haven’t been updated in a very long time. Whatsapp will now only be supported on devices running at least Android 5.0 Lollipop or iOS 12 or later....

Windows is more than a legend in the technology world. It can be rightfully said that the development of the information era began with the development of this particular operating system. Of course, now many people are obsessed with Android, and even more, are crazy about iOS, but the fact remains as it was – Windows still does not lose its positions. And while desktop computers continue to remain in our houses and offices, this trend will not change....

According to stats released by NetMarketShare on Tuesday, Microsoft’s newly launched software grabbed a 5.21 percent share of all Web traffic generated by desktop operating systems in August, according to NetMarketShare. While Windows 10 had been available for download to users as a technical preview since last October it had not been able to create a sufficient dent in the world OS usage. However as soon as Microsoft announce that Windows 10 upgrade will be free to Windows 7 an d 8/8....

Windows Hello: This feature will use the bio-metric authentication method like finger print or iris scan or the face of the user to log in into the device which has Windows 10 OS. This means that user will be relieved of the jumbled password and PIN numbers however for Windows Hello to work, it would need specialized hardware including finger print scanner, illuminated IR sensors and bio-metric sensor. Microsoft Hello will work for finger print authentication if the PC already has a finger print reader however for IRIS and face reading the new Windows 10 PC users will be provided with special Intel’s Real Sense 3D camera....

In an official conference today, Li-Ning in partnership with Xiaomi announced its first Smart Shoes. Li-Ning is a very well-known local maker of shoes and other sports equipment for professionals. In fact, the company endorses a number of athletes and teams. The smart shoes will come equipped with military grade motion sensor chips. The shoes will records your walks and runs using motion and pressure sensors. The data is passed on to the pedometer and calorie counter app on your phone....

This strange occurrence of the Google Photos App wherein your personal photos may still get uploaded to the web without your knowledge was discovered by a journalist at the Nashville Business Journal. David Arnott in the video above removes the Google Photos app from his phone. However, the photo that he took of his coffee mug is still wound up being synchronized into his account on the web. Even though he had turned on the backup sync before removing the app, is it not appropriate to expect the phone not to do that after the app has been uninstalled?...

If you are a YouTuber or YouTube fan, chances are that you probably might have used YouTube-MP3.Org to download your favorite song in MP3. This was the largest and most popular website on the Internet used by millions to convert the copyrighted YouTube songs into free MP3s. YouTube-MP3, one of the most top free YouTube Mp3 convert and download sites is soon shutting down, thanks to the music industry. The Anti-piracy group led by RIAA, the chief arm of music industry’s anti-piracy drive have managed to get a court order from a federal court in the United States to shut YouTube-MP3....

While the YouTuber’s original plan was to squeeze a Raspberry Pi inside of a regular computer mouse but was unable to do so due to size constraints. Hence, he 3D printed a computer mouse to fit the components of the computer inside the mouse. Dubbed as “The Computer Mouse”, the device consists of a Raspberry Pi Zero W computer, a 1.5-inch color OLED LCD display with a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels, a 3D-printed mouse, a rechargeable 500 mAh battery, and a tiny Bluetooth retractable keyboard for text inputs and more complicated commands....

Sharma said, a few bugs were pointed out in the current Yuphoria software. Sharma added “Your feedback matters to us a lot and we have been working on your inputs.” The company also received complaints from some users about issues with proximity sensor. According to Sharma, the company has addressed the issues and came up with solution including the auto calibration of proximity sensor. Now the issue has been fixed with this update....

Security researcher Guido Vranken discovered that using a ‘HTTPS Bicycle Attack,’ a potential hacker could extract information from the HTTPS data streams. He has published a research paper (PDF) detailing how the new attack works on TLS/SSL-encrypted traffic, and how it could be used to reveal users passwords, GPS coordinates and much more. According to Vranken, the HTTPS Bicycle Attack lets a hacker inspect HTTPS traffic and be able to determine the length of some of the data exchanged underneath the TLS protection layer....