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The targeted torrent sites include Masquetorrent.com, Isohunt.to, Limetorrents.cc, Torlock.com, Torrentfunk.com, Extratorrent.cd and the most popular, 1337x.to. The local anti-piracy group, AGEDI, had submitted a lawsuit that led to the enforcement of the blocking measures on the aforementioned torrent sites. For those unaware, AGEDI (Association for the Management of Intellectual Property) is a non-profit association constituted by music producers to collectively manage the rights that the Intellectual Property Law (text recast of April 12, 1996) grants to producers of phonograms....

According to his LinkedIn page, Doll worked at Apple during the period 2003 to 2009. Apple and Google during this period were blamed for working together so as to not steal each other’s employees. As a result of a lawsuit based on those charges, these two companies along with other tech firms, agreed to a $415 million settlement with employees. When Doll received his check from that settlement, he tweeted that his check came out to approximately $1,000 a year for the time he worked at Apple....

The study shows that innocent looking apps were more prone to malware infections or hidden connections to remote servers that allow attackers to extract sensitive information from your phone. While on the other hand, the study found that gambling apps were not so dangerous other than having a bad social effect. Proofpoint says that it expected to find gambling apps targeted by cyber-criminals, it was more surprising when it detected similar spyware-like behavior in harmless flashlight apps and even religious applications that did nothing more than serve Bible, Quran, or Torah verses The researchers also tested 5,600 (Android) flashlight apps, finding that 26 contained known malicious code, while another 36 were deemed as “high risk....

Chase Arthur Hughes, 19, is charged on three counts of computer trespassing, computer invasion of privacy and computer forgery. Hughes turned himself in to the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office on Monday. Crimes relating to computer privacy can result in a fine up to $50,000 or jail time of up to 15 years in the state of Georgia. Kennesaw State police began an investigation in May after receiving reports of the hacking....

In their paper uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, Marijn Heule with the University of Texas, Oliver Kullmann with Swansea University and Victor Marek with the University of Kentucky have named the math problem as Boolean Pythagorean Triples problem. It was first proposed back in the 1980’s by mathematician Ronald Graham. He also offered a prize of US$100 for anyone who could solve it. Earlier this month, he duly presented the cheque to one of the three computer scientists, Marijn Heule....

Tessa88 was relatively unknown until April 2016 when she first claimed in two different hacker forums that she had a huge database for sale. She claimed to be in possession of millions of usernames and passwords to log in to sites like MySpace, DropBox, Instagram, VK (the Russian counterpart to Facebook), as well as a number of others. Tessa88 was willing to sell the huge data chest for a few hundred dollars....

Your Facebook Messenger chats can be read by anyone including potential hackers thanks to a critical vulnerability. A security researcher from BugSec and Cynet, Ysrael Gurt has discovered a critical bug in the Facebook Messenger which allows a potential hacker to read all your private conversation. To understand the enormity of this bug, you should know that Facebook Messenger is used by a billion+ users from the world over including businesses....

Hiroyuki Inoue said he was able to remotely open and close car windows, freeze a car’s accelerator and display an incorrect speedometer reading. However, the cars that are currently on the market are not directly affected by it, as their computers have no access to the internet, he said. But cars that are privately altered and equipped with internet devices could be hacked cautions Inoue. Internet-linked technologies such as self-driving vehicles are also being developed by Japanese manufacturers....

This method does work although it may not be the most elegant of solutions. In order to make it work, all you need is an active internet connection on the second phone. It also works without a SIM card. Type web.whatsapp.com on the mobile browser of the second phone that you want to also use WhatsApp on. It will automatically redirect you to the WhatsApp home page. Select “Request desktop site” (this could differ from browser to browser) from the browser options....

For those unaware, TikTok, the immensely popular 15-second video-sharing app, which is owned by China’s Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., officially took over Musical.ly in August 2018 to enter the U.S. market and has since then has been growing substantially. Since the merger, TikTok’s installation base has increased by 30%. The result of the merger and growth has also helped TikTok to beat popular apps like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube in monthly installations....

Here are two must-have free tools that every hacker must know and haveMetasploitOWASP Zed “Hacker” was a term used to denote a skilled programmer who had competency in machine code and operating systems. Such individuals were proficient in solving unsatisfactory problems and often interpreted competitors’ code to work as intelligence agents for small software companies. Many young enthusiasts want to learn hacking and take up hacking and security research as a career choice....

TP-Link has actually “forgotten” to renew two domains that are used to access the administrative panels of Wi-Fi routers and extenders. Although users can access their router administration panel through local IP address (i.e. 192.168.1.1, most router marketers make it easier for customers by having a easy to remember domain names. TP-Link’s mistake shows how they can lead to problems. Cybermoon CEO Amitay Dan said on Friday that TP-Link lost control of its tplinklogin....

An astronaut usually spends around six months aboard the ISS (International Space Station) per expedition, though in some exceptional cases the crew members might spend around a year but then eventually they are replaced by new crew members. On the other hand, a robot does not require to eat or breathe and thus can afford to live easily on the spacecraft and hence it is the only permanent member of ISS....

This changes come after years of debate and months of user testing. Earlier this week, BuzzFeed made it public that Twitter was following Facebook in pushing most liked tweets to the top of the page. The idea was not liked by twitterati around the world and they trended #RIPTwitter to show their protest against the change. So much so that Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter had to come out to clear the apprehensions of Twitter users....

For those unaware, Twitter Circle is similar to Instagram’s Close Friend’ feature, which allows users to restrict their audience for their Insta stories. Similarly, Twitter’s new feature will allow users to choose a smaller crowd of 150 people with whom they want to share their tweets. To check if you have access to Twitter Circle, ensure that your Twitter app is updated or you can open Twitter in a web browser....

The local law enforcement server, which includes the sheriff’s office, along with police departments in Damariscotta, Waldoboro, Wiscasset and Boothbay Harbor in Lincoln County share a common computer network run by Burgess Computer. In March, they fell victim to an encryption virus, which encrypted files by the Megacode ransomware making them barely readable. In order to decrypt the files, they demanded Bitcoin ransom. The virus is assumed to have been transmitted in the form of an email, which a user of the server unknowingly opened....

According to the prosecutors, Amin’s sentencing clearly shows the government’s aggressive stance towards confronting ISIS. Amin was calm as he read out a statement to the judge which said that he ‘did not expect sympathy’ and was ‘ready to accept any sentence given to him’. He said: ‘I made my decisions, and I am prepared to bear their fullest consequences.’ Following Friday’s sentencing before US District Judge Claude Hilton in Virginia, assistant Attorney General John Carlin said in a statement said “Ali Shukri Amin is a young American who used social media to provide material support to ISIL....

When it comes to automation, every developer or tester prefer to use open-source software that provides both security and reliability. And we simply cannot turn our eyes from the most recognized and renowned automation testing framework known as “Selenium.” So, let’s know something about selenium and why it is the best framework to perform automated cross browser testing. What Is Selenium? Selenium is an open-source automated testing framework that allows testers to automate cross browser testing effectively....

As per a research published by, Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford, who takes consumer privacy very strongly, Verizon is using the headers in the HTTP section to track its customers and gauge their spending habits. Verizon Wireless is injecting a unique identifier (UID) into web requests, as data transits the network in each and every customer of Verizon Wireless Network (VZW). Apparently Verizon is doing this in complete disregard to the federal laws as Verizon Wireless is injecting a UID into all HTTP requests made on the VZW network, regardless of whether or not the customer has opted out of their Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) options....