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Whatsapp your friend with a message containing nearly 4000 smileys and the friend will suffer with a crash everytime s/he opens the message. The recent bug tested on Android devices by multiple brands and caused the WhatsApp to crash. WhatsApp for Android devices including Marshmallow, Lollipop and Kitkat and WhatsApp Web for Chrome, Opera and Firefox web browsers are affected by this bug. There is a PoC video demonstration too and you can watch that here: https://youtu....

In 2019, both Android and iOS launched system wide dark mode which made it really easy to switch between dark mode and light mode on your device. However, Snapchat didn’t jump the gun and took their own sweet time in releasing dark mode for their app, with dark mode for the iOS app rolling out early last year. Today, we will be showing you the steps to get dark mode in Snapchat on both iOS and Android....

An age-old problem. Every computer user has faced this problem. What I speak of, is the tragedy of the corrupted USB Pen drive or SD Card. No matter what you do, at some point, your computer will simply refuse to read your USB drive. Fortunately, though, there are ways to rectify this with one only needing to use a command prompt. Step 1: Connect the corrupted drive to your machine Step 2: Open the command prompt either by typing cmd in the Start menu search bar or by hitting Windows Key + R followed by typing cmd in the dialog box that pops up....

Long back we had published a report on how anybody can hack WhatsApp using the SS7 flaw. The SS7 flaw has existed for eons now along with fixes but the GSM and Telecom companies are neither inclined nor bothered to patch their infrastructure against the flaw. Now a cybersecurity company called Positive Technologies has come out with a video detail how anyone can hack any Gmail account with simply a name and a mobile number using the SS7 flaw....

Tutorial to help you remove all old posts from your Facebook TimelineIf you just want to hide your old public FB postsUsing third party apps Admit it, we all have made some really shitty post when we were upset or drunk. With this tutorial, we will help you remove all those old ghastly posts. First, you should know what your Facebook timeline looks to public users. To do this, go to your Timeline, click on the three dots to the right of the Activity Log button, choose “View as…,” and you should see this:...

The New Year’s Day marketing tweet was sent out marked “via Twitter for iPhone” on December 31. Although the tweet was deleted immediately, Twitter users and bloggers were quick to take a screenshot of the message and circulate it on the social media. — Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) January 1, 2019 Huawei blamed the blunder on an outside marketing company called Sapient Corporation, which is employed by them to handle their official social media pages overseas....

What makes IBM’s achievement notable from other researches is that their artificial neurons are built out of famous materials that can scale down to a few nanometers but can still activate with low energy, points out Ars Technica. Also important is the neurons’ stochasticity, which means their ability to always generate slightly different, random results, like biological neurons. Organic neurons have membranes acting as signal gates that take a definite amount of energy to absorb....

Whether you’re nine or ninety years old, there aren’t too many people in the world who don’t enjoy sitting down to complete a jigsaw puzzle. In fact, over the past year, jigsaw puzzle sales have surged to a new all-time high as millions of people were locked inside around the world, forced to find new ways to keep themselves entertained. One US-based puzzle maker even saw their sales increase by 370% year on year!...

PhoneArena were the first one to receive a pair of leaked photos that show the front and back side of the device. From the looks of it, it seems like a fully functional version of Android. The new phone still looks like a OnePlus production; however, there are quite a few clear differences between the original one and this model. While the front of OnePlus 2 appears to be very much alike its predecessor One Plus One, the rear side of the smartphone seems clearly not to be same as it has a vertical panel in the middle that accommodates the camera and the rumoured fingerprint scanner....

The issue was first brought to notice by a user Sunfox on the official Norton Community forum on Friday evening with the following message: As per Sunfox, the Internet Explorer 11 worked normally after uninstalling the Norton Internet Security suite which means that the auto-updated dated 20.2.2015 was at fault. Sunfox was joined by many users who faced the same issue until Norton employee Nikhil_CV came up with commented on the forum that Norton had fixed the issue : Any ideas?...

The hacking contest held over last weekend – October 16 and 17 – saw China’s top hackers take part in the Tianfu Cup 2021 International Cyber Security Competition – the country’s top hacking competition – to test some of the world’s popular software products and operating systems. For those unaware, prior to 2018, Chinese experts had successfully dominated Pwn2Own, the world’s largest hacking contest, by winning the competition years in a row....

While searching for free games, movies, software, and applications you might have stumbled upon the popular freeware website Softonic. Founded in 1997, Softonic serves millions of users every month. Over the past few years, questions regarding the safety and legality of Softonic have been raised regularly. So let’s see whether Softonic is safe and legal to download freeware. What Is Softonic? What Is Softonic?Is Softonic Safe And Legal to Use?...

Judge Tugendhat also rubbished Googles claim that the relevant data was not private as it was anonymized. The Judge ruled that being Anonymized does not mean private. The privacy activists are partly happy with the ruling however Google said it will appeal against the ruling in higher courts.

The Followers who have mistakenly clicked the link should change their password, and warn their followers in case Direct messages and tweets were sent by the malicious apps, through their Accounts.The Malicious links like these are very common on twitter, most of which reads to “get free followers”, and once a victim clicks on it, his/her Twitter Account is compromised and starts sending Tweets/Direct Messages containing the malicious payload to the followers of the person....

Kaspersky says that the hack attack was so sophisticated that it was almost impossible to find that the networks had been breached. Eugene Kaspersky, the company’s CEO described the attack as “almost invisible” and said the software was so sophisticated it could have cost $10m “maybe more” to build it and support it. According to Kaspersky, the attack on it used three previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities to breach its systems, and left very few traces in the aftermath....

In fact, due to its simplicity and a humungous collection of torrent files, Kickass Torrents outperforms many popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing torrent sites and torrent search engines in multiple aspects. The original KAT site was banned in 2016, however many look-alikes kickass proxy sites, and mirrors appeared after its shut down. Even the original staff of the Kickass team tried to revive Kickass movie torrents at a new address katcr....

After the takeover of its mobile devices division by Microsoft, the Finnish-based technology company can re-enter the smartphone market only after 2016, as per their agreement. Once Nokia’s contract with Microsoft ends, the company can sell smartphones that do not run on the Windows Mobile platform and it would be free to launch its own Android-powered smartphones. A bunch of leaked images that have surfaced online recently hint that the company has already started to work on an Android-powered smartphone, dubbed the Nokia C1....

For the uninitiated, Geohot, is a hacker known for unlocking the iPhone, allowing the phone to be used with other wireless carriers. This was done in a time when AT&T’s and Apple advertised hack proof qualities of iPhone. He developed the limera1n jailbreak tool and bootrom exploit for iOS, which forms the basis of Jailbreak tools even today. He is also noted for his technical efforts and publicity with reverse engineering the PlayStation 3 video game console, and for subsequently being sued by and settling with Sony....

LG said that the Band Play variant announced in Korea is a single-SIM device with 4G LTE connectivity but a dual-SIM variant should also be in the works. LG also stated that LG Band has a powerful 1-Watt loudspeaker for clear sound and Band Play buyers will also get LG’s QuadBeat headset within bundled with the smartphone. LG Band Play comes with 2GB RAM onboard and 16GB internal memory which is expandable via microSD slot....

On Thursday, the section that went live on the App Store is meant to pay tribute to the June 28, 1969 Stonewall riots that served as one of the most famous historical events that lead to the gay liberation movement. App Store visitors will find books, apps, TV shows, movies and podcasts that represent the LGBT community. In “Philadelphia,” a gay lawyer with AIDS who gets expelled, and finds help suing his former company and “Milk”, a biography of Harvey Milk’s struggles as a gay activist who became first openly elected gay official in California are some of the more famous movies that are included....