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Connect to password protected Wi-Fi hotspots for free with Instabridge App for Android smartphones, iOS devices, Windows and Mac PCs/laptopsSetting up Instabridge on your Android smartphone/iPhone/Windows PC/Mac PC Luckily, for you there is a way through which you can get free Internet connection. An app called “Instabridge” offers you free Wi-Fi connection. Instabridge works through crowdsourcing and lists of user-submitted WiFi connections to let others access them for free. So far, thousands of network credentials have been added to the database so it is very likely that you could find a network near to you and join it for free....

The hacker announced the data leak on Twitter and posted a link to a PasteBin URL where he wrote that the leak was aimed at raising awareness “about what happens when you decide not to even add a username and password as root or check for open ports.” The users also can find a statement regarding his reasons behind the hack, screenshots from all the hacked servers, and several links from where users can download the data....

Not many will have the courage to open so many tabs on their smartphones but one Redditor, Hamsna, tried just that and guess what Google Chrome threw up when he opened the 100th tab. It threw up a laughing smiley Hamsna made his finding public on Reddit much to the amusement of other reddittors. This is a novel Chrome Easter Egg built in by the engineers. Perhaps this is Google’s way of saying you are doing way too much experimenting....

The internet giant on Wednesday announced in a blog post that it has updated its Google for Jobs platform, which is integrated into Google’s search engine. The new function will now let users add salary-related information, location settings and job application choices based on which the details about open position will display in the Search results. “Now, based on feedback from job seekers, we’re introducing some new features to help make the process more efficient....

Google hired “Larry Gadea” a ‘brilliant’ Silicon Valley kid at the age of 18- now his setup serves more than 1,000 businesses and just scored $15 millionA successful entrepreneur built software called “Envoy” which announced a $15 million Series AINVESTMENT. When Gadea was 8 years old he started doing programming and he used to love computers a lot. He was already writing games in high school. He developed plug-in for Google Desktop Search that put him on Google’s radar....

Google ordered to assist Marvel in finding Josh Gazelle, the leaker of Avengers: Age of Ultron Teaser TrailerThe Ruling A certain user ‘Josh Gazelle’ has been identified as the leaker of the trailer. Marvel has cited that this leak caused significant damage to Marvel and its Avenger’s movie in terms of money and publicity. The Ruling The court has accepted Marvel Comics plea and ordered Google to to help Marvel search for the individual ‘Josh Gazelle’ who has been attributed to the leaking of the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie trailer, according to a subpoena issued by the US District Court for the Northern District of California....

The new experiment ‘Keen’ has been developed as part of Area 120, Google`s workshop for experimental projects, in close collaboration with a team at Google called People and AI Research (PAIR), which is dedicated to human-centered machine learning systems. Keen, which is a web and Android app, lets the users create their own version of Pinterest’s board. “On Keen, you say what you want to spend more time on, and then curate content from the web and people you trust to help make that happen,” wrote CJ Adams, Co-founder of Keen in a blog post....

The win came in the first tie of the five-match series being held in Seoul, South Korea. The tournament, “Google Deepmind Challenge match”, started on March 8 and will conclude on March 15. “Lee resigned after about three-and-a-half hours, with 28 minutes and 28 seconds remaining on his clock. The series is the first time a professional 9-dan Go player has taken on a computer, and Lee is competing for a $1 million prize,” The Verge’s Sam Byford reported Lee is a South Korean professional Go player....

And the results are pretty dismal. Only six companies out of the 16 put to test, scored at least 50 percent of the total possible points to indicate that they have good digital protection mechanism. Out of the six, Google was a distant leader with the highest score of 65 percent. It is followed by Yahoo with 50 percent, Microsoft with 50 percent and Twitter making it at 50 percent....

‘A sweet Lollipop, with a kevlar wrapping: New security features in Android 5.0‘Android 5.0 lollipopMany Screen LocksEnd to end encryptionSecurity Enhanced LinuxFactory Reset Protection Android 5.0 lollipop The entire blogpost on the Official Android can be surmised in three features which will enhance the security of the Android 5.0 users in future. Many Screen Locks It is a well known fact that most Android users dont user the screen lock facility despite it being available on all Android OS generations....

Facebook is apparently under attack from the Great Cannon, the hacking and censuring tool clandestinely used by the Chinese government. The hack attack follows a simple method, redirect and confuse users so that they dont visit Facebook. Even the sites that are using Facebook Connect login widget are not spared. Sites using the Facebook Connect login widget are seeing their traffic hijacked or redirected to the above two websites. Incidentally, neither of the above two sites have any remotest connection with the PLA or the Chinese governement; wpkg....

That’s what happened when a hacker deceived Facebook gained access to someone else’s account. The hacker posing as a user reportedly got in touch with Facebook to seek assistance to access his account, as he was unable to do so. He provided them with a fake ID and requested the tech giant to turn off login approvals. It was no surprise that the hacker was able to get Facebook to grant access to the account....

The site, DLH.net, that provides news, reviews, cheat codes, and boards, was breached on July 31 by an unnamed hacker. While the name of the hacker is not known, it is speculated that it is the same hacker responsible for an earlier compromise of a Dota 2 forum that resulted in the theft of nearly two million user accounts record. According to breach notification site LeakedSource.com, that received a copy of the stolen database, says the DLH....

Last weekend, a user on GitHub claimed to have obtained the source for AMD’s Navi 10, Navi 21 and Arden GPU devices, where the latter is slated to be used in the upcoming Xbox Series X video game console. AMD has filed at least two DMCA notices against GitHub repos that contained the stolen source code and have forced the development platform to remove the files for violating the chip maker’s copyrights....

As many as 200,000 websites use Magento e-commerce platform, which is owned by eBay. The security companies have warned the owners and webmasters using Magento’s e-commerce platform to ensure they’re using its latest software. Check Point, which found the flaw, reported it to Magento, which issued a patch (SUPEE-5344) on Feb. 9. Since Check Point revealed the flaw earlier this week, it appears attackers have picked up on it and are trying to find unpatched applications....

The leaked information includes customer’s details such as credit card number, expiration dates, 3-digit card verification value (CVV) number, cardholder’s name, associated bank name, card type, physical address, email address, Social Security number, phone number, according to a report by BleepingComputer. This free data dump of 1,221,551 credit/debit cards can be used by threat actors to carry out phishing campaigns, financial fraud, and even identity theft. While most of the credit cards belonged to users from the United States, the remaining belonged to users from Australia, Brazil, China, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom....

Bitdefender analysts recently uncovered a series of attacks that leverage office tools and image-editing software cracks to compromise computers, hijack crypto-currency wallets, and exfiltrate information via the TOR network. “Once executed, the crack drops an instance of ncat.exe (a legitimate tool to send raw data over the network) as well as a TOR proxy,” said Bitdefender’s Bogdan Botezatu, Director of Threat Research and Reporting and Security Researcher Eduard Budaca in a blog post....

This year another hacking group Phantom Squad has promise to do something similar and spoil gamers holidays. They announced on Twitter that they will take down the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for Christmas. For the past week, hacker group Phantom Squad has been issuing threats to knock out both systems’ online services with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. “We are going to shut down Xbox live and PSN this year on Christmas....

However, now there is a new open source project to get iMessage up and running on your Android smartphones. It isn’t easy, and it’s only partially functional at present. This is not an official application from Apple, so don’t get too excited just yet. Dubbed as PieMessage, it enables cross-platform iMessage support that allows Android users to communicate using Apple’s iPhone messaging platform. The PieMessage project was put together by GitHub user Eric Chee, the app developer, and to complete it you’ll need a Mac and an Android phone....