With hundreds of apps (free and paid) available for download from Google Play Store, we have selected some of the Android apps that a beginner should have on their smartphone. In no particular order, given below are the top 5 Android apps for beginners. Kindly note that the apps given below are based on user needs, download rates, and reviews. However, this list could vary for each person depending on their need....
“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. However, over a period of time, hacking has a more negative implication, as black hat hackers have caused irreparable damage by breaking into secure networks to destroy, modify, or steal data; or to make the network unusable for those who are authorized to use the network....
Torii, an autonomous SaaS management platform, enables IT teams to: gain visibility into SaaS usage improve internal workflows consolidate SaaS governance and budget data automate various routine tasks This allows you to better manage how much your organization spends on which tools and makes it easier to reduce security and compliance risks. In this article, we’ll explain how IT managers can use Torii to find out which SaaS applications their organization uses most, which ones are being renewed needlessly, and much more....
The resurrection must’ve been a blow to Swedish authorities; action against torrent sites is far from over. Investigation into The Pirate Bay and former operator Fredrik Neij is in process, while the police have struck again in the notorious torrent site’s backyard. This case is similar to December’s raid, where local authorities where providing a bare minimum of details. Mats Ljungqvist, a prosecutor said “We have made ??significant seizures, but I will not say more than that....
Possibly the most condemning charge against DEA officer Carl Mark Force IV which involves the undercover officer secretly screwed with the investigation to make money. The complaint says Force tried to extort Dread Pirate Roberts by saying he’d give the government information unless DPR paid $250,000. The complaint also says that Force created a persona called “French Maid” and convinced DPR to pay “French Maid” $100,000 for information on the government’s investigation....
Ever since it was reported that the yesteryears smartphone king is going to make a comeback with Android-run smartphone, people have been keenly awaiting for more news on that front. We had reported that Nokia will be entering the smartphone market again with two smartphones running on Android, one of which will be called Nokia P1. The primary reason, buyers are awaiting Nokia Android smartphones is that they still remember the ruggedness of Nokia 3310 and other feature phones that the company sold in olden times....
The woman in question is Tamara Fields whose husband, Lloyd Fields was killed in November last year in an attack on the police training center in Amman. She has also alleged that despite knowing that ISIS had accounts on Twitter, the social network failed to take appropriate steps and allowed them to remain on it, which gave them power to spread propaganda and raise money to attract new foreign fighters....
Ubuntu forum was used by Linux devs, Ubuntu users and aficionados to discuss the bugs, flaws, upcoming builds and other general Linux talk. “There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums site. We take information security and user privacy very seriously, follow a strict set of security practices and this incident has triggered a thorough investigation. Corrective action has been taken, and full service of the Forums has been restored....
IP addresses are nothing but the four-number strings like 74.125.224.72 that one sometimes see in the browser’s address bar or in the smartphone’s system settings, or that one may have to type into the cable modem or WiFi router. For example, 74.125.224.72, is the address that should take you to Google. ARIN has now activated its “IPv4 Unmet Requests Policy.” Basically, it said that it was sorry, but if you want all of those requested addresses, you can take a smaller block or wait on ARIN’s waiting list until they somehow become free or buy them on the open market....
UPI’s feed said that the Pope said World War III had begun and the New York Post’s business section Twitter feed mentioned that Bank of America’s CEO was calling for calm after a Federal Reserve decision. Series of Identical tweets were posted to the feeds of the New York Post and United Press International which involved “active combat” between U.S. and Chinese navy vessels in the South China sea. Jenny Tartikoff, a spokeswoman for the NYPost said the hacks are being looked into....
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that the Obama Administration is preparing “unprecedented” economic sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals who benefit from the cyber theft of valuable U.S. trade secrets. The newspaper, citing several unidentified Obama administration officials, said that they will arrive at a final decision on whether to issue the sanctions as early as next two weeks. United States has long been bearing the brunt of cyber attacks against its assets allegedly by Chinese hackers sponsored by the government....
“Home or office break-in – Your home or office has been invaded by burglars looking for valuable personal information in order to steal your identity. They see an innocuous-looking USB drive next to your computer and hope to gain access to its data. However, it’s not an ordinary flash stick. After inserting USB Killer into the computer the USB port is burned out, protecting you and your information.” That is not the only scenario where USB KILLER will save your life....
As for the specs, this phone is a dual SIM smartphone. It comes with a 5-inch screen, which has a IPS panel that displays its visuals in a FWVGA resolution of 480 X 854 pixels. It runs the Android 4.4.2 KitKat OS. It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad core processor chipset at its core, which is granted assistance in its operations by 1GB worth of RAM. It also offers 8GB internal storage, which can be expandable up to 32GB via microSD, as the phone offers a hybrid microSD slot....
We know that Google images can provide us with any photo, but we need to write the keyword or the terms associated with it to be able to proceed with the search. While in using a reverse image search tool we will just provide a sample image. It is helpful in locating the source of an image or the content creator, search for the image in terms of popularity, extract details that are related to an image, look for similar images that have higher resolution, locate the web pages where the photo is displayed, and look for manipulated versions of the image....
According to a new report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has added the new pause/resume button on the voice recording bar in place of the stop button on Android devices. This new pause button will be visible to the users when they swipe up after pressing the record button. The same button will be used to unpause and resume the recording. The new pause and resume voice recording feature is particularly helpful where there is a disturbance or interruption in between in case of long recordings....
We have published many tutorials for hackers and security researchers. You may have noticed that most tutorials are based on Linux operating systems. Even the hacking tools out there are based on Linux barring a few which are written for Windows and Mac. The moot question here is that why do hackers prefer Linux over Mac or Windows? Today we look at the reason why hackers always prefer Linux over Mac, Windows, and other operating systems....
As software designers have known for decades, any cognitive task that is repetitive, and algorithmic can be replicated in a computer. The elegance in software and what often makes-or-breaks it in the real word is in the human-computer interface. This discipline involves efficiently offloading repetitive tasks to the computer, and efficiently interpreting the results. As J.C.R. Licklider explained in his groundbreaking 1960 essay Man-Computer Symbiosis, the more seamless this translation task can become, the more likely it is computers will be able to aid us in our cognitive tasks and extend our decision-making capacities....
He has developed a WiFi social engineering tool that is designed to steal credentials from users of secure Wi-Fi networks. The WiFiPhisher software tool works on Kali Linux and requires a wireless interface that is capable of injection. The tool spits de-authorization packets at a legitimate access points jamming it and prompting users to inspect available networks. Users will see the malicious network masquerading as their trusted access point. This nature of this technique is called the Evil twin....
Users complain about Touch ID not working in App Store with the new updateFixes in iOS 8.3WiFi / Bluetooth FixesUI fixesMessaging App fixesFamily SharingIssues with the update The most obvious are additions in Apple iOS 8.3 are emoji and CarPlay. The default keyboard’s emoji selector has been updated with a scrollable list view, categories, and a skin tone picker for each face. A few brand-new emoji resemble Apple’s family of products — the iPhone, iMac, and Apple Watch....
Researchers from the University of Stuttgart, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF, achieved a new world record in wireless data transmission by sending the contents of a conventional DVD in under ten seconds using radio waves. In other words, they have set a new record in wireless transmission using millimetre-waves to transmit at a data rate of 6 Gigabit per second over a distance of 37 kilometers, which is 10 times faster than any data transmission method....
