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After a preliminary investigation, the company said that no user information or money held in Tenpay ewallets was stolen. Users in China use Tenpay to purchase goods and services from right inside the app. Tencent in a blog post wrote, “A security flaw was recently discovered affecting iOS users only on WeChat version 6.2.5. This flaw, based on an external hack attempt, has been repaired and will not affect users who install or upgrade WeChat version 6....

Recently, the Vectra Networks researchers carried out an experiment in which they transformed a D-Link DCS 930L webcam into a backdoor device. “Consumer-grade IoT products can be easily manipulated by an attacker, used to steal an organization’s private information, and go undetected by traditional security solutions,” said Gunter Ollmann, CSO of Vectra Networks. “While many of these devices are low-value in terms of hard costs, they can affect the security and integrity of the network, and teams need to keep an eye on them to reveal any signs of malicious behavior....

As with completing any online transactions you need some basic online security and follow sensible protocol: – First up, always have an up to date malware or virus scanner. This will depend on what operating system you are running and if you want to pay for the scanner, but there are reliable free ones up to the task. – Never type in your credit card details into a dodgy looking websites and without the little secure padlock symbol in the address bar....

If your Windows 10 run PC or laptop is crashing suddenly, somebody is using a Windows 10 zero-day against it. The exploit was released in the wild on Github allowing anybody with technical knowledge to crash thousands of Windows 10 run PCs and laptops with a BSOD screen. The Zero-day was discovered by a researcher that goes by PythonResponder on Twitter, and who published proof-of-exploit code for it on GitHub on Wednesday....

However Windows users still lack few of the features which they think should be enabled with their Windows OS. One of which is, feature which can enabled is to add “colors to folders” or to add different colors to different folders in Windows run PC. You may think what is the use of “adding colors to Folder in Windows”, well colored folders looks more attractive and are easier to navigate....

The Switch The switch as we’ve mentioned locks the drive such that one cannot carry out any write actions on it. You can still read the files on the drive however. This switch when set to locked, will keep the files on the drive safe from deletion and an accidental format. At times, you might be able to hit the delete operation, but the next time you check, the files will still be there....

Not all Webmasters have heard of SQL Injection. I know you will say? Who wants to hack my website? Or , Nobody is going to hack my site? You would be hacked if you are really ignorant, because it did not happened yet, so it is better to prevent these attacks, you will see that it is not difficult at all.How does SQL Injection works?SQL injection is possible based on user input (POST, GET)With SQL Injection Hacker’s can install a / delete / edit data, soI can do everything with your database, and control it....

Specs: HTC Desire 826 sports a 5.5 inch Super LCD 3 display with a Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 which gives a pixel density of 401ppi. It is powered by a 1.5GHz octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor with 2GB RAM and Adreno 405 GPU. HTC Desire 826 will have 16GB internal storage and can be expanded further to 128GB via microSD expansion slot. For creativity, the Desire 826 comes with a 13MP rear camera and a 4 UltraPixel front shooter on the lines of HTC One M8....

The Arc brand, which is reportedly designed to compete with Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon, will cover hardware, software and services. It will span multiple hardware generations, with the first generation, based on the Xe HPG microarchitecture, code-named Alchemist (formerly known as DG2). The chip-maker had also revealed the code names of future generations under the Arc brand: Battlemage, Celestial and Druid. Now, YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead (via Videocardz) has posted some leaked images of the engineering samples....

The ATMs installed by Unocoin does not require any banking partnerships and are stand-alone machines that can accept and dispense cash. “We at Unocoin have always believed in serving our customers with the best of their interest and with the most secure services. Since December 2013, our team has been serving the Indian bitcoin and blockchain community by continuously innovating and making ways for a smoother and wider experience,” the company said in a post on its official website....

Launched on November 5, 2013 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission, also known as Mangalyaan, was made on a small budget in comparison to other space missions. Launched at around the same time, NASA’s Maven Mars orbiter mission had cost about $671 million, whereas India’s Mars Orbiter Mission is said to cost about $74 million. From the time it’s been launched, MOM has gathered something of a cult following and been a success story for the ISRO....

In an announcement made on August 16, 2016, the U.S. National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) said it was ready to surrender control over the Internet domain name system (DNS) infrastructure to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit organization effective October 1, 2016. The DNS is basically a directory for internet-connected devices that helps translate domain names to numerical IP addresses. In other words, it is responsible for holding and pairing web addresses or its URL to its respective servers....

Anzhou states that Apple is developing a set of wireless “EarPods,” the brand name for the company’s own iPhone earphones. Instead of plugging in headphones through the jack, iPhone 7 users would have to either use wireless headphones or buy a pair of special Lightning headphones. Feng notes that Lightning headphones will be the wired alternative option, but Apple ‘expects’ most people to move to wireless particularly if Apple starts bundling wireless EarPods with the iPhone 7 as suggested....

— qwertyoruiop (@qwertyoruiopz) May 23, 2016 This however does not ensure that the jailbreak will be available to iPhone users around the world. Because, Todesco has similarly hacked the security system of previous iOS 9.3 versions but has not released the tools to public. However this time, Todesco may release the exploit to popular hacking groups like Team Pangu and Taig which could help in release a public version of iOS 9....

The illusion dubbed as “curvature blindness” is described and explained in the journal i-Perception, which provides scientific breakdown and analysis of the optical illusion. It describes how a wavy line can be perceived as a zigzag line on a white, grey and black background. “Here, we report a novel illusion —— Curvature Blindness Illusion —— that will provide novel implications for contour perception, in particular, for the underlying mechanisms of curve and corner perception,” Takahashi wrote....

Known as Everykey, it is basically an encrypted digital master key that will keep your password protected accounts safe with a simple mobile app. “Instead of carrying a bulky keychain and remembering a list of passwords, we want your access control to be something you don’t have to think about,” said McAfee in a press release . Describing his device as a “f***ing game changer”, McAfee says that when Everykey is in range of bluetooth enabled devices and accounts, it acts as a password and login manager....

Unquestionably, PDF is one of the mainstream document formats that’s used for everything ranging from educational ebooks to important banking statements. If you use, create, edit, combine, organize, annotate or even convert PDF files then it’s important to have a reliable PDF management application. Well, PDF Reader is a feature-packed PDF editing program that’s developed by Kdan Mobile and it simply gets the job done. In this article, we have shared a detailed review of Kdan PDF Reader followed by the three most noteworthy features of this program....

The new 4.05 kernel exploit dubbed as “namedobj” allows users to run arbitrary code on the gaming console, facilitating jailbreaking and kernel-level modifications to the system. However, the developer specifies that in the kernel exploit release there is no code related to the violation of the anti-piracy systems of PlayStation 4 and the execution of homebrew software. But this release can be used by other developers to create their own exploit including jailbreak....

Looks like Nokia will live up to its reputation of bringing the best to its smartphone buyers. The yesteryears smartphone king recently confirmed that it would be making its return to the smartphone business with Nokia Android smartphones somewhere in March 2017. According to the reports, Nokia’s Android smartphone will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Spain in late February. HMD Global, a Finnish company that currently holds the right over Nokia’s logo has already unveiled the first new Nokia device – the Nokia 150 feature phone....