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Amimon’s believes its Racing Drone FALCORE is the future of drone racing. Its patented “Shield” mode, automatically puts the drone in hover, allowing drone enthusiasts of all levels to fly without fear of crashing. If you are from my generation you probably remember the first remote control airplane. It was the first evolution of allowing us normal folk to feel like pilots. But as we have seen, technology knows no bounds, and drones, as well as UAVs, become the new trend....

Bill Gates, who was named the richest person in 2017 Forbes list with a net worth of US$86 billion, said he is often asked for career advice by young graduates. Artificial intelligence, energy and biosciences are “promising fields where you can make a huge impact,” he said on that is what he would advice today’s graduating college students. “It’s what I would do if starting out today,” Gates said in a series of tweets on Monday that ranged from what to study to the importance of giving back to society....

The hacker posted message to “Free Kashmir” and wrote “Pakistan Zindabad” on the website. the Message began with, LK Advani and his associates were busy campaigning for the party in Vellore and were not aware of the incident, neither did any staff of Advani’s office knew about the hacking until they were informed of the same. It has to be noted that all the political parties are busy with the last leg of campaigning for Elections 2014 in India....

Alain Philippon who is Quebec resident, believes his cell phone is personal. So when Canadian border agents wanted to search it, he says no. What happens next? Well, he gets arrested. Alain Philippon who is a Canadian national had arrived at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Canada from Dominican Republic and was stopped by border agents. The border agents wanted to access his smartphone, Philippon refused to give them the passcode and he was promptly arrested....

This major upgrade for desktop, server, and cloud users places particular emphasis on stability and performance improvements. The LTS in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS “Focal Fossa” stands for Long-Term Support. Since this is an LTS release, it will receive 5 years of official support from Canonical, unlike most non-LTS releases versions that only get nine months of free support. According to the company, Focal Fossa uses GNOME 3.36 for its default desktop, which includes a dark theme, new lock screens, an improved shell theme, font improvements, faster performance, a Do Not Disturb toggle feature, and an enhanced settings panel....

Chinese Hackers Target Japanese Bank Accounts more than $16 million stolen in 6 monthsCyber scamsCase of a foot soldier, Dai Wan Japanese police have manage little headway in busting this cyber crime groups and have so far managed only 133 arrests most of whom are foot soldiers or couriers who have been tasked with withdrawal of the money after the cyber scams have been completed. “We see a very deep Chinese connection in these cyber theft cases,” says Arichika Eguchi, the police agency’s director of cybercrime investigations....

Therefore, more and more people have been looking for a way to transform the Blu-ray or DVD to other digital formats for watching and permanent preservation. But there exists a big problem, Blu-ray/DVD producers from all over the world implement encryption to the discs to prevent others from ripping. Is there a way to work it out? Of course, using Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is a good choice. Being the best Blu-ray/DVD decryption tool, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is good at decrypting the encrypted Blu-ray/DVD discs....

CurrentC hackedBelow, is the email being shared with these users, in its entirety:About CurretC In a email sent to its users, CurrentC acknowledged that in the last 36 hours, unauthorized third parties (hackers) compromised the CurrentC servers and obtained the email addresses of some of its CurrentC pilot program participants and other individuals who had expressed interest in the App. MCX, the owner of CurrentC has notified all its merchant partners about the data breach and is in process of communicating directly with those testers whose email ids may have been stolen by the hackers....

Techworm team researched how Bihar’s businesses who are linked to the infamous coal mafia and some insiders are cheating on the Bihar Government and several small businessman to appropriate tax worth many crores by stealing identities. The identity theft scam involves using the unique Tax Identification Number (TIN) provided by the state government. A businessman from Bihar, who wishes to remain anonymous, accessed the Commercial Tax Department, Government of Bihar portal to find out the outstanding tax on sales for the current year....

As part of the regular sweep over the Deep Web and Dark Web, Cyble researchers came across an interesting item, where a threat actor posted 2.3GB (zipped) file on one of the hacking forums carrying details of the job seekers’ personal data. “Cyble researchers have identified a sensitive data breach on the darkweb where an actor has leaked personal details of ~29 Million Indian Job Seekers from the various states,” Cyble wrote in a blog post last week....

Default Android Browser SOP bypass flawOnly Android default browsers affectedProof of ConceptSOP bypass flaw patched in Android KitKat 4.4 and aboveOlder Android >4.4 users still vulnerable?Vulnerable Smartphones Only Android default browsers affected The vulnerability of same-origin policy (SOP) bypass affects only the default Android browser. The vulnerability is in how Javascript is handled by the Android function responsible for loading frame URLs. Normally in any browser, the SOP is prevents the JavaScript on one page or tab to from accessing data/content on another page/tab....

You may have often heard about both Unix and Linux operating systems. In today’s world, Linux is more famous than Unix but Unix has its own users. While Linux is an open source, free to use operating system widely used for computer hardware and software, game development, tablet PCS, mainframes, Unix is a proprietary operating system commonly used in internet servers, workstations and PCs by Solaris, Intel, HP etc. Unix is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, developed in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others....

In a thread on Apple’s Support Communities, several users describe a similar problem. According to them, the phone’s TouchID-equipped control regularly becomes ‘burning hot’, making the device not only uncomfortable, but at times impossible to use. However, the problem would go away after holding the home and lock buttons for 10 seconds, resetting the phone. Owners vented their frustration by voicing their displeasure on Twitter. “This morning, when I woke up, the home button was burning hot and the screen is just black,” says one Twitter user....

Today, SpaceX announced that it will build a one-mile test track at half-scale next to its headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif, which will be finished within a year. Simultaneously, SpaceX is starting a pod design-build competition that is open-sourced and accessible to anyone who submits a filled form on SpaceX’s new Hyperloop web site. The last day to enroll for the competition is September 15. SpaceX will send technical guidelines in details in August....

The Harry Potter series star, Emma Watson, 24 was threatened by internet trolls as soon as she addressed the UN headquarters in New York in September to launch the HeForShe campaign, aimed at raising awareness about sexism and violence against women. Readers will remember that the threat against Emma came just days within the leaking of ‘iCloud hacks,’ images of the Hollywood celebrities like Hunger Games star, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, and countless others....

These malicious mobile apps, which disguised themselves as photo editors, games, VPN services, business apps, and other utilities were listed on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store. These apps stole the login details of around 1 million users. According to Meta, malicious photo editors apps accounted for the most downloads at 42.6%, followed by mobile apps like Business Utility (15.4%), Phone Utility (14.1%), Game (11.7%), VPN (11.7%), and Lifestyle (4....

Facebook vulnerability allows hackers to take admin control of the business pages on FacebookPage Takeover :Removing VictimProof of concept video : Detailing his findings on his blog, Laxman has stated that if the vulnerability is exploited, the hacker can take over admin privileges of a Facebook page and remove the victim. By default Facebook application interface do not allow third party applications to add or modify page admin roles (page roles like manager, editor, analyst etc....

Facebook announced today it was pushing out some “query packs” on its code page that would enable security researchers to look for signs of Hacking Team infection. These query packs form part of Facebook’s “osquery”, a free and open source framework that can be used to gather network data and quickly ask questions to uncover potential security threats. It’s part of the social network’s own security defences and was updated recently to protect against some critical Apple Mac and iPhone vulnerabilities....

Many sad and lovelorn souls turn to Facebook to vent their feelings and get help. In most cases, posts from such people cannot be brought to the notice of proper authorities for the fear of revealing identity. Facebook’s suicide prevention tool will let all users around the globe report such cases anonymously. Facebook’s tool works like a regular button. When you come across a post that seeps of sadness and looks potential suicidal, you can tag the post to Facebook which will reach out to that friend and offer a helpline or supporting materials to guide them through their difficult time....