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“While we have always taken steps to secure accounts that we believe to have been compromised, we decided to show this additional warning if we have a strong suspicion that an attack could be government-sponsored,” Facebook CSO Alex Stamos explained. Stamos did not elaborate which nation was sponsoring the accounts or how the Facebook users are targeted. Facebook has their own methods and processes that they want to keep secret so that attackers can’t find a way to pass their hacking attempts as generic ones....

Considering the huge audience that it caters to, it is bound to get a lot of things right. However, in this article, we are going to concentrate on what it gets wrong. Here are some of the most common WhatsApp problems on Android and their solutions. I cannot install WhatsApp In order to download the latest version of WhatsApp, you need to have a smartphone running Android version 2.1 or higher (Note, Android 2....

The Washington Post today reports that it was able to, with the help of professional hackers exploit a security flaw in the iPhone that was previously unknown, and then used it to access the device linked to terror suspect Syed Rizwan Farook. It is reported that the unnamed group of hackers was given a one-off fee to break into the iPhone. Neither the nature of the exploit is unknown, nor the financials involved....

Andrew Nikishin, Head of Future Technology Projects at Kaspersky Lab, has given a detailed explanation on this controversial topic: “As a fairly frequent flyer, I had mixed feelings about the news that modern planes can be hacked. Readers who are not familiar with how modern planes operate might get the impression that an intruder with a laptop can easily seize full control of a plane. In reality, that isn’t quite the case....

Here are the best solutions you can try to fix the problem. Despite being designed for Apple’s hardware AirPods work flawlessly with Windows 11 PCs & Laptops. That said, audio issues with Airpods on Windows 11 are still quite common. Consequently, we have shared some of the best working solutions to fix problems such as AirPods Connected But No Sound On Windows 11 and Airpods Low Volume On Windows 11....

What’s more worrying is that this attack does not require the victim’s interaction and can be performed almost automatically. For those unaware, TeamViewer is a popular software application developed by the German company TeamViewer GmbH, for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Chrome OS, Android, iOS, Windows RT, Windows Phone 8, and BlackBerry operating systems....

Jonathan Nightingale, a former General Manager and Vice President of the Firefox group at Mozilla, said that Google was the company’s biggest partner during his 8-year tenure at Mozilla. “Our revenue share deal on search drove 90% of Mozilla’s income,” he tweeted. However, in a series of tweets that followed Nightingale described the changes and issues between Google and Mozilla that happened after the release of Google Chrome. “When I started at Mozilla in 2007 there was no Google Chrome, and most folks we spoke with inside [Google] were Firefox fans,” Nightingale mentioned in a Twitter thread on April 13....

But there is some good news for BayFiles fans. The BayFiles website that was dead in 2014 has been brought back to life this week by an anonymous group of ‘privacy-oriented’ people who toyed with the idea of relaunching it. While the new operators have acquired the site’s domains and logotype from TPB co-founder Fredrik Neij, aka TiAMO, the website will start from scratch since all the old data and its potential users have gone....

According to reports from Russian newspaper Kommersant, Korobov downloaded a piece of software named Arcadia, which included critical information about the working of Yandex’s search engine. He attempted to sell it to an electronics retailer called NIX, where a friend of his allegedly worked. He also checked the darknet in search of potential buyers. Korobov had planned to sell that information for $25,000 (£16,700) and 250,000 rubles (£2,330), but Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested him when he came to a meeting with a potential buyer....

For those unaware, California-based Belkin International, Inc. is best known for creating an array of home networking products and smartphone accessories that are sold throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Asia and Europe. Further, Linksys manufactures networking equipment, Wemo produces home automation equipment, and Phyn sells a product that provides notification for water leaks in your house. With the acquisition, Foxconn hopes to accelerate entry into the smart home market....

French police and two dozen computer experts raided Google’s Paris offices Tuesday in a fraud probe, with the US Internet giant already suspected of owing EUR 1.6 billion ($1.7) in back taxes. The French authorities suspect Google of “aggravated tax fraud and conspiracy to conceal (it),” the national financial prosecution service (PNF) said in a statement. The raids give first clear indications of how European countries will proceed against Google and other tech companies evading paying taxes....

Chrome users are more venerable to this type of attack as the browser doest display the whole URL in its address bar.

According to an FCC document unearthed by Brian Benchoff at Hackaday, the internet giant applied for an experimental radio license to be built in the New Mexico desert. Google has asked FCC to treat some information relating to radio experiments as confidential however Hackaday was able to decipher some of the things in the report. These experiments involve highly directional and therefore high power transmissions at 2.5 GHz, 5.8GHz, 24GHz, 71-76GHz, and 81-86GHz....

This how the researchers worked on the videos, which was no small feat, as mentioned by the researchers in a research paper on the topic. They sorted some 86 million photos by geographic location, then used an automated process to find photos that rallied around the same landmark. Once those images were listed, the photos were then arranged in a chronological order of date and later twisted to create the same perspective to show the changes over time....

Google said that the Android 5.1 will not be a game changer in terms of features update but rather targets security aspects for Android user. Android Platform vice president Dave Burke said in a blog post that most of the new features in the update are just meant to “get more out of your Android phone and tablet.” One of the features which could be interesting is the addition of High Definition voice calling promises “crystal clear calling” between compatible Android 5....

For the unversed, last week, Meta released its video AI generator, “Make-A-Video” which produces videos from text. “Our work aims to generate videos from the text. We introduce Imagen Video, a text-to-video generation system based on video diffusion models that is capable of generating high definition videos with high frame fidelity, strong temporal consistency, and deep language understanding,” Google states in their research paper. Google’s Imagen Video AI, which is still in the development phase, was trained with an “internal dataset” of 60 million image-text pairs and 14 million video-text pairs as well as the LAION-400M image-text dataset....

Google recently warned its users about the incoming exploits coming from state-sponsored hackers from North Korea. The vulnerability was detected by the Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on January 4th this year when they found out about an exploit kit deployed on the browser. The tech giant reported another instance of an attempt on February 10 but from a different North Korean hacking team. As the report reads, these hackers were particularly targeting fintech outlets, U....

In order to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month (October), Google has once again emphasised the need for two-factor authentication to make sign-in safer and more convenient. The company already provides existing security measures such as Google Password Manager, built directly into Chrome, Android, and the Google App to keep passwords safe across all the sites and apps. For iOS devices, users can select Chrome to autofill saved passwords in other apps, and very soon users will be able to take advantage of Chrome’s strong password generation feature for any iOS app....

The Pixel 6a, a first for the A-series of devices, is similar to the Pixel 6, in terms of design, and includes the iconic camera bar as well as a durable metal frame. The new Pixel device will also get the updated Material You design UX that allows you to personalize the look and feel of your phone. Further, the Pixel 6a borrows many features from the premium phones, Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, be it exceptional camera features to speech recognition to security....

According to the agency, Ryan Collins, a 36-year-old Pennsylvania man, hacked into iCloud and Google email accounts of more than 100 people, most of them celebrities. “[Collins] was charged today with felony computer hacking related to a phishing scheme that gave him illegal access to more than 100 Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts, including those belonging to members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles,” according to a statement from the Justice Department....