The smartphone stand alone instant messaging App, WhatsApp is once again in the news due to a certain tool which can break its security features. WhatsSpy Public tool which was recently released can give you status updates of any WhatsApp user, even if privacy options have been enabled. WhatsSpy Public uses the web-based utility to trace the moments of a WhatsApp user and shows them in a dashboard with events being displayed in a timeline....

Do you know why there is a tiny black hole between your iPhone camera and flash?Basically, every iPhone since the iPhone 5 has had a tiny black dot between the lens and flash. Have you ever wondered why it is there and what does it do? Basically, every iPhone since the iPhone 5 has had a tiny black dot between the lens and flash. Have you ever wondered why it is there and what does it do?...

For those unaware, KRACK (short for Key Reinstallation AttaCK) exploited vulnerabilities in the four-way handshake of WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access II) that happens when a client wants to join a protected Wi-Fi network. This will be the first upgrade to the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol since 2006. “Security is a foundation of Wi-Fi Alliance certification programs, and we are excited to introduce new features to the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED family of security solutions”, said Edgar Figueroa, president and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance....

On 11th August, Microsoft released yet another problematic security update for Windows 10. Users running the November 2019 Update (version 1909) and the May 2020 Update (version 2004) are bombarded with new and almost unresolvable errors. In addition to post-installation issues, users are experiencing problems while installing updates. For instance, unique error messages like 0x800f0988, 0x800f081f, and 0x800f08a are popping up while installing the cumulative updates KB4565351 and KB4566782. In this article, we have discussed the aforementioned errors accompanied by some solutions to resolve them....

The informal test was conducted by The Australian, where sets of identical twins tried fooling Windows to provide access to the computer. It seems you can easily trick the Windows 10’s face detection feature, as it wasn’t even fooled once. Six sets of identical twins were part of the experiment and in each case, the procedure was the same. One of the twins would register for the face recognition and set up the account and the other would test it the next time to log into the device....

Users stuck in endless reboot loop sequence due to Windows 10 update KB3081424 errorHow to fix it To end the problem, Microsoft had introduced a trouble shooter package, known as KB3081424, an update which allows a number of bug fixes and driver updates for the new operating system; however, the trouble shooter update has become a trouble maker for many Windows 10 upgraders. Windows 10 automatically goes back to a previous version whenever this happens....

The woman, known as Xiao Yun and now aged 24 year-old, left her family home in Zhejiang, east China, following an argument with her parents when she was 14,The South China Morning Post reports. Presumed dead by her family, she was finally found by police officers on Nov 20 after a routine check on an Internet cafe in the wee hours of the morning. Xiao Yun, who was carrying a fake identity card, was taken to a local police station for questioning where she revealed that she had been living in Internet cafes for the past decade....

According to the SEC filing, “The Board also determined that, following the Closing, it intends to cause the Company’s name to be changed to Altaba Inc.” After the dismal 2016 that Yahoo had, it’s not surprising that the company would want to rebrand itself. At the end of 2016, Yahoo disclosed two separate unauthorized data breaches; one involving some 500 million customer accounts and the second involving over a billion, making it the largest single-company data breaches in history....

NVIDIA and AMD GPUs have never been best of friends, but a startup called Stardock is about to revolutionize the video-card market for PCs and change all that. There are two ways how it will benefit PC gamers; it will make it more affordable and allow virtual reality content to be within reach of millions of consumers. GamesBeat conducted an exclusive interview with CEO Brad Wardell, who laid out the PC utility and gaming company’s initiative for the idea....

“This extra second, or leap second, makes it possible to align astronomical time, which is irregular and determined by Earth’s rotation, with UTC which is extremely stable and has been determined by atomic clocks since 1967,” the IERS (International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service) at the Paris Observatory said in a statement. Countries that use Coordinated Universal Time, which include several West African nations, Britain, Ireland and Iceland will add the leap second during the midnight countdown to 2017 making the year’s final minute of 2016 will last for 61 seconds long....

Trolls and pranksters on the social web are sending iPhone and Android users to a website that causes iPhone as well as Android smartphones to crash. The link which is being circulated by the trolls is crashsafari.co (don’t click!). However some trolls have upped the ante and are obfuscating crashsafari.com using link shortner services like Bit.ly making it pretty difficult for the iPhone and Android users to spot the buggy link....

There is a sizable chunk of computer audience who deserve the best ePUB reader for Windows 10 and earlier PCs to read books on their computers for different reasons and reading leisure. What is ePUB? EPUB is a document format, short form for ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION, published by International Digital Publishing Forum(IDPF) in 2007. What is ePUB?How to open epub files? What is an ePUB reader?10 Best ePUB Readers for Windows 101....

The Internet is full of news sources that are full of hoaxes, politically motivated content, state-sponsored news, and fake stories. Due to the same reason, we need to consume information from unbiased news sources that report factual news. In this article, we have listed the ten best unbiased news sources you can rely on. We have selected all these publications based on broad criteria. For instance, the news sources on this list have been in the journalism industry for years....

Protect your privacy in Mozilla’s Firefox using these 12 cool About:Config tips and tricksHow to access About:Config in Firefox :Tips and Tricks for tweaking Privacy settings in Firefox If you are using Mozilla’s Firefox browser you can add/edit certain features to enhance privacy using the awesome About:Config. The about:config page contains most (if not, all) of Firefox configuration options. It is so far the most effective, and the most powerful way to tweak and enhance your Firefox performance....

A 12 year old girl scores the highest in Mensa IQ test beating Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking!Lydia Sebastian, an Indian origin, British schoolgirl has beaten Einstein and Hawking with her exceptional IQ score in the Mensa IQ test which according to her is ‘pretty easy’.What is this Mensa IQ test and why is it so important: Lydia who is British school girl and from Langham in East Anglia, appeared for her Mensa paper during her school holidays and had scored the highest possible score in this IQ test....

1. Free VPNs may track and sell your data VPNs require special infrastructure such as servers for them to run efficiently. Maintaining the infrastructure is expensive, and like any other business, costs will be incurred. If you have ever wondered how free VPNs make money, here is how: you are the product. Most free VPNs log all your internet activities, and others have been found to have trackers. To make money for maintaining the VPN service, free VPNs (unlike reputable VPN providers) sell your data to third-party organizations....

What is surprising is that each of these VPNs claims to follow a “no-log” policy, which means they do not record any user activity on their respective apps. According to the vpnMentor research team who uncovered the unsecured live server, a massive 1.207 TB of data with 1,083,997,361 records were found exposed to public access. The compromised user data include activity logs, PII (names, emails, home address), cleartext passwords, Bitcoin payment information, support messages, personal device information, tech specs, account info, and direct Paypal API links....

A DDoS attack is a common method for taking down a server by overloading it with requests. Amped Attacks takes down a website and tweets announcing it to the world. He/she uses the hashtag #tangodown in the tweets to announce the downing of website. This a hashtag commonly used by the online hacktivist group, Anonymous. However, other than #tangodown, there doesnt seem to any connection between the hacker and Anonymous....

Facebook said that it would expand its ad network of third-party apps and sites, which it calls Audience Network, to allow advertisers reach people who don’t use Facebook. By providing better and more relevant ads, the company believes that it will help both users and advertisers. Previously, only Facebook users who visited these apps or sites saw the ads. Now, Facebook will attempt to identify and track third-party site visitors with its own mix of cookies, buttons, and plugins, according to The Wall Street Journal....