The suspect was dressed as an Apple employee with a blue shirt and the similar Apple logo on the front. Unsuspected of being a stranger amongst the employees, the thief took the phones right out of a drawer in the store’s repair room. He then passed all the 19 iPhones to his accomplice who reportedly hid the phones under his shirt, and the pair walked out of the store. The store location on the Upper West Side was known as a training location for workers so new faces wouldn’t raise questions....

You can call it an irony of sorts but Yahoo is responsible for its own demise. After making several attempts to reinvent itself since it lost relevance, Yahoo has finally announced that it is selling most of its core services to US telecommunications giant Verizon. Yahoo was one of the companies that defined Internet. In fact, in some ways, Yahoo was the harbinger of the famous Dot.com era when it was valued at over $100 billion....

You can now keep your Facebook clean, secure and private with these 6 simple tips1. Secure your account2. Review your privacy settings3. Make enemies…..or at least unfriend some4. Watch those apps5. Control your data6. Plan ahead As we are in the new year, it is a good time now to do some digital cleanup and get rid of the unwanted games, apps, etc. that you no longer use. Also, it is a good time to review your security and privacy settings to ensure that your casual acquaintances are not receiving intimate details of your life....

Kim has made his USB Killer by combining camera flash parts with AA battery and made it such that the USB pendrive will deliver 300 volts when plugged into an unsuspecting computer. It’s effectively the same as a power surge, but the difference is that most power supplies have protection against those. The inbuilt USB buses in computer/laptop don’t offer the same kind of resistance, and consequently relay the energy to the rest of the computer, instantly killing it....

A hacker has managed to merge two of the most popular games together to bring you a great combo. Super Mario World needs no intro however Flappy Bird may need some introduction. Flappy Bird is a 2013 mobile game, developed by Vietnam-based developer Nguy?n Hà ?ông. The game became immensely popular within a short time so much so that the developer was raking in $50,000 per day from in-App purchases....

During his 20-minute-long commencement speech, Cook shared his personal experiences on meeting Governor George Wallace and President Jimmy Carter while he was teenager living in Alabama, reading history books that did not pay attention to slavery’s role in the Civil Ward, and his first meeting with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the late 1990s. Before Cook joined Apple, he had shared a view in 1997 which said that many view work as boring, hopeless drudgery....

Anonymous lists the top 10 best-ever hackers of all times10. Kevin Poulsen9. Albert Gonzales8. Vladimir Levin7. Robert Tappan Morris6. Michael Calce5. David Smith4. Adrian Lamo3. George Hotz2. Jonathan James1. Gary McKinnon The group who have released an album of the top 10 best-ever hackers, wrote: “Although sufferers of Asperger’s tend to have difficulty in social situations, they have usually proven to be outright geniuses in one particular subject.” “For Gary? It is computers....

Toshiba says it is preparing groundwork for 100TB QLC Flash Drives and hopes to release them within monthsWhat is QLC Flash Making a presentation at the Flash Memory Summit, Toshiba described its foray into Quad Level Cell or QLC Flash. While Micron and Samsung are setting their eyes on 3D NAND Flash, Toshiba is hedging its bet on QLC Flash. What is QLC Flash QLC enables a single cell to hold 4 bits of data....

Already at five million downloads, the popular European translation app updates its technology which now includes an improved UI and educational resources for language learners Chances are, if you’ve ever spoken to someone whose native language differs from yours, you’ve had a misunderstanding while communicating with them. Whether or not you misunderstood them, or if it was yourself who was misunderstood, you have to wonder: What led to it? There are dozens of barriers to communication that might lead to a misunderstanding, things like accents, one’s interpretation of language, faulty definitions, or everyday colloquialisms that can create a slippery slope once translated into a different language....

Twitter Circle, which is similar to Instagram’s Close Friend’, aims to essentially allow users to have more choice and better control over who sees (and can respond to) their tweets on a tweet-by-tweet basis. This makes it easier to have more intimate conversations and build closer connections with select followers. “We want to help people break the ice, feel more comfortable Tweeting, and have a way to communicate more privately with people they choose....

The Tempe police said in a statement that the self-driving car was in autonomous mode when the vehicle struck 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg while she was walking outside of a crosswalk. Herzberg was taken to a hospital where she later died of her injuries. “The pedestrian was outside of the crosswalk. As soon as she walked into the lane of traffic she was struck,” Tempe Police Sergeant Ronald Elcock told reporters during a news conference....

According to a report by Military.com’s DoDBuzz, it was revealed that the soldiers currently equipped with the Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAC), which was essentially a glorified Samsung Galaxy Note, will soon be replaced by the iPhone Tactical Assault Kit, according to a source within the Army who is not authorized to communicate with the media. However, it is not clear which exact version of Android and which specific Galaxy Note device is involved....

Ransomware generally locks a computer by making changes to its operating system, which the end user needs to pay to get back unlocked. Cryptolocker meanwhile uses the encryption library files in Windows to render 70 types of files unreadable without a valid decryption key, hence forcing companies which did not take regular backups to pay the premium or else be screwed.More than 50% Cryptolocker infections are found in United States while ransomware softwares and platforms are finding a major boon in Russia and Eastern Europe since about an year ago....

Kosovo-based bug-hunter Florian Kunushevci, who discovered the vulnerability, demonstrated the bypass in a YouTube video (see below). The video shows that anyone in possession of someone’s phone to receive a Skype call, can answer it without unlocking the handset. Once the person answers the call, he or she can then view photos, access contacts, send a message, and access the browser by clicking on the links sent in the message....

In a lawsuit filed in the New York state court, the world’s largest retailer accuses the electric car company of “widespread, systemic negligence” and has “failed to abide by prudent industry practices in installing, operating, and maintaining its solar systems.” Walmart has asked the court to force Tesla to remove solar panels from more than 240 of its stores in the U.S. These stores include those in Denton, Maryland and Beavercreek, Ohio....

One TAG Heuer’s business said: “Our watch will have almost the same functions as an Apple Watch, but I don’t want to divulge too much. The Carrera Connected is an exclusive, luxury watch. We are not Apple. We are a watch brand. I forbid my colleagues to say Apple is our competitor.” The smartwatch shares many of its design attributes with TAG Heuer’s Carrera analog watch. The company says it has gone to great lengths to make the Connected not “look like a connected watch” The Carrera Connected isn’t made of gold, but it is comprised of titanium, a metal prized for its high strength to weight ratio compared to steel....

All though the main home page of the website does not have any problem. but it seems like AnonGhost have access to there website. The website was still defaced, till the Article was posted. Also see An Interview with AnonGhost Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below 🙂

Leaving annoying groups has become easier, and WhatsApp lets you silently leave a group without anyone knowing. No more worrying about people messaging you personally asking about the reason for leaving a group. Delete Messages for Everyone for 2 Days Now the largest messaging platform is letting users have up to 2 days to delete messages for everyone. This is a game-changer as a one-hour window was sometimes not enough....

Wi-Fi Sense automatically connects you to nearby Wi-Fi networks, helping you save your cellular data for when you really need it and giving you more Internet connectivity options. However that means that lot of your friends and their contacts will also have your Wi-Fi keys without you knowing it. These contacts include their Skype contacts, Outlook.com (nee Hotmail) contacts and with an opt-in, their Facebook friends. Though it saves your time to search for the Wi-Fi password in the house or office, this method of use is however not teamed up with security....