“Welcome to China”, the Chinese man dubbed “Brother Orange” said to Matt Stopera at Jieyang Chaoshan International Airport in South China’s Guangdong province on Tuesday evening, and Stopera replied with the Chinese greeting “ni hao”. Brother Orange than took out the iPhone which had brought the two men together across the continents and both Stopera and Brother Orange burst into laughter. It all began last month when Stopera logged into his photo stream and noticed something unusual....

Discovered by a reverse engineer on Google’s Android Security team, ukasz Siewierski (via Mishaal Rahman), the issue has been shared in a now public report on the Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative (AVPI) issue tracker. THE ANDROID SECURITY LEAK Platform signing keys, or platform certificates, of multiple original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of Android devices, have been leaked outside of their respective companies. These platform keys, which are meant to verify the authenticity of the “android” app, can also be used in order to sign into individual apps....

Under Thai law, anyone convicted of insulting the revered but ailing 88-year-old king can face up to 15 years in jail on each count. “On December 2, he clicked the ‘like’ link on a doctored photo of the king and shared it with 608 friends,” said Colonel Burin Thongprapai, a military junta legal officer. “He is under military custody,” said Col Thongprapai, adding that he would appear at a military court on Monday....

In next few tweets Syrian Electronic Army also confirmed that they were able to hack into the admin panel of Mark Monitor, Mark Monitor Manages the Domain of many of the world’s biggest Companies, and develops software intended to protect corporate brands from Internet counterfeiting, fraud, piracy and cybersquatting.Just Four days Back SEA was able to hijack ebay and paypal U.K Domain, Though SEA Member told us that they were able to hack Mark Monitor today only and it was Only ebay’s Account which was hacked in the previous attack, it looks Suspicious and it is possible that they were having access to the Mark Monitor’s admin panel from a week or more....

https://www.rapid7.com https://www.metasploit.com https://kdmsteam.metasploit.com https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/20960363 https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/20960364 https://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/20960367 At the time of writing the Article all the websites were back to normal.

In a new post on the Windows Dev Center, Microsoft explains on how developers can customize their apps for multi-instance support. “Prior to Windows 10, version 1803, only one instance of a UWP app could be running at a time. Now, a UWP app can opt-in to support multiple instances. If an instance of a multi-instance UWP app is running, and a subsequent activation request comes through, the platform will not activate the existing instance....

The advert banner reads “Get the new Microsoft Edge. The new Microsoft Edge was built to bring you the best of the web”. The ad includes a link to download the browser on Windows 10 devices. However, the ads in the Search interface are not served if users have already installed the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser on their computers, even if it not set as their default. Besides Windows Search, Microsoft has also begun using a similar tagline in Outlook advertisement for Edge, which claims that the company’s Edge browser is more compatible with the email service....

The acquisition, the largest in Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s tenure, will be “key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes,” he wrote in a letter to Microsoft employees. Founded in 2002, Mountain View, Calif.-based LinkedIn had approximately 400 million users in 2015. The company provides a social network alternative for finding professional and work connections, sharing resumes and potentially finding new posts. In 2015, LinkedIn bought Lynda....

Xbox One was originally launched with a customized version of Windows 8, but the software maker upgraded the console to Windows 10 in November and rumors say that its working on a secret project called Helix. Normally, when something is called Helix it is something which appears promising in the first incarnation but then repeats itself so badly during the second season that most people switch off. Microsoft is planning to update every Windows 10 PC with an Xbox program that would make Xbox One games playable on a PC, without needing a console for streaming, according to The Verge....

mSpy’s technology is sold as a means for parents and employers to secretly spy on kids and employers, as its corporate blurb explains: mSpy is the most popular and user-friendly application for watching over your kids, preventing theft and supervising your employees’ performance. The mobile monitoring software runs invisibly on the target device to track all activity, including call log history, GPS location, calendar updates, text messages, emails, web history and much more....

According to Yibada, among the Motorola smartphones that are being moved on to Android 5.1 Lollipop is the Motorola Moto G 2nd generation or the Motorola Moto G2, along with five other Motorola Moto devices including its predecessor, the Motorola Moto G, the Moto X 1st and 2nd Generation, and the Moto E 2nd Generation 4G LTE version. Except for Motorola Moto G 2nd Gen which was updated from Android 4....

A blog post from the Mozilla firm states that it is glad to assist and pleased to further the work of the anonymity systems by activating 12 additional relay networks that can be used to ensure up time and spare incidents relating to maintenance or failure. A spokes person from Mozilla said The move by Mozilla is a part of the Polaris Privacy Initiative that Mozilla launched last year, when the firm said that it was backing user-led privacy control for the internet....

The hackers who claim to have extorted millions of dollars from large profitable corporations via a ransomware attack said in a post on the dark web that they want to “make the world a better place”. In their dark web post, the Darkside hacker group posted two receipts of $10,000 in bitcoin donations each made to two charities: Children International and The Water Project. They also posted images of tax receipts that they received in exchange for their donations to the above two charities....

The company is looking at “StreamFest” as a way to attract more subscribers who haven’t yet subscribed to a Netflix streaming plan. This promotional offer will give users access to the entire catalogue of movies and TV shows available in their region on any device and with no limit on the content that they want to watch. Netflix is planning to test the free 48-hour trial promo in India starting December 4, as reported first by Protocol....

The service, called Credentials Sharing Insights, uses AI, behavioral analytics and machine learning, which identifies, monitors and analyzes credentials sharing activity across streaming accounts. In other words, it will keep tabs on casual password sharing between friends and family as well as criminal enterprises or individuals who want to make money by reselling login credentials of payment channels or streaming services. “The way you secure OTT is evolving,” said Jean Marc Racine, CPO and GM EMEA of Synamedia, explained in an interview to Variety....

The new Macbook is officially being made available to buy at 12am PST on Friday, April 10. That’s when the the product page on Apple’s website will presumably replace the the “coming soon” button with a “buy now” button. At present even the estimated delivery date is not known but knowing Apple, the shipments should start tonight itself. The brick and mortar stores could see a rush of buyers for the gold, silver and gray Macbooks starting tomorrow like we have seen on the day of iPad an and iPhone release dates....

Once you download the attachment, it requests you to fill in the Apple ID and password along with their credit card information. The behaviour of the email looks genuine up until this moment but once you have filled your details, the same are sent to a unknown server for further theft. It is worth mentioning that Apple doesn’t have a general public liasion “Security Department” office which can send out such a mail....

A critical Server Message Block (SMB) #VU672268 in all Windows version including Windows 10 allows potential hackers to steal sensitive login credentialsExamples Cylance researchers disclosed the vulnerability today on their website in which they said that their study is an extension to a similar research done by Aaron Spangler in 1997. The Redirect to SMB flaw is related to the way that Windows and other software handles some HTTP requests, and researchers say it affects a wide range of applications, including iTunes and Adobe Flash....