The Ministry of IT banned BGMI under section 69A of the IT act. In an official statement, Krafton the developer of BGMI stated that “We are clarifying how BGMI was removed from Google Play store and the App store and will let you know once we get specific information.” On the other hand, Google stated that “On receipt of the order, following the established process, we have notified the affected developer and have blocked access to the app that remained available on the Play Store in India,” Indian gamers have taken over Twitter and other social networks to show their anger and shock towards the sudden delisting of the game....

In a recent discovery by various YouTube videos online, it has been found that if you were to ask Siri certain questions, her response would be musical enough for you to actually beatbox along with her. The simple that needs to be asked is “Siri, what is one trillion to the tenth power?” When the app obliges, repeating the number “zero” ad infinitum to the point where it becomes long and rhythmic enough to make beats over....

You may have felt angry at Facebook for various reasons like your fan page reach has diminished or your pages get unpublished and you may want to block the account of the creator of Facebook, Mark from your account, you’ll get an error saying If you try to block him again after a few minutes, you will get the same message. It seems that Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook and a man with around 31 million facebook followers is also one of the most hated men on Facebook....

According to the report, the threat actors used to spread PREDATOR through another piece of mobile malware called ALIEN, which was a precursor for deploying PREDATOR spyware onto compromised devices. It received commands from PREDATOR over IPC (inter-process communication), which included recording audio, hiding adding CA certificates, and hiding apps to escape detection. The TAG team said that the PREDATOR malware was developed by a commercial surveillance company, Cytrox in North Macedonia, which exploited five zero-day vulnerabilities, four in Chrome and one in Android, to target Android users....

This means the the hackers behind the Sony Pictures hack attacks are now leaking digitally signed Sony Pictures certificates to cyber criminals. This may be done for a price according to report. As per the image above, the certificate which has been obtained by Kaspersky has been signed on December 5, 2014 and the Sony hack attack occurred in last week of November, 2014 which means that there may be more malware which come signed with certificates of Sony Pictures in near future....

One unsuspecting user of Disney+ decided to ask the customer executive for an update on the release of Snowdrop, a Korean romcom, on the Disney+ US. The executive allegedly suggested using a VPN of a region whose shows you want to watch. Here is how everything unfolded when: The Timeline A Reddit user who goes by the name of EVa-rachel, posted in r/BlackPink about a peculiar yet unverified conversation with the Disney+ US Customer Executive....

However Rahul Yadav brushed the allegation of being involved in the hack. He posted, “I would have DESIGNED it better. #NotInvolved #LoveYouTechTeam” on his Facebook page. The unknown hackers deface the Housing.com homepage showing the message in the tweet below; the phrase ‘Chief Architect’ seems to refer to Yadav, with the message as a call for his reinstatement as the chief executive. https://twitter.com/asharotri/status/618016702333202432/photo/1 Housing and Rahul Yadav have been in news recently for all the wrong reasons....

The experimental prototype was designed around an operating system called “Acorn OS”, which was the internal code name for the software and the device shows an acorn on the boot screen instead of an Apple logo. “Apple clearly made the right choice,” pointed out Dickson when Apple chose to ditch those efforts and focus on developing the iPhone OS that eventually became what we know today as iOS. Acorn OS, featured an iPod Classic-like interface with a digital click wheel that could be used for navigating between menus....

In a hearing that could have significant bearing on the future of the EU-US Safe Harbor agreement, European Commission attorney Bernhard Schima as good as admitted that the current agreement was not fit for purpose, telling attorney-general Yves Bot: Schima’s remark came during a case brought by Austrian law student Max Schrems following complaints filed against Facebook and four other US companies – Apple, Microsoft, Skype, and Yahoo – with the relevant data protection authorities in Ireland, Luxembourg and Germany....

The Company took to Twitter account after hearing a lots of buzz and questions from their users to assuage their fears. The Company was able to resume its service after 4 hours from the start of the attack, however they also informed the users that the service may take 24 hours to completely come back to normal. CEO of Feedly, Edwin Khodabakchian said in a blog post that, The Company is working with law enforcement agencies, and the Network provider to mitigate the attack....

Lizard Squad gained notoriety from the hack attack and was abused on gaming and tech forums by the gamers but it also gained publicity for its rent-a-ddos machine, Lizard Stresser. Many industry watchers noted during that time that Lizard Squad was DDoSing PSN and Xbox Live servers to market their Lizard Stresser. Lizard Squad seems to have similar plans for Xbox Live and PlayStation gaming servers this year also. They had tweeted a month back of their intentions to bring down the servers like last year....

According to Facebook, Oculus Quest 2 packs a suite of innovations to power the next generation of VR games and experiences. “Today, we’re excited to announce Oculus Quest 2, the next generation of all-in-one VR. Quest 2 pushes the state of VR forward with a redesigned all-in-one form factor, new Touch controllers, and our highest-resolution display ever,” says the Oculus blog. “With a higher resolution panel and the ability to reach a higher refresh rate than Rift S, all in a lighter form factor and at a lower cost, Quest 2 brings a leveled-up PC VR gaming experience to enthusiasts....

Frédéric Durand-Baissas, a teacher in France had posted a picture of L’Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World), an 1866 painting by Gustave Courbet that hangs in the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, on his Facebook account. The picture, which is a work of art and depicts a close-up of the female genitalia, was deemed “too offensive” for Facebook and removed by it, further it blocked Durand-Baissas from using Facebook....

— Andrew Leonov (@4lemon) January 17, 2017 Leonov who is a security researcher was able to hack Facebook through an ImageMagick flaw which was actually discovered and patched last year. The vulnerability, however, still impacted Facebook, and Leonov figured out a way to use it as part of a remote code execution exploit in October. ImageMagick is an open source Image editing tool which is used by millions of websites to resize, crop, and tweak pictures....

We have came with a good news this time, you’ll soon be able to share a live video broadcast of yourself on Facebook. The social network announced on Thursday that it’s starting to add a live video option to “a small percentage of people in the U.S. on iPhones” with plans to introduce the feature to more people over time. Once enabled in the Facebook app, you’ll be able to select a new “Live Video” icon under the update status window....

New study reveals that Facebook tracks logged-out users in ‘violation’ of European Union lawTL;DR : New Study reveals that Facebook tracks people without Facebook accounts, logged out users, and EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking. A study commissioned by the Belgian data protection agency and conducted by members of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT/Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (ICRI/CIR) of KU Leuven, the department of Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (SMIT) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the department of Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) of KU Leuven has revealed....

As we said yesterday when the hackers hacked into the iCloud account of British supermodel Dannielle Lloyd and leaked her private explicit images, the Fappening hackers seem to be getting active again. While there is still no direct link between the first Fappenning of 2014, the Fappening 2.0 of March 2017 and the current nude leaks, one can’t help but connect the dots as the modus operandi seems the same....

In what seems to a repeat of the famous Fappening or Celebgate of 2014, unknown hackers leaked nude images and videos of Harry Potter star, Emma Watson and other celebrities like Mischa Barton, Amanda Seyfried. The private and explicit photos and videos were apparently stolen from Emma Watson, Amanda Seyfried, and other female celebrities iCloud accounts or private albums. The hackers have then proceeded to post the NSFW images and videos on the popular imageboarding website, 4chan and also Reddit....

Essential, this order will let a US judge can grant an FBI agent in, say, New York, permission to hack into a computer in San Francisco, or potentially any city in the world, in order to help in their investigations. The court documents also state that the US based judge can also grant a warrant if a suspect uses tools to hide their identity, such as Tor. The judgement is in line with an amendment, first introduced in 2014 and it allows US authorities to keep pace with the dynamics of Internet but at the same time it also raises privacy and security issues....