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Fredrik Neij, aka TIAMO, one of the co-founders of TPB, was a prime suspect in the criminal investigation started by Swedish police nearly five years ago when it had raided a data center that was believed to be hosting the notorious torrent site. However, over the past several years, Neij has always denied any recent involvement with the site. Apparently, Neij was in prison for his earlier Pirate Bay activities when the raid took place in 2014....

Apple all set to reveal its latest iPhone today and it looks like someone has camped outside of an Apple Store in Australia. There may be a number of reasons why this person had decided to camp outside the Apple Store but one thing is certain. This particular Apple fanboy is going to have his 15 minutes of fame in tech forums and Reddit. Who knows, he may also go down in history or a fact book as being the first person to camp for iPhone 6s....

Dorian Satoshi NakamotoSuper BlooperSueing NewsweekDonations Super Blooper On March 6, 2014, Leah had reported on Newsweek that she had found the mysterious founder of the worlds most famous cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, in the bylanes of Temple City, California. Leah had backed up her story by giving a interview with our good man, Mr.Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. Lack of any news or information about the original Bitcoin founder, Satoshi Nakamoto and Newsweek’s prestige and goodwill were enough to convince the readers about the Dorian being Satoshi Nakamoto on that particular day....

Dubbed as “Haven”, this app will especially help those in journalism and activism in protecting their information and shield them from online surveillance and hacking. The software has been developed with The Guardian Project and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. According to its designers, it’s designed to be a “‘safe room’ in your pocket, or way to defeat ‘evil maid’ attacks”. Snowden wrote in a separate tweet: “Announcing #Haven, a safe room that fits in your pocket....

Allo’s USP is that AI integration Google Knowledge Graph will bring to it. This will allow users to send custom messages which Allo will analyse from the user’s past usage. Allo is capable of analyzing images in your chat and sending out smart replies just like you would normally do in a standard communication. The problem with Allo is that Google added its “incognito” mode and end-to-end encryption is only as an opt-in feature, rather than as a default setting....

The free event, #webcreators2021, gets underway on June 16 at 11am (EST) and is pitched at web creators, marketeers, and digital designers. Serial entrepreneur and digital marketer Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of New York-based communications firm VaynerX, will be a keynote speaker at the conference while Seth Godin, best-selling author of marketing bible This is Marketing, will make an appearance to discuss the importance of future-proofing your business. Each of the thought leaders will welcome questions from virtual attendees after back-to-back presentations....

To ensure that uploaders and group have one home (just like ExtraTorrent), ETTV, ETHD and DTOne collaborated to launch their own torrent website called ETTV.tv last year. ETTV.tv is operated by different people and only a select group of trusted uploaders are allowed to add new content. Although the groups still allocate their work on other mainstream torrent indexes, the site’s traffic has been growing gradually. However, it’s not been an easy ride for ETTV to keep the site running, as they have been subjected to many blocking efforts for offering pirated content just like any other pirated website....

Assume Every Drupal 7 Site Was Compromised Unless Patched ImmediatelySecond Advisory in a monthAssume your site has been compromisedPatching Won’t Remove Backdoors Second Advisory in a month Earlier this month, Drupal patched a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704) that exists in all Drupal core 7.x versions up to the recently-released 7.32 version, which fixed the issue. You can read about that vulnerability here. The problem that Drupal came up against was that as soon as the above vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704) was announced on October 17, there were a series of automated attacks exploiting the flaw on the websites that ran on the Drupal content management system (CMS)....

Researchers show how to remotely exploit the DRAM “Rowhammer” bug by using JavaScriptProof-of-Concept (PoC) The team claims this to be the first remote software-induced hardware fault attack. The downside here is that it is a hardware flaw and not a software flaw, thus it could be present in any computer which has the Intel Processor built since 2009. The next bad news is that hackers can exploit this flaw through any webpage....

Soon after, users began to report that they were able to react to posts with a new airplane emoji. Apparently, the new plane emoji was only available on Facebook’s Android app and that too after clearing the app’s cache. According to some users, the new emoji appeared only if they updated the Android app and flushed the cache in the app. Then they had to hold down the ‘like’ button in the comments section of a post, which would then show two angry face reaction icons....

The company said that it was working with Kaspersky Lab to help a program put into effect with other online security firms including F-Secure, ESET and Trend Micro. Trevor Pottinger, a Facebook security engineer said “Thanks to the collaboration with these companies, in the past three months we have helped clean up more than two million people’s computers that we detected were infected with malware when they connected to Facebook....

The plaintiffs have alleged through the lawsuit that Facebook routinely scans private messages. While the company does that to scan for URLs for malware protection and industry-standard searches for child pornography, the lawsuit claims that Facebook also uses this data for advertising and other purposes. Campbell and his team also alleged that Facebook also saves the scanned results in a database which is stored in searchable form. Campbell claims that Facebook is violating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act by doing so....

Discovered and posted by Joshua Maddux on Twitter, the issue secretly activates users’ iPhone camera without their permission while they scroll through their Facebook feeds via the app. The bug keeps the camera active even if the users are not taking or looking at a photograph on the social network or doing some other task with any of the imaging sensors. — Joshua Maddux (@JoshuaMaddux) November 10, 2019 Similar unusual behavior was noticed by a number of users who posted videos online demonstrating it....

Here’s how you can send SMS from Facebook Messenger for Android smartphones and tablets1. Open Messenger. Then Click On The Profile Button On The Top Right2. Scroll Down To See If You Have A SMS Button Under Notifications & Sounds3. Go To The Google Play Store To Check For An Update4. Once You Are Able To Update, Go Back To Steps 1 And 2.5. Open Messenger And Text As Usual...

Facebook wants to develop its semiconductors to lower its dependence on chipmakers like Intel and Qualcomm and give the social network greater control over its product development, cited people familiar with the matter. Its processors could help the social media giant power AI (artificial intelligence) software, Oculus VR (virtual reality) headsets, and servers in its data centers, reports Bloomberg. The revelation comes as a result of one job posting on Facebook’s corporate website that calls for an ASIC Development Manager with the skill set to “Build and manage an end-to-end SoC/ASIC, firmware and driver development organization,” which would include “silicon architecture, micro-architecture, RTL development, Verification, FPGA emulation, co-simulation, simulation acceleration, synthesis, DFT, floor planning, physical design place and route, DRC, LVS and GDS II stream out, and post-silicon validation....

A little more information regarding Internet.org or Free web access for our readers : Basically people who are offline are very skeptical and not bothered about internet connectivity and Internet.org targets these people to make them aware of advanced technology in their lives. Internet.org basically helps people to get health, employment and local information services without data charges. In other words it an initiative taken by Facebook to make people more aware of the Internet usage because it helps users to get connected to Wikipedia, AccuWeather, BabyCenter, health sites, job opportunities and also to Facebook so that users who otherwise do not use the internet can get free access to these sites and realize the importance of internet in their day to day activities and hence they then can readily opt for the premium data packages....

Facebook has just unveiled a new ‘Legacy Contacts’ feature which lets you manage your profile page after you die. Facebook’s latest move to enable a legacy contact just highlights the fact that social networking has become a part and parcel of family and social life. Your facebook page may become a family heirloom in a distant future after you die, and Facebook has taken care of the fact that nobody other than the person can touch your Facebook page in case you decide to meet the maker....

Now Facebook is being accused of violating the privacy of its users by collecting their facial data, according to a class-action lawsuit filed last week. Facebook has been allegedly collecting facial recognition data from millions of FB users and creating “the largest privately held stash of biometric face-recognition data in the world,” according to Courthouse News Service. The class action lawsuit filed by Carlo Licata and associates alleges that this facial recognition program violates the privacy of its users....

The parents, referred to as “Mother” and “Father” in the complaint, said their 12-year-old son suffers from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome, a condition that gets severe by electromagnetic radiation. According to the suit, the condition that causes headaches, nosebleeds, nausea, and other symptoms, was frequently being experienced by the boy while sitting in the class, after the school had installed a new, more powerful wireless Internet system in 2013. However, the school in a statement said “Isotrope’s assessment was completed in January 2015 and found that the combined levels of access point emissions, broadcast radio and television signals, and other RFE emissions on campus ‘were substantially less than 1/10,000th of the applicable safety limits (federal and state)....

For those unaware, cell phones with activated FM chips can easily be used as radios, allowing people access to potentially life-saving information when stuck in emergency such as a major storm or black out. FM radios are an important communication channel between people affected and agencies trying to get information to them. Pai said in a statement, “In recent years, I have repeatedly called on the wireless industry to activate the FM chips that are already installed in almost all smartphones sold in the United States....