Hundreds Of Thousands Of Snapchat Photos And Videos Intercepted By Hackers now leaked #SnapChat HacksSomething huge was comingSnapChat not hackedViralPop.comSnapSaveThe other hack A giant database of intercepted Snapchat photos and videos has been released by hackers who have been collecting the files for years ala the iCloud Hacks. The users of 4Chan have named this hack as “The Snappening,” while we will call it SnapChat Hacks. The database is said to contain 200,000 images of SnapChat users....

Researchers from UC Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), which produced the research, tested 88,000 apps from the U.S. Google Play Store, and found that 1,325 apps collected information regarding geolocation data and phone identifiers. The study published on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) website cited 153 apps, including Samsung Health, Samsung’s Browser, Shutterfly and Disney’s Hong Kong Disneyland park app that collected data without explicit permissions. “Modern smartphone platforms implement permission-based models to protect access to sensitive data and system resources....

However, the latest commits which are available in AOSP (Android Open Source Project) site since February 2 indicate that this could change with Android P (or Android 9.0), the next iteration of Android’s operating system. Apparently, some codes refer to the existence of “call recording tone”, which means Google is likely to integrate call recording capabilities. The codes reveal the support of a 1400Hz frequency tone that will be played every fifteen seconds to warn the other person in the conversation that a recording is in progress....

— tartarus_destroyer (@detoxransome) July 26, 2015 — tartarus_destroyer (@detoxransome) July 24, 2015 DetoxRansome has been demanding ransom from BitDefender according to Forbes. The hacker has even showed the Thomas Brewster of Forbes the unencrypted usernames and passwords purportedly belonging to the BitDefender customers. BitDefender in a emailed statement has stated that it found a potential security issue with a server and determined a single application was targeted – a component of its public cloud offering....

However, Apple refused to acknowledge the issue then, leaving many users dissatisfied. At that time, repair vendor iFixit had clearly reported that the issue stemmed through a faulty controller chip soldered to the logic board. The repair solution provided by him required opening up the phone and soldering the two chips that cover the touch responsiveness on the iPhone. This led many users paying for more expensive logic board replacements....

The verdict came in the third trial in Tyler, Texas in a case that began in 2010. The patent battle between Apple and VirnetX started when the patent troll filed a lawsuit against Apple in Texas for the infringement of four patents for secure networks, known as virtual private networks, and secure communications links. A jury in 2012 awarded $368.2 million in damages. However, the Court of Appeals, overturned part of the verdict, citing issues on the instructions that the trial judge gave to the jurors on how to calculate for the damages....

The zero-day vulnerability dubbed as CVE-2022-22620 was disclosed to Apple by an anonymous researcher. This bug is a use-after-free memory corruption bug in the WebKit rendering engine, which powers Apple’s web browser Safari. The successful exploitation of the ‘CVE-2022-22620’ bug could allow threat actors to process maliciously crafted web content leading to ‘arbitrary code execution’ on a range of Apple devices. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited,” the company said in a statement while acknowledging the flaw....

Currently, the iPhone Pros are shipped with a 12MP camera, which has been featured since the iPhone 6S. However, this could change this year, as the iPhone 14 Pro model is expected to get a 48MP primary camera, further decreasing 12 million pixel products to a 15 percent share in 2022. It will also have a 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens and a telephoto lens. “Although camera shipment growth has slowed, camera resolution continues to improve....

A class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California that accuses Apple of failing to implement safeguards to prevent the misuse of Airtags. Ideally, Airtags are meant to track objects like bags and purses. In the past, Apple claimed that AirTags contain several measures to prevent unwanted tracking. For instance, AirTags make a beeping noise when they are separated from an owner for a particular amount of time....

Also Read- Apple restarts iPhone X production over poor iPhone XS, XS Max sales “The pixel deception is rooted in the misrepresentation of the Products’ screens, which do not use true screen pixels,” law offices of David A. Makman representing plaintiffs Christian Sponchiado and Courtney Davis wrote in the 55-page complaint. “Defendant’s nominal screen pixel resolution counts misleadingly count false pixels as if they were true pixels. This is in contrast to every other iPhone — phones whose screens Defendant directly compares to the iPhone X screen in its effort to mislead consumers into believing that the iPhone X has more pixels (and better screen resolution) than it really does....

For those unaware, The Pirate Bay, is a BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing site, that allows visitors to search, download and contribute magnet links and torrent files, which facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing among users of the BitTorrent protocol. The popular torrent website has been embroiled in a legal dispute with the anti-piracy outfits and rights holders from several years due to violations of copyright laws. As a result, the website has faced shutdowns and blockades in several countries and imprisonment of its founders....

According to a recall advisory posted by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were eight reports of the Beats Pill XL malfunctioning speakers due to overheating. These included instances of a customer’s finger getting burned and another involved damage to a desk. In the voluntary recall of the Beats Pill XL speakers made by Apple on Wednesday would involve recalling of more than 200,000 speakers in total. Apple asked people to stop using Beats Pill XL speakers....

Unix-like(or *nix) was gaining momentum around the same time when Microsoft was beginning to makes waves in the desktop computer segment with its Windows NT family of operating systems. Today, Linux is used worldwide for embedded computers to power virtually all the supercomputers that are currently in function. Best Lightweight Linux Distros Lightweight may be relative for users but it generally covers the computers with modest configuration, and consequently less resource usage....

As part of its Bing Rewards program, Microsoft was giving away 100 GB of OneDrive storage for free valid for 2 years to all subscribed users of Bing Rewards program to the US based users. Now it has announced that all Dropbox will be getting 100GB OneDrive space for a period of one year. To claim the free storage, Dropbox users will have to sign up to OneDrive after logging into Dropbox....

The Redmond based software giant confirmed that Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (SP1), users will get the full-screen notification on their computer. “Sorry to interrupt, but this is important. This notification is a reminder that the Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends on July 29, 2016. Microsoft recommends that you upgrade to Windows 10 before the offer expires.” Microsoft said. Microsoft has been very persistent and aggressive in sending nagging Windows 10 upgrade notifications to Windows 7 and Windows 8 users and seems to conducting some kind of social engineering experiment to test the patience of its users....

The researchers used a laser to zap a grid of microscopic holes in the paper, then coated one side in copper and laid it on top of a thin sheet of Teflon, joining the two sheets at one edge. As the sound waves vibrate the two sheets in different ways, it causes the two sheets to come in and out of contact generating electricity. The experiment is pretty similar to charge developed when a person rubs a balloon with hair....

However, in a press conference held last Wednesday, Chinese officials appear to have confirmed that China is no longer in control of its space station and is expected to die a fiery death in Earth’s atmosphere towards the second half of next year. However, it’s unlikely anyone on the Earth will be injured. China’s Tiangong-1 space station, which has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years was recently decommissioned and the Chinese astronauts returned to the surface....

China’s Ministry of Public Security will set up the units at important websites and internet companies to help them prevent crimes such as fraud, cyberhacking, terrorist group communications and spreading of rumors. The long list also include pornography, which is used as a catch-all offense by the Chinese government. By keeping the definition of pornography vague, it has served as an excuse to close down the sites and social media accounts of political activists....

However, according to the non-profit organization GreatFire, starting on August 28, CERNET users have been seeing warning messages about invalid SSL certificates when trying to access google.com and google.com.hk. Experts believe authorities have launched a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack against the encrypted traffic between CERNET and Google to see what people are searching for. Greatfire.org claimed that the attacks are similar to those believed to have been sanctioned by Beijing in January 2013 against developer site Github....

A separate Chromium OS update has been made for Raspberry Pi 3 owners and for those who wanted to run the operating system on the latest iteration of Raspberry Pi 3 need to know the following things before they can go ahead and download the Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 3 0.5 binary image. Here is what is going to be included in Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 3 Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 3 includes several improvements and features....