Anonymous Now Plans to Start Offensive Hacking To Kill ISIS Online

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="anonymous-isis-" height="355" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/anonymous-isis-.jpg" width="640" /></span></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After facing backlash over the “wildly inaccurate” accounts reported to Twitter, Anonymous has decided to switch to their area of expertise i.e hacking websites and DDoSing them. Read ahead to know more about their plan of “Rickrolling” ISIS’ online presence.</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After targeting ISIS Twitter handles, Anonymous hackers are now using a new weapon to target the online presence of Islamic State.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It should be noted that the Twitter campaign of Anonymous has backfired a little bit. Twitter has told that Anonymous-submitted lists have proved to be “wildly inaccurate.” Now the Anonymous hackers have decided to move on to more “serious” things.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Anonymous hackers have announced a new campaign of offensive hacking. In a Tweet, the @OpParisOfficial has tweeted:</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> </div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en" style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We report that now begins the session offensive. Any site or accounts found pro-<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISIS?src=hash">#ISIS</a> must be attacked! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Anonymous?src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TangoDownISIS?src=hash">#TangoDownISIS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpParis?src=hash">#OpParis</a></span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">— #OpParis (@OpParisOfficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpParisOfficial/status/668893731173572608">November 23, 2015</a></span></div> </div> </blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If failed after trying to hack the ISIS website, the hackers are advised to flood the website with the Rick Astley’s song Never Gonna Give You Up (Also called “Rickrolling”).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As we mentioned earlier, Anonymous is being targetted for directing its attacks to non-ISIS Twitter websites. As a result, it seems that Anonymous is looking to make a move in the domain of their expertise i.e. hacking websites and DDoS attacks. The @OpParisOfficial has also tweeted that Anonymous has been able to shut down more than 11,000 ISIS Twitter accounts.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We report that at the moment more than 11.000 Twitter accounts pro #ISIS are down. </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">#OpParis#Anonymous#ParisAttacks</span></div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en" style="text-align: center;"> We report that at the moment more than 11.000 Twitter accounts pro <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISIS?src=hash">#ISIS</a> are down. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpParis?src=hash">#OpParis</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Anonymous?src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ParisAttacks?src=hash">#ParisAttacks</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> — #OpParis (@OpParisOfficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpParisOfficial/status/668673176763801601">November 23, 2015</a></div> </blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It should be noted that in the past, to inspire more people to join the #OpParis movement, Anonymous has posted 3 hacking guides to take down ISIS websites and report their Twitter handles.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Add your views in the comments below.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

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Don’t Try To Hack Into Your Own Device, Govt Will Destroy It- Thanks to TPP

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="hacking-laptop" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/hacking-laptop.jpg" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The landmark TPP deal allows a judicial review over violation of Digital Rights Management technologies and could lead to the destruction of your devices if found guilty.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Forget the good old days when the kids used to open up the electronics at their homes in quest of knowledge and sometimes even tweak the original to create a multi-purpose device. So, no more playing around with the gadgets, because if you are caught, your device would be seized and destroyed as per the recently signed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Wikileaks has <a href="https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter-051015.pdf" target="_blank">released the official documents</a> regarding the copyrights chapter which forbids anyone to circumvent the copyright and product infringement laws and thereby make changes in the original devices or proprietary technology (software/hardware) for any purpose. Such are called DRM or Digital Rights Management technologies.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, DRM was always there but what comes new with the TPP is that judicial authorities would have the authority to confiscate and order the destruction of such devices and products found to be involved in any such DRM violation.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">TPP is touted as the 21st-century landmark for trade liberalization and hog around 40% of the world’s economy and had been pushed aggressively since many years. The agreement has already come under fire for favoring the corporates and stifling the rights of consumers. Similar penal laws have been adjudicated against the free-flowing information on Internet, again with an intent to smother small businesses and create a corporate monopoly.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Worst affected by these new developments will be the white-hat hackers as bypassing the manufacturer’s exclusive system and finding the zero-day vulnerabilities is their job. Even individuals who want to improvise their devices are prohibited. As in the case of the Internet copyright violations, the punishment is from a monetary fine to a term in jail.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Wikileaks has also the leaked the device-destroying proposal in the TPP back in 2014 as well. After a long slumber, the whistleblowing forum has revived itself and lately has been crowdfunding to offer bounty in order to get confidential government documents such as this one and the US bombings in Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan few days back.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

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How To Enable Two-factor Authentication For Google, Facebook?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="two factor password enable" height="396" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/two-factor-password-enable.jpg" width="640" /><b>SP's: </b>Two-factor authentication is amongst many options, yet one of the most underestimated methods, to improve your online security. If you haven’t enabled the 2-step verification for your password protection yet, then it is time you go for it.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Google itself recommends methods to stay safe online, then it is time you understand the gravity of the situation and adopt some security measures. As most of the news feed nowadays is filled with cyber attacks and security breaches rendering the connected users helpless, each and every effort to safeguard yourself counts.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two-factor authentication is one of the methods to strengthen your online security. It provides an additional layer to your standard password protection system using a second electronic device. Mostly, it utilizes your phone number for verification and gives alerts whenever your account is being accessed.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Almost all the services like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, PayPal, Twitter, Snapchat, Microsoft, LastPass offer two-factor authentication. So, all you have to do is just go to the website that you have your account on and enable the two-factor authentication protection system.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is how to enable two-factor authentication for various services.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <h2 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication For Google?</span></h2> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Simply type Google two-step verification on Google search and go to the www.google.com/landing/2step and scroll down to Get Started. Follow the prompts.</span><img alt="Google-2-step-varification" height="350" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Google-2-step-varification.png" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. Confirm your phone number and choose how would you like to receive the verification code.</span><img alt="Google-2-step-varification-step-1" height="363" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Google-2-step-varification-step-1.png" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3. Enter the Six digit code that you would immediately receive and verify.</span><img alt="Google-2-step-varification-step-2" height="325" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Google-2-step-varification-step-2.png" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4. The next question that Google will ask you is to confirm that your current machine is a trusted system like your home desktop, so it won’t ask you for 2 step verification whenever you are on that system. Else, you will get the alerts.</span><img alt="Google-2-step-varification-step-3" height="284" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Google-2-step-varification-step-3.png" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5. Enable the 2-Step-authentication by clicking Confirm.</span><img alt="Google-2-step-varification-step-4" height="254" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Google-2-step-varification-step-4.png" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After you have confirmed for the 2-step-authentication, Google will send you additional protection features.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <ol> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Verification Codes for any Back-Up options</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">App-specific passwords for your specific apps and devices.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Backup Codes</span></li> <li style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Google-2-step-varification-step-5" height="579" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Google-2-step-varification-step-5.png" width="640" /></li> </ol> </div> <h2 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication For Facebook?</span></h2> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <ol> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sign-in to your Facebook account and go to the Settings option.</span></li> <li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Choose Security on the left column and click Edit on the Login Approvals. </span><img alt="facebook-two-factor authentication" height="233" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/facebook-twofactor-authentication1.jpg" width="640" /></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Select “Require a security code to access my account from unknown browsers.”</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An information window will open that explains how the login approvals and two-factor authentication works. Follow the commands and activate the protection system by submitting your phone number.</span></li> </ol> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, if you have already registered your number with Facebook, simply go to the Security settings and Edit the login factors.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> <img alt="facebook-two-factor authentication" height="308" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/facebook-twofactor-authentication.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After editing the security options, you will get a confirmation code to your mobile number each time anyone (including you) tries to access your account.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, enable two-factor authentication for the services you use and stay ‘safer’.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you find this article helpful? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

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Disney Colouring App Turns Your Drawings Into 3D Augmented Reality Characters

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAg0vEfQfy7Dt2qpgWn8axtXJ3j2uOn4BjXxEnuFNngWTYb57teHhoRmpDDzrltovY_XO1ZZTO8jJwokjOwipDXzMPfQx-9fUwG6FJMAABnYC07McREI-cv5z_bbQkmjwWEUZLHxrFY54/s1600/Disney-Research-Project-Colouring-Book-App.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAg0vEfQfy7Dt2qpgWn8axtXJ3j2uOn4BjXxEnuFNngWTYb57teHhoRmpDDzrltovY_XO1ZZTO8jJwokjOwipDXzMPfQx-9fUwG6FJMAABnYC07McREI-cv5z_bbQkmjwWEUZLHxrFY54/s640-rw/Disney-Research-Project-Colouring-Book-App.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Disney has developed a colouring book app that would turn the coloured 2D character into a 3D augmented reality object on screen.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>                Who says technology can’t be fun! And when the favourite cartoon character of your child or little sibling comes out from his sketch book, you seem to realise how much the technology has actually advanced. Augmented Reality has a kickass future and Disney has now given a glimpse of the coming days.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Disney’s tech team has created an interactive Android and iOS colouring book app that would turn the coloured character into a live 3D animated character much like the child’s imagination, but of course, into an augmented reality object on screen. It is a new Disney Research project that aims to bring back the lost excitement in children towards the colouring books.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>              Now, converting a 2D picture into a 3D reality is tricky as most of the drawings have only a portion of the character (front or side view). Disney’s colouring book app overcomes the challenge by copying the pixels from the drawing and making a guess for the remaining part keeping its texture same as the original. The texture of the 3D model is automatically synthesised in real-time based on the drawing.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>            Disney conducted a web-based user based study with 314 participants for their colouring book app validation and was really happy with the responses. In the final assessment, a majority of the participants told that this creativity motivates them to draw, improve their sense of connection with the character and would definitely use the app at home.</i></span></div> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SWzurBQ81CM" width="560"></iframe> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>           The smart work by the Disney team will help the children to bridge their gap between conventional creative methods with a sweet taste of technology.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>What do you think of Disney’s colouring book app? Tell us in comments below.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>via: <a href="http://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/live-texturing-of-augmented-reality-characters/">Disney</a></i></span></div> </div>

Disney Colouring App Turns Your Drawings Into 3D Augmented Reality Characters

SP's: Disney has developed a colouring book app that would turn the coloured 2D character into a 3D augmented reality object on scre...

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