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Stop Everything And Google “A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Far Away” Right Now

Shivam Patsariya 0 Software, tech, WebNdSocial 3:23 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's:</b> Taking part in the Star Wars hysteria, Google has released another Easter egg. All you need to do is Google “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away” and see the hidden surprise. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To celebrate the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Google has just launched an excellent Easter egg focused on Star Wars theme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All you need to do is open Google and search A long time ago in a galaxy far far away in Google and see the hidden surprise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Just a couple of days ago, Google released a tool that lets you choose a side of the force and paint your Google apps into the Star Wars color. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away is another similar attempt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Go ahead, give it a try and search A long time ago in a galaxy far far away in Google.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in theaters on December 18.</span></div>
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Stop Everything And Google “A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Far Away” Right Now

SP's: Taking part in the Star Wars hysteria, Google has released another Easter egg. All you need to do is Google “A long time ago ...

Google Is Killing The Chrome OS

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, GadgetsNdMachines, News, Software 11:46 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Google has decided to kill its Chrome OS that is used to power the Chromebooks. All the good parts of the OS will now be bundled into Android to form a better and more efficient OS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google is killing the Chrome OS being used in the Chromebooks and other personal computers, taking all its good parts, and putting it into the Android mobile, according to the Wall Street Journal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As the report suggests, from the year 2017, Google will have Android as the only operating system for mobile devices, as well as the computers. Citing its sources, WSJ writes that the early version of the newer and advanced Android OS will be previewed early next year, probably at Google I/O.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For those who don’t know, Chrome OS is the operating system used by Google to power the Chromebook line of laptops. These are the low-storage machines that are dependent on the cloud for most functions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But, Why is Google killing the Chrome OS anyway?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Google’s new version of Android will also run PCs, giving users access to Google’s Play store, which offers more than one million apps,” WSJ reports.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Google wants to get its software and moneymaking services such as Search and YouTube on as many devices as possible. It also hopes to curry favor with independent developers, whose apps will work on more devices with fewer modifications.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It won’t be wrong to assume that the idea of a hybrid operating system and a hybrid-PC is inspiring the Google CEO Sundar Pichai to move towards a more mobile-focused future. Google has also revealed a convertible laptop last month called the Pixel C and it seems like just the start.</span></div>
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Google Is Killing The Chrome OS

SP's: Google has decided to kill its Chrome OS that is used to power the Chromebooks. All the good parts of the OS will now be bund...

Microsoft Officially Launches its Arrow Android Launcher

Shivam Patsariya 0 AppsnSoftSecure, Software, tech 11:05 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>SP's : </b>Microsoft has officially launched its Arrow Launcher for the Android community.  The launcher is all about quickness and added more customization features compared to the beta release. Check for yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One of the reasons for the popularity of the Android smartphones is the easy customization. You can choose from the variety of launchers that suits you best. But, no one expected a Microsoft Android launcher inside their Play Store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Microsoft has officially launched Arrow Launcher into the market that is already flooded with a number of Android Launchers. So, what’s new in Microsoft Android Launcher?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Arrow Launcher presets three pages that will have People Page(contacts) as a first page, second one is the home page of the launcher which is an Apps Page comprising of recent and frequently used app section and the third and the last page is the Notes and Reminders Page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, overall the Arrow Launcher will provide you quickness at work and has added a lot of customization features as compared to the beta release.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• Apps: Your apps are automatically arranged based on your usage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• People: Easily find and contact the people who matter the most to you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• Reminders: Never forget to pick up milk or call your spouse with integrated reminders </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• Recent: Quickly get back to your recent photos, file downloads, app installs, and even dropped calls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Microsoft android launcher includes a dock to pull your most frequent used apps from the bottom. And you would also like the daily Bing wallpaper if you happen to be a fan of those.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Arrow Launcher is Microsoft’s first Android Launcher. It definitely created some news, but the private beta version doesn’t seem to impress much. The Arrow launcher is good but hopefully, the next version of Microsoft android launcher will have something more exciting.</span></div>
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Microsoft Officially Launches its Arrow Android Launcher

SP's : Microsoft has officially launched its Arrow Launcher for the Android community. The launcher is all about quickness and add...

Microsoft: Windows 10 Collects Data to Improve ‘Your’ Experience

Shivam Patsariya 0 Microsoft, Security, Software, tech 2:50 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b> In another attempt to clear the confusion clouds, Microsoft said that users shouldn’t worry about the Windows 10 data collection practices. In a recent interview, talking about the data collection, Microsoft’s VP Joe Belfiore said that the company feels that there are some compulsory data collection practices that are related to the system health issue.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Since the Windows 10 launch, from time-to-time we have received new updates about the privacy concerns in the new Microsoft OS. Users have noticed that their computers are now collecting more data by default and sending it to Microsoft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the past, Microsoft has tried to clear the air by trying to assure the users with some incomplete answers. Once again to clarify the issues, Microsoft’s VP Joe Belfiore said in an interview with <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2996504/data-privacy/microsoft-doesnt-see-windows-10s-mandatory-data-collection-as-a-privacy-risk.html#jump">CW </a>that Windows 10 is not doing anything that should be called a privacy violation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While the company claims that users are having full control over the OS, there are a number of services that keep running all the time. Defending this, Microsoft VP said that these services are used to send app crash data to the Microsoft servers. He stresses on the fact that this data is encrypted, so users shouldn’t panic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“In the case of knowing that our system that we’ve created is crashing, or is having serious performance problems, we view that as so helpful to the ecosystem, and [therefore] not an issue of personal privacy, that today, we collect that data so that we make that experience better for everyone,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When asked about the tracking features that can’t be turned off, Microsoft VP said that the company doesn’t consider them to be a privacy issue as the data sent via these services is just regarding system health, and no personal information is sent back to the company servers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“In the cases where we’ve not provided options, we feel that those things have to do with the health of the system, and are not personal information or are not related to privacy,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, not matter how genuine explanations Microsoft gives, the concern remains as the users must have the power to choose whether to share some info or nothing at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We hope that Microsoft decides to loosen up a bit in the next updates of Windows 10 and provides us more control. What are your thoughts regarding this issue? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Microsoft: Windows 10 Collects Data to Improve ‘Your’ Experience

SP's: In another attempt to clear the confusion clouds, Microsoft said that users shouldn’t worry about the Windows 10 data collec...

This Open-source Program Recognize Your Faces in Real Time

Shivam Patsariya 0 ProgrammingBooks, Science, Security, Software 2:47 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>penFace, the open source face recognition technology developed by the researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University, has been rolled out. The OpenFace holds ground against the much-advanced proprietary face-recognition technologies by private endeavours.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Open-source technology is usually at par with the proprietary technology but in certain cases such as the face-recognition, the open-source lags far behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The intelligentsia of the open-source community has now stepped up and created an open source face recognition system. The researchers at Carnegie Mellon University feel that the accuracies of the open-source face recognition system lag behind the advancements garnered by the tech giants with their exclusive state-of-the-art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Open source, as the name gives away, is the technology that derives its ideas from the 1970’s hacker culture defining the craze for programming and its subsequent availability to all. This philosophy was later subsumed by FOSS (Free and Open Source). The lack of resources for the projects that include hardware technology sometimes hinder the excellence in the open source community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">OpenFace is based on Google’s FaceNet face recognition system and can recognise the faces within few seconds with 10 reference photos. The datasets that the developers have used to train this program to recognize faces falls to a fraction as compared to the huge datasets of private endeavours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, the developers are quite happy with the results as the accuracy they achieved is remarkably high and exceeds in performance in comparison to the previous open source face recognition technology attempts on the standard LFW benchmark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch OpenFace in action, recognizing the faces in real-time:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you belong to an open-source community, perhaps you should take a look at the OpenFace project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For more information on the OpenFace project, visit <a href="https://github.com/cmusatyalab/openface">GitHub.com</a></span></div>
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This Open-source Program Recognize Your Faces in Real Time

SP's: penFace, the open source face recognition technology developed by the researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University, has been...

This Software Puts Your Facial Expressions on Someone Else’s Face – In Real-time

Shivam Patsariya 0 Internet, Security, Software, tech, Tricks 11:18 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The developers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Stanford University have published an online video and a research paper named “Facial reenactment”. This technology uses a software that is used to put all your gestures in real time, onto someone else’s face.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ever irritated your best friends by mimicking their facial expressions and experienced an immense amount of pleasure? Along the similar lines, the genius minds from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Stanford University have developed a software that puts your expressions on someone else’s face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The research paper named “Facial reenactment” describes a software that is used to put all your gestures in real time onto someone else’s face. In the video ahead, it’s researchers show what’s called “Real-time Expression Transfer for Facial Reenactment”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With this technology, you can plaster someone else’s facial features on your face. “To achieve this, we accurately capture the facial performances of the source and target subjects in real-time using a commodity RGB-D sensor,” the paper states. live-facial-expression-copy-1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the video, you can see the actor on the right side pulling some exaggerated facial expressions like frowning, raised eyebrows and crazy smiles. These gestures are then mapped in real time onto the face of the person sitting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For the transfer of expressions, researchers calculate the difference between the target and source’s expressions and the software modifies the target’s expressions. This is done by tracking the geometry, reflectance and texture of both faces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The software layers the elements on target’s face and then enhances it using various artificially animated CGI renders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch this amazing video animation below and share your views in the comments below:</span></div>
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This Software Puts Your Facial Expressions on Someone Else’s Face – In Real-time

SP's: The developers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the Stanford Unive...

Internet Inventor Vint Cerf and Experts Suggest 5-Points to Improve WiFi Router Security

Shivam Patsariya 0 Internet, Science, Security, Software, tech, Tricks, wifi 11:02 AM

Internet Inventor Vint Cerf and Experts Suggest 5-Points to Improve WiFi Router Security

SP's: The FCC is on the receiving end over its proposed rules to alter WiFi routers to make them secure as the experts are telling ...

This Nearly “Impossible to Trace” Spyware is Used by 32 Governments to Spy on You

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, News, ProgrammingBooks, Science, Security, Software, tech, Tricks 10:55 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>In 2015, the infamous spyware FinFisher is spread in 32 countries to perform advanced citizen surveillance. Citizen Lab, a security watchdog, has uncovered the nearly untraceable IP addresses and servers of the spyware. Read more and find out how it works and if it’s used by your government.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The preying eyes of your government are more active than ever and it’s using more advanced tools for surveillance purposes. Recently in the data breach at the Hacking Team, it was revealed that multiple governments contacted them to obtain spyware tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One such famous product in the spyware market is FinFisher, also known as FinSpy. This surveillance software came into the limelight in 2014, when a hacking attack at its marketing company Gamma International exposed it to the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One year after the hack, this sophisticated computer software suite, sold exclusively to governments and law enforcement agencies, is alive and serving more customers than ever. This suite is used to target computers or phones, and monitor all activities including calls, emails and messages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Citizen Lab, a security watchdog, has published a new report unmasking the true locations of the master servers to identify the governments using FinFisher. The firm scanned the internet for FinFisher servers and separated masters from proxies and located 32 governments and 10 entities that are directly related to FinFisher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The lab has been able to identify these servers that are claimed to be practically impossible to trace by the spyware makers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Governments using FinFisher include those of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Oman, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela and other. Many suspected governments using FinFisher spyware have past records of human rights violations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Citizen Lab researchers write than each instance of FinFisher includes the address of a command and control server that the spyware reports back to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“These C&C servers are typically FinSpy Relays, which forward connections back and forth between a device infected with FinFisher, and a FinSpy Master.  The purpose of the FinSpy Relay is explicitly to make it “practically impossible” (their emphasis) for a researcher to discover “the location and country of the Headquarter,” Citizen Lab writes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The researchers were able to find some connection between Hacking Team and FinFisher IP addresses. Instead of being competitors, both of them shared some common clients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“In presenting our scan results, we do not wish to disrupt or interfere with legitimately sanctioned investigations or other activities. Instead, we hope to ensure that citizens have the opportunity to hold their governments transparent and accountable,” writes Citizen Lab in its report.</span></div>
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This Nearly “Impossible to Trace” Spyware is Used by 32 Governments to Spy on You

SP's: In 2015, the infamous spyware FinFisher is spread in 32 countries to perform advanced citizen surveillance. Citizen Lab, a se...

“You Can Hack a Computer Just by Looking at It” – HP Explains Visual Hacking

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Science, Security, Software, tech, Tricks 8:44 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Visual Hacking is a security threat that is often overlooked by us. This is the act of stealing information by simple observation and it’s success rates are as high as 90%. Read more to know everything about it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Visual Hacking is a relatively new term that you need to add in your jargon. When I’ll tell you its meaning, you’d even refuse to accept that it’s some kind of “hacking.” But, as the security threats are increasing, visual hacking is becoming a terrifying issue and we need to take some basic steps for an effective security.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">According to the genius minds at HP security division, if someone is able to read what’s on your screen and it’s not intended for that person, it falls in the category of “visual hacking”. After stealing some information by visual means, the act of owning someone’s digital life becomes much easier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“With more and more PCs being used in public places, visual hacking — the act of collecting confidential information by looking at someone else’s screen — is a paramount security risk in today’s business environment,” says an HP executive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In today’s busy and competitive world, laptop users are not aware of the fact who is looking over their shoulders. This is a way to gather credentials by observation and thus visual hacking becomes a greater threat. As shown in a recent research conducted by HP and 3M, about 90% of the attempts to steal business information was successful using visual hacking methods. The stolen data included employee login and access passwords, contact lists, consumer data, financial information etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To curb this menace, HP has partnered with 3M to deliver the solutions that protect the privacy of a user and improve the security measures by protecting the secrets of a billion-dollar company. The company has launched a collaboration to incorporate 3M privacy screens in the HP’s notebooks that are more focused on security.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">HP and 3M have announced the use of a “screen darkening technology that protects your screen from prying eyes on either side.” Basically, it’s a dark plastic that restricts the viewing angle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This highly successful visual hacking method is a security aspect that goes unnoticed a number of times. But, as mentioned above, its success rate increases the security threats to an alarming level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the future, we hope that visual hacking would be taken more seriously as a security threat and all the device manufacturers will employ effective solutions to curb it.</span></div>
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“You Can Hack a Computer Just by Looking at It” – HP Explains Visual Hacking

SP's: Visual Hacking is a security threat that is often overlooked by us. This is the act of stealing information by simple observa...

Explained: How Criminals Hack Your Chip And Pin Card

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Security, Software 8:42 AM

Explained: How Criminals Hack Your Chip And Pin Card

SP's: EMV credit cards have till now been assumed to be unhackable. The security professor from the University of California explai...

Margaret Hamilton: Meet The Woman Whose Code Took Humans to The Moon

Shivam Patsariya 0 Linux, News, Reviews, Science, Security, Software, tech 8:39 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The whole world knows of Neil Armstrong and his famous small step and a giant leap on July 20, 1969 when United States’ Apollo 11 landed on Moon. It was a historic moment for the mankind, a journey of 384,400 km that has today been protracted over 7.5 billion kms to Pluto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But, the journey was not a fairy-tale as most people would know it. Years of hard work, failures and spirited team effort brought this dream to reality. As Neil Armstrong put his feet on behalf of all the mankind on the Moon, the world was ecstatic, and so was Margaret Hamilton, the woman whose code took the man to the Moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Margaret was the integral member of the part of the MIT team that was entrusted by NASA with the on-board flight software. This was the first time when the relatively new and abstract concept of software and codes were trusted with something so risky and real-time critical task.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As she recalls, just before the landing, the computer was cluttered with the erroneous signals and superfluous information sent by the radar and alarms went off indicating overloading. The software that Margaret and her team developed helped the computer to prioritize the tasks and avoided it from getting into a recovery mode. Had the software not been there, the computer would have gone berserk and history, well, not as we know today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Margaret is hailed as the computer science pioneer and she was the woman who coined the term “software engineering”. Needless to say, most of the people reading this article would thank her for their employment. 1950-60s was a time when software stream was just evolving and was not given due respect compared to other fields of engineering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Margaret tells in an interview to the Medium that she is surprised that even after all the achievements by the women in all spheres of lives and profession they still face biases and prejudices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Parisa Tabriz is one such outstanding lady who has been employed by Google to protect its empire from black-hats. Parisa goes by the name- “Security Princess” proving women are equally good if not better than men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Margaret had worked in all the Apollo manned missions and few unmanned ones as well. Naming her famous works, she has also worked on Skylab on-board flight software and preliminary software requirements for the Space Shuttle flight software.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">NASA felicitated her with Exceptional Space Act Award for her contributions in the Apollo missions. She was also the founder of Hamilton Technologies Inc. in 1986 which provides services to modernize the planning and helps the software engineers with their problem-solving approach though the USL (Universal Systems Language).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All in all, she was an amazing woman who worked for the evolution of our technology and is an inspiration to all the women in the contemporary times.</span></div>
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Margaret Hamilton: Meet The Woman Whose Code Took Humans to The Moon

Margaret Hamilton with the source-code of Apollo Guidance Computer in 1969 SP's: Margaret Hamilton was the software genius of her...

Is It “Windowception”? Windows in Windows Within Your Windows

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Software, tech, Windows 8:04 AM

Is It “Windowception”? Windows in Windows Within Your Windows

SP's: The latest Windows 10 Insider preview is coming with nested virtualization or Windowception. Read more about the Windows in W...

Microsoft’s Massive Success: Surface Book Sold Out at Microsoft Stores

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, News, Offers, Reviews, Software, Windows 12:34 PM

Microsoft’s Massive Success: Surface Book Sold Out at Microsoft Stores

SP's: Microsoft’s new Surface Book is now sold out for pre-order on Microsofts’s online stores. However, you can still buy Microsof...

Tumor Trace: This Computer Program Can Detect Cancer In Just 2 Days

Shivam Patsariya 0 Creative, Science, Software, tech 12:31 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>SP's: </b>Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has come up with a new computer algorithm called Tumor Trace, that can detect several kinds and location of cancer in just 2 days with 85% accuracy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cancer- the dreadful disease that has plagued the world today. However, if detected at an early stage, can still be treated. Hence, time plays a crucial factor in the treatment of cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The good news is that researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have come up with a new computer algorithm called Tumor Trace, that can detect several kinds and location of cancer. And the best part? Well, in just 2 days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So why did the need of such an algorithm at all arise?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At present, though doctors can diagnose the type and site of cancer, yet it remains undetected in 1 out of 20 cases. This is known as cancer of unknown primary (CUP). That’s really tragic is that people suffering from CUP have to go through a lot of tests and are ultimately given a are given a cocktail of chemotherapy drugs, which often fails to reach and work upon the target area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">1,658,370 new cancer cases were registered in U.S in the year 2015 and there are approximately 30,000 CUP cancer cases every year. Such shocking statistics, demand for a more efficient method of diagnosing cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, how does Tumor Trace work?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is a self-learning computer algorithm,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It compares thousands of samples to diagnose the cancer infected area correctly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The program is then able to assess a biopsy and, thereby, providing  a number of scenarios for where cancer may have developed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It then indicates the probability of those scenarios.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This including a set of 24 specimens from nine lung cancer patients and a cohort of 91 breast metastases</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Researchers are optimistic about further improvements in this cancer detecting method which promises of detecting the free cancer cell source in a blood sample. Detection of cancer at an early stage not only increases the chances of full recovery, but also ensures less of physical and mental trauma for the patient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Could this be one step closer to curing cancer? What are your opinions?  Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Tumor Trace: This Computer Program Can Detect Cancer In Just 2 Days

SP's: Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has come up with a new computer algorithm called Tumor Trace, that can detect several k...

Microsoft Releases Critical Security Fix For All Version of Windows, Download Now

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Security, Software, tech, Windows 12:22 PM

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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Microsoft has issued critical security fixes as a part of this month’s patch Tuesday. Users are advised to download these security updates and make their systems secure.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a part of this month’s patch Tuesday, Microsoft has rolled out six security updates that fix all the version of Windows. Researchers from FireEye, HP Zero Day Initiative, Verisign, and Trend Micro have contributed in finding and patching this flaw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Out of the six, three patches are rated as critical, including the patches for remote code execution vulnerabilities JScript engines and VBScript and Internet Explorer rollup.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The vulnerability described in the bulletin MS15-106 exists in all version of Windows including Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10. This patch also affects Windows Server and Windows RT.</span></div>
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How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Laptop?

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Security, Software 11:34 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Having your laptop stolen is the biggest nightmare anyone can face in the era of our gadget-centric lives. Here are some ways that can help you get back your valuable laptop in case of any theft.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The magician who vanished your precious laptop might have the courage to peek into your business. There are great chances, that the person who took your laptop may check your mail account or other services. These services do provide tracking feature that can help you, trace the location and IP address of your device. You can get the device location of your stolen laptop if you use these services:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just open your Gmail account and move to the bottom of the page. Here you will find “Last Account Activity” written in the bottom left corner of the page. Click “Details” link right below it. A new window will open containing a list of all the recent Gmail sessions of your account, providing IP address and location of the sessions. You can click “Sign Out Of All Other Web Sessions” to protect your Gmail account from further trespassing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The social networking giant has also provided a feature to track your account activity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Open “Settings” in your Facebook account and then click “Security” option. You’ll find an option called “Where You’re Logged In”, just click that, and you’ll be presented with details of your Facebook sessions. To know the IP address of any session, just hover on the location name, and it will display the IP address of that session. You can click “End Activity” to log out that particular session or you can click “End All Activity” to log out of all your active Facebook session on any other device.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just note down the IP address and location from any of the above sources and contact the police for further assistance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It would be wise enough to be well prepared for such mishaps well in advance. Prey Inc. has come up with an efficient tool that can help you track your device very easily in case of any theft or lost. Though this platform is available for various operating systems like Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux, but we have tested Prey only for the Widows OS.</span></span></div>
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<li style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Click <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sign-in</span> and setup your Prey account.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prey allows you to lock the device remotely, play alarm, send message in case any humble person may return your laptop, if you have forgotten it somewhere. The only disadvantage of this service is that your laptop must be connected to the internet, and for that, “May the Force be with You”. You can add up to three devices in the free option. To add more devices, you’ll have to purchase their plans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In case of any theft, it is highly recommended to change your passwords for all the online services that you use to protect your valuable data and privacy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Keeping your laptop safe is a must in this technology driven world. You can protect your laptop by using these simple methods and it will save your valuable memories that you have collected all over your life. Apart from using these methods, you should always set a password to all of your devices, this will protect your data in case of any theft or if you might forget it somewhere.</span></div>
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How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Laptop?

SP's: Having your laptop stolen is the biggest nightmare anyone can face in the era of our gadget-centric lives. Here are some wa...

DuckDuckGo Taunts Google: “You Don’t Need To Track Users To Make Money”

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its CEO Gabriel Weinberg, in his latest <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346268" target="_blank">AMA </a>(ask me anything) at the Hacker News platform on October 7, reassured a concerned user saying that DuckDuckGo is not sinking and is actually profitable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Taking a dig at Google, Weiner further said,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It is a myth you need to track people to make money in Web search. Most of the money is still made without tracking people by showing you ads based on your keyword, i.e. type in car and get a car ad. These ads are lucrative because people have buying intent. All that tracking is for the rest of the Internet without this search intent, and that’s why you’re tracked across the Internet with those same ads."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">DuckDuckGo search engine was launched seven years back but got a massive user base and an exponential 600% increase in traffic after ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations and he warned the public to avoid Google and Facebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Despite all the efforts from the DuckDuckGo team, the search engine is still unheard by most of the users. Weinberg has also promised to improve content search efficiency in non-English languages as well for the users around the globe who have to sacrifice their privacy for better search results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to a recent survey by Pew Research Center, almost over 40% US adults don’t want any kind of surveillance done on them by their search engine provider.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As there are genuine concerns among the masses for their privacy, DuckDuckGo seems to have a huge opportunity ahead and can give a real competition to Google which for more than a decade now had exerted monopoly in the industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Which search engine do you prefer, Google or DuckDuckGo? Tell us in comments below.</span></div>
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DuckDuckGo Taunts Google: “You Don’t Need To Track Users To Make Money”

SP's: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg takes a dig at Google in his AMA session saying, “It is a myth you need to track people to make...

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