Your Stolen/Hacked Identity is Sold Just For $1 in The Dark Web

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"> <img height="425" loading="lazy" src="http://www.guardian.co.tt/sites/default/files/field/image/2013-03-14%20Technology%20Matters%20-%20Responding%20to%20a%20Hacker%20Attack%20Bevil%20Wooding.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's:</b> Increasing data breaches have made the personal identifiable information (PII) market very hot. A latest report outlines the different aspects of data breaches. Read more here.</i></span></div> <br /> <br /> <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>          Just yesterday I wrote a piece describing the ways to know if your identity was hacked/stolen in some recent data breach. Many of you are unaware of the risks these data thefts pose and what cyber criminals aim to do with your data.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>In this article, I’m going to highlight the facts that stolen data is of great important in the underground of the internet. But, how much does it costs to get someone’s stolen data in the Dark Web. Well, not more than $1.</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>         The data breach at the Hacking Team would be still reminiscent in your memories that revealed many dark secrets about this complex network. The recent hack at Ashley Madison gives us more hints how desperate cybercriminals are to compromise millions of user accounts and personal information.</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>         In the latest report of Trend Micro, named Understanding Data Breaches, the firm outlines some important details about the data breaches. The report explains how data breach takes place and what happens to this stolen intellectual property.</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 firm’s research shows that only 25 percent of data leaks are caused due to some malware or hacking attack- instead, the insiders are a common reason behind these data losses. Other reasons include the use of physical skimming devices and loss/theft of storage devices.</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 report contains other information regarding the most affected sectors and the damages done to an organization. However, one interesting aspect deals with the Dark Web and the worth of your personal identifiable information (PII).</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>              For those who wish to learn more about the underground internet, you can learn it from these useful links: The Dark-Deep Web and Everything about Tor.</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 PII sales are made in the Dark Web on a per-line basis of approximately $1. When I’m mentioning per-line basis, this means that each line of data contains a name, a date of birth, an address, a social security number and other personal information. So, if someone knowledgeable buys this data, he/she can cause serious damage. The report says that with the recent increase in the data breaches, the supply has increased and thus the prices have decreased.</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 price of other information like credit card details ($25), bank account details ($200-$500) and PayPal($300) accounts goes much higher. The compromised Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and other accounts are also up for sale and you can even grab an account belonging to the US mobile operate for as low as $14.</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>         Talking about other personal information, scanned documents like passports, driver’s licences and bills could be purchased from $10 to $35.</i></span></div> </div>

Your Stolen/Hacked Identity is Sold Just For $1 in The Dark Web

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Elon Musk described the ‘Mars Nuking Plan’

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlSFYTvqkNaU_aG1Cbd_v5p2aAnsOanhzPQ0WM_y64FCniAU59Z4XXYRFil1dQGk_mGtTWGmknISKIXfNuGfnxKoY3ia501z6xQzFB0CU0QSmikjlyRwcaBwTig347TEli-6v_7sjn4U/s1600/elon-musk-plans-nuke-mars-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="364" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlSFYTvqkNaU_aG1Cbd_v5p2aAnsOanhzPQ0WM_y64FCniAU59Z4XXYRFil1dQGk_mGtTWGmknISKIXfNuGfnxKoY3ia501z6xQzFB0CU0QSmikjlyRwcaBwTig347TEli-6v_7sjn4U/s640-rw/elon-musk-plans-nuke-mars-.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Elon Musk’s plan to nuke Mars to make it habitable could have substance. After his crazy idea made headlines look what he has in for its explanation.</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;">           Elon Musk is an intelligent man, but his idea of nuking Mars to make it habitable made him look more like a crazy scientist than a technology pioneer who founded organizations like Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and PayPal.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Musk gave his plan to speed up the warming process of the red planet to make it liveable on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert which could not be digested by most of the viewers including Colbert himself who compared him to the supervillain Lex Luthor.</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;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">            Now, Musk tries to clear the air as he explains what he meant by nuking Mars. He said that he didn’t want to blow up the Martian surface but create tiny pulse suns over the planet’s North and South pole. As we all know our Sun itself is a product of nuclear fusion which helps Earth to stay warm, while the greenhouse gases add to the process.</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;">        As per Musk’s plan, “Launch a series of fusion bombs above the planet, not on the planet and create two tiny suns over its poles after every several seconds. Let the process continue for some time which will gasify frozen carbon dioxide, thicken the atmosphere and warm up the water and all of that would have a greenhouse effect.”</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;">         The crux of Musk’s intent is to fasten up the warming of our neighbour and make it liveable as soon as possible. After all, he realizes our Earth is pushing its limits to sustain life while others are making merry.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Via: <a href="http://fossbytes.com/elon-musks-crazy-idea-lets-drop-nuclear-bombs-on-mars-to-make-it-habitable/">Mashable</a></span></div> </div>

Elon Musk described the ‘Mars Nuking Plan’

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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>

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How To Schedule A Shutdown For Windows OS?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf0wCIkpbvJNaHZqQFazL2XkXZuGOB-FR-ZMKVxvBU_xzUns0uVVKKPUmbRM5BTs_bD0lnBRbQrJI31g5T2dyi7vW-puasq3sukjygqeWoYFhApuWRTlOzi-M7DT3KR-3BPqYj7XCHoWI/s1600/Capture-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf0wCIkpbvJNaHZqQFazL2XkXZuGOB-FR-ZMKVxvBU_xzUns0uVVKKPUmbRM5BTs_bD0lnBRbQrJI31g5T2dyi7vW-puasq3sukjygqeWoYFhApuWRTlOzi-M7DT3KR-3BPqYj7XCHoWI/s640-rw/Capture-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>This article describes the steps to schedule a Shutdown command for Windows OS. Take a look.</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 very first task we learnt was to Turn ON and Shutdown Windows when we were kids, and sometimes we felt the need to shut down Windows after a specified time in case of an emergency or due to some other reason, but couldn’t find a way to do so.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>In this article we’ve described a step-by-step process to schedule a shutdown command for Windows OS. This method has been tested on Windows 10 & Windows 7, hopefully it’ll work on other versions too.</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>It is recommended to read all the steps carefully before implementing them.</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>Here are steps:</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>1. Go to your <b>Desktop.</b></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>2. Right click -> <b>New -> Shortcut</b>. A new window will open, asking the location for the shortcut.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <img alt="schedule shutdown" height="466" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Shutdown-1.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>3. Now, you need to recall your primary math concepts.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>4. We have,</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>         1 minute = 60 seconds</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>         1 hour = 60 minutes*60 = 3600 seconds</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>5. After you’ve successfully recalled the conversion of minutes to seconds. Type, <b>shutdown –s –t 60</b> in the text field below ‘Type the location of this item’.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <img alt="schedule shutdown" height="449" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Shutdown-2.jpg" width="640" /></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>6. The number <b>60 </b>written in the above command stands for seconds, so type the number of seconds after which you want to schedule a shutdown. For example, we tested it to <b>shut down after 1 minute (60)</b>, and it worked successfully.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>7. Click<b> Next, </b>when you’re done typing the command.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>8. In the next step, name the file <b>Shutdown.exe.</b> You can name it whatever you like, but don’t forget to add<b> ‘.exe’</b> at the end of the file name.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <img alt="schedule shutdown" height="470" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Shutdown-3.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9. Click <b>Finish </b>and you’re done.</i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>10. Now, just double-click the<b> Shutdown.exe </b>file created on your desktop whenever you need to schedule a shutdown after a minute gap.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This is a one-time process and you don’t need to repeat it again. Just double-click <b>‘Shutdown.exe’ </b>and leave the rest to your Windows PC.</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><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>If you feel the need to change the time limit, just delete the existing<b> ‘Shutdown.exe’ </b>and create a new one with a different time limit, following the above steps. You can keep the existing file also, just choose another name for the next file you create.</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>And it is solely your responsibility if anything goes wrong with your PC. No offence please.</i></span></div> </div>

How To Schedule A Shutdown For Windows OS?

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_93Oq8T2G66G9Z2s2qt5lSSFHZ6igFHlaci8rEzInMI9GmlekjNwXDpjV-QQBoh3uqZQaSgTOFk__Sj3giEzzxa3yBbbLli2Nk9wJBhR5T9SuqZX1rfE2h799ijeo6AV6-GB0A18_Wjc/s1600/linus-torvalds-linux-kernel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></a><i style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="372" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_93Oq8T2G66G9Z2s2qt5lSSFHZ6igFHlaci8rEzInMI9GmlekjNwXDpjV-QQBoh3uqZQaSgTOFk__Sj3giEzzxa3yBbbLli2Nk9wJBhR5T9SuqZX1rfE2h799ijeo6AV6-GB0A18_Wjc/s640-rw/linus-torvalds-linux-kernel.jpg" width="640" /></i></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><b>SP's: </b>Today’s the 24th first anniversary of 1st Linux kernel release. October 5th is the day when Linus Torvalds released the 1st Linux kernel.</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;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span id="goog_826858077"></span><span id="goog_826858078"></span><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>If you remember, back in August, we celebrated the birthday of Linux. August 25th is the day when Linus Torvalds first told the world that he was working on a project named Linux. However, the Linux community celebrates October 5th as another anniversary of Linux.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>So, is Linux confused about its birthday just like Google? Well, October 5th is the day when Linus released the first kernel.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Today, Linux is running the world and more companies are adopting it to run their systems.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>On the occasion of Linux kernel birthday, The Linux Foundation shared some interesting facts about the same. Let’s take a look at them:</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Version 0.01 of the Linux kernel had 10,239 lines of code.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Version 4.1, released in July 2015, has more than 19 million lines of code.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The current Linux kernel is the result of one of the largest collaborative projects ever attempted.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Nearly 12,000 developers from more than 1,200 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since tracking began 10 years ago.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The rate of Linux development is unmatched. The average number of changes accepted into the kernel per hour is 7.71, which translates to 185 changes every day and nearly 1,300 per week.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>As of last month, 115,013,302 total lines of source code were present in The Linux Foundation’s Collaborative Projects.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It would take a team of 1,356 developers over 30 years to recreate the code base in these projects.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The total economic value of this work is estimated at more than $5 billion.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>These facts are taken from The Linux Foundation‘s anniversary post.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Are you using a Linux machine right now? Tell us in the comments below.</i></span></div> </div>

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Android 6.0 Marshmallow Coming Today, These Devices Will Get the Update First

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="Android-Marshmallow-rollout-date" height="382" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Android-Marshmallow-rollout-date.jpg" width="640" />Google has announced that it will begin the Android 6.0 rollout on October 5. The update will be coming to many older Nexus devices, read more to know the list.</i></span></div> <br /> <br /> <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>Google, at its San Fransisco event, released two new Nexus devices. The flagship Nexus 6P is made by Huawei and the smaller model Nexus 5X is made by LG. As usual, these brand new Nexus devices will be running the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The new operating system was announced officially at the Google event. The company also mentioned that the older devices will be soon getting the update next week.</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>Google made clear that Android 6.0 Marshmallow will begin the Android 6.0 rollout from October 5.</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 new Android OS update will be available for the Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 7 (2013), Nexus 9 and Nexus Player. However, devices like the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 (2012) and Nexus 10 will continue running the Android Lollipop.</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>New Android 6.0 Marshmallow will feature improved security measures with the revised app permission system that allows users to have a better control. The other important features include the new Now on Tap feature that makes Google more intelligent and provides better contextual results just inside the app.</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>Google hasn’t revealed the details of the dates when its partner careers and manufacturers will be releasing the update.</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>While a very insignificant number of devices are running Android Lollipop, the fate of Android 6.0 Marshmallow update hangs in the balance.</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>Which Android version are you running? Tell us in the comments below.</i></span></div> </div>

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Successful People Have Better Brains, Shows Study

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <i style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="brain map" height="282" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/pulse-sequences-fig3.jpg" width="640" />Scientists have figured out that there is a relation between brain’s neural connections and our behavior traits. It means that we can assume that more successful people have better brains.</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></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>Next time, you don’t need to feel like a criminal when your parents compare your results with Sharmaji’s son in the neighborhood. In fact, you can confidently say that he has a different brain. All credit goes to a study done by some scientific minds at the Oxford University.</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>Scientists have figured out that brains of those people who live positive lifestyle are better connected than those who live a negative lifestyle and with negative behavior traits. They did some brain scans and realized that positive traits like better education, high salary, strong memory, mental peace led to the fact that their brains were more connected than those people who negative traits like drinking, smoking, anger, sleep disorders.</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 study was conducted by Center for Functional MRi of the Brain, Oxford University, under the guidance of Professor Stephen Smith. While talking to Steve Conner from The Independent, Smith explained the very basic methodology they implemented in their study:</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>“We’ve tried to see how we can relate what we see in the brain to the behavior skills we can measure in different people. In doing this, we hope to able to understand what goes on ‘under the bonnet’ of the brain.”</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The research team used the data from the Human Connectome Project, here on HCP, which is a collection of brain imaging data of around 1200 people published in 2010. The goal of HCP is to find out how closely the different regions of the brain connected when it is on stand-by mode.</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 data for 461 of those 1200 people, aged between 22 to 35, has been released by HCP. Smith’s team analyzed their brain connections and compared the results with 280 behavioral and demographic measures like age, social status, financial status, drug addiction, etc.</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>At a press release, Smith said:</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 quality of the imaging data is really unprecedented. Not only is the number of subjects we get to study large, but the spatial and temporal resolution of the fMRI data is way ahead of previous large datasets.”</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Smith and his team elaborated how they were able to map the brain of individual subjects and come up with personalized ‘Connectomes’. These Connectomes depict the neural connections between 200 different areas of the brain. These Connectomes are used to measure how closely these regions are connected and how efficient is the communication between them, keeping in mind, the amount nerve signalling going on in those regions.</i></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;"><i>“You can think of it as a population-average map of 200 regions across the brain that are functionally distinct from each other. Then, we looked at how much all of those regions communicated with each other, in every participant.”</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>-Stephen Smith</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><b>Proceeding further, </b>Smith’s team did some serious maths calculations, way more than geeks can imagine, on the individual data of 280 behavioral and demographic traits. It is basically a Canonical Correlation Analysis(Google it), which involves identifying relationships between two large sets of complex variables.</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>They concluded, the people who were more positively oriented in their lives, had almost same characteristics and their different brain regions has a more close relationship than the ones who were negatively oriented in their lives.</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>“It may be that with hundreds of different brain circuits, the tests that are used to measure cognitive ability actually make use of different sets of overlapping circuits. We hope that by looking at brain imaging data we’ll be able to relate connections in the brain to the specific measures, and work out what these kinds of test actually require the brain to do.”</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>-Stephen Smith</i></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;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>In a general opinion,</b> it isn’t wise to comment on the correlation between the brain’s neural network and human physical & behaviour traits at this point of time, as considerable research is yet to be done in this field. However, such studies will benefit and support the outcomes of any future studies involving human brain. But till then, at least we can give some sympathy to our lazy lives.</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: center;"> <span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Watch</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> this video and improve your understanding about Human Connectomes:</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="video-container" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 356.391px; position: relative; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TxlV50P6NEI?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 356.391px; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: center; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.594px;" width="720"></iframe></div> </div> </div>

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What Is the Difference: Viruses, Worms, Ransomware, Trojans, Bots, Malware, Spyware etc?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"> <img alt="antivirus-protection (FILEminimizer)" height="368" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/antivirus-protection-FILEminimizer.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="640" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>If you are among the ones who consider malware, worms, viruses to be the same thing then you’re on the wrong track. Read further, and improve your knowledge about these terms.</i></span></div> <br /> <br /> <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>If you’re a regular or even an occasional computer user, then you might’ve heard the terms like Viruses, Worms, Trojans, Bots, Malware, Spyware, etc. But honestly speaking, we consider all these to be a Virus, no matter, whatever be their type. But have you ever tried to acknowledge, what is the difference between these terms, although they are meant to harm your device, steal your data or spy on you, have you ever thought why they are named so differently. Basically, terms like Viruses, Trojans are all types of malicious software or simply ‘Malware’.</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>Now, the first and foremost question arises, where did these terms came from?</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>Clearly, they are not some out of the world aliens, in fact the real truth is that they were not even created with an intention to harm someone.</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 history of malware attacks goes back to 1949, when John von Neumann, first developed the theoretical base for self-duplicating automation programs, but the technical implementation was not feasible at that time. The term ‘Computer Virus’ was first used by Professor Leonard M. Adleman in 1981, while in conversation with Fred Cohen.</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 first computer virus named ‘Brain’ was coded by two brothers Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were from Lahore, Pakistan. Brain was meant to infect storage media based on MS-DOS FAT file systems. It was originally designed to infect the IBM PC, it replaced the boot sector of its floppy disk with the virus. The virus program changed the disk label to ©Brain and the defected boot sectors displayed this message:</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>Welcome to the Dungeon (c) 1986 Basit & Amjads (pvt) Ltd VIRUS_SHOE RECORD V9.0 Dedicated to the dynamic memories of millions of viruses who are no longer with us today – Thanks GOODNESS!! BEWARE OF THE er..VIRUS : this program is catching program follows after these messages….$#@%$@!!</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>However, as you may presume, there was no evil intention behind this. Alvi brothers said in their interview with TIME magazine, they created the virus only to protect their medical software from piracy, aimed at copyright infringement acts.</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>Coming back to Malware, these are malicious software designed to harm a computer which may or may not be connected to a network. Malware only get in to action when there is a computer involved in the game otherwise the term Malware is of no use.</i></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Malware are of the following types:</b></i></span></h3> <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>Worms: These programs have the ability to replicate themselves. Their sole objective is to increase their population and transfer themselves to another computers via the internet or through storage media, all the work is done like a top secret mission hiding their movement from the user. They don’t cause any harm to the computer, their replicating nature consumes hard drive space, thus slow down the machine. Some of the notable worms are, SQL Blaster which slowed the internet for a small period of time, Code Red took down almost 359,000 websites.</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>Viruses: They also have the ability to replicate themselves, but they do damage files on the computer they attack. Their main weakness lies in the fact, they can get into action only if they have the support of a host program, otherwise they’re just like a defeated warrior. They stick themselves to songs, videos, and executable files and travel all over the internet. W32.Sfc!mod, ABAP.Rivpas.A, Accept.3773 are some of the examples of Virus programs.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>The Virus Gang:</b></i></span></h3> <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>File Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Macro Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Master Boot Record Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Boot sector Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Multi-Partite Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Polymorphic Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Stealth Viruses</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Feel free to Google anyone of them if you like.</b></i></span></h3> <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>Trojans: Basically, Trojans are no Viruses, and are not meant to damage or delete files on your system. Their sole task is to provide to a backdoor gateway for malicious programs or malevolent users to enter your system and steal your valuable data without your knowledge and permission. JS.Debeski.Trojan is an example of Trojan.</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>They are named after the ‘Trojan Horse’ tale, in which Greeks entered the city of Troy with the help of a wooden horse which was meant to be a gift, but turned out to be a sweet poison, as depicted in the movie Troy.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>The Trojan Gang:</b></i></span></h3> <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>Remote Access Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Data Sending Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Destructive Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Proxy Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>FTP Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Security Software Disabler Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Denial-Of-Service Attack Trojans</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Feel free to Google anyone of them if you like.</b></i></span></h3> <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>Adware: Adware are used to display advertisements in the programs. They generally come attached with software programs that are free to use as they are the only source of revenue for the developers of those software programs. Adware can’t be completely called as Malware as they have no intention to harm your machine, they only track what advertisements you’re more interested in, so as to display the relevant advertisements on your screens.</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><b>Spyware: </b>These programs also come attached with other freeware software, track your browsing and other personal details and send it to a remote user. They can also facilitate installation of unwanted software from the internet. Unlike Adware, they work as a standalone program and do their operations silently.</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><b>Spam: </b>You get very irritated when you receive unwanted emails from unknown senders, these are called Spams or junk mails. And the process of flooding the internet with the same message is called Spamming, is done for the purpose of commercial advertising. These junk mails may sometimes contain Viruses or Trojans that enter your system as soon as you open the mail.</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><b>Bots:</b> Bots or Robots are automated processes that are designed to interact over the internet without the need of human interaction. They can be used for good and bad intentions. An evil minded person can create a malicious Bot that is capable of infecting the host on its own. After transmitting itself to the host device, a Bot creates a connection with central servers which act as the command centers for the infected hosts attached to that network, called Botnet.</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>Their skills include stealing passwords, logging keystrokes, analyzing network traffic, relay spam, launch DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and open back doors on infected hosts. These Bots can be seen as the advanced form of Worms, their infection rate and tactic is more effective than those of Worms. These malicious Bots are created after a lot of hard work done by their malignant creators.</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><b>Ransomware: </b>These type of malware alter the normal operation of your machine, thus barring you to use it properly. Thereafter, these programs display warning messages asking for money to get your device back to normal working condition.</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;"> <i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After reading all this, you might be thinking why people create Malware. Here are some reasons which may compel a coder to write malware codes:</i></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>Take control of a person’s computer for personal or professional reasons.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>To get financial benefits.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>To steel confidential data.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>To prove their point regarding a security breach can be done on a system.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>To take down an individual computer or a complete network.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>and many more….</i></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How can you protect your Computer :</i></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Keep your system up to date.</i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Use genuine software.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Install an antivirus software and update it regularly.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Set-up a firewall, may it be custom as provided by antivirus software. Windows has an in-built firewall option in case you don’t want to use a custom firewall.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Never open unknown emails that generally reside in your Spam folder.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Never open unknown links, use online website safety checker tools if you’re not sure to open a website. :) </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>By taking these simple measures, you can effectively keep your machine free from Malware and other potential threats.</i></span></div> </div>

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Steve Jobs Advised Zuckerberg To Visit Indian Temple

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img alt="s_jobs_m_zuckerberg_a_l" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/s_jobs_m_zuckerberg_a_l.jpg" />Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he went to visit India when he got lost on the road to his Facebook mission on the advice of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.</div> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In a highly anticipated townhall session last weekend that included the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he took a trip to India when he was in his lowest morale.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Among the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Mark-Zuckerberg-says-that-visiting-an-Indian-temple-at-the-urging-of-Steve-Jobs-helped-him-stick-to-Facebooks-mission/articleshow/49130605.cms">highlights of over 50 minute Q&A session</a> at the Facebook headquarters at the Menlo Park, California, Zuckerberg confessed that he visited a temple in India following the advice of Steve Jobs. Zuckerberg said,</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Early on in our history when things weren’t really going well – we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook – I went and I met with Steve Jobs and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> And the result, Facebook is one of the biggest brands today and has declined billion-dollar offers to reach the top.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> India being one of the favorite places for the spiritual wanderers, Mark was urged by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to visit Kainchi Dham Ashram in Nainital, in the Indian state of Uttrakhand. The temple is an ashram of Baba Neem Karoli who was looked upon as an incarnation of Lord Hanuman.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Zuckerberg reminisces that it was in India he saw people being connected to each other and learned the importance of what he was doing at the moment- developing Facebook to connect the world.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> As it is well known that the current target of Facebook is to connect everyone and its ambitious but highly criticized Internet.org (some say it intends to monopolize the Internet) is a step towards achieving that goal.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Now, it seems a bit skeptical that Zuckerberg chose to tell this particular story while he was with the Indian PM as the incident meant so much to him. So either Facebook’s Internet.org will really do people some good, or this could this be another shrewd strategy from America’s one of the richest men.</div> </div>

Steve Jobs Advised Zuckerberg To Visit Indian Temple

Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he went to visit India when he got lost on the road to his Facebook mission on the advice of Apple co-foun...

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