Hacker Installs Windows 95, Windows XP and GTA On His Smartwatch

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="android-windows-watch" height="403" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/android-windows-watch.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Corbin Davenport, a 16-year old developer, has installed Windows XP, Windows 95, DOOM, GTA III and other software on his smartwatch. Read the complete story here and watch the videos.</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;">Windows 95 was the first operating system for many people and it changed the people’s perception of personal computing. Back then, the OS ran of chunky desktop PCs and people were loving the newly introduced Start Menu. Same kind of love was received by Windows XP and it still powers millions of PCs.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, the Start Menu is once again back with Windows 10 and people are loving this addition. Yesterday, I was killing some time on YouTube and I came across this amazing hack, that allowed a programmer to install Windows 95 and other famous software and games on his smartwatch.</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;">Corbin Davenport, a 16-year old web developer from Georgia has somehow managed to run Windows 95, Windows XP and other software on his Samsung Gear Live smartwatch.</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;">In the video below, the Windows 95 OS boots and takes same time to boot and the hacker is able to navigate around the OS using his fingers. Davenport accomplished this by using aDosBox, a DOS emulator that you can find in Google Play Store.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GZx-LJH5J_I" width="560"></iframe> </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;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is not the only software Davenport installed on his smartwatch. Below is a video of his Samsung Gear Live smartwatch running GTA III.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xyxt2DhqVU4" width="560"></iframe> </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;">You can watch more videos on his YouTube channel to see Windows XP, Temple Run 2, Macintosh II and more software on his smartphone.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you like these videos? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

Hacker Installs Windows 95, Windows XP and GTA On His Smartwatch

SP's: Corbin Davenport, a 16-year old developer, has installed Windows XP, Windows 95, DOOM, GTA III and other software on his smart...

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Has Time Come For Us To Become Multi-Planet Species?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="elon-musk-leave-earth" height="377" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/elon-musk-leave-earth.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Earth is pushing its limits to sustain humans. The uncertainty factor regarding our planet’s future plays a major role as well. So, are we ready to become a multi-planet species?</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;">If humanity ever comes up against an enemy that is too difficult for the entire species to ward off, then what would we do? Do we have a plan for that? Well, as ill-equipped as we are, the best human race could do is to move to other earth-like planets, maybe in some other solar systems or just make the planet in ours habitable by nuking it.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, if you ask of the dangers that earth could face, there would be quite a few of those. Let’s see, from the top of my head, mass extinction (man-made and spearheaded by climate change), then comes the possibilities of war (within humanity or with aliens!!), and one of the most dreaded asteroid collision that annihilated the last predominant species- the dinos.</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, the technology pioneer of the century is specifically apprehensive of Earth’s future and has advised humans to become multi-planet species as soon as possible. And, you know why he is in such a hurry?</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;">Blogger Tim Urban has explained the current scenario very beautifully in this analogy. He says, Imagine Earth as a hard drive which has already crashed five times (you do remember the five mass extinctions right!) and losing out most of its data each time (species).</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;">Now listen to this fact: If the universe is time-scaled into one year, then humans would come into existence on 31st December, 23:58 hours!!</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, drawing from above, we would probably be witnessing another hard-drive crash that could happen any second now. Therefore we must have a backup planet, after all there should always be a Plan B. How about our Red neighbour then? We have also found water there and life supporting Nitrogen too had been detected!</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, how well are we prepared? NASA is the preparing to send manned mission to Mars on its Orion Capsule. Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX wants to take humans to Mars and not just a few colonizing humans but over a million to speed up the infrastructure over there.</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;">Well, if everything goes as per the plan humans would on the red planet by the next decade. And, thus be a dawn of the era of the multi-planetary human species.</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;">For more visualization on the subject, watch Interstellar. 😛</span></div> </div>

Has Time Come For Us To Become Multi-Planet Species?

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Why WikiLeaks Wants a Video of US Bombing on a Hospital for $50K?

<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/AVvXsEhgq1aD-SabCdtM5qY5YUhF2kntBFXNn717kBbMzvfC5VQu1C4_q_kSiIXiol0bagiW1kEiXg6YQQ8MYXRtPm3i6K9puDzG4nY2irckYRnEI9CambofTZ6cCNpxl73rOlF3oIAI5weqUQw/s1600/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img border="0" height="262" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgq1aD-SabCdtM5qY5YUhF2kntBFXNn717kBbMzvfC5VQu1C4_q_kSiIXiol0bagiW1kEiXg6YQQ8MYXRtPm3i6K9puDzG4nY2irckYRnEI9CambofTZ6cCNpxl73rOlF3oIAI5weqUQw/s640-rw/Capture.PNG" width="640" /></i></span></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Wikileaks has offered a bounty of $50,000 to anyone who could bring out any credential video evidence of the US bombing of the MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <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;">America’s recent bombings on the Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) hospital in the Kunduz city of Afghanistan was condemned worldwide in which over 20 staff members and patients were killed and dozens injured.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The investigation for war crimes is in talks now, meanwhile Wikileaks has offered to give $50,000 bounty to anyone who would bring in the video footage of the horrific bombings.</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;">Now, $50K is a big bounty and so the video also needs to be special, say like a first-hand evidence from the cockpit and audio conversation from the Lockheed AC-130, the fighter that dropped bomb over MSF hospital.</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;">Pentagon has claimed the accident as a collateral damage and apologized for the loss. However, the shocking revelation by the MSF staff that the terrifying bombings continued even after the US was made aware of the fact raises many questions over the US hegemony and intervention in the world affairs.</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;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The whistleblowing forum wrote on its website, “The AC-130 records its attacks with high-resolution gun cameras. According to military procedure, this footage should have been retained along with the cockpit audio. A post-massacre inquiry report referred to as an ‘AR 15-6′ should have also been commissioned. We are raising a US$50,000 bounty to obtain the footage, the cockpit audio, the inquiry report and other relevant materials such as the Rules of Engagement active at the time.”</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;">Wikileaks is pushing for a crowdfunding donation to raise the bounty for the prized evidence that could bring the actual plan of the forces and expose the US intent.</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;">It should be noted that Wikileaks has previously pushed for crowdfunding to get confidential information for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which was hailed as the worst thing to happen to the Internet, and then the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).</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;">All these crowdfundings are a part of Wikileaks Prize for Understanding Good Government. Wikileaks, it seems, after a long hiatus has come back to its form and ready to spill all the secrets.</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;">Are you ready for the truth?? Tell us in comments below.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> </div>

Why WikiLeaks Wants a Video of US Bombing on a Hospital for $50K?

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USB Killer Version 2.0 is Here to Burn and Destroy Your Computer

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="usb-killer-v-2-" height="380" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/usb-killer-v-2-.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>he maker of USB Killer is here with the USB Killer version 2.0 – a more advanced version of the computer frying USB drive. The Killer USB v2.0 is more refined as it now dumps the -220V directly onto the USB signal wires.</i></span></div> </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;">Earlier this year, I told you about the a proof-of-concept computer-burning USB Killer drive, which was designed by a Russian researcher known as the “Dark Purple” in the online world. He, along with his colleagues from his workplace, created a USB drive that could destroy a laptop in no time.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, Deep Purple has decided to develop the USB Killer Version 2.0 – a new version of his computer-frying USB Killer pen drive. As you would expect, USB Killer version 2.0 is more powerful than its predecessor and is capable of doing a lot more damage.</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 researcher used a small board, a DC/DC converter, a FET, and a few caps to create the first USB Killer pen drive. When that USB Killer was plugged into the PC, the converted charged the caps to -110V and then dumped that voltage into the USB signal wires. This process was repeated till the computer or the port fried.</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 USB Killer Version 2.0 is more refined as it now dumps the -220V directly onto the USB signal wires.</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;">“The main feature of the new version of the device is increased twice, “output” voltage, it is now 220 (strictly speaking, minus 220). Also in the new version the efforts were aimed at making the device even more compact, as in the first version had slightly modifying the body, so that everything fits,” describes Dark Purple.</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;">In the video below, Dark Purple shows how he destroyed his new Thinkpad X60 while testing the USB Killer 2.0.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_TidRpVWXBE" width="560"></iframe> </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;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After frying the laptop, Deep Purple wrote, “Do not worry about the laptop, the new motherboard is on the way – and the laptop will live again.”</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;">It should be noted that it’s not a brand new concept and USB drive are used as a valid weapon to compromise the system in air-gapped network.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, take a moment before you insert a newly-found USB drive in your laptop as it could KILL your laptop.</span></div> </div>

USB Killer Version 2.0 is Here to Burn and Destroy Your Computer

SP's:  he maker of USB Killer is here with the USB Killer version 2.0 – a more advanced version of the computer frying USB drive....

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How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Laptop?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img height="300" loading="lazy" src="http://img.wonderhowto.com/img/67/57/63501371518960/0/use-dropbox-track-and-locate-your-stolen-laptop.1280x600.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <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> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></em></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">E</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;">lectronic devices, especially laptops, have become an essential part of our lives rather than a luxury product, that they were considered in the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;">past. Only a mere thought of losing your precious device will give you goose bumps, but what if it really vanishes from your vicinity – thanks to the guy who has the courage to do that magical act.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jokes apart, in this article we have added some ways that can be used to find your stolen laptop in case of any theft.</span></span></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 34px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.7px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Trace your Laptop’s IP address:</span></h2> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gmail:</span></h3> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Facebook:</span></h3> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dropbox:</span></h3> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dropbox also provides a session tracking feature. Just sign-in to you Dropbox account and click your name, a drop down menu will appear. Then click on “Settings” option. Click on Security tab, here you’ll find the list of all your active and past sessions. Just hover on the “i” right next to the country name to know the approximate location and similarly, click the “i” next to time (under Most Recent Activity) to know the IP address and time of the session.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 34px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.7px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prevention is better than cure:</span></h2> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <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> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are the steps you need to follow in order to setup Prey:</span></span></div> <ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <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;">Go to <span 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; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://preyproject.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://preyproject.com</a></span></span></li> <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> <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;">After that, Sign-in to your Prey account and look for a green plus button right next to <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;">Your Devices</span>.</span></li> <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;"><span style="line-height: 28.8px;">Choose your preferred operating system and Prey will start downloading the appropriate application to your device.</span><img alt="stolen laptop" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Prey-01.jpg" /></span></li> <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;">Install the application by clicking the usual <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;">next, next, next</span>. It’ll take few minutes to install.</span></li> <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;">At the end of installation, keep the <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;">Set-up Prey</span> check box ticked and click Finish.</span></li> <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;">A new window will open. 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;">Existing User</span> option, as you have already created your Prey account.</span></li> <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;">Enter your login credentials and 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;">Connect</span>, a popup will appear, ”Sweet! Your Computer is now protected by Prey. Try it out or protect an additional device, please visit <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">preyproject.com</span>”.</span></li> <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;">OK</span> and you’re done.</span></li> <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;">You can track your device online by simply logging into your Prey account in any web browser.</span></li> <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;">If you lose your device, just log-in to your account and click your lost device in <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;">Your Devices</span> section. Then 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;">Set Device To Missing</span>.</span></li> <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;"><span style="line-height: 28.8px;">A box will appear, set the </span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Report Frequency</span><span style="line-height: 28.8px;"> as per your convenience. Click</span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Advanced Options</span><span style="line-height: 28.8px;"> to find more options. Here you can select, if you want to take snapshots of the person using the device via webcam. Using the snapshot feature may alert the person using the laptop as the webcam LED will blink after regular intervals, creating a suspicious environment for that person.</span><img alt="find laptop" height="484" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/prey-02.jpg" width="640" /></span></li> <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;"><span style="line-height: 28.8px;">Click </span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, my device is missing</span><span style="line-height: 28.8px;">. In the next box, you can set whether the device is </span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOST</span><span style="line-height: 28.8px;"> or </span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">STOLEN</span><span style="line-height: 28.8px;">. You can also share the lost information with Prey Inc. in the next option.</span><img alt="prey 03" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/prey-03.jpg" /></span></li> <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;">Whenever you need to know the current status of your device just click the<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;">Maps and Action</span> option in the device section.</span></li> <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;">When you find your device, just <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;">Set Device To Recovered</span> and prey will stop the live tracking of your device.</span></li> </ol> <div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <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> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <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> </div> </div>

How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Laptop?

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Crypto Backdoor Isn’t The Only Way To Hack Into Your iPhone

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="iphone-6" height="419" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/iphone-6.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: C</b>rypto backdoor entry isn’t the only way for the cops to access your data. You think your iPhone is the most secure device and you are safe from security breaches? </i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <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;">Most people think that government has pacts with the tech service industry in order to get its hands on their data. But it is not so. Recently we saw Microsoft fighting with the government to protect your data.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The latest decision of the White House to dismiss the request of the intelligence officials to push tech companies to create a backdoor access to the encrypted data gives a glimmer of hope to the citizens. After all the crazy surveillance laws and confirmation of echelon– NSA’s secret spying program, this comes as a relief to the public as accessing their private data would not be that easy. Well, that’s the general opinion.</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;">Encryption has not been the best of the techniques to serve as a bastion against the law enforcement. In fact, cops easily bypass the encryption wall set up by the tech companies as a line of defence against the infringement.</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;">Chris Soghoian is a principal technologist for the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and he asserts that the standards of encryption that the users are provided is equivalent to protection from a thief stealing our laptop, but is no match to a dedicated cop who will ultimately get access to your data by any means, with or without a writ.</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;">iPhone or other user-oriented computers that boast of their security measures are also vulnerable to exploits. Even when FBI claims Apple to be the hardest nut to crack in the tech and security business, there are other ways to get entry into an iPhone apart from the crypto backdoor system, according to Nick Weaver, a security researcher at Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute.</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;"><b>Unprotected iCloud</b></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;">Apple proudly introduced default disk encryption for all its iPhones last year. But where does your data go? It is saved into your iCloud backup and there is now law to stop the cops to screen through all the information from the iCloud. All they need is to summon Apple and hell loses over your privacy.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, to avoid that you must disable the automatic upload option in your iPhone.</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;"><b>Touch ID Fingerprint</b></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 revolutionary security tactic as claimed by Apple could actually favour cops against you. They don’t need to ask for your passwords or be deceived by wrong pattern designs. A thumb impression won’t be difficult for the officials to get from you.</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;"><b>iPhone Backup on Laptop</b></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;">Many people have unencrypted phone backups on their laptops and cracking through one is not a big deal for the security experts. Also, the ‘pairing key’ that confirms an iPhone of the trusted PC, could be accessed and then used in any computer to retrieve your data.</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;"><b>Siri Just Won’t Stop Talking</b></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;">Even if your iPhone is locked, there are chances that Siri will answer the questions if the feature is not disabled from the lock screen. Siri would even blurt out your recent call records and contacts.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Breaking and Entering</b></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;">Well, a few weeks back we saw a bounty of $1 million for a zero-day exploit on Apple iOS 9. And, a method has already been devised to break in into any iPhone through its Airdrop BlueTooth connection. Although, the patch has been distributed for the flaw, but as we have always maintained- nothing is unhackable! S0 better raise your guards.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, we see the high-level crypto backdoor technique isn’t the only weapon in the law enforcement arsenal. You can avoid these simple vulnerabilities by turning off the defaults in your iPhones and take extra care for your privacy.</span></div> </div>

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How Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Pays Less Tax than You?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="facebook-tax-less-uk--" height="406" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/facebook-tax-less-uk-.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b> If you are living in the UK, you are paying more tax than Facebook. Don’t be angry, it’s nobody’s fault. Read more to know how it’s possible. </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;">Just when you finished calculating your yearly taxes and cursed your government enough, this happens. In the UK, Facebook has paid just £4,327 for the year 2014 as the corporation tax and generated £105 million ($161 million) in sales.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is lesser than an average UK worker who paid about £5,393 and earned just  £26,500.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, how did this happen? Did Facebook do something illegal to save the taxes?</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;">Well, you’ll be disappointed to know that the answer is NO and they didn’t make just the right kind of taxable profit.</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;">Still confused? Let’s get into the details (I’ll be thanking <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34505151/why-do-i-pay-more-tax-than-facebook" target="_blank">BBC </a>for that)</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 corporation tax, we are talking here, is only paid by companies- not individuals. According to the UK laws, the firms making more than £300,000 a year need to pay 21% tax on the profits they make.</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;">In the UK alone, Facebook has made about £105 million ($161 million) in sales.</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;">But, then comes the part where we talk about the technical aspects and loopholes. All the money that a company makes, isn’t a taxable profit, especially when the company spends a great portion of the earnings.</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;">Out of the total £105 million, Facebook spent more than £35 million on its UK-based staff and gave them share-based bonuses. So, as the BBC describes, before paying the taxes, Facebook made a “pre tax” loss of £28.5 million.</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;">Thanks to all these technicalities, Facebook manages to pay less tax that you.</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;">Even though everything is legal and well documented, Facebook is attracting some controversies. It’s being claimed that the social networking company is draining out its profits from the a country with the one of the lowest tax rates.</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;">Yes, I’m talking about the Republic of Ireland, where tax rates are about half that of the UK.</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;">In a statement to BBC, a Facebook spokesperson says: “I’m not saying no comment, but there is no further comment to the statement. We are compliant with UK tax law and in fact all countries where we have employees and offices. We continue to grow our business activities in the UK.”</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;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

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10 Steps To Defeat Hacking Attacks (And What To Do After You’ve Been Hacked)

<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/AVvXsEiIKYWVoT9muCiipr2XQcshCOkhXO0j1HjmktMmTAM9f29TBDnGQutyVYhyphenhyphenX0ib9gaQ5Ap9NuKslw5u7gKX1s3kkfLHYV7vDG60coB2WuRSba5zH9hRBspwyXVvl0OGGQH52Pw0_M89Y-w/s1600/save-yourself-hacking-attack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" height="376" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIKYWVoT9muCiipr2XQcshCOkhXO0j1HjmktMmTAM9f29TBDnGQutyVYhyphenhyphenX0ib9gaQ5Ap9NuKslw5u7gKX1s3kkfLHYV7vDG60coB2WuRSba5zH9hRBspwyXVvl0OGGQH52Pw0_M89Y-w/s640-rw/save-yourself-hacking-attack.jpg" width="640" /></i></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">SP's: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the third article of the “Steps to Effective Security” series, I’ll tell you 10 steps to defeat hacking attacks and what to do after you’ve been hacked. Read more to know them.</span></i></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;">In my Steps to Effective Security series, previously I’ve written articles to tell you how to check if you’ve been hacked and what happens to your data after data breaches.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this article, I’m going to tell you the first steps that you need to take to defeat hacking attacks – and after you’ve been hacked. These days, getting phished, hacked or becoming a victim of some malware attack isn’t uncommon. The data breaches are on the rise and each day numerous types of malware are being discovered in the wild.</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;">If you’ve realized that you’ve been hacked or you’re vulnerable to hacking attacks- what is the next step? What to do after you’ve been hacked? How to defeat hacking attacks?</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are some simple steps:</span></h3> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Calm down. It happens. But it’s time to act.</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you’ve found that you are a victim of some data breach, most of the time it’s not even a threat. However, you need to ask yourself some questions. You need to introspect and revisit the security measures you are taking to secure your online life.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. Now reset all your passwords and defeat hacking attacks</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The first and foremost step after you’ve been hacked it to reset all your passwords. Use new and strong passwords that are a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, digits and symbols.</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;">Also, avoid reusing a password as it’s something that we do unconsciously. Another thing that you must keep in mind while creating strong passwords, don’t ever create a passwords that have your personal information.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3. Check your account statements and make changes</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thoroughly review financial account statements related to the affected accounts for some unusual activity. Look for new payment methods, new accounts linked, or new shipping addresses. Hackers targetting your online accounts with one obvious reason related to money.</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;">You need to check your credit card reports for suspicious activities and of you find anything fishy, cancel that card and book a new one.</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> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4. Connected accounts too can do the damage</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Very often, one online account is linked to other accounts. The compromised email account could be the one your used to verify some other email account. Same applies to your online banking and e-commerce accounts. So, it’s a safe practice to perform a security checked for all accounts and update the passwords.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5. De-authorize all connected apps</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All the apps you’re using on your phone are connected to some email account or your Facebook account. So, it would be an obvious decision to de-authorise all these apps. This could be a pain to re-authorize all the apps, but it’s the right to do.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6. Use two-factor authentication to defeat hacking attacks</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While setting up the new accounts, enable the option of two-factor authentication. This method adds an extra layer of security to your accounts. Don’t skip it, it makes your account 4-5 times more secure.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here’s how to enable two-factor authentication for Facebook, Google etc.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">7. Recover your accounts</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All the major services like Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and Apple provide a detailed guide to get back your account after you lose its control. Just search for account recovery for your service and follow the steps.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8. Update your PC and phone</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A very high percentage of hackers target yo using the vulnerabilities in your PC and phone operating systems. If you are running older versions, there is a possibility that your device isn’t getting regular security updates.</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;">Go to system settings and find the update system to perform the update. Make this a regular habit to protect yourself.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9. Scan your devices for malware</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Using a worthy anti-malware tool is another important step. Download some good antivirus product and don’t hesitate to pay for it. Here’s a list of the best antivirus solutions for Windows. If you choose to go for free products, you can check out this top free antivirus list.</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;">Don’t forget to update your product as no matter how solid your antivirus product is, it’s useless if its virus database definitions are outdated.</span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10. Tell your friends and family. Spread awareness to defeat hacking attacks</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well, after fixing all the loopholes, it’s time to go to your friends and family members. As them about the basic steps they are taking to keep themselves secure and tell them where they are lacking.</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;">Educate people to defeat hacking attacks. If this happened to you, it could happen to anybody.</span></div> </div>

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Did Google Copy Qwant’s Logo or Is It Just A Coincidence?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><img alt="qwant-google-hd" height="341" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/qwant-google-hd.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Google changed its logo on September 1, 2015, but it has raised many eyebrows with its striking similarity to the European search engine Qwant.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <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;">Google strives to be the best and for that it hires the best professionals. The tech giant’s complex recruitment process is well known and even its logo had to go through the rigorous screening 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 Google revamped its logo on September 1, 2015, explaining the company’s futuristic approach and ideology, the logo made an instant news. While many appreciated the Futura-like font, others ripped off the new design as a copy from another search engine of Europe, Qwant.</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;">Qwant was launched in Europe in February 2013 and got its new logo in April 2015, four months before Google did it. Qwant is gaining popularity in Europe on its USP of security, privacy, and zero trafficking. Thanks to recent revelations by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Google is being targeted by many on these fronts.</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;">Google’s new logo and Qwant’s icon has many similarities. The netizens were the first to deduce the infringement or maybe a coincidence. Both the search engines got a fair share of supporters. Take a look:</span></div> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en"> <div style="text-align: center;"> Qwant / Google ;-) <a href="http://t.co/pzWGsZGPzB">pic.twitter.com/pzWGsZGPzB</a></div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> — Geoffrey Dorne (@GeoffreyDorne) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeoffreyDorne/status/638827918307651584">September 1, 2015</a></div> </blockquote> <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;">Inspite of Qwant executives considering infringement claims, not everyone thinks that this is a creativity theft. But, then again you always get a reply on Twitter.  </span><br /> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/Awstein">@Awstein</a> Google is obviously threatened by Qwant and their company is falling behind. That's why they need to copy... oh wait. Nevermind.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> — Julien Kauffmann (@julienkauffmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/julienkauffmann/status/639123594312871936">September 2, 2015</a></div> </blockquote> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This will perhaps make it easy to visualize Qwant and Google’s similarity:</span> <br /> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <div dir="ltr" lang="und" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/Jcchemin">@Jcchemin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/qwantcom">@qwantcom</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Korben">@Korben</a> <a href="http://t.co/ALsEiGooJF">pic.twitter.com/ALsEiGooJF</a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> — 3.14R (@314R) <a href="https://twitter.com/314R/status/638793381221658624">September 1, 2015</a></div> </blockquote> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, what do you think? Is it really a copy or a mere coincidence? Tell us in comments below.</span></div> </div>

Did Google Copy Qwant’s Logo or Is It Just A Coincidence?

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