Do you know, Google is also a Dangerous Website?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>Do you know, Google is also a Dangerous Website?</strong></h2> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <img alt="" src="http://www.cyberintelligence.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/174804978595487650228606478461233360.gif" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: none; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> It is a shocking but true news. Internet giant always wants high transparency between users and <strong>Google</strong>. Therefore according to Google's latest transparency report, most used search engine “<strong>Google.com</strong>” is also a dangerous website at some points.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>What is the Main reason behind it?</strong></h2> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Google is handling a number of <strong>malicious websites</strong>, which owns misleading and illegitimate content. Nothing is hidden from the internet users. We daily read about different scams and online frauds on the internet. It is happening through the <strong>malicious websites</strong> which has been designed by the<strong>hackers</strong>, to target people for installing malware in their systems.  Google released a note for users in their latest transparency report to protect themselves from the malicious activities. There is need to understand that “if <strong>Internet</strong> is a solution of every problem then it is also a home of problems.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>What is Transparency Report?</strong></h2> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Transparency report is like a user manual for internet users. Google is publishing it to aware the people about internet threats. It is a detail report of all private and official websites, which includes threats ratio and malicious activities ratio. <strong>Google</strong> represented a list of malicious websites in their latest transparency report and it has included itself also in this list. According to Google, they are containing many malicious websites, which are redirecting users to other third party websites for installing malware in their systems.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Some top websites are vulnerable to </span><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;">cyberattacks </strong><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">and hackers are using these websites to trick the users for visit their scripted sites. </span><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;">Cross Site Scripting (XSS) </strong><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">vulnerability is one from them. Google is also releasing updates for</span><strong style="line-height: 1.6em;"> “Chrome” </strong><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">browser to provide it more immunity against malicious websites. Have you ever experienced a red coloured pop-up on Chrome, which warns you against malicious websites? That is due to presence of security scripts in browser, which are capable to read and understand the signatures of hyperlinks.</span> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <strong>Google’s Webmaster</strong> tool is very beneficial for those people, which are interested in legitimate business. Google will automatically send notifications to the user about his website’s issues. Then he can fix that issue for better business and services.  For a clean and legitimate website, Google’s Webmaster is very helpful.<br /> <a href="https://www.cyberintelligence.in/" target="_blank">Source:- https://www.cyberintelligence.in</a></div> <div> <br /></div> </div>

Do you know, Google is also a Dangerous Website?

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Security Tips for Online Shoppers! Your Security is in Your Hands!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>Security Tips for Online Shoppers! Your Security is in Your Hands!</strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <img alt="" src="http://www.cyberintelligence.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/256337421272452678748362686468927102.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: none; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> This is the era of internet and everything is available online. We can buy anything from e-commerce websites. Different countries have different e-commerce websites. During online purchasing, we need to fill sensitive information of our credit cards, debits cards and internet banking accounts to make the payments. If this information goes into wrong hands, we can face a huge loss. It is the responsibility of website to keep our information secure from hackers. But our security is in our hands. Our little mistakes during internet surfing, may lead us to a big problem. Here are some security tips for online shoppers, which could be helpful for us to protect our sensitive financial information:</div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>1. Restrain Yourself from Third Party Links</strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Mainly criminals effect PC’s through malwares by manipulating users to click and open malicious third party links . Occasionally phishing emails enclose spelling errors and poor grammar with which we can spot them . Nevertheless, attacks that are made intentionally are  indistinguishable from genuine emails. Ultimately Social media is also helping attacks. Hackers can get information about interests of targets and they can send them crafted emails. Hard coded malwares behind these links will install itself automatically, when target will click on the link.</div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>2. Practice Dissimilar Passwords on Different Sites </strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Typically individuals have , up to 100 online accounts, people use to share limited passwords across accounts . Many dictionary words are easily crackable . So use a different technique to set a password , ex- now for every site login page add some words to the password , such as on Facebook add F or B on front and end of the password . It should be  unguessable for others but for you, quite memorable.</div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>3. Set a Different Recovery Email instead of Main Email Account</strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> A hacker who compromised your main email can get access to all others accounts  because mostly main mail is used to reset the password from other accounts . A criminal can use this method and can access your  personal data such as  passport details, date of birth, which all enables the hacker  to fraud ID . </div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>4. Use Paid Anti-Virus Tools</strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Researchers found that there were 49 million new malwares after every five years , means  that anti-virus software manufacturers are involved in a constant game of "whack-a-mole". Mostly  their reaction is slow , they are much like flu viruses and vaccine design, it takes the software engineers some time to catch up with the hackers.</div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>5. Avoid Unnatural Social Media Invitations</strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Simply  say no to social media invitations from people you don't know. It's the cyber equivalent if you are inviting unknown to your personal connections.  Social Media scams are in a wild now a days. Your single click may lead you in a big trouble. </div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>6. Think Twice Before Sharing Information</strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Again, the major risk is ID fraud. Scanning for individual  personal details is the new era equivalent of "dumpster-diving", in which hackers searching for private documents . Think , once that information is out over social media , you have no idea how others can use it.</div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>7. Use "Wipe Your Phone" Feature</strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Apps such as Find My iPhone, Android Lost , BlackBerry Protect etc allow you to remotely remove all your private data  so your device should Absolutely, set it up . In the case you lost the phone, you erase data and can protect  info falling into the wrong hands. </div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;">  </h2> <h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <br /></h3> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>8. Trust Only Secure Sites </strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Before entering credentials, ensure that the locked padlock is screening in your browser . Next online retailer's  address will alter from "HTTP" to "https" to specify a connection is secure. Away from sites that change back to Http after login. Hackers may use fake websites to collect victim's financial details. These fake websites will look like the original ones. You have to make yourself aware about it. For example: Hackers may use, "www. ebaynew.com" to manipulate the users of "www.ebay.com".</div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <br /><strong>9. Avoid  Pop-Up Ads </strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Pop-ups may be filled with malicious tools which can trick customer and can steal credentials. Always ignore pop-ups proposing things like site surveys on commercial sites, as they are sometimes where the malicious code is.</div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>10. Say No To Free Wi-Fi </strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Mostly Wi-Fi hotspots do not use data encryption. So the  information filled by users, goes in clear text .That means hackers can  search your data by packet sniffing that being transferred on a Wi-Fi network in unencrypted form. Never surf sensitive websites on public wifi. If you have to use, then always use a VPN. </div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>11. Use Multiple Email Accounts</strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Try  one for the bank ,other for shopping and one for social  sites . Suppose if one account is hacked, others accounts are safe .  It also helps you spot  many phishing emails like  if  the mail came in your shopping account, apparent to come from your bank, you can immediately find it's a fake.</div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>12. Even Mac’s Are Not Secure </strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> It's obvious that Macs are less targeted, simply due to the lesser number of users , but this is changing. So determined crackers  can find new ways to exploit users on almost any OS. For your kind information, iOS and OS X was on the first place in the list of 2015 for having maximum vulnerabilities.</div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;">  </h2> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>13. Never Use Save Password Feature of Browsers and Websites</strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Mass data security holes aren't common but don’t take the risk. Never save your user id and password in browsers and websites. By mistake, if your browser has been compromised hackers could steal your credentials. Some extra seconds it takes to fill details each time is a small price to pay. </div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;">  </h2> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>14. Two-step Verification is The Best Option </strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> If your online service  offering, it  set this up. In addition , you just have to verify yourself through the code sent to your phone every time. It little fuzzy but provide huge security. So a hacker might find your password, but without filling temporary verification code account is secure.</div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <br /><strong>15. Lock Your Phone and Tablet Devices </strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> It's your first line of defense , however next-generation devices may employ fingerprint scanning technology as additional security but still there is time to it. Never share your devices with anyone, if you have stored your sensitive information in it. As a saying, "Walls Have Ears".</div> <h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <br /><strong>16. Recognize the Difference Between Fake and Genuine Discount Offers</strong></h2> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Hackers may send spoof emails to users by offering them catchy and higher discount offers. By manipulating the targets, they can collect credit card and banking detail of users from here by setting up a fake payment gateway. Aware yourself to recognize these type of scams.</div> <div style="color: #746f6f; float: left; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> </div> <div class="table_row" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-top: 10px; width: 960px;"> <div class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-title="Security Tips for Online Shoppers! 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Security Tips for Online Shoppers! Your Security is in Your Hands!

Security Tips for Online Shoppers! Your Security is in Your Hands! This is the era of internet and everything is available online. W...

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Beware Android Users! Hackers could use “SpyNote” named Trojan to Record Your Calls!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>Android Users! Hackers could use “SpyNote” named Trojan to Record Your Calls!</strong></h2> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <img alt="" src="https://www.cyberintelligence.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/120765811908066007229153777321469868811.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 300px; max-width: 100%; width: 500px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <strong>Security Researchers</strong> have found<strong> “SpyNote”</strong> named Trojan on dark web. The Trojan has been leaked its authors in a number of underground forums. Hackers could use this<strong> Trojan</strong> very soon, to target Android users. This Trojan is capable to record all the “Incoming” and “Outgoing” calls of victim. This is a dangerous Trojan and researchers have no idea, how hackers will distribute it. Hackers are also familiar with the security methods, used by Android. Might be, they could use some new ways to spread it. This Trojan is very harmful because of the following reasons:</div> <ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; width: 960px;"> <li><pre>SpyNote can steal all the text messages of victim.</pre> </li> <li><pre>This Trojan has a built-in microphone, that’s why it is capable to record all the Incoming and Outgoing calls of Victim.</pre> </li> <li><pre>It can control the camera of infected device SpyNote can also steal contact list of device.</pre> </li> <li><pre>Hackers could make fraud calls and can send fraud text messages from the infected devices.</pre> </li> </ul> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>Why and How Hackers will Use This Trojan?</strong></h2> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> Security Researchers at<strong> Palo Alto Networks</strong> said, <strong>“The malicious code of this Trojan is not depend on the root access of device. At the starting point, it has to install a list of functions and codes but after that it can install itself automatically.” </strong>Hackers have used a Windows Application to build at. By using this application, hackers release customized malicious APK packages of this “SpyNote Trojan”. Hackers could spread this Trojan under different names, command servers and icons.<strong> Hackers </strong>are not using this Trojan in wild yet. Security Researchers are trying to get know about the methods, which hackers can use to distribute this Trojan.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;">  </h2> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>Manual Installation</strong></h2> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> In this case, criminal needs physical control of the device. He can manually install “SpyNote” in the device and could target the victim. For Example:</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <span style="color: #444e5d; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;">A person can gift you an android phone after installing “Trojan” in it to spy on you.</span></div> <ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; width: 960px;"> <li><pre>Your colleagues can install Trojan in your device if they know the password of your device.</pre> </li> </ul> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444e5d; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 960px;"> <strong>How to Avoid it?</strong></h2> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <strong>Cybercriminals</strong> mostly use, <strong>third party App Stores</strong> to spread their malicious applications. Android devices have a feature <strong>“Install Apps from unknown Sources”</strong>. To avoid these type of Trojans, “Disabled” this feature. By default it is<strong> “Disabled” </strong>but you need to check it once before installing application from app stores. This is very smart Trojan and it can also bypass security methods used by Google to get place in official<strong> “Play Store”</strong>.  Make sure, you are using latest version of Android because it has advanced anti-malware functions to block the installation of these type of Trojans.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #746f6f; float: left; font-family: Telex, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 960px;"> <strong>“Never install applications from third party App Stores because </strong><strong style="line-height: 22.4px;">these App Stores are the homes of Malwares”</strong></div> </div>

Beware Android Users! Hackers could use “SpyNote” named Trojan to Record Your Calls!

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List of Top Malware Threat for Q2 2016 Is Here

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="intro"> Since the last three months, Locky ransomware has topped the charts of all malware families, according to the <a href="https://www.proofpoint.com/sites/default/files/quarterly_threat_summary_apr-jun_2016.pdf">quarterly report</a> from security vendor Proofpoint.</div> <div class="intro"> Locky is in dominant position and it is no surprise to anyone following infosec sector. This ransomware family was distributed and created by one of the largest cyber-crime syndicates in the world, the very same people behind the famous Dridex banking trojan, which is one of the most commonly encountered malware threats.</div> Just to understand what happened in second quarter, you need the bigger picture of this entire year. 2016 started huge, with Locky appearing on the scene for the first time and slowly gaining more traction with rapidly growing numbers.<br /> <div class="mgbot_20"> This ransomware was spread not just by spam messages but also using exploit kits. Also spam was Locky’s main method of distribution, either by malicious Office files containing macro scripts or by ZIP files that contain malicious JavaScript files.</div> <div class="mgbot_20"> The spam distribution was at record numbers for almost all year, from January to May, Proofpoint detected  some periods hundreds of millions of spam messages in a day.</div> <div class="mgbot_20"> Spam numbers came down in June, when one of the Dridex main botnets, Necurs that is  responsible for distributing Locky ransomware, <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/necurs-botnet-comes-back-to-life-after-three-weeks-hiatus-505510.shtml"><strong>shut down for about three weeks</strong></a>.</div> <div class="mgbot_20"> Just in the same time, <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/all-clues-point-to-the-death-of-the-angler-exploit-kit-505135.shtml"><strong>Angler exploit kit was also closed down</strong></a>, and a month earlier in May, so did Nuclear exploit kit.</div> <div class="mgbot_20"> Necurs eventually came back online by the end of June, but these three blows made Q2 a better quarter in terms of malware distribution compared to Q1.</div> <div class="mgbot_20"> Nevertheless, when it was active, the botnet helped Locky win the top spot as Q2’s most active malware threat. According to the company’s data, Locky dominated spam distribution in Q2, replacing the Dridex trojan as the most popular spam malware, while the CryptXXX ransomware remained the favorite malware spread via exploit kits.</div> <a href="https://i1.wp.com/codingsec.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/locky-ransomware-was-top-malware-threat-for-q2-2016-506716-4.png?ssl=1"><img alt="locky-ransomware-was-top-malware-threat-for-q2-2016-506716-4" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6659" data-recalc-dims="1" src="https://i1.wp.com/codingsec.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/locky-ransomware-was-top-malware-threat-for-q2-2016-506716-4.png?resize=300%2C150&ssl=1" /></a><br /> <div class="mgbot_20"> <br /></div> </div>

List of Top Malware Threat for Q2 2016 Is Here

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Phew! Supreme Court Rejects the Petition to Ban WhatsApp in India!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WhatsApp-Messenger-Mobile-App-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="159" src="http://trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WhatsApp-Messenger-Mobile-App-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"> While <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="http://trak.in/tags/business/2016/06/27/whatsapp-voice-calls-2/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="WhatsApp is at an all time high these days">WhatsApp is at an all time high these days</a>, Sudhir Yadav, an RTI activist from Gurgaon, had filed a petition in Supreme court in May to <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="http://trak.in/tags/business/2016/05/03/whatsapp-ban-india/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="ban WhatsApp application in India">ban WhatsApp application in India</a>, simply because of the end-to-end encryption feature on the app.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"> WhatsApp’s reason for encryption was to safeguard all user chats from being deciphered or hacked through any other medium. Only the sender and receiver will be able to view the messages on their devices, and it sort of was a good thing from the company’s side. However, according to Yadav, such a feature imposes threat from terrorist activities in India.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"> In the case’s hearing on 29th Jun, Supreme Court dismissed Yadav’s petition to ban WhatsApp in India. The plea also emphasized on the fact that the encryption is so strong that no one can hack it, and WhatsApp doesn’t have any measures on their end to decode them.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 3.3rem; line-height: 4.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.8rem;"> Is Supreme Court right in doing this?</h2> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"> To be fair, and this is coming straight from a daily WhatsApp user, the encryption does help the users have their privacy, but at the cost of security. In fact this is not just about national security, even cases of murders and similar incidents get muffled by this so called encryption.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"> If you remember the 2015 <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.google.co.in/search?q=san+bernardino+case&oq=san+bernardino+case&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3j69i59j69i61.3099j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="San Bernardino attack">San Bernardino attack</a>, the iPhone used by the killers had to be unlocked to uncover some information related to the case itself. However, due to Apple’s security measures, even NSA could not break open the phone. Ultimately FBI took help from ‘specialized hackers’ to unlock the phone, which NSA had almost given up on.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"> Such a similar scenario is quite possible in India as well, which has witnessed its fair share of terrorism and unpleasant activities. Yadav’s theory is that there should be a balance between privacy and national security, and WhatsApp is more concerned about the former.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"> Brazil banned WhatsApp as soon as the company published its encryption policy, while the UK is searching for ways to reduce encryption. This new feature has put all the Governments around the world in a fix, and such a problem needs to be solved by a mutual agreement between WhatsApp and the Government.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"> What do you think about Supreme Court’s decision? Should WhatsApp continue to provide privacy at the cost of security or should there be a middle path so that everything is balanced?</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"> <a href="http://trak.in/" target="_blank">Source:-Trak.in</a></div> </div>

Phew! Supreme Court Rejects the Petition to Ban WhatsApp in India!

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How to secure your Facebook account against hackers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/04_03_2016-facebook-security-690x336.jpg?4877f6" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="155" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/04_03_2016-facebook-security-690x336.jpg?4877f6" width="320" /></a></div> <h2> A step-by-step guide for you to secure your Facebook account against hackers</h2> These simple and quick tips provided below will help you to better safeguard your Facebook profile. By following these instructions, you can restrict access to and use of your posts, photos, and other information.<br /> <h2> 1. Ensure what you want your friends and others to see</h2> To restrict access to your past and future Facebook posts, click on the cog icon in the top right hand corner of the screen. Then, click Privacy in the left pane in the Account Settings. Then choose Limit Past Posts under “Who can see my posts?” and Edit to the right of “Who can see your future posts?” in the same section. A warning appears when you attempt to limit access to all your past posts at once rather than changing the setting post-by-post.<br /> <blockquote> <strong>Choose from:</strong><br /> <strong> Public (open to everyone)</strong><br /> <strong> Friends</strong><br /> <strong> Only you</strong><br /> <strong> Custom (which allows you to limit some of your friends from seeing your posts)</strong></blockquote> Select whatever option is best for you. However, ensure that ‘Public’ isn’t selected, as whatever you select will then become the default every time you post an update. You though still have the option of selectively changing this for each individual update you post in the future.<br /> <h2> 2. Limit access to who can contact you on Facebook</h2> By default, this is set to allow friends and people you may know the opportunity to send you a message to your inbox. If you want only friends to be able to contact you, you can increase the filtering on your inbox. Other messages will then be diverted to your ‘other’ folder which you can access from your Messages screen.<br /> In addition, you can limit who can send you a friend request. By default, anyone can try to befriend you on Facebook, but if you’d rather limit that a bit you can change it so only friends of your friends can add you as a friend:<br /> <h2> 3. Limit who can find your profile based on your email address and/or telephone number</h2> The final option from the Privacy Settings and Tools screen allows you to control who can find you using your email address or telephone number. Under ‘Who can look me up?’, click Edit next to the line that says ‘Who can look you up using the email address or telephone number you provided?’ Change the setting to ‘Friends of friends’ or ‘Friends’ only.<br /> <h2> 4. Set up login approvals</h2> An extended security feature offered by Facebook, Login approvals will require you to enter a security code each time you try to access your Facebook account from unauthorized devices.<br /> To activate Login Approvals, go to <strong>Account Settings > Security,</strong> look for <strong>Login Approvals</strong> and click on the <strong>Edit</strong> button.<br /> <div style="float: none; margin: 0px 0 0px 0; text-align: center;"> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-9567424144805280" data-ad-slot="2710193057" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="display: inline-block; height: 15px; width: 468px;"><ins id="aswift_4_expand" style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 468px;"><ins id="aswift_4_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 468px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="15" hspace="0" id="aswift_4" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_4" scrolling="no" style="left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0;" vspace="0" width="468"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div> <div class="et_social_media_wrapper"> <img alt="Login Approvals" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login.jpg" height="187" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login.jpg" width="500" /><br /> <div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"> An option to activate Login Approvals will appear, tick the check box to activate.</div> </div> <div class="et_social_media_wrapper"> <img alt="Activate login approvals" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login-activate.jpg" height="153" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login-activate.jpg" width="500" /></div> A popup window will appear with descriptions of login approvals, click on the<strong>Set Up Now</strong> button to continue.<br /> <div class="et_social_media_wrapper"> <img alt="Setup Now" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login1.jpg" height="357" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login1.jpg" width="500" /><br /> <div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"> </div> </div> If you already register your mobile number, Facebook will automatically send you a code via SMS. Enter this code in the given box and click <strong>Submit Code</strong>.<br /> <div class="et_social_media_wrapper"> <img alt="enter code" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login2.jpg" height="220" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login2.jpg" width="500" /><br /> <div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on">  Next, Facebook will offer you to setup a Code Generator from your mobile phone; this is useful in case you are unable to receive SMS. Click Continue.</div> </div> <h2> 5. Create Strong Password</h2> It is advisable to ensure that your Facebook password is unique and different from your other online accounts e.g. email, blog, hosting etc.<br /> To change your password, go to <strong>Account Settings > General > Password</strong>.<br /> <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-40936 no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20.png?4877f6" data-srcset="" height="325" sizes="(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20.png?4877f6" srcset="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20-300x165.png 300w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20-768x423.png 768w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20-1024x565.png 1024w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20.png 1128w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20-300x165@2x.png 600w" width="590" /><br /> <div class="et_social_media_wrapper"> <br /> <div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"> For the best password, you can use a combination of small and capital letters, numbers and symbols.</div> </div> <h2> 6. Enable Secure Browsing</h2> Facebook last month made secure browsing as default for all the users. To ensure you are using a secure connection whenever one is available, click Security in the left pane of Facebook’s Account Settings and ensure that ‘Secure Browsing’ is enabled.<br /> To start securing your account, click on the drop down menu from the top right corner of your Facebook account and go to <strong>Account Settings</strong>.<br /> <div class="et_social_media_wrapper"> <br /> <div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on">  <img alt="How to secure your Facebook account against hackers" class="wp-image-40935 aligncenter no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19.png?4877f6" data-srcset="" height="384" sizes="(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19.png?4877f6" srcset="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19-300x227.png 300w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19-768x581.png 768w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19.png 798w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19-300x227@2x.png 600w" width="507" /></div> </div> Select <strong>Security</strong> from the left menu.<br /> <div class="et_social_media_wrapper"> <img alt="Security" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-security.jpg" height="339" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-security.jpg" width="500" /><br /> <div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"> </div> </div> At the <strong>Secure Browsing</strong> section, click on the <strong>Edit</strong> link at the right.<br /> <div class="et_social_media_wrapper"> <br /> <div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on">  <img alt="safe-fb-secure" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-40937 no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/safe-fb-secure.jpg?4877f6" data-srcset="" height="175" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/safe-fb-secure.jpg?4877f6" srcset="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/safe-fb-secure-300x105.jpg 300w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/safe-fb-secure.jpg 500w" width="500" /></div> </div> The option panel will appear, ‘check’ the box <strong>Browse Facebook on a secure connection</strong> then click on the <strong>Save Changes</strong> button.<br /> <div class="et_social_media_wrapper"> <img alt="Security Settings" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-security-settings.jpg" height="250" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-security-settings.jpg" width="500" /><br /> <div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"> </div> </div> The security settings also allow you to enable log-in notifications and approvals, and view and edit your recognized devices and active sessions. Click Edit to the right and then Remove next to the device’s entry to remove a device. Similarly, click Edit to the right of Active Sessions and choose End Activity or End All Activity to end one or all active Facebook sessions, respectively.<br /> <h2> 7. Avoid Spam Links</h2> Avoiding spam or untrusted links is a cardinal rule to follow if you want to get avoid hacked on any platform including Facebook. Facebook is always improving its features to ensure you are safe from being a victim to scams. Never click suspicious links, even if they appear to come from a friend or a company you know. If you receive a link, always take the extra step of asking them whether they had sent it. Never give out your username or password to anyone, including websites with doubtful links and layouts.<br /> Always login only at www.facebook.com and not from any other link or website, unless you are accessing via Facebook App. To ensure that your browser’s security is up to date update your browser to its latest version, so that it can detect and notify you with a warning when you are navigating to a suspected phishing site.<br /> <a href="http://www.techworm.net/" target="_blank">Source:- http://www.techworm.net/</a></div>

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U.S. Court Rules FBI Can Hack Computers Without Warrant

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/fbi-can-hack-any-computer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/fbi-can-hack-any-computer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> FBI doesnt need a warrant to hack computers, rules U.S. Court</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Federal Bureau Investigations (FBI) may no longer need the proposed amendment to the <a href="http://www.techworm.net/2016/06/vpn-providers-tor-devs-fighting-rule-41.html" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rule 41</strong></a>as a U.S. court has ruled that it doesnt need warrants to hack into computers.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> As of now FBI needed a warrant from a court to hack into any computer in United States or around the world. A proposed <a href="http://www.techworm.net/2016/06/vpn-providers-tor-devs-fighting-rule-41.html" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">amendment to Rule 41</strong></a> would have allowed FBI to hack into computers behind Tor or VPN without warrant and based on suspicion that the user indulged in illegal activities.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> A U.S. court has ruled that the FBI can hack into a computer without a warrant. The US court delivered this landmark judgement in the case involving FBI’s hacking of child pornography site, <a href="http://www.techworm.net/2016/04/judge-deems-warrants-issued-fbi-honeypot-playpen-child-porn-campaign-illegal.html" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Playpen</strong></a>, that had been accessible through Tor, a browser designed for anonymous web surfing.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> If you have been following Playpen story, you would know that FBI had hacked into Playpen in 2014 and instead of taking it offline, FBI had converted <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Playpen</strong> into a <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.techworm.net/2016/01/fbi-child-porn-sexually-explicit-users-arrests.html" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">honeypo</a>t</strong> to trap even more pedophiles.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The FBI used Playpen to track down and arrest its members by hacking their computers by  secretly collect their IP addresses. On of the alleged members of Playpen had filed a case against FBI in a US court arguing that FBI had seized evidence against him unlawfully.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Earlier the US court had declared the FBI hacking as illegal but the latest judgement by a  U.S. court in Virginia has ruled in favor of the FBI, according to court documents <a href="https://www.eff.org/files/2016/06/23/matish_suppression_edva.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">unsealed</a> on Thursday.</div> <aside class="nativo-promo smartphone" id="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></aside><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The judge, Henry Morgan, ruled that even though the FBI obtained a warrant to hack into the suspect’s computer, none was needed.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The suspect may have used Tor to keep his browsing anonymous, but his IP address still isn’t private information, the judge wrote in his ruling. This is because the IP address is given out to third parties in order to access the Internet and even the Tor network.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Privacy advocacy group, Electronic Frontier Foundation, is opposed to this part of the ruling.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “The implications for the decision, if upheld, are staggering,” wrote Mark Rumold, an attorney with the group in a <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">blog post</a>. Law enforcement could seize information from a person’s computer without a warrant, probable cause or any suspicion at all, he said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The arrested Playpen user has a option of going to the higher court to challenge the Virginia court’s decision but until then FBI will have unfettered powers to hack your computers.</div> </div>

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Privacy of billion Indians at risk as Indian Parliament set to pass Aadhaar Bill

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Untitled-21-702x336.png?4877f6" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Untitled-21-702x336.png?4877f6" width="320" /></a></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> India’s Aadhaar biometric database will have billion Indians irises, raises privacy fears</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Parliament of India is set to pass the Aadhaar Bill that would allow federal agencies access to the world’s enormous biometric database in the interests of national security, raising fears that the privacy of a billion people could be compromised.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The move say some privacy advocates could also help in surveillance far more invasive than the US telephone and internet spying exposed by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Launched in 2009, the Aadhaar ID database scheme was established to streamline payment of benefits and reduce huge wastage and fraud. Nearly a billion people have registered their finger prints and iris signatures. Data collected under the project is encrypted and stored within national data centres in Bangalore and Manesar.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Now the BJP, who have inherited the scheme want to use a loophole to bypass the opposition in Parliament and pass new provisions including those on national security. In an effort to secure passage before lawmakers go into recess, the Centre brought the Aadhaar legislation to Rajya Sabha today as a financial bill – which cannot be rejected. It can be returned to Lok Sabha, but here the ruling party holds a majority.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “It has been showcased as a tool exclusively meant for disbursement of subsidies and we do not realise that it can also be used for mass surveillance,” said Tathagata Satpathy, a lawmaker from Odisha.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Can the government … assure us that this Aadhaar card and the data that will be collected under it – biometric, biological, iris scan, finger print, everything put together – will not be misused as has been done by the NSA in the US?”</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has safeguarded the legislation, citing that an estimated 150 billion rupees (approx. £1.6 billion) was saved by the scheme in the financial year 2014-2015. A finance ministry official added that the BJP would ensure that people’s privacy is respected and that third-party federal access would only be granted in special cases.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> According to another government official, the new law is in fact more limited in scope than the decades-old Telegraph Act, which permits national security agencies and tax authorities to intercept telephone conversations of individuals in the interest of public safety.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> However, political opponents and religious minorities also worry that abusive management of the database could be used as a tool to silence and harass individuals considered as potential security threats.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Cybersecurity experts have further argued that a central reserve of biometric data in the world’s most populated democracy could present a huge risk if compromised.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We are midwifing a police state,” said Asaduddin Owaisi, an opposition MP.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Global policy director at Access, an international digital rights organisation, Raman Jit Singh Chima said the proposed Indian law did not have the transparency and oversight safeguards found in Europe or the United States, which last year changed its bulk telephone surveillance programme.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He pointed to the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which must accept many surveillance requests made by intelligence agencies, and European data protection authorities as oversight mechanisms not present in the Indian proposal.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> New Delhi-based PRS Legislative Research in its assessment of the measure, said law enforcement agencies could use someone’s Aadhaar number as a link across numerous datasets such as telephone and air travel records.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> That would allow them to identify patterns of behaviour and discover potential illegal activities. But it could also lead to harassment of individuals who are identified incorrectly as potential security threats, PRS said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Maintaining a central database is akin to getting the keys of every house in Delhi and storing them at a central police station,” said Sunil Abraham, executive director at the Center for Internet and Society in Bengaluru.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “It is very easy to capture iris data of any individual with the use of next generation cameras. Imagine a situation where the police is secretly capturing the iris data of protesters and then identifying them through their biometric records,” he said.</div> </div>

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5 Top Reasons To Install Linux On Your Laptop

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/linux-tux-console1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/linux-tux-console1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Here are the top 5 reasons why you should switch to Linux on your laptop</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> If you are a little more adventurous and are prepared to select some other operating system than Mac OS or Windows 10, then you may want to try Linux. This operating system not only has a lot of features that saves your time but also makes your working a little less boring. The best part is that Live Installations let you try out the software before you wipe your entire hard drive.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Linux is available in different flavors called distros (distributions) and the choice is yours which one you want to opt for. By far, Ubuntu is the most popular desktop distro and is a good place to start for novices. In this article, the focus is on that. However, once you have understood the basics, please feel free to go ahead the pros and cons of some others.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1. You don’t have to abandon Windows (or OS X)</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> In order to try Linux-Ubuntu, you need not ditch Windows (or Mac OS). Ubuntu can run very happily on a dual-boot system or even directly from a USB drive. To get up and running, follow the instructions provided on the Ubuntu website: you need a USB stick at least 2GB in size or a blank DVD, and the setup process is very candid.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The advantage of using a USB drive or DVD is that your present OS remains unscathed. Alternatively, performance and receptiveness to a certain extent won’t be good. Also, in terms of some system operations you are restricted (you need to create a USB stick with the persistence option enabled in order to install apps and save files permanently).</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2. It’s easy to install</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Previously, the less tech-savvy people found it a little difficult setting up software and popular codecs on Linux; however, that is not the case anymore. For instance, Ubuntu encourages you to download codecs for commonly used audio and video formats with a single check box. It can immediately identify available Wi-Fi networks on most modern systems and connect up to them.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It is no surprise that veteran Windows and Mac OS X users may find themselves sometimes confused on how to do something when switching between operating systems of any flavour. However, there’s plenty of support always available on the web. Most users are going set up, run and happily enjoy Linux in a few minutes.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 3. It has everything that you need</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ubuntu comes bundled with Firefox for web browsing, Thunderbird for emailing and LibreOffice for making documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Other free and open source applications such as GIMP (image editing), Evolution (the Linux version of Outlook), and Kodi (home theatre and media management) are only a few clicks away.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Other well-known apps with Linux versions include Google Chrome, Skype, VLC Player, Dropbox, Slack, Plex, and Spotify. It also includes all those programs that run in a browser now, from the online versions of Microsoft Office to Google Play Music. If there’s a Windows program that you wish to bring it on the new OS, then try Wine.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 4. It is very safe</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Since very less number of people use Linux as a desktop OS, the chances of hacking such OS is relatively smaller than the other OSes. Also, it is extremely safe to run your PC on Linux OS. Right from the default given to users to the way that Linux code is developed and maintained, it is designed to keep it secure.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Linux is a very good choice for those who are security conscious, as in the event it crashes and is exposed like any other operating system out there, there are chances that only few pieces of malware will run on the platform, resulting only in limited damages. It’s also less likely to be burdened by bloat and creeping system slowness than its more well-known rivals.</div> <h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 5. You are supporting open source and free software</h2> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It is a belief that Linux is more than an operating system. Not only is the software free (for instance, like Google Chrome) but also the source code is open and free (unlike Google Chrome, for instance). You can use the OS and the bundled software completely free of charge, plus also view the code and make changes to it, if you wish to.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> You are supporting a global community of millions committed to making software free to install and use when you use Linux. That belief has helped drive improvement on the web and in Windows and OS X, as well as Linux itself. Hence, Linux is a great place to get started if you wish to plunge further into software development.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Source: <a href="http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/5-reasons-to-install-linux-on-your-laptop-1781833159" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gizmodo</a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; float: none; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-9567424144805280" data-ad-slot="9338508251" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 280px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_5_expand" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; display: inline-table; font-family: inherit; height: 280px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins></ins></div> </div>

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