September 2014
Microsoft announced Windows 10, coming in mid of 2015

Microsoft announced Windows 10, coming in mid of 2015

Just a minutes back Microsoft Threshold event started and as expected software giants  have announced its next version of the windows i.e Window 10 . Yeah.. you read right, its Windows 10, the successor to Windows 8 will officially be known as Windows 10. Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Operating System, unveiled the name, after saying Windows is used by about 1.5 billion people. “Windows is at a Threshold and now it’s time for a new Windows,” Myerson said at the …
Zautons.com: Save your Money while Online shopping - Review

Zautons.com: Save your Money while Online shopping - Review

Online shopping is nowadays quite fashionable and getting easier for users. We all like to make an online purchases but what if, you can save some amount you paid on your shopping. Isn't great...? yeah... You can save some percent of the amount you pay. Many users search for the best online deals or coupons for a particular site, and sometimes they didn't find discount coupons for their cart. So for this, I am sharing something great and awesome site 'Zoutons', where you can …
Cloudflare added SSL encryption to two million websites for free

Cloudflare added SSL encryption to two million websites for free

Do you remember the global protest campaign 'Reset The Net' against NSA ?  If you remembered that more than 100+ companies from the world wide have joined together for the campaign. On the same day all of them promised to bring a additional security features or change the security measures over their service. For that WordPress have implemented SSL connection to its own hosted WordPress sites and Google, Yahoo and others too have implemented better security measures to protect thei…
Confirmed: Windows 9 will be free to Windows 8 to Windows 8 users

Confirmed: Windows 9 will be free to Windows 8 to Windows 8 users

There was too many exceptions and rumors around the internet about the Microsoft upcoming windows version. The latest version which may be called as Windows 9 or Windows Threshold, not yet confirmed. But here is the good news that, Windows 9 will be free to all the Windows 8 users and company will provide the all latest updates free of cost to its windows 8 users. The free up-gradation to the windows 9 has been confirmed by the Andreas Diantoro, resident of Microsoft Indonesia. The news h…
More nude images of Jennifer Lawrence leaked online - Part 3

More nude images of Jennifer Lawrence leaked online - Part 3

It seems that this won't be end soon, as after a week after the  last leak more nude photos of celebrities have leaked by hackers. This is the third time that hackers have leaked the private photos of celebrities. This time again hackers have targeted Jennifer Lawrence and leaked more of her photos. This new leak hit the internet on Friday and was labeled as ' The Fappening 3 ' by subreddits and 4chan communities. The series of leaks of nude photos are not getting end, and m…
Yahoo To Shut Down Qwiki, Yahoo Education And The Yahoo Directory

Yahoo To Shut Down Qwiki, Yahoo Education And The Yahoo Directory

If you are a Qwiki user then here is a bad news for you, as Yahoo Inc. who had acquired Qwiki last July for $50 million, have now announced its end. Along with Qwiki, Yahoo yesterday announced the closing of several other products too that includes Yahoo Education and Yahoo Directory. Yahoo Education, a site specially designed to connect users to educational content and providers is been now shut down. Yahoo Directory which was started nearly 20 years ago as a directory of websites tha…
Apple Releases iOS 8.0.2 With Fix for Cellular Issues, Broken Touch ID

Apple Releases iOS 8.0.2 With Fix for Cellular Issues, Broken Touch ID

A day before many iPhone users from worldwide had reported that they are having a network and Touch ID  problem on their iPhone device after updating its firmware to iOS 8.0.1. After getting so many report Apple have immediately taken out the update files from its server, and start working to fix the issue. With the quick work by Apple team, company have today released it next version iOS 8.0.2 with the issue fixed. Apple said that the new update fixes the issue in the iOS 8.0.1 update th…
New Bash bug could be worse than Heartbleed

New Bash bug could be worse than Heartbleed

After a popular bug ' HeartBleed ' another critical bug hit the internet which affects almost all the systems, servers, OS X Macs, and PCs. This Critical remotely exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in the widely used Linux and Unix command-line shell, known as Bash also called  GNU Bourne Again Shell . The bug has been discovered by Stephane Chazelas , a Unix and Linux network and telecom administrator at Akamai. The flaw allows an attacker to remotely attach a maliciou…
Kali Linux Team release NetHunter for Android Penetration

Kali Linux Team release NetHunter for Android Penetration

One of the best and most popular Linux distro operating systems for security researchers and pentester 'Kali Linux' has released a new project called Nexus NetHunter . As I also like and recommend Kali Linux for security testing, and think the new project is simply awesome. NetHunter is an Android penetration testing platform for Nexus devices built on top of Kali Linux, which includes some special and unique features. Kali. It is initiated by the group security enthusiastic team…
Google and Dropbox launch 'Simply Secure' to improve online security

Google and Dropbox launch 'Simply Secure' to improve online security

Search engine giants Google along with Cloud storage Dropbox and the Open Technology Fund working together on a new organization that will develop a open source security tool 'Simply Secure' which will be users friendly. This initiative to raise the adoption rates, that many of the consumers didn't use the currently available security tools because of its complexity. Companies mention that there are many security tools already available to users, and they are technically effect…
Android L will turn on encryption by default

Android L will turn on encryption by default

From earlier Google focus to keep its users data and information secure and for this search giants have implement many security measures. As with the same on March, Google have implemented the encryption between all the data transmission. And now company is also implementing encryption to its mobile OS. Google have confirmed the next version of the Android i.e. Android L which is expected to be released in the next month will come with the default data encryption function. This moves…
Another Batch of Nude Celebrity Photos Leaked, Targets Kim Kardashian

Another Batch of Nude Celebrity Photos Leaked, Targets Kim Kardashian

Early this month a massive nudes photos of celebrities were leaked and for this many sources says that it was iCloud hack. But later on Apple denies the breach of iCloud service. Now once again same thing repeated, another series of nude photos of celebrities leaked . It seems that this to be a second edition of the massive leak related to the celebrities intimate-images on Internet. This time victims were reality television star Kim Kardashian , Vanessa Hudgens , and U.S. national women…
China hacked Pentagon Contractor Networks "Nine times"

China hacked Pentagon Contractor Networks "Nine times"

Many time news came that Chinese hackers are hacking US government computers and stole many defense information. Now the new thing have come forward from Senate, that Chinese hackers have hacked into the Pentagon's contractor computer networks and that also about nine times. Chinese military break into the civilian transportation companies computers which was hired by the Pentagon, and targeting logistics companies and uploading malicious software onto an airline’s computers - Senat…
SQL Injection flaw on Yahoo escalated to Remote Code Execution

SQL Injection flaw on Yahoo escalated to Remote Code Execution

A critical web application vulnerability 'SQL injection' impact one of the domains of Yahoo Inc., which leads the attacker to gain the database and further exploit it to Remote Code Execution. A Egyptian security researcher Ebrahim Hegazy have found a critical SQL injection vulnerability in Yahoo's domain that allows an attacker to remotely execute any commands on its server with Root Privileges. Hegazy explained on the blogpost that started his analysis from the domain: ht…
Malicious ads distributed by Google's DoubleClick and Zedo

Malicious ads distributed by Google's DoubleClick and Zedo

Two popular web based advertising networks Google DoubleClick and Zedo have been found to serving malicious advertisement which lead to download and install malware on a users computer. Researcher from the malwarebytes had noticed some unusual behavior on sites like last.fm ,    The Times of Israel, and other sites, which makes antivirus to raise a Waring flags about the malware. On this issue Malwarebytes researcher Jerome Segura with his investigation came with the conclusion that the …
Nokia.com UK moves to Microsoft Mobile

Nokia.com UK moves to Microsoft Mobile

After the acquisition of the Nokia patents , now Microsoft slowly killing Nokia brand name. Earlier Software giant had replace Nokia brand with Windows Phone on Nokia phones and now another move from Microsoft is that Nokia UK domain is been redirected to company's own site. At the moment only UK users of  Nokia.com were redirecting to the Microsoft.com of mobile section page. Although it's likely that other countries users will also follow the same in future. Some of the UK users …
Microsoft Send Windows 9 Preview to its Partner

Microsoft Send Windows 9 Preview to its Partner

Continuous rumor was going on for the Microsoft next version windows, which was called as Threshold, Simple Windows or Windows 9. But Microsoft finally breaks the news for the upcoming Windows version. In an event later this month on 30 September Microsoft may released the preview version of Windows 9.  Currently report says that Microsoft have distributed the preview version Windows 9 to its partners fro testing purpose and also some given out count of beta version to some of its trusted…
Google to make YouTube videos available offline in India

Google to make YouTube videos available offline in India

Good news for Indian YouTube users is that YouTube is soon going to go offline and allowing users to save certain videos. This is a great step by the search engine giants 'Google'. The announcement was made on the last event, which was held in Gurgaon, India where Google have announced Android One smartphones. Caesar Sengupta, Product Management Director at Google, made the announcement and says- “YouTube is popular here. You watch some videos again and again. How awesome would …
Twitter Vulnerability Allows Hacker to Delete Credit Cards from Any Twitter Account

Twitter Vulnerability Allows Hacker to Delete Credit Cards from Any Twitter Account

Just a month before micro blogging site Twitter have started its bug bounty program, a program that have helped many firm, organisation in related to the security concerns. After the disclosure  program, security researcher started testing Twitter in an ethical manner. And now a researcher came with its great bug finding. An Egyptian Security Researcher, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Aboul-Ela, have discovered a critical vulnerability in Twitter’s advertising service that allowed him deleting credi…
Wikileaks Releases German Spyware 'FinFisher'

Wikileaks Releases German Spyware 'FinFisher'

After NSA Surveillance program, there are many other countries and organisation who are spying on the users online activities. So for this Wikileaks made a spyfiles series posts. As a part of the Spyfiles wikileaks has released a tool called as Finfisher. FinFisher is a spyware developed by German, and same tool has been used many multiple Governments and organisation to spy on their own users online activity, journalists, and others. FinFisher runs on Windows as well as on OS X also. In…
LinkedIn Feature Exposes users Email Addresses

LinkedIn Feature Exposes users Email Addresses

Everyone is connecting with social network from a common person to a celebrity and with this they also share their personal data. Everyone rely on the social network and shares all details with their personal email address. And many of them makes their some of the personal details private, but what if they won't be private any more. Worse is the case in which social media platform itself exposes your data in the name of marketing. Same this happens with the professional's social n…
Flipkart leaks Google's Android One smartphone before its debut

Flipkart leaks Google's Android One smartphone before its debut

Just a day before the official launch of Google Android One smartphone has been leaked online and that also by leading Indian e-commerce marketplace, and Google official distributor 'Flipkart'. The announcement was going to be held on 15th September (tomorrow) in India and for this Google had already sent invitation to media. India's leading e-commerce site, flipkart accidentally  posted the one of the Smartphone on the site and made available for some hours. It was confirme…
Malware spreads over Twitch chat, targets Steam accounts

Malware spreads over Twitch chat, targets Steam accounts

If you like to play online games and are a users of gaming video streaming site Twitch then now you have to be alert and careful on what you are clicking. Security application maker 'F-secure' have warned Twitch users that a piece of malware is spreading through Twitch's chat which is targeting users Steam account.  The malware spreading through Twitch chat tries to attract users attention and make them to click on it by offering weekly exciting offer. When the users clicks on…
WordPress Resets 100,000 User Passwords After Gmail Leak

WordPress Resets 100,000 User Passwords After Gmail Leak

Last week, news emerged that upto 5 millions of Google users login details were leaked online  and was published on a Russian Bitcoin Forum. Although Google says that non of there database was compromised and there were nothing like of security breach. Even that also, about 60 percent of the login details was valid which effects users Gmail account, G+ and other google products. Apart from this leaks, another leaks were published online which contains the login details of popular Russian …
Apple makes Sales Record for iPhone 6 Models

Apple makes Sales Record for iPhone 6 Models

Its just three days before Apple have announced its first big screen smartphone iPhone 6 plus,  and iPhone 6 . The pre-order has been started from yesterday and users from around the world was awaiting for this. The announcement of big screen iPhone had given hard competition to Samsung and Android phones. At the iPhone announcement Apple store went offline and same thing happens yesterday also on the pre-ordering of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus . Many users have reported errors and delay…