Forensic Analysis of Satellite Images Released by the Russian Ministry of Defence

In this new report Bellingcat examines satellite images released by the Russian Ministry of Defence as part of the July 21st 2014 press conference on the downing of Flight MH17.
The Russian MoD stated at the press conference that the satellite photos show the activities of Ukraine’s air defences on the day that Flight MH17 was shot down. In particular, the position of two Ukrainian Buk missile launchers south of the village Zaroschinskoe were shown to be within firing range of MH17. The Bellingcat investigation has found the following –
– Satellite images presented by the Russian Ministry of Defence claiming to shown Ukrainian Buks linked to the downing of MH17 on July 14th and 17th are in fact older images from June 2014.
– The discrepancies visible in the Russian MoD satellite map imagery which shows they are incorrectly dated are visible in publicly available imagery on Google Earth.
– Error level analysis of the images also reveal the images have been edited.
– This includes a Buk missile launcher that was removed to make it appear the Buk missile launcher was active on July 17th, and imagery where Buk missile launchers were added to make it appear they were within attack range of Flight MH17.
An example of incorrectly dated imagery used by the Russian Ministry of Defence
An example of incorrectly dated imagery used by the Russian Ministry of Defence
Full versions of the report are available in Russian, German, and English. Images used in this report can be found here, and here without text..
With this new report all four major claims made at the Russian Ministry of Defence press conference have now been shown to be false:
– The flight path was not altered in the way claimed by the Russian Ministry of Defence. Data from the Dutch Safety Board’s preliminary report and other sources show Flight MH17 made no major course changes such as the one described in the Russian Ministry of Defence press conference.
– The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed the video of the Buk missile launcher presented by the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior was filmed in the Ukrainian government control town of Krasnoarmeisk. This has been proven to be untrue, with analysis of the video showing it was filmed in the separatists controlled city of Luhansk.
– Radar imagery was described as showing an aircraft close to Flight MH17 after it was shot down. Experts interviewed by various media organisationshave stated this is almost certainly debris from Flight MH17 as it broke up over Eastern Ukraine.
– Satellite imagery shows Ukrainian Buk activity around July 17th. As this report shows, those claims are untrue, and were based on fabricated satellite imagery.
These claims, representing the majority of information publicly presented by the Russian government since the downing of Flight MH17, are a clear attempt by the Russian government to deceive the public, global community, and the families of the Flight MH17 victims, only days after Flight MH17 was shot down.

Google’s drone crashed in New Mexico during test flight

Google has confirmed that a paradigm of its solar-powered drone designed to bring web service by air crashed earlier this month in NM.

News of the remote-controlled Solara 50’s crash, currently returning to lightweight, happened onday on a personal check web site outside of city. it absolutely was reportedly flying at AN altitude oftwenty,000 feet once it began to fall. nobody was scraped within the crash, Bloomberg reports.

The Solara fifty, developed by Titan part, a corporation Google bought last year, is Google’s second initiative to supply web via sky; the primary is Project Loon that peruses high altitude balloons. The drones ar expected to fly higher than the weather at sixty five,000 feet to beam web service down below.

The crash may be a blow to Google’s initiatives to race against Facebook’s own version of the projectunitedly with web.org. Facebook was reportedly additionally inquisitive about effort Titan part last year.


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What is Find My Phone and what are its benefits and limitations

Steps to use the "Find my phone"

1.Log-in to the same Google account on your desktop computer’s browser that you use on your Android smartphone, but before that make sure you must have the latest version of the Google app installed on your smartphone.

2.Now type "Find my phone" into Google's search engine, and that’s it.

As soon as you press the enter button, Google will display a map that eventually shows you a location on the map that is accurate to a certain distance, as for example, the map showed me the location of my <b>smartphone was accurate to 35 feet.</b>

If command fails to track the location then user also have the option to ring the device by hitting "Ring button"

Android device manager is inbuild application in the android smartphone which also provide user the same benfits.

Benefits of "find my phone"

1.Help to track the device if the device is lost or stolen

2.Remote access to the device

Limitation of find my phone command

1.Track the location of user on real time basis cause the privacy of user

2.Smartphone Battery draning

How to Stop google from tracking the smartphone through the "Find my phone Command"


Google track the smartphone with the help of "GPS Tracker" and "Google location service",so Turn off may help to stop google tracking the Smartphone location.It also help to improve the performance of smartphone and battery .

How to disable location tracker??

1.Go to Settings > Security > Device Administrators

2.Uncheck the Box And confirm the same by hitting deactivate button

3.Then go to location service and uncheck the box Google location service and Gps 

4.Done

How To Find Out If Someone Unfriended You On Facebook!!!

A new browser extension makes it easy to find out who has kicked you off their Facebook friends list.


It's called "Unfriend Notify" and it works for Firefox and Chrome.
Here's How it works on Chrome. Get ready, it's incredibly simple.
1. Visit here and click Free. This will begin the extension download:
2. Then click Add:
3. Unfriend Notify
Then you can visit Facebook. In your friends list, a new tab will appear called "Lost Friends." It will show you the people who have unfriended you since the last time you clicked the tab.
Who deleted me on Facebook and Sadly Unfriend Finder extension also help user to track who unfriended on facebook

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Latest D-Link routers devices can be Hacked Remotely by attacker

SEARCH-LAB team, revealing a total of 53 unique vulnerabilities in D-Link routers.Even a routers with the latest firmware is vulnerable to attack.In the past months,vulnerability found in several router.Now Researchers comes up with the new vulnerability in Dlink Routers.Some vulnerability are shown below:


Authentication can be bypassed in several ways, allowing an attacker to take full control over the device without the need to exploit any programming


Earlier vulnerability in the routers cause more problem like Injecting code,Remote access of device,Uploding file without credential etc...


Failed to change the default password of user,This is not a vulnerability but user is less concerned with the security and privacy 


List of device is vulnerable to attack:



  • D-Link DNS-320 (Rev A: 2.03)
  • DNS-320L (1.03b04)
  •  DNS-327L (1.02) 
  •  D-Link DNR-326 Professional NVR (1.40b03)
  • DNS-320B
  •  DNS-345
  •  DNS-325
  •  DNS-322L,

Android M V/s Android Lollipop:Can we say android m is update of android lollipop?

Google now comes up with the new version of android M.Google's new version of Android will be available to developers starting today, Currently google android m preview version is available for nexus 5,6,9 and nexus player.

It comes up with the following features:

1.Fingerprint Support Means (Nearly) the End of Passwords and PINs for Certain Phones

2.Android Pay Overhauls Google’s Mobile Payments  with their fingerprint over NFC, just like Apple Pay.

3.Direct Share Lets You Send Stuff to Common Contacts

4.Text Selection Gets a Lot Better, Adds a Floating Toolbar

5.Volume Controls Have Been Simplified (After Lollipop Screwed Them Up)

6.Chrome custom tabs is a another new feature coming with Android M that allows websites to add buttons and menu items to the browser 

7.Google announced that it will allow app developers to put in app-to-app links in their codes

8.The Doze feature basically uses motion detection to see if the device has been left alone unattended for a long time and it will stop real-time updates during that period. 

9.USB-C support for faster Android charging. Google said that devices will charge 3 times faster with USB-C and can charge other devices

10.This is an extremely cool new feature within Google Now that’s always ready to assist by just a long press of the home button

11.You Now Have More Control Over App Permissions



Steps to install android M in nexus 5,6 and 9

    Method 1
  • Download developer preview from here 
  • Unzip the file 
  • Connect your device to your computer via USB cable and ensure debugging mode is enabled.
  • Open an ADB command line.
  • Enter  adb reboot bootloader to access your device’s bootloader
  • Go to the folder containing your factory image.
  • Enter flash-all to run the installation script.

Note: Adb and fastboot is required for method 1
    
Method 2
  • Download developer preview from here
  • Press and hold Volume Up + Volume Down + Power as the device begins booting up in fastboot mode
  • Browse for the file in smartphone
  • Select the file and click ok






Google I/O: Android M features Google has copied from Apple and others

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One of the biggest announcements to come from Google’s keynote address at I/O is Android M, its latest mobile operating system and successor to Android Lollipop. It will be available as a pre-release version and the full release is expected later this year. While Google promises a plethora of new features and performance enhancements, some of the features appear quite familiar and seem to be borrowed from Apple and other existing platforms.

Google’s revamped Photo app is one of the highlights of the event, especially considering the unlimited  photo and videos storage the company is offering. Photo app also brings easier visual search feature, photo editing options and more. You can also use pinch to zoom gesture to go from a single image to images by the week or month, a feature already present in Apple’s Photo app as well. Google also talked about integrating features that vendors add on to phones in their skins onto Google. Generally, Apple is known to do so.

The Auto-awesome feature present on the Google+ has been carried forward to Photos. This will let the app create automatic montage movies, interactive stories, GIF animations from a burst of images, collages and more. You also get the option to share it or edit it or delete it.


Google has also put the volume button to further use. Volume controls will give you a drop-down menu, but the feature is common on the Cyanogen OS.

At I/O, the  web browsing experience with the Chrome browser also got a shot in the arm. Chrome Custom tabs, a new feature, will now let you include webviews within a particular app, without the need to switch to the Chrome browser on your phone. The Chrome browser will run atop your app (in case you click on any link within the app). This isn’t something novel, and has been borrowed from Blackberry 10.

Over the past couple of years, both Apple and iOS have been turning into copy cats, taking the best from each others’ mobile operating systems. So, this doesn’t really come as a surprise. Soon after Apple announced iOS 8 at WWDC last year, the  most common and widely voiced criticism it received was ripping off features from Android and other services. Looks like, both companies want to ensure that each time iOS and Android are pitted against each other, their respective users don’t complain about any missing features.















Gaana.com is back online; personal details of over 10 million users exposed due to hack

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Update: Gaana.com is currently back online. The hacker MakMan posted the below tweet and stated that no financial details of any user was accessed. The hacker also added that he has not stored any information locally.







One of India’s popular music streaming service Gaana has been reportedly hacked and its massive database, about 10 million users, has been compromised. The hacker goes by the name MakMan who appears to be based in Lahore, Pakistan who posted a link to his Facebook page of what appears to be the entire database of Gaana.com’s users containing personal details.

The reason behind the hack is unknown. If a person enters the registered email address of a Gaana.com account, they can have access to their full name, email address, date of birth, MD5-encrypted password, along with Facebook & Twitter profiles as well. According to a report by The Next Web, the hack appears to be a SQL injection-based exploit of Gaana’s systems.
The hacker had updated his database page with the following message: “The vulnerable parameter I was using here, has been patched by the Admin. Now the question is, Was this the only vulnerable parameter I had .. ? ;)”

However, when we checked, the following message appeared.
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In any case, users are advised to not simply change their Gaana.com password but rather deactivate their account till the problem is solved. Also, users should change their email, Facebook and Twitter passwords if they’re the same as on Gaana.com. At the moment, there is no official statement from Times Internet Limited, which owns Gaana.com. As of now, website displays, “Site is down due to server maintenance. We will be back shortly. Kindly bear with us till then”.


Google I/O 2015: Maps to bring offline search and navigation; Google Now gets smarter

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Google I/O 2015 developer conference had some major announcements on the Google Maps app. Just like it has done with YouTube, you will soon be able to take the Maps’ search and turn-by-turn navigation feature offline. Google hasn’t given an exact date as to when this feature will begin working on Maps.

According to Google, even for Maps that you have taken offline, you will get the turn by turn voice navigation feature. This is particularly relevant in markets such as India where cellular connectivity may not always be speedy at all times while driving.

Offline maps navigation will certainly help out a lot of people on saving up on data charges when they are out and about. However, one also needs to keep in mind that taking a map along with all the navigational information offline will certainly take up significant space on your storage.
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While Now is a smart personal assistant, Google has improved upon it as well. A feature called ‘Now on Tap’ will basically let Google Now be activated from any screen or app in a contextual manner.

“With “Now on tap,” you can simply tap and hold the home button for assistance without having to leave what you’re doing—whether you’re in an app or on a website,” says the Google blog post.
For instance, if you are mailing a friend about movie listings, tap on the movie name and hold on to the home button. Google Now will just pull up the relevant Now cards to give you more information. This basically lets you do simple tasks without leaving your current app.

Similarly, if you are chatting with a friend about going out to eat at a restaurant, Now on Tap will bring up restaurant details and you can also take actions such as make a call to reserve a table or read reviews on supported apps or lookup the location on a map and so on.

“Google can show you apps from your phone that may help with what you’re doing based on your context—IMDb for movie reviews, OpenTable for reservations, and many more. This is another way developers can get their apps in front of their users at the right moment, when an app is relevant to the task at hand,” says the Google Inside search blog.

To make this possible Google is implementing a deeper level of machine learning which Google senior vice president Sundar Pichai stressed on during the Google I/O keynote.

This will also be a good answer to Cortana’s foray into the Android and iOS ecosystems as well as Apple’s upcoming smart assistant called Proactive on iOS 9. We will come to know how effective Now on Tap is once it launches in the market in the coming months.











Google I/O 2015: New Photos app offers unlimited photo and video storage

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Google announced a revamped Photos app, which was so far integrated within Google+,  with some interesting features at the Google I/O 2015 developers conference on May 28. The show-stopping feature being the ability to support unlimited photos and video storage.


However, the image resolution is limited to 16 megapixels and video resolution is limited to 1080p videos, which is good enough for most mobile and amateur photographers out there. This app will be available for Android, iOS as well as the web. With unlimited storage for both photos and videos, Google Photos may just make every other photo storage service, which charges users after a fixed storage limit, redundant.
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Auto-backup feature will continue with Google Photos and you can store all your photos and videos which can be accessed across devices. While there is some level of compression happening, Google claims that images have a print-quality resolution. You can store up to 15GB original size images for free.
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One of the main irritant with massive photo storage where you store thousands of photos is when you want to find that one image which you clicked some months back. It is like finding a needle in a haystack. To ease the process, Photos will try and automatically categorise your photos by people and places. Google has added a visual search feature which will let you search images using terms such as people, places and random things that may be present in the image. For instance, you can search images which have say, ‘the skyline’ or images shot in ‘Delhi’ and so on. The auto-grouping is private by default. You can also use pinch to zoom gesture to go from a single image to images by the week or month, a feature present of Apple’s Photo app as well.
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The Auto-awesome feature present on the Google+ has been carried forward to Photos. This will let the app create automatic montage movies, interactive stories, GIF animations from a burst of images, collages and more. You also get the option to share it or edit it or delete it.

Photo editing options which were present with the previous variation of Photos will also be present on the Photos app. Editing tools let you apply filters, adjust colours, change tone maps and so on with ease.

The last and the most important thing in the Photos app is the improvements in Sharing photos. The apps lets you select images in a group by just swiping over them. When sharing images to friends, they will receive a web link from where they can view or download the images you share. This bypasses the need for the recipient to have the Google Photos app installed on his or her phone.
























Google I/O 2015: Ten most important announcements that got us excited

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The Google I/O 2015 keynote may not be the best we’ve seen from Google, but the search giant had a lot of new announcements to make. From much talked-about Android M to Doze off, here are 10 best announcements from Google I/O you should know about.

1. Android M

Finally, it’s official! Google announced the next iteration of its mobile operating system – Android M. According to Sundar Pichai, the Android M operating system will concentrate more on improving the stability and usability of the platform. There will be a lot more emphasis on the quality of the platform rather than a radically new look. It comes with some cool improvements to app permission, power management and more. Click here, to know more.

2. Android Pay

To revive its struggling Google Wallet and also compete with its arch-rival Apple’s new contactless payments platform, Google has announced Android Pay. Though it’s almost like Wallet, Pay brings in new features such as credit card partnerships, fingerprint verification, secure transactions and more.

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3. Doze off

Android devices are known to consume more power than iOS. Now, the company has a new solution dubbed Doze. Doze is a feature in Android M that will push a device into deeper sleep depending upon the last time the device was used. The feature will rely on the activation off your screen to determine the last time the device was active. Google is also planning to decrease the sleep power use by two times.

4. Google Now on tap

Google has introduced Now on Tap for an improved ‘Now’ experience. The new design will now respond to content by analysing what’s on Android device’s display. For instance, if you are mailing a friend about movie listings, tap on the movie name and hold on to the home button. Google Now will just pull up the relevant Now cards to give you more information. This basically lets you do simple tasks without leaving your current app.

5. Android Wear

Google’s Android Wear also gets the much required update. The new updated Android Wear brings changes such as Maps will take up the entire Wear device’s display while navigating, flick gesture will allow scrolling through notifications and a new launcher menu will store apps and contacts. It will also allow you to send emojis by drawing them.

6. Cardboard

Google has launched a new version of the Cardboard for devices with bigger displays. The unit will be ditching the headset’s original magnet clicker for a cardboard button that reportedly works with any phone. Google’s SDK is now available for iOS as well as Android, and there will be a dedicated Cardboard app launched on Apple’s App Store.

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7. Brillo and Weave

Placing emphasis on the importance on how Internet of Things and smart homes are the future, Google has announced Brillo. Project Brillo is the new operating system and Weave is the new standard that will allow smart devices – like bulb, thermostat, and so on – to communicate with one another. You can also expect built-in support for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Google also plans a certification platform for Weave, allowing companies to use it with or without Brillo.

8. Photos app

Google announced a revamped Photos app, which was so far integrated within Google+, with some interesting features. The show-stopping feature being the ability to support unlimited photos and video storage. The image resolution is limited to 16 megapixels and video resolution is limited to 1080p videos, which is good enough for most mobile and amateur photographers out there. This app will be available for Android, iOS as well as the web. With unlimited storage for both photos and videos, Google Photos may just make every other photo storage service, which charges users after a fixed storage limit, redundant.

9. HBO Now for Android

There wasn’t much news about Chromecast or Android TV at this year’s I/O, but one of the biggest developments is its support for HBO Now. HBO Now is streaming-only service that lets you watch everything from Game of Thrones to True Detective. With this move, the service is no more exclusive to Apple and Android users can enjoy it too.

10. Maps

Google I/O 2015 developer conference had some major announcements on the Google Maps app. Just like it has done with YouTube, you will soon be able to take the Maps’ search and turn-by-turn navigation feature offline. According to Google, even for Maps that you have taken offline, you will get the turn by turn voice navigation feature. This is particularly relevant in markets such as India where cellular connectivity may not always be speedy at all times while driving. Offline maps navigation will certainly help out a lot of people on saving up on data charges when they are out and about. However, one also needs to keep in mind that taking a map along with all the navigational information offline will certainly take up significant space on your storage.













Google I/O 2015: Gmail now boasts 900 million users

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Google’s free webmail application is getting close to the 1 billion-user mark, making it the world’s most popular email service. The figures were revealed by the company’s senior vice president of products, Sundar Pichai, who was speaking at the 2015 Google I/O developer conference.

Gmail has more than doubled its user base since 2012, when the number stood at just 425 million. But as well as attracting more consumers, the way people access the service has also changed. Pichai noted during his presentation that 75% of users now check their mail via mobile.

In the past, Google had updated the Gmail for Android app. In an official Google+ post, the company wrote, “Over the next few days, you’ll see a few improvements to the Gmail app for Android based on your feedback with more coming soon.” Among the new changes, you will find that tapping on people’s avatars will now let you see recent conversations with them. You will also be able to view contact info and more.

It also includes more reliable support for non-Gmail addresses (IMAP). It has also been made smoother to add additional accounts.

With inputs from AFP







Turns Any Surface Into a Touchscreen with lenovo smartphone

Lenovo just announced a phone with built-in projection keyboard and the best part is that it can turn any surface upon which its images appear into a touchscreen.


Lenova is the one and only company in build the world's first laser projection smartphone

Apart from this, a built-in kick-stand and variable bracket projector Transform any surface into a smart display



 At the conference, it was used to throw films onto a wall, as well a qwerty keyboard onto a desk and a musical keyboard onto a tabletop, both of which allow the user to interact with them


It is still in developent and  no status regarding when and where it is available for user.When the rumour mill suggested the iPhone 6 would come with a projectionkeyboard (which, incidentally, never happened) the internet lit up. But Lenovo has actually gone and done it; Smart Cast is a real product.

Google I/O: Google announces Internet of Things platform ‘Brillo’

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Project Brillo will be the name of Google’s second attempt to create an operating system that links objects from thermostats to washing machines to each other and to the web.

Revealed at the company’s annual developer conference, Google confirmed that Project Brillo will be based on its existing Android operating system but is significantly streamlined for use in objects other than smartphones and tablets. Back in 2011 Google announced something called Android@Home, the company’s initial attempt to build an Internet of Things platform.

It disappeared almost as quickly as it arrived. Four years later the digital landscape is decidedly different and consumers and developers are ready for a more connected lifestyle where the kettle automatically boils when a car pulls into the garage or the washing machine sends a text alert when the spin cycle is finished.

Another interesting announcement that was made at Google I/O was a revamped Photos app, which was so far integrated within Google+. The show-stopping feature being the ability to support unlimited photos and video storage. However, the image resolution is limited to 16 megapixels and video resolution is limited to 1080p videos, which is good enough for most mobile and amateur photographers out there.

This app will be available for Android, iOS as well as the web. With unlimited storage for both photos and videos, Google Photos may just make every other photo storage service, which charges users after a fixed storage limit, redundant.

With inputs from AFP



Gaana.com Hacked, Millions of Users' Details Exposed

Gaana.com -- One of India's most popular music streaming service with more than 10 Million registered users and 7.5 Million monthly visitors -- has reportedly been hacked, exposing the site’s user information database.

A Pakistani hacker, who claimed responsibility for the hack, claims that details of over 10 Million users of Gaana service including their username, email addresses, MD5-encrypted password, date of births, and other personal information has been stolen and made available in a searchable database.

At the time of writing, Gaana website is currently down for maintenance without any official statement provided yet. As of now, the site displays, "Site is down due to server maintenance. We will be back shortly. Kindly bear with us till then."

By exploiting an SQL injection vulnerability in Gaana website, Mak Man managed to gain access to the details of its 10 Million users. The hacker has also posted a screenshot of SQL exploit he used to get access to the data on Facebook.

Mak Man claimed that he reported the vulnerability by providing full details of the flaw to Gaana.com before. However, the company didn’t respond to his report and ignored, which results in the breach of innocent users personal information.

Flaw Reported to the Company, but Ignored ,even weird when such a reputed company is ignoring vulnerabilities reported to them, putting millions of users at risk.


He also encourages all customers to reset their passwords as soon as possible.

However, simply changing passwords to your Gaana account would not solve the problem, as it will reflect in the leaked database. You are advised to better deactivate your accounts until the issue is resolved. Besides this, change your email, Facebook and Twitter passwords if you are using the same as on Gaana.

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