Car ads are filmed like this...

Whenever there is an Ad shoot for any new cars, they do not actually use the model car, instead they use a robotic car and patch up with the computer graphic for looks.
This is what techspot team talks about this:

Car commercials do an excellent job of making vehicles look almost too good to be true. As it turns out, they probably are… at least, if the Blackbird is involved.
The Blackbird is a visual effects stand-in for vehicles featured in commercials and movies. As Gizmag notes, its wheelbase, width, suspension travel and even engine response can be dialed in to match nearly any production vehicle while its onboard 360-degree cameras are used to create perfect reflections when the actual car body is overlaid in post-production.
Why go through all that trouble? Why not film the actual car being marketed in the commercial?
Auto commercials are often shot before the vehicle has even been manufactured. As such, some small visual details might not have been decided on yet so with CGI, you can add those in with ease. What’s more, auto makers typically keep the details of their new cars a closely guarded secret. Filming with something like the Blackbird gives the auto paparazzi nothing but a set of wheels to go on.
Another reason to use CGI has to do with location. It’s not easy to transport a brand new, unreleased vehicle to a remote location for filming. But with something like the Blackbird that’s not held back by production constraints, it’s far easier.
Above all else, CGI and a rig like the Blackbird ensures you’re going to get cleaner results. A car commercial is all about making said vehicle look desirable and CGI certainly eliminates any imperfections that might crop up with a traditional shoot.
So there you have it, yet another aspect of modern marketing unmasked.
Source: http://www.techspot.com/news/65337-how-car-commercials-filmed-without-actual-car.html

BadTunnel: A vulnerability all Windows users need to patch

 
A security researcher has uncovered a serious vulnerability that affects every version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system from Windows 95 to Windows 10.

The vulnerability could give attackers a way to set up man-in-the-middle attacks against victims by getting them to click on a link, open a Microsoft Office document or plug in a USB drive.

In an interview with Dark Reading, Yang Yu, who earned a whopping $50,000 bug bounty for the discovery he’s nicknamed BadTunnel, described the impact in grandiose terms:


This vulnerability has a massive security impact – probably the widest impact in the history of Windows.

Microsoft released a fix for the vulnerability on Tuesday in security bulletin MS16-077. Users of unsupported Windows versions such as Windows XP should disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP.

The nuts and bolts of how the vulnerability works haven’t been revealed but it has been described as a technique for NetBIOS-spoofing across networks that bypasses firewalls and NAT (Network Address Translation) devices.

In other words, it can expose you to attackers who aren’t on your network, and your firewalls won’t save you, unless you block UDP on port 137 between your network and the internet.

According to Yu, it relies on a chain of elements including “a transport layer protocol, an application layer protocol, a few specific usage of application protocol by the operating system, and several protocol implementations used by firewalls and NAT devices.”

Microsoft’s bulletin appears to break the final link in the chain by fixing a vulnerability in WPAD (Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol) that was first reported in 2007.

WPAD is a way for computers to discover web browser configuration files automatically by searching specific addresses on a computer’s local network. An attacker who could find a way to occupy one of those addresses, or to change the addresses being searched, could supply their own configuration files and instruct the victim’s browser to route traffic through a man-in-the-middle attack.

Until BadTunnel, the attacker had to gain access to a victim’s network (or rely on opportunistic domain name collisions) which made it a difficult trick to pull off.

Yu plans to reveal the full gory details of BadTunnel in a presentation at the upcoming BlackHat conference:


This presentation will introduce a new threat model. Based on this threat model, we found a flaw in the Windows system. It affects all Windows released in the last two decades, including Windows 10. It also has a very wide range of attacks surface. The attack can be performed on all versions of Internet Explorer, Edge, Microsoft Office, many third-party software, USB flash drives, and even Web server. When this flaw is triggered, YOU ARE BEING WATCHED.

Teen hacks Pentagon websites, gets thanked for finding 'bugs'

High school student David Dworken spent 10 to 15 hours between classes on his laptop, hacking U.S. Defense Department websites.

Instead of getting into trouble, the 18-year-old who graduated this week was one of two people praised by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at the Pentagon on Friday for finding vulnerabilities before U.S. adversaries did.

"We know that state-sponsored actors and black-hat hackers want to challenge and exploit our networks ... what we didn't fully appreciate before this pilot was how many white hat hackers there are who want to make a difference," Carter said at a ceremony where he also thanked Craig Arendt, a security consultant at Stratum Security.

More than 1,400 participants took part in a pilot project launched this year, and found 138 valid reports of vulnerabilities, the Pentagon said. The project invited hackers to test the cyber security of some public Defense Department websites.

The pilot project was limited to public websites and the hackers did not have access to highly sensitive areas.

The U.S. government has pointed the finger at China and Russia, saying they have tried to access government systems in the past.

The Pentagon said it paid a total of about $75,000 to the successful hackers, in amounts ranging from $100 to $15,000.

Dworken, who graduated on Monday from Maret high school in Washington, D.C., said he reported six vulnerabilities, but received no reward because they had already been reported.

However, Dworken said he had already been approached by recruiters about potential internships.

He said some of the bugs he found would have allowed others to display whatever they wanted on the websites and steal account information.

Dworken, who will study computer science at Northeastern University, said his first experience with finding vulnerabilities was in 10th grade when he found bugs on his school website.

"Hack the Pentagon" is modeled after similar competitions known as "bug bounties" conducted by U.S. companies to discover network security gaps.

The Pentagon said the pilot project cost $150,000, including the reward money, and several follow up initiatives were planned. This included creating a process so others could report vulnerabilities without fear of prosecution.

"It's not a small sum, but if we had gone through the normal process of hiring an outside firm to do a security audit and vulnerability assessment, which is what we usually do, it would have cost us more than $1 million," Carter said.

Tizen OS is coming...

Always you need a competitor to move forward in your business, otherwise your business will be stale and at risk. 
When the mobile market was surging towards iOS, then Android came. These two OS took the whole share of mobile operating system which pushed other custom OS devices like HP, Blackberry and even Windows mobile operating system. But still windows mobile operating system is surviving due to brand name Windows.
Next to iOS, Android, Windows, now we have a new OS Tizen, which Samsung is moving forward to this new OS to sustain in the gadgets operating world.

Here is the update from techspot team:
Samsung may be the best-selling manufacturer of devices that use the Android platform, but the Korean company also has its own OS – the Linux-based Tizen – which is found in some of its TVs, wearables, and a small number of smartphones.
According to a report from the Korea Times, an anonymous company executive claims Tizen will eventually replace Android on all Samsung devices. The exec says that Samsung needs to establish its own platform in the same way that Apple has with iOS. “If you don’t have your own ecosystem, then you will have no future,” they told the publication.
While Samsung’s Tizen-based Z smartphones sell well in India, shifting 64 million units, it’s hard to imagine the OS expanding to other regions to become a potential “Android Killer.”
Reviews of the first Tizen smartphone, the Samsung Z1, were far from glowing, and the company will likely have concerns over the continuing decline of non-Android/iOS mobile platforms such as BlackBerry 10 and Windows.
The executive did say, however, that more incentives and support will be offered to third-party Tizen developers, though he or she didn’t go into details as to what these would be.
There’s no doubt that Samsung wants Apple-like total control over its ecosystem, but the question is whether that would be worth the risk of losing potentially millions of customers who are unwilling to switch from Andriod.
At the moment, everything is still just speculation, but, as there have been rumors of a planned switch to Tizen in the past, an eventual move may not be as unlikely as it sounds.
Source: http://www.techspot.com/news/65204-samsung-exec-claims-company-eventually-move-all-devices.html

Worth of linked is $26.2 billion

When Facebook acquired Whatsapp, it was one of the largest deal in the history, now the history has been broken by Microsoft by acquiring Linkedin for an whooping amount of $26.2 billion  

Here is the update from techspot team:
Microsoft has announced today that it will be purchasing social network LinkedIn in an all-cash deal worth $26.2 billion, or $196 per share. According to the company's press release, the deal is expected to close by the end of this calendar year.
Jeff Weiner, pictured above, will remain as CEO of LinkedIn and report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The joint press release makes it clear that LinkedIn will "retain its distinct brand, culture and independence" as part of the deal, which has the full support of Weiner and LinkedIn chairman and co-founder Reid Hoffman.
The acquisition of LinkedIn gives Microsoft an immediate foothold in the social network space, which is an important area the company hasn't explored successfully in any significant way. LinkedIn is a clear market leader for professional networking, and the company recently boasted more than 430 million members with 19 percent year on year growth.

Purchasing LinkedIn for such a huge price has certainly surprised many people, particularly considering Microsoft's sketchy track record of large acquisitions that includes busts like Nokia and Skype. However, LinkedIn could prove its worth to Microsoft, particularly as the website boasts a significant quantity of job listings and growth in many areas.
Considering LinkedIn's share price was sitting around $131 on Friday, Microsoft has paid a near-50% premium per-share to acquire the company. Looking at financial results from LinkedIn over the past few years, the company hasn't been profitable since 2013, and lost $166 million across 2015.
Investors have reacted to the news by sending Microsoft's share price down by just over three percent in pre-market trading, following a trading halt earlier today.

It's always interesting to see what are the companies' perspectives on this kind of acquisitions, both Nadella and Weiner have posted the emails they sent to their respective employees after the announcement was made official. 

Check out Microsoft CEO's email below.

Team,
I’m excited to share that today Microsoft announced a deal to acquire LinkedIn. You can see how Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn, and I envision the opportunity ahead in this public presentation.
This deal brings together the world’s leading professional cloud with the world’s leading professional network. I have been learning about LinkedIn for some time while also reflecting on how networks can truly differentiate cloud services. It’s clear to me that the LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business and an impressive network of more than 433 million professionals.
Given this is the biggest acquisition for Microsoft since I became CEO, I wanted to share with you how I think about acquisitions overall. To start, I consider if an asset will expand our opportunity — specifically, does it expand our total addressable market? Is this asset riding secular usage and technology trends? And does this asset align with our core business and overall sense of purpose?
The answer to all of those questions with LinkedIn is squarely yes. We are in pursuit of a common mission centered on empowering people and organizations. Along with the new growth in our Office 365 commercial and Dynamics businesses this deal is key to our bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes. Think about it: How people find jobs, build skills, sell, market and get work done and ultimately find success requires a connected professional world. It requires a vibrant network that brings together a professional’s information in LinkedIn’s public network with the information in Office 365 and Dynamics. This combination will make it possible for new experiences such as a LinkedIn newsfeed that serves up articles based on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you’re trying to complete. As these experiences get more intelligent and delightful, the LinkedIn and Office 365 engagement will grow. And in turn, new opportunities will be created for monetization through individual and organization subscriptions and targeted advertising.
Jeff and I both believe we have a significant opportunity to accelerate LinkedIn’s growth and the value it brings to its members with Microsoft’s assets and scale. In fact, when Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, and I spoke about the opportunity for us to come together, he called it a “re-founding” moment for LinkedIn and an opportunity to reach the mission the company set out on 13 years ago.
The opportunity for Office 365 and Dynamics is just as profound. Over the past decade we have moved Office from a set of productivity tools to a cloud service across any platform and device. This deal is the next step forward for Office 365 and Dynamics as they connect to the world’s largest and most valuable professional network. In essence, we can reinvent ways to make professionals more productive while at the same time reinventing selling, marketing and talent management business processes. I can’t wait to see what our teams dream up when we can begin working together once the deal closes, which we expect will happen this calendar year.
A big part of this deal is accelerating LinkedIn’s growth. To that end, LinkedIn will retain its distinct brand and independence, as well as their culture which is very much aligned with ours. Jeff will continue to be CEO of LinkedIn, he’ll report to me and join our senior leadership team. In essence, what I’ve asked Jeff to do is manage LinkedIn with key performance metrics that accrue to our overall success. He’ll decide from there what makes sense to integrate and what does not. We know that near term there will be no changes in who reports to whom so no reporting relationships at Microsoft will change in that regard. This approach is designed to keep the LinkedIn team focused on driving results while simultaneously partnering on product integration plans with the Office 365 and Dynamics teams. During the integration, we’ll pick key projects where we can go deep together that will ultimately result in new experiences for customers. Kurt DelBene will lead the overall integration efforts at Microsoft in close partnership with Qi Lu and Scott Guthrie.
I’m on the LinkedIn campus today in California and will host a call for investors at 8:45 a.m. PT with Jeff, Brad and Amy – please join if you can. Following that, I’ll then spend the day meeting with the LinkedIn team. Tomorrow, I’ll host a special Microsoft employee Q&A – I hope you can make it.
So far, what I’ve learned about the LinkedIn team is how much our cultures share many of the same attributes. We both care deeply about individual and collective growth, and find deep meaning in the work we do to make a difference in our world. Together we’ll do just that.
While I’m in northern California sharing our vision to empower professionals, the Xbox team is in southern California at E3 sharing our vision to empower gamers. I encourage you to check out the E3 press briefing, which starts at 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time.
Finally, if you’re not on LinkedIn, join up now and start using and learning more.
Satya
Source: http://www.techspot.com/news/65190-microsoft-buy-linkedin-deal-worth-26-billion.html

Free lots of storage space on your iPhone without deleting files with this easy trick

This trick will free more storage in your iPhone without deleting a thing

If you are an owner of an iPhone, clearing storage space is a constant concern for people with iPhones. It can be a fight to keep deleting apps and pictures to try and keep freeing up space, whether it’s to install the latest software update or to download new apps, particularly when they don’t come with expandable storage, and have limited amount of free iCloud storage, and still, understandably, produce units with only 16 GB of space.

In this article, we show quick and easy tips you can use to clear the temporary files (cache)from your phone, leaving you with more storage.

You can see the trick in action in this video from YouTuber iTwe4kz titled “one weird trick” garbage.

Let’s go through the full process that was tested on an iPhone 6 Plus.

This method works best if you have less than 1GB of storage left. The iPhone 6 Plus had only had 479 MB of internal storage available. Open Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage to check how much you have left.

Open the iTunes Store, select Films and attempt to rent a lengthy film. For this article, the movie Creed has been used for demonstration. However, you can use any movie with a file size that exceeds your available storage. You may think of choosing a long movie like Gone with the Wind or the extended cut of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Unfortunately, iTunes doesn’t seem to carry Logistics, the longest movie ever made (clocking in at an unimaginable 857 hours).

When you click on Rent HD Movie, a notification will appear warning you the file is too big to download. Don’t worry, you won’t be charged anything for this.

Open up Settings > General > Storage & iCloud again to find out how much space you have. It gave 68MB of cleared up space. This successfully clears the temporary files created while you are using apps, like videos buffering on YouTube or tweets loading on Twitter. This method clears them as a handy side effect, as there’s no direct way to delete them from an iPhone.

The best thing about this trick is that it can be repeated multiple times. After repeating the process seven more times before it outdid, it left a total of 3.5GB of available space — 3GB more than started with.

You may have to carry out this trick a different number of times depending on what type of apps and files you have on your iPhone. Just continue doing it until you are not clearing out any more space.

The storage space will remain available even if you reboot your phone. It’s not precisely clear which files are being removed from your phone, but it’s probably the notorious “other” files that can take over your iPhone’s storage

Best smart-phones till date in 2016

Smart phones have become a mini computer in the human hands, so that they spend most of the time with smart-phones rather with their family. It is obvious that one cannot live without smart-phone nowadays. That is why the world smart-phone market is release new phones once in every 3 months, since they wanted to reach to there customer at the early instead making them to choose a different one. All smart-phones are attractive in it's specifications and daily use, let us see which one's are the best till date:

This is what experts from techspot.com is talking about:

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge
Great | Differentiating Features
The fastest camera of any smartphone and it produces excellent photos. Awesome battery life. Attractive, waterproof design. Strong performance.
Good | Most Have It
MicroSD card slot is included. Wireless charging.
Average | Competitors May Be Better
In some markets, Galaxies are still tied to carriers for distribution and updates. TouchWiz is not for everyone (though not horrible by any means). No USB Type-C.
There’s no doubt that the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge is the best smartphone on the market. Samsung has addressed pretty much every complaint about the Galaxy S6 with this fantastic device, bringing back critical features like the microSD card slot, while adding in a larger battery and a much more powerful Snapdragon 820 (or Exynos 8890) SoC.
The display in the Galaxy S7 Edge is still class-leading, and the curves to either edge are part of a beautiful, metal design. Samsung managed to make this the first Edge-series device that’s actually comfortable to hold, plus the inclusion of water resistance makes this handset more resilient than its competitors. Did we mention there’s also a fast fingerprint sensor?
One of the most compelling reasons to purchase the Galaxy S7 Edge is its camera, which packs fantastic image quality alongside an extremely fast ‘Dual Pixel’ autofocus system. You’ll be capturing images faster than any smartphone on the market with the S7’s camera, plus there’s a great range of features like 4K recording and a very respectable front-facing camera.
If there’s any reason not to buy the Galaxy S7 Edge (aside from premium pricing), it would be the lack of direct software updates. But in general this is the best smartphone on the market, and its little brother, the Galaxy S7, is just as good for those who don’t want a 5.5-inch device.
Honorable Mention
It may not pack the same all-round excellence as the Galaxy S7 Edge, but the HTC 10 is a really solid device that brings HTC back into contention. It’s fast, it has a great camera, and the build quality is simply stunning. Plus you also get a skinned version of Android that isn’t terrible, which is something you can’t say about many of the HTC 10’s competitors.

Google Nexus 6P
Great | Differentiating Features

Runs bleeding-edge stock Android, including Google’s latest betas. Premium metal build with fast fingerprint sensor and USB Type-C.
Good | Most Have It
Solid camera and battery life. Large 5.7-inch 1440p display. Performance is still really solid. Decent value for a phone of this size.
Average | Competitors May Be Better
No microSD card slot.
It made the list last year, and it’s still on it this year: the Huawei-made Google Nexus 6P is the best enthusiast smartphone you can currently buy, and that’s for one simple reason: software. Not only does the 6P run stock Android, complete with the latest security updates and a level of polish seldom seen in OEM devices, but you also have access to Developer Previews of the latest versions of Android.
No device currently on the market runs Android N, but owners of the Nexus 6P (and other recent Nexus devices) have been able to test it out for months now. Getting a sneak preview of new features is always an attractive thing to enthusiasts, and the promise of fast updates for several years after launch should appeal to everyone.
The Nexus 6P is no slouch from a hardware perspective either. The Snapdragon 810 may not be as fast as the latest silicon from Qualcomm, but it’s a very capable chip for powering the large, high-resolution 1440p AMOLED display. The all-metal build is fantastic – easily the best on a Nexus device – as are inclusions like USB-C and a rear fingerprint sensor. The camera delivers solid photos, too, making the lack of a microSD card slot one of the few complaints about this device.
Best of all, it won’t cost an arm and a leg to purchase the Nexus 6P: the handset can be found for several hundred dollars less than current-generation flagships. It’s not the cheapest device going around, but it could be a better value decision than the Galaxy S7 Edge or HTC 10

Best from Apple
Apple iPhone 6s Plus
Great | Differentiating Features

Software and hardware is integrated superbly. Fantastic camera. Outstanding performance and display. One of the best phone builds.
Good | Most Have It
Proven fingerprint sensor. Decent battery life.
Average | Competitors May Be Better
No microSD card slot. Expensive across the entire line-up. No longer on the bleeding edge, it's due for an update in a few months' time.
Since Apple releases their new smartphones in the later parts of the year, the iPhone 6s Plus is still the best handset out there for fans of Apple’s ecosystem and mobile operating system. While we have seen some Android handsets released this year with better cameras and powerful hardware, the iPhone 6s Plus still stacks up extremely well.
The iPhone 6s Plus packs performance equal to the best Android devices on the market. Combined with extremely fast storage and outstanding software integration, the 6s Plus feels blazingly fast to use. The camera is still fantastic, the battery life is decent, the fingerprint sensor is fast, and the metal chassis is incredibly well crafted with an attention to detail that’s not seen from most Android devices.
Apple fans still have to suffer through horrible pricing: the iPhone 6s Plus is one of the most expensive smartphones on the market, even though it was released more than six months ago. It’s particularly expensive if you want more than the base 16 GB, as there’s no microSD card slot for cheap expandable storage. However, as this is an Apple device, you definitely get what you pay for.
The iPhone 6s should also be mentioned here as it's nearly identical to the 6s Plus, except the screen and battery are smaller and the body fits more snugly in your hand. For those that want all of the 6s Plus' great hardware in a smaller package, the iPhone 6s is the phone you should buy.

Best Budget Device
LG G3
Great | Differentiating Features

Unbeatable at $200. The Snapdragon 801 is still a lot faster than Snapdragon 410 handsets. High-end camera still stacks up. 5.5-inch 1440p display.
Good | Most Have It
Has all the features of today’s new budget devices, like microSD expansion and fast LTE.
Average | Competitors May Be Better
Doesn’t run the latest version of Android. Battery life and build quality aren’t amazing.
Considering the current price of the two-year-old LG G3, there is no reason to buy a current-generation budget handset if you’re in the market for something around $200. As an older flagship, the LG G3 offers fantastic value: good luck finding an entry-level device with something as powerful as the Snapdragon 801 or something as crisp as the 5.5-inch 1440p display.
The camera is one of the key areas of the LG G3 that has held up incredibly well since 2014. It's not a stand out like it was two years ago, but it still packs a level of quality one step above current budget devices. Photos taken on the G3 look much better than those captured with last year's top budget choice -- the Motorola Moto G -- plus you get high-end features like 4K video recording, and optical image stabilization for improved low-light photography.
The G3 may not be the absolute cheapest smartphone out there – you can grab something very decent from Xiaomi or Motorola for $100-150 – but there are very few downsides to purchasing this handset. Need fast LTE? The G3 has it. Want expandable storage and a removable battery? The G3 has both of these features. NFC for mobile payments? Another tick, and something many cheaper handsets don’t have.
By purchasing something from a few years ago, you’re not getting the latest version of Android, and LG’s custom skin on the G3 is particularly obnoxious. Battery life might not be as good as current budget devices either, although that’s a sacrifice you have to make for better hardware.

Best Flagship for Less
Xiaomi Mi 5
Great | Differentiating Features

Current flagship specs, like a Snapdragon 820, for well under $400. Surprisingly beautiful design.
Good | Most Have It
Can’t complain about a 5.2-inch 1080p display. Pretty decent camera.
Average | Competitors May Be Better
Hard to find in North America and Europe. Xiaomi’s version of Android isn’t for everyone. No microSD card slot.
If you want high-end hardware but don’t want to spend $500-600, it’s hard to go past the Xiaomi Mi 5. This device has it all: the same Snapdragon 820 seen in competing flagships, a great 16-megapixel camera with optical image stabilization, and a decently-sized 3,000 mAh battery, all in an attractive and Gorilla Glass body.
Xiaomi hasn’t cut many corners at all to bring the Mi 5’s price down to around $350. You still get a fingerprint sensor, NFC, USB Type-C, Quick Charge 3.0, dual-band Wi-Fi, wide support for LTE networks, and a large-pixel front-facing camera that shines in low light. The 1080p 5.2-inch display is lower resolution than the best devices out there, though the actual visual difference is minimal.
The one challenge facing people wanting to purchase the Mi 5 is availability. Xiaomi doesn’t directly sell the Mi 5 in North America or Europe, but it can be imported through popular online stores like OppoMart for as little as $320 for the 32 GB variant. Be warned, though: there’s no microSD expansion, so be sure to purchase the amount of storage you need.
Honorable Mention
Not as keen on a Chinese-made device you need to import? Maybe the Google Nexus 5X is for you instead. Regularly available for under $300, the Nexus 5X presents excellent value for someone after a 5-inch device, with a great mix of mid-to-high end hardware and stock Android.
Source: http://www.techspot.com/bestof/smartphones/

After Linkedin,32 Million Twitter accounts password may have been hacked in 2016

After the mega hacks of last month, it is now time for Twitter. But there is a twist in this news. It seems that Twitter was hacked and the hacker managed to steal Twitter user ids and passowords of 32 million users. However, the news doesnt come from the dark web underground forums but from legitimate data breach reporting website which even offers you services of removing your name username and password from the stolen data base for free.

According to TechCrunch, the data comes from a Twitter hack in which 32 million Twitter accounts may have been compromised. The incident and the news comes from a rather unusual source that lets you download such data and even lets you remove yourself from the listing for free.

The website that seems to be making the most off it is LeakedSource. The site reported the same in a blog post stating that it received a copy of the leaked data from a user called “Tessa88@exploit.im,”.

If you have read our report on VK hack a week back, Tessa88@exploit.im is the same hacker who was selling 1 million VK users ids and passwords on dark web  underground forums.

LeakedSource says that the Twitter ids and passwords are freely being traded on dark web underground forums. The same source claims that about 32,888,300 records that contain email addresses, usernames and passwords have been leaked.

If you are a Twitter user, kindly head over to LeakedSource website simply pull out your name from the listing for free.

Twitter has not commented on the hack however it reached out to LeakedSource for further investigation in the matter.

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Finally someone found how to run Android in iPhone!

What will you do if you have an option to run Android OS in iPhone?
Someone managed to build a case that can hook with iPhone charging point and run Android operating system. This will give the user complete experience of Android. But the founder of this iPhone Android case does not have plan to sell commercially. Might change his mind in future for better offers once the product is stabilized.

Here is what the team from http://www.engadget.com/ says about Android case:
It involves strapping a tiny Android device to the back of your iPhone.

Familiar with cramming one operating system into somewhere it doesn't belong, developers at Tendigi have just created a homemade iPhone case that lets you run Android on your iOS smartphone. (Well, kind of). Fortunately, because of the Android Open Source Project, it gave Nick Lee the freedom to clone the mobile OS and build his own local hardware. Before he went that far, Lee decided to test the concept -- streaming Android across to an iPhone through a cable -- with a Nexus 5. He needed tools that could communicate with iOS, as well as services that let USB cables play nice with an iPhone. Lee also crafted software that transmitted what was happening on the Android devices' screen to the iPhone, while also send touch-input back. The next challenge: cramming it all into an iPhone "case". See it working after the break.
He then made his own tiny Android development board, linking it to the soon-to-be franken-iPhone and its own power supply, prototyping and 3D-printing an enclosure to house it all and attach to the iPhone. It's not the prettiest case, and really you're 'streaming' Android to your iPhone screen, but it's the man-hours thought that counts, right?
The report states that Lee managed to develop this product in 45 hours flat. He has no immediate plans of selling it commercially, but may change his mind if interest piqued, and would think of investing more time into building a sleeker case.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2016/06/08/run-android-on-an-iphone-with-some-heavy-engineering-and-cavea/

Security researchers find hacking backdoor to Delete and Modify Facebook Messages Sent to Other Users

Private messages that your send through your Facebook Messenger can be read by potential hackers using a hacking backdoor in the app. This backdoor vulnerability was found by the security researchers from Check Point, who will demo it at the Infosecurity Conference to be held today afternoon.

The security hole if unpatched could put 900 million people who use Facebook Messenger, at risk. The vulnerability was found by Check Point security researcher Roman Zaikan. Zaikan said that the backdoor allows a potential hacker to launch a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack into Facebook Messenger and spy/read messages without either the sender or the reader  knowing it. The hacker could also alter the messages for their own malicious gain.

Check Point’s report on the security flaw warns it “could have a severe impact on users due to Facebook’s vital role in everyday activities worldwide.”

Facebook Messenger conversations are held as legal and binding evidence by courts in United States, Australia and Europe, therefore such hack could be used to alter judgment in key cases. The Check Point corroborated the above point by saying that malicious hacker could alter a conversation to claim he had reached a falsified agreement with a victim of the attack.

“This vulnerability opened the door for an attacker to hide evidence of a crime or even incriminate an innocent person,” it says.

Another potential risk is that a hacker could pose as a friend to infect someone’s computer with ransomware and other malicious payload and then extort the user for unlocking it.

Check Point Australian general manager Christopher Rodrigues said the cyber security firm alerted Facebook as soon as it detected the security hole and Facebook has patched the vulnerability.  However Check Point couldnt confirm how long the Facebook Messenger carried this vulnerability nor it could find the vulnerability exploited in the wild. Neither did Check Point divulge if the vulnerability affected Facebook Messenger Android App or iOS App or both.

“We cannot confirm how many people have been affected by this,” he said.

Rodrigues added that there would be likely ramifications in the legal world in cases where Messenger communications were involved.

“Has that evidence been tampered with it or not? Does that particular individual, or the people in that case, do they know if they’ve been tampered or not? That is something which obviously they need to investigate

“If they think as an individual or a user they think that doesn’t look right or I don’t remember saying that, then they have to take steps. What this means is it means a lot of grief. For sure there will be something that could affect on the legal trait.

“It’s like having an invisible person in your house and you’re not knowing it. They could unlock the doors so when you’re not here somebody else could come in.”

Facebook has confirmed Check Points findings and accepted that there was indeed a vulnerability in Facebook Messenger. Facebook released a statement in a blog post saying it was the result of a “misconfiguration with the Messenger app on Android”.

Facebook said the “bug” allowed someone to change the content of their message but not somebody else’s message.

Facebook said even if someone altered the content of a message, using the flaw in the Android app, the correct version of the conversation still existed in other platforms and could be used as evidence of the unaltered conversation.

If you are a Facebook Messenger, it is recommended that your update your app with the latest version available on Google Play and Apple iTunes Store.

BitTorrent Forum Hacked; Change your Password Immediately

If you are a torrent lover and have registered on BitTorrent community forum website, then you may have had your personal details compromised, along with your hashed passwords.

The BitTorrent team has announced that its community forums have been hacked, which exposed private information of hundreds of thousands of its users.

As of now, BitTorrent is the most visited torrent client around the world with more than 150 Million monthly active users.

Besides this, BitTorrent also has a dedicated community forum that has over 388,000 registered members with tens of thousands of daily visitors.

A recent security alert by the team says the forum database has been compromised by hackers who were able to get their hands on its users’ passwords, warning its users to update their passwords as soon as possible.

The vulnerability is believed to be originated at one of its vendors, who alerted the BitTorrent team about the issue earlier this week.

"The vulnerability appears to have been through one of the vendor’s other clients. However, it allowed attackers to access some information on other accounts,"
BitTorrent employee annoucned on μTorrent forum. "As a result, attackers were able to download a list of our forum users."

BitTorrent and other torrent forums are also using Invision Power Board software and if the unnamed vendor in question is Invision Power Services Inc., then hundreds of popular discussion forums might have also been affected.

The team is also investigating further to learn if any other information of its users was accessed.

Security researcher Troy Hunt somehow got access to the stolen database and which he has already been uploaded to his Data breach Notification Site: Have I Been Pwned, which includes 34,000 BitTorrent Forum users' email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, and salted SHA1 hashed passwords.

All users are strongly advised to change their forum passwords as well as passwords for other sites, in case they are using identical to the one used on the forum.

Update: μTorrent forum not hacked. I mistakenly named μTorrent previously, instead of BitTorrent. As soon as we realized it, I have updated this article with correct information.

Amazon to invest $3 billion in India

Always there is a place for e-commerce site across world, likewise India has become an attractive country for doing an e-commerce business. With that note, Flipkart has become one of the most sorted e-commerce site in India to buy things online, next to that will be Snapdeal and Amazon takes the third place. Now FDI have realized the market in India and started funding more year after year. Now Amazon announced to invest $3 billion more to Amazon Indian e-commerce business. This announcement came inline after a meet with Indian Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi's visit to USA. 

This is what techcrunch is talking about this:
Amazon plans to put $3 billion more into its Indian e-commerce site, said founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. The investment was announced Tuesday evening at the U.S.-India Business Council’s 41st Annual Leadership Summit in Washington D.C., where Bezos and other business leaders met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

This brings the total amount Amazon has invested in Amazon India, which it launched in 2013, to $5 billion. It announced a $2 billion funding back in July 2014.

In a press release from the U.S.-India Business Council, Bezos said Amazon “has already created some 45,000 jobs in India and continue[s] to see huge potential in the Indian economy.”

India’s e-commerce market is now the fastest-growing in the world and is expected to be worth $119 billion by 2020, according to Morgan Stanley.

Amazon India’s main rivals are marketplaces Flipkart and Snapdeal, both of which have significant venture capital banking. According to CrunchBase, Flipkart has raised $3.15 billion so far from investors including Naspers, Tiger Global, DST Global, and Accel; Snapdeal has received about $1.54 billion from backers such as Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, SoftBank, and eBay.

A February report by Morgan Stanley said that Flipkart was the leader by gross merchandise volume (GMV), with 45 percent market share in 2015. Snapdeal came in second with 26 percent, and Amazon India took third place with 12 percent.

Both Flipkart and Amazon India, however, have claimed to be the largest e-commerce marketplace in India by user traffic. At the end of last year, comScore released data showing that Amazon India had more than 30 million unique visitors to its site during Diwali holiday sales in October, which Bezos said made it the most visited e-commerce site in India.

Flipkart then responded with data that claimed its main marketplace and clothing site Myntra (which Flipkart acquired in 2014) received 63 percent of total mobile commerce traffic in December, compared to 15.86 percent for Amazon India, and 13.84 percent for Snapdeal.

But Flipkart is now facing questions about its GMV growth and ability to continue competing with Amazon India. Morgan Stanley, an investor in Flipkart, recently cut the marketplace’s value to $9.4 billion, down from the $15.2 billion valuation it claimed last year after a $700 million funding round.

The heated competition comes at a high cost for all of India’s largest e-commerce players. For example, all three have invested huge amounts of money in logistics, a weak point in India’s commercial infrastructure, and also have to balance tight margins with offering competitive prices.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/07/amazon-will-pump-3b-more-into-its-indian-marketplace-as-it-competes-with-snapdeal-and-flipkart/