Electric car by Apple

Apple is planning to build an electric car with an electric car project, Titan, in five years, which might compete with Tesla Motors, Nissan Motors, General Motors, Ford Motors & other companies.Toronto Web Design Company
Though Apple hasn’t officially announced the electric vehicle, it hired few hundred people including some new hires from the auto industry including experts in technologies such as batteries and robotics, on a skunkworks project to do the early development of an electric vehicle resembling a minivan.
The company is probably looking at several options and would be more likely to engineer the software that controls autonomous-driving cars or rethink the human control of today’s cars, said Jon Bereisa, CEO of consulting firm Auto Lectrification LLC who worked on the Chevy Volt program.

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Source: http://www.timesofindia/

What’sApp Privacy is ‘broken’

What’sApp privacy settings can be bypassed by a simple software, though on one hand, the  makers of the app are endowing the app with privacy controls and encryption to secure the messages, usage pattern, profile picturse and status messages; claims the Dutch Student, Maikel Zweerink.Whatsapp

A tool, Whatsspy is developed by him that can track every move of any WhatsApp user.

Maikel Zweerink claims that “the Whatsspy is Proof of Concept that What’sApp is broken in terms of privacy.”

The tool can be run on a phone which is not connected with What’sApp. The What’sApp user’s online/offline status (even privacy set to ‘nobdoy’), profile pictures, privacy settings and status messages can be tracked with this tool. Even it can show a timeline that shows when users have been online and how long they were online.

This latest flaw in What’sApp privacy settings, however, raises fresh concerns over it’s security policy.

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Source: http://www.timesofindia/

Tips to Choose a Right Tablet

Now-a-days as the trend is going on to buy tablets, you should know which tablet is right for you and what you should know. Here are some tips for you to choose from Apple IPads, Android Tablets & Windows model.
The operating system on the iPad Air and iPad mini tablet lines is very clean and intuitive, and the wide selection of iPad apps that you can buy right on your tablet. This is the greatest strength of Apple’s iOS.

Google’s Android mobile OS gives you a choice of hardware from several manufacturers and offers maximum configurability, a top-notch notification system, fast and smooth Web browsing, and seamless integration with Google applications like Gmail, Google Maps, and Hangouts for video chat. Android also includes support for multiple user logins so you can share your tablet with a friend or family member.

Windows 8 comes the closest to offering a traditional computing experience with full x86 support for all of your Windows software. And you can run the full version of Microsoft Office when you buy a Win 8 tablet. Also, connectivity options and hardware add-ons for Windows models are also typically more plentiful than with other tablet types.

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Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/

A Glossary of a hacker’s dictionary

++++Term++++ +++++++++++++++++Definition
Advanced persistent threat (APT): A strategic cyber attack that infiltrates a system and persists over a prolonged period of time, potentially undetected. APTs may be carried out by a nation state or criminal organization to steal sensitive data or compromise a target system.
Botnet: A large network of virus-infected computers that can be used to generate spam, spread viruses, perpetrate click fraud or conduct attacks on other systems.
Bug bounty program: A program where software companies offer cash rewards to hackers to find and report exploitable vulnerabilities before they can be used by cyber criminals. Facebook, Google, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft have been known to offer thousands of dollars in return for bugs.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack: An attack designed to disrupt a computer system or website service by bombarding the site with so much web traffic that it crashes. Botnets are often used to carry out DDoS assaults.
Ransomware: Malicious software designed to block access to a system or account until a sum of money is paid.
Social engineering: Non-computer methods of manipulation to obtain sensitive personal information, such as birth dates, or social security numbers. Personal knowledge often used to bypass passwords.
Special phishing: An email masquerading as being from a trusted source or person you know sent with the goal of obtaining sensitive information, often by downloading data-sniffing and computer-controlling malicious software.
Zero-day exploit: A previously undetected software vulnerability that is used to hack into affected system before developers or manufacturers can address or fix the problem.

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Twelve big hacks

Some of the largest hacks in history, by records exposed :

# Name Hacks +++++++++++++++++Expose
1 NYC Taxi & Limousine 173 million Hack exploits poorly anonymized trip details and personal information of drivers
2 Adobe Systems 152 million Hack of company systems exposes informations related to customer orders
3 Shanghai Roadway 150 million Firm may have illegally bought and sold customers’ information
4 eBay 145 million Hack exposes names, encrypted password and personal information
5 Unknown South Korean Firms 140 million North Korean hackers expose e-mail addresses and identification numbers
6 Heartland 130 million Hack/malicious software exposes credit cards at processor
7 Target 110 million Hack exposes customer information by targeting point-of-sale systems
8 Korea Credit Bureau 104 million Insider fraud exposes 104 million credit cards
9 TJX 94 million Hack exposes credit cards and transaction details
10 TRW 90 million Hack exposes credit-reporting database
11 JPMorgan 83 million Hack exposes names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mails of the holders of household and small business accounts
12 Home Depot 56 million Hackers use malware to steal debit and credit card data from point-of-sale systems

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Facebook creates ‘Safety Check’ tool for disasters

A tool that push users notify friends and family that they are safe during or after natural disasters like Tsunami & Earthquake, is launched by Facebook.Webdesign CompanyToronto_DMGWeblabs

The tool, called ‘Safety Check’, which includes the basic “feature”  phones many people still use to access Facebook, will be available worldwide to the social network’s users on computers and mobile devices, especially in developing countries.

Though the people already use Facebook to tell people they are “OK” after earthquakes and other disasters, the Facebook’s Safety Check tool will make it easier. This tool was created in 2011 by Facebook engineers following the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan as a disaster message board.

Once users activate the tool, it will determine their location using the city they have listed in their profile, the last location they’ve shared or the city where they are using the internet. If they are in an area affected by a natural disaster, Safety Check will send them a notification asking if they’re safe.

If they say yes, their Facebook friends will be notified. There’s no option to say no. Users can also mark their friends as safe, but the friends have to approve it.

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Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/44834579.cms?intenttarget=no”

Ex-Googlers launch an app to make people talk

An app called Cord, developed by two former Google employees, Thomas Gayno and Jeff Baxter, is hoping to let people quickly record and send their brief voice messages lasting no more than 12 seconds to one or several people at the same time with just a single tap.

“Over the past decade, people are speaking to each other less and less,” Gayno told AFP.

“Increasingly they communicate by text — either by SMS, email or instant messaging. We want to tackle that and web design Toronotoget people speaking to each other again.”

To transmit the voice with Cord, users will simply tap on the face of a visible contact placed in a circle, pressing once to listen to a message or to respond without the requirement of any number or text.

This voice enabled app will certainly play a key role in controlling new devices, from smartphones to wearables and other connected objects, as said by Thomas Husson, an analyst with Forrester Research. “However, I doubt that a service based on the promise of voice-services alone can scale – it will have to embedded among other features in an open way to control new devices.”

The two Google Veterans are hoping that this innovative new app will trigger a renaissance in an increasingly unfashionable method of human communication: talking.

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Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Ex-Googlers-launch-an-app-to-make-people-talk/articleshow/44500960.cms”

Bash Bug – A New Virus

A new programming flaw known as “Bash Bug” is reported to give a serious threat to the IT world effecting millions of computers and other devices such as home internet routers and even the systems that are used to run factory floors and power plants.

The Bash Bug also known as “Shellshock”, affects a system software called Bash, which is found on a variety of web design TorontoUnix-based systems, potentially allows hackers to take control of a victim’s computer and run almost any operation, from opening, altering and deleting files to shutting down networks and launching attacks on websites.

Bash is found on Unix-based devices that are running the Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. Devices that use Unix in some form include many servers, routers, Android phones, Mac computers, medical devices and even the computers that create bitcoins. Systems running power plants and municipal water systems could also be affected by the bug, though security experts already recommend that these systems remain disconnected from the internet to avoid opening them to such risks.
Bash is a command shell which “tells the computer to do of what you want do”. Thus, the bug in Bash allows the hackers to take control over a victim’s device.

Thus, Bash is believed to be worse than “Heartbleed, which expose passwords and other sensitive data to hackers”.

As we wait for the development of a fix to this bug, it will be always helpful to run up-to-date security software on your devices.

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Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/computing/What-is-Bash-Bug-and-should-you-be-worried/articleshow/43501380.cms”, http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bash-bug-aka-shellshock-has-no-easy-fix-1.2779383