Dating is good, Know the reasons
Dating has become an important part of life before indulging into relationships. Sometimes, people date just for fun and many times they are looking for future with each other. Well.. dating is just a beginning to find out future of your relationship with the person. Hence, dating someone may give you both good as well as bad experiences. But still it is good act. It is even suggested that people miss a big fun of their lives. In fact, there are several reasons that induce an individual to go for dating. Check out these reasons to know why dating is good.
When a couple dates then both of them get a company to enjoy and have fun with. Dating gives you pleasure as well as entertain you without fail.
Dating can be called a kind of relationship building process. Relationships help you in developing your personality. Dating also helps you to find out good and bad in you.
When you date then you get better awareness about opposite gender and its behaviour. Even if your date is not the right person still you have learnt how to deal with the opposite gender.
When you date people then you realize what kind of person you want in your life. It is also a process of filtering out and find out the best one for you. Sometimes, dating also lands you to meet the right person.
Even dating is wonderful for taking decision of marriage. Dating helps the couple to understand each other, their interests and their future plans too. This makes you to identify whether the person is suitable or not.
Judge Asks 5 Year Old Boy To Decide His Father’s Punishment! Boy’s Judgement Is Winning Hearts!
Today, we are here with a video which is going crazy on the Internet. We all adore kids and love them; there are several reasons for this. One of them is their innocence; their childhood determines the kind of person they are going to be when they grow up. A very spectacular event took place in a public court, where the kid’s intelligence and honest answer stole everyone’s heart. Read the complete post to find out. You can also watch the video at the end of the article.
A child is seldom seen in courts. Five-year-old Jacob accompanied his father to the court after, his father was charged for parking in a no-parking area. When the Judge saw Jacob, he asked him his name and called him over to sit with him on his bench. The Judge was very friendly to him and asked him if he went to school, and what was it that he wanted to do when he grew up. The whole scene is very pleasant to watch; the audience present there thoroughly enjoyed the moment and had a good laugh.
The Judge then decided to ask the child to choose a punishment for his father. He laid down three options for him, he said he could either charge his father 90 dollars or 30 dollars or he could charge him nothing. The child’s judgement on this left everyone speechless. The child could have chosen his dad’s side and got him free from the ticket, but surprisingly without thinking about it twice, he said 30 dollars taking the middle way out. On this, the Judge said that he is a very good Judge, and complimented him by comparing him to King Solomon.
All came to a great ending, when the Judge cleared his father of all charges for his family, and inspired everyone. The Judge asked the man to take his son for breakfast, as he had just saved him 30 dollars. I am sure that this guy will never make such a mistake again.
Everyone is going crazy about the boy’s intelligence, the video has gained almost 13 million views on Facebook.
Sachin: A Billion Dreams has managed to hold well in the weekdays at the box office. The biographical sports docu-drama raked in 3.05 crores and now stands with the grand total of 38.80 crores.
The film will cross the 40 crore mark in its opening week at the box office. Since there are lots of small Bollywood releases, this Sachin Tendulkar biopic will face screen crunch in its 2nd week.
One of the main reasons for this film to work at the box office is the fact that it is associated to a personality like Sachin Tendulkar, who enjoys a huge fan base.
Actress Shruti Haasan, daughter of veteran actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika, says nepotism has been a bit harder than most people in the entertainment industry for her.
"I am very, very proud of being Kamal Haasan and Sarika's daughter. I am very proud of my surname, but I can also very proudly say that I have never ever used it to move ahead in my career," Shruti said on Wednesday while promoting her forthcoming film Behen Hogi Teri .
"It (my film background) only opened the door for me. But I can't push my ways through those doors. I want my own name.
I am sure a lot of people have accused me of nepotism. But I can say that I have never used nepotism. It's been a little harder than most people for me," she added.
She has carved a niche for herself as an actor, but Shruti was not interested in this career path earlier.
"A lot of youngsters who are now starting their careers are very well planned and organised. They have a goal and a strategy. These things were not there in my case. I just stumbled into the film industry. It sounds funny because of my parents," Shruti said.
"I was a musician and when I got my first film, then I just said, 'Okay, let's do it.' I didn't understand the seriousness of this field when I did my first film. Later, I fell in love with cinema and acting with my own perspective and not my parents' side. From there, the responsibility has driven me further."
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"The honour of portraying somebody's else life is one of the great things happened in my life," she added.
Besides her, Behen Hogi Teri also features Rajkummar Rao and Gulshan Grover.
Talking about her role in the film, Shruti said: "Binny is one of the most fun characters that I have played because she is from Lucknow and has a lot of layers. Binny is actually based on a real life character - it is based on our director's (Ajay Pannalal) sister."
"Before starting the shooting, he (Pannalal) sent me videos of his sister and told me a lot about her. There was a different kind of responsibility on me this time. A lot of girls will be able to relate to the character."
Shruti, who works in both southern films and Bollywood, says she doesn't see "any geographical difference between the two industries".
"For me, the people who are part of the project or the nature of the project is what really brings the difference. Since childhood, I have grown up in an pan-Indian house."
"So, I find it difficult to separate the regions of India because my mother (Sarika) is from Mumbai and my father (Kamal Hassan) is from the south. We talk in almost all languages in our house. So, I never saw any difference," she said.
Behen Hogi Teri is slated to release on June 9.
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Sachin: A Billion Dreams has managed to hold well in the weekdays at the box office. The biographical sports docu-drama raked in 3.05 crores and now stands with the grand total of 38.80 crores.
The film will cross the 40 crore mark in its opening week at the box office. Since there are lots of small Bollywood releases, this Sachin Tendulkar biopic will face screen crunch in its 2nd week.
One of the main reasons for this film to work at the box office is the fact that it is associated to a personality like Sachin Tendulkar, who enjoys a huge fan base.
Actress Shruti Haasan, daughter of veteran actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika, says nepotism has been a bit harder than most people in the entertainment industry for her.
"I am very, very proud of being Kamal Haasan and Sarika's daughter. I am very proud of my surname, but I can also very proudly say that I have never ever used it to move ahead in my career," Shruti said on Wednesday while promoting her forthcoming film Behen Hogi Teri .
"It (my film background) only opened the door for me. But I can't push my ways through those doors. I want my own name.
She has carved a niche for herself as an actor, but Shruti was not interested in this career path earlier.
"A lot of youngsters who are now starting their careers are very well planned and organised. They have a goal and a strategy. These things were not there in my case. I just stumbled into the film industry. It sounds funny because of my parents," Shruti said.
"I was a musician and when I got my first film, then I just said, 'Okay, let's do it.' I didn't understand the seriousness of this field when I did my first film. Later, I fell in love with cinema and acting with my own perspective and not my parents' side. From there, the responsibility has driven me further."
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"The honour of portraying somebody's else life is one of the great things happened in my life," she added.
Besides her, Behen Hogi Teri also features Rajkummar Rao and Gulshan Grover.
Talking about her role in the film, Shruti said: "Binny is one of the most fun characters that I have played because she is from Lucknow and has a lot of layers. Binny is actually based on a real life character - it is based on our director's (Ajay Pannalal) sister."
"Before starting the shooting, he (Pannalal) sent me videos of his sister and told me a lot about her. There was a different kind of responsibility on me this time. A lot of girls will be able to relate to the character."
Shruti, who works in both southern films and Bollywood, says she doesn't see "any geographical difference between the two industries".
"For me, the people who are part of the project or the nature of the project is what really brings the difference. Since childhood, I have grown up in an pan-Indian house."
"So, I find it difficult to separate the regions of India because my mother (Sarika) is from Mumbai and my father (Kamal Hassan) is from the south. We talk in almost all languages in our house. So, I never saw any difference," she said.
Behen Hogi Teri is slated to release on June 9.
The adware was found on 41 applications developed by a Korean compan
A new malware called Judy has infected millions of Android smartphones, reportedNDTV. The adware was found on 41 applications developed by a Korean company called Estudio. It has been removed from the Google store now, reported Mint.
The malware was flagged by security solutions firm Check Point. Researchers said the malware used infected devices to generate revenue by generating fraudulent clicks on ads. They believe the malware has infected 8.5 million to 36.5 million devices.
The bug is called Judy because “Judy the Chef”, an American television personality and chef, was a common factor in the apps affected.
“Some of the apps we discovered resided on Google Play for several years, but all were recently updated,” Check Point team told NDTV. “It is unclear how long the malicious code existed inside the apps, hence the actual spread of the malware remains unknown.”
HummingBad Malware Returns – Uses Your Phone to Make Ad Cash for Hackers
After last year clean up, looks like the HummingBad malware has made a return with its new, more powerful and annoying version.
Back in February 2016 if you remember, HummingBad has made the headlines. This malicious app affected around 10 million Android smartphones around the world.
The software gained root access on the affected devices and started collecting personal data and made it look like they are clicking on ads. They folks behind this made around $300,000 per month.
The malware was spread using third-party app stores and has managed to reach so many devices that it has become the fourth most prevalent malware known. However, it did not manage to infiltrate the official Google Play store.
The new version was dubbed as HummingWhale by the folks at Check Point Software Technologies who first spotted it and saw that it has improved add fraud capabilities in its code. So, if the user spots the app and goes to close the app process then HummingWhale will go under and turns into a virtual machine which is way lot harder to detect.
The new HummingWhale started gaining attention when the apps that were published under the names of several Chinese developers (possibly fake developers) showed the behaviour that was not normal at the startup. “It registered several events on boot, such as TIME_TICK, SCREEN_OFF and INSTALL_REFERRER which [were] dubious in that context,” wrote Check Point. They also carried an encrypted file of 1.3 MB posing as an image but acting as an executable app file.
“This .apk operates as a dropper, used to download and execute additional apps, similar to the tactics employed by previous versions of HummingBad. However, this dropper went much further. It uses an Android plugin called DroidPlugin, originally developed by Qihoo 360, to upload fraudulent apps on a virtual machine,” the company notes.
After last year clean up, looks like the HummingBad malware has made a return with its new, more powerful and annoying version.
Back in February 2016 if you remember, HummingBad has made the headlines. This malicious app affected around 10 million Android smartphones around the world.
The software gained root access on the affected devices and started collecting personal data and made it look like they are clicking on ads. They folks behind this made around $300,000 per month.
The malware was spread using third-party app stores and has managed to reach so many devices that it has become the fourth most prevalent malware known. However, it did not manage to infiltrate the official Google Play store.
The new version was dubbed as HummingWhale by the folks at Check Point Software Technologies who first spotted it and saw that it has improved add fraud capabilities in its code. So, if the user spots the app and goes to close the app process then HummingWhale will go under and turns into a virtual machine which is way lot harder to detect.
The new HummingWhale started gaining attention when the apps that were published under the names of several Chinese developers (possibly fake developers) showed the behaviour that was not normal at the startup. “It registered several events on boot, such as TIME_TICK, SCREEN_OFF and INSTALL_REFERRER which [were] dubious in that context,” wrote Check Point. They also carried an encrypted file of 1.3 MB posing as an image but acting as an executable app file.
“This .apk operates as a dropper, used to download and execute additional apps, similar to the tactics employed by previous versions of HummingBad. However, this dropper went much further. It uses an Android plugin called DroidPlugin, originally developed by Qihoo 360, to upload fraudulent apps on a virtual machine,” the company notes.
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A New Milestone for DuckDuckGo, Hits 14 Million Searches A Day
The internet search engine DuckDuckGo has been experiencing a great growth as the company hits the 10 billion total anonymous searches and over 14 million searches a day mark. Out of the 10 billion mentioned above, 4 billion searches were made in December of 2016. It is no wonder that the team behind DuckDuckGo are in excited as ever.
Cofounder CEO & Founder of the company, Gabriel Weinberg said, “We are proud to say that at the end of 2016, we surpassed a count of 10 billion anonymous searches served in total, with over 4 billion in 2016. We are growing faster than ever with our first 14Million a day on Jan 10, 2017.”
The market in which DuckDuckGo works is very competitive and that makes their growth more and more remarkable. It is not an easy feat taking customers away from the likes of legends like Google. When they are asked about their catalyst for their huge growth in a fairly saturated market, DuckDuckGo said that it owed the growth due to the public fear and concerns about their individual privacy and the privacy of their searches and data. Scepticism regarding a companies ability and willingness to protect public privacy is one more reason for DuckDuckGo’s recent growth.
This company is not alone in their assertion, they are backed by Pew Research which conducted a study that found some 40% of internet users say that a search engine provider “should not retain information about their activity”
DuckDuckGo is not merely content with raising privacy standards for itself; it is dedicated to improving the privacy of users in general. This is highlighted by the fact DuckDuckGo recently donated $225,000 to 9 organisations who are privacy-focussed. The company is always looking to aid companies who have privacy as a central tenant of their policy. DuckDuckGo has the vision of wanting to be the most trusted search engine in the world which may explain the companies obsession with transparency and privacy.
So give DuckDuckGo a shot by download their app on Android
The internet search engine DuckDuckGo has been experiencing a great growth as the company hits the 10 billion total anonymous searches and over 14 million searches a day mark. Out of the 10 billion mentioned above, 4 billion searches were made in December of 2016. It is no wonder that the team behind DuckDuckGo are in excited as ever.
Cofounder CEO & Founder of the company, Gabriel Weinberg said, “We are proud to say that at the end of 2016, we surpassed a count of 10 billion anonymous searches served in total, with over 4 billion in 2016. We are growing faster than ever with our first 14Million a day on Jan 10, 2017.”
The market in which DuckDuckGo works is very competitive and that makes their growth more and more remarkable. It is not an easy feat taking customers away from the likes of legends like Google. When they are asked about their catalyst for their huge growth in a fairly saturated market, DuckDuckGo said that it owed the growth due to the public fear and concerns about their individual privacy and the privacy of their searches and data. Scepticism regarding a companies ability and willingness to protect public privacy is one more reason for DuckDuckGo’s recent growth.
This company is not alone in their assertion, they are backed by Pew Research which conducted a study that found some 40% of internet users say that a search engine provider “should not retain information about their activity”
DuckDuckGo is not merely content with raising privacy standards for itself; it is dedicated to improving the privacy of users in general. This is highlighted by the fact DuckDuckGo recently donated $225,000 to 9 organisations who are privacy-focussed. The company is always looking to aid companies who have privacy as a central tenant of their policy. DuckDuckGo has the vision of wanting to be the most trusted search engine in the world which may explain the companies obsession with transparency and privacy.
So give DuckDuckGo a shot by download their app on Android
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US Makes HTTPS Mandatory for All New .Gov Websites
To increase the security of the government websites that are usually targetted by the hackers, United States will default to HTTPS to all the new .gov websites starting this year.
During the administration of Obama, the government has set December 31 as the deadline for all government websites to switch to HTTPS, but from some unofficial stats, we know that only 60 percent of these websites actually completed did the transition.
Now the General Services Administration announced that from 2017, all new .gov websites will have HTTPS automatically.
“As new executive branch domains have been registered, dotgov.gov program will submit all these websites to the web browsers for “preloading”. After the submission, nearly three organisation time is taken to complete the “preloading” in the modern browsers. All these changes will be issued to the dotgov customers when they register a new domain now under the Executive Branch, and will not have any effect on existing or any renewed domains,” reads the announcement.
GSA says that the HTTPS will be applied to all subdomains of freshly registered executive .gov websites, that include intranet web sites, saying that sticking with HTTP even for the intranet is not at all secure and is “discouraged.”
If you are to have a target date, GSA claims it is aiming for this new measure to take place in the spring of 2017, and the domain customers will be notified 30 days before changes taken place.
“GSA provides extensive guidance to agencies on HTTPS deployment at https.cio.gov and encourages .gov domain owners to obtain low cost or free certificates, trusted by the general public. As a general matter, more expensive certificates do not offer more security value to service owners, and automatic deployment of free certificates can significantly improve service owners’ security posture,” the GSA adds.
To increase the security of the government websites that are usually targetted by the hackers, United States will default to HTTPS to all the new .gov websites starting this year.
During the administration of Obama, the government has set December 31 as the deadline for all government websites to switch to HTTPS, but from some unofficial stats, we know that only 60 percent of these websites actually completed did the transition.
Now the General Services Administration announced that from 2017, all new .gov websites will have HTTPS automatically.
“As new executive branch domains have been registered, dotgov.gov program will submit all these websites to the web browsers for “preloading”. After the submission, nearly three organisation time is taken to complete the “preloading” in the modern browsers. All these changes will be issued to the dotgov customers when they register a new domain now under the Executive Branch, and will not have any effect on existing or any renewed domains,” reads the announcement.
GSA says that the HTTPS will be applied to all subdomains of freshly registered executive .gov websites, that include intranet web sites, saying that sticking with HTTP even for the intranet is not at all secure and is “discouraged.”
If you are to have a target date, GSA claims it is aiming for this new measure to take place in the spring of 2017, and the domain customers will be notified 30 days before changes taken place.
“GSA provides extensive guidance to agencies on HTTPS deployment at https.cio.gov and encourages .gov domain owners to obtain low cost or free certificates, trusted by the general public. As a general matter, more expensive certificates do not offer more security value to service owners, and automatic deployment of free certificates can significantly improve service owners’ security posture,” the GSA adds.
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China Takes Internet Censorship to Next Level With “clean up” Campaign
China has announced their new 14-month campaign to “clean up” the internet service providers and bring down devices like virtual private networks (VPNs) that are used to evade their strict censorship.
The ruling party oversees a huge apparatus designed to censor the online content that deemed politically sensitive and blocking many Western websites and the services of the internet giants including Twitter, Facebook and Google.
China passed a controversial cybersecurity bill in the last November, increasing restrictions on online freedom of speech and also imposing some new rules on the service providers.
But companies and individuals use VPNs quite often to access the unfiltered internet that is beyond China’s “Great Firewall”.
Internet service providers and telecom will no longer be allowed to set up or even rent any special lines such as VPNs without the official approval, said the ministry of industry and information technology Sunday.
Their “clean up” campaign would last upto March 2018, as said in a statement on their website.
The announcement came a few days after President Xi Jinping extolled the globalisation and denounced protectionism in a speech at World Economic Forum in Davos, where he said that China is committed to “opening up”.
The internet access services in the Chinese market has grown rapidly, and “first signs of disorderly development are also appearing, making an urgent need for regulation”, the statement said.
The new rules were required to “strengthen internet information security management”, it added.
IT expert Li Yi told the Global Times newspaper, which often takes a nationalistic tone, the new regulations were “extremely important”.
While some multinationals such as Microsoft needed VPNs to communicate with overseas headquarters, other companies and individuals “browse overseas internet pages out of illegal motivations”, Li said.
A 2015 report by the US think tank Freedom House found that China had the most restrictive Internet policies of 65 countries it studied, ranking below Iran and Syria.
China is home to the world’s largest number of internet users, which totalled 731 million as of December, the government-linked China Internet Network Information Center said Sunday.
China has announced their new 14-month campaign to “clean up” the internet service providers and bring down devices like virtual private networks (VPNs) that are used to evade their strict censorship.
The ruling party oversees a huge apparatus designed to censor the online content that deemed politically sensitive and blocking many Western websites and the services of the internet giants including Twitter, Facebook and Google.
China passed a controversial cybersecurity bill in the last November, increasing restrictions on online freedom of speech and also imposing some new rules on the service providers.
But companies and individuals use VPNs quite often to access the unfiltered internet that is beyond China’s “Great Firewall”.
Internet service providers and telecom will no longer be allowed to set up or even rent any special lines such as VPNs without the official approval, said the ministry of industry and information technology Sunday.
Their “clean up” campaign would last upto March 2018, as said in a statement on their website.
The announcement came a few days after President Xi Jinping extolled the globalisation and denounced protectionism in a speech at World Economic Forum in Davos, where he said that China is committed to “opening up”.
The internet access services in the Chinese market has grown rapidly, and “first signs of disorderly development are also appearing, making an urgent need for regulation”, the statement said.
The new rules were required to “strengthen internet information security management”, it added.
IT expert Li Yi told the Global Times newspaper, which often takes a nationalistic tone, the new regulations were “extremely important”.
While some multinationals such as Microsoft needed VPNs to communicate with overseas headquarters, other companies and individuals “browse overseas internet pages out of illegal motivations”, Li said.
A 2015 report by the US think tank Freedom House found that China had the most restrictive Internet policies of 65 countries it studied, ranking below Iran and Syria.
China is home to the world’s largest number of internet users, which totalled 731 million as of December, the government-linked China Internet Network Information Center said Sunday.
Google Maps Will Soon Help You Find Parking
Did you ever get late to your office just because you are not able to find a parking spot or you found one but it was too far from your office. Situations like that may become a thing of past because soon you will be able to find the location you are trying to visit and also the detailed directions on where you can find the nearest spot to park your car just by using Google Maps.
This is not a prediction. This is something you are gooing to be able to do on a daily basis with the upcoming beta version of the Google Maps. This upcoming version will be loaded with cool new features and one of happens to be offering the turn-by-turn directions for the safest open areas near you where you can park your vehicle.
Android Police has shared some exclusive new details about the beta version ‘v9.44.0’ of Google Maps that is to come. This runs on devices running on Android 4.3 and above and you can download it through an APK Mirror. The new version will come pre-loaded with driving directions for general parking spots along with the availability status of a certain spot and the distance and time estimates. If the app just shows you a tiny ‘P’ icon, that means you can park your car since the spot is available and open. The upcoming version will also display the likeliness of finding an open parking spot in a particular destination with options to range from Easy, Medium and or Limited.
It is worth noting that Google will be relying on conventional traffic patterns instead of location data, which is why the app may not clearly identify open parking spots as yet. However, the feature is in its evolutionary phases currently and we are sure that pretty soon it will be able to provide accurate guidance to users about open spots to park their vehicles. The feature may also become a lot more focused if Google decides to add its existing user tracking feature so that the Maps remain perfect in real-time too.
Super Cell got hacked!! 1.1 Million accounts stolen!! Clash of clans isn’t safe anymore
If you have a Supercell account then the time has come to change your password.If you don’t know supercell they are the creators of trending Games such as Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Boom Beach and HayDay.
It is said that 1.1 Million accounts are hacked and the hackers have even started to trade the information of the victims.
It should be noted that the hack affects the vBulletin forums belonging to Supercell, with the hack quite possibly relating to an unpatched critical vulnerability made public a number of months ago.
In words of Super Cell
As we’ve said before, to provide our forum service we use software from vbulletin.com. We’re currently looking into report that a vulnerability allowed third party hackers to gain illegal access to some forum user information, including a number of emails and encrypted passwords. Our preliminary investigation suggests that the breach happened in September 2016 and it has since been fixed.We take any such breaches very seriously and we follow very strict policies when it comes to security. Please note that this breach only affects our Forum service. Game accounts have not been affected.To make sure your account is not being accessed without your knowledge, please change the password you are using on this forum as soon as possible. You can reset your password here: https://forum.supercell.com/login.php?do=lostpwWe also strongly advise you to change the password in any other systems you are using with the same login. As a general guideline, matching credentials should not be used on multiple sites.We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.
It is said that the breach occurred last year in the time September however it was posted in the companies forums that users should change their password.
The hacked data consists of email ID’s , hashed passwords and IP address of the users if you are on a static IP the hacker might know your IP now.It is said that Supercell uses VBulletin Forums software which will hash passwords but the password hashes are aren’t strong.
A website named LeakBase claims that around the database of 1.1 Million user accounts all the data is verified by using the email address, A company called motherboard verified that data using the email address are included when they tried to create new accounts the forum is showing that the account already exits.
In the official statement, supercell stated that it will take these hacks very seriously and it ensures it’s users to follow strict security measures to ensure a good secure forum.
This isn’t the only company that got affected but many companies such as Epic Games, LifeBoat, GTA and Clash of Kings still use the same older versions of the VBulletin software.
It is recommended to our readers to use the different password for different online accounts.
Gmail Phishing Attack: Do Not Open It
Gmail users have been warned to beware a new online scam which could leave them open to hackers.
Hackers are tricking customers of Google’s email service into clicking on fake links which then let criminals steal their personal information.
Discovered by Mark Maunder, the CEO of WordPress security plugin Wordfence, the attack first sees the hacker send an email appearing to contain a PDF with a familiar file name.
That PDF, however, is actually a cleverly disguised image that, when clicked, launches a new tab that looks like this:
IT’S THE GMAIL SIGN-IN PAGE, RIGHT? NOT QUITE. A CLOSER LOOK AT THE ADDRESS BAR WILL SHOW YOU THAT ALL IS NOT QUITE AS IT SEEMS:
However the page is actually a portal for hackers to steal your email address and password information – giving them full access to your account.
The hackers can then spread their virus even further by sending emails to all of your contacts.
And even worse, if you use the same login details for other websites or accounts, the hackers will be able to gain access to these to. If you’re worried that a phishing email has landed in your inbox, there’s an easy way to make sure you don’t hacked.
The second login page, which opens when you click on the infected link or attachment, will display a web domain a world apart from what it should be.
That’s because the criminals use a tactic called “data URI” (shown above), where a legitimate-looking web address is put in the domain name, but then followed up by a load of white space which hides a malicious link.
The best way to make sure you don’t caught out is to make sure that the domain you use to log in has nothing before the hostname ‘accounts.google.com’ other than ‘https://’ and the green lock symbol.
German Governmental Computers Gets Average Of 20 Attacks Every Day
Different hacking groups conduct an average of 20 attacks against the computers of Germany’s government every day, local media reported Friday.
The Bild newspaper reported citing the government response to the parliamentary request of Germany’s Die Linke (The Left) party that at least one attack a week was conducted by security services of foreign countries.
Earlier in the day, German media reported citing officials from the country’s Defense Ministry that about 47 million of hacking attacks had been registered by December 2016, while some 9 million of them had been classified as very dangerous.
The issue of hacking attacks against government networks in different countries has come under the spotlight in recent months after a number of US officials has claimed that Russia has affected the 2016 US presidential election, hacking the country’s political institutions and individuals. Moscow has repeatedly denied Washington’s allegations it was behind the breach or that it had any desire to interfere with the US election.
ESEA Hacked, 1.5 Million User Records Stolen
The E-Sports Entertainment Association said in a statement on Monday that after it refused to pay a $100,000 ransom, hackers released the data of many of its users, including names, email addresses, gaming IDs, hashed passwords, dates of birth and phone numbers.
Information such as registration date, city, state (or province), last login, username, first and last name, bcrypt hash, email address, date of birth, zip code, phone number, website URL, Steam ID, Xbox ID, and PSN ID may have been obtained by the hackers according to breach notification service LeakedSource
“We do not give into extortion and ransom demands and we take the security of customers’ data very seriously. In addition to investigating the incident and reporting it to the authorities, we have been working to isolate the vector attack and secure the vulnerability,” the ESEA said in its statement.
The ESEA, a company that organizes primarily Counter-Strike: Global Offensive matches and tournaments, has not released an official tally of how many accounts were compromised, but it did acknowledge in its statement that LeakedSource.com has the full dataset. LeakedSource.com, a site that collects hacked information so individuals can verify whether they have been compromised, shows 1,503,707 accounts from ESEA.net in its database.
“We have been working around the clock to further fortify security and will bring our website online shortly when that next round is complete,” the organisation said, adding, “this possible user data leak is not connected to the current service outage.”
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