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Dropbox Hacked — More Than 68 Million Account Details Leaked Online

Hackers have obtained credentials for more than 68 Million accounts for online cloud storage platform Dropbox from a known 2012 data breach.

Dropbox has confirmed the breach and already notified its customers of a potential forced password resets, though the initial announcement failed to specify the exact number of affected users.
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However, in a selection of files obtained

Record-breaking 1.9 Gbps Internet Speed achieved over 4G Mobile Connection

Elisa, one of the biggest Finnish Internet Service Providers (ISP), claims to have achieved a new world record for 4G network with 1.9 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) data download speed using Huawei technology.

Currently, Sweden and the United Kingdom have been crowned as the top countries across the world when it comes to fastest mobile 3G and 4G speeds, but now Finland is also working hard to

Chainfire's SuHide — Now You Can Hide Your Android Root Status On Per-App Basis

Famous Android developer Chainfire released an experimental hack with a new app, called “Suhide,” that allows users to hide the root status of their rooted Android devices on an app-by-app basis.

Rooting your Android device can bring a lot of benefits by giving you access to a wide variety of apps and deeper access to the Android system…But at what cost?

One of the major drawbacks of

Two US State Election Systems Hacked to Steal Voter Databases — FBI Warns

A group of unknown hackers or an individual hacker may have breached voter registration databases for election systems in at least two US states, according to the FBI, who found evidence during an investigation this month.

Although any intrusion in the state voting system has not been reported, the FBI is currently investigating the cyberattacks on the official websites for voter registration

Chinese Certificate Authority 'mistakenly' gave out SSL Certs for GitHub Domains

A Chinese certificate authority (CA) appeared to be making a significant security blunder by handing out duplicate SSL certificates for a base domain if someone just has control over its any subdomain.

The certificate authority, named WoSign, issued a base certificate for the Github domains to an unnamed GitHub user.

But How? First of all, do you know, the traditional Digital Certificate

Russian Lawmaker's Son Convicted of Stealing 2.9 Million Credit Card Numbers

The son of a prominent Russian lawmaker has been found guilty in the United States of running a hacking scheme that stole and sold 2.9 million US credit card numbers using Point-of-Sale (POS) malware, costing financial institutions more than $169 Million.

Roman Seleznev, 32, the son of Russian Parliament member Valery Seleznev, was arrested in 2014 while attempting to board a flight in the

Opera Browser Sync Service Hacked; Users' Data and Saved Passwords Compromised

Opera has reset passwords of all users for one of its services after hackers were able to gain access to one of its Cloud servers this week.

Opera Software reported a security breach last night, which affects all users of the sync feature of its web browser.
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So, if you’ve been using Opera’s Cloud Sync service, which allows users to synchronize their browser data and settings

Megaupload Domains Seized by FBI 'Hijacked' to Host Porn Ads

Well, we all know that the FBI has previously hosting porn on the Internet. I still remember the case of PlayPen, the world’s largest dark web child pornography site, which was seized by FBI and ran from agency’s own servers to uncover the site’s visitors.

Now, one of the most popular sites owned and operated by the FBI has been serving porn as well.

FBI-owned Megaupload.org and several

This Open Source 25-Core Processor Chip Can Be Scaled Up to 200,000-Core Computer

Researchers have designed a new computer chip that promises to boost the performance of computers and data centers while processing applications in parallel.

Princeton University researchers have developed a 25-core open source processor, dubbed Piton named after the metal spikes used by rock climbers, which has been designed to be flexible, highly scalable, fast and energy-efficient to