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Your iPhone will Alert You if You are Being Monitored At Work

Are You an Employee?

It’s quite possible that someone has been reading your messages, emails, listening to your phone calls, and monitoring your activities at work.

No, it’s not a spy agency or any hacker…

…Oops! It’s your Boss.

Recently, European Court had ruled that the Employers can legally monitor as well as read workers’ private messages sent via chat software like WhatsApp or

First Mac OS X Ransomware Targets Apple Users

Mac users, even you are not left untouched!

The World’s first fully functional Ransomware targeting OS X operating system has been landed on Macs.

Ransomware – one of the fastest-growing cyber threats – encrypts the important documents and files on infected machines and then asks victims to pay ransoms in digital currencies so they can regain access to their data.

Though Ransomware

RIP Ray Tomlinson, The Creator of Email, Dies at 74

A computing legend who ‘changed the way the world communicates’ has died.

RAY TOMLINSON, the man who invented email as we know it today and picked the @ symbol for email addresses, passed away at the age of 75 following an apparent heart attack Saturday morning, according to reports.

Hard to believe but ‘the godfather of email’ has passed away.

His death was confirmed by Mike Doble,

How to Steal Secret Encryption Keys from Android and iOS SmartPhones

Unlike desktops, your mobile devices carry all sorts of information from your personal emails to your sensitive financial details. And due to this, the hackers have shifted their interest to the mobile platform.

Every week new exploits are discovered for iOS and Android platform, most of the times separately, but the recently discovered exploit targets both Android as well as iOS devices.

Subgraph OS — Secure Linux Operating System for Non-Technical Users

Information security and privacy are consistently hot topics after Edward Snowden revelations of NSA’s global surveillance that brought the world’s attention towards data protection and encryption as never before.

Moreover, just days after Windows 10’s successful launch last summer, we saw various default settings in the Microsoft’s newest OS that compromise users’ privacy, making a large

Hack the Pentagon — US Government Challenges Hackers to Break its Security

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has the plan to boost their internal and network security by announcing what it calls “the first cyber Bug Bounty Program in the history of the federal government,” officially inviting hackers to take up the challenge.

Dubbed “Hack the Pentagon,” the bug bounty program invites the hackers and security researchers only from the United States to

Can Scientists 'Upload Knowledge' Directly into your Brain to Teach New Skills?

Imagine the world where you do not have to make any efforts to learn new skills or knowledge.

Just like new programs are uploaded to a Robot to teach them new skills, What if new skills are uploaded to your brain to make you learn, say, playing Guitar, a whole language like French or German or anything else you wish?

Do you want a technique, if exists, to make this possible?

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France could Fine Apple $1 Million for each iPhone it Refuses to Unlock

The United States is not the only one where Apple is battling with the federal authorities over iPhone encryption. Apple could face $1 Million in Fine each time the company refused to unlock an iPhone in France.

Despite its victory in a New York court yesterday, Apple may not be so successful elsewhere in fighting against federal authorities over iPhone encryption battle.

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Turing Award — Inventors of Modern Cryptography Win $1 Million Cash Prize

And the Winners of this year’s Turing Award are: Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman.

The former chief security officer at Sun Microsystems Whitfield Diffie and the professor at Stanford University Martin E. Hellman won the 2015 ACM Turing Award, which is frequently described as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”.

Turing Award named after Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician and computer

Kanye West, Who wants to destroy ‘The Pirate Bay’, Caught using Torrent Site

The 38-year-old rapper Kanye West is at the centre of controversy once again.

West is himself a Pirate Lover just like everyone else, and he proved it today by sharing a photo of his laptop screen on Twitter.

The rapper tweeted an ill-judged picture on Tuesday night to show what he was listening to on YouTube (Sufjan Stevens’ ‘Death With Dignity’ song), but his fans discovered something he