Phew! Supreme Court Rejects the Petition to Ban WhatsApp in India!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WhatsApp-Messenger-Mobile-App-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="159" src="http://trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WhatsApp-Messenger-Mobile-App-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;">While <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="http://trak.in/tags/business/2016/06/27/whatsapp-voice-calls-2/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="WhatsApp is at an all time high these days">WhatsApp is at an all time high these days</a>, Sudhir Yadav, an RTI activist from Gurgaon, had filed a petition in Supreme court in May to <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="http://trak.in/tags/business/2016/05/03/whatsapp-ban-india/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="ban WhatsApp application in India">ban WhatsApp application in India</a>, simply because of the end-to-end encryption feature on the app.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;">WhatsApp’s reason for encryption was to safeguard all user chats from being deciphered or hacked through any other medium. Only the sender and receiver will be able to view the messages on their devices, and it sort of was a good thing from the company’s side. However, according to Yadav, such a feature imposes threat from terrorist activities in India.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;">In the case’s hearing on 29th Jun, Supreme Court dismissed Yadav’s petition to ban WhatsApp in India. The plea also emphasized on the fact that the encryption is so strong that no one can hack it, and WhatsApp doesn’t have any measures on their end to decode them.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 3.3rem; line-height: 4.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.8rem;">Is Supreme Court right in doing this?</h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;">To be fair, and this is coming straight from a daily WhatsApp user, the encryption does help the users have their privacy, but at the cost of security. In fact this is not just about national security, even cases of murders and similar incidents get muffled by this so called encryption.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;">If you remember the 2015 <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.google.co.in/search?q=san+bernardino+case&oq=san+bernardino+case&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3j69i59j69i61.3099j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="San Bernardino attack">San Bernardino attack</a>, the iPhone used by the killers had to be unlocked to uncover some information related to the case itself. However, due to Apple’s security measures, even NSA could not break open the phone. Ultimately FBI took help from ‘specialized hackers’ to unlock the phone, which NSA had almost given up on.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;">Such a similar scenario is quite possible in India as well, which has witnessed its fair share of terrorism and unpleasant activities. Yadav’s theory is that there should be a balance between privacy and national security, and WhatsApp is more concerned about the former.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;">Brazil banned WhatsApp as soon as the company published its encryption policy, while the UK is searching for ways to reduce encryption. This new feature has put all the Governments around the world in a fix, and such a problem needs to be solved by a mutual agreement between WhatsApp and the Government.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;">What do you think about Supreme Court’s decision? Should WhatsApp continue to provide privacy at the cost of security or should there be a middle path so that everything is balanced?</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><a href="http://trak.in/" target="_blank">Source:-Trak.in</a></div></div>

Phew! Supreme Court Rejects the Petition to Ban WhatsApp in India!

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How to secure your Facebook account against hackers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/04_03_2016-facebook-security-690x336.jpg?4877f6" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="155" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/04_03_2016-facebook-security-690x336.jpg?4877f6" width="320" /></a></div><h2>A step-by-step guide for you to secure your Facebook account against hackers</h2>These simple and quick tips provided below will help you to better safeguard your Facebook profile. By following these instructions, you can restrict access to and use of your posts, photos, and other information.<br /><h2>1. Ensure what you want your friends and others to see</h2>To restrict access to your past and future Facebook posts, click on the cog icon in the top right hand corner of the screen. Then, click Privacy in the left pane in the Account Settings. Then choose Limit Past Posts under “Who can see my posts?” and Edit to the right of “Who can see your future posts?” in the same section. A warning appears when you attempt to limit access to all your past posts at once rather than changing the setting post-by-post.<br /><blockquote><strong>Choose from:</strong><br /> <strong> Public (open to everyone)</strong><br /> <strong> Friends</strong><br /> <strong> Only you</strong><br /> <strong> Custom (which allows you to limit some of your friends from seeing your posts)</strong></blockquote>Select whatever option is best for you. However, ensure that ‘Public’ isn’t selected, as whatever you select will then become the default every time you post an update. You though still have the option of selectively changing this for each individual update you post in the future.<br /><h2>2. Limit access to who can contact you on Facebook</h2>By default, this is set to allow friends and people you may know the opportunity to send you a message to your inbox. If you want only friends to be able to contact you, you can increase the filtering on your inbox. Other messages will then be diverted to your ‘other’ folder which you can access from your Messages screen.<br />In addition, you can limit who can send you a friend request. By default, anyone can try to befriend you on Facebook, but if you’d rather limit that a bit you can change it so only friends of your friends can add you as a friend:<br /><h2>3. Limit who can find your profile based on your email address and/or telephone number</h2>The final option from the Privacy Settings and Tools screen allows you to control who can find you using your email address or telephone number. Under ‘Who can look me up?’, click Edit next to the line that says ‘Who can look you up using the email address or telephone number you provided?’ Change the setting to ‘Friends of friends’ or ‘Friends’ only.<br /><h2>4. Set up login approvals</h2>An extended security feature offered by Facebook, Login approvals will require you to enter a security code each time you try to access your Facebook account from unauthorized devices.<br />To activate Login Approvals, go to <strong>Account Settings > Security,</strong> look for <strong>Login Approvals</strong> and click on the <strong>Edit</strong> button.<br /><div style="float: none; margin: 0px 0 0px 0; text-align: center;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-9567424144805280" data-ad-slot="2710193057" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="display: inline-block; height: 15px; width: 468px;"><ins id="aswift_4_expand" style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 468px;"><ins id="aswift_4_anchor" style="border: none; display: block; height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 468px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="15" hspace="0" id="aswift_4" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_4" scrolling="no" style="left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0;" vspace="0" width="468"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div><div class="et_social_media_wrapper"><img alt="Login Approvals" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login.jpg" height="187" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login.jpg" width="500" /><br /><div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on">An option to activate Login Approvals will appear, tick the check box to activate.</div></div><div class="et_social_media_wrapper"><img alt="Activate login approvals" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login-activate.jpg" height="153" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login-activate.jpg" width="500" /></div>A popup window will appear with descriptions of login approvals, click on the<strong>Set Up Now</strong> button to continue.<br /><div class="et_social_media_wrapper"><img alt="Setup Now" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login1.jpg" height="357" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login1.jpg" width="500" /><br /><div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"></div></div>If you already register your mobile number, Facebook will automatically send you a code via SMS. Enter this code in the given box and click <strong>Submit Code</strong>.<br /><div class="et_social_media_wrapper"><img alt="enter code" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login2.jpg" height="220" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-login2.jpg" width="500" /><br /><div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"> Next, Facebook will offer you to setup a Code Generator from your mobile phone; this is useful in case you are unable to receive SMS. Click Continue.</div></div><h2>5. Create Strong Password</h2>It is advisable to ensure that your Facebook password is unique and different from your other online accounts e.g. email, blog, hosting etc.<br />To change your password, go to <strong>Account Settings > General > Password</strong>.<br /><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-40936 no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20.png?4877f6" data-srcset="" height="325" sizes="(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20.png?4877f6" srcset="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20-300x165.png 300w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20-768x423.png 768w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20-1024x565.png 1024w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20.png 1128w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-20-300x165@2x.png 600w" width="590" /><br /><div class="et_social_media_wrapper"><br /><div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on">For the best password, you can use a combination of small and capital letters, numbers and symbols.</div></div><h2>6. Enable Secure Browsing</h2>Facebook last month made secure browsing as default for all the users. To ensure you are using a secure connection whenever one is available, click Security in the left pane of Facebook’s Account Settings and ensure that ‘Secure Browsing’ is enabled.<br />To start securing your account, click on the drop down menu from the top right corner of your Facebook account and go to <strong>Account Settings</strong>.<br /><div class="et_social_media_wrapper"><br /><div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"> <img alt="How to secure your Facebook account against hackers" class="wp-image-40935 aligncenter no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19.png?4877f6" data-srcset="" height="384" sizes="(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19.png?4877f6" srcset="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19-300x227.png 300w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19-768x581.png 768w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19.png 798w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-19-300x227@2x.png 600w" width="507" /></div></div>Select <strong>Security</strong> from the left menu.<br /><div class="et_social_media_wrapper"><img alt="Security" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-security.jpg" height="339" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-security.jpg" width="500" /><br /><div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"></div></div>At the <strong>Secure Browsing</strong> section, click on the <strong>Edit</strong> link at the right.<br /><div class="et_social_media_wrapper"><br /><div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"> <img alt="safe-fb-secure" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-40937 no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/safe-fb-secure.jpg?4877f6" data-srcset="" height="175" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/safe-fb-secure.jpg?4877f6" srcset="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/safe-fb-secure-300x105.jpg 300w, http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/safe-fb-secure.jpg 500w" width="500" /></div></div>The option panel will appear, ‘check’ the box <strong>Browse Facebook on a secure connection</strong> then click on the <strong>Save Changes</strong> button.<br /><div class="et_social_media_wrapper"><img alt="Security Settings" class="no-display appear lazy-loaded" data-lazy-type="image" data-src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-security-settings.jpg" height="250" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/keep-hackers-off-fb-account/safe-fb-security-settings.jpg" width="500" /><br /><div class="et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on"></div></div>The security settings also allow you to enable log-in notifications and approvals, and view and edit your recognized devices and active sessions. Click Edit to the right and then Remove next to the device’s entry to remove a device. Similarly, click Edit to the right of Active Sessions and choose End Activity or End All Activity to end one or all active Facebook sessions, respectively.<br /><h2>7. Avoid Spam Links</h2>Avoiding spam or untrusted links is a cardinal rule to follow if you want to get avoid hacked on any platform including Facebook. Facebook is always improving its features to ensure you are safe from being a victim to scams. Never click suspicious links, even if they appear to come from a friend or a company you know. If you receive a link, always take the extra step of asking them whether they had sent it. Never give out your username or password to anyone, including websites with doubtful links and layouts.<br />Always login only at www.facebook.com and not from any other link or website, unless you are accessing via Facebook App. To ensure that your browser’s security is up to date update your browser to its latest version, so that it can detect and notify you with a warning when you are navigating to a suspected phishing site.<br /><a href="http://www.techworm.net/" target="_blank">Source:- http://www.techworm.net/</a></div>

How to secure your Facebook account against hackers

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U.S. Court Rules FBI Can Hack Computers Without Warrant

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/fbi-can-hack-any-computer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/fbi-can-hack-any-computer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FBI doesnt need a warrant to hack computers, rules U.S. Court</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Federal Bureau Investigations (FBI) may no longer need the proposed amendment to the <a href="http://www.techworm.net/2016/06/vpn-providers-tor-devs-fighting-rule-41.html" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rule 41</strong></a>as a U.S. court has ruled that it doesnt need warrants to hack into computers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As of now FBI needed a warrant from a court to hack into any computer in United States or around the world. A proposed <a href="http://www.techworm.net/2016/06/vpn-providers-tor-devs-fighting-rule-41.html" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">amendment to Rule 41</strong></a> would have allowed FBI to hack into computers behind Tor or VPN without warrant and based on suspicion that the user indulged in illegal activities.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A U.S. court has ruled that the FBI can hack into a computer without a warrant. The US court delivered this landmark judgement in the case involving FBI’s hacking of child pornography site, <a href="http://www.techworm.net/2016/04/judge-deems-warrants-issued-fbi-honeypot-playpen-child-porn-campaign-illegal.html" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Playpen</strong></a>, that had been accessible through Tor, a browser designed for anonymous web surfing.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you have been following Playpen story, you would know that FBI had hacked into Playpen in 2014 and instead of taking it offline, FBI had converted <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Playpen</strong> into a <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.techworm.net/2016/01/fbi-child-porn-sexually-explicit-users-arrests.html" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">honeypo</a>t</strong> to trap even more pedophiles.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The FBI used Playpen to track down and arrest its members by hacking their computers by  secretly collect their IP addresses. On of the alleged members of Playpen had filed a case against FBI in a US court arguing that FBI had seized evidence against him unlawfully.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earlier the US court had declared the FBI hacking as illegal but the latest judgement by a  U.S. court in Virginia has ruled in favor of the FBI, according to court documents <a href="https://www.eff.org/files/2016/06/23/matish_suppression_edva.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">unsealed</a> on Thursday.</div><aside class="nativo-promo smartphone" id="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></aside><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The judge, Henry Morgan, ruled that even though the FBI obtained a warrant to hack into the suspect’s computer, none was needed.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The suspect may have used Tor to keep his browsing anonymous, but his IP address still isn’t private information, the judge wrote in his ruling. This is because the IP address is given out to third parties in order to access the Internet and even the Tor network.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Privacy advocacy group, Electronic Frontier Foundation, is opposed to this part of the ruling.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The implications for the decision, if upheld, are staggering,” wrote Mark Rumold, an attorney with the group in a <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">blog post</a>. Law enforcement could seize information from a person’s computer without a warrant, probable cause or any suspicion at all, he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The arrested Playpen user has a option of going to the higher court to challenge the Virginia court’s decision but until then FBI will have unfettered powers to hack your computers.</div></div>

U.S. Court Rules FBI Can Hack Computers Without Warrant

FBI doesnt need a warrant to hack computers, rules U.S. Court The Federal Bureau Investigations (FBI) may no longer need the proposed amendm...

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Privacy of billion Indians at risk as Indian Parliament set to pass Aadhaar Bill

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Untitled-21-702x336.png?4877f6" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Untitled-21-702x336.png?4877f6" width="320" /></a></div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">India’s Aadhaar biometric database will have billion Indians irises, raises privacy fears</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Parliament of India is set to pass the Aadhaar Bill that would allow federal agencies access to the world’s enormous biometric database in the interests of national security, raising fears that the privacy of a billion people could be compromised.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The move say some privacy advocates could also help in surveillance far more invasive than the US telephone and internet spying exposed by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Launched in 2009, the Aadhaar ID database scheme was established to streamline payment of benefits and reduce huge wastage and fraud. Nearly a billion people have registered their finger prints and iris signatures. Data collected under the project is encrypted and stored within national data centres in Bangalore and Manesar.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now the BJP, who have inherited the scheme want to use a loophole to bypass the opposition in Parliament and pass new provisions including those on national security. In an effort to secure passage before lawmakers go into recess, the Centre brought the Aadhaar legislation to Rajya Sabha today as a financial bill – which cannot be rejected. It can be returned to Lok Sabha, but here the ruling party holds a majority.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It has been showcased as a tool exclusively meant for disbursement of subsidies and we do not realise that it can also be used for mass surveillance,” said Tathagata Satpathy, a lawmaker from Odisha.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Can the government … assure us that this Aadhaar card and the data that will be collected under it – biometric, biological, iris scan, finger print, everything put together – will not be misused as has been done by the NSA in the US?”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has safeguarded the legislation, citing that an estimated 150 billion rupees (approx. £1.6 billion) was saved by the scheme in the financial year 2014-2015. A finance ministry official added that the BJP would ensure that people’s privacy is respected and that third-party federal access would only be granted in special cases.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to another government official, the new law is in fact more limited in scope than the decades-old Telegraph Act, which permits national security agencies and tax authorities to intercept telephone conversations of individuals in the interest of public safety.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, political opponents and religious minorities also worry that abusive management of the database could be used as a tool to silence and harass individuals considered as potential security threats.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cybersecurity experts have further argued that a central reserve of biometric data in the world’s most populated democracy could present a huge risk if compromised.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We are midwifing a police state,” said Asaduddin Owaisi, an opposition MP.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Global policy director at Access, an international digital rights organisation, Raman Jit Singh Chima said the proposed Indian law did not have the transparency and oversight safeguards found in Europe or the United States, which last year changed its bulk telephone surveillance programme.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He pointed to the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which must accept many surveillance requests made by intelligence agencies, and European data protection authorities as oversight mechanisms not present in the Indian proposal.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Delhi-based PRS Legislative Research in its assessment of the measure, said law enforcement agencies could use someone’s Aadhaar number as a link across numerous datasets such as telephone and air travel records.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That would allow them to identify patterns of behaviour and discover potential illegal activities. But it could also lead to harassment of individuals who are identified incorrectly as potential security threats, PRS said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Maintaining a central database is akin to getting the keys of every house in Delhi and storing them at a central police station,” said Sunil Abraham, executive director at the Center for Internet and Society in Bengaluru.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It is very easy to capture iris data of any individual with the use of next generation cameras. Imagine a situation where the police is secretly capturing the iris data of protesters and then identifying them through their biometric records,” he said.</div></div>

Privacy of billion Indians at risk as Indian Parliament set to pass Aadhaar Bill

India’s Aadhaar biometric database will have billion Indians irises, raises privacy fears The Parliament of India is set to pass the Aadhaar...

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5 Top Reasons To Install Linux On Your Laptop

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/linux-tux-console1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="http://www.techworm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/linux-tux-console1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are the top 5 reasons why you should switch to Linux on your laptop</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are a little more adventurous and are prepared to select some other operating system than Mac OS or Windows 10, then you may want to try Linux. This operating system not only has a lot of features that saves your time but also makes your working a little less boring. The best part is that Live Installations let you try out the software before you wipe your entire hard drive.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Linux is available in different flavors called distros (distributions) and the choice is yours which one you want to opt for. By far, Ubuntu is the most popular desktop distro and is a good place to start for novices. In this article, the focus is on that. However, once you have understood the basics, please feel free to go ahead the pros and cons of some others.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. You don’t have to abandon Windows (or OS X)</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In order to try Linux-Ubuntu, you need not ditch Windows (or Mac OS). Ubuntu can run very happily on a dual-boot system or even directly from a USB drive. To get up and running, follow the instructions provided on the Ubuntu website: you need a USB stick at least 2GB in size or a blank DVD, and the setup process is very candid.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The advantage of using a USB drive or DVD is that your present OS remains unscathed. Alternatively, performance and receptiveness to a certain extent won’t be good. Also, in terms of some system operations you are restricted (you need to create a USB stick with the persistence option enabled in order to install apps and save files permanently).</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. It’s easy to install</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Previously, the less tech-savvy people found it a little difficult setting up software and popular codecs on Linux; however, that is not the case anymore. For instance, Ubuntu encourages you to download codecs for commonly used audio and video formats with a single check box. It can immediately identify available Wi-Fi networks on most modern systems and connect up to them.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is no surprise that veteran Windows and Mac OS X users may find themselves sometimes confused on how to do something when switching between operating systems of any flavour. However, there’s plenty of support always available on the web. Most users are going set up, run and happily enjoy Linux in a few minutes.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. It has everything that you need</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ubuntu comes bundled with Firefox for web browsing, Thunderbird for emailing and LibreOffice for making documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Other free and open source applications such as GIMP (image editing), Evolution (the Linux version of Outlook), and Kodi (home theatre and media management) are only a few clicks away.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Other well-known apps with Linux versions include Google Chrome, Skype, VLC Player, Dropbox, Slack, Plex, and Spotify. It also includes all those programs that run in a browser now, from the online versions of Microsoft Office to Google Play Music. If there’s a Windows program that you wish to bring it on the new OS, then try Wine.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. It is very safe</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Since very less number of people use Linux as a desktop OS, the chances of hacking such OS is relatively smaller than the other OSes. Also, it is extremely safe to run your PC on Linux OS. Right from the default given to users to the way that Linux code is developed and maintained, it is designed to keep it secure.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Linux is a very good choice for those who are security conscious, as in the event it crashes and is exposed like any other operating system out there, there are chances that only few pieces of malware will run on the platform, resulting only in limited damages. It’s also less likely to be burdened by bloat and creeping system slowness than its more well-known rivals.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. You are supporting open source and free software</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is a belief that Linux is more than an operating system. Not only is the software free (for instance, like Google Chrome) but also the source code is open and free (unlike Google Chrome, for instance). You can use the OS and the bundled software completely free of charge, plus also view the code and make changes to it, if you wish to.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You are supporting a global community of millions committed to making software free to install and use when you use Linux. That belief has helped drive improvement on the web and in Windows and OS X, as well as Linux itself. Hence, Linux is a great place to get started if you wish to plunge further into software development.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: <a href="http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/5-reasons-to-install-linux-on-your-laptop-1781833159" style="border: 0px; color: #487be4; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gizmodo</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; float: none; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-9567424144805280" data-ad-slot="9338508251" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 280px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_5_expand" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; display: inline-table; font-family: inherit; height: 280px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins></ins></div></div>

5 Top Reasons To Install Linux On Your Laptop

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This code can hack nearly 90 percent of credit card readers in circulation

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/credit-card-terminals-accessories-695x336.jpg?4877f6" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="http://techworm.vijayprabhu.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/credit-card-terminals-accessories-695x336.jpg?4877f6" width="400" /></a></div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #19232d; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shocking : A cyber security firm found 90% of credit card readers currently use the same password from 1990 till date.</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a facepalm moment for the credit card issues and retailers. Nearly all credit card readers in United States are still using the default password which can be easily hacked into by cyber criminals.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The passcode, set by default on credit card machines since 1990, has been exposed for so long there’s no sense in trying to hide it. It’s either 166816 or Z66816, depending on the machine.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Using either of the two passwords, an attacker can gain complete control of a store’s credit card readers, potentially allowing them to hack into the machines and steal customers’ payment data. No wonder big retailers like Target and Home Depot keep on losing our credit card data to hackers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Researchers at Trustwave, a cybersecurity firm were quite flummoxed to find that retailers still use decades old passwords for credit card readers. Trustwave executive, Charles Henderson explained that armed with these passwords, hackers can gain administrative access to the card readers and infect them with malware that steals credit card data. Henderson presented his findings at last week’s RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco at a presentation called “That Point of Sale is a PoS.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Device makers sell machines to special distributors. These vendors sell them to retailers. But no one thinks it’s their job to update the master code, Henderson told CNNMoney.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“No one is changing the password when they set this up for the first time; everybody thinks the security of their point-of-sale is someone else’s responsibility,” Henderson said. “We’re making it pretty easy for criminals.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To arrive at the conclusion, Trustwave researchers studied the credit card terminals at more than 120 retailers nationwide. Henderson stated that these terminals included major clothing and electronics stores, as well as local retail chains however he did not name specific retailers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to Trustwave majority of the machines in operation in the US are manufactured by Verifone but they found the same issue to be present in all major terminal makers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A spokesman for Verifone said that a password alone isn’t enough to infect machines with malware. The company said, until now, it “has not witnessed any attacks on the security of its terminals based on default passwords.” As an afterthought the spokesperson added that Verifone said retailers are “strongly advised to change the default password.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fault however lies with the retailers as they should be securing their own machines. Consider one case Henderson investigated recently. A nasty keystroke-logging spy software ended up on the computer a store uses to process credit card transactions. It turns out employees had rigged it to play a pirated version of Guitar Hero, and accidentally downloaded the malware.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It shows you the level of access that a lot of people have to the point-of-sale environment,” he said. “Frankly, it’s not as locked down as it should be.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #0e0b0b; float: none; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31.569px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-9567424144805280" data-ad-slot="9338508251" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 280px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 336px;"><ins id="aswift_5_expand" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; display: inline-table; font-family: inherit; height: 280px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"></ins></ins></div></div>

This code can hack nearly 90 percent of credit card readers in circulation

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Malware Becoming A Real Threat For Android Devices In India

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">With the advent of smartphones, the threats which computers used to face earlier are being passed down to smartphones as well. With the PC market shrinking and the tablets-smartphones growing by leaps and bounds every year, programmers are having a gala time exploiting loopholes. And users are bearing the brunt.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Android had and still has just one issue and that keeps on popping up its head every now and then…<b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Malware</b>. Last month the US Government had<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-wpel-link="external" href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4666080/fbi-dhs-study-says-android-fragmentation-leads-to-malware-exposure" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="said">said</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that Android is a malware ‘magnet’, thanks to the OS fragmentation.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The reason was so many devices still run the outdated versions. Of the malicious attacks documented in the study issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">79 percent took place on an Android device</b>. Meanwhile, Apple’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">iOS received just 0.7 percent</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the recorded malware threats.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img alt="Android Mobile Device Malware threat" border="0" height="264" src="http://trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Android-Mobile-Device-Malware-threat1.jpg" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Android Mobile Device Malware threat" width="606" /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The US report had said that 44 percent of Android users are still using versions 2.3.3 through 2.3.7-known as Gingerbread-which were released in 2011 and have a number of security vulnerabilities that were fixed in later versions.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Now the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-wpel-link="external" href="http://www.cert-in.org.in/" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="Computer Emergency Response Team-India">Computer Emergency Response Team-India</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(CeRT-In) has said a potentially damaging virus, which steals SMSes and personal details of an Android-enabled gadget-user, has been detected in Indian cyberspace.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The malware is affecting all the versions of Android prior to version 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). The malicious programme, the advisory said, is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">so damaging that it could be used for stealing personal information like email addresses, IMEI numbers, SMSes and installed applications</b>. “It could also send SMS or make calls from infected devices without user consent,” the sleuths of the national cyber security centre said.</div><h4 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 2.3rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Modus Operandi</h4><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Android Master key vulnerability – The vulnerability involves discrepancies in how Android applications are cryptographically verified & installed, allowing for APK code modification without breaking the cryptographic signature.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">All Android applications contain cryptographic signatures, which Android uses to determine if the app is legitimate and to verify that the app hasn’t been tampered with or modified. This vulnerability makes it possible to change an application’s code without affecting the cryptographic signature of the application – essentially allowing a malicious author to trick Android into believing the app is unchanged even if it has been.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The worst part is, the attacker can craft the malicious file for stealing personal information. It could even send SMS or make calls from infected device WITHOUT user consent.</div><h4 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 2.3rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Counter Measures</h4><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Check for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="http://trak.in/mobile/mobile-app-permissions-malware-android-study-1203/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="permissions required">permissions required</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by an application before installing, exercise caution while visiting untrusted sites for clicking links, run a full system scan through a device with a mobile security solution or mobile anti-virus solution or anti-malware software, do not download and install applications from untrusted sources and download applications only from trusted sources, reputed application markets and Google play store.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">With Android coming up with newer versions, shouldn’t it join the mobile device manufacturers in providing upgrades to the older handsets – if not all, atleast the major devices using the older versions? Or should the manufacturers be allowed to sell devices with OS which is a sitting duck for hackers, especially when we know it is vulnerable?</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://trak.in/" target="_blank">Source:- Trak.in</a></div></div>

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Beware! 90% of Android Devices May Be Affected by Deadly ‘GODLESS’ Mobile Malware; What is it?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mobile-Malware-Android-Phone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="152" src="http://trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mobile-Malware-Android-Phone.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Android is an open source operating system widely used across the world, however it is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="http://trak.in/tags/business/2015/09/04/smartphones-xiaomi-lenovo-huawei-pre-installed-malwares/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="prone to malwares">prone to malwares</a>. Despite such problems, consumers continue to enjoy the benefits from Google simply because the OS is one of the best out there.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Trend Micro, a global software security company headquartered at Tokyo, Japan, has come out with a shocking report that a family of mobile malwares,<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>named GODLESS, has targeted smartphones running on Android 5.1 or earlier.</strong> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Detected as<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ANDROIDOS_GODLESS.HRX</strong>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">the malware family has the ability to root Android-based devices.</strong>The website reported, “Godless is reminiscent of an exploit kit, in that it uses an open-source rooting framework called android-rooting-tools. By having multiple exploits to use, Godless can target virtually any Android device running on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) or earlier.”</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The malicious apps associated with this malware can be found on app stores, including Google Play Store and has already affected over 8,50,000 devices around the world. As of now, India captures the highest share of affected devices at 46%, followed by Indonesia and Thailand at around 10% each.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img alt="Global Malware Distribution" border="0" height="307" src="http://trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Global-Malware-Distribution.jpg" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Global Malware Distribution" width="525" /></div><h2 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 3.3rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 4.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.8rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Why is GODLESS so deadly?</h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">This family of malwares has the ability to root your device, which further grants it access to install anything on your device. The malware can even force your credentials in Google Play Store to download unwanted apps while you’re not looking.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The unwanted apps lead to unwanted ads and possibly leading to spamware and more malware. Unrooting the smartphone also gives the malware remote access to your smartphone, which can be used for illicit activities like spying and real-time tracking.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">It is as scary as someone else using your smartphone, looking up the contacts, glancing through personal messages and going through your call logs. We fret giving our smartphone to a friend, let alone a stranger.</div><h2 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 3.3rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 4.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.8rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">How to stay away from such malwares</h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The best way would be to download apps from Google Play Store itself, considering Google does regular security checks and the recurring updates tend to be clean and safe to download.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Downloading from other app stores on the internet can lead to malwares in your smartphone, unless the developer is known and well recognized. Even then, download the app if and only if it is of utmost importance and there is no workaround in Google Play for the same.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Google and associated handset makers also regularly release security patches that make sure malwares and spamware do not infiltrate smartphones. In case you notice some unknown apps downloaded on your smartphone, the best way to get rid of them would be to wipe your system clean after taking backup of all the important information.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Even then, there is no guarantee that malware won’t get into your phone, and it is best to take precautions in this world of cyber bullying and cyber crime. Stay wary of unknown developers and keep checking for any unknown apps on your smartphone.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://trak.in/" target="_blank">Source:-  Trak.in</a></div></div>

Beware! 90% of Android Devices May Be Affected by Deadly ‘GODLESS’ Mobile Malware; What is it?

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Mobile Cyber Security In India Is Needed Under Digital India

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="JUSTIFY" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Bl1sLuRKliv1hoH1c4L3dOzpnuXQKCl28m9Afjb5vzSoR0vvlm9VZTRyx4BM4Y7rBrs0CoILK_iln_DwDCOnR0isUh48qdH2uXasByuSdfPbsp_5zliZmlr_pUmmTwJzqFyleXP5x6q2/s1600/Mobile+Cyber+Security+In+India+Is+Needed+Under+Digital+India.jpg" /> </div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Mobiles are believed to play a major role in the successful implementation of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://virtuallawcampus.blogspot.com/2015/11/shortcomings-of-digital-india-project.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Digital India</span></a>project of Indian government. From mobile commerce to mobile banking, the Indian government is betting big upon mobiles and their use for public delivery of services through electronic means. Of course, this big scale use of mobiles will also give rise to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://perry4law.org/?p=102" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">cyber law</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://perry4law.org/?p=98" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">cyber security</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>issues that Indian government must be well prepared to deal with in future.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Mobile phones have become ubiquitous these days. They are used for multiple purposes ranging from personal use to mobile banking. Cyber criminals have also realised the importance of mobile phones for committing cyber crimes and financial frauds. This is also the reason why malware writers are also writing mobile phone specific malware to steal confidential and sensitive information.<br /><br />Mobile cyber security in India has become a cause of concern these days. Mobile phones are now proposed to be used for mobile banking and mobile governance in India. Naturally, we must ensure robust mobile cyber security in India. An<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ptlbindia.blogspot.com/2012/01/electronic-authentication-policy-of.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">electronic authentication policy of India</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>can help in more active and secure mobile usages in India.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ictps.blogspot.com/2012/01/mobile-governance-and-e-authentication.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Mobile governance and e-authentication in India</span></a>are also closely related and with the proposed electronic delivery of services in India this is also a must have requirement.<br /><br />For the time being we have no implementable<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ictps.blogspot.com/2011/09/electronic-service-delivery-policy-of.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">electronic delivery of services policy of India</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>though it may be in pipeline. Indian government is working in the direction of ensuring electronic delivery of services in India. In fact a legal framework titled electronic delivery of services bill 2011 (EDS Bill 2011) was also proposed by Indian government in the past. The same has still to become an applicable law in India. Once the EDS Bill 2011 becomes an applicable law, governments across the India would provide electronic services through various modes, including mobile phones. This requires putting a robust and reliable mobile security infrastructure in India.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />However, using of mobile phones for commercial and personal transactions in India is also risky. For instance, the mobile banking in India is risky as the present banking and other technology related legal frameworks are not conducive for mobile banking in India. Similarly, we do not have a well developed e-governance infrastructure in India. As a result India is still not ready for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://cjnewsind.blogspot.com/2011/01/india-is-not-ready-for-m-governance-and.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">m-governance</span></a>.<br /><br />We at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://perry4law.org/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Perry4Law Organisation (P4LO)</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>believe that the biggest hurdles before the mobile related uses in India pertain to use of weak encryption standards and non use of mobile cyber security mechanisms in India. Absence of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://perry4law.co.in/blog/?p=67" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">encryption laws in India</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has further made the mobile security very weak in India. The ever evolving mobile malware are further increasing the woes of mobile users’ world wide. As on date the malware are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://perry4law.org/?p=107" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">defeating</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>cyber security products and services with ease.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">It is high time for India to seriously work upon mobile cyber security aspects as soon as possible. The policy decisions in this regard must be taken urgently and must be implemented as soon as possible.</div></div>

Mobile Cyber Security In India Is Needed Under Digital India

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RIP: Old Yahoo Messenger Finally Shutting Down After 18 Years

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><em><img alt="Yahoo-Messenger-rip" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-57608" height="500" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Yahoo-Messenger-rip.jpg" width="900" />Yahoo has announced that it is shutting its legacy Yahoo Messenger on August 5th. After this date, the users will need to download the previous conversations to access them. </em><em>With this change, Yahoo wants to continue focusing on its 7 core products, including Mail, Search, and Tumblr.</em><br /><div class="su-row"><div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5"><div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat" style="font-size: 1.5em;">D</span>o you remember your early days on the internet, much before services like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger became a rage, when you spent half-an-hour to set up your first chat room on Yahoo Messenger?Yahoo has announced that it’s going to shut down its old Messenger application on August 5th. Now, this messaging service with a purple interface would soon become a history.<br />However, in last December, when Yahoo unveiled the new Yahoo Messenger, it was expected that the new and old services will be merged. But, Yahoo has decided to shut down the old service completely.<br />In an <a href="https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/145715934739/q2-2016-progress-report-on-our-product" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">announcement</a> post, Yahoo told the world that users are expected to make the transition to the new Yahoo Messenger before August 5.<br />It should be noted that the old Yahoo Messenger is still popular among the users in Asia-Pacific region. Apparently, the service is also a popular phenomenon among the oil traders who used the app to talk about their bids and prices.<br />This change will affect the desktop clients of the legacy Messenger on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. Yahoo has mentioned that the users will need to download all the previous conversations after August 5th.<br />With this change, Yahoo aims to focus on its 7 core products — Mail, Search, Tumblr, News, Sports, Finance and Lifestyles.<br />If you are familiar with the new Yahoo Messenger, you might be knowing that it has been made an integral part of Yahoo Mail. However, the users can’t download the app on the desktop.<br /><div class="p1">Are you going to miss old Yahoo Messenger? Don’t forget to drop your views in the comments section below.</div></div></div></div></div>

RIP: Old Yahoo Messenger Finally Shutting Down After 18 Years

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Beware Android users! “Godless” named Malware can Root your device Anonymously!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2><strong>Beware Android users! “Godless” named Malware can Root your device Anonymously!</strong></h2><br /><img alt="" src="http://www.cyberintelligence.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/8270707362685796355112141466666864.png" /><br />If you are using <strong>Android Lollipop</strong> or its earlier version, then your device is at risk. A new type Android Malware has been discovered by the security researchers of <strong>“Trendmicro”</strong>. The name of the malware is <strong>“Godless” </strong>and it is capable to root your device automatically. It could install third party malicious coded programs in your device to perform that operations, which could be harmful for your device and your personal information.<br /><br /><strong>“More than 8,50,000 Devices have been affected by this Malware and half of these affected devices are from INDIA. All the other Asian Countries are at number two and USA contains only 2 Percent affected devices”, according to the stats of TrendMicro.</strong><br /><br /><h2><strong>How ‘Godless Malware’ is doing its work?</strong></h2>When <strong>security researchers</strong> of Trendmicro were doing work on it, they discovered that this malware is using an<strong> “android-rooting-tools”</strong> named framework to target devices. Through this framework, malware can get privileges of developer by rooting your device. Once it got the access, it will install third party hard coded malicious programs in the file system of your <strong>Android Devices </strong>to keep eye on your device. This<strong> malware</strong> will collect the information from your device and will send it to the hackers through command and control (C&C) servers. This malware can send stolen information to its authors through these servers, because bypassing the security check of app stores such as “Google Play Store” is an easy task for it. This malware is exploiting two main<strong> vulnerabilities</strong> of Android Lollipop and Its earlier version. Following are the vulnerabilities:<br /><br /><ul><li><strong>CVE-2015-3636 (used by the PingPongRoot Exploit)</strong></li><li><strong>CVE-2014-3153 (used by the Towelroot Exploit)</strong></li></ul><br /><br />From here you can get an idea, how harmful <strong>Godless malware</strong> could be for your devices. This malware can automatically install malicious applications in your device from third party app store. <strong>Hackers</strong> are using this malware for various purposes such as, for spreading malicious advertisement links and for installing <strong>backdoors</strong> and <strong>spywares</strong> in device. By installing backdoors and spyware, authors of this malware can steal your personal data (Credit Card Information, Personal Photos, Videos, Chat History, and Documents etc.) which you have stored in your devices.<br /><h2> </h2><h2><strong>How users are getting affected from this Malware?</strong></h2>According to the stats of <strong>Trendmicro</strong>, more than <strong>850000 Android devices</strong> have been affected by this Malware. A number of applications are available on app stores which contains this malware. <strong>Google Play Store</strong> is also included in the list of play stores.  “Flashlight, Wifi Apps and Some Gaming Apps” contains this malware. Some clean apps are also using the same certificates which have been used by these malicious applications. This malware comes automatically in your device through the above apps.<br /><br /><h2><strong>Tips for Android Users</strong></h2><ul><li>Update your devices at proper times. Because every outdated software is a malware.</li><li>Never install Applications form third party app stores. Always read reviews of users about the application, before installing it.</li><li>Use pro version of Antivirus Tools to protect your devices from malwares and cyber threats.</li><li>Without proper investigation never visit short links, which you got through text messages, advertisements and emails.</li></ul></div>

Beware Android users! “Godless” named Malware can Root your device Anonymously!

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A New Dimension to Cyber Security in 2016

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://auth-shield.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/auth-23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="http://auth-shield.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/auth-23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2015 has been a year where we have seen so many of big breaches, that everyone is well aware the damage caused by cyber-attacks. So you might be wondering what’s in store for 2016? Well, with the continuation of growth in mobile malware, the breaches have been increasing and specifically in domains such as financial institutions and health care. To top it up there will always be new malwares and innovative <a href="https://auth-shield.com/phishing-attacks-maximum-contribution-to-cyber-crime-today/">phishing attacks</a>. As organizations are opting for new security mechanisms at the same time cyber criminals are becoming sophisticated and innovative to perform attacks. Organizations should learn to prepare for the unknown consequences so that they can have the flexibility to withstand unexpected, high impact security events. Thus, the below cyber security trends must be considered to combat threats in 2016.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Intelligence-led Security<br /></strong>The market is flooding with Intelligence based products, such as the ones tracking security based incidents and behaviors, threat management and log management making it simpler to analyze the huge amount of data generated from across customer’s network.<br />Real-time monitoring and advanced analytic are widely being adopted as businesses find it convenient to rely on intelligence based reports on which actions can be taken easily.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Mobile ware<br /></strong>Since the launch of apps in market, there is always a threat of malicious mobile apps and spyware. Now days, anyone can make an app using videos and tutorials online. Thus, a research says that by end of 2016 mobile malware will grow to 20 million.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Wearable Tech Risk<br /></strong>As the wearable technology is growing so is the risk related to the security and privacy of the same. Companies have controls in place for the <strong>BYOD</strong> but wearable and connected devices are not considered part of risk management strategy. As more and more devices are connected and security risks are increasing, it is necessary to monitor the logs generated by these devices. Thus, necessary policies and procedures must be in place as they are enable innovation and personal privacy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Fallout from Snowden<br /></strong>The relationship between US and Europe is being affected by the Snowden leaks. The Safe Harbour agreement was declined which allowed the Europe and US private companies to share personal data. This will lead to increased security for this private data to keep it out of reach of US intelligence agencies. The Snowden leaks resulted in smaller countries to acquire and sign laws and treaties similar to US and China in order to prevent proliferation to tools and knowledge related to hacking and online espionage.</div>Also, Snowden leaks reveled that NSA had keys to the backdoor in a random number generator that could break the encryption in 16 seconds. RSA got $10 million from NSA to make it default random generator a part of one of its packages. The documents revealed that NSA tried to influence the encryption standards to make the commercial companies make their products such that they are susceptible to US surveillance.<br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Attacks on Payment Card Data<br /></strong>Continued attacks on payment card data are seen among business and corporations, also financial frauds are increasing with bank credentials being stolen via various means such as social engineering tricks such as spear phishing emails.</div></div>

A New Dimension to Cyber Security in 2016

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Google’s Free WiFi, A Massive Hit; 15 Lakh Passengers Enjoying Free Internet Across 19 Railway Stations

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Google-Railwire-WiFi-Hotspots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="http://trak.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Google-Railwire-WiFi-Hotspots.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Google’s partnership with Indian Railways for providing free WiFi scheme across Indian railway stations is a massive hit,<b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as 15 lakh passengers are right now enjoying free Internet across 19 major railway stations.</b> </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Last year in the month of September, Google had unveiled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Project Nilgiri<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in association with RailTel, the technological arm of Indian Railways for creating World’s largest network of free WiFi hot-spots. 400 Railway Stations would be covered under this project.While giving an update of on this massive project, Gulzar Azad, Head of Access Programs, Google India<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>said, “We are delighted to share that 1.5 million Indians are now enjoying the high-speed broadband experience across 19 stations. At this scale, this is India’s shining example of a project that is contributing in bridging the digital divide by making high-speed broadband Wi-Fi network more easily accessible to millions of Indians who cross these stations.”</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Google posted this blog on the occasion of “<a data-wpel-link="external" href="http://worldwifiday.com/" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="World Wi-Fi Day by The Wireless Broadband Alliance”">World Wi-Fi Day by The Wireless Broadband Alliance”</a>. After Google rolled out free WiFi to 4 major stations:<b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lucknow Jn, Lucknow, Sealdah & Gorakhpur</b>, there are now 19 stations where passengers can enjoy free WiFi.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Gulzar informed that when<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mumbai Central railway station received free WiFi<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>under this project, 1,00,000 users logged in to the service within a week. However, when Bhubaneshwar station was covered, it overtook Mumbai’s record within a day. As per Google, Tier 2-3 cities are witnessing exponential usage. In fact, Tier 2 and 3 cities is witnessing more usage compared to Tier 1 cities.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Another interesting fact:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Average usage per user on Google’s free WiFi network is 15 times that of an average usage of a user on 3G pack in a day.</b></div><h2 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 3.3rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 4.2rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.8rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Dawn of WiFi Age In India</h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Under Digital India Mission, India has witnessed a slew of public WiFi offers and schemes, both from public and private enterprises; and Google’s Project Nilgiri is certainly one of the strongest ones.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">India Govt. has already allocated<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Rs 7000 crore to roll out free WiFi across 2500 cities, and this is just the start.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">If Paytm is attempting to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>disrupt Indian ecommerce<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with free WiFi for all at major shopping hubs, then Ola is offering<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>free WiFi inside cabs<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Amazon is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>enticing customers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai with free unlimited WiFi access.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Hill stations like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mussoorie<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are getting free WiFi access for tourists, meanwhile Delhi Govt. is trying hard to provide WiFi using an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>interesting mixture of business models.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Delhi Govt. has already promised<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>free 1 GB of data with 1 mbps<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>speed for every citizen, besides<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>10 mins of free WiFiin DTC buses.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Not to be left behind, Maharashtra Govt. has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pledged to provide 2500 free WiFi hotspots<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>across the state.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">And,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bihar has already beaten Beijing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to launch world’s longest stretch of Free WiFi zone.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Here is a massive list of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-wpel-link="internal" href="http://trak.in/tags/business/2014/08/18/free-public-wifi-access-hotspots-zones-india/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dd3333; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none; transition: border-bottom 0.15s ease-in;" target="_blank" title="free public WiFi hotspots">free public WiFi hotspots</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>across the country.</div></div>

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