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Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has announced that it will stop lending support for a number of smartphones after December 31, 2017. According to WhatsApp blog post, users will not be able to create new accounts and will also not able to verify existing accounts from these smartphones and on platforms. Ending of support does not mean that the users will not be able to access their accounts. WhatsApp has said that users will continue to get access but will not receive any security updates or new features. WhatsApp had earlier in 2016 has stopped lending support to OS versions like Windows Phone 7, Android 2.1, Android 2.2 and iOS 6. WhatsApp also stopped supporting Nokia Symbian S60 from June 2017. In a number of platforms WhatsApp is withdrawing support, like Blackberry OS, the company has stopped manufacturing or launching new smartphones for the platform. WhatsApp has also said that after withdrawing support effective from December 31, some of the features

WhatsApp mistakenly rolled out the ‘Reply Privately’ feature in a beta update that will allow users to privately send a message to a participant in a group without anyone else knowing about it. According to Express.co.uk, the hotly-anticipated feature is under development and could be rolled out with other features as well. The feature appeared and was subsequently dropped from the beta version of the app, watcher of the popular chat app @WABetaInfo said, confirming that the developers wrongly enabled the feature. “In the new WhatsApp beta for Windows Phone 2.17.344 the private reply feature is disabled. Probably WhatsApp has wrongly enabled it in 2.17.342,” WABetaInfo tweeted. WABetaInfo said that the option will only be available in group chats and will be included in the small menu that pops-up when users press and hold on a message. Earlier this month, WABetaInfo leaked the details of the features that WhatsApp was developing for web and desktop, including tap to unblock an

It's the last month of this year, but possibly not the last data breach report. Nissan warns of a possible data breach of personal information on its customers who financed their vehicles through Nissan Canada Finance and INFINITI Financial Services Canada. Although the company says it does not know precisely how many customers were affected by the data breach, Nissan is contacting all of its roughly 1.13 million current and previous customers. In a statement released Thursday, Nissan Canada said the company became aware of an " unauthorized access to personal information " of some customers on December 11.  " Nissan Canada Finance recently became aware it was the victim of a data breach that may have involved an unauthorized person(s) gaining access to the personal information of some customers that have financed their vehicles through Nissan Canada Finance and INFINITI Financial Services Canada, " the company said. It's believed that the unknown hack

When a website forces you to use numbers, symbols, and a certain amount of characters in your password, it can be frustrating, but those strength requirements are there for a reason. Without them, many users will enter a password that’s easy to remember and, by extension, is easy for hackers to guess. There are several ways to keep your online identity secure, but before you do anything else, make sure you’re not using any passwords from the list below. SplashData compiled this data by analyzing millions of accounts—mostly from users in western Europe and North America—that were compromised in the past year, Gizmodo reports. To show how the most popular passwords of 2017 compare to 2016's, they've indicated whether each entry has kept its old slot, gone up or down in the rankings, or is new to the list. The latest round-up includes some predictable entries: “123456” occupies the same number one slot it held last year, followed by “password” at number two. There are also a

B ill Gates needs no introduction whatsoever. After all, he co-found Microsoft and is currently the richest person in the world. In 2000, he also launched the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that has donated more than $34 billion to the projects aimed at social welfare.  Gates used his first computer at a private school in Seattle. There, he wrote his first computer program aged just 13. It was the same Lakeside School where Gates met Paul Allen and became friends over a shared love of computers. Apart from being enthusiastic about computers, they used to hack into computers from time to time. You must have heard the famous story that tells how Gates hacked into his school computer to meet girls. In a recent interview with BBC, Bill Gates sheds more light over this story and tells how he enrolled himself into the classes where he was the only boy. He and fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen hacked and make changes into school’s scheduling software to up Gates’ chances of

Yesterday, Firefox users noticed a strange new plug-in popping up in their browsers. A new plug-in called Looking Glass found its way into each instance of the new Firefox Quantum browser. It was disabled by default, but users were still alarmed to see a plugin they hadn’t installed. When they checked to see what Looking Glass did, they found a vague and ominous description — “MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS” — which did little to quiet suspicions. “I did not remember installing this add-on, [and] I would not knowingly install it,” one user wrote in the support forum. “Any explanations welcome because I can't find any reference online.” As it turned out, Looking Glass was part of  Mr. Robot ’s long-running alternative reality game, a trail of clues left by writers for fans to discover. According to Mozilla’s documentation, the plug-in was designed as a “shared experience to further your immersion into the  Mr Robot  universe,” developed as a collaboration between Mozi

Rename Processor Start-> Run -> Type regedit -> Locate this path here now: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ HARDWARE \ DISCRIPTION \ System \ CentralProcessor. Find it in "ProcessorNameString" and double click on it; Now change its name to something like i3 two.

Facebook introduces two new features for its instant games on Messenger. The first feature will allow users to easily share their gaming experience with others. Facebook, starting today is rolling out this feature that will enable the Messenger users to be able to live stream and share their gaming experience with other in their friend list via Facebook Live option. The second feature will allow Messenger users to play games with each other while video chatting. It is just a year ago that Facebook had introduced the instant games section on Messenger. On completion of a year, Facebook plans to bring the gaming experience on Messenger to a complete different level altogether. "We're introducing two new features to Instant Games that will help you engage and connect with those you care about in new and different ways," notes Facebook on its blog post. Starting today, Facebook is rolling out the live streaming feature on Messenger for the gamers out there so that they

It seems that Facebook is bringing a new ad unit that will let businesses connect with over one billion WhatsApp users. According to Techcrunch, Facebook has launched a new click-to-WhatsApp messaging button for pushing out ads from the biggest social media platform to WhatsApp so that people can call or message via Whatsapp with the click of a button. The report suggests that this new feature is quite similar to the click-to-Messenger ads that was previously rolled out by Facebook. However, apart from advertisers, it is not clear that whether Facebook plans to add Click-to-Whatsapp service to regular consumers. According to the same report, over a million Facebook pages already had included WhatsApp numbers in their posts and that many businesses are relying on both the social media platforms more informally to connect with customers directly. "Many people already use WhatsApp to communicate with small businesses. It's a fast, convenient way to stay in touch,"

How can we hack the password of any social media or computer? => To hack any website, we can hack that website's password and user name by tinkering with the URL of the same website. But how to do any offline thing and social media (e.x = facebook, twitter)? (1) Social media Two things are needed to hack social media. (1) user name (2) password The user name is easily found within the social media. (2) password. To hack the password, we first need to know this. That is how many words or numbers this password is. Suppose there is a password of 4 word. So whatever the word and number of keyboard you have to hack it. He will have to connect with each other in 4 words. If we only add numbers to 4-4 words then 9,999 passwords will be created. This work is very hard if a password is of 16 words. So it can take years to hack. For that we ask a social media (# _ $ 15Rv) to keep such a password. But those bigger hackers (e.x ransomware, petya) they work for a long ti

Even after so many efforts by Google like launching bug bounty program and preventing apps from using Android accessibility services, malicious applications somehow manage to get into Play Store and infect people with malicious software. The same happened once again when security researchers discovered at least 85 applications in Google Play Store that were designed to steal credentials from users of Russian-based social network VK.com and were successfully downloaded millions of times. The most popular of all masqueraded as a gaming app with more than a million downloads. When this app was initially submitted in March 2017, it was just a gaming app without any malicious code, according to a blog post published Tuesday by Kaspersky Lab. However, after waiting for more than seven months, the malicious actors behind the app updated it with information-stealing capabilities in October 2017. Besides this gaming app, the Kaspersky researchers found 84 such apps on Google Play Store—most