Facebook and Whatsapp have both moved to distance themselves from rumours that the social-networking giant is looking to acquire the popular messaging app. In separately issued statements to AllThingsD, Whatsapp denied reports that emerged on Monday while Facebook issued a more generic response. But the Facebook acquisition talks aren’t happening, said multiple sources. WhatsApp gave us the following statement: “The TechCrunch article is a rumor and not factually accurate. We have no further information to [...]

The website of India’s Union Minister for Communication, Information and Technology has reportedly been hacked. Notorious hacking group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack. In their latest attack on Friday, the hacking group managed to hijack Kapil Sibal’s official website kapilsibalmp.com. The about page of the website was hacked to read: “Kapil Sibal is the world’s biggest retard. Born with a below 60 IQ he thought he could mess with the Internet and let the [...]

As hackers are aware of 1337day.com website – a best place and exploit source for vulnerable software’s and zero day. 1337day is a website running by former milw0rm.com and inj3ct0r.com team. And now recently 1337day has launched a store for the first time to sell exploits, zero day exploits to help security professional to test more vulnerabilities without difficulty and faster. For the support of security professionalization and to maintain sustainable system for ongoing vulnerability [...]

Facebook is proposing to end its practice of letting users vote on changes to its privacy policies, though it will continue to let users comment on proposed updates. The world’s biggest social media company said in a blog post Wednesday that its voting mechanism, which is triggered only if enough people comment on proposed changes, has become a system that emphasizes quantity of responses over quality of discussion. Users tend to leave one or two-word [...]

Recently, Director IDG of NTRO Alok Vijayanti presented the talk about the global model that would probably be followed in the next gen info warfare. His research papers on global cyber diplomacy were quite eye opening. Alok is doing his best at finding facts and doing research, but every govt. employee has limitations and they have to go through certain hierarchy. He can suggest the government about the threats and immediate concerns but he cannot [...]

A computer scientist in the US has built a prototype smartphone that can distinguish between touches from the knuckle, fingertip and even fingernail. To open up the smartphone screens to commands from other parts of the hand, Chris Harrison, from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has built the prototype. A modified smartphone, fitted with a small vibration sensor and running Harrison’s FingerSense software, listens for the acoustic and vibrational differences between the three different [...]

Indiatimes is shutting down its free email service presently being offered at email.indiatimes.com. The service has stopped accepting new users and people visiting the website are being warned of the service’s impending demise. (via MediaNama/ @dinakaran) While email services from Indiatimes and Rediff were popular a few years back, the rise of Gmail has seen Google take away lion’s share of email traffic in India. Sure, some people have stuck around with Yahoo and Hotmail [...]

The latest version of Microsoft’s Web browser is now available to the vast audience connecting to the Internet on personal computers running on the Windows 7 operating system. The redesigned browser, Internet Explorer 10, made its debut last month when Microsoft released Windows 8, which makes dramatic changes to an operating system that has been powering PCs for decades. Internet Explorer 10 initially is being introduced Tuesday to Windows 7 users in a “preview,” or [...]