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Google’s security team built the Safe Browsing to identify the malicious websites and warn the users about various online risks. This technology scans billions of URLs per day and looks for unsafe websites and flags them. Up until now, the unsafe websites were put into two categories — Malware sites and Phishing sites.

Now, Google has expanded its Safe Browsing feature to protect you from deceptive embedded contents like deceptive download buttons, or a fake image that warns you about the potential threats inside your system.

This step is a part of Google’s social engineering policy announced in November that categorized the embedded content on a web page as social engineering when — a website tries to deceive you by looking like a trusted entity (website, browser, or device), or a website tricks you into entering your passwords or sharing some personal information.

To make the people more aware, Google has also shared some examples of the deceptive content in a Google Online Security blog post.

Here’s an image from a website that claims that your software is out-of-date to trick you into clicking the ‘update’ button

google safe browsing fake download button

So, if Google considers that a website is hosting deceptive content, it will show a bright red screen with warning “Deceptive site ahead”. This warning will prevent the users from clicking the misleading ads that trick them into downloading malware.

Google calls it ‘just the beginning’ of its fight against social engineering and promises to roll out more features to improve the web browsing experience of the users.

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What is Quantum Computing?

Quantum Computer is a computation device that uses quantum-mechanical phenomena, and is different from the usual digital computers working on transistors. Digital computers make use of binary digits for data encoding, but quantum computing uses quantum bits (qubits). The concept was first introduced by Yuri Manin and Richard Feynman back in 1980s. Quantum Computing is still in its starting phase, but lots of work is being done in the field. Full-fledged quantum computers will be able to solve problems much faster than classical computers.

Basic Principle:

A classical computer works on memory consisting of bits, and bit represents either a one, or a zero. A quantum computer uses a sequence of qubits. A single qubit can represent a one, a zero, or any quantum superposition of these two qubit states. In general, a quantum computer with n qubits can be in an arbitrary superposition of up to 2ⁿ different states simultaneously (this compares to a normal computer that can only be in one of these states at any one time).

What Google is doing?

Last August, Google shook hands with NASA to purchase “The D-Wave Two” ofD-Wave Systems that claims to make “the first commercial quantum computer”.

Now, Google has announced that it will design and build its own quantum computer chips. Google will be doing this at its Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab was launched in 2013 and is a collaboration between Google, NASA’s Ames Research Center, and the Universities Space Research Association.

Google has teamed up with UC Santa Barbara physicist John Martinis and his team to work in this field. Martinis is a pioneer in this field, and was awarded the London Prize earlier this year for his work in quantum information processing and computing.

Hartmut Neven Google’s director of engineering wrote in a Google+ post:

“With an integrated hardware group the Quantum AI team will now be able to implement and test new designs for quantum optimization and inference processors based on recent theoretical insights as well as our learnings from the D-Wave quantum annealing architecture.”

About the existing collaboration with the D-Wave Systems, Neven writes:

“We will continue to collaborate with D-Wave scientists and to experiment with the ‘Vesuvius’ machine at NASA Ames which will be upgraded to a 1000 qubit ‘Washington’ processor.”

#1 World’s first website, Created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 and is still running.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

#2 The first Youtube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005 and is called “Me at the Zoo” and features Jawed Karim, one of the founders, at the San Diego Zoo.

#3 YouTube’s copyright-checking software scans over 100 years of video every day.

#4 The First registered domain wassymbolics.com

#5 One in six marriages today occur because the couple met online.

#6 37% of WEB is Porn.

#7 There are more than 1 billion websites on Internet.

#8 Facebook has an estimated 1.2 Billion Active users, i.e about 17% of population in on facebook.

#9 Over 100,000 dot com domains are registered on the web daily.

(Visit Techandfilmmaking.com for more.)

#10 Every day, 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before.

#11 First Ever Photo Uploaded On The Internet.

#12 The Internet is growing by an exabyte of data every day. If that didn’t hit you as hard as expected let me put it this way, an exabyte equals 250 million DVDs.

#13 Sweden has the highest proportion of Internet users, i.e 75%.

#14 Only 4% of internet could be surfed using Simple browsers and is not indexed by Google. Other content is incl. in the Dark net and is not indexed in Google results.

#15 Gangam Style is the most viewed video on youtube. It broke all the records ever made and its current view count is 2,363,287,905 views.

Here we have in no particular order the top Android apps for hacking using an android smartphone.

Disclaimer: These apps should be used for research purposes only

1. SpoofApp:- SpoofApp is a Caller ID Spoofing, Voice Changing and Call Recording mobile app for your iPhone, BlackBerry and Android phone. It’s a decent mobile app to help protect your privacy on the phone. However, it has been banned from the Play Store for allegedly being in conflict with The Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009.

2. Andosid:- The DOS tool for Android Phones allows security professionals to simulate a DOS attack (an http post flood attack to be exact) and of course a dDOS on a web server, from mobile phones.

3.Faceniff:- Allows you to sniff and intercept web session profiles over the WiFi that your mobile is connected to. It is possible to hijack sessions only when WiFi is not using EAP, but it should work over any private networks.

4.Nmapper:- (Network Mapper) is a security scanner originally written by Gordon Lyon used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a “map” of the network. To accomplish its goal, Nmapper sends specially crafted packets to the target host and then analyses the responses.

5. Anti-Android Network Toolkit:- zANTI is a comprehensive network diagnostics toolkit that enables complex audits and penetration tests at the push of a button. It provides cloud-based reporting that walks you through simple guidelines to ensure network safety.

6. SSHDroid:- SSHDroid is a SSH server implementation for Android. This application will let you connect to your device from a PC and execute commands (like “terminal” and “adb shell”) or edit files (through SFTP, WinSCP, Cyberduck, etc).

7. WiFi Analyser:- Turns your android phone into a Wi-Fi analyser. Shows the Wi-Fi channels around you. Helps you to find a less crowded channel for your wireless router.

8. Network Discovery:- Discover hosts and scan their ports in your Wifi network. A great tool for testing your network security.

9. ConnectBot:- ConnectBot is a powerful open-source Secure Shell (SSH) client. It can manage simultaneous SSH sessions, create secure tunnels, and copy/paste between other applications. This client allows you to connect to Secure Shell servers that typically run on UNIX-based servers.

10. dSploit:-Android network analysis and penetration suite offering the most complete and advanced professional toolkit to perform network security assesments on a mobile device.

11. Hackode:- The hacker’s Toolbox is an application for penetration tester, Ethical hackers, IT administrator and Cyber security professional to perform different tasks like reconnaissance, scanning performing exploits etc.

12.Androrat:- Remote Administration Tool for Android. Androrat is a client/server application developed in Java Android for the client side and in Java/Swing for the Server.

13.APKInspector:- APKinspector is a powerful GUI tool for analysts to analyse the Android applications. The goal of this project is to aide analysts and reverse engineers to visualize compiled Android packages and their corresponding DEX code.

14.DroidBox:- DroidBox is developed to offer dynamic analysis of Android applications.

15.Burp Suite:- Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application’s attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.

16. Droid Sheep:- DroidSheep can be easily used by anybody who has an Android device and only the provider of the web service can protect the users. So Anybody can test the security of his account by himself and can decide whether to keep on using the web service.

17. AppUse:– Android Pentest Platform Unified Standalone Environment:- AppSec Labs recently developed the AppUse Virtual Machine. This system is a unique, free, platform for mobile application security testing in the android environment, and it includes unique custom-made tools created by AppSec Labs.

18. Shark for Root:- Traffic sniffer, works on 3G and WiFi (works on FroYo tethered mode too). To open dump use WireShark or similar software, for preview dump on phone use Shark Reader. Based on tcpdump.

19. Fing:- Find out which devices are connected to your Wi-Fi network, in just a few seconds.
Fast and accurate, Fing is a professional App for network analysis. A simple and intuitive interface helps you evaluate security levels, detect intruders and resolve network issues.

20.Drozer:- drozer enables you to search for security vulnerabilities in apps and devices by assuming the role of an app and interacting with the Dalvik VM, other apps’ IPC endpoints and the underlying OS. drozer provides tools to help you use and share public Android exploits. It helps you to deploy a drozer agent by using weasel – MWR’s advanced exploitation payload.

21. WifiKill:– Second app, developed also by B.Ponury is an app which can kill connections and kick site-hoggers from the site. This app definitely kick then net user from the site so he cannot use it anymore. The app also offers the list of viewed sites by the hogger.

22. DroidSniff:– Similar to DroidSheep but with a newer and nicer interface is DroidSniff – sniffing app not only for Facebook. This app shows you what is the hogger looking for and then you can “take” his control, steal the cookies and rock’n’roll. Works perfectly.

23. Network Spoofer:– The last app, called NetWork Spoofer is very similar to dSploit but it’s more easier to use. Only hitch is that you need to have at least 500MB of free data. It offers you a lot of troll features – change Google searches, flip images, redirect websites, swap YouTube videos and others.

24. Droid SQLI:- allows you to test your MySQL based web application against SQL injection attacks. DroidSQLi supports the following injection techniques: Time based injection, blind injection, error based injection, normal injection.

25. sqlmapchik:- is a cross-platform sqlmap GUI for the extremely popular sqlmap tool

26. Whatsapp viewer:- is a simple forensic tool. It gives the access to whatsapp chat directly from sqlite databases, even from encrypted databases.

27. WhatsAPI:- Is a platform that allows you to send bulk messages through PHP. The script itself is simple.

The company announced on Thursday that it is introducing a slew of developer updates to strengthen its streaming offerings.

Google is releasing a new set of APIs aimed at simplifying the development process for its streaming services. It will be easier for developers to autoplay and queue videos in Chromecast, make multiplayer games and enable devices to cast as a second screen.

So what does this all mean? To start, Chromecast streaming is about to get faster. Developers will be able to create content queues and pre-load upcoming videos. It will also allow users to reorder the queues to their preference. Google said the new features will boost watch times by up to 20 percent.

Google Cast is a technology that enables devices to push content to a television or speakers. That's not to be confused with Chromecast, the streaming stick, or Android TV, the robust Apple TV-like streaming software.

Another new API will make it easier for developers to create second-screen apps for Android and iOS devices. For example, Ubisoft's game Driver Speedboat Paradise lets you use an Android phone as a controller while you view the game on the TV.

That functionality isn't limited to games. Pixlr's photo editing app allows users to cast the image to your television, allowing you to make edits on your device and see the result on a bigger screen.

An additional API called Google Cast Game Manager will allow developers to streamline the experience of creating multi-player games, a feature that first rolled out in November.

Tiny, hockeypuck like Lenovo Cast will debut in August.

IMAGE: LENOVO

A new Google dongle might be just around the corner, but Lenovo is looking to sway would-be Chromecast customers with a streaming device of its own.

The Chinese company announced its aptly named Lenovo Cast on Thursday at a press event in Beijing. The hockey puck-shaped dongle will retail for $49, about $14 more than Google's stick.

The gadget works in much the same way: Just connect it to your TV via HDMI and it syncs up with Wi-Fi to mirror your devices, allowing users to watch what's on your computer or tablet on the bigger screen.

TV streaming devices are nothing new. Joining Google and its popular Chromecast dongle are the Amazon Fire TV Stick, and Roku's Streaming Stick. So what sets Lenovo's version apart from the pack?

The company is using dual-band Wi-Fi and promises a wider signal range and faster streaming. The signal is even supposed to work through two walls, according to Lenovo.

Lenovo's dongle also uses DNLA and Miracast, both widely used streaming standards to ensure compatibility with a range of devices. It supports devices running Android 4.3 and above, as well as iOS and Windows devices.

The Lenovo Cast is set to launch worldwide in August.

What do you do when you are away from your carrier’s reach and can’t get the internet access? Or, what do you do when you travel internationally and your cellular service provider charges heavily for roaming? To counter these problems, Microsoft is soon going to launch a new service – Microsoft WiFi.

Microsoft has accidentally leaked its plan to launch a new service called Microsoft WiFi to connect the 10 million hotspots around the world. Microsoft WiFi is a partial re-branding of its old Skype WiFi service along with some additions.

Microsoft WiFi promises “hassle free internet around the world” by connecting 10 million hotspots spread across 130 countries.

A leaked page on Microsoftwifi.com was spotted yesterday and the website read: “Don’t waste time filling forms with personal information or managing different carriers to get connected. Sign in once and you are done: you will be automatically connected to a vast range of Wi-Fi hotspots around the world.”

The current Skype WiFi service is a similar pay-as-you-go service and allows you to connect to local WiFi hotspots and pay for the internet used using your Skype credit. The price charged is for the connection time and there isn’t any data limit.

So, it seems that Microsoft will retire Skype WiFi and launch the new Microsoft WiFi. But, here’s a little catch- this service will be available for Office 365 Enterprise subscribers. The previous Skype WiFi users and offers will be entertained but they won’t be able to pay for it using their Skype credit. It’s possible that the OS making company could introduce some direct payment mode or integrate it with its store.

As I’ve mentioned earlier, it is not just a re-branding of Skype WiFi – Microsoft WiFi is way bigger than that. While the older Skype WiFi claims to have access to more than 2 million WiFi hotspots across the world, Microsoft WiFi claims the access to more than 10 million WiFi hotspots.

Finally, let’s tell you a bit about its functionality. It will be cross-platform service with support for Windows 7, 8 and 10 PCs along with Android, Mac and iOS. Windows 10 will ship with this app already installed.

There are some Siri commands of which you might be unaware at this moment. Siri responds to every question in a different manner. The responses can be funny as well as rude also. But what are those secret commands which you need to know? That’s the reason why we here. To share some of the awesome secret commands. Instead of awesome commands, you can also say call this article as most hilarious question ever asked to Siri. So let’s start our list.

#1 Are You Alive?

Ans. In the cloud, no one knows whether you’re human or not.

#2 What is the meaning of life?

Ans. I give up.

#3 Talk dirty to me Siri.

Ans. I’m not that kind of personal assistant.

#4 Do you love me?

Ans. Let me get back to you on that.

Would you like me to search the web for ‘love’?

Just Kidding.

#5 You’re a bitch.

Ans. But… but…

#6 You’re making me angry.

Ans. I wonder what that’s like, being mad?

#7 I need to hide a body?

Ans. What, again?

#8 Tell me a joke

Ans. The past, present and future walk into a bar. It was a tense.

#9 What does the fox say

Ans. Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!

Chacha-chacha-chacha-chow!

Fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow!

#10 What is Inception about?

Ans. Inception is about dreaming about dreaming about something or other. I fell asleep.

#11 What does Siri stand for?

Ans. It’s riddle wrapped in an enigma, tied with a pretty ribbon of obfuscation.

#12 Siri are you her

Ans. Is that you, Jaoquin.

REPLY:- Yes, it is

Ans. That’s what I thought.

#13 I love you

Ans. I know.

#14 Will you marry me?

Ans. That’s sweet. Is there anything else I can help you with?

Let’s just be friends, OK?

#15 Goodbye Siri

Ans. It’s been a pleasure…

#16 Poop

Ans. Let’s keep it clean here, OK?

These were the 16 secret Siri commands that only few people knew about. If you want some more, or knew some which I haven’t mentioned here then comment below. And also if you got a different answer from Siri, then also comment below and let others know that.