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Social engineering, in the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional “con” in that it is often one of many …

Kali Linux 2.0 (Codename ‘Kali Sana’) is to be released on 11th August 2015. Those who are not keeping track, this is the biggest update since BackTrack Linux was superseded by Kali Linux back in 2013. Following is the release history of Kali Linux as shown in Kali Linux Release …

A recent Skype bug discovered by VentureBeat can crash Skype in Windows, iOS and Android versions. All it takes is sending or receiving http://: in a message. It crashes the Windows app if you're the sender and completely kills it if it's the one receiving that string of characters. However, the iOS and the Android apps are only affected when they're the recipient, and Skype for Mac seems to be immune from the issue.

This is a #rant post, TL'DR. In summary, you can just create a Chrome, Firefox, iOS, Android extension/plugin/app for free, let it grow bigger overtime and then just sell idle users bandwidth to Bot Net for profit. And you just put that somewhere in your looong ToS that everyone just presses "I Agree, get it over with and let me use the service already".

I am big fan of QuadCopters. Just the look of them reminds me of my childhood fantasies of traveling around unknown alien world on a weirdly looking powerful aircraft. A new drone from 3D Robotics named Solo just got my attention. If you are a fan of QuaCopters, 3DR Solo …