How To Capture Someone’s Picture Who Tries To Unlock Your Phone

Some things are better if kept private. I have seen many people hating it like anything when their friends or family members try to unlock their smartphone without their permission. And sometimes due to lots of successive incorrect attempts, the phone gets hard-locked – that means the only way to unlock your phone is via your email. This is enough to irritate a person. Also, you can not do anything about it because you don’t know whom to yell at.

Today, I am going to tell how you can capture a photo of that intruder who tries to unlock your phone without your permission. The only thing you have to do is to download and install this free Android app called Hidden Eye. Hidden Eye once installed will capture a photo of the intruder each time he/she tries to unlock your device.

How Hidden Eye Works?

It’s very simple to use the Hidden Eye app: just open it and tap on the OFF button which is located at middle and then tap to ACTIVATE it. Now tick the options on which you want to get alerted, and this is it.

Hidden Eye app work on a very simple idea- each time intruder tries to unlock your device, it will capture an image of him/her which you can see by tapping on View Intrusions. You can also see the date and the timing below the image captured by app.



If you have turned on the first option, your phone will ring after 3 attempts with the default ringtone. With enabling the second option, you will get to see the intrusion in notification bar. And if you enabled the third option, you will get to see the intruder’s image at the time of unlocking your phone.

Anonymous Hijacks Thousands of Insecure Routers to Power Its DDoS Tools

Lack of some elementary security measures can risk your router’s security and this has stemmed to grow into a large-scale denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using these hacker-controlled routers. A web security firm Incapsula has discovered a new router based botnet Mr Black while investigating some DDoS attacks against its customers since this December.
 
Hackers exploited routers’ negligent security measures to launch these attacks all over the world. According to this report published by the security firm, the routers made by Ubiquiti Networks had DDoS malware installed on them.

The routers were not hacked due to some vulnerability in the hardware. Instead, it happened because of the deployment of the router in an insecure manner that exposed their management interfaces using the default credentials over SSH and HTTP.

The routers that were inspected were found to have 4 versions of Mr Black, a DDoS program and altogether thirty-seven variations of Mr Black were detected. Other DDoS programs included DoFloo, Mayday and Skynet (a remote sensing tool).

In some earlier versions of the report, Incapsula said that it believed that the hacktivist group Anonymous was one of the few groups those used the compromised routers. It is yet not clear that why Anonymous was highlighted in the report, but it is certain that few people who call themselves “Anonymous” were using the routers. The original article on the Daily Dot was edited to remove the fact that botnet directs to irc (dot) anonops (dot) com.

Total 40,269 different IP addresses were detected from 1,600 ISPs spread across 109 countries. The main affected countries were Thailand (64%), Brazil (21%), United States (4%) and India (3%). To control these routers, 60 servers were hacked and majority of these were in China and the U.S.

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To save themselves from the DDoS attacks, users must make sure that their routers’ management interfaces aren’t exposed over HTTP or SSH to the internet. They can also use some tools available to scan their router’s IP for open ports and change their default login credentials.

Easy-to-use TunnelBear Chrome Extension Brings VPN Services to Everyone

TunnelBear is one of the most loved VPN (Virtual Proxy Network) services because of its simplicity and clean interface. Now, the company has decided to make this service even handier by launching an extension for your Google Chrome browser. So, now you can maintain your privacy more easily.
Keeping aside the advantages of the anonymity, VPN services are of interest to those who are in the countries where some services like Spotify, Netflix aren’t available or some of the services are blocked. After installing the extension, the free users will get 750MB, but TechCrunch writes that TunnelBear will soon offer 1GB.

Currently, this VPN extension is available only for Google Chrome. TunnelBear plans to release the extension for other browsers including Safari, Firefox and more.
In an interview with TechCrunch, TunnelBear co-founder Ryan Dochuk said: “Our goal is to make [using a VPN] as easy and accessible as possible. The extension is so fast and so easy that you should be using it in your everyday internet activity.”



This TunnelBear extension for Chrome isn’t a full-fledged VPN. It doesn’t handle data only from your browser instead of your entire system. So, for browsing purposes and watching Netflix in the unsupported countries, it is a good option.

TunnelBear, based in Toronto, was founded in 2011 and provides its service to 5 million people all over the world.
Here are some of the services provided by the TunnelBear extension for Chrome:

• Stop web sites and advertisers from tracking you.
• While using public WiFi, secure your browser’s identity.
• Free data every month.
• Take the advantage of a fast VPN private network with connections to 14 countries.

I’ve installed and used the TunnelBear extension for Chrome and it does what it needs to do. It should be noted that it uses the AES 128-bit encryption instead of the better AES-256 encryption used by the usual TunnelBear app.

Try it out from the link given below:
TunnelBear for Chrome

Do you use VPN services? Tell us in the comments below!

Free Antivirus for Windows

Tencent PC Manager is a new free antivirus software for Windows that claims to have the largest security cloud base, the best anti-virus engine and seven international authoritative certification. It offers strong protection from computer viruses, spyware, malware, rootkits, and other emerging threats. The application detects and fixes safety as well as performance issues encountered on your Windows PC. Let us review it and have a look at some of its features.

Tencent PC Manager

Tencent, in case you did not know, is China’s largest and most used Internet service portal and the fifth-largest Internet company in the world after Google, Amazon, Alibaba, and Ebay.
Tencent PC Manager makes use of the following to detect malware on your Windows computer:

1. Tencent cloud
2. Tencent Antivirus engine
3. Avira antivirus engine
4. Tencent system repair engine

A nifty feature of Tencent PC Manager is that it constantly keeps a hawk eye on your computer and as soon as you download a file off the Internet, it thoroughly examines its contents, just to notify you if any suspicious component is detected.
The application promises a faster scan using fewer system resources, and real-time protection by instantly identifying and blocking new threats as soon as they appear. In addition to above, PC Manager includes anti-phishing, link scanner, secure browsing, webcam protection, USB protection, and hacking detection protection modules.
Apart from Quick Scanning, the Custom analysis lets you check the drives and folders you are interested in, as well as the PC areas that are usually most vulnerable: system memory, system and Internet Explorer settings, startup apps, frequently used programs or hijacked system software.
The settings menu houses the following tabs,

• General Settings – Lets you enable self-defense to avoid Trojan attacks.

• Antivirus settings – Allows you to add programs to the White-list that can be ignored from scanning when the PC Manager starts.

• Real-Time Protection – Allows you to take action on threat detection.

• Download Protection – Flashes security prompt on dangerous files.

The only disappointment you come across while using the application, there is no scheduled scan so you need to do it manually. Apart from this, Tencent PC Manager integrates well in the context menu of Windows Explorer and lets you effortlessly scan whatever file or folder you select.

Visit its home page if you want to read more about it and download it.

Android users: http://cpa.ly/5V2H

Tencent is China’s largest and most used Internet service portal and the fifth-largest Internet company in the world after Google, Amazon, Alibaba, and Ebay. Microsoft also recently announced a strategic partnership with Tencent. If your Chrome gives you a warning, it could be a false positive.