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Russia Finds Hidden Chips Inside Chinese Electric Iron And Kettles That Scans Wi-Fi To Serve Malware

News reports from Russia's state-owned channel Rossiya 24 showed footage of a technician opening up an iron included in a batch of Chinese imports to find a "spy chip" with "a little microphone" embedded into it. These hidden, embedded electronic chips are scanning and connecting to any computer within a 200m radius with unprotected Wi-Fi networks, once connected these "Trojan devices" were being used to spread viruses.

While the report says that the malware is being used to send SPAM, piggy-banking on infected computer's internet connection and resources without the owner's knowledge about it, our recent story "Hidden Backdoor In Your Internet Router - With Love, From China !!" and the fact that the rogue devices had "an microphone" further establishes the fact that these are or can be used for spying. The researchers also found other products having these rogue components including mobile phones, car dashboard cameras and electric kettles.

Kettle Malware

Apple iPhone 5S For Rs 2,999/month With Unlimited Voice, SMS and 3G Data Under 24 Month Contract

Apple formally launched their flagship phone models iPhone 5S and 5C in India yesterday. Bearing an expensive price tag of Rs 53,500/- for iPhone 5S (16 GB) and Rs. 41,900/- for iPhone 5C (16 GB) these phones might find themselves hard to convince their tags to price concise Indian buyer. However, Reliance Communications has devised a smart marketing campaign to make sure it reaches widest possible audience in India, to overcome the hefty price tag the company is offering these devices under a 24 months "not locked to the network" contract with zero down payment and unlimited voice (local and STD across all networks), text-messages and 3G data with free national roaming.

Reliance

Google's Giving Out "Google+ Custom URLs"

After providing celebrities and big brands with customizable vanity Google+ URL's the company is now slowly rolling out the feature to other established accounts. I was lucky to get one with my full-name "Deepesh Agarwal" as changing this still requires manual review from Google moderation team. To get these custom, short and easy-to-remember web addresses that links directly to your profile or G+ page, Google requires users to meet some eligibility requirements which are Ten or more followers, an account which is at-least 30 days old and a profile photo.

Google+ Custom URLs

Free Prank Phone Calls Anywhere In The World Without Revealing Your Phone Number

call2friendsEverybody loves freebies, and we have shared quite alot of "free phone calls around the globe" services here on this blog. Today, we have something even more interesting then that, a service which not only allows you to make free phone calls "to-and-from" anywhere in the world but also hides you caller id when doing so - making it a perfect free method to play some prank with your friends anonymously without installing anything from your web-browser.

Usually, we need to purchase online VOIP minutes for free calling or spoofing our caller identification, but online service Call2Friends allows you both of these for free and with ease, all you require is a web-browser with "Adobe Flash Player" support to get started. Call2Friends is a modern telecommunication service that uses the latest technologies and offers a free and high quality communications to people all over the world. Not only can you call your online friends for free, it also offers free calls to any regular landline in various destinations. Users can also make use of there free SIP gateway facility to make free Internet calls from mobile phones, tablets or hardware VOIP phones from anywhere saving money in situations like international roaming.

Online Phone Dialer

Hidden Backdoor In Your Internet Router - With Love, From China !!

Chinese telecom companies have been accused of embedding spying technologies into enterprise level telecom hardware for Chinese government, now a new research done by embedded device hacker "Craig Heffner" unearthed that consumer level internet router's made by Chinese companies come bundled with a secret backdoor which allows full root level access to the consumer router.

He unveiled secret backdoors embedded inside a number of D-Link and Tenda brand routers which are manufactured in China and are sold all around the globe. The beauty of this type of backdoor is that these are undetectable by antivirus software's and bypass almost all sorts of security measures as the loophole is sitting at the very start of network access chain supplying and controlling access to everything else after it - this is sort of your gatekeeper being the enemy Trojan. Unlike NSA PRISM spying this would also be a more easy, distributed, cost-efficient and targeted form of government spying.

Tenda

New Truly Unlimited Broadband Plans From BSNL Without Any Fair Usage Policy

BSNL BroadbandMajority of high-speed internet service providers have some sort of data-usage caps in their unlimited plans labelled as "Fair Usage Policy (FUP)", where the internet speed is throttled to a lower value after user's high-speed usage quota gets exhausted. Facing tough competition from "You Broadband", India’s largest telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has now announced two plans with truly unlimited broadband usage without any FUP in Surat. The new plans BB Home Combo UL 575 CS20 (costing Rs. 525/- per month) and BB Home Combo UL 725 CS21 (costing Rs. 725/- per month) features downloading speeds of 512 Kbps and 1 Mbps respectively without any maximum usage cap.

BSNL Truly High-Speed Unlimited Broadband Plan


Particulars
BB Home Combo UL 575 CS20
BB Home Combo UL 725 CS21
Bandwidth (Download Speed) 512 Kbps Flat Upto 1 Mbps Flat
Applicability For Home in Surat SSA of Gujarat Telecom Circle only
Fixed Monthly Charges (Rs) 575 725
Annual Payment Option (Rs.) [11 x FMC] 6,325 7,975
2Years Payment Option (Rs.) [21 x FMC] 12,075 15,225
3 Years Payment Option (Rs.) [30 x FMC] 17,250 21,750
Free E-mail IDs/Space (Per E-mail ID) 1/5 MB 1/5 MB
Security Deposit One Month charges
Minimum Hire Period One Month
Telephone fixed monthly charges in Rs NIL
Free Calls NIL
MCU(Meter Called Unit) Charges/Pulse in Rs. Rs 1 (To BSNL N/W after free calls)
Rs 1.2 (To Other N/W )

3 Premium ThemeFuse Wordpress Themes to Be Given Away!

Want to get a hold of one of the 3 licenses of premium WordPress themes from ThemeFuse? Read ahead!

We’re giving away 3 WordPress themes from ThemeFuse, a top designer. If you want to participate, it’s not at all hard to do. ThemeFuse is a professional design firm and their products reflect that. These aren’t substandard themes we’re giving away, but full-blown professional WP themes.

All of the code used in ThemeFuse themes is validated, so you never have to worry about non-compliance issues. In fact, these themes are designed to be solid and reliable in every regard. There’s an onsite FAQ you can use to get more information on the theme or you can contact support. These themes are great values and, when you win one, the value is, of course, even greater!

Free Online PDF Converter With Support For Multiple Output Formats

PDF remains the best file format for sending, sharing, printing and archiving electronic documents. While its universal formatting and viewing features are unsurpassed, it is not so convenient for making changes. So, as much as we like receiving documents in PDF because we know we’ll be able to view the document as intended, with all the text, images and hyperlinks in their proper places, we get a headache when we receive a PDF that we need to modify. In many cases people start creating new documents and manually typing information from the PDF file in order to get the job done.

To simplify the process of editing PDFs, there are PDF manipulation tools created for different purposes: to convert PDF documents into MS Excel spreadsheets, to convert PDFs into PowerPoint presentations, to allow typing in the PDF itself, to allow making bookmarks in the document, etc. Many of these tools focus on one specific feature of a PDF manipulation, like converting PDF into Excel, for example, and they are often free and online.

There are, however, more advanced tools for PDF conversion and editing with more than one conversion option and we are sharing one such free online PDF Converter here today.

Online PDf maker

The advantage of this tool over many other free online converters is in its comprehensive nature: it can create PDFs from over 300 different Windows formats, as well as convert PDFs into the most used Office suite formats: .doc, .xls and .ppt.

Internet Explorer 11 Release Preview for Windows 7 out now, Gets 30% Faster than Other Web-browsers

Microsoft has released the Internet Explorer 11 Release Preview For Windows 7 with some exciting improvements and features aimed to offer a fast, fluid and perfect for touch Web experience across all Windows devices and screen sizes. The snappier IE11 features - performance improvements making it 30% faster than competing web-browsers like Google Chrome/Mozilla Firefox/Opera, updates to support the latest Web standards, new and improved developer tools for coders. Do watch the video introduction and images posted after the "Read More" link below.

Internet Explorer 11 Installation
Internet Explorer 11 Logo
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