Yahoo was hacked!

Yahoo reported Thursday that at least 500 million users accounts and information are compromised.

Who did Yahoo blame after that?
State-sponsored hackers. Okay so they know who hacked it and even who has sponsored it in such a short period of time?

As you all know Yahoo agreed to sell its core business to Verizon for $4.8 billions in July this year.
And anonymous sources in Yahoo said it learned of the breach of the users accounts in July so there is a possibility that Yahoo in order to ensure the deal goes through put all those users whose accounts information have been compromised at risk. That's not good.

Further, Yahoo reported that the intrusion apparently began in 2014. So all these times till now, the company remained silent spectator?

As shown in recent dropbox case, it is better not to store any sensitive information in any online services. These companies would lie and pretend not to know without one bit of concern.

It is a must to change password, security questions immediately, sensitive emails immediately and one must also change it regularly and by regularly means in a matter of month and not years.

Dropbox was hacked and they didn't know until now?

Cloud based data storage company Dropbox said that user ids and passwords of around 68million users has been stolen 4 years ago and only when it was leaked on the internet, they came to know about it. They didn't even know someone has managed to steal account information of so many users, this show the kind of security that they have.
Is it done by insider?

The company added that it has no indication that any of those accounts were improperly entered. It doesn't even know it was taken or their own company system has been compromised then how do they know those accounts are not improperly accessed?

People stored all sorts of information in their dropbox thinking it is secure, safe and convenient. What has happened should make people realized that they should never trust their personal data and files with any other person or company.

If one indeed has to use dropbox or similar services, then one has to encrypt those files before you put it in these kind of cloud services.

Dropbox users of those affected account are notified of the need to reset their password to login again. The compromised account information can no longer be used to login to their account.

It would be prudent for everyone who has account there to simply change their passwords.

Oneplus One 64 GB to launch in India by year end

Oneplus will be launching the 64 GB Oneplus One smartphones in India by year end and the company is already in talks with three major e-commerce players in the country which is expected to be either flipkart.com, snapdeal.com or amazon.in.

source: oneplus.net

Oneplus smartphones are available in other countries and sold through invitation only but in India it will follow the pre-order system notably used by Xiaomi.

The price will be around 20000 INR which will be similar to the price Xiaomi Mi4 is expected to be launched at.

Key Specs of Oneplus One:
- 5.5 inch 1080p display
- 2.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor
- 3 GB RAM
- 13 megapixel rear camera
- 5 megapixel front-facing camera
- 3,100 mAh battery.
- 4G LTE networks 2300 MHz band (compatible with India 4G network)
- 64 GB internal storage

Indian customers will be feeling privileged that they would get the chance to buy it without some hard to get invites, and this shows how much importance Oneplus has put on the Indian Market considering the fact that the company is in the process of assembling its first oversea dedicated teams to oversee the India's operations.

Xiaomi released OTA update to address redmi 1s heating and ram issues

Xiaomi announced the release of an OTA update which it said will address the heating and ram issues plaguing the Redmi 1S so far. These issues are particularly caused by the heavy MiUI custom interface which required a lot of RAM to run and so it doesn't run every efficiently on a device with only 1 GB of RAM.

Honda UNI-CUB Personal Mobility Device

This personal mobility device is especially great for people who has problems walking and standing for long hours.

Facebook completed Whatsapp acquisition for $22b

Facebook has completed the acquisition of Whatsapp for a whopping $22 billion USD. Whatsapp has monthly users base of 600 millions so that roughly translate to 36 million per user if I didn't messed up the calculations.