Accessing the Deep Web

Information:

The "Deep Web" is a vast collection of websites not accessible on the Internet through a normal browser or search engine. It mainly consists of all the illegal things that aren't allowed on the Internet. These include: drug dealer directories/pharmacy, black market trades, hackers, hitmen, pedophiles, etc. It is important you browse the Deep Web with firewalls on, and your webcam disconnected. Be wary of/don't download any files. The Deep Web is unlike any other website on the accessible Internet. Use extreme caution!

Tutorial how-to:

1. Download the Tor Browser Bundle for your OS (Android users can use Orbot)

2. Extract the archive to your computer

3. In the archive: (Windows: Start Tor Browser; Mac: TorBrowser.app; Linux: execute the 'start-tor-browser' script) Do NOT run Tor as root!

4. TorBrowser will automatically open up

5. You can now visit websites with the .onion extension. Refer to the 'Deep Web Links' file (scroll down further)

6. Use extreme caution!!

Advanced: To remain as anonymous as possible:

1. Choose a proxy to use with Tor. It is best to contact WhatTheServer and ask them to set you up with a SSH Tunnel

2. Setup your proxy as explained

3. Start the Tor Browser bundle

4. Click on the onion icon on the left side of the address bar

5. Setup your proxy instead of Tor proxy

6. Do not do anything outside of theTor Browser, or you will lose your anonymity

Refer to: https://www.torproject.org/download/download to help yourself remain anonymous

Deep Web Links:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9v1mv255745u7jy/deep_web_links.txt

Download Tor:

https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

Tor Website:

https://www.torproject.org/

Microsoft had launched a preview version of real-time translator for skype calls. “We’ve invested in speech recognition, automatic translation and machine learning technologies for more than a decade, and now they’re emerging as important components in this more personal computing era,” Microsoft corporate VP Gurdeep Pall wrote in a blog.

Redmond had firstly unveiled the system at a conference in may and announced that the beta version will be released later in this year. Now this service is available for people who had signed up for the preview program. At present it supports forty messaging languages and two spoken languages. The were english and spanish. As of now we were told that it has only two languages to give the machine learning algorithms the capability to identify the various human speeches. But later ultimately their aim is to auto translate as many languages as they can.



Skype translator works on windowns 8.1 or preview versions of Windows 10. Generally it works by translating a spanish into english to the english speaker and vice versa. It translates in the real time. It supports english and german and also includes german in the preview version.

The above video shows the two groups of primary school students where one is english speaking and other one is spanish speaking group. This app lets the audio of english students converted to spanish for the spanish students and converts the spanish into english for the english students. it is to expected a lots of usage in schools,colleges,offices etc. This even has combined with bing translator to increase its efficiency.

“Our machine learning models account for these pauses,” the Skype team explained. “In the preview you will see how some of these fillers are removed, and how some are not – we hope to improve our capabilities through user feedback.”

If you are interested to use the preview version of the app then you need to invite which you can request from the skype official site. Using registration code STVER4230 may help you get an invite a little quicker.

Recently the world has witnessed many crazy inventions. Researches have become so advanced that the ideas which were once a mere concept are being materialized and along with it new concept are being generated which, no doubt, one day become reality. Among these new budding ideas, there is a constant increase in concepts regarding wearable technology. It is certainly an approach to make devices fashionable acceptable in addition to being smarter. We are moving on to the age of perfection where we want a device to fulfill all such requirement and the demands are ever increasing. One such conceptual phone has emerged promising to fit right in your hand, and I mean literally right in the hand. A phone that can be worn as a glove. The Glove One.





The universal hand signal for talking on the phone is generally the index finger pointing toward the ear and the last toward the mouth, with the middle and ring fingers folded. Though we know most cellphones (and even home phones) don’t abide by this design anymore, one artist has adapted a glove-like phone that requires the user to hold that motion to use it. Using recycled electronic parts and custom-made circuits, Milwaukee-based artist Brian Cera developed the Glove One design as a wearable mobile communication device. In Cera’s mind, using a cellphone sacrifices the hand to hold it — so why not wear the phone so you can keep both hands usable? Maybe he’s never heard of Bluetooth ear pieces. But it would be quite cool to have such a phone for a change. Bryan Cera, a Master’s student at the Peck School of the Arts in Milwaukee, crafted Glove One, a glove-like contraption that doubles as a phone. The “wearable mobile communication device” is also art; Bryan says it represents the sacrifices we might make for social media and technology.






Glove One is a perfect example of the lengths we’re willing to go to stay plugged-in. Cera says his glove is not meant to be used by everyone on the planet, rather makes a statement that the creation represents a future where smartphones have become an actual part of our bodies, and our hands become a vestigial limb replaced by a handset. It sounds very Star Trek-like, but according to Cera, It presents a futile and fragile technology with which to augment ourselves. A cell phone which, in order to use, one must sacrifice their hand. It is both the literalization of Sherry Turkle’s notion of technology as a “phantom limb”, in how we augment ourselves as well as a celebration of the freedom we seek in our devices. All of the One Glove’s parts are 3D printed, and the SIM card slots into the glowing center of the gadget. Each joint on the fingers hosts a button to represent the different keys on a normal phone, and holding a button on the pinkie finger switches it on. Simply dial the number you wish to call on your fingers (the glove will read back the number you pressed), and it will place your call

Facebook is expanding the internal user profiles that underpin its targeted advertising system, for the first time including personal information based on activities that did not occur within the boundaries of its social network.

While Facebook has long maintained internal profiles of users based on the comments they make and the posts that they “like” within its social network, the company will now flesh out those profiles with information based on some of the external websites and mobile apps its members use, a move that could further inflame concerns about how it treats personal privacy.

The enhanced profiles will allow marketers to deliver more relevant ads, Facebook said in a blog post announcing the change on Thursday. If a Facebook user researches a new television on an external website or inside of a mobile app, their profile might now indicate an interest in televisions and in electronics, making it easier for advertisers pitching electronic devices to reach that user on Facebook.
Facebook already has access to much of this information through tools that it uses to measure the performance of its ads as well as through “plug-ins” that integrate Facebook features on third-party websites, but the company has not until now incorporated the data into its users’ ad targeting profiles.To quell potential privacy concerns, Facebook will for the first time give users the ability to review and edit their internal advertising profiles. By clicking on a button alongside Facebook ads, a user can see all the “interests” on their record, remove unwanted categories and add any desired categories.

Facebook said it will also provide a link to an industry website that will allow users to not have their activities on websites tracked, as well as a link to the appropriate controls within their smartphones to eliminate mobile app tracking.The new ad capabilities come as Facebook strives to ramp up its advertising revenue amid competition from Google while addressing persistent concerns about personal privacy on the world’s No.1 social network.


In April, chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg announced new features that lets users limit how much personal information they share with third-party mobile apps.
Facebook, Google and other online companies have faced increasing scrutiny and enforcement from privacy regulators as consumers entrust ever-increasing amounts of information about their personal lives to web services.

In 2012, Facebook settled privacy charges with the US Federal Trade Commission that it had deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended. Under the settlement, Facebook is required to get user consent for certain changes to its privacy settings and is subject to 20 years of independent audits.

Microsoft Corp expects to have its new Windows 10 operating system on the market by autumn 2015, slightly later than previous comments had suggested.

Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner told Japanese news service Nikkei on Wednesday that the new system would be released "early next fall."

Microsoft has not publicly set a firm timetable for the release of Windows 10, but only last week suggested the possibility of an earlier release.

"By next late summer and early fall we'll be able to bring out this particular OS (operating system). That's the current plan of record," Turner told the Credit Suisse Technology Conference last Thursday.

An autumn release would put Windows 10 on track for launch three years after Windows 8, which got a mixed reception as it confused many traditional PC users with a design more suited to tablets.

Microsoft unveiled the name Windows 10 in late September, saying the jump in numbers from 8 to 10 marked a leap as it looks to unify the way people work on tablets, phones and traditional computers.

An early test version of Windows 10 - which blends the traditional look and much-loved start menu with newer features - has been available for download from Microsoft's website for more than two months.

Windows is still a core part of Microsoft's business and dominates the desktop computing market with 1.5 billion users. But the growth of smartphones and tablets means Windows now runs on only about 14 percent of computing devices worldwide, according to tech research firm Gartner.

Snowden Exposes MonsterMind, NSA Program Fighting Back Against Cyber Attacks Without Human Input
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Edward Snowden is not done talking about the NSA and the way the intelligence agency oversteps its boundaries and plays a control game that can have dire consequences.

In a special interview for WIRED magazine, the whistleblower reveals that the NSA has developed a scary project called “MonsterMind” which can respond to cyberattacks from other countries without agents even intervening in any way.

The system works by automating the process of hunting for the beginning of a foreign cyberattacks. The NSA’s software is always on the lookout for traffic patterns indicating known or suspected attacks, and when one is detected, MonsterMind blocks it from entering the country.

While this type of security system isn’t exactly new, NSA’s tool also has the ability to fight back against the attack, without any human getting involved in the process, which is, of course, the tricky part.

The project is great from the point of view of national security, but Snowden points out that there is a huge risk of causing some international friction for no good reason, effectively giving birth to yet another set of diplomatic issues for the United States.



And that’s because this type of attacks can be spoofed. “You could have someone sitting in China, for example, making it appear that one of these attacks is originating in Russia. And then we end up shooting back at a Russian hospital. What happens next,” Snowden asks.

What’s more, the whistleblower views MonsterMind as the ultimate threat to privacy because in order for the NSA to fight against threats, it first needs to get access to all private communications coming in from overseas to people in the United States.

“The argument is that the only way we can identify these malicious traffic flows and respond to them is if we’re analyzing all traffic flows. And if we’re analyzing all traffic flows, that means we have to be intercepting all traffic flows. That means violating the Fourth Amendment, seizing private communications without a warrant, without probable cause or even a suspicion of wrongdoing. For everyone, all the time,” Snowden says, painting the scary picture where privacy means nothing to the NSA.

Even though this revelation is perfectly new and MonsterMind has never been discussed before, the news of NSA’s way of sacrificing citizens’ privacy whether there was a real threat or not is not at all surprising, at least not after more than a year of revelations.

According to TOI (Times of India) Cyber security has alerted about the infectious Trojan virus which attacks Android-based smart phone users. This virus is named as “AndroidSmssend” and it can acquire as many as four aliases to hoodwink the user and perpetrate its destructive activities on a personal Android enabled phone.

Android/SmsSend is a premium service abuser family malware that arrives bundled with legitimate Android applications and infects Android based smartphones.

“Once infected, it sends text messages (typically with a link to itself or a different threat) to a specific number, typically to numbers on the contact list and is also capable to send SMS to premium rate numbers,” the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) said in its latest advisory to Android phone users in the country.

The virus is so notorious, the agency said, that it “steals contacts and pictures, tracks the location, steals passwords, illegally accesses text messages, crashes a complete system, steals personal banking information when logged in, installs other sort of spyware and disables firewall and anti-virus program to defend itself.”


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The agency has suggested some counter-measures in this regard.
“Do not download and install applications from untrusted sources, install applications downloaded from reputed application market only, run a full system scan on device with mobile security solution or mobile anti-virus solution, check for the permissions required by an application before installing, exercise caution while visiting trusted/untrusted sites for clicking links, install Android updates and patches and use device encryption or encrypting external SD card feature available with most of the android OS (operating system),” it said.
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And also, avoid using unsecured, unknown Wi-Fi networks and make a practice of taking regular backup of the Android device, the advisory said.