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This ‘ghost phone’ screen can be seen using only smart glasses

How would you like your smartphone to be read only by you through a set of glasses. If somebody else views it, he/she could see just a blank screen but you can see all the Apps through smart glasses. Is this possible? Yes it is! A Turkish inventor has created a ‘ghost phone’ that can only be seen using smart glasses. In other words, the messages on your smartphone are meant for your eyes only. The smartphone has an altered screen combined with glasses and the display appears to be white to the naked eye with no content.

The thought came to Celal Göger from Diyarbakir, Turkey, when he was going around on crowded public transport in Istanbul, and felt strangers’ eyes looking over his shoulder at business messages on his smartphone. He then decided to create a way to hide iPhone information using a special screen used with glasses.

He came up with the ‘ghost phone’ in just four months, which he wants to name C.COGER I. The smartphone is altered utilizing a chip which makes the screen look white. A second chip in a pair of glasses then interfaces with the smartphone, making the screen noticeable to the wearer.

In spite of growing up in a small village without no electricity, Mr Goger has a technology studio where he invented this way of concealing his screen from others.

Mr Goger said: ‘I think I was born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

‘If I had been born in the UK I think I would have gotten a lot more support to move this project forward and start mass production of my invention.’

‘On the off chance that I had been conceived in the UK I think I would have gotten significantly more backing to advance this anticipate and begin large scale manufacturing of my development.

‘Somebody’s telephone is an exceptionally individual thing and I believe it’s amazingly discourteous when other individuals gaze at it.

‘When I completed my innovation I began educating individuals concerning it however no one trusted me.

‘They thought it must be some sort of enchantment trap until they saw my development which left them totally gobsmacked.

‘In the event that I can get financing I am wanting to take this anticipate advance and introduce an on/off catch on the telephone which implies that the client chooses whether to actuate the capacity.’

No other details have been disclosed about exactly how the device works, and Mr Göger has yet to reply to MailOnline for comment.

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Oculus CEO’s Twitter account hacked, Hacker announces new Oculus CEO through it

An unknown hacker hacked Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe’s Twitter account on Wednesday. The hacker then used the hacked Twitter account to promptly announce a new CEO for the Facebook owned virtual reality company.

The hacker also changed Iribe’s Twitter bio to read, “im not testing ya security im just havin a laugh.”

This is just the latest in a string of tech CEO’s having their Twitter accounts compromised, however this hack doesnt seem to be the work of OurMine which has in the past hacked accounts of Travis Kalanick, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Dick Costolo.

The hacker told Techcrunch’s Lucas Matney that he accessed the password via last month’s MySpace breach. The hacker added that he almost managed to hack into Iribe’s email account if not for two factor authentication enabled by the Oculus CEO.

The hacker also used the hacked Twitter account to send some quirky messages :

The hack was fairly brief. By Thursday morning, the hacker’s tweets had been removed and Iribe’s bio was restored.

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Hackers get access to someone else’s Facebook account by tricking the social networking giant itself

Hackers fool Facebook users through social engineering and phishing to hand over their login credentials but what would you do when Facebook itself is fooled to hand over access to your account to a hacker ? Shocking right?

That’s what happened when a hacker deceived Facebook gained access to someone else’s account. The hacker posing as a user reportedly got in touch with Facebook to seek assistance to access his account, as he was unable to do so. He provided them with a fake ID and requested the tech giant to turn off login approvals. It was no surprise that the hacker was able to get Facebook to grant access to the account.

The victim in question is Aaron Thompson, a 23-year-old Michigan resident, who woke up on June 27 to find himself locked out of his own Facebook account, with the email address and phone numbers that were associated with it had been changed, according to a report by Motherboard. When panicked Thompson checked out his email and figured out what happened. On checking his email, Thompson found was a series of email between Facebook’s customer support and the hacker who had got control of his account.

“Hi. I don’t have anymore access on my mobile phone number. Kindly turn off code generator and login approval from my account. Thanks,” the hacker, posing as Thompson pretended to have lost access to the phone linked to the account, told the tech giant. Facebook’s automated response informed the hacker that if he couldn’t get in by using Code Generator (part of Facebook’s two-factor authentication system) the only other way was to send a photo ID to prove this was really Aaron Thompson. The hacker then sent what looks like a scanned photo of a fake passport.

That scanned image was also forwarded to Thompson’s email account with the response: “Thanks for verifying your identity. You should now be able to log into your account. We’ve also turned off login approvals to help prevent you from getting locked out of your account again in the future.”

According to Thompson, none of the details other than the name in the passport were accurate. Apparently, the fake image was then accepted by Facebook as sufficient proof and got the hacker complete control over Thompson’s Facebook account.

Upon discovering the scam, Thompson attempted to contact Facebook, in efforts to get back control of his account. He informed the tech giant that he was in fact the owner of the account and that previous emails and the passport ID had not been sent by him but the imposter.

“Please look further into this, it will be easy to see the account has been hacked. They sent a fake ID to Facebook’s help team to reset the email, and password,” he wrote.

Thompson, who claimed to have several pages on his Facebook account, which he used for business purposes, was reported feeling “pretty devastated” at having his online identity breached in such a way.

“It’s blatant harassment,” he said.

Thompson also claimed that the hacker allegedly contacted a few of his friends and even his fiancé, who he sent obscene pictures, called her names and even asked for nude pictures. He spent almost an entire day trying to get back control of his account and went to Reddit to explain his frustration.

However, the good news is that Facebook has understood their mistake and gone ahead by securing Thompson’s accounts and pages, and is also working on re-establishing his regular access. A Facebook spokesperson admitted: “Accepting this ID was a mistake that violated our own internal policies and this case is not the norm.”

In the end, this incident only highlights no matter how many security measures you put on your online accounts, it can by fairly simply bypassed by cybercriminals by creating mayhem on innocent victims.

Source: Motherboard

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