Deepika Padukone to undergo plastic surgery to look like her Kochadaiiyaan avatar

Deepika Padukone to undergo plastic surgery to look like her Kochadaiiyaan avatar

Friday, July 4, 2014 / No Comments

After many fans and critics complained that Deepika Padukone was not looking like herself in her animated avatar in the recently released motion capture 3D animated movie Kochadaiiyaan, the Bollywood actress has decided to undergo plastic surgery to address this critical issue.
“This is a Rajinikanth movie and thus it deserves being a superhit,” Deepika’s personal assistant told Faking News, “That’s why she is making sure that the movie is perfect and appreciated by everyone.”

Deepika’s new look

Trade experts say that Deepika will re-launch herself with her new face this Friday, which should make her fans flock to theaters to see her new face.
“No, she will not come out on her balcony and show her new face while waving at fans,” her PA confirmed, “What’s the point of assembling a crowd outside her house when the same face can be seen on the screens?”
While many fans of Deepika are requesting her to reconsider this decision as they liked her current face more than the animated one in Kochadaiiyaan, fans of Rajinikanth believe that this is a very small step that she could have done to help Thalaiva.
It’s not yet clear when and where will this plastic surgery take place, but some experts believe that this could well be a stunt to promote the movie that has not opened to rave reviews, which is usually the case with a Rajinikanth movie.
“Why is she not coming out in public after surgery, and instead asking people to go to multiplexes?” wondered Poonam Pandey, who also expressed her disgust at such publicity stunts.
But some people think that Deepika is doing it to shed the tag of ‘panauti’ (bad omen) that she has acquired over time.
“She doesn’t want to be seen as someone who caused a Rajinikanth movie to flop!” disclosed a person close to Deepika, “She took this decision after getting WhatsApp forwards claiming that Tiger Shroff in Heropanti was looking more beautiful than Deepika Padukone in Kochadaiiyaan.”

Having lost faith in Delhi Police, AAP leaders to turn into Shahenshah to protect Delhi

Having lost faith in Delhi Police, AAP leaders to turn into Shahenshah to protect Delhi

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After blaming Delhi police for deteriorating law and order situation in Delhi, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party has decided to take things in their own hands. Inspired by the Bollywood film Shahenshah, AAP leaders will roam the streets of Delhi at night, fighting crime.

AAP ka Shahenshah

Yesterday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had called Delhi police a compromised force. He had also issued them a warning to take actions against errant officers. It seems AAP doesn’t want to wait for police to change and have decided to change themselves.
Bringing up this topic during his 7^th press conference for the day, Arvind Kejriwal said, “Aam Aadmi is ruling Delhi now so even the safety of Delhi has to be taken care of by Aam Aadmi. Some of our leaders will dress up like Amitabh Bachchan in the film Shahenshah and patrol the streets of Delhi. Only difference will be, our Shahenshahs will wear Aam Aadmi caps and will be holding a broom instead of a rope that Amit Ji had.”
“Shahenshah wasn’t the only idea put forward in our meeting, some had suggested Batman as well but that was turned down due to several issues. Batman is too posh for an Aam Aadmi, our cap won’t fit on top of his costume and we weren’t sure whether auto drivers on the roads will give side to Batmobiles. Our Batman will be stuck in traffic all the time”, Mr Kejriwal added.
As per sources, rebel MLA Vinod Kumar Binny will be made the chief Shahenshah to calm him down after his recent outbursts. When we contacted Mr. Binny, he seemed very excited about the project. He said,”This is a huge responsibility and I look forward to making Delhi safer for the residents. I have been preparing hard for this task and practicing my dialogues, “Rishte me toh hum tumhare AAP hote hain, naam hai Shahenshah.”
Delhi police has refused to comment on it officially. An ACP on the condition of anonymity told us, “Let them do whatever they want as long as they don’t interrupt our drinking sessions late at night.”

Unable to get an accommodation in Mumbai, man tries to commit crimes to get into Arthur Road jail

Unable to get an accommodation in Mumbai, man tries to commit crimes to get into Arthur Road jail

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A 24-year-old educated man yesterday created huge commotion when he was let off after being caught picking pocket outside Mumbai Police commissioner’s residence in Bandra.
Visibly happy on being caught, he later lost his cool and created ruckus when the policeman, and the man whose pocket he picked, decided to let him off with just a warning.
Beghar Arora, originally from Rohtak, came to Mumbai a year back in search of a job in the city, but soon found himself busy searching for a home. Almost every accommodation that he was shown by property agents turned out to be beyond his budget. Even the relative with whom he was temporarily put up, gave him notice to vacate the drying area next to kitchen that he was occupying.

Beghar’s imagination of life inside Arthur Road Jail.

Frustrated with the failure to find a place even after 12 months in the city, Beghar decided to commit crimes that would help him get a suite in the Arthur road jail, which he felt was the best possible NPG (non-paying guest) accommodation a man could get in the city.
The police authorities confirm that Beghar had tried to give himself in on several occasions earlier, but failed. First he claimed responsibilities for all the bomb blasts that have happened in India since independence, but was thrown out on Home Minsiter Sushil Kumar Shinde’s command. Shinde also called him yeda.
“Once he even came up dressed as Dawood Ibrahim to our police station, but was later caught and thrown out again when he started over-acting like Sonu Sood of Shootout at Wadala,” confirmed sub-inspector of Antop-hill police station.
He then realized that petty criminals in India are often considered more dangerous and treated more savagely than hardened criminals, and accordingly changed his modus operandi and decided to pick pockets right outside commissioner’s home to get noticed and caught easily.
“I have heard a lot about how people like Abu Salem lead luxurious life in the jail. I am pretty sure he became a criminal only to survive in Mumbai and lead a respectable life of a convict inside a jail rather than struggle outside,” Beghar told Faking News while planning his next crime.
“And one can always spend his night at a jail and take parole in the morning to go out for work,” Beghar further revealed the plan he had in mind.
Meanwhile Mumbai Police has requested media not to show stories of hospitality that some high profile criminals get in the jails which can lead to increase in such cases.

WhatsApp introduces Rahul Gandhi’s mysterious grin as a smiley

WhatsApp introduces Rahul Gandhi’s mysterious grin as a smiley

Thursday, July 3, 2014 / No Comments

After Rahul Gandhi introduced a new set of emotion by displaying a mysterious smile on the election results day, WhatsApp has decided to capture that emotion and release it as a smiley.
This comes a couple of years after Rahul Gandhi was made an icon by Microsoft.
To make sure that the Rahul smiley/emoji is used in proper situations while chatting, the mobile messenger has released a set of instructions to its users. Faking News has accessed them exclusively for our readers:

The public note announcing and explaining the latest emoticon

A sample conversation that can end with the smiley

All is not within the family? No problem, Rahul Gandhi’s smiley can make it appear better.

With Rahul Gandhi smiley, you can break the worst of the news without much trouble.

Google Gives Refund to Thousands of Buyers Who Bought Bogus Android AntiVirus App

Google Gives Refund to Thousands of Buyers Who Bought Bogus Android AntiVirus App

Sunday, June 29, 2014 / No Comments

About a week back we reported about a popular paid Antivirus application on the Google Play Store which was actually a scam, dubbed as ‘Virus Shield’.

This First paid fake app managed to become one of the most popular anti-virus app in less than a week, and apparently more than 10,000 Smartphones users purchased it in $3.99 from Google Play Store and hence scammed more than $40,000.

The Virus Shield Android App claimed to protect users’ personal information from harmful viruses, malware and spyware, but in actual app doesn't scan anything and was removed from the store once the fraud had been uncovered.

If you were one that had downloaded the Virus Shield Antivirus app, then don't worry, just check your email inbox, because Google cares about you and reaching out all those affected android users who purchased the app, in order to refund their money in full.

 REFUND WITH $5 BONUS CREDIT
According to Android Police, Google has decided to refund $3.99 back to users and apart from the full refund, to maintain its reputation among users, Google offering an extra $5 Google Play Store credit to each, which can be used to purchase digital content on Google Play store such as apps, games, books, music and movies.

“Google Play’s policies strictly prohibit false claims like these, and in light of this, we’re refunding you for your “Virus Shield” purchase. You should see funds returned to your account within the next 14 days. Additionally, we'd like to offer you $5 promotional credit1, which can be used to purchase digital content on Google Play such as apps, games, books, music and movies.” Google Play Support said.

The developer of Virus Shield app approached The Guardian newspaper to claims that the app without the virus protection was uploaded to the Play Store by mistake and he removed the app from the Play Store himself before his developer account was suspended.

"One of our developers simply made a foolish mistake. The app version that was decompiled by AndroidPolice was not intended to be released. It was an early placeholder that our ui designer created. There was a mix-up between the version that contained the antivirus code for our app." app developer Jesse Carter of Deviant Solutions said.

GOOGLE APOLOGY LETTER

Hello,

We're reaching out to you because you recently purchased the “Virus Shield” app on Google Play. This app made the false claim that it provided one-click virus protection; in reality, it did not.

Google Play’s policies strictly prohibit false claims like these, and in light of this, we’re refunding you for your “Virus Shield” purchase. You should see funds returned to your account within the next 14 days.

Additionally we'd like to offer you $5 promotional credit1, which can be used to purchase digital content on Google Play such as apps, games, books, music and movies.

Your credit redemption code is XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Click or tap here to redeem. For help redeeming, please visit our Help Center.

We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused; rest assured that we're always working to make Google Play better for our users.

Thank you,

Google Play Support

Google learned from their mistake and promised that such apps will never get top position, even if allowed to be listed in the Play Store.

If you ever suspect any malicious or Fake application at Google Play Store, then scroll down to bottom of the page, and then flag an app as inappropriate.

First Paid Fake Android Antivirus App Downloaded 10,000 times from Google Play Store

First Paid Fake Android Antivirus App Downloaded 10,000 times from Google Play Store

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Well, we all are very conscious, when it comes to the security of our personal information, security of our financial data and security of everything related to us. In the world of Smart devices where our Smartphones knows more than we know ourselves.

To keep our device protected from harmful viruses, malware or spyware, we totally depend on various security products such as antivirus, firewall and privacy guard apps, that we typically install from some trusted sources, Google Play Store. Most Antivirus apps are available to download for free, but some of them are paid with extra premium features like advance firewall protection, anti theft, App Locker or Cloud Backup etc.

But do you believe that just because you're downloading an application from an official app store and also if its a premium paid version, you're safe from malicious software? Think twice.

PAID, BUT FAKE ANTIVIRUS APP

In Past, Mobile Security Researchers had spotted numerous fake mobile antivirus scanners that were available for free download at Google's Play marketplace, but its the first time when a cyber criminals are offering a fake, but paid Antivirus Solution called ‘Virus Shield’ for your Android device at Google’s play store.

Virus Shield masquerade itself as an antivirus that claims to "protect you and your personal information from harmful viruses, malware, and spyware" and also "Improve the speed of your phone," which it does with just a click. 

Moreover, it claims to have least effect on battery, run in the background, and in addition it also acts as adblock software that will stop those "pesky advertisements," which we deal every day.

MORE THAN $40,000 FRAUD AT GOOGLE PLAY STORE

Virus Shield antivirus app costs $3.99, and has been on the Google Play Store for just over a week and has already been successfully downloaded more than 10,000 times by Smartphones users with a 4.7 star review from 1,700 people, that means total amount received by developer is more than $40,000.

Even 2,607 users had hit the Google "recommend" button, which means that the antivirus app must be doing great to users who look for trusted and efficient antivirus app to secure their devices.

WHAT A SCANNER - VIRUS SHIELD 

Surely it doesn't scan or detect anything. Android Police has discovered that the app only changes a red "X" graphic to a red "check" graphic, that’s it, nothing less or more. 

The virus shield antivirus app is a total scam and it doesn't scan or secure your device, which means thousands of users have been scammed out of their money.

When the creator (email : Jesse_Carter@live.com) tracked down by the investigators, it revealed that the creator was a well known scammer who was also accused and banned from forums for trying to scam people out of various low-valued online game items. 

You can check out the code for yourself from here, as the android police have decompiled the app and mirrored the java code on GitHub.

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF

There is no such way to protect you from these kinds of fraudsters. All you can do is report the Virus Shield via the Play Store app by listing the app’s "flag as inappropriate," then tap "other objection" and write about the app’s fraud to users. Alternatively, you can report it on the web. Users are advised to only download applications from known and trusted publishers.

Google Play Store Update Allows Apps to Silently Gain Control of Your Device

Google Play Store Update Allows Apps to Silently Gain Control of Your Device

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Google just made a huge change to the way application permissions work on Android devices which has left a potential door open to malicious app developers and hackers.

Google narrows down Android's 145 permissions into 13 broad categories and groups app permissions into 'groups of related permissions', likely for Android users to have an easier time dealing with app permissions.

Unfortunately, the new update has introduced a few potential security and privacy issues, as listed below:

• hiding permissions behind the group names
• auto-updating app with no warning for new permissions

According to new update, once a user approves an app’s permissions, he actually approves the whole respective permission groups. For example, if an app want to read your incoming SMS messages, then it requires the “Read SMS messages” permission. But now installing an app, you are actually giving it access to all SMS-related permissions.

 

The app developer can then include additional permissions from ‘SMS-related permissions Group’, in a future update, which will not trigger any warning before installation.

Google explains, “If you have automatic updates enabled, you won't need to review or accept these permissions as long as they are included in a permissions group you already accepted for that app.”

If your Android apps update automatically, then malicious developers can gain access to new dangerous permissions without your knowledge by abusing this mechanism, though a smart user could manually view all permissions in a dropdown before installation, but one out of thousands does that.

For example, as you can see in the above screenshots - I am installing FIFA's android app from Google Play Store and before installation the app is asking for group permissions in left image and actual group permissions are expanded in the right-side image.

Similarly, if you install any app with group permissions to read contacts, later that app can secretly gain permission to add or even change calendar entries too.

Below I have listed some most abused Android app permissions that cyber criminals are exploiting for their personal gain:

• GPS Location and Network-based Location
• Read Phone State and Identity
• Automatically Start at Boot
• Modify/Delete SD Card Contents
• Read/Send SMS Messages
• Read/Modify Contacts

I strongly recommend users to disable automatic updates and verify app permissions manually every time an app wants to update.

 

Hackers lock iPhones remotely and demanding $100 to unlock it

Hackers lock iPhones remotely and demanding $100 to unlock it

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In recent hours, a number of users from Australia had a nightmare as cyber criminals locked their devices and demanding payment of a ransom.

The locked devices show the following message "Device Hacked by Oleg Pliss" and instructs victims to send $100 dollars to lock404@hotmail.com to unlock their devices.

The cyber attack came to light, after one user from Melbourne shared his experience in Apple support forum and asked help to fix the problem.  Following his post, several users have reported of being affected by this attack.

It appears hackers used stolen Apple IDs and passwords to access iCloud account that allowed them to lock victim's devices and display a message.

What you should do? Don't pay the Ransom !
Affected users are advised to contact Apple directly to regain access to their account.  

Once you have access to your account, change the password immediately and enable two step authentication feature for your account.