As you are reading this, you're constantly stealing a glance at that Facebook tab, desperately waiting for someone's ping, or a notification. Yes, we've grown to love the social networking site, and for now it is here to stay. And like every other thing out there, after being on it for too long and observing few things intently, you start to see the slight cracks and shortcomings. In this case there are the annoying bunch of friends in your list who happen to top it all. So without further adieu, we bring to you a group a people who make you cringe, annoy you, and make you cuss in variety of languages!

1. The Cat Lover

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Aren't these everywhere? And let's admit it, you too adore those little cretins, but these people have a completely different level of obsession altogether. They share cat images, cat videos, cat facts, cat-everything! And if you're one of those unlucky people to have cat-owners around you, then expect yourself to be flooded with hordes of cat images for your pawing pleasure.

2. The Narcissistic Chicks

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This one's a gray area. This girl is cute/ hot/ adorable or a toxic mixture of it all and she goes around yelling about it at the top of her voice. You are flooded with status updates about her latest spa escapades or with tonnes of heavily instagrammed images. Oh, and then there are those tumultuous times when she starts ranting about how ugly she is followed by a dozen or so comments from her fanboys convincing her she isn't. Mind you, there's no escaping her.

3. Lyric Magnet

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These people are very expressive. Unfortunately, they can't express their thoughts and emotions by themselves, and so they resort to incessantly putting song lyrics as their status updates. Right from their break-up to their true-love to their sense of belonging to them professing their love for cats, they have lyrics up their sleeves. Also, few of them happen to have a horrible taste in music, which reflects in the mortifying lyrics they share once in a while.

4. Gym Freaks

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"200 reps and burning those muscles #HELLYEAH". You are already repelled by reading the caption, but the image that follows scars you forever. A guy pumped to the hilt with steroids showing off bulging balloons strapped to his arms, he is as intimidating as a poodle with rabies. You know you can punch him in the face and make it cry, but you'd rather bury your brain in the backyard and un-friend this muscle-storage device.

5. Philosophical Brainiacs

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There are people who generally update their status updates about mundane and disinteresting things, and then there are few who share their thoughts about the higher things in life. What does our existence mean? Do we have a purpose? Why do we stand on our legs and not on our hands? They ponder into the realm of obscurity, and even further. It is either their highly pseudo-intellectual talking, or maybe just the drugs.

6. Over-enthusiastic Parents

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"OH MY GOD MY BABY TOOK THE VERY FIRST STEP AND SHE CALLED ME DADA AND POOPED ALL OVER THE FLOOR". Curb the enthusiasm. We're glad you are sharing your joy with us, along with other thousand images of the child you've brought into this world. Yes, we are. But please leave the phone aside and go enjoy, cherish, and live in the moment. Make it special for the little ones by holding on to them than holding your smartphone.

7. The Constant Check-In

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Just checked into Dubai International Airport; Just checked into the biggest mall around; Just checked into the swankiest pub in town; just checked into the loo to barf all the excess alcohol. We're glad you are going places. We're glad you are having a good time. But enjoy the moment. Keep your phone aside and go woo the ladies. Also, notifying the world about your location proves costly at some points of time.

8. Hash Tag-holic

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#Summer #beach #Fun #hot #bikini #Goa #sunglasses #sea #beer. We get the point. You're having fun. But we fail to understand the barrage of hash tags that follow the caption. Instagram and twitter makes sense to a certain point. But hash-tagging every word? Is it really necessary in the grander scheme of life? *sniggers*. No, seriously. Cut down on the hashtags, they're an eyesore.

9. The PDA Couples

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I LOVE YOU MY MUNCHKIN
I LOVE YOU TOO BOO TODAY WAS AWESOME OMG I LOVE HOW YOU PECKED MY NECK AND FARTED AT THE SAME TIME SO CUTE
Before you cringe and think of murdering yourself (or them) with a chainsaw, we want you to step back and take a deep breath. They want to profess their unconditional love to the world, and this is their way of doing it. Ignore and un-friend them, or just give them a room.

10. The Weird Name Guy

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ABC IGOTSWAG XYZ. Yes, those are the names of people whom we happen to bump on Facebook these days. Either they are trying a tad too hard at wooing people, or are perpetually stuck in the world of Orkut. Bash some sense into them and tell them to change their name. Their parents coined a beautiful one for them, and let that be their identity. And if you happen to be one of those chosen few to be committing this heinous crime, then do the needful and change your name, pronto!

They say give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime. Albeit in today's world, this same saying read give a man a computer and he'll forget about hunger, give him a high-speed internet connection and he'll forget about the world. Internet happens to cater to our every whims and fancy that we dish out, and more. Thankfully, it also proves to be a great source of education and learning for professionals and hobbyists alike. Some aspects do come with a hefty price tag, but the rest of the internet is all game to offer free lessons to the common layman like you and me. What are they? Let's have a look!

1. New Language

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Let's face it, learning new languages is an expensive and daunting task, and most of the people you know either chicken out, or barely make it through the gruelling ordeal. Thankfully, the internet offers various sites that offer free lessons in learning the basics and mastering the language of your desire. Most of these lessons are accompanied by video tutorials to enhance the learning experience. And the plus point? You can always rewind and give yourself a warm-up before taking it to the next level.

2. Computer Programming

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If you have been an engineering student, then you were very well accustomed to shelling out a bomb to purchase text books for your college. Thankfully, in today's day and age, you can find all the right stuff you need at all the right places over the internet. Computer programming, for instance, needs a sharp mind who can construct anything out of thin air with the help of few simple inanimate letters and numbers. And, if you are one of those very few who want to hone this skill, you can always resort to online computer programming sites and forums for some help. The sites teach you the way to do it, while the forums help you in polishing your skills and answering all your doubts, if any.

3. Self Defence

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We all have been bullied by our elder brothers and have been the punching bags for few. Couple that with our desire to always throw in few kicks and put those muscles to good use, but you just don't seem to have the time and dedication needed to go get one of those fancy black belts. Fret not, for the internet is full of self defence tactics and tutorials. One swift search on YouTube and you will get all the right ways to disarm a knife-wielding robber to incapacitate the perverted drunk guy in the bar. You can practice all of these in the confines of your bedroom and take one more step towards cementing your dream of becoming a hero!

4. Cooking

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We have all found ourselves in situation where our daily meal comprises of noodles and coffee and some more noodles. We voluntarily decide to stay alone and undergo the self-inflicted torture of eating burnt or highly toxic food. Stress and procrastination always seem to take over and we skip out on our plans to make a hearty meal. Fortunately, there are various sites out there that will teach you how to prepare a downright scrumptious dish in a jiffy. The tutorials are simple and informative, and you can prepare the meal while watching the tutorial. It is as good as having a personalized chef teaching you in your own kitchen! So leave the sunny side ups for the rookies and turn the heat on in the kitchen!

5. Any Form Of Art

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We all are aspiring photographers, painters, guitarists, and tonnes of other avatars that we always dream to be. Unfortunately, studying them professionally is time consuming, and the eventual payoff is barely monetary. Don't we all learn these for personal satisfaction anyways? Keeping that in mind, the net offers an array of tutorials for your favourite hobby. Become a pro by getting better at your own hobby or pick a new one! Have an old guitar lying around gathering dust? Time to take it in your own hands and dish out those tunes you always wanted to. Internet is the place to be if you want a quick-fix to your artsy side, and it never disappoints!

Grand Theft Auto is one game series that can play endlessly for hours; leaving the game aside, putting in all the cheat-codes, and going on a crazy killing spree to paint the town red. None of the other games are capable of recreating the magic that GTA encapsulates. Fortunately for us, Rockstar games are about to bless us with GTA 5, the next instalment in the game series that take this to the next level. What makes the GTA 5 so awesome? We have all the right reasons!

1. 127 Square Kilometre Of World To Play

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Imagine having a city bigger than a metropolis at your disposal. Ample of vehicles to blow and people to run over! GTA 5 covers more than 127 square kilometre worth of space, so if you happen to get bored of your mission or want to go for a short sight-seeing tour, grab the nearest vehicle and cruise around to check out the beautiful world around you.

2. Fully Unlocked City

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We remember the blood raging through our veins when we realized we could not step beyond a certain limit unless we finish a specific set of missions and unlocking that part of it. Thankfully, you don't have to break your keyboard in frustration as GTA 5 comes with a completely unlocked world from the word go. Keeping that in mind, we bet nobody will bother to play any mission for a good week before going

3. Under The Sea Or Over The Sky

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Playing Vice City and driving into the sea only to find yourself drowning in a funny fashion was classy. San Andreas came with the ability to swim. GTA 5 took things to a whole new level altogether. This time around, you can take a submarine and swim with the sharks, explore the underwater world, solve missions related to them. And if you get bored by that, you can always go for some skydiving, or ride in your own chartered plane!

4. Multiple Character Control

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GTA Vice City had you filling the shoes of Tommy Vercetti, San Andreas had Carl 'CJ' Johnson. Things are a little bit different this time around though. You are meant to control not one, but three characters in the game. Meaning you have three different storylines to play, and they all intertwine on a regular basis so you can have all the three characters doing some teamwork and executing a rather intricate mission. Sounds like fun? It gets better!

5. Hire Men For Missions

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Looting banks or killing a bunch of people was always a nuisance, especially when there are thirty people showering bullets at you. In GTA 5, you can ease that stress off your back by hiring few local goons for a mission and give them their share of the loot or bounty. Yes, now you can have your own cutesy little army marching around on your beats! We also know you guys would be smart enough to kill them at the end of the mission so as to have all the loot money!

6. More Weapons, More Cars

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Vice city got pretty monotonous after a while, especially with the limited number of weapons and cars at our disposal. This led us to use cheat codes and spawn army tanks and other crazy weapons for fun. GTA 5 will never let you do that, for a city spanning 127 square kilometres; you are pampered with tonnes of cars, weapons and armaments. What more? You can modify your car like every other racing game and look cool while you're at it! Did we say you can modify your weapons? Yes, that too is possible.

7. Awesome Side-Games and Mini Games

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Mini games are always a delight to play. They're fast-paced, unique, and give you a much-needed break from the serious missions that need undivided attention. GTA 5 offers them by the dozen. The game is riddled with many hidden mini games and various side-games and missions that will allow you to have some fun and even earn a quick-buck while you're at it.

8. Learn Management

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Stop groaning. This isn't one of those grimy management lessons you'll get, but a very exciting one. Want to dabble in the stock market and buy some shares? Sure. Maybe invest in few properties across the city? Why not! Want a garage full of the swankiest rides you could get your hands on? By all means! GTA 5 allows you to manage all this with thorough efficiency while going around killing people and looting banks. Need any more explaining?

9. Live A Virtual Life

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We have always wished for a funky hairdo or a cool tattoo to flaunt, but never had the guts to go around doing it. Thankfully, GTA 5 takes care of that, as you can completely customize your online avatar to perfection and fidget with it as much as you want. Own the dream house you always wanted, or do the thing you thought was cool. You have the liberty to do it all, so get down to action and go wild!

10. Online Is Where The Fun Is

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This is where you get to see the game's true colours. GTA 5 is all about online gaming. Other than having a cool customisable avatar at your disposal, you can co-operate with other players in a highly interactive world and go around completing missions together, chilling, and have a real good time. Car races are fun, so is killing few civilians with your friends, so let the true trolling fun begin!

You might think avocados, bananas, honey and coconut as the perfect ingredients for a fabulous recipe? Well, what if we tell you they are actually used to make a natural hair conditioner. Our hair needs good conditioning after a shampoo. Thankfully, you don't always need a conditioner in a packaged bottle to give your hair some much needed hydration.  There are some foods which deep condition and ease the dryness in the hair. Read on to find more about them!

1) Bananas

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Go bananas on this amazing and effective hair conditioner that will leave your hair extra soft and manageable. With the addition of honey, glycerin and olive oil, all of which are known to penetrate the hair and provide moisturizing benefits, this banana mask is ideal for those who are looking to soften their hair. Blend all the ingredients thoroughly making sure no lumps or banana bits remain. Apply to hair and let it sit for 30-45 minutes under a shower cap. Detangle, rinse thoroughly with a mild shampoo, and before you know your hair will be thoroughly conditioned.

2) Honey

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Honey is classified as an emollient, simply meaning that it is a naturally good conditioner and moisturizer because of its ability to attract and retain water molecules. This is a desirable effect and leaves hair looking shinier and feeling softer. It is also full of enriching vitamins and minerals. Combine a quarter-size drop of honey with an equal amount of your regular conditioner. Rub the two together and use your hands to evenly disperse the honey and conditioner throughout your hair. Massage it into your scalp and work from your roots to the tip of your hair. Let it sit for 30 minutes before showering.

3) Avocados

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It is widely known that avocados are perhaps the second best thing happened to our hair, the first one being coconut oil. Mix them with coconut milk and olive oil, and you get a perfect hair conditioner. Take one avocado and mash it into a paste. Start adding coconut milk and olive oil and stir it, make sure the paste is relative thick, having the consistency of a packaged hair conditioner. Mix it all thoroughly and pour into glass bottle. Store in the fridge and use every time you wash your hair

4) Coconut Oil

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This conditioner is ideal for people whose hair needs a bit of strengthening and rightly so; after all we are talking about coconut oil that has been conditioning our hair from time immemorial. The key is the oil which binds to the hair and prevents keratin loss. Honey is added alongside for moisture retention. Mix coconut oil and honey in a small cup and place the cup in a large bowl of hot water.  Allow the cup to sit in the water for a few minutes until the mixture is warm.  Pour the mixture onto freshly washed but towel blotted hair.  Let it sit for 20 minutes and then rinse out.

5) Vinegar Rinse

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Vinegar, mostly apple cider, helps clean the scalp and balance the pH level simultaneously, which is why it makes a good hair conditioner. All you've got to do is combine 2 cups of water with vinegar and apply this mixture to your scalp for 20-30 minutes. While the mixture is left on the hair, run your finger through your hair 4-5 times. Rinse it off with cold water. This conditioner helps in removing any chemical, shampoo or conditioner that isn't washed of properly besides conditioning your hair.

This isn't new, but i think it's worth sharing, a Black-hat sharing his views on how secure we are, and what our anti-viruses are capable of..
Quite scary and definitely gave me chills...
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Some excerpts that scared me:

Q: And how much do you think you made last year?

A: Off the top of my head? Around about 400-500k. Last year was kind of ****. People became wiser, patches became more frequent. This year we have 3/4 of that amount already.

Q: How easy is it for you to compromise a website and take control over it?

A: For beginners you can simply Google inurl:money.php?id= — go ahead try it. But most of them will be cancelled or dried up. So, now you target bigger websites. I like to watch the news; especially the financial side of it. Say if a target just started up and it suddenly sky rocketed in online sales that’ll become a target. Most of these websites have admins behind them who have no practical experience of being the bad guy and how the bad guys think. This leaves them hugely vulnerable. They patch SQL but choose a DNS that is vulnerable to DNS cache poisoning. You can break in and be gone within an hour.


Q: What is your favorite kind of website to compromise? Or are your hack attempts entirely untargeted? What are the easiest sites to monetize?

A: Most of the time un-targeted but once a company (which I won’t name) pissed me off for not giving me discount in a sale so we leaked every single credit card number online. One type of company I love to target is Internet security, i.e. anti virus companies.

There is nothing better than a clothing store at the summer sales (except porn websites). These are in my personal opinion the easiest and most successful targets to breach. I’ll talk about clothes stores first. Clothing websites are SO easy because of two main types of attacks.

1. The admins never ever have two-step authentication. I don’t know why, but I have never seen one admin have it (and I’ve done it thousands of times). 2. The ‘admin’ usually works there behind the tills or in the offices. They have no clue what they’re doing: they just employ someone to make the website then they run it. They never ever have HTTPS, [so they have] huge SQLi vulnerabilities (e.g.. inurlroduct.php?id=). Once you have the SQLi vulnerability you can go two routes or both. Route one: steal the credit card info and leave. Route two: deface the website, keep the original HTML code but install an iframe that redirects to a drive by download of a banking Trojan.

Now to discuss my personal favourite: porn sites. One reason why this is so easy: The admins don’t check to see what the adverts redirect to. Upload an ad of a well-endowed girl typing on Facebook, someone clicks, it does a drive by download again. But this is where it’s different: if you want extra details (for extortion if they’re a business man) you can use SET to get the actual Facebook details which, again, can be used in social engineering.

Q: What is your favorite/most effective exploit against websites and why?

A: If it’s a 0-day, that obviously ranks at the top. But below that is XSS. It’s really well known but no one patches it. I suppose DDoS isn’t really classed as an exploit but that can bring in monthly ‘rent’ for our ‘protection’. But over all 0-days are the greatest exploits.

Q: Is there something that websites do to try to defend themselves from guys like you that they always get wrong?

A: I could re-write Shakespeare here. I’ll pick three things.

1. Hire stupid admins who have never been a bad guy, just fed with a silver spoon all their lives and went to Uni on mummy and daddies money. If I were the CEO of a company I’d much rather employ someone who has a criminal record for hacking than a Uni graduate any day of the week. The guy who has the criminal record has gained the knowledge of how a bad guy would go about getting in. and not just what a text book says.

2. They allow untrained, young, dumb, Saturday workers to operate the phones.

3. Companies don’t purchase DDoS protection. Cloudflare for example offers incredibly strong DDoS protection for 200 dollars a month (also its harder to jack a cloudflare domain). If I extort you for 200-1000 dollars for 1 day why not make yourself immune for the minimal fee?

Q: Which types of browsers tend to be the most vulnerable? Why do you think that is?

A: if you asked me this a few years ago I’d've said almost 100% was IE. That is still hugely vulnerable but now people have taken to the better, faster browsers such as Chrome and Firefox. IE still dominates the market at about 52% but Chrome is the majority of the rest. I think IE is dominating the market because the vast majority of people feel comfortable with it. Unless you actually read into vulnerabilities etc., you don’t know how dangerous IE is, so why do you need to change? Chrome already forced it to be better. One thing that did hugely affect bot infection rates was the mass removal of Java. When news of a java 0-day gets published people panic (rightly so) and un-install it or patch but as we all know java never stays secure for long. (So firefox is still most secure of the three.. ).

Sony Xperia Z Ultra – One Phone To Rule Them All?

Smartphone companies the world over are competing on the grounds of thickness (or thinness), speed, weight, reach and technological advancement. With Samsung, Apple, and HTC being at the top of their game, Sony has been trying to revive its long-lost image of being the torchbearer of technology. Fortunately, it seems the hard work is finally paying off as it's got the perfect gadget that'll make its competitors run for their money, and to their labs for some highly creative brainstorming. Yes, the Xperia Z Ultra is that good. But, what makes it worth your every penny? Let's give you a lowdown right now.

The Wafer

Wafer? Weren't we talking about a smartphone? Same difference in this case. The Z Ultra is thin, astonishingly thin. At 6.5 mm, the Ultra is bound to make its competitors break into a sweat. Technically a phablet, all thanks to its 6.4-inch screen, the Ultra manages to dish out some breathtaking colours and image quality, something that Sony has perfected over the years. With a length of 17.9 cm and width of 9.2 cm, the Ultra is taller than a Kindle Paperwhite and almost at par with a regular 7-inch tablet. Weighing at 212 gm, the Ultra is a pretty hefty wafer, but the finesse and the built-quality offered definitely make this a metal wafer that will crumble your teeth with ease.

The Power-Packed Wafer

Every smartphone and phablet out there is packed to the brim with the latest in processing and speed. The Ultra is no different. With 2 GB of RAM and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor that clocks 2.2 GHz, this baby is buttery smooth to run, and can easily take on any given game of today. With hordes of connectivity options and 3050 mAh, expect the wafer to run for a day of normal usage. Heavy-duty gamers and multi-taskers might want to keep a charger handy though. An 8 megapixel camera made by Sony can never disappoint, and they stand true to their word.

Why We Like The Wafer

The wafer is thin, it looks classy, and you can decapitate that annoying guy on the train with one swift move. The controls are nifty, and Sony seems to be the only one with sensibility to keep the micro-SD slot so easily accessible. It offers ample of power for you to surf, multitask, watch videos and play games. Also, did we mention the wafer is waterproof and dustproof? Time to do some of those underwater selfies you always desired! The Ultra doubles up as a tablet and eliminates the need to have a tablet or any other multimedia device for your entertainment, and besides, isn't bigger always better? Sony has got few things right.

Why The Wafer Might Be An Overkill

Thin is in, so is being big. But, being outrageously big is a tad too much. The 6.4-inch screen for a smartphone might prove to be a deal-breaker for few, especially the older market who want their ergonomics intact and are apprehensive of sacrificing their pocket space for an inch more of entertainment. Using the Ultra with a single hand is a daunting task, and you might be forced to use the landscape mode more often than you think. The 3050 mAh might sound a lot, but running a phablet for a day with a high-powered processor on a constant basis might be an unpleasant task. You might end up sacrificing speed, brightness or multitasking to achieve a day's worth of battery. Sony could have thrown in a millimetre more and given us some more battery juice.

Should We Eat It?

Yes! Sony has definitely come out with a masterpiece equipped with no-nonsense performance and looks. The Ultra has definitely set standards for its competitors and the smartphone market has become a far more exciting battleground than ever before. There are few things left to be desired, but the Z Ultra is definitely a gadget to own for the fun-filled youth in you who wants a full-blown entertaining extravaganza at their fingertips.