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Nokia: 10 interesting facts about the phone maker Nokia - one the world's most trusted and well-known mobile phone brand, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corporation, to sell its devices and services business, including its entry-level Asha brand and mapping services. ALSO READ:  Microsoft to acquire Nokia's handset business for $7.2 bn Here are 10 interesting facts about one of the world's most loved phone brand: 1.  Today, well known for its phones, Nokia orginally started off as a paper production company in 1865 in Finland. The company was established by mining engineer Fredrik Idestam on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids in the town of Tampere. In 1868, Idestam built a second mill near the town of Nokia.This mill was then transformed into a share company, in 1871 by Idestam, with the help of his close friend Leo Mechelin. They renamed it the Nokia Company. 2.  The nam...

The internet you see today is expanding at a great pace. It is expanding so fast that you can’t even imagine. Since the dawn of Internet, the number of websites has gone up drastically and so has the amount of data stored on the web. Recent estimates and data released by Google have revealed some very shocking facts about the internet. You don’t need to search the Internet for it, as we are sharing with you here. This post features a compiled list of extra data and facts from various sources too. Here is a very insightful post about how the internet was first started and what its current state is. Facts About The Internet . According to Google, the internet consisted of 5 Million Terabytes of Data way back in 2010. Save Pin — The most surprising fact is that Google itself said that they had indexed just 0.004% of all the content present on the internet. As of September 4/2015, the number of pages that exist on the web is 45+ Billion pages. That’s huge! 2. As of S...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Overview Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a different end user. Flaws that allow these attacks to succeed are quite widespread and occur anywhere a web application uses input from a user within the output it generates without validating or encoding it. An attacker can use XSS to send a malicious script to an unsuspecting user. The end user’s browser has no way to know that the script should not be trusted, and will execute the script. Because it thinks the script came from a trusted source, the malicious script can access any cookies, session tokens, or other sensitive information retained by the browser and used with that site. These scripts can even rewrite the content of the HTML page. For more details on the...

Kevin Poulsen  American former black-hat hacker Kevin Lee Poulsen  (born November 30, 1965) is an American former  black-hat  hacker and a contributing editor at  The Daily Beast . Biography [ edit ] He was born in  Pasadena ,  California , on November 30, 1965. [1] Black-hat hacking [ edit ] On June 1, 1990, he took over all of the telephone lines for  Los Angeles   radio  station  KIIS-FM , guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller and win the prize of a  Porsche 944 S2 . [2] [3] [4] When the  Federal Bureau of Investigation  started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. When he was featured on NBC's  Unsolved Mysteries , the show's  1-800 telephone lines mysteriously crashed. [2] [5] He was arrested, sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary, as well as banned from using computers or the internet for 3 years after his release. He was the first American to ...