XIAOMI MI-3 – how to hard reset my phone

Hard Reset XIAOMI MI-3

At the very beginning hold down the Power button to switch off the device.
Afterwards press and hold the Volume Up + Power button for a couple of seconds.
When the Mi Logo appears on your screen release only the Power key.
Keep holding the Volume Up key until the Recovery Mode appears.
In this step select English using Volume keys to browse and Power rocker to select.
Then select “wipe data/factory reset” by using Volume Down to scroll and Power button to confirm.
Select “Yes–delete all user data“. Use Volume Down button to scroll and Power key to select.
To restart the device, select “reboot system now“.
Success! The hard reset operation has just been performed.

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WARNING !
Hard Reset will erase all of your data
All described operations you are doing at your own risk.

This Facebook Hack Allows You to Track Your Friends On Map

thehackernews.com – by Mohit Kumar

Remember the magical Marauder’s Map from the Harry Potter books that reveal the whereabouts of characters as they roam classrooms and the halls of Hogwarts school?

A student developer from Cambridge has created a Chrome extension that works similar and also named it Marauder’s Map.The extension that allows you to watch every footstep of your Facebook friends by grabbing location data from Facebook Messenger and rapidly plotting your friends’ locations on a map.

We all are aware that Facebook shares our location data with our friends, however, what we probably aren’t aware of the accuracy of that data and easiness of extracting that data from the messaging service.

LOCATION SHARING AND MAPPING…Facebook usually encourages Messenger users to share their location by enabling location sharing by default when users install iOS or Android app.

Software developer Aran Khanna’s extension dubbed Marauder’s Map, loads the map in Messenger’s Web interface and fetches the data from…(continued)

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IS YOUR ROUTER A SITTING DUCK?

A free Android smartphone tool (Routercheck) analyses the safety of your router.

Is your Wi-Fi router hacker bait? By Preston Gralla
Your router can have plenty of vulnerabilities. Your password may be insecure. You may be using a too-weak encryption standard. It may have open ports through which hackers can slither. Services that may be dangerous, such as Universal Plug and Play (uPnP), may be turned on.

The free Android app Router Check looks for all that and more. It also checks your router make and model to see whether it’s known to have vulnerabilities. It analyzes your DNS configuration to see if it’s reliable and trustworthy. It even checks to see whether hackers have tampered with your router.

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— http://www.itworld.com/article/2926669/network-security/is-your-wi-fi-router-hacker-bait-this-free-tool-lets-you-know.html

Snap-on Seek Thermal Camera

The Seek Thermal camera is an impressive little piece of hardware. According to the company, the Android-compatible version of the camera comes equipped with the following:

• True thermal sensor
• Long wave infrared: 7.2-13 microns
• Vanadium oxide micro bolometer
• 12 μm pixel pitch
• 206 x 156 resolution array, which equals 32k thermal pixels
• Custom chalcogenide lens with 36 degree field of view
• Durable magnesium housing4
• Detection from -40C to +330C

The 12-micron sensor chip and camera components were developed in collaboration with Raytheon, a California-based company that’s specializes in weapons technology and military and commercial-grade electronics.

For more information please refer to their website at http://www.thermal.com/

Double your One Drive Storage

All you have to do is sign up for OneDrive and activate the auto upload feature for your camera roll sometime between now and the end of September, and you will get 30 GB of free OneDrive storage moving forward (15 GB base and 15 GB camera roll bonus).

If you haven’t created the One Drive account please click the link below to do it. The promotion only runs till the end of September so please hurry.

https://onedrive.live.com/?invref=b8d867c5d7299190&invsrc=90