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DavidGilbert99 writes:
There has been a significant increase in the amount of malware being spread by a group of highly organised hackers based in Syria, who are using social media, instant messaging apps and YouTube to spread malware, as well as embedding it in website visited by Syrian activists.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
While the Gaza Strip and a small town in Missouri may not look like they'll have anything in common but as a result of police firing tear gas at protestors in Ferguson on Wednesday night, they now at least have one thing in common. As a result of the increased police action, people from Gaza began tweeting people in Ferguson with advice on how to avoid being fired upon and what to do to limit the pain when you are hit.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Finnish security firm F-Secure has seemingly proven that Xiaomi smartphones do in fact upload user data without their permission/knowledge despite the company strongly denying these allegations as late as 30 July.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Israel is under fire in cyber space with DDoS attacks against it increasing 500% in the last month. Research published by Arbor suggests that the powerful Brobot botnet is being used to attack website in Israel and David Gilbert at IBTimes UK suggests it could be linked to Anonymous' on-going #OpSaveGaza campaign.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Google has silently released a very significant update to its Google Now Launcher app. Previously limited to Nexus devices, the app now works with any smartphone or tablet running Android 4.1 or above and allows users to experience the stock Android interface rather than the manufacturer-imposed skin. This is the first step on a major push by Google to wrestle back control of Android from the likes of Samsung, HTC and LG.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Bomb Gaza was a game that challenged players to drop bombs on people and buildings in Gaza. It was only removed from Google's Play Store a week after it was first published. David Gilbert at IBTimes UK looks at how Google's policy of publish first, ask questions later leads to inappropriate content appearing on the platform.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
A smartphone app together with a cheap lens allows you to take a magnified picture of your blood and detect in seconds if you have diseases like cancer and malaria simply by counting your blood cells.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Last week it was claimed that Chinese hackers stole blueprints to Israel's billion-dollar Iron Dome missile defence system. However a former Israeli secret service officer says the companies involved would have known of this threat and set a "honeypot" trap giving the hackers access to what looked like top secret documents, which were in fact completely fake.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
YotaPhone founder Vlad Martynov is not the shy and retiring type. Not only does he think that always-on screens like that found on the YotaPhone will soon be on all gadgets, he is predicting that the smartphone industry as a whole will embrace dual-screens and that within five years all new smartphones will have two screens.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Imagine using chips implanted in accessories like glasses, shoes and belts — or even under your skin — to generate a personal electronic aura. This would be your own personal safe zone, and only inside this would your electronics work, including a device which logs and stores thousands of passwords. This is the vision of a Cambridge University professor who wants to create an Electronic Aura for everyone.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
First it was Russia, then India and now potentially the German government who are looking to go back to using typewriters in a bid to avoid snoopers monitoring their communications.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
At least four of Japan's most popular websites have been compromised and are serving visitors malware which can infect their Windows computers and once they log onto banking websites can steal login credentials and exfiltrate them to the criminals behind the Aitabook campaign
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Google has announced Project Zero, a group of security experts who will hunt down security flaws in all software which touches the internet. Among the group is a 24-year-old called George Hotz who shot to fame in 2007 when he was the first to unlock the iPhone before reverse engineering the PlayStation 3.
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Morgan Marquis-Boire has been working to unmask the invasive cyber-spying tools from the likes of Gamma International and Hacking Team for the last few years, but in an interview with IBTimes UK, the dreadlocked former hacker says: "This is the law enforcement of the future and actually the law enforcement of the now. [Hacking Team and Gamma International]'s customer base is expanding, this capability is something which you can see as being desirable to most law enforcement agencies."
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rofkool writes:
The US has moved one step closer to a Skynet doomsday scenario as significant control of its nuclear weapons stockpile is to be handed to a supercomputer.
The Cray XC will operate within the Trinity system, a programme run by the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.
The move mimics the Terminator series of films, in which a computer system called Skynet is given command of the US military's nuclear weapons arsenal, eventually leading to total war between man and machine.
