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Submission + - E-Detective spy tool used by police and governments has major security holes (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @02:15AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: A "lawful intercept tool" called E-Detective from a Taiwanese based company Decision Group has a major security hole which could allow a hacker to remotely execute code and read all the data captured by the software. Considering over 100 law enforcement agencies and governments around the world use E-Detective, this could be a big problem

Submission + - A text message can crash your iPhone and force it to reboot (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @03:22AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: iPhone users are complaining that having received a text message, their Messages app continually crashes and their phones reboot. The iOS bug means anyone with an iPhone can send this text string to another iPhone and crash their phone

Submission + - Chinese government hacks Microsoft's Outlook service (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Monday January 19, 2015 @08:45AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: A month after it blocked Google's Gmail, the Chinese government now stands accused of hacking Microsoft's Outlook email service, carrying out man-in-the-middle attack to snoop on private conversations

Submission + - Connected gun lets anyone watch what or who you are shooting (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @12:17PM

DavidGilbert99 writes: A gun that lets novices make mile-long shots likes experts and which allows the owner to stream live video to show what the gun is aiming at to anyone, anywhere around the world. What could go wrong.....

Submission + - An Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone £140-a-Year (ibtimes.co.uk) 2

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Thursday August 21, 2014 @03:52AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: Research suggests that if we wanted to live in a world without pop-up ads for penis enlargement tablets, then it would cost everyone $230 per year. So how many people would be willing to stump up this kind of cash? Just 2% of the population apparently...

Submission + - Xiaomi Smartphones Do Secretly Steal Your Data (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Friday August 08, 2014 @10:54AM

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.

Submission + - Google's Project Zero Aims to Make the Internet A Safer Place for All (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @10:30AM

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.

Comment Re:Link? (Score 5, Informative) 100

by DavidGilbert99 on Thursday June 19, 2014 @12:55PM (#47273693) Attached to: Malware Posing As Official Google Play Store Evades Most Security Checks

Here is the link: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malwa... I submitted it to Slashdot but it failed to publish it.

Submission + - Malware Posing as Official Google Play Store Found in....Google Play Store (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Thursday June 19, 2014 @11:57AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: Mobile malware on Android is nothing new, but now security company FireEye has discovered in the Google Play store a sophisticated piece of malware which is posing as....the official Google Play store. Using the same icon but a different name, the malware is not being detected by the vast majority of security vendors, is difficult to uninstall and steals your messages, security certificates and banking details.

Submission + - iPhone and iPad Users Held to Ransom by Hacker in Australia (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @07:10AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: Multiple iPhone/iPad/Mac users in Australia are reporting their devices being remotely locked and a ransom demand being made to get them unlocked again. However unlike PC ransomware, the vector of attack here seems to be Apple's iCloud service with the attacker getting to a database of username/password credentials associated with the accounts. It is unclear if the database was one of Apple's or the hacker is simply using the fact that people reuse the same password for multiple accounts and is using data stolen from another source. Apple is yet to respond, but there has already been one report of the issue affecting a user in the UK.

Submission + - Virgin Galactic May Not Break Karman Line and Bring Passengers Into Space (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Monday May 12, 2014 @11:58AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: According to the customer contract those signing up for a $240,000 flight on Virgin Galactic's spaceship the company will bring you "at least 50 miles" above sea level. The problem is that the internationally accepted boundary for outer space is 62 miles above sea level — known as the Karman Line. Virgin is trying to get around the issue by claiming it is using a definition of space used by Nasa — in the 1960s.

Submission + - 300,000 Servers Remain Vulnerable to Heartbleed Bug After One Month (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Friday May 09, 2014 @07:57AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: The Heartbleed Bug cause widespread panic from internet users around the world worried their sensitive information was being targeted. While system administrators were warned to patch their systems, one month on and a security researcher has discovered that 300,000 servers remain vulnerable to the heartbleed flaw.

Submission + - Eve Online's Space Economy Currently Worth $18 million (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:01AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: According to the lead economist of CCP Games, developer of Eve Online, the total amount of ISK in the system at the moment is 600 trillion, which equates to about $18 million in real world money — and the economist believes we could learn a lot from how the economy works in the game.

Submission + - Dyson Invests £5 Million to Create 'Intelligent Domestic Robots' (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Monday February 10, 2014 @05:37AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: James Dyson doesn't to 'just OK' or 'second best.' He only releases products he is 100% happy with which is why, despite nearly a decade of research in the area, his company has yet to release a robotic vacuum cleaner. To help drive research forward, Dyson will invest £5 million in a joint research lab at Imperial College London which will focus on “vision systems” which Dyson hopes will help create the next generation of “intelligent domestic robots.”

Submission + - James Dyson: We Should Pay Students to Study Engineering (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99 on Monday February 03, 2014 @06:19AM

DavidGilbert99 writes: The inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner believes there is an engineering crisis in the UK and that 61,000 vacancies in the area will go unfilled in 2014. TO address this Dyson believes says he wants the UK government to offer monetary incentives to students with an interest and aptitude in science — as well as changing the current visa system to make it easier for foreign students to remain in the country and get work once they have completed their education in the UK.

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