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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
73195689
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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
69400511
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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
68987067
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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.....
63767919
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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...
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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:
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:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Keylogging has been a key component of most malware in recent years, but with the advent of touch as the interface of choice on smartphones, tablets and — increasingly — laptops it has been getting harder for cyber-criminals to know what you are doing. And so a researcher has developed a proof-of-concept piece of malware which is able to capture everything you are doing on your touch devices, capture where you touch the screen and what is being displayed.
