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“Nearly 100 million records have been leaked online in yet another “mega breach”, this time from the website Rambler.ru for those who don’t already know, they are the “Russian version of Yahoo”. Rambler.ru was hacked for 98,167,935 users on February 17th, 2012 and this data set was provided to us by [email protected] who also provided the Last.fm mega breach. Each record contains: A username/email address Password ICQ # (yeah) And some other internal data ” reads the notification published by LeakedSource....

The same tipster has also mentioned that Samsung has borrowed some of the iPhone X feature, like the facial recognition technology also known as Face ID in iPhone X. We had recently reported how Samsung was finding it difficult to implement the in-display fingerprint scanner under the screen of Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones due to technical complications. As a result, the Korean tech giant decided not to include fingerprint sensors under the screen of the S9 line of smartphones....

YouTuber Mark Spurrell, the owner of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, has modified his Android-based foldable smartphone to create a faux Windows phone on the outside and faux Windows 10 on the inside. While the phone still runs Android OS, the outer display is like a Windows Phone and the internal display is like a full Windows PC or Windows tablet. To make it work, Spurrell used a combination of two separate third-party Android launchers and a Bixby Routine with some tweaks to run a highly customized launcher on top of Android....

As per the patent, the folding or rolling action — depending upon the device in question — should do one of several possible things, nearly all of which are concerned with triggering interaction with at least one other application. The potential uses of this, are of course many and varied. The illustrations filed with the approved patent reveal a cylindrical hub, which houses the rolled display – which unfurls like a pair of window blinds....

The Consumentenbond is a Dutch association that has almost half a million members. It was formed based on the commitment of upholding and improving the rights of every Dutch consumer, protecting these rights whenever they are at risk. According to the agency, a recent survey in the Netherlands indicated that “82% of the Samsung phones examined had not been provided with the latest Android version in the two years after being introduced....

The arrangement was revealed in papers filed to a California court by both companies on Thursday. The dispute began in 2011 when Apple said Samsung was using some of its patented technologies without permission. The payment does not mean the end of the row as, next year, a US court will decide if Apple deserves to be paid more for damages. A joint case management statement filed to the California court revealed that Samsung had agreed to pay Apple within 10 days of receiving an invoice....

The sudden and unknown demise of the ProxyHam device disappointed the privacy advocates. Caudill has declined to disclose why his talk won’t be given, and while he’s been discouraged in moving forward with his project, others have not. — Rhino Security Labs (@RhinoSecurity) July 10, 2015 — Rhino Security Labs (@RhinoSecurity) July 10, 2015 Samy Kamkar, a 29-year-old hardware hacker and entrepreneur who in the past seven months has hacked a USB charger to sniff keystrokes over the air and child’s toy to figure out garage door codes, has picked up the cause for devices like ProxyHam....

The energy-efficient “KiloCore” chip contains 621 million transistors, researchers said. If you compare it with world first integrated circuit board made in 1964 that had only 10 transistors, you can understand the technological advancement scientists have achieved with “KiloCore.” “To the best of our knowledge, it is the world’s first 1,000-processor chip and it is the highest clock-rate processor ever designed in a university,” said Bevan Baas, professor at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), who led the team that designed the chip architecture....

Scrum.org provides training, assessment and certifications for the Scrum agile software development framework. In an email sent to customers that says “On May 26, 2016, we noticed an issue with the Scrum.org website outgoing mail server.” — Scrum.org (@Scrumdotorg) May 31, 2016 “Upon investigation, we determined that emails used to communicate initial passwords were not being sent. After further investigation, our information technology professionals discovered that some of our mail server settings had been modified and found one new administrator user account....

IT departments are faced with increased pressure to provide safe and easy access to a growing number of cloud applications while keeping company data secure. But rolling out application access securely, especially when businesses are yet to fully adopt cloud solutions can be challenging, slow and costly. This is where federated identity management (FIM) comes in. More companies are shifting from on-premise identity and access management solutions to identity federation management solutions....

For those unfamiliar, Jacob Appelbaum, a prominent advocate for digital privacy and security, stepped down from the Tor Project in June, where he worked as a paid employee, after he was accused of rape and unwanted sexual advances. Uploaded online on the GhostBin website, the protest called the #torstrike asks Tor users not to use the service for 24 hours and asks the Tor workers to shutdown nodes and not work on the Tor Project’s software....

If ads are worrisome, another big worry for any torrent user is privacy. With the Trump administration allowing ISPs to sell user’s browser data to the highest bidder, it is expected that the torrent websites make most of this decision and sell their users data to ISPs who in turn will sell it to advertisers. Skytorrents looks to break free from both these issues. It is perhaps the world’s first ad-free torrent website....

As you might know, Slack and Microsft are two rival brands in the software departments. However, recently Slack announced that the company was working on an integration with Microsoft Teams. This integration will allow users to make voice and video calls using Microsoft’s service. Well, Slack is finally launching a new app to integrate Microsoft Teams’ calling features into its messaging app today. Presently, this newly launched app is in the beta stage....

It is disappointing to hear that we will not be getting to witness a new form of a display, Kevin Wang, the Research Director for China has stated that while manufacturers have made good on their promise to deliver the first ever foldable display smartphone on the planet, practical implementations of this particular technology will force these manufacturers to roll out the first ever product during 2017. Currently, Samsung and LG happen to be the leading the pack of the largest display manufacturers, although we have heard nothing from LG’s side....

Sadly, the aforementioned VR headset won’t be launched this year. It is worth noting that the first-generation VR headset for PS4 was launched in October 2016. So here’s everything that you need to know about the upcoming VR headset from Sony. Upcoming VR Headset For PS5 The development of the second-generation VR headset is still underway. This time around Sony will focus on fixing the limitations of the PS4 VR headset....

According to the video posted by Elon Musk, the rocket’s leg-locking mechanisms caused it to tip over after landing, bringing the test to a fiery end. Elon Musk just posted a dramatic video to Instagram that shows the incident up close in footage recorded from the platform; it’s worth watching as a demonstration of just how precise the landing needs to be. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the rocket experienced a “hard landing” upon impact, resulting in a broken landing leg which led to the rocket toppling over and subsequently exploding in a fiery display....

Two researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have recently devised a method to turn a smartphone’s vibration motor into a microphone, capable of recording the sound around them. The brains behind the “VibraPhone” research are Associate professor Romit Roy Choudhury and Ph.D. candidate Nirupam Roy. They are planning to present their paper at MobiSys in Singapore later this month. Even though a speaker, a microphone, and a vibration motor have completely different functions, actually, these components depend on very similar basic principles....

For those unaware, Sublime Text is a proprietary cross-platform source code editor with a Python application programming interface (API). It natively supports many programming languages and markup languages, and its functionality can be extended by users with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software licenses. Sublime Text is available for Mac OS, Windows and Linux. There are a lot of changes in Build 3143 that practically affect every aspect of the application, such as appearance, functionality and performance....

Given this kind of carelessness, companies or businesses that follow the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) business model may want to have a closer look at actually how well secured is their data. BYOD refers to the policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smart phones) to their workplace, and to use those devices to access privileged company information and applications. Kaspersky has segregated the type of information saved by participants in their personal smartphones, based on the results received through the survey....