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“With little effort, a scammer could send you alerts that look just like the real thing. Click on a link and the hacker will grab your login credentials — or fool you into giving up your credit card too,” Pagliery reports. “It’s yet another phishing scheme. But instead of email, hackers can target you with texts.” “The problem stems from AT&T not making its real alerts look legitimate enough,” said Dani Grant, the computer programmer who noticed the flaw....

A leaked string from the WhatsApp developers group revealed that soon WhatsApp will integrate with the Google Drive to form a back up for the chat history and the media files; in turn this will facilitate easy restoration of these files from Google Drive. The leaked report also states that back of media does not include the back up and restoration of videos. It seems the data back up on Google Drive is possible either through Wi-Fi or through cellular network only....

That’s where the new and improved BearTek Gen II smart gloves enters offering additional features. By just using simple finger movements, this pair of ordinary looking gloves can remotely control your smartphone. The user has to simply touch spots on the gloves to trigger specific actions rather than touching the phone itself. This is BearTek’s second generation lineup, and it comes in different styles for different users. Depending on the models, connectivity is over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi....

The alleged hack which comes a year after the infamous Mt.Gox debacle has further aggravated the already frustrated bitcoin community. UK- and Slovenia-based bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has stated that it is currently offline and has put up a notice on its website that only one of its ‘operational wallets’ was compromised on 4th January. The company has assured users that all their bitcoins lying in the cold storage are secure....

According to security researcher Brian Krebs, criminals are threatening to expose users to their significant others, unless a payment of exactly 1.0000001 BTC ($232 USD) is paid into their bitcoin wallets. This particular extortionist has not been particularly successful, only receiving 0.0032 BTC since last Wednesday’s leaks. Reports claim that someone may have actually killed himself as a result of the massive Ashley Madison hack that has resulted in user emails and other details getting leaked out and published on the Dark Web....

Security researchers from Denmark-based TDC Security Operations Center have dubbed the new attack technique BlackNurse. BlackNurse attack uses very limited resources to knock large servers offline when they’re protected by certain firewalls made by Cisco Systems and other manufacturers. The BlackNurse attack makes it easier for cyber criminals to mount a simple denial-of-service attack against a website using as little as 15 megabits, or about 40,000 packets per second, to sever the Internet connection of vulnerable servers....

The BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition started shipping to early adopters at the end of first week of April. However, as of April 18, 2016, Canonical is happy to announce that the pre-order period has ended, and anyone can now purchase the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. “Last month we announced that the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet was available as a pre-order bundle. This time round, we’re pleased to let you know that it’s available to buy now,” said Amrisha Prashar, Marketing and Social Media Manager at Canonical....

“Is the investment in higher executive incentives paying off in terms of long-term shareholder returns?” a senior corporate governance researcher at MSCI asked. “The finding so far is clearly not.” The study found that for every $100 (£76) invested in companies with the highest-paid CEOs would have increased to $265 (£202) over a decade. However, the same amount invested in the companies with the lowest-paid CEOs would have increased to $367 (£279) over 10 years....

On April 14, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg late at night and sank some 2 hours and 40 minutes later, early on the morning of April 15. Created as part of an upcoming video game that allows players to experience exactly what it was like to be on the doomed voyage, the animation sees the tragedy unfold as it happened for the first time since the ship sank in 1912....

While blocking of Google’s services is not new with strict state censorship on YouTube and Google Search, Gmail in its entirety is being blocked for first time. Though there is no official notification to this effect, the block has been confirmed by many sources including Chinese citizens active on social networking platforms. Internet analysis firm Dyn Research has stated to Mashable that many IP addresses used for routing the Gmail services were being blocked....

Moxi says that the bendable smartphones it intends to release initially will only have black-and-white displays. Full color version smartphones are in the pipeline but may take at least 2 years said the company. The bendable smartphone is not cheap. Moxi said that the black-and-white phones are expected to sell for around 5,000 yuan ($760) each in China which is only a tad cheaper than Apple’s iPhone. Moxi, which is based in the city of Chongqing and specializes in graphene, released some regular smartphones last year using the material....

A source working for Huawei’s UK division and familiar with the company’s plans told IBTimes UK, that the company is working closely with Google to manufacture its Next-Gen Nexus Android M powered smartphones. However, the source could only give the confirmation regarding the deal and was not able to provide either further details regarding the specifications of the devices nor the exact launch date and just mentioned that the device would be launched towards the end of this year....

The Chip can be connected to display, keyboard and mouse through a number of ports, as well as connect with its inbuilt WiFi through the wireless internet. The board is Open Hardware and and is capable of running on any Linux-based operating system. It is powered by a 1Ghz A13 processor. It has a 512MB of RAM and a storage capacity of 4GB. It is equivalent to the BeagleBone Black in clock speed, RAM and storage....

Prototype manufacturing has helped many manufacturers to evaluate the viability of their ideas and the end-user experience of a specific solution. What is custom prototyping? Custom prototyping is the on-demand manufacturing of incomplete versions of a proposed solution. The incomplete version may sound bad, but then the main objective of prototype development is to simulate only a few main aspects of the concept. This helps the users to evaluate the viability of potential solution in terms of usually, cost, complexity and value....

There is bad news for users that have devices which run the CyanogenOS and Cyanogen Mods. Cyanogen Inc. on Friday announced that it will be discontinuing all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds by December 31st. However, developers who want to build CyanogenMods can continue to build it on their own. “As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services, and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16....

Similarly, another dataset linked to now-defunct Facebook-integrated app ‘At the Pool’ is said to have stored unprotected plaintext passwords for 22,000 users. While the app was shut down in 2014, UpGuard said it is unclear how long the user details were exposed, as the database became inaccessible while the company was looking into it. “As Facebook faces scrutiny over its data stewardship practices, they have made efforts to reduce third party access....

A blog post on Docker spoke very highly of Ian Murdock as it states the following: At this current point, the cause of his death is uncertain and could come from a number of reasons. However, since he tweeted through his official over a definite intention of committing suicide, it is quite possible that Ian Murdock might have taken his life, but the reasons which would drive him to such a path are currently not known....

The lawsuit is the result of an Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs review of the company’s practices at its Redwood Shores, California, headquarters, according to a release from the Labor Department. “The leading technology company has a systemic practice of paying Caucasian male workers more than their counterparts in the same job title, which led to pay discrimination against female, African American and Asian employees,” the department said in a statement....

Gripsgård has already put a special page UBports.com website where he has codenamed his upcoming venture as “op3.” One Plus has recently released its latest flagship iteration, OnePlus 3 smartphone. OnePlus 3 boasts a pretty decent configuration with 5-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with Full HD (1080×1920) resolution and a Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 chipset. The smartphone is powered by Dual-Core 2.15 GHz Kryo and Dual-Core 1.6 GHz Kryo CPUs, as well as the Adreno 530 GPU....

The role of Artificial Intelligence has increased over the past few years with its application cutting across different sectors from finance to retail and health industries. It is set to increase further with more companies investing in this concept as a way to better their business models, increase efficiency and have a competitive edge in their respective markets. Over the last few years, the terms Machine Learning and Deep Learning have gained popularity where artificial intelligence is discussed....