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Stock Google Email App Version 4.2.2 for Android vulnerable to remote code execution : CVE-2015-1574The vulnerabilityProof of Concept (PoC)Fix In plain English this means that a specially crafted email sent to the App can crash the email App. The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2015-1574 and is deemed critical. “No interaction from the user is needed to produce the crash just receive the malicious email,” the researchers stated on HMarco blog....

Are you thinking about moving into a smart home? One of the biggest advantages of automation technology is it can turn an otherwise lifeless home into a piece of modern technology. Plus, smart technology puts the owner in control of their electronic devices at the push of a button. If you currently have an existing home, it’s possible to redesign your residence and undergo a major renovation to turn it into a smart house....

The world’s most popular and most visited torrent website, The Pirate Bay seems to have fallen for the lure of money. According to reports, it is using a cryptocurrency miner on The Pirate Bay website. The cryptocurrency miner’s JavaScript code is tucked away in the footer of TPB and uses the power of visitors computer to mine coins called Monero coins. The Pirate Bay admin stand to make a lot of money as the Monero is trading upwards of $93 a coin as per latest price reports....

As per the Whois information, the Pirate Bay’s .SE domain was reactivated on October 23, 2017 and has been updated until October 7, 2018. However, it is still unclear whether The Pirate Bay had listed the deactivation or was it done on behalf of the Swedish Court of Appeals due to pending Supreme Court ruling in the current domain name battle. For those unaware, back in 2013, local anti-piracy groups in Sweden had filed a motion asking to seize control of thepiratebay....

SD-WAN has shifted from peripheral technology to the mainstream. SD-WAN benefits are so compelling that Gartner predicts that by 2018, more than 40% of WAN edge infrastructure refresh initiatives will be based on SD-WAN appliances from SD-WAN vendors or vCPE versus traditional routers (up from less than 2% today). According to IDC’s Worldwide SD-WAN Forecast, SD-WAN vendors are expected to see a 69% compound annual growth rate in sales over the next five years, reaching $8....

Handling all these messengers can be over whelming and it is something which most of us can relate to. Luckily, there’s an app to make your life much easier. The All-in-One Messenger, a web-based chat client available on Chrome, lets you use all your favorite messengers all in one place. It allows you to stay connected with everyone, without having to go through the hassle of continuously switching tabs and going back and forth between different apps....

“This pushes the bubble, and it blows up sparkles,” Jordan explained as she demonstrated the mechanism behind her creation, a glitter-blasting arm. Born with a left arm that stops just above the elbow, Reeves created the prosthetic arm cannon at the Superhero Cyborgs 2.0 program in San Francisco, a workshop hosted by non-profit KIDmob and 3-D software firm Autodesk. The program connects children between the ages of 10 to 15 with upper-limb differences with professional engineers so that they can design and create their own custom-made prosthetics that do, well, whatever the kids want them to do....

Most pubs and restaurants around the world give free beers, dinners, or lunch coupons in their Android App to lure potential customers. Gretzky though that it would be worthwhile to hack such an offer and get something in return. In a post on BreakDev.org, Kuba Gretzky explains how he hacked EatApp Android app to bypass the beacon and earn himself a free beer. Apparently, pubs and restaurants in Poland use Bluetooth Beacons for verifying purchases in a smartphone app to award bonus points and rewards....

Modelled on the popular Apple handset, the device discharges its powerful shock from two metal pin points at the top, fired by what is normally the volume buttons, the Mirror reported. The weapon is on sale on plenty of websites and sources indicate that there is a good demand for them from underworld. Website based in China, Germany and the US are selling these iPhone-style Stun Guns and the delivery escapes customs authorities because the when the parcel containing them is x-rayed, it gives the authorities a false impression of being iPhone because of similar dimensions....

Created by Berlin artist Aram Bartholl, the sculpture named ‘Keepalive’, tries to highlight the contrast between ancient and modern survival techniques. Keepalive is a thermoelectric Wi-Fi router powered up by lighting a campfire underneath the boulder. Once it’s activated, which is done by starting a fire at the base of the rock, the router connects to any nearby phones, piping in a list of downloadable survival guides. The network runs on Piratebox, a DIY-software that creates offline wireless networks....

Yes, you have heard it right! Alex Jason is on the threshold of opening a public museum that will have a collection of vintage Apple devices. Alex’s Apple Orchard has more than 250 rare Apple prototypes, most of which he purchased with money earned from mowing neighbours’ lawns. According to the Cult of Mac, Alex started collecting discarded Apple stuff at the age of 10. In just 5 years, he has become one of the top 20 Apple collectors in the world....

According to Time Warner, emails and password details were most likely gathered through malware that was able to get downloaded during phishing attacks or indirectly through data breaches. This could have taken place thanks to other companies that stored Time Warner Cable’s customer information, which also included email addresses, suggesting that even these companies did not do well in providing adequate security to customers. While these are just speculations, the company has stated that it was not able to isolate the problem on how exactly this information was obtained, but there was no indication that Time Warner Cable’s systems were breached....

Confused over which smartphone to buy, here is a list of top 10 Budget Smartphones Launched in April 2015Xiaomi Mi 4iLenovo A7000Lenovo A6000 PlusSpice Stellar 519Micromax Canvas SparkLenovo A5000Moto E2 (2nd Gen) 4GLava Iris Alfa LInfocus M330Oppo Joy Plus Xiaomi Mi 4i Xiaomi Mi 4i, the promising budget smartphone of Xiaomi was released at a global event that took place in India. Carrying the Mi 4 tag and with satisfactory specification, the phone is not meant for the mid budget category....

This study ranked which countries were best overall, which countries ruled in each type of challenge, which types of challenges were most popular, and which languages each country favoured. The United States and India overall put up disappointing numbers despite having the most participants on the site with U.S. coming at 28th position and India following a little behind at the 31st position. Let’s have a look at who’s made into the top list and why?...

Bitcoin is an innovative payment network which has revolutionized business transactions and taken the cyber world by storm. It is the first “decentralized digital currency.” This is peer to peer i.e. P2P transaction which does not involve any banks or any intermediaries which means the users do not have to bear the fees for their transactions. This has a world wide network as it is joined to the several currency exchanges where the currencies can be exchanged for other currencies of that country....

https://youtu.be/lxjM1yCcqTQ In the episode “Bart to the Future,” Lisa Simpson is set to become the U.S. president tasked with restoring order and repairing the nation in the wake of what the show present’s as a disastrous presidency left by her predecessor, a fictionalized Trump. https://twitter.com/ExpertosParleys/status/796319093028753408 Simpsons writer Dan Greaney told the Hollywood Reporter back in March that the episode was intended as “a warning to America.” “That just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom....

“Codenamed ‘Cosmic Cuttlefish,’ 18.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs,” says Adam Conrad, Software Engineer, Canonical. Conrad further says, “The Ubuntu kernel has been updated to the 4.18 based Linux kernel, our default toolchain has moved to gcc 8.2 with glibc 2....

The easy to follow installation instructions have been made available on the dedicated snapcraft website. This should be particularly wonderful for operating systems enhanced for mobile and IoT. “Snaps sit alongside the native packages of the base Linux operating system. Each distribution has its own mechanisms to provide the base OS and its updates. Snaps complement the base OS with universal apps that cannot interfere with the base OS or one another”, says Canonical....

For those unaware, U.S. tech company Nvidia had announced in September last year that it would be acquiring a 90 percent stake in Cambridge-headquartered chipmaker, ARM owned by Japanese giant SoftBank, for $40 billion. ARM is one of the UK’s most successful and powerful companies, which licenses its tech to the likes of Apple, Samsung, and Huawei. Although Nvidia said that ARM would continue to operate independently in the UK, in Cambridge, concerns were raised that the deal could lead Nvidia to relocate ARM’s headquarters to the U....

The ‘CyberChoices’ campaign comes after NCA research disclosed the average age of people involved in its investigations was 17. The research indicated few teenagers knew what constituted a cybercrime or what would happen if they were caught. The idea is that with the cops showing up at their doorstep when the kids are near committing a crime that involves jail time, such as when they get access to a tool for denial of service attacks....