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NFC is the new security threat vector, iPhone 5s, Galaxy S5 pwned in Mobile Pwn2OwnThe competitionApple iPhone 5SSamsung Galaxy S5Google Nexus 5Fire PhoneLumia 1520 The competition Here’s how the contest works. Security researchers choose the device they would like to try and hack into at the time of registration. They have to carry out the hack in a 30 minute time frame. The restrictions on this hack is that the vulnerabilities used, must be unknown prior to the event aka zero day attacks....

It was recently revealed that North Korea has its own version of Facebook social media website, apparently installed by the state-run Internet service provider. However, this clone set up in North Korea has already been hacked. While North Korea is known for its strict censorship of the internet with most citizens unable to access the web, the website appears to be hosted from within North Korea, according to an internet analysis company that traced the site’s DNS to the notoriously isolated country, reports Motherboard....

According to a report from Android Police, non-profit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt has issued a warning that phones running Android versions before 7.1.1 Nougat will no longer trust its root certificate starting September 2021, preventing users from visiting many secure websites. In other words, many secure websites will no longer be compatible with older versions of Android. The partnership of Let’s Encrypt, a partner of Mozilla, with the IdenTrust certification authority is set to expire on September 1, 2021....

OnePlus to release its next smartphone this Christmas; What features will next OnePlus device have?OnePlus has confirmed the launch of its “next device” which is expected to be around Christmas.Would it be OnePlus 2 mini?Would it be a high build quality phone which could be a mid ranger?Will the next OnePlus device have Qualcomm or MediaTek processor?NFC:A smaller 5 inch display:Fingerprint Scanner:Alert Slider :Camera:Other features:Invite only option to buy the phone:...

At least 9.3 million Android device owners have installed these dangerous games. According to the analysts, the trojan classified as “’Android.Cynos.7.origin” is one of the modifications of the Cynos program module. This trojan was found in 190 games on AppGallery, like simulators, platformers, arcades, strategies, and shooters. While some of these games targeted Russian-speaking users with Russian localization, titles, and descriptions, the others targeted Chinese or international users. “This module can be integrated into Android apps to monetize them....

Besides the Indian tricolour flag, it also displayed a ‘Happy Independence Day’ message on the screen. According to media reports, the message appeared on the news channel in Pakistan at 3.30 pm on August 2. It is known that both the flag and the message remained on the screen for a while before it disappeared. Soon after, videos and photos of this incident went viral on social media attracting a huge hue and cry with clips of the broadcast being circulated on Twitter....

The app’s current and historic domains presently are all non-functional. The latest version of the app, with build number 2.2.8 no longer works because access to the streams has been removed. Over the years, Mobdro has become one of the most popular easy-to-use solutions for anyone looking to access live TV, sports channels and 24/7 content. It even sprung to additional domains too, from Mobdro.com and Mobdro.sc, to Mobdro.bz more recently....

According to a message posted on the site, the site’s operators say that they will shut down at the end of the week. However, the operators are simultaneously also advising their users to “respect” filmmakers by paying for movies and TV-shows instead of pirating them. “We’ve been providing links to movies and shows for years. Now it’s time to say goodbye. Thank you for being our friends and thanks for staying with us that long,” the 123movies team writes....

The San Diego based Tech giant wants to push the envelope with the all-new Quick Charge 5 technology that claims to recharge a standard device’s battery from 0 to 50% in under 5 mins, and the full charge being just 15 mins away. Better than the Predecessor? The company iterates precisely on that. Quick Charge 5 is being claimed to have 70% more efficient than its immediate predecessor. Moreover, it will provide up to four-times charging speed while running on 10 degree celsius cooler even its peak usage....

Nokia Bell Labs demonstrated in lab tests a whopping 65 terabit-per-second transmission using dual-band fiber amplifiers. The speed is equivalent of streaming 10 million high-definition TV channels simultaneously. Nokia’s demonstration is going to help tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, as well as ISPs and telecom companies due to increased bandwidth demand as Internet reaches more remote places. Research firm Telegeography estimates the market is poised to see an explosion of new cable deployments worth more than $8....

Patrick Wardle, director of research with the company Synack, said in an interview he reverse-engineered a patch Apple released in October and found it wasn’t quite the fix in Gatekeeper, its security technology that blocks harmful applications from being installed. Even with Gatekeeper at its strictest settings, Wardle shared that it can be bypassed through the use of app bundles. While Gatekeeper carries out several checks on apps before they are launched on a Mac, it does not prevent apps from running or loading other apps or dynamic libraries from an alternate directory....

According to the leaked press renders, Samsung is following iPhone 7 with the upcoming Galaxy S8 having similar dual-cameras. Based on the leaks, TechDroider has created a video of the phone’s design. Samsung is said to make major design changes to the upcoming Galaxy S8, which will apparently be made available in two variants like its earlier predecessor. Samsung Galaxy S8 will come with bezel-less display, with the top and bottom edges curved pretty much like the S6 Edge....

Pakistani Ny Samsung Ka Drama Be Naqab Kar Dia by ali-baba-technocraft At the end of the video the maker, rather profoundly urges, Samsung users to open their Samsung smartphone’s battery and remove the chip. The chip in question is a NFC chip. All Samsung smartphones including the current favorite, Samsung Galaxy S6, the NFC chip is built into the battery. NFC, which stands for Near Field Communication, is an evolution of RFID....

Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, unveiled its largest 30.72 terabyte (TB) solid state drive (SSD) for use in in next-generation enterprise storage systems. The 30.72TB SSD, dubbed the PM1643, is double the capacity of Samsung’s current 15.36TB SSD that it unveiled in March 2016. Not intended for consumer use, the new SSD is designed to meet the growing storage needs in a host of market segments, including the government, health and education markets, and others....

For those unaware, ‘Sarahah’ – means ‘honesty’ in Arabic, is an app that allows the users to send anonymous messages to others registered with the app. Created by Saudi Arabian developer Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq, the app is aimed to help people identify their strengths and weaknesses. However, users have no way of knowing who sent the message or how to reply to them. The app is available in two languages, English and Arabic, for iOS and Android users....

Lookout blog states that it is malapp and in reality contains a variant of information-stealing malware ‘SocialPath.’ Explaining the characteristics of Save Me and Social Path, Lookout’s senior security product manager, Jeremy Linden explained that it primarily distributed through spam via Twitter, WhatsApp and other social platforms with socially engineered messages designed to encourage victims into clicking on a disguised download link. Once the victim clicks on the link, the App asks permission to access information from the device like including name, email, phone number and even a photo of the user, before connecting to a C&C server and exfiltrating this and other data from the device, Linden explained....

Also, what is remarkable is that the project proves that human cells can be introduced into a non-human organism, survive, and even grow inside a host animal, in this case, pigs. The human organ transplantation has stuck to transplanting kidneys and hearts due to this specific problem.Now with the successful human-animal hybrids, scientists can now address the issue of critical shortage of donor organs.

According to the researchers, this technology could have significant effects for the future of renewable energy, climate change, and health. As reported in Nature (“Power generation from ambient humidity using protein nanowires”), Microbiologist Derek Lovley and Electrical Engineer Jun Yao from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are calling the device as “Air-gen” (or air-powered generator). As the name suggests, the device can create electricity right out of air! The device is made using ultra-small electrically conductive protein wires produced by a microbe called Geobacter, which Lovely discovered in the mud of the Potomac River more than 30 years ago....

It is not only the sound but the energy which is accompanied in this thunder that has been also missed out for a long time. Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute decided to understand what happens during a thunderstorm; hence they artificially triggered lightning and by capturing the images of the sound waves tried to study the thunder. For the very first time ever in history an image of the boisterous bang radiating from a lightning was captured by the scientists and this image revealed an enormous energy involved in thunderstorm....