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Chinese Microsoft employees can call in their resignation on a free phone.
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https://techcribng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Windows-Phone-Nokia-Lumia-techcribng.jpgThe tech giant has, reports show, offered a free Lumia 630 device to employees in the Asian country if they choose to leave their job rather than forcing the company’s hand in a layoff. The move, Market Watch reported, comes as Microsoft plans to cut roughly 4,700 positions at its Nokia handset factory and research and development facility in Beijing.

Those cuts, when complete, would leave about 300 employees.

The cuts stem from Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia. That merger meant tens of thousands of employees were inherited by Microsoft.

Financial losses have left the company reporting a profit miss and in need of cutting expenses.

Where’s an obvious cut? Employees.

Tech Crunch reported sources informed it morale at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington headquarters remains high despite the news of the reductions. Of course, the proposed cuts would not mean knives are coming out at the company’s home base.

Things aren’t so rosy in China where some Nokia employees have held public protests over the cuts. Those employees said Microsoft had broken a promise it made when it acquired Nokia.

Microsoft, Market Watch reported, has been offering the ‘take a phone and leave your job’ deal to nearly 300 employees each day.

The phone is valued at approximately 800 yuan or $130 U.S.

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Self-driving cars are coming, and Americans are getting on board.

That's the conclusion of a new study from the University of Michigan, which found that 56% of U.S. respondents had positive opinions of self-driving vehicles.

The technology sounds like science fiction -- 29% of Americans surveyed hadn't heard of it before the study -- yet it's not far from becoming reality.

Google (GOOG) has been working on the issue for years, unveiling a self-driving prototype in May. The system probably won't be widely available for five or six years, but executives have predicted that one day "a significant number of cars will carry Google technology." Nissan, meanwhile, said last year that it hopes to have a self-driving car on the market by 2020.

California, Nevada, Florida and Michigan have passed legislation allowing the testing of self-driving cars on public roads, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a series of recommendations on the issue as well.
California to regulate self-driving cars
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Those surveyed by the Michigan researchers Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak said self-driving cars were likely to yield a variety of benefits, including fewer crashes, decreased emissions and lower insurance rates.
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But with that said, they were still hesitant about taking a ride for the time being: just 11% said they wouldn't be concerned about riding in a self-driving vehicle.

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Russian criminals have stolen more than 1.2 billion Internet usernames and passwords, and the odds are decent that some of yours might be among them.
https://techcribng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/russian-hacker-techcribng-300x182.pngThere’s no need to panic at this point — Hold Security, the firm that discovered the theft, says the gang isn’t in the business of stealing your bank account information. Instead, they make their money by sending out spam for bogus products like weight-loss pills.
That means you need to stay on your guard. If you see strange messages being sent from your email or social media accounts, you might be among those affected.

Here are a few things you can do to protect yourself:

Change your passwords and make them smart:

When it comes important services, including email, banking and social media, you’ll want to change those passwords. As a rule, create different passwords for different services,and change them every six months or so.

There’s a lot of debate about what makes for the best password. Some experts recommend using a password manager — a single service that you log into which then generates random passcodes for all your accounts.

But the danger with password managers is that they create a single point of failure: if the password manager itself is compromised, all your accounts become vulnerable.

Another solution is to use long sentences or phrases. The more characters you add to a password, the more difficult it is for a computer program to crack — even if your password is a simple sentence that’s easy to remember (“I Need 2 Spend Less Time On Social Media”).

[color=#000000]Researcher: How the Iron Dome was hacked[/color]

Be careful what you store electronically:
Never email your Social Security number, because it’ll stay in your archives. Erase old messages with your bank account information and credit card numbers. And never keep a saved document that serves as a master list of passwords. For hackers, that’s a treasure map.
Use protection:
While they’re not foolproof, there are a number of tools available to improve your digital security. Download antivirus software. Be diligent about software updates. Whenever possible, use two-factor authentication, a system available on many services that requires both a password and a one-time code generated by a mobile device.
Lastly, when connecting to any website that uses your personal information, make sure you’re using a secure, encrypted connection. Here’s how to spot it: Look at the address bar above. Does the website URL start with HTTP or HTTPS? There’s a difference. The added “s” stands for “secure.”
Make a throwaway email address:
In this latest hack, the Russian gang gathered their trove of digital credentials from websites that make you register with a password and username (often an email address).
For accounts that you wouldn’t be concerned about having hacked — say, your profile on a news site that you don’t read often — you can make a throwaway email address and password that you use strictly for registration purposes.
Reusing this password shouldn’t be a problem, provided you limit it to services from which you won’t be getting any important communications, like personal messages or details of financial transactions. Then you can focus your mental energy on securing the accounts that really do matter.
Don’t be stupid:
Much of protecting yourself online comes down to using your common sense. If you can use the Internet well enough to read this article, you probably know the basics: Don’t download files from unfamiliar sources. Check where a link will take you before clicking on it. Don’t respond to wildly ungrammatical emails offering access to Viagra or secret Nigerian bank account.
None of these tactics are completely fail-safe, but taken together, they’ll make you a much less attractive target to scammers online.

What do you think?........

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adebayor1490: An 18yr old? Incredible.
Is he also a drop-out?

dont think so.......
Nigerians really need to learn from this.

read this : Online passwords could be replaced by photos

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18-year-old Dan Crowther has developed an app that could dop away with the traditional password and instead just lets you pick a picture. Source: uSig Source: Supplied

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CYBER security has never been so important so can a typical password cut it anymore?
Now that we’re all well and truly quaking from the news Russians have stolen over a billion passwords perhaps you’ve thought about stepping up your online security.

But changing to another password after yet another massive security breech is proving tiresome and just bloody hard to remember. There may be an easy solution in the form of an app idea from an 18-year-old: just use pictures.

The app called uSig has been created by Aussie Dan Crowther and he’s currently showing it off to fellow cybersecurity geeks at Passwords Con in Las Vegas.

To ensure the highest strength password around you need to make it as complex as possible but good luck trying to remember that. But you could have a 512-character length password and all you’d need to do is pick a photo on your mobile.

https://techcribng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/photos-techcribng.jpegA photo is easy to remember and it could avoid hacking tricks such as keylogging as the tiles of photos on screen will never be in the same place twice. It could even work with websites continually changing passwords to confuse hackers, but not you, as all you need to do is choose that image. Easy.

The idea has yet to be tested in the wild. Problems such as someone looking over your shoulder and easily clocking that picture, because it’s easier for hackers to remember a picture too, will have to be addressed. But the idea could be a great step for security as even biometric security is vulnerable. It’ll also be a massive timesaver.

what do you think?
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Samsung is about to find itself back in court over a patent dispute.
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But this time its opponent is Microsoft, not Apple.

Microsoftis accusing the South Korean Smartphone maker of neglecting to pay Android licensing fees in violation of a patent-sharing agreement reachedby the two firms in 2011. Under the agreement, Samsung is required to pay a royalty for every Android-powered Smartphone it sells.
However, Microsoft says Samsung has been in breach of contract for the past 11 months.
“After becoming the leading player in the worldwide Smartphone market, Samsung decided late last year to stop complying with its agreement with Microsoft,” Microsoft deputy general counsel David Howard wrote in a blog post.
“In September 2013, after Microsoft announced it was acquiring the Nokia Devices and Services business, Samsung began using the acquisition as an excuse to breach its contract. Curiously, Samsung did not ask the court to decide whether the Nokia acquisition invalidated its contract with Microsoft, likely because it knew its position was meritless. Microsoft and Samsung have a long history of collaboration. Microsoft values and respects our partnership with Samsung and expects it to continue. We are simply asking the Court to settle our disagreement, and we are confident the contract will be enforced.”
Samsung has yet to comment on the matter.
Twenty other firms that make Android devices — including ZTE, LG, HTC, Acer and Barnes & Noble — have also signed agreements with Microsoft to avoid patent lawsuits.
Although Google is the creator of the Android platform, Microsoft holds the patents. Microsoft maintains that the codes Google uses for Android and Chrome copy its technology, violating its patents. Google has called these patents “bogus.”

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and he hd mve it nw.

Wow, just laughing..
If we cn cntact ebola thru usb then ebola na robot nw.

Thank you all for your contribution.
Lol.

Smartlux: thanks op

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According to CNN — Apple might be readying its largest iPhones ever. Regardless of how you feel about that, it could mean one unequivocally crappy thing for all of us: The extinction of great, casual one-handed games.
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The usual trickle of pre-release rumors suggests the iPhone 6 could come in two sizes: 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches. Enlarging the form factor ostensibly would help Apple better compete with already-huge Android handsets. But it also would jeopardize the iPhone’s promise of comfortable one-handed use — and that’s where the problem arrives with respect to games.

If designers can’t be sure we can grasp our phones with one hand, with our thumbs free to tap most of the screen, will they still spend their time making games that demand these conditions? If one-handed phones die out, why wouldn’t we assume one-handed games will follow?

Bennett Foddy, the gamemaker behind the Flash sensation QWOP and its iPhone incarnation, recently sparked the discussion on Twitter. A mega-iPhone would be a “massive mistake” on Apple’s part, he wrote. “I don’t really care as a consumer, mind you. But it matters to me as an iOS game developer, where it’s just going to be a design nightmare.”

How Fragmentation Affects Game Design

On one hand, the problem bigger iPhones pose to well-crafted games is simply one of fragmentation. It’s something that’s been a mounting challenge to exacting designers and developers since the initial iPhone.

“At the most basic level, good game design is concerned with the micro details of interactions,” Foddy explains. “How does it feel if I put this button 1.2 inches from the edge of the screen instead of 1.1? Does it feel nice and natural to swipe my finger in this particular arc?”

In the early days of smartphones, when there was a single touchscreen form factor to develop for, it was easy to work out those tiny details. Today, Foddy says, you just can’t achieve that level of tactile fine-tuning.

To make money, designers must put their games on as many screens as possible. As a result, many settle for making the experience “adequate” on devices large and small, Android and iOS. Effectively splitting the iPhone market into three sizes (including legacy 4-inchers) would only add to this problem.

But larger iPhones could mean an even more significant shift in the mobile games landscape. While you can find one-handed games for your gigantic Android phone, the majority of truly novel, thoughtfully designed portrait-orientation games arrive at least initially and often exclusively on the iPhone.

Think Threes, Ridiculous Fishing, Letterpress, Device 6. These are the types of games most at risk amidst the great smartphone embiggening.

The Gaming Use-Case That’s at Risk

It helps to remember that smartphones gave rise to a fundamentally new type of game, making way for the titles that have distracted us from our line-waiting miseries for the past several years. “Knowing that someone can touch most of the screen with one hand, you can design apps or games that live in the busiest parts of a person’s life,” Foddy says. “On the train, or at the bank, I can play Flappy Bird or Threes or Letterpress, but I can’t play a 3-D shooter.”

But if the next generation of iPhones are indeed 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches diagonally across, as has been rumored, it would mean that a significant number of iPhone users won’t be able to comfortably touch the whole screen with one hand. It makes those “busiest part of your life” games a much trickier proposition—and potentially bad business.

“If I make an app in portrait orientation, I have to assume half my customers will be holding it with two hands,” Foddy says. And if he wanted to make a game explicitly designed for one hand, “I basically have to give away a large portion of the market.”

Asher Vollmer, co-creator of the hit portrait-orientation numbers puzzler Threes, thinks Foddy’s concerns are legitimate. “One of the biggest complaints I get on Threes is that the retry button is too far away,” he says. “It’s in the top left of the screen. I can just barely get away with this because you don’t restart games too often, but if I released a game that required area-specific touch controls I would be in a lot of trouble with newer, gigantic phones.”

Is Awkward Gaming Inevitable?

Vollmer does point out that portrait games like Threes and Temple Run might ultimately be safe because their main gameplay controls work anywhere on the screen. But in a mondo-phone future, games with area-specific controls like Cut the Rope will have a more difficult route ahead.

It’s possible games will adapt, moving their controls to a thumb-friendly interaction zone in the bottom-right (or bottom-left) corner of the screen, but that isn’t the most elegant use of a huge touchscreen, nor will it work with every type of title. (Plus, the problem with larger displays isn’t just thumb-reach; it’s that one-handed operation of any sort becomes fraught at a certain size. You get people pinching the side with their palms, accidentally triggering taps on the screen, or else grasping them two-fisted like a Game Boy. All this uncertainty adds challenge for game designers.)

While a wave of bigger iPhones could be a death knell for a certain type of one-handed, casual game, there’s evidence that these sorts of games are already on the way out. Just look at the bestseller charts for Android Play and the iOS App Store. As of writing, there was exactly one portrait-mode game to be found among the top twenty bestsellers on both stores.

It’s a glossy update of Tetris for the iPhone, an old game that just happens to have lived in a long, tall rectangle all its life. By comparison, App Store records for the same week in 2010 show that a full half of the top-selling paid games for the iPhone were portrait-orientation.

So why the dearth of popular portrait titles on the charts today? It might be that we’re just increasingly coming to think of smartphones as sideways, two-handed gaming devices. As phones have become more powerful, games have become more cinematic, and cinema always looks better in widescreen. Plus, we now have other portrait-mode diversions like Twitter and Instagram to fill those idle moments in line and on the subway. The addicting pleasure of “pull-to-refresh” even lends some of those apps a game-like element of their own.

Looking at those App Store charts, Foddy can’t help but see evidence that mobile gaming has turned on its side.

“The days of DoodleJump and SpellTower and Letterpress are gone,” he says. “Everything is in two-handed landscape mode, a mode for people who are sitting down or lying in bed, and devoting all their attention and manual capability to the game.” In other words: Bigger, better, brighter phones have lead us to bigger, better brighter games.

The demise of the one-handed game becomes fascinating when you take this slightly longer view. For a brief spell, the advent of a touchscreen device that fit comfortably in one hand gave birth to an entirely new type of diversion. These were tiny things, just as easy to put down as they were to pick up.

We didn’t have to carve out time to play them; they lived in nooks and crannies of down time during our day. But with the rise of less graspable phones and the abundance of time-wasters we now have for them, the conditions that allowed for those games to exist may well be evaporating.

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[quote author=shadowwalker101]another possible hack to learn and exploit
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bablononi: seun, dis should make front page

abi o,,,,,,, i dont think there is admin in these section because its so dull

blueghost: after BlackBerry sold dia soul to d devil android in a bid to stay alive what do u expect?

hmm. soul to the devil?..

Hackers Can Control Your Phone Using a Tool That’s Already Built Into It

A lot of concern about the NSA’s seemingly omnipresent surveillance over the last year has focused on the agency’s efforts to install back doors in software and hardware. Those efforts are greatly aided, however, if the agency can piggyback on embedded software already on a system that can be exploited.
Two researchers have uncovered such built-in vulnerabilities in a large number of smartphones that would allow government spies and sophisticated hackers to install malicious code and take control of the device.
The attacks would require proximity to the phones, using a rogue base station or femtocell, and a high level of skill to pull off. But it took Mathew Solnik and Marc Blanchou, two research consultants with Accuvant Labs, just a few months to discover the vulnerabilities and exploit them.
The vulnerabilities lie within a device management tool carriers and manufacturers embed in handsets and tablets to remotely configure them. Though some design their own tool, most use a tool developed by a specific third-party vendor—which the researchers will not identify until they present their findings next week at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The tool is used in some form in more than 2 billion phones worldwide. The vulnerabilities, they say, were found so far in Android and BlackBerry devices and a small number of Apple iPhones used by Sprint customers. They haven’t looked at Windows Mobile devices yet.
The researchers say there’s no sign that anyone has exploited the vulnerabilities in the wild, and the company that makes the tool has issued a fix that solves the problem. But it’s now up to carriers to distribute it to users in a firmware update.
Carriers use the management tool to send over-the-air firmware upgrades, to remotely configure handsets for roaming or voice-over WiFi and to lock the devices to specific service providers. But each carrier and manufacturer has its own custom implementation of the client, and there are many that provide the carrier with an array of additional features.
To give carriers the ability to do these things, the management tool operates at the highest level of privilege on devices, which means an attacker who accesses and exploits the tool has the same abilities as the carriers.
The management tools are implemented using a core standard, developed by the Open Mobile Alliance, called OMA device management. From these guidelines, each carrier can choose a base set of features or request additional ones. Solnik says they found that some phones have features for remotely wiping the device or conducting a factory reset, altering operating system settings and even remotely changing the PIN for the screen lock.
They’ve also found systems that allow the carrier to identify nearby WiFi networks, remotely enable and disable Bluetooth or disable the phone’s camera. More significantly, they’ve found systems that allow the carrier to identify the applications on a handset, as well as activate or deactivate them or even add and remove applications. The systems give the carrier the option of making these changes with our without prompting the consumer.
Carriers also can modify settings and servers for applications pre-installed by the carrier—something hackers could exploit to force the phone to communicate with a server of their choosing.
Furthermore, some of the systems can monitor the web browser’s home page and in some cases retrieve synced contacts. Others include a call redirect function that can direct the phone to a specific phone number. Carriers typically use this feature to program shortcuts to their own phone numbers.
For example, Verizon might program its phones so “299″ dials customer service. But Solnik found this feature can be used to redirect any number; phone numbers also can be programmed to launch an application.
“Pretty much whatever number … if we programmed it, when you dial it, it would do whatever functionality we programmed it to do,” Solnik says. “Whether you have the number 1 programmed for your mother, it would then do what we choose.”
The more features the management tool offers the carrier, the more an attacker can do as well. But at a minimum, every device they examined would allow an attacker to change all of the cellular network functionality. In many cases, they could also control firmware updates.
Two phones that provided the highest level of exploitation were the HTC One M7 and the Blackberry Z10. Among iOS devices, they found that only iPhones offered by Sprint and running an operating system prior to version 7.0.4 were vulnerable. The 7.0.4 version of the software, which Apple released in November, partially solved the issue.
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Carriers recognize the risk these management tools present, and many have added encryption and authentication to bolster security. Accessing the management system in the device, for example, often requires a password. And the researchers found every carrier in the US encrypts communication between a device and the carrier’s server. But these protections are so poorly implemented that the researchers could undermine them.
“Pretty much all the safeguards put into place to protect the clients in nearly all major devices we found can be bypassed,” Solnik says.
In the case of the authentication, for example, they found that the systems use passwords that are generated in part using a public identifier—that is, the IMEI, or the cell phone’s serial number. That number is readily available by any base station that communicates with the phone. Solnik says that although each carrier’s system uses a slightly different method for generating passwords, they’re all based on the same core.
“They’re all taking a certain public identifier and a certain pre-shared token or secret and using that to derive the password,” he says. “There is some secret sauce added, but because it’s derived from this token that is already public knowledge, that can be reverse-engineered and reproduced…. We can more or less pre-calculate all passwords for any device in order to manage the client.”
They also found many ways to undermine the encryption. “It does require a deep understanding of what it’s doing, but once you understand how it works, you can pretty much turn off or just bypass or man-in-the-middle the encryption itself,” Solnik says.
Although the vulnerabilities are basic from a security perspective, exploiting them is not. Each requires extensive knowledge of the OMA-DM standard implementation and how cellular networks work. A successful hack also requires setting up a cellular base transceiver station or finding a vulnerability in a femtocell to take it over and use it for the attack. And cracking the encryption is also not trivial. Nonetheless, anyone with the same level of knowledge and skill as the researchers could conduct the attacks.
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That said, the researchers don’t believe anyone has exploited the vulnerabilities so far.
“During our disclosure with the vendors, different vendors have processes to look through to see if there are any traces of someone exploiting the vulnerabilities and we haven’t heard that there are any traces that anyone has seen so far,” says Ryan Smith, chief scientist at Accuvant.
Solnik and Blanchou have notified the firm that makes the management tool used by so many, and the company has already issued a fix. They also notified baseband manufacturers, who have written code that would implement that fix. Carriers are in the process of distributing a fix to existing phones.
“It’s important that all users … stay up to date with all the latest patches,” Solnik says. “Users should contact their carrier to see if an update is already available.”

what do you think?..

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Donsammi: prevention is beta than cure

abi na

Hm. I just hate the color white.

Proxy001: 3rd world war looms.... God abeg help Nigeria to stay neutral.

abi o

cirmuell: Duh, fear grip me o i tot the thing been they spread ebola too.

haba!

If you decided to transition your music from BlackBerry World to the 7digital Music Store app on BlackBerry 10, you'll want to make sure you have the latest version installed. A new update to the 7digital Music Store has now arrived in BlackBerry World and although the change log is small, there's some important changes within it such as improvements for saving your music to your SD Card.
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Fix for issue saving to SD Card
Fix for missing featured albums
Fix for Canadian English store sending French emails.

The update is live now, so there shouldn't be any waiting for it to arrive. For those who like to keep track of version numbers, it goes from 5.69.5.1 to 5.69.6.1. Are you using the 7digital Music Store or did you look elsewhere for music purchases now? ,Let us know.
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Russian soldier's instagram account accidentally reveals he is over the border

A man who identifies himself as a Russian soldier may have inadvertently taken two damning selfies.
Alexander Sotkin posted two photos of himself to Instagram from within Ukraine -- one on June 30 and another on July 5. BuzzFeed first reported the story.
Although it's an open secret that Russian soldiers are assisting Ukrainian nationals who are rebelling against the Ukrainian government, the Russian army denies that its troops have crossed the border.
A spokesman for the Russian Embassy said the government does not "make any decisions" or "come to conclusions" based on the social media posts. But the spokesman pointed to a news article in Russia's Life News that claimed the photos were forgeries and the locations of the selfies were falsified.
CNN News cannot independently confirm his identity.

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Sotkin's Facebook (FB, Tech30) profile describes his role as an instructor at the department of radio communications. He has been active on social networks for months while on duty. His colorful Instagram feed features pictures of himself eating a watermelon. posing with other soldiers and wearing a gas mask.
Another recent selfie caption: "sitting around, working on a buk, listening to music, basically a good sunday"
Sotkin may have been unaware that an Instagram feature called "Photo Map" was turned on when he took the photos. The feature tracks and visualizes when and where users post Instagram shots. Photo Map uses GPS to determine its users' locations, a tool that is generally accurate with 50 feet or so.
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The location of his Instagram photos suggests he has been stationed on the Russia/Ukraine border since June 23. He posted 34 photos during that span -- 32 on the Russian side of the border and two on the Ukrainian side. The photos of Sotkin on the Ukrainian side were taken several miles across the border.

Credit and source : http://techcribng.com/oops-russian-soldier-instagrams-himself-in-ukraine/
source : http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/01/technology/social/russian-soldier-ukraine-instagram/index.html?iid=SF_T_Lead

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It's time to start thinking of smartphones and USB Flash drives like toothbrushes or razors -- for personal use only.
German security researchers have discovered that USB-connected devices have a fatal flaw. Anything that connects via USB can be reprogrammed to pose as another device.
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That means a stranger's USB stick could dupe your computer into thinking it's a keyboard, then type in certain commands and quietly take control of your laptop.Or it could pose as a network card, rerouting your Internet traffic so everything you do can be spied on.
Identity theft, bank fraud, extortion -- you name it. Anything follows. And any talented computer engineer can tamper with a device's firmware to dupe a computer.
Some cybersecurity experts, like Rapid7's Trey Ford, say the danger of sharing USB devices have been spotted before.
But SRLabs chief scientist Karsten Nohl, a member of the team that discovered the flaw, said the implications are now clear. Downloading the wrong app can infect your phone, then compromise your computer. And borrowing a stranger's USB stick could infect your computer permanently.
"Someone asking, 'Can I charge my Android on your computer?' will have a much different connotation in the future," Nohl said.
Hacker makes encrypted message app
The problem is made worse, because modern day antivirus and protection software won't catch it. USB duping isn't technically a computer virus in action, just a device masquerading as another one. So, there's no solution for it right now except simply barring Flash drives.
That's the approach the U.S. military takes at sensitive locations. The Pentagon disabled its computers USB ports and banned the use of Flash drives in 2008 to prevent infection of government computers there.
The flaw was discovered by SRLabs researchers Nohl, Jakob Lell and Sascha Krissler, and will be explained in detail at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference next week in Las Vegas.
The team tested with several types of Flash drives, as well as Android smartphones, which connect to computers via USB ports. The team did not test iPhones or other smartphones.
But it's not about a specific kind of device. At its very core, the USB flaw exists because of the convenient nature of computer Universal Serial Bus ports -- they're universal. They accept all sorts of devices -- mouses, microphones, printers and more."That simplicity has a cost," Nohl said.

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Why do u guyz hate tecno , and you they use am.

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OmichaelO: CM browser
titanium backup pro
MEGA
ES FILE EXPLORER
MEMEDROID PRO
Etc.....

ok..

DjAndroid: My galaxy note3 came with all those things the OP listed.

hmm

Hmmmmm.

fr3do: Android is a very secure and self regulating OS.
One doesn't need antivirus or ram cleaner.
Vital system files are stored in the root folder which is completely inaccessible unless you are rooted (unlike symbian and windows).
Android closes apps by itself to free up RAM.

My list
1. Es file explorer or Lcg Xplore
2. moon reader
3. Ucbrowser
4. The pirate bay and ttorent
5. Skitch
6. Camera 360
7. LoaderDroid
8. Mxplayer
9. Xender or flashshare
10. Your freedom vpn
11. Music maniac
12. Bbm,whatsapp,viber...
13. TuneIn radio
14. Mobogenie
15. DJ studio
16. Barcode scanner and maker
17. 4shared
18. Google drive
19. Calculator cFunction
20. Opera or ucweb mini

hmm, i here you.