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Google Brings Safe Browsing to Chrome for Android

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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";"><strong>Google this week announced the availability of Google Safe Browsing technology in its Chrome browser for Android, a feature meant to keep users safe from malware, unwanted software, and social engineering sites.</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">The Internet giant has integrated Safe Browsing in Google Play Services version 8.1, and Chrome for Android version 46 and up is the first application to take advantage of the security enhancement. Users can head to Settings > Privacy menu in Chrome on their Android devices to check whether Safe Browsing is enabled, the company explained in a <a href="https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ro/2015/12/protecting-hundreds-of-millions-more.html" style="color: #0076b4; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blog post</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">The feature has been available on Chrome for desktop for a long time, informing users when they were about to access a dangerous site. With Safe Browsing available on Android, users can now be warned on the risk of accessing a flagged website, such as social engineering, phishing, and other malicious web pages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva"; font-size: small;">According to Google, the main challenge of providing such protection on a mobile device is related to data size, as mobile data costs more and is delivered at lower speeds. With network bandwidth and battery being the most valuable resources on a mobile device, the company decided to break threats by geo location and to send information to protect devices only to the regions targeted by the attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">Moreover, the company decided to deliver information on the riskiest sites first, to ensure the data is more relevant, and also tried to compress it as much as possible, to ensure data transfer savings. The software running on devices uses fewer resources and minimizes network traffic, in an attempt to ensure longer battery life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">“Some social engineering attacks only happen in certain parts of the world, so we only send information that protects devices in the geographic regions they’re in. We also make sure that we send information about the riskiest sites first: if we can only get a very short update through, as is often the case on lower-speed networks in emerging economies, the update really has to count,” the company said.</span></span></div>
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Micromax Canvas Mega, Canvas Mega 4G Launched in India

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Micromax has launched the Canvas Mega (E353) and Canvas Mega 4G (Q417) 
at Rs. 7,999 and Rs. 10,999 respectively. The company in a press 
statement has confirmed that the Micromax Canvas Mega (E353) will be 
available in the markets immediately. Though, there is no word when the 
Canvas Mega 4G will go on sale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Out of the two new Canvas Mega 
smartphones, the Canvas Mega (seen above) was first listed on the company website last month and later went on sale via a 
third-party online retailer. Micromax is targeting both the smartphones 
at young consumers and claims that the devices will strengthen their 
phablet segment.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For specifications, the Micromax Canvas Mega 
(E353) comes with dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) support and runs Android 5.1 
Lollipop out-of-the-box. It comes with a 5.5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) 
IPS display and also comes with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for protection. 
The smartphone is powered by a 1.4GHz octa-core MediaTek (MT6592M) 
processor coupled with 1GB of RAM. It comes with 8GB of inbuilt storage,
 which is further expandable via microSD card (up to 32GB). It sports a 
13-megapixel rear autofocus camera with LED flash, while there is a 
secondary 5-megapixel front-facing camera also on board. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the 
connectivity front, the Canvas Mega offers 3G, GPRS/ EDGE, Wi-Fi 802.11 
b/g/n, Micro-USB, and Bluetooth options. The smartphone packs a 2820mAh 
battery, which according to the official listing is rated to deliver up 
to 10 hours of talk time and up to 600 hours of standby time. It 
measures 154x78.7x8.9mm and will be available in Black colour. It packs 
sensors such as accelerometer, ambient light sensor, magnetometer, and 
proximity sensor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Micromax Canvas Mega 4G (Q417) (seen above), on the other
 hand, features a 5.5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) IPS display. It is a 
dual-SIM smartphone that runs Android 5.1 Lollipop.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As the name 
suggests, the handset supports 4G and is compatible with Indian LTE 
bands. Powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6735 processor clocked at 
1.3GHz, the Canvas Mega 4G comes with 3GB of RAM. Much like the Canvas 
Mega (E353), the Canvas Mega 4G sports a 13-megapixel rear with LED 
flash and also comes with a 5-megapixel front camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Canvas 
Mega 4G comes with 16GB of inbuilt storage, which can be expanded via microSD card (up to 
32GB). The connectivity options, apart from 4G, 
include 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Micro-USB, and A-GPS. A 2500mAh battery 
backs the handset.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Commenting on the launch, Vineet Taneja, CEO, 
Micromax Informatics said, "Phablet market has grown exponentially in 
the last quarter with over 200% growth in the segment. With more than 
70 percent of neo-users in the age group of 15-24 years extensively streaming 
videos on their smartphones; the growth of phablet market has been 
triggered exponentially. With the launch of the Mega series, we're 
reinforcing our commitment to bold and fearless innovation that meets 
the needs of our consumers."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">He added that the company will be focusing on smartphones featuring 5.5-inch displays.</span><br />
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Moto G Turbo Edition Could Launch in India This Week

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Motorola is set to launch the Moto G Turbo Edition in India later 
this week. The company has begun teasing what appears to be a Wednesday 
launch of the smartphone on its India Twitter handle.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Motorola India on Monday <a href="https://twitter.com/MotorolaIndia/status/673846820213301248" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tweeted</a>,
 "Power up and get ready for #TurboMode! 3 Days to go for Moto G Turbo 
edition. Coming soon!". Over the weekend, the company has been dropping 
other hints as well: Stay Restless (unchain and step outside 
fearlessly), Dance in the Rain (leave the worrying to us. We've got your
 back), Live the Moments (we'll make sure you relive them forever), and 
Explore the World (time will never be an excuse again). The company 
began teasing the launch from Saturday, and with a <a href="https://twitter.com/MotorolaIndia/status/673373854362808320" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tweet</a>
 on Sunday pointed to a three-day launch time-frame - suggesting a 
Wednesday launch rather than a Thursday launch hinted at by Monday's 
tweet.</span>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Lenovo-owned company unveiled the Moto G Turbo Edition in Mexico last month. Borrowing enhanced ruggedness from the Turbo
 brand, the handset was reported to sport IP67 certification, and also 
withstand being submerged in up to a meter of water for 30 minutes.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As for the specifications, the Moto G Turbo Edition sports a 5-inch 
full-HD (1080x1920 pixel) display, up from the HD display in the Moto G 
(Gen 3) with Gorilla Glass 3 coating. It is powered by a Snapdragon 615 
SoC and 2GB of RAM (up from the Snapdragon 410 SoC and 1GB RAM in Moto G Gen 3).</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Other features of the handset include a 16GB internal storage which 
can be expanded using a microSD card, a 13-megapixel rear camera with 
f/2.0 aperture, a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.2 aperture 
and a 2470mAh battery that supports Motorola Turbo Power quick charging.
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 On the software front, the handset runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box. The handset was launched at a price point of $283 (roughly Rs. 18,600).  </span></div>

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Make It Harder for People to Find You on Facebook

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With close to one-and-a-half billion people currently on Facebook,
 keeping a low profile can be tricky. It's in the site's best interest 
to make it easy for you to make connections with family, friends, and 
acquaintances. However, if you want to make it more difficult for people
 to track you down, there are ways to do it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From the desktop website, dive into the <strong>Settings</strong> entry from the toolbar menu, then click through on the <strong>Privacy</strong> heading on the left. Under the <strong>Who can look me up?</strong> section you'll find three options that are of use to us here. By clicking on the <strong>Edit</strong> links to the right, it's possible to stop people who aren't already your friends looking you up via your email or phone number.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There's
 also the option to hide yourself from public search engines. Turn this 
off, and your Facebook profile won't appear the next time someone 
Googles or Bings your name on the open web-unfortunately you can't hide 
yourself from the search tools inside Facebook, unless you use an 
alternative or abbreviated name or something like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What you can do is limit the information Facebook has on you. Click the <strong>Update Info</strong>
 button on your profile, and remove references to workplaces, 
educational establishments, and places you've lived. This will make it 
harder for someone to locate you on Facebook, particularly if you've got
 a common name and are likely to get lost in a long list of search 
results.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Finally you can go back to the Privacy page and turn off 
the option that allows anyone with a Facebook account to contact you. 
Limit this to <strong>Friends of friends, </strong>and you won't have to
 pretend to ignore that old classmate of yours who's bombarding you with
 messages. He or she won't be able to reach you in the first place.</span><br />
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2016 Samsung Galaxy A7, Galaxy A5, Galaxy A3: What's New and Improved

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Samsung finally took the wraps off
 its three new Galaxy A (2016) smartphones on Wednesday that are a 
definitive upgrade over its predecessors. The new smartphones namely Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016), Galaxy A5 (2016), and Galaxy A7 (2016)
 feature metal build and will also be available in dual-SIM options. The
 Galaxy A7 (2016) is the most powerful among the trio, followed by 
Galaxy A5 (2016), and then Galaxy A3 (2016).</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As compared to their predecessors, the three smartphones boast of 
bigger displays, higher screen resolutions, upgraded processors, more 
RAM, higher resolution cameras, faster LTE connectivity support, and 
larger batteries. Here is a list of features that the Galaxy A (2016) 
handsets sport over and above the original Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, and 
Galaxy A7.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>1. Bigger display</b> - Two of the three Galaxy A 
(2016) smartphones feature bigger displays than their predecessors. 
While probably aimed at offering a more immersive viewing experience and
 heightened productivity, on the negative side, increases the size of 
the smartphone. The Galaxy A3 (2016) and Galaxy A5 (2016)
 feature 5.2-inch and 4.7-inch display sizes respectively. For those 
unaware, the Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 smartphones include 5-inch and 
4.5-inch display sizes respectively. The Galaxy A7 (2016) however, has 
the same 5.5-inch display like its predecessor.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>2. Higher screen resolution</b> - The second-generation Galaxy A 
smartphones not only feature bigger displays, but come with better 
screen resolution as well. While the original Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5 
sported qHD (540x960 pixels) and HD (720x1280 pixels) resolution 
displays respectively, their successors now sport HD (720x1280 pixels) 
and full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) resolution displays respectively. Once 
again, there's no change with Galaxy A7 (2016) as it features the same 
full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) resolution display panel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>3. Faster
 processors</b> - While Samsung has not yet fully detailed what SoCs it is 
using on the three Galaxy A (2016) smartphones, it has bumped up the 
clock speeds and/ or cores in all cases. The Galaxy A3 (2016) packs a 
1.5GHz quad-core processor as compared to Galaxy A3's 1.2GHz quad-core 
processor, while the Galaxy A5 (2016) runs on a 1.6GHz octa-core SoC as 
compared to Galaxy A5's 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor. The 
Galaxy A7 (2016) houses a 1.6GHz octa-core SoC as compared to its 
predecessor's 1.5GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>4. More 
RAM</b> - Samsung has with the new generation of Galaxy A-series smartphones
 given more RAM to two of the three smartphones, which should result in a
 smoother UI and faster multitasking experience.The Galaxy A3 (2016) now
 boasts of 1.5GB RAM, which is 500MB more than what is present in the 
Galaxy A3. The Galaxy A7 (2016) houses 3GB RAM, which is 1GB bump from 
Galaxy A7's 2GB RAM. The amount of memory on the Samsung Galaxy A5 and 
Galaxy A5 (2016) stays the same at 2GB RAM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>5. Higher resolution 
cameras, with OIS</b> - Samsung has updated the optics of the new Galaxy 
A-series smartphones. The biggest difference is the inclusion of the 
optical image stabilisation (OIS) feature for two of the three 
smartphones, which should help deliver more stable shots and video 
capture. The Galaxy A5 (2016) and Galaxy A7 (2016) now come with the 
optical image stabilisation feature. Talking about an increase in 
resolution, the Galaxy A3 (2016)'s rear camera has been bumped up from 
8-megapixels to 13-megapixels, while the 5-megapixel front-facing camera
 remains unchanged. Now, all three second-gen handsets pack 13-megapixel
 rear and 5-megapixel front-facing cameras.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>6. Newer Android version</b> -
 The entire Galaxy A (2016) range now runs Android 5.1 Lollipop 
out-of-the-box. The version brings Google's Material Design mantra along
 with better eye-catching UI animations, multi-user login and new 
notification controls. The previous Galaxy A series came with Android 
4.4 KitKat out-of-the-box. Samsung is yet to clarify when the new 
handsets will receive Android 6.0 Marshmallow.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>7. Support for 
increased microSD card capacity</b> - Now users can store more content in 
the microSD cards and access it on their new Galaxy A (2016) handsets. 
While the Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, and Galaxy A7 come with 16GB inbuilt 
storage and supported external storage via microSD cards of capacities 
up to 64GB, their successors can support microSD cards with capacities 
up to 128GB. All three smartphones however bear the same 16GB of inbuilt
 storage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>8. Support for faster LTE connectivity</b> - Two of three new 
Galaxy A-series smartphones also offer faster LTE connectivity over the 
older ones. It will help users browse the Web and access Internet-based 
app content faster on supported networks. Both the Galaxy A5 (2016) and 
Galaxy A7 (2016) support LTE Cat. 6 connectivity, up from from LTE Cat. 4
 of their predecessors, while the Galaxy A3 (2016) however remains the 
same with support for LTE Cat. 4 connectivity support. For those 
unaware, LTE Cat. 4 supports a maximum download speed of 150Mbps, while 
LTE Cat. 6 supports a maximum download speed of 300Mbps. Their maximum 
supported upload speeds are the same, at 50Mbps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>9. Larger Battery 
Capacity</b> - The battery capacities of the Galaxy A-series smartphones 
have also been upgraded with the second-generation smartphones. Samsung 
is yet to reveal the standby time and talk time of each of the new 
device. While the Galaxy A3, Galaxy A5, and Galaxy A7 are backed by 
1900mAh, 2300mAh, and 2600mAh batteries respectively, their second-gen 
counterparts house 2300mAh, 2900mAh, and 3300mAh batteries respectively.</span>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Looking at the list of upgrades Samsung has thrown inside its 
brand-new Galaxy A-series smartphones, it is likely that the devices 
will be priced higher than the first-generation models. The company has 
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The 
point of Sale systems are the most tempting target for cyber crooks to 
steal your credit card information and with this Christmas, you need to 
be more careful while using your credit cards at retailers and grocery 
stores.</span></div>
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Cyber criminals are now selling a new powerful strain of Point of Sale (PoS) malware through underground forums.</span></div>
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Like several POS malware families discovered last year, including vSkimmer and BlackPOS, the new malware is also designed to steal payment card data from the infected POS systems and <b>support TOR </b>to hide its C&C (Command and Control) servers.</span></div>
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Pro PoS – Light Weight, Yet Powerful Malware</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="main-article-info">However, the new malware, dubbed "<b>Pro PoS</b>," packs more than just a PoS malware.</span></span></div>
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Pro PoS weighs only 76KB, implements rootkit functionalities, as well as
 mechanisms to avoid antivirus detection, according to threat 
intelligence firm InfoArmor.</div>
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What's even more interesting about this malware is…</div>
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Pro PoS integrates a <b>polymorphic engine </b>that lets the threat generate a different signature for each malware sample – a measure designed to foil security defences.</div>
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InfoArmor warned that cyber crooks were actively using the current version of <b>Pro PoS Solution</b> in an effort to target PoS systems used by large retailers and SMBs in the United States and Canada specifically.</div>
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The developers of the Pro PoS malware are believed to be hackers from Eastern Europe, according to the security firm.</div>
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On November 27 (<b>Black Friday</b>), researchers at InfoArmor noticed a significant increase in the price of the Pro PoS Solution, which was offered at <b>$2,600 </b>for a six-month licence.</div>
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The developers of Pro PoS have designed their malware in such a way that
 it infects the principal operating systems, including newer operating 
systems, used by the companies in the retail environment.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";"><strong>Microsoft on Wednesday announced the availability of a <a href="http://aka.ms/acspreview" style="color: #0076b4; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">preview</a> of Azure Container Service (ACS), providing customers with the ability to manage multiple virtual machines acting as container hosts.</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">According to Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, ACS allows customers to create a cluster of such virtual machines, as well as create and manage master machines that can be used to orchestrate application containers. The service offers optimized configurations of open source scheduling and orchestration tools and can be used for the deployment of container based applications on Microsoft Azure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">ACS was announced in September, when Microsoft revealed the service that was built in partnership with Docker Inc. and Mesosphere. The goal was to deliver a production ready container service based on Docker, Apache Mesos and open source components from Mesosphere's Datacenter Operating System (DCOS), and to ensure that the workloads can run optimally on Azure, without compromising application portability, Microsoft explains.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">The tech giant claims that this approach will deliver increased flexibility and portability for applications, while also noting that the service offers support only for Linux containers at the moment. However, Windows Server Container support is expected to be added to ACS in the future, as Microsoft is working on offering Windows Server Containers using Docker and on porting Apache Mesos to Windows.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It seems like Facebook-owned popular messaging service WhatsApp is blocking links to rival messaging applications – at least <b>Telegram app </b>for now.</span></div>
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Telegram users are noticing that WhatsApp is blocking any links to the privacy-oriented messaging service Telegram.me.</span></div>
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Although users are free to send or receive Telegram links on WhatsApp, 
the links appear as non-clickable that you cannot copy or forward.</span></div>
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This strange behavior was first <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/3utvyq/whatsapp_playing_low_really_low_cant_clickcopy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">noticed</a> this morning by Telegram users over on Reddit.</span></div>
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The URLs – which are generally automatically made clickable – still 
appeared as plain text messages, but they didn't register as hyperlinks,
 blocking users from copying or forwarding them to other users or other 
apps.</span></div>
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In general, this odd behavior is done with malicious URLs such as malware or spam.</div>
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The Culprit</h3>
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However, this strange behavior was not exhibited on every device. Only 
WhatsApp for Android is currently showing this behavior while Telegram 
URLs still work fine on the iOS version of WhatsApp.</div>
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This issue only began appearing in <b>WhatsApp Version 2.12.327</b>, a silent update pushed earlier this morning.</div>
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Telegram has <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/30/9819460/whatsapp-telegram-link-block-copy-paste" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">confirmed</a>
 the situation to The Verge that the Facebook, who owned WhatsApp, is 
indeed responsible for the issue, as the social network has used this 
link-blocking trick in the newsfeed and Messenger app before to prevent 
its users from visiting Torrent websites.</div>
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<i>"Typically after a media backlash, FB steps back and blames their intelligent filtering for the problem," </i>said a Telegram spokesperson.<i> "We expect the same to happen this time as well."</i></blockquote>
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However, Facebook and WhatsApp are yet to comment on the issue. The 
popular messaging app has not even acknowledged that a new update was 
pushed this morning</div>
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Adobe to Kill 'FLASH', but by Just Renaming it as 'Adobe Animate CC'

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Adobe is Finally Killing FLASH, but not actually.</div>
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Adobe Flash made the Internet a better place with slick graphics, 
animation, games and applications, but it never stood a chance of 
surviving in the same world as HTML5.</div>
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Of course, Flash has plagued with various stability and security issues, which is why developers had hated the technology for years.</div>
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So, now it's time to say GoodBye to Adobe Flash Professional CC, and Welcome<b> Adobe Animate CC</b>.</div>
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<span class="main-article-info">Meet the new Flash, <b>Adobe Animate CC</b>, same as the old Flash, and still insecure mess.</span></div>
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Adobe Animate CC Embraces HTML5</h3>
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Adobe has officially <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/flashpro/welcome-adobe-animate-cc-a-new-era-for-flash-professional/?PID=4003003" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">announced</a> that<i> "over a third of all content created in Flash Professional today uses HTML5,"</i> so the company is acknowledging the shift with the new name.</div>
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Adobe Animate CC — Adobe's Premier Web animation tool for developing <b>HTML5 content</b>.</div>
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Yes, that's what the company has the focus on.</div>
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The application – mostly looks like an update to the Flash Professional 
software – will still support Adobe Flash (SWF) and AIR formats 'as 
first-class citizens,' along with other animation and video formats, 
including HTML5 canvas, 4K and WebGL output.</div>
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Adobe Animate CC is the Same Old Flash</h3>
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When Adobe Animate CC launches in January 2016, it will bring features 
like easy access to high-quality stock art, new vector art brushes, as 
well as the ability to rotate the canvas 360° from any pivot point. 
Sounds exciting!</div>
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<b>What it won't bring is:</b></div>
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The platform has a new name, but the development tool lives on.</div>
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So, Flash isn't actually dead; it's just renamed.</div>
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<i>"Adobe's strategy is to make money regardless of what happens in the market," </i>says <b>Jeffrey Hammonds</b>, principal analyst at Forrester Research. <i>"They understand that there is a slow transition to HTML5 going on."</i><br />
<i>"At some point you have to embrace the change," Hammond adds. "The 
rebranding is the visible sign of that, but the internal focus on 
supporting the technologies like HTML5 has been going on a while."</i></blockquote>
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So, hiding Flash behind a different name doesn't solve the stability and
 security issues. In fact, a recently uncovered flaw in the software was
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Aqua 3G 512 With 3G Support, 4-Inch Display Launched at Rs. 2,699

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Aqua Mobiles, a domestic tech firm, on Tuesday launched a budget 
smartphone dubbed Aqua 3G 512 priced at Rs. 2,699. The smartphone will 
be available to buy from major online retailers in Ebony Black and Pearl
 White colour variants.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Aqua 3G 512
 is a dual-SIM supporting handset that runs the now-dated Android 4.4.2 
KitKat out-of-the-box. It features a 4-inch WVGA (480x800 pixels) 
resolution IPS display and packs a dual-core (Cortex-A7) MediaTek 
MTK6572 processor clocked at 1.2GHz, clubbed with 512MB RAM.</span>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It sports a 2-megapixel rear camera with LED flash along with a 
0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. Also housed is a 4GB inbuilt storage.
 The Aqua 3G 512 measures 115x61.5x9.7mm, weighs 113 grams and is backed
 by a 2100mAh battery. The connectivity options included in the device 
are 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Micro-USB. Accelerometer, proximity, and 
ambient light sensors are also included.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Aqua 3G 512 is preloaded with apps including WhatsApp, Viber, YouTube, Facebook, Google Maps, Clean Master, Office Suite,
 and Saavn. "Aqua 3G 512 is a durable smartphone which meets the 
expectations of Indian consumers on all parameters, be it quality, 
aesthetics, durability or price. We hope that 3G 512 will get a great 
response in the Indian market," said Govind Bansal, Co-founder of Aqua 
Mobiles at the launch of Aqua 3G 512.</span>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The put the smartphone's specifications in perspective, Intex 
recently launched the Aqua Wave with a single-core 1GHz Spreadtrum 
SC7715A processor; 256MB of RAM, a 4-inch (480x800 pixels) display, at 
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Chrome for Android Can Now Save Up to 70 Percent Data, Says Google

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 Saver feature. The company said users can now experience mobile 
Internet savings of up to 70 percent with the improvements.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If users have the Data Saver feature turned on 
(Settings>Advanced>Data Saver>On), Chrome for Android will 
remove images from websites if it detects a slow connection. Once the 
webpage has been loaded, users can tap on 'load images' in the black 
notification bar shown at the bottom of the display to show all the 
images or only the individual ones which they want. The Data Saver 
option can be found under the 'Settings' option in the browser app.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Tal Oppenheimer, Product Manager, Google said the expanded Data Saver
 Mode will be reaching India and Indonesia first followed by other 
regions in 'coming months'. It is worth noting that Google's Data Saver 
feature has been available for mobile devices through Chrome for Android
 and Chrome for iOS in general release form since 2014.</span>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In March this year, Google launched a Chrome browser extension
 called Data Saver to save bandwidth and time when loading Web pages. 
Apart from saving bandwidth and loading Web pages faster, the extension 
also boosts security, since all sites are routed through Google's 
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To save Internet data across the apps, Opera Software in June brought its Opera Max data-saving application to India. The app helps users
 compress all non-encrypted mobile data being downloaded onto their 
smartphones, and is helpful for those who have limited data plans, or 
low bandwidth.</span>
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LG Zero Smartphone With All-Metal Body, 4G LTE Support Launched

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">LG back in September launched its new Class mid-range smartphone in Korea priced at SKW 399,300 
(approximately Rs. 22,500). The smartphone was exclusive to Korean 
market.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The company has now revealed LG Zero, the global variant of the 
Class, which will be available globally. LG has announced that the LG 
Zero smartphone will be available in Taiwan starting this week followed 
by other key markets in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. It will be 
available in Gold and Silver colours. The company adds that the 
smartphone will continue to be marketed as the LG Class in Germany, Korea, Russia, and 
Singapore. Unfortunately, LG has announced that it will announce pricing
 and availability of the Zero at the time of local launch.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One of 
the highlights of the LG Zero smartphone, similar to Class smartphone, 
is its metal body, and like other recent LG handsets, it features power 
and volume rocker buttons on the rear panel, just below the primary 
camera. The handset sports LG logo branding both on front and back 
panels. The Zero sports an 8-megapixel front-facing camera, which the 
company touts comes with the image sensor from the LG G4 flagship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For
 specifications, the LG Zero smartphone featured identical 
specifications as the Class. It features a 5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) 
IPS display. It offers a pixel density of 294ppi. The company notes that
 the Zero features an "Arc Glass" design at the edges giving it a 
slimmer profile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor. Considering that the Class was backed by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 
410 SoC, we can expect Zero smartphone to be powered by the same 
chipset. One of the biggest differences between the two handsets is in 
RAM - the Zero packs 1.5GB of RAM while Class came with 2GB of RAM. The 
handset packs 16GB of built-in storage while supporting expandable 
storage via microSD card (up to 2TB).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The company has confirmed 
that the LG Zero runs Android 5.1 Lollipop. There is a 13-megapixel rear
 camera with LED flash. The smartphone supports FM radio recording 
feature while also featuring a 1W speaker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It measures 
142x71.8x7.4mm and weighs 147 grams. For connectivity, the LG Zero 
supports 4G LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, NFC, and 
Micro-USB. The smartphone packs a 2050mAh embedded battery.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Announcing
 the handset, Juno Cho, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile 
Communications Company said, "At LG, we do not believe in limiting our 
best technology to just our flagship devices. The LG Zero exhibits 
innovation not only in its design but in its ability to offer premium 
features at a competitive price point."</span></div>

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Xiaomi Mi 4 Set to Get Windows 10 Mobile on Thursday

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Xiaomi on Monday announced that it will release Windows 10 Mobile software for flagship Mi 4
 Android smartphone in China on December 3 . The announcement comes nine
 months after Microsoft partnered with the Chinese technology 
conglomerate to beta test Windows 10 for phones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lin Bin, Co-Founder and President of Xiaomi shared the news on Chinese social networking website Weibo. The image <a href="http://weibo.com/1689618340/D6hyWudWQ?type=comment#_rnd1448957486064" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">shared by</a> Bin shows Windows 10 Mobile
 software running on an Mi 4.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The announcement comes a week after a 
Microsoft Operating System Software Engineer who goes by the alias 
TheRenaissanceMan posted on Weibo that a public release of Windows 10 
for Mi 4 is coming on Thanksgiving Day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">

</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In March, on the sidelines of Windows 10's release date announcement, Microsoft
 also said that it had partnered with Xiaomi to test Windows 10 for 
phones. At the time, the company said that it would be testing Windows 10 with select Xiaomi Mi 4 power users in China.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">

</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Through a new program with Xiaomi,
 one of the top smartphone distributors in the world, a select group of 
Xiaomi Mi 4 power users will be invited to help test Windows 10 and 
contribute to its future release later this year", the company had then 
noted in a blog post. "These power users will have the opportunity to 
download the Windows 10 Technical Preview - installing it and providing 
their feedback to Microsoft".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">

</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As Microsoft diminishes its mobile manufacturing efforts, the 
aforementioned partnership was speculated as a way for the company to 
get more people to try out its mobile operating system. Instead of 
releasing more Windows Phone (or Windows 10 Mobile) handsets, the company could release build (ROM) of its operating system that can be flashed onto an Android
 handset. At this point, we don't know how successful this program has 
been for the two companies. But a public release of Windows 10 Mobile 
for Mi 4 handsets does seem to paint a positive picture, and, may even 
indicate that more ROMs may be released to other Xiaomi phones.</span>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gadgets 360 reached out to Microsoft last week for comments on the 
program, and the company requested more time. We've reached out to 
Xiaomi for more information as well, and will update this article when 
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The Horrifying Vtech Hack Let Someone Download Thousands of Photos of Children

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The latest details about a recent security breach at a kids' toy 
company are in, and they are disturbing. A couple weeks ago, hackers <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/one-of-the-largest-hacks-yet-exposes-data-on-hundreds-of-thousands-of-kids" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">successfully broke into the servers of connected toy maker Vtech</a>
 and stole the personal information of nearly 5 million parents and over
 200,000 kids. What we didn't know until now: The hackers stole pictures
 of kids, too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">  </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is very bad. The hacker's identity is still 
unknown, but he's been updating Motherboard with details about the hack.
 When the story broke a couple days ago, the site reported that the 
hacker broke into Vtech's servers and stole the names, emails, 
passwords, download histories, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents 
who bought the company's devices. The massive batch of data also 
contained the first names, genders, and birthdays of over 200,000 
children. Motherboard's Lorenzo Francheschi-Bicchierai <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/one-of-the-largest-hacks-yet-exposes-data-on-hundreds-of-thousands-of-kids" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">identified the hack</a> as "the fourth largest consumer data breach to date."</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But
 then, this afternoon, the story took a turn for the terrifying when it 
became clhe hacker gained such broad access to Vtech's servers that he <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-obtained-childrens-headshots-and-chatlogs-from-toymaker-vtech" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">also downloaded about 190-gigabytes of photos</a>
 from the company's Kid Connect service. This is a simple little app 
that lets parents chat with their kid using a Vtech tablet and a 
smartphone. The images themselves appear to be headshots that Vtech <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rrZwiNaR4o" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">encourages its users</a> to upload when using the app.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In a sense, the hack is comparable to someone breaking into Facebook 
and making off with all of your private information and photos. The 
major difference, of course, is that we're talking about a company that 
makes devices for small children. The <a href="http://www.vtechkids.com/tutorials/innotab3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wifi-connected Vtech tablets</a> are recommended for children between the ages of three and nine. Vtech also makes a digital camera and a camera-mounted smartwatch for the same age range. It's certainly not the kids' fault that a random hacker can see what they're doing with their toys.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is, however, Vtech's fault. The news is dire enough that the company <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/30/vtech-toys-hack-private-data-parents-children" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">suspended trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange</a>
 earlier today. This. after security researcher Troy Hunt revealed that 
Vtech failed to take even the most basic steps to secure its customers 
data-and their children's. He writes:</span><br />
<blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For example, 
there is no SSL anywhere. All communications are over unencrypted 
connections including when passwords, parent's details and sensitive 
information about kids is transmitted. These days, we're well beyond the
 point of arguing this is ok - it's not. Those passwords <em>will</em> match many of the parent's other accounts and they deserve to be properly protected in transit.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
 You'd think if you were a children's toy company hosting photos and 
addresses of small children on your server you'd at least encrypt the 
connections. The Vtech hacker says he used an old school SQL injection 
to break in and get root access to the company's servers. "It was pretty
 easy to dump, so someone with darker motives could easily get it," he 
told Motherboard. For what it's worth, the hacker says he doesn't plan 
on publishing the data publicly.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's hard to decide if you want 
to be horrified or downright angry about this situation. On one had, the
 Sony hack and Target breaches have shown that anyone can be an unwitting victim to a company's weak security.
 However, the especially terrible security at Vtech makes you wonder if 
you should even be letting kids play with internet-connected toys. After
 all, it was just a few months ago that we learned how the new "Smart Barbie" could spy on kids. What else can go wrong?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don't have kids, so my opinion on this matter is somewhat uninformed. I do remember that my first favorite toy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTech_Socrates#/media/File:Vtech_socrates.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">was Socrates</a>,
 an educational robot made by-guess who-Vtech. Who knows what I typed 
into that little grey box of fun. If my parents ever had half of a 
suspicion that some pervert could gain access to my toy and watch me 
play, well, it probably would've been back to a Lego-only playtime for 
me. Now, in 2015, this is a very real possibility.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Say what you 
will about connected toys and cheap electronics for kids, but this Vtech
 bonanza should serve as a wakeup call to any and every company cutting 
corners on security. It should also be a weighty reminder to parents who
 would buy these devices that companies do cut corners on security. This
 not only puts their personal data at risk. Neglect puts kids at risk, 
too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">J.K. Shin, Samsung's longtime head of mobile (and the boss who 
oversaw the company's rise and fall as the Android kingpin), is moving 
on. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Samsung's smartphone division hasn't had a particularly 
healthy last few years: while it owned the market with the Galaxy S3 and
 S4, the follow-up phones have failed to captivate the market, resulting
 in last-ditch attempts to persuade people that curved screens are the 
future, and an <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-sees-seventh-straight-profit-decline-1436227146" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">overall loss for the company year-on-year</a>. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shin is staying on at the company as co-CEO, but losing control of 
the day-to-day operations of the smartphone division. His successor is 
D.J. Koh, who has overseen Samsung R&D during projects like its 
in-house Tizen mobile OS and Samsung Pay. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's difficult to say 
what effect this will have on the products Samsung churns out in the 
immediate future. Koh was the R&D lead during a period when Samsung 
transitioned from cheap, plasticky design in the S3 to the much more 
premium feel of the S5 and S6. Then again, premium feel and a 
streamlined handset range is a market trend that certainly isn't 
exclusive to Samsung.
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Critical 'Port Fail' Vulnerability Reveals Real IP Addresses of VPN Users

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A 
newly discovered flaw affecting all VPN protocols and operating systems 
has the capability to reveal the real IP-addresses of users' computers, 
including BitTorrent users, with relative ease.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
The vulnerability, dubbed <b>Port Fail </b>by VPN provider Perfect 
Privacy (PP) who discovered the issue, is a simple port forwarding trick
 and affects those services that:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Allow port forwarding</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Have no protection against this specific attack</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Port Forwarding trick means if an attacker uses the same VPN (<b>Virtual Private Network</b>) as the victim, then the real IP-address of the victim can be exposed by forwarding Internet traffic to a specific port.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><blockquote style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>"The crucial issue here is that a VPN user connecting to his own VPN 
server will use his default route with his real IP address, as this is 
required for the VPN connection to work," </i>Perfect Privacy wrote in a <a href="https://www.perfect-privacy.com/blog/2015/11/26/ip-leak-vulnerability-affecting-vpn-providers-with-port-forwarding/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog post</a> on Thursday.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="main-article-info"></span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Port Fail affects all VPN protocols including…</div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="text-align: justify;">OpenVPN</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">IPSec</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
…as well as applies to all operating systems, posing a huge privacy risk. </div>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">
How Does 'Port Fail' Work?</h3>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
A successful IP address leak attack requires an attacker to be on the 
same VPN network as the victim and to know the victim's VPN exit IP 
address, which could be discovered by tricking a victim into visiting a 
website control controlled by the attacker.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
For example, an attacker with port forwarding enabled can see the 
request from the victim's actual IP addresses by tricking the victim 
into opening an image file. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
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The same attack is possible for<b> BitTorrent users</b>, but, in this case, there is no need for the attacker to redirect the victim to their page. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In this case, the attacker only with the activated port forwarding for 
the default BitTorrent port, can expose the real IP-address of a VPN 
user on the same network.</div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="main-article-info"></span></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">
Affected VPN Providers</h3>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The flaw affected various large VPN providers. Perfect Privacy tested 
nine VPN providers out of which five were found to be vulnerable to this
 flaw and were alerted last week. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
VPN providers including Private Internet Access (PIA), Ovpn.to and nVPN have fixed the issue before publication.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
However, the company warned, <i>"other VPN providers may be vulnerable to this attack as we could not possibly test all."</i></div>
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VPN aims to make you sure that your real identity remains anonymous on 
the Internet so that nobody could track the origin of your connection 
back to you, but this newly discovered flaw shows that it's quite easy 
to bypass this on some VPN providers.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Millions of embedded devices, including home routers, modems, IP cameras, VoIP phones, are shareing the same hard-coded <b>SSH</b> (Secure Shell) cryptographic keys or <b>HTTPS</b> (HTTP Secure) server certificates that expose them to various types of malicious attacks.</span></div>
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A new analysis by IT security consultancy <i>SEC Consult </i>shows that 
the lazy manufacturers of the Internet of Things (IoTs) and Home Routers
 are reusing the same set of hard-coded cryptographic keys, leaving 
devices open to Hijacking.</span></div>
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In simple words, this means that if you are able to access one device 
remotely, you can possibly log into hundreds of thousands of other 
devices – including the devices from different manufacturers.</span></div>
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Re-Using Same Encryption Keys</span></h3>
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In its <a href="http://blog.sec-consult.com/2015/11/house-of-keys-industry-wide-https.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">survey of IoT devices</a>,
 the company studied 4,000 embedded devices from 70 different hardware 
vendors, ranging from simple home routers to Internet gateway servers, 
and discovered that…</span></div>
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…over 580 unique private cryptographic keys for SSH and HTTPS are 
re-shared between multiple devices from the same vendor and even from 
the different vendors.</span></div>
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The most common use of these static keys are:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>SSH host keys</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>X.509 HTTPS certificates</b></span></li>
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SSH host keys verify the identity of a device that runs an SSH server 
using a public-private key pair. If an attacker steals the device's SSH 
host private key, he/she can impersonate the device and trick the 
victim's computer to talk to his computer instead.</span>
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The same happens in the case of websites if an attacker gains access to 
the device's HTTPS private certificate, which is actually used to 
encrypt traffic between users and its Web-based management interface.</span></div>
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The attacker can then decrypt the traffic to extract usernames, 
passwords and other sensitive data with the help of device's HTTPS 
private key.</span></div>
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MILLLLLIONS of Devices Open to Attacks</span></h3>
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When scanned the Internet for those 580 keys, the researchers found that
 at least 230 crypto keys are actively being used by more than 4 Million
 IoT devices.</span></div>
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Moreover, the researchers recovered around 150 HTTPS server certificates
 that are used by 3.2 Million devices, along with 80 SSH host keys that 
are used by at least 900,000 devices.</span></div>
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The remaining crypto keys might be used by various other devices that 
are not connected to the Internet, but could still be vulnerable to <b>man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks </b>within their respective local area networks.</span></div>
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As a result, potentially Millions of Internet-connected devices can be 
logged into by attackers, or their HTTPS web server connections can 
silently be decrypted by MitM attackers, using these crypto keys and 
certs once they're extracted from their firmware.</span></div>
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Where Does the actual Problem Reside?</span></h3>
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The issue lies in the way vendors build and deploy their products. 
Typically, the vendors built their device's firmware based on <b>software development kits </b>(SDKs) received from chipmakers…</span></div>
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…without even bothering to change the source code or even the keys or certificates that are already present in those SDKs.</span></div>
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There are many reasons why this large number of devices are accessible from the Internet via HTTPS and SSH. These include:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Insecure default configurations by vendors</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Automatic port forwarding via UPnP</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Provisioning by ISPs that configure their subscribers' devices for remote management</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>"The source of the keys is an interesting aspect. Some keys are only 
found in one product or several products in the same product line. In 
other cases we found the same keys in products from various vendors,"</i> Sec Consult wrote in its <a href="http://blog.sec-consult.com/2015/11/house-of-keys-industry-wide-https.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog post</a>.</span></blockquote>
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List of Vendors that are Re-Using Encryption Keys</span></h3>
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Although SEC Consult identified more than 900 vulnerable products from 
roughly 50 manufacturers, the actual number could be even higher 
considering that its study only targeted firmware the company had access
 to.</span></div>
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According to SEC Consult, these are the companies that were found reusing encryption keys:</div>
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ADB, AMX, Actiontec, Adtran, Alcatel-Lucent, Alpha Networks, Aruba 
Networks, Aztech, Bewan, Busch-Jaeger, CTC Union, Cisco, Clear, 
Comtrend, D-Link, Deutsche Telekom, DrayTek, Edimax, General Electric 
(GE), Green Packet, Huawei, Infomark, Innatech, Linksys, Motorola, Moxa,
 NETGEAR, NetComm Wireless, ONT, Observa Telecom, Opengear, Pace, 
Philips, Pirelli , Robustel, Sagemcom, Seagate, Seowon Intech, Sierra 
Wireless, Smart RG, TP-LINK, TRENDnet, Technicolor, Tenda, Totolink, 
unify, UPVEL, Ubee Interactive, Ubiquiti Networks, Vodafone, Western 
Digital, ZTE, Zhone and ZyXEL.</blockquote>
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Most Affected Countries</h3>
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Here's the list of Top 10 countries that are affected by SSH/HTTPS encryption key reuse:</div>
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<li>United States</li>
<li>Mexico</li>
<li>Brazil</li>
<li>Spain</li>
<li>Colombia</li>
<li>Canada</li>
<li>China</li>
<li>Russian Federation</li>
<li>Taiwan</li>
<li>United Kingdom</li>
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SEC Consult has<i> "worked together with CERT/CC to address this issue since early August 2015."</i> and it recommends vendors to use securely random cryptographic keys for each IoT-capable device.</div>
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Moreover, ISPs are advised to make sure that there is no possibility to 
remotely access CPE (customer premises equipment) devices via WAN port. 
In case they need access for remote support purposes, <i>"setting up a dedicated management VLAN with strict ACLs is recommended."</i></div>
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