However, Reuben has already established himself as an ethical hacker. Last year during a B-Sides security conference, Reuben took to the stage to promote safer smartphone security. During his speech, Reuben emphasized the importance of being careful whenever one downloads the apps in their gear. Reuben is also CEO of Prudent Games at this young age. Prudent Games basically designs educational apps that teaches people about the security threats. We can expect a five-year-old kid to play the Microsoft Xbox Game as well as know the operating system....

Targeted at the enterprise market, the PM1633a manages to pack almost 16 terabytes into a 2.5-inch SSD package. The Korean electronics manufacturer has been able to put a large number of these chips in a 2.5? Samsung also displayed the PM1725 SSD, a SSD which it claims is the fastest SSD in the world. The drive has a capacity of 3.2TB in a 2.5? or 6.4TB in HHHL form-factor and is able to reach up to 1,000,000 IOPS....

After Google and Facebook, Samsung has also joined the mass Internet bandwagon. Farooq Khan is president of research and development at Samsungs Texas facility. Almost two-thirds of the humankind currently does not have access to the Internet, wired or wireless. It would also include launch facilities for such micro-satellites. Samsung Pay will also support NFC like its competitors. source: www.techworm.net

Criminals are going to love this one hack which can disable ankle bracelet Forget the car, safe and garage hacks displayed at the DefCon and Black Hat 2015. A security researcher has figured out a way to hack a rather mundane gear that is used to keep a watch on people under house arrest, the ankle bracelet. Generally, these anklets are location tracking devices that use GPS and other technologies to report the position of people in home detention back to the authorities....

We had earlier reported that Microsoft EULA has some serious and ambiguousprivacy related clausesbut this one takes the cake. One such instance is users OneDrive data. They noticed that Windows 10 will periodically send data to a Microsoft server named ssw.live.com. This server seems to be used for OneDrive and some other Microsoft services. Ars says that the request for this file appears to contain a random machine ID that persists across reboots....

This was followed by a second handset in June, which was also limited to European buyers. It is powered by a quad-core MediaTek processor clocked at 1.3GHz coupled with 1GB of RAM. It also comes with 16GB of in-built storage capacity along with a microSD card slot. Further, it has two unlocked SIM card slots and is backed by a 2500mAh battery. $219) off-contract. This handset is priced at 169.90 (approx....

The intrusion which began in sometime around April 2010 was still going on at the time of the briefing. The official government emails which uses additional security layers were not compromised says the senior U.S. intelligence official. source: www.techworm.net

By using a thermoelectric material, one can harvest this heat. Thus Thermoelectric materials are able to convert heat to electricity and vice versa which can be seen in refrigerators. Also these materials are too costly to be used commercially. Traditional materials thus cannot serve the purpose and hence scientists had to move towards nanomaterials. Prof Freer further also added: The new material will convert 3-5% of the heat into electricity....

Basically, Wi-Vi captures the signals emitted by a person moving behind walls and in closed room. The gear was able to give some radar-style scatter plot along with some varied signals. source: www.techworm.net

Earlier in the year, it was found that all Lenovo PCs/Laptops are shipped with a spyware calledSuperfish. The secret UEFI level spyware installer kit discovery was made by a user,willSmith1701on Ars Technica Forum. He had purchased a Lenovo G50-80 and did a clean install using a retail disc. The software download process needs to connect to the internet. However that is not the issue here. Since the user tried a clean install, he shouldnt be getting such a message in the first place....

From the time it was exposed last month, looks like the Ashley Madison has come to a halt. Either second chances and forgiveness would be given, or either a denial or a break up would happen. source: www.techworm.net

WTF is ABC? The news was received with some cheers as well as criticism. Even better, going toABC.FAILwill also take you straight to Bing Searchs landing page. Looks like Microsoft is asking Google, WTF is ABC? source: www.techworm.net

OnePlus has confirmed the launch of its next machine which is expected to be around Christmas. Will it be OnePlus 3 or OnePlus 2 mini or will it be a smartwatch? What features will the next OnePlus rig have? Would it be OnePlus 2 mini? Could it be possible that OnePlus is planning to launch a OnePlus 2 mini! Would it be a high build quality phone which could be a mid ranger?...