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Make money, News of the hackers, games, application, Security, technology, abirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640616025038227167noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7060716416780121267.post-43807363456682419992017-05-21T18:36:00.000-07:002017-05-20T17:38:30.984-07:00Computer Hackers and Predators<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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How are computer hackers and predators a threat to computer security?</h3>
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People, not computers, create computer threats. Computer predators victimize others for their own gain. Give a predator access to the Internet — and to your PC — and the threat they pose to your security increases exponentially. Computer hackers are unauthorized users who break into computer systems in order to steal, change or destroy information, often by installing dangerous malware without your knowledge or consent. Their clever tactics and detailed technical knowledge help them access information you really don’t want them to have.</div>
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How do computer hackers and predators find me?</h3>
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Anyone who uses a computer connected to the Internet is susceptible to the threats that computer hackers and predators pose. These online villains typically use <a href="https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/resources/articles/pc-security/computer-security-threats-phishing" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #517d19; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">phishing</a> scams, <a href="https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/resources/articles/pc-security/malware-spam" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #517d19; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">spam email</a> or instant messages and bogus Web sites to deliver dangerous malware to your computer and compromise your computer security. Computer hackers can also try to access your computer and private information directly if you are not protected with a firewall. They may also monitor your chat room conversations or peruse your personal Web page. Usually disguised with a bogus identity, predators can lure you into revealing sensitive personal and financial information, or much worse.</div>
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What can computer hackers and predators do to me?</h3>
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While your computer is connected to the Internet, the malware a hacker has installed on your PC quietly transmits your personal and financial information without your knowledge or consent. Or, a computer predator may pounce on the private information you unwittingly revealed. In either case, they may:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Hijack your usernames and passwords</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Steal your money and open credit card and bank accounts in your name</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Ruin your credit</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Request new account Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) or additional credit cards</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Make purchases</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Add themselves or an alias that they control as an authorized user so it’s easier to use your credit</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Obtain cash advances</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Use and abuse your Social Security number</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Sell your information to other parties who will use it for illicit or illegal purposes</li>
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Predators can pose a serious physical threat. Use extreme caution when agreeing to meet an online “friend” or acquaintance in person.</div>
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How will I know?</h3>
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Check the accuracy of your personal accounts, credit cards and documents. Are there unexplained transactions? Questionable or unauthorized changes? If so, dangerous malware installed by predators or hackers may already be lurking.</div>
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What can I do about computer hackers and predators?</h3>
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When you arm yourself with information and resources, you’re wiser about <a href="https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/resources/articles/pc-security/computer-security-threats" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #517d19; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">computer security threats</a> and less vulnerable to threat tactics. Hackers and predators pose equally serious and but very different threats.</div>
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To protect your computer from hackers and predators:</h4>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Continually check the accuracy of personal accounts and deal with any discrepancies right away</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Use extreme caution when entering chat rooms or posting personal Web pages</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Limit the personal information you post on a personal Web pages</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Carefully monitor requests by online “friends” or acquaintances for predatory behavior</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Keep personal and financial information out of online conversations</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Use extreme caution when agreeing to meet an online “friend” or acquaintance in person</li>
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Take these steps to protect your computer from hackers right away:</h3>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Use a 2 way firewall</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Update your operating system regularly</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Increase your browser security settings</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Avoid questionable Web sites</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Only download software from sites you trust. Carefully evaluate free software and file-sharing applications before downloading them.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Practice safe email protocol:</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Don't open messages from unknown senders</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Immediately delete messages you suspect to be <a href="https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/resources/articles/pc-security/malware-spam" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #517d19; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">spam</a></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px;">Use <a href="https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/products/av" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #517d19; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">antivirus</a> protection</li>
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An unprotected computer is like an open door for computer hackers and predators. To take it a step further, protect your computer from hackers by using a spam filter or gateway to scan inbound email or IM messages. Products like Webroot Spy Sweeper<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 7px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: 0px;">®</sup> and <a href="https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/products/isp" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #517d19; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Webroot Internet Security Essentials</a> thwart dangerous <a href="https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/resources/articles/pc-security/resources-internet-security-faq#question_1765" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #517d19; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">malware</a>before it can enter your PC, stand guard at every possible entrance of your computer and fend off any spyware or viruses that try to enter, even the most damaging and devious strains. While free anti-spyware and antivirus downloads are available, they just can’t keep up with the continuous onslaught of new malware strains. Previously undetected forms of malware can often do the most damage, so it’s critical to have up-to-the-minute, guaranteed <a href="https://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #517d19; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">protection</a>.</div>
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abirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640616025038227167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7060716416780121267.post-86344356520998528382017-04-21T09:42:00.000-07:002017-04-17T17:43:09.249-07:00Massive Cyber Attack on Russian Central Bank $31 Million Stolen<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) already warned and said that the servers to be used in the alleged cyber attack were located in the Netherlands and registered to a Ukrainian web hosting company called BlazingFast.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">“It was planned that the cyber attack would be accompanied by a mass send-out of SMS messages and publications in social media of a provocative nature regarding a crisis in the Russian banking system, bankruptcies and license withdrawals,” an FSB statement said.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">Anton Onoprichuk, director of Kiev-based BlazingFast, said neither the FSB nor any other intelligence agency had been in touch with his company. He told </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15.4px; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: all;">Reuters</span><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"> he was waiting for more information so his firm could investigate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Central bank official Artyom Sychyov discussed the losses at a briefing, saying that the hackers had attempted to steal about 5 billion rubles.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sychyov was commenting on a central bank report released earlier in the day, that told about hackers breaking into accounts there by faking a client's credentials. The bank provided few other details in its lengthy <span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: all;">report</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">A group of hackers <span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: all;">stole from central bank</span> in Feburary 2016 from Bangladesh at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank in New York.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Earlier, United Stats condemned the Russian government for hacking of their computers at the Democratic National Committee.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />“We can’t say exactly when, but we can say today it was stolen,” Ekaterina Glebova, an official in the central bank’s press office, told The <span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: all;">WSJ</span>.</span></div>
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Again bad news for consumers with Netgear routers: Netgear routers hit by another serious security vulnerability, but this time more than two dozens router models are affected.<br />
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Security researchers from Trustwave are warning of a new authentication vulnerability in at least 31 models of Netgear models that potentially affects over one million Netgear customers.<br />
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The new vulnerability, <a href="https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/CVE-2017-5521--Bypassing-Authentication-on-NETGEAR-Routers/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">discovered</a> by Trustwave's SpiderLabs researcher Simon Kenin, can allow remote hackers to obtain the admin password for the Netgear router through a flaw in the password recovery process.</div>
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Kenin discovered the flaw (<a href="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-5521" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">CVE-2017-5521</a>) when he was trying to access the management page of his Netgear router but had forgotten its password.<br />
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Exploiting the Bug to Take Full Access on Affected Routers</h3>
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So, the researcher started looking for ways to hack his own router and found a couple of exploits from 2014 that he leveraged to discover this flaw which allowed him to query routers and retrieve their login credentials easily, giving him full access to the device.<br />
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But Kenin said the newly discovered flaw could be remotely exploited only if the router's remote management option is enabled.<br />
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While the router vendor claims the remote management option is turned off on its routers by default, according to the researcher, there are "hundreds of thousands, if not over a million" routers left remotely accessible.<br />
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If exploited by bad actors, the vulnerability that completely bypasses any password on a Netgear router could give hackers complete control of the affected router, including the ability to change its configuration, turn it into botnets or even upload entirely new firmware.</div>
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After trying out his flaw on a range of Netgear routers, Kenin was surprised to know that more than ten thousand vulnerable devices used the flawed firmware and can be accessed remotely.<br />
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He has also released an <a href="https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Security-Advisories/Advisories/TWSL2017-003/?fid=8911" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">exploit code</a> for testing purpose, written in Python.<br />
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List of Vulnerable NETGEAR Router Models</h3>
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The SpiderLabs researcher stressed that the vulnerability is very serious as it affects a large number of Netgear router models. Here's a list of affected Netgear routers:<br />
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Update the Firmware of your NETGEAR Router Now!</h3>
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Kenin notified Netgear of the flaw, and the company confirmed the issue affects a large number of its products.<br />
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Netgear has <a href="http://kb.netgear.com/30632/Web-GUI-Password-Recovery-and-Exposure-Security-Vulnerability" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">released</a> firmware updates for all of its affected routers, and users are strongly advised to upgrade their devices.<br />
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This is the second time in around two months when researchers have discovered flaws in Netgear routers. Just last month, the US-CERT advised users to <a href="http://thehackernews.com/2016/12/netgear-router-hacking.html" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">stop using Netgear's R7000 and R6400</a> routers due to a serious bug that permitted command injection.<br />
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However, in an effort to make its product safe, Netgear recently partnered up with Bugcrowd to launch a <a href="http://thehackernews.com/2017/01/netgear-router-bug-bounty.html" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">bug bounty program</a> that can earn researchers cash rewards of up to $15,000 for finding and responsibly reporting flaws in its hardware, APIs, and the mobile apps.</div>
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Just days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, cyber criminals infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from feds surveillance cameras in Washington D.C. in a cyber attack.<br />
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Any guess, What kind of virus could have hit the storage devices?<br />
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Once again, the culprit is Ransomware, which has become a noxious game of Hackers to get paid effortlessly.<br />
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Ransomware is an infamous piece of malware that has been known for locking up computer files and then demanding a ransom in Bitcoins in order to help victims unlock their files.</div>
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But over time, the threat has changed its way from computers and smartphones to <a href="http://thehackernews.com/2016/08/hacking-thermostat.html" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Internet-of-Thing</a> (IoT) devices.<br />
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Ransomware Infected 70% Surveillance Cameras in Washington D.C.</h3>
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This time the hackers managed to plant ransomware in 123 of its 187 network video recorders, each controlling up to four CCTVs used in public spaces throughout Washington D.C, which eventually left them out from recording anything between 12 and 15 January.<br />
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Officials told the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/hackers-hit-dc-police-closed-circuit-camera-network-city-officials-disclose/2017/01/27/d285a4a4-e4f5-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.678ec14f6fed" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> that the incident forced them to take the storage devices offline, remove the infection and rebooted the systems across the city, but did not fulfill any ransom demands by the hackers.<br />
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While the storage devices were successfully put back to rights and the CCTV cameras were back to work, it is still unclear if any valuable data was lost or if the ransomware infection merely crippled the affected computer network devices.</div>
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Washington's chief technology officer Archana Vemulapalli said the officials are now investigating the source of hacking, assuring that the incident was limited to the storage devices tied to closed-circuit TV system and did not affect other D.C. government networks.<br />
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Rise in Ransomware: Both in Numbers and Sophistication</h3>
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Ransomware is the hackers sure-shot way to get paid effortlessly. The threat has been around for a few years, but nowadays it has become one of the most used types of hacking methods.<br />
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Recently, hundreds of guests of a luxurious hotel in Austria were <a href="http://thehackernews.com/2017/01/ransomware-hotel-smart-lock.html" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">locked out of their rooms</a> when ransomware malware hit the hotel's IT system, and the hotel paid the attackers to get back the control of their systems.<br />
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We saw an enormous rise in Ransomware threats, both in numbers and sophistication. You would be surprised to know about <a href="http://thehackernews.com/2017/01/linux-ransomware-malware.html" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">KillDisk data wiping ransomware</a> that encrypts files and asks for an unusually large ransom of around $218,000 in Bitcoins, but did not provide decryption keeps even after the payment has made.<br />
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The only safe way of dealing with ransomware is prevention. The best defense against Ransomware malware is to create awareness within the organizations, as well as to maintain back-ups that are rotated regularly.<br />
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Most viruses and infections are introduced by opening infected attachments or clicking on malicious links usually served in spam emails. So, don't click on links provided in emails and attachments from unknown sources.<br />
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Besides this, always ensure that your systems and devices are running the latest version of Antivirus software with updated malware definitions.</div>
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A Chinese infosec researcher has discovered a new "almost impossible to detect" phishing attack that can be used to trick even the most careful users on the Internet.<br />
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He warned, Hackers can use a known vulnerability in the Chrome, Firefox and Opera web browsers to display their fake domain names as the websites of legitimate services, like Apple, Google, or Amazon to steal login or financial credentials and other sensitive information from users.<br />
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What is the best defence against phishing attack? Generally, checking the address bar after the page has loaded and if it is being served over a valid HTTPS connection. Right?</div>
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Okay, then before going to the in-depth details, first have a look at this <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://xn--80ak6aa92e.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">demo web page</a></u></span> (<i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">note: you may experience downtime due to high traffic on demo server</i>), set up by Chinese security researcher Xudong Zheng, who discovered the attack.<br />
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“<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It becomes impossible to identify the site as fraudulent without carefully inspecting the site's URL or SSL certificate.</span>” Xudong Zheng said in a <a href="https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blog post</a>.</blockquote>
If your web browser is displaying "<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">apple.com</span>" in the address bar secured with SSL, but the content on the page is coming from another server (as shown in the above picture), then your browser is vulnerable to the homograph attack.<br />
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There is another <a href="https://www.xn--e1awd7f.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">proof-of-concept website</a> created by security experts from <a href="https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/chrome-firefox-unicode-phishing/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Wordfence</a> to demonstrate this browsers' vulnerability. It spoof "<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">epic.com</span>" domain.<br />
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Homograph attack</span> has been known since 2001, but browser vendors have struggled to fix the problem. It’s a kind of spoofing attack where a website address looks legitimate but is not because a character or characters have been replaced deceptively with Unicode characters.</div>
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Many <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unicode characters</span>, which represents alphabets like Greek, Cyrillic, and Armenian in internationalised domain names, look the same as Latin letters to the casual eye but are treated differently by computers with the completely different web address.<br />
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For example, Cyrillic "а" (U+0430) and Latin "a" (U+0041) both are treated different by browsers but are displayed "a" in the browser address.<br />
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By default, many web browsers use ‘<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Punycode</span>’ encoding to represent Unicode characters in the URL to defend against Homograph phishing attacks. Punycode is a special encoding used by the web browser to convert Unicode characters to the limited character set of ASCII (A-Z, 0-9), supported by International Domain Names (IDNs) system.<br />
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For example, the Chinese domain "<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">短.co</span>" is represented in Punycode as "<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">xn--s7y.co</span>".<br />
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According to Zheng, the vulnerability relies on the fact that web browsers render only Punycode URLs in one language as Unicode (like only Chinese or only Japanese), but they fail if a domain name contains characters from multiple languages.</div>
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This loophole allowed the researcher to register a domain name <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">xn--80ak6aa92e.com</span> and bypass protection, which appears as “<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">apple.com</span>” by all vulnerable web browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, though Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Brave, and Vivaldi are not vulnerable.<br />
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Here, <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">xn--</span> prefix is known as an ‘<i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ASCII compatible encoding</i>’ prefix, which indicates web browser that the domain uses ‘punycode’ encoding to represent Unicode characters, and Because Zheng uses the Cyrillic "а" (U+0430) rather than the ASCII "a" (U+0041), the defence approach implemented by web browser fails.<br />
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Zheng has reported this issue to the affected browser vendors, including Google and Mozilla in January.<br />
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While Mozilla is currently still discussing a fix, Google has already patched the vulnerability in its experimental Chrome Canary 59 and will come up with a permanent fix with the release of Chrome Stable 58, set to be launched later this month.<br />
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Meanwhile, millions of Internet users who are at risk of this sophisticated hard-to-detect phishing attack are recommended to disable Punycode support in their web browsers in order to temporarily mitigate this attack and identify such phishing domains.<br />
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Firefox uses can follow below-mentioned steps to manually apply temporarily mitigation:<br />
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Unfortunately, there is no similar setting available in Chrome or Opera to disable Punycode URL conversions manually, so Chrome users have to wait for next few weeks to get patched Stable 58 release.<br />
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Internet users are always advised to manually type website URLs in the address bar for important sites like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo or banking websites, instead of clicking any link mentioned on some website or email, to prevent against such undetectable attacks.</div>
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Windows 10 lets you easily install apps that run on all manner of devices, from tablets and phones to PCs and Xboxes. Here are our favorites. And most of them are free.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "open_sansregular" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Windows has apps and an app store. A lot of people may not realize that, but it's one of the big features that</span><span style="font-family: "open_sansregular" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> </span><a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2488631,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Windows 10</a><span style="font-family: "open_sansregular" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "open_sansregular" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">inherited from Windows 8. The apps in the store are lightweight, touch-friendly, and can run either full-screen or windowed. Updates are handled automatically, and you can install apps purchased on multiple devices.</span></div>
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Universal apps have some other benefits over traditional PC programs, too. They can interact with Windows's built-in notification and sharing features. They can display current info on live tiles in the Start menu—handy for things like weather, sports, and messaging. They're also vetted for security and quality, and run in their own sandboxes so as not to affect the rest of the operating system.</div>
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But the most appealing aspect of universal apps may be their ability to run on a wide variety of devices, from smartphones to tablets to laptops to powerful desktop PCs to game consoles and eventually the HoloLens 3D extended-reality headset. Let's not forget the enormous <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/review/343777/microsoft-surface-hub" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Surface Hub</a>business conferencing unit, either.</div>
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<a href="http://www.pcmag.com/windows-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="inline-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img alt="Windows 10 Bug Art" border="0" class="left" src="https://assets.pcmag.com/media/images/455439-windows-10-bug-art.jpg?thumb=y&width=95&height=85" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; height: auto; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></span></a>Universal Windows apps mean you can acquire an app for all of these device types at once, from the same app store, called the <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/store/apps/windows" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Windows Store</a> (where you also find games, music, movies, and TV shows). Universal apps make things easier for both the app developers and their consumers. Developers get to use about 80 percent of the same code regardless of the target platform, and users only have to acquire an app once for all their devices.<br />
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Of course, a full PC app differs from a phone app and an Xbox app, hence the 20-percent difference in code. The unification also means that a developer can target the entire audience of several device types with (mostly) the code of one app. I tested all the apps listed below on a <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2458373,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Surface Pro 4</a><span class="zdcse-wrapper" id="zdcse_s8lm5a_B01606IDL0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="zdcse" data-affiliate-ziffcat="28027" data-commerce-cached="y" data-commerce-canonicalvendor="Amazon" data-commerce-condition="New" data-commerce-configuration="" data-commerce-couponcode="" data-commerce-cpc="" data-commerce-ctatext="" data-commerce-ean="4139052350835" data-commerce-guid="098c5380-df44-4590-8da1-6578cd3bde51" data-commerce-image="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41yRDqilgHL._SL75_.jpg" data-commerce-largeimage="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41yRDqilgHL.jpg" data-commerce-logo="" data-commerce-manufacturer="Microsoft PC" data-commerce-mpn="CR3-00001" data-commerce-msrp="" data-commerce-openhtml="" data-commerce-price="$1,074.00" data-commerce-priceoverride="" data-commerce-productid="B01606IDL0" data-commerce-productname="Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (256 GB, 8 GB RAM, Intel Core i5)" data-commerce-provider="amazon" data-commerce-providerid="14" data-commerce-providerproductid="B01606IDL0" data-commerce-shipping="" data-commerce-smallimage="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41yRDqilgHL._SL75_.jpg" data-commerce-upc="889842014389" data-commerce-vendor="Amazon" data-commerce-vendoroverride="" data-commerce-ziffcatid="28027" data-commerce-zifftaxid="8562" data-parentmodule="Contextual" data-zdcserendered="true" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2477782,00.asp#" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #2c87a6; border-radius: 3px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; padding: 1px 2px 2px; text-decoration: none;" title="Buy it from Amazon">$1,074.00 at Amazon</a></span> running Windows 10 and a <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2495373,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Lumia 950</a><span class="zdcse-wrapper" id="zdcse_w6dy5h_GXM1006737" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="zdcse" data-affiliate-ziffcat="28030" data-commerce-cached="y" data-commerce-canonicalvendor="AT&T" data-commerce-condition="" data-commerce-configuration="" data-commerce-couponcode="" data-commerce-cpc="" data-commerce-ctatext="" data-commerce-ean="" data-commerce-guid="337fe71a-2bef-4adb-9ae2-2bb72167bab7" data-commerce-image="" data-commerce-largeimage="" data-commerce-logo="" data-commerce-manufacturer="Microsoft" data-commerce-mpn="" data-commerce-msrp="" data-commerce-openhtml="" data-commerce-price="$598.99" data-commerce-priceoverride="" data-commerce-productid="GXM1006737" data-commerce-productname="Microsoft Lumia 950" data-commerce-provider="generic" data-commerce-providerid="12" data-commerce-providerproductid="GXM1006737" data-commerce-shipping="" data-commerce-smallimage="" data-commerce-upc="" data-commerce-vendor="AT&T" data-commerce-vendoroverride="" data-commerce-ziffcatid="28030" data-commerce-zifftaxid="7020" data-parentmodule="Contextual" data-zdcserendered="true" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2477782,00.asp#" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #2c87a6; border-radius: 3px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; padding: 1px 2px 2px; text-decoration: none;" title="Buy it from AT&T">$598.99 at AT&T</a></span> running Windows 10 Mobile.</div>
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More and more in-demand apps are making their way into the Windows Store, as you can see from group below. Some major apps aren't universal, however. For example, Instagram only runs on Mobile, and the Nook reading app only runs on PCs and tablets.</div>
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More existing apps are also being converted to Universal apps. For example, several of the top Windows apps, including Facebook, Pandora, and Microsoft's own <a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409569,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">OneDrive</a><span class="zdcse-wrapper" id="zdcse_bpbigu_GCTA0000187" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="zdcse" data-affiliate-ziffcat="27316" data-commerce-cached="n" data-commerce-canonicalvendor="Microsoft" data-commerce-condition="" data-commerce-configuration="" data-commerce-couponcode="" data-commerce-cpc="" data-commerce-ctatext="Visit Site" data-commerce-ean="" data-commerce-guid="07b42f92-c4c1-42f9-b1e0-3bbdb22666e3" data-commerce-image="" data-commerce-largeimage="" data-commerce-logo="" data-commerce-manufacturer="Microsoft" data-commerce-mpn="" data-commerce-msrp="" data-commerce-openhtml="" data-commerce-price="$0.00" data-commerce-priceoverride="" data-commerce-productid="GCTA0000187" data-commerce-productname="Microsoft OneDrive - Visit Site" data-commerce-provider="generic_cta" data-commerce-providerid="52" data-commerce-providerproductid="GCTA0000187" data-commerce-shipping="" data-commerce-smallimage="" data-commerce-upc="" data-commerce-vendor="Microsoft" data-commerce-vendoroverride="" data-commerce-ziffcatid="27316" data-commerce-zifftaxid="19849" data-parentmodule="Contextual" data-zdcserendered="true" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2477782,00.asp#" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #2c87a6; border-radius: 3px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; padding: 1px 2px 2px; text-decoration: none;" title="Buy it from Microsoft"><span class="zdcse-free" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Free</span> at Microsoft</a></span> recently made the transition. I hope the trend continues. App providers that left the fold because they didn't want to spend the development effort to create apps for the small percentage of Windows Phone users may be more enticed by reaching a potential Windows 10 audience of more than 350 million.</div>
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The list below doesn't include <a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article/344190/the-best-pc-games-of-2016" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">PC games</a>, of which there are plenty in the Windows Store. In fact, the store will be aligned with the Xbox Store. Games already in the Store range from casuals like Crossy Road and Cut the Rope to top-notch drivers like Asphalt and Forza, and shooters like Gears of War, Modern Combat, and <a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2500254,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Quantum Break</a>. And of course, <a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416810,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Minecraft</a><span class="zdcse-wrapper" id="zdcse_t7dzdb_B010KYDNDG" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="zdcse" data-affiliate-ziffcat="28967" data-commerce-cached="y" data-commerce-canonicalvendor="Amazon" data-commerce-condition="New" data-commerce-configuration="" data-commerce-couponcode="" data-commerce-cpc="" data-commerce-ctatext="" data-commerce-ean="" data-commerce-guid="131a6c08-b4ca-4f50-96df-912e9d83aa00" data-commerce-image="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91Vk1mS1x3L._SL75_.png" data-commerce-largeimage="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91Vk1mS1x3L.png" data-commerce-logo="" data-commerce-manufacturer="" data-commerce-mpn="" data-commerce-msrp="" data-commerce-openhtml="" data-commerce-price="$26.95" data-commerce-priceoverride="" data-commerce-productid="B010KYDNDG" data-commerce-productname="Minecraft for PC/Mac [Online Game Code]" data-commerce-provider="amazon" data-commerce-providerid="14" data-commerce-providerproductid="B010KYDNDG" data-commerce-shipping="" data-commerce-smallimage="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91Vk1mS1x3L._SL75_.png" data-commerce-upc="" data-commerce-vendor="Amazon" data-commerce-vendoroverride="" data-commerce-ziffcatid="28967" data-commerce-zifftaxid="25289" data-parentmodule="Contextual" data-zdcserendered="true" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2477782,00.asp#" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #2c87a6; border-radius: 3px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; padding: 1px 2px 2px; text-decoration: none;" title="Buy it from Amazon">$26.95 at Amazon</a></span> is in there. I also left out apps that are bundled with Windows 10, such as OneNote, Skype, and Office Mobile. <a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2421286,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Groove Music</a>, Outlook Mail and Calendar, Maps, and many more. To learn about some of the best third-party Universal Windows apps, read on.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">Free, subscription fee for additional storage</em><br />
Dropbox is probably less essential now that OneDrive is included with Windows and Windows Phone, but for users who've become accustomed to Dropbox, there's a universal app. This excellent <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413556,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">cloud storage and syncing</a>app not only lets you download files from your Dropbox, but also lets you view documents and photos. You can favorite items by tapping a star, and the app can act as an auto-uploader for any photos shot on the device on which it's installed.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">Free</em><br />
This popular language-learning app (and PCMag's Editors' Choice for free <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2381904,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">language-learning software</a>) is now available as a Windows Universal app. Get the same drills you've come to expect on your PC, with 16 languages to choose from for English speakers. You get the same fun progression through difficulty levels, starting by simply choosing the picture of the word in the other language and hearing it spoken, then you move on to typing translations and more. Setup is super simple, to boot.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;">Free</em><br />
The premier online auction house offers a simple Universal Windows app that does what you need it to. You can search for items with good filtering options, see items you're watching, sell items, all in a very clear, touchable interface. Of course, notifications about bidding activity in the Windows Action Center and sharing through the standard share panel are good reasons to use an app rather than the service's perfectly serviceable website.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open_sansregular" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Though I prefer Yelp overall, Foursquare has it beat in the Universal Windows app race. And Foursquare has a legion of devout users. The app doesn't even require an account, but if you do become a regular user, it can learn your tastes. You can save favorite places, leave tips about them, or just like or dislike them. The fun, large tile design is eminently touchable and swipe-able, and Bing Maps integration means you'll never have trouble finding your next palate-pleasing venue.</span></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Free</em><br />
If you want all your messages on all your devices, no matter their operating system or size, it's hard to do better than Facebook Messenger; it boasts apps for iOS, Android, Web, and Windows. The Windows Universal app features easy navigation between your conversations, along with media options like photos, voice recording, and GIFs. As with many Universal apps, integrated notifications are a big plus when it comes to messaging. It still lacks a couple of features found in the Web client, including video and voice calling and pasting of images.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Free, with in-app purchases</em><br />
This drawing app has long been one of the most impressive Windows modern apps. It supports five multitouch finger points and offers realistic paint, watercolor, and pencil textures for your digital drawing. Packs of line drawings and cartoons offer prefab starting points in case you're lacking inspiration. The Fun Pack is free, but the more artistic Variety Pack is a $1.49 in-app purchase, and the Adventure Pack, with its 24 character sketches and Friends Pack of mostly pets cost $1.99 each. Of course, you can just start finger or mouse painting on a blank page or a photo of your own, with a good variety of brush and pencil tips. You also get a choice of a dozen canvas and paper textures. Once you're done, you can export your masterpiece to a PNG file or easily send it to email and social networks. This is a highly polished app, with impressively real-looking paint.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Starts at $7.99 per month</em><br />
The world's best-known <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2489103,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">streaming video service</a> now has a Universal Windows app for phone, tablet, and PC. Watch House of Cards and the rest, no matter what screen you're near. This will be an even bigger deal when it's also aligned with the Xbox app. The app remembers what you last left off watching, shows your List of movies and TV shows, and accommodates multiple profiles. Search for titles or browse through many genres, including cult movies, documentaries, and sci-fi/fantasy. You can even enable or disable subtitles and audio.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Free, with in-app purchases</em><br />
This app offers perhaps the most ways to dress up digital images. You can work on pictures from your camera roll or online accounts. It's a snap to add text, clipart, and endless effects to photos, or even start drawing from scratch. Collage creation is one of this app's strengths, too. You even get Photoshop-style selection, masking, and tone curve adjustments. And there are enough filters to put Instagram to shame. Noise reduction, blemish fixing, blur effects—it's the whole nine yards of digital photo manipulation.</div>
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Polarr is an impressive, <a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365138,00.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e20309; font-family: open_sansbold, arial, sans-serif; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Lightroom</a>-style photography app. It offers raw camera file import, lots of lighting and color adjustments, and a clear, touch-friendly interface. It also boasts a wealth of effect filters, and, if you get the paid Pro version, you can even create your own. A Guide mode is a great helper for showing you how to improve your digital photos.</div>
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Windows's included Weather app is perfectly serviceable, but if you want more bells and whistles, The Weather Channel has you covered. Easily access multiple locations, see animated weather maps, read weather news, and watch weather videos. The app can even notify you about severe weather, rain, or breaking news. The app takes advantage of Cortana voice control, so you can say to your computer "Show me forecast videos" or "Show me weather at work."</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open_sansregular" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Twitter Universal app supports everything you expect in a mobile app for the microblogging service, including multiple accounts, lists, video, pictures (with people tagging), and location. You can save drafts, edit your profiles, and choose between light and dark themes. The app will of course generate notifications, and you can set it up to display new tweets on the lock screen and Start menu tile. Account switching is nice, too, because who has just one Twitter account?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open_sansregular" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Another excellent service in the communications genre, Viber offers Skype-like video calling and calling to standard telephones, but, unlike Skype and Facebook Messenger, it requires a mobile phone number and the app installed on that phone in order to work. You can also view public chats manned by celebrities or interest groups. And as with Facebook Messenger, there's an extensive sticker market. Cool Windows 10 capability: the Viber app lets you reply to text messages right from the Action Center notification.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open_sansregular" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The open-source multi-format video player comes to the Windows Store! VLC instantly finds and can play just about any kind of video or music on you PC or Windows Mobile device. It's interface is simple and clear. Just don't expect all of the features of the traditional Windows VLC program, such as video effects and file conversion. It does let you add media folder locations, choose caption formats, and use hardware decoding, however. For music playback, VLC also offers 17 equalizer presets, from classical to techno.</span></div>
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<em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: open_sansregular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; text-align: start;">$2.99</em><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open_sansregular" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Vast amounts of scientific knowledge is embodied in this app that's a must for students of not only mathematics, but also geology, astronomy, and biology. Compare areas, masses, and other dimensions using its massive store of data. There's even information on music, words, health, nutrition, and transportation. You'd be amazed at some of the statistics available in the app, including movie ticket receipts for box-office hits and the probability of hitting it rich with your Mega Millions ticket.</span></div>
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<em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: open_sansregular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; text-align: start;">Free; Pro version $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year</em><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "open_sansregular" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Keep track of all those to-dos and tasks on every device you own. Wunderlist makes it incredibly easy to enter, complete, and prioritize items. You can customize the interface by switching among 16 background options. Smart Lists automatically show tasks due this week or today, or starred tasks. You can also add everything in Wunderlist to your calendar. Business users will want to subscribe to the Pro version, which adds collaboration features, for $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year.</span></div>
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How do you reset the password for your Facebook account if your primary email account also gets hacked?<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Using SMS-based security code or maybe answering the security questions?<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Well, it's 2017, and we are still forced to depend on insecure and unreliable password reset schemes like email-based or SMS code verification process.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But these traditional access recovery mechanisms aren't safe enough to protect our all other online accounts linked to an email account.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://thehackernews.com/2016/12/yahoo-data-breach-billion.html" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Yahoo Mail</a> can be used as an excellent example.</div>
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Once hackers have access to your Yahoo account, they can also get into any of your other online accounts linked to the same email just by clicking the link that says, "Forgot your password?"<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Fortunately, Facebook has a tool that aims to fix this process, helping you recover access to all your other online accounts securely.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />At the Enigma Conference in Oakland, California on Monday, Facebook launched an account recovery feature for other websites called <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/improving-account-security-with-delegated-recovery/1833022090271267/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Delegated Recovery</a></span> — a protocol that helps applications delegate account recovery permissions to third-party accounts controlled by the same user.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Starting today, Delegated Recovery is available to GitHub users for account recovery, allowing them to set up encrypted recovery tokens for their Github accounts in advance and save it with their Facebook accounts.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So in case they ever lose access to their Github account, they can re-authenticate to Facebook and request the stored token be sent from their Facebook account back to Github with a time-stamped signature, proving their identities and securely regaining access to their accounts.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />This whole process takes place over encrypted HTTPS Web links and completes within a few seconds.</div>
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"We also want to offer the ability for people to use other accounts, such as a GitHub account, to help you recover your access to Facebook." said Brad Hill, Security Engineer at Facebook</blockquote>
Facebook has published the protocol behind the feature and the technical specifications on its <a href="https://github.com/facebookincubator/DelegatedRecovery/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">GitHub page</a>. You can also read more information about the feature on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/improving-account-security-with-delegated-recovery/1833022090271267/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Facebook's official post</a>.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Since no system is hacker-proof, Facebook has invited hackers and security community for reporting bugs, submit suggestions, and feedback.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Delegated Recovery is part of Facebook's bug bounty program, allowing security researchers and bug hunters to test and find out security vulnerabilities in it.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />This tool is being released as open-source that would allow other third-party sites to implement it, but for now, the service is available only for GitHub.</div>
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Apple recently addressed a vulnerability in its MacOS operating system that can be exploited by an attacker to obtain a MacBook’s FileVault password using a $300 device.</div>
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The issue was discovered by Sweden-based researcher Ulf Frisk at the end of July. Apple was notified about the flaw in mid-August and patched it earlier this month with the release of <a href="http://www.securityweek.com/apple-patches-72-vulnerabilities-macos-sierra" style="border: 0px; color: #176600; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MacOS 10.12.2</a>.</div>
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FileVault 2 is a full-disk encryption program that uses XTS-AES-128 encryption with a 256-bit key to preventing unauthorised access to the information on the startup disk. Frisk has demonstrated that an attacker with physical access to a locked or sleeping MacBook can retrieve the FileVault 2 password in clear text by connecting a special device to the targeted system’s Thunderbolt port.</div>
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According to the expert, these attacks are possible due to two vulnerabilities. One of them is related to the fact that while direct memory access (DMA) attack protections are enabled by default once MacOS has started, these protections are not active before the operating system has booted. This allows an attacker to read and write memory from a MacBook by connecting a Thunderbolt device.</div>
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Since the FileVault 2 password is stored in cleartext in memory at predictable locations, software running on the Thunderbolt device can retrieve the password from memory before it is overwritten. The attacker must gain access to a locked or sleeping MacBook, connect the Thunderbolt device and reboot the computer. The attack does not work if the targeted MacBook has been shut down as the password is no longer available in memory.</div>
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The device that can be used to carry out such an attack has been dubbed <a href="https://github.com/ufrisk/pcileech" style="border: 0px; color: #176600; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PCILeech</a>, and its source code and hardware requirements have been made available by Frisk. The expert said he tested the attack on multiple MacBook and MacBook Air computers with Thunderbolt 2 ports. The attack has not been verified on devices with USB-C.</div>
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A group of Russian criminals are making between $4 million and $5 million every day in a brazen attack on the advertising market. Amid headlines of “fake news” and censorship, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/12/20/methbot-biggest-ad-fraud-busted/#296456464ca8" style="border: 0px; color: #176600; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Forbes exposes Methbot</a> – the “biggest digital ad fraud ever” uncovered and perpetrated by faking clicks on video ads.</div>
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“Controlled by a single group based in Russia and operating out of data centers in the US and Netherlands, this “bot farm” generates $3 to $5 million in fraudulent revenue per day by targeting the premium video advertising ecosystem.”</div>
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As Forbes’ Thomas Fox-Brewster explains, the crew, which White Ops dubbed Ad Fraud Komanda or “AFK13”, planned their machinations in meticulous detail.</div>
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First, they created more than 6,000 domains and 250,267 distinct URLs within those that appeared to belong to real big-name publishers, from ESPN to Vogue. But all that could be hosted on the page was a video ad.</div>
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With faked domain registrations, they were able to trick algorithms that decided where the most profitable ads would go into buying their fraudulent web space. Those algorithms typically make bids for ad space most suitable for the advertisement’s intended audience, with the auction complete in milliseconds. But AFK13 were able to game the system so their space was purchased over big-name brands.</div>
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AFK13 then invested heavily in a bot farm, taking up space in data centers so they could fire faked traffic from more than 570,000 bots at those ads, thereby driving revenue thanks to the pay per click system they exploited.</div>
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As part of what White Ops called the Methbot campaign, those bots “watched” as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average payout of $13.04 per thousand faked views. And the fraudsters had their bot army replicate the actions of real people, with faked clicks, mouse movements and social network login information.</div>
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It’s unclear where the Russian link comes from. Eddie Schwartz, chief operating officer at White Ops, told me the company found links between the data centers and the <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“unique signals”</strong> used by the hackers. He couldn’t provide more details for fear of revealing too much about White Ops’ methods. Nevertheless, he claimed to have “direct attribution” for those behind the crime.</div>
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“We have zero doubt this is a group based in Russia, it’s a single group. We’ve actually been working with federal law enforcement for weeks now,” Schwartz added.</div>
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Finally Fox-Brewster concludes worryingly, the fraud could be even bigger than reported today.</div>
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“Because White Ops is only able to analyze data directly observed by White Ops, the total ongoing monetary losses within the greater advertising ecosystem may be exponentially greater,” the company wrote in its white paper.</div>
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“At this point the Methbot operation has become so embedded in the layers of the advertising ecosystem, the only way to shut it down is to make the details public to help affected parties take action.”</div>
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DDoS has become a game now that could knock any service offline.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A Turkish hacking group is encouraging individuals to join its DDoS-for-Points platform that features points and prizes for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a list of predetermined targets.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The points earned can later be redeemed for various online click-fraud and hacking tools.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Dubbed <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sath-ı Müdafaa</span>, translated as Surface Defense in English, this DDoS-for-Points platform is advertised via local Turkish hacking forums, including Turkhackteam and Root Developer.</div>
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<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Surface Defense prompts other hackers in Turkey to sign up and asks them to attack political websites using a DDoS tool known as <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Balyoz</span>, translated as Sledgehammer.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />According to Forcepoint security researchers, who <a href="https://blogs.forcepoint.com/security-labs/sledgehammer-gamification-ddos-attacks" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">discovered</a> this program, Balyoz works via Tor and requires a username and password to log in. The tool then uses a DoS technique to flood targets with traffic.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Once a user downloads the Surface Defense collaboration software from hacking forums and registers, the program then runs locally on a computer, prompting the user to download DDoS attack tool in order to assault the limited list of target sites.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The DDoS traffic is then routed through Tor to disrupt online services. For every 10 minutes the tool attack a website with fraudulent traffic, the participant receives a point.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The points can then be used to obtain rewards including a more powerful version of the Balyoz DDoS attacking tool, "click-fraud" bots that automatically clicks on ads for pay-to-click (PTC) services like Ojooo and Neobux PTC to generate revenue, and a program that has ability to infect PCs and scare the victim with images and sounds.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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The list of predefined targets includes Kurdish websites of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), its military wing the People's Defense Force (HPG), an organization by NATO members, Kurdish radio and TV stations, Kurdish hacking crews, and more.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Other politically-motivated targets include the Armenian Genocide website, the German Christian Democratic Party -- which is led by Angela Merkel -- and many Israeli websites.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Users can also suggest new websites to add to the list of targets," Forcepoint researchers said. "There is a live scoreboard for participants to see how they compare to other participants."</blockquote>
The researchers have managed to track down the IP address of the Surface Defense software, despite running on the Dark Web through Tor.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />This development helped researchers gathered some information on the hacker's identity, like the operator might act under the handle "Mehmet," runs two YouTube channels advertising the Balyoz DDoS tool, and the operator is possibly based in the Turkish city of Eskisehir.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />For more technical details on the Surface Defense platform, you can head on to the Forcepoint's 30-page research paper [<a href="https://www.forcepoint.com/sites/default/files/resources/files/datasheet_sledgehammer_the_gamification_of_ddos_attacks_en.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PDF</a>] titled, <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Sledgehammer - Gamification of DDoS attacks (for ideology, profit & mischief)."</i></div>
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Uber was in controversies at the mid of this year for <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/05/17/478266839/this-is-your-brain-on-uber" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">monitoring the battery life</a> of its users, as the company believed that its users were more likely to pay a much higher price to hire a cab when their phone's battery is close to dying.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Uber is now tracking you even when your ride is over, and, according to the ride-hailing company, the surveillance will improve its service.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Uber recently <a href="https://help.uber.com/h/ba9dd342-158d-421f-a9ea-0e6c7aaad726" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">updated</a> its app to collect user location data in the background.</div>
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<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So, if you have updated your Uber app recently, your app's location tracking permissions have changed, allowing the app to monitor your location before and five minutes after your trip ends, even if you have closed the app.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A popup on the Uber app will ask you, <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Allow 'Uber' to access our location even when you are not using the app?" </i>You can click "<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Allow</span>" or "<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't Allow</span>" in response to this request. If you don't allow it, Uber won't track you.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />According to the company, this information helps not only drivers find riders without making phone calls, but also Uber monitor driver service, making sure riders are picked up and dropped off on the proper side of the street in order to enhance safety.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Here's what Uber said in a statement:<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
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Europol has announced that the law enforcement agencies from 13 countries around the globe have arrested 34 users of Netspoof DDoS attack tool and interviewed and warned 101 suspects in a global crackdown.<br />
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According to the report <a href="https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/joint-international-operation-targets-young-users-of-ddos-cyber-attack-tools" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">published</a> on the official website of Europol, law enforcement authorities worldwide have made the arrest between 5 December and 9 December 2016.<br />
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Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) supported the law enforcement agencies in their efforts to identify suspects in the European Union and beyond.<br />
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All those arrested are mainly <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"young adults under the age of 20,"</i> who are suspected of paying for Netspoof stresser as well as booters services to maliciously deploy DDoS-for-hire software and using them to launch cyber attacks.<br />
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The ddos attacks flooded target websites and web servers with massive amounts of data, leaving those services inaccessible to users.<br />
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Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) head Steven Wilson hopes that the latest arrests would deliver a message to any wannabe hackers, saying:<br />
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"Today's generation is closer to technology than ever before, with the potential of exacerbating the threat of cyber crime. Many IT enthusiasts get involved in seemingly low-level fringe cybercrime activities from a young age, unaware of the consequences that such crimes carry." </blockquote>
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This international operation involved Europol working alongside law enforcement from Australia, Belgium, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States.<br />
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All the participating countries worked together in the framework set out by the EMPACT (European Multidisciplinary Platform against Criminal Threats) – a project with the aim of targeting cyberattacks that affect critical infrastructure and information systems in the EU.</div>
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If you came across a celebrity sex video on Facebook featuring Jessica Alba or any other celebrity, just avoid clicking it.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Another Facebook scam is circulating across the social networking website that attempts to trick Facebook users into clicking on a link for a celebrity sex tape that instead downloads malware onto their computers.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Once installed, the malware would force web browsers to display aggressive advertising web pages which include sites with nudity and fake lotteries.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The spam campaign was <a href="http://blog.cyren.com/articles/malicious-google-chrome-extension-spreads-nude-celebrity-pdfs-to-facebook.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">uncovered</a> by researchers at Cyren, who noted that a malicious Google Chrome extension is spreading nude celebrity PDFs through private messages and posts on various Facebook groups.</div>
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<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If opened, the PDF file takes victims to a web page with an image containing a play button, tricking users that the PDF may contain a video.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Once clicked, the link redirects users of Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari to a web page with overly-aggressive popups and advertisements related to nudity and fake lottery.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But on the other hand, this celebrity sex tape scam makes the matter worse for Google Chrome users.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Once clicked on the scam link, Chrome desktop users are redirected to a fake YouTube page that leads up a pop-up window inviting victims to install a Google Chrome extension to view the videos.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Once victims get to install the malicious extension, the browser directs users to the Facebook.com login page and prompt them to re-authenticate, allowing attackers to collect Facebook users' credentials and then use their accounts to spread the malicious campaign further.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />When analyzed the Chrome extension's source code, the Cyren team discovered that the extension comes with support for monitoring and intercepting web traffic in real-time, to determine what users can access through their browsers.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The malicious Chrome extension contains a long list of Antivirus and AntiSpam domains that it blocks and prevents the user from opening.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Besides this, the malicious Chrome extension also prevents victims from accessing the Chrome Extensions settings page, so that victims can not disable the malicious add-on.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
"It also blocks the chrome extensions and chrome devtools tabs from being opened, preventing the user from uninstalling the malicious Chrome extension," the researchers say.</blockquote>
The PDF uploaded to Facebook is generated by selecting the name of a celebrity randomly from the script file and combining the selected name with random characters.</div>
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<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The name of celebrities includes Selena Gomez, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Lawrence, Hilary Duff, Paris Hilton, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Scarlett Johansson, Kelly Brook, Doutzen Kroes, Elodie Varlet and Nicki Minaj.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />According to Cyren researchers, the cyber criminals behind this malicious spam campaign managed to upload their extension to the Chrome Web Store, though the extension has since been removed by the Google's security team.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />To remove this malicious extension, the infected users would first have to delete the Registry key from the Registry Editor.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />To do this, Go to Start Button → Type "regedit" in the Search/Run option, which will open the Windows Registry Editor.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Now, use the side menu in the new window to find the folder below, right-click it and select "Remove."<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />This is the path to the Registry Editor:<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Google\Chrome\Extension</blockquote>
Now the second step is to remove the extension from the browser. Since the malicious Chrome extension prevents victims from accessing the native Chrome Extensions settings page, one must remove the extension by deleting the following folder from one's PC.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions</blockquote>
This action will remove all Chrome extensions from your computer. You have no option other than deleting the folder completely to get rid of the malicious threat, as you can not access the Chrome Extensions settings page to get the ID of the malicious extension.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Last but not the least, no celebrity recently have had their sex tape leaked (at least not one that's available online). So if you come across any link claiming to show a leaked sex tape of Jessica Alba, Jennifer Lawrence or any other, remember just to report it.</div>
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How many Internet-connected devices do you have in your home? I am surrounded by around 25 such devices.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It's not just your PC, smartphone, and tablet that are connected to the Internet. Today our homes are filled with tiny computers embedded in everything from security cameras, TVs and refrigerators to thermostat and door locks.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />However, when it comes to security, people generally ignore to protect all these connected devices and focus on securing their PCs and smartphones with a good antivirus software or a firewall application.</div>
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<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />What if any of these connected devices, that are poorly configured or insecure by design, get hacked?<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It would give hackers unauthorized access to your whole network allowing them to compromise other devices connected to the same network, spy on your activities and steal sensitive information by using various sophisticated hacks.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />There have already been numerous cases of attackers hacking home appliances, industrial control, automotive, medical equipment, utility systems — thanks to the insecure Internet of Things (IoT).<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />IoT threats have risen enormously in past few months, especially DDoS-based botnets and ransomware attacks, which have shaken the digital world.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Can You Protect Your Entire Home Network?</h3>
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While IoT manufacturers and Internet standard creators have a huge role to play in securing these vulnerable devices, consumers must also take some personal responsibility in protecting their own devices.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />There are numerous security articles available on the Internet providing useful </div>
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<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But when it comes to manually protecting all IoT security issues, it is not possible for all users, especially non-techies, to understand and fix them in with no time or effort. Moreover, it is also annoying to regular check and update every single device.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />So, there's a sure shot solution to all your issues — <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.bitdefender.com/box/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bitdefender BOX</a></span>.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
One Device to Secure Your Entire Home Network and Connected Devices</h3>
<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The new Bitdefender BOX is a tiny hardware-based security solution which is being designed in a way that includes network firewall, intrusion prevention system, vulnerability scanner and an antivirus solution.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.bitdefender.com/box/setup/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Setting up the Bitdefender BOX</a> is quite easy. This tiny box can be connected to your existing internet router to monitor all the Internet traffic and connected devices in real-time, preventing unauthorized access to your home network.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
1. Network and Wi-Fi Security</h3>
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Once connected, Bitdefender BOX automatically scans your network and makes a list of everything that is connected to it in order to protect and monitor things.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />To identify known malicious patterns designed to disrupt or spy on you, Bitdefender BOX continually intercepts and scans for only essential parts of the data packets that flow in and out of your network.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />One of the major benefits of Bitdefender BOX is that it automatically keeps an eye on every device that joins your network, whether it be you, a guest, or hacker.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />When a new device logs into your network, Bitdefender BOX automatically alerts you with a pop-up on your phone, allowing you to quickly kick malicious users off your network with just a single tap.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
2. Bitdefender BOX Deploys Award-winning Antivirus Software for all of your Devices</h3>
<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bitdefender BOX also provides antivirus protection via Bitdefender's cloud-based threat intelligence network for every device on your network, alerting you to every attempted intrusion or malware that comes from the Internet.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bitdefender's Total Security Multi-Device (TSMD) is a complete cyber security solution that protects your standard devices – laptops, desktops, smartphones and tablets – across Windows, Mac OS, and Android platforms. Bitdefender BOX comes with a one-year subscription to TSMD, as well as the freedom to deploy it to an unlimited number of devices. That means you can protect every classic device in your network – all with this powerful, award-winning software.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />However, what if you are not at home within the range of your home network?<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Don't worry about it, because Bitdefender BOX will secure your device remotely outside of the range using a VPN (virtual private network) connection between the agent and BOX, routing all your traffic and analyzing it for any threat.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bitdefender BOX also protects all your connected devices from man-in-the-middle (MITM) and other cyber-attacks when you connect to insecure networks, such as public Wi-Fi hotspots.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bitdefender BOX also has Ransomware protection built in, protecting your network from ransomware attacks. Ransomware is a nasty program that locks your files and asks you ransom to be paid in Bitcoins, which is the only way to get back your files.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
3. Built-in Vulnerability Assessment Tool</h3>
<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bitdefender BOX also comes with a vulnerability scanner that scans every device on your home network to find any weak spots that can compromise the integrity of the network.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bitdefender BOX checks for your password strength, firmware version and any vulnerability that can be used as a backdoor to gain remote access or unauthorized access to your connected devices or network equipment, steal your data or launch attacks.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If you want to review the status of your connected devices and address detected issues, just click the Vulnerable Devices button in the BOX app and keep your network safe.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
4. Behavior-based Threat Detection</h3>
<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Want more? The BOX can also smell a rat.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Yes, this little gadget also notices the suspicious behavior of any device on your network and protects other devices on the same network from unauthorized access and tampering.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Most behavioral security solutions are usually designed for large, highly distributed networks run by large organizations and government agencies, but Bitdefender BOX brings the same level of security for your home network.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Bitdefender Active Threat Control has been designed to detect never-before-seen threats and classify advanced malware, including variants of known and unknown threat families, in real-time using machine learning and behavior-based threat analysis and improves security and privacy of your connected devices.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Bitdefender BOX – Should You Buy It?</h3>
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Other Quick Ways (Manual) to Protect your IoT Devices</h3>
<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Meanwhile, there are some typical manual ways that you should consider to protect your smart device from being hacked. You can follow these simple steps:<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />1. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Change Default Passwords:</span> If you have got any internet-connected device at home or work, change your credentials if it still uses default ones. Changing those passwords periodically is also not a bad idea.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />2. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Disable Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP): </span>UPnP comes enabled by default on every internet-connected device, creating a hole in your router's security that could allow malware to infiltrate any part of your local network. So, check for "Universal Plug and Play" features and turn them OFF.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />3. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Disable Remote Management through Telnet:</span> Go into your router's settings and disable Remote Management Protocol, specifically through Telnet, because this protocol is used for allowing one computer to control another from a remote location. It has also been used in previous Mirai attacks.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />4. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Check for Software Updates and Patches:</span> Last but not the least, always keep your internet-connected devices and routers up-to-date with the latest vendor firmware.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Don't forget that it is every single customer's job in the entire IoT devices chain to be responsible for the security of their point of connection as well as beyond.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Moreover, when it comes to small-area or city-wide IoT implementations, anything connected to the Internet must be secured before bringing onto the network.</div>
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abirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640616025038227167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7060716416780121267.post-14333973067236328982016-12-12T17:39:00.004-08:002016-12-12T17:39:42.769-08:00How To Keep Your Android Phone Secure<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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As the number of threats is on the rise, Android platform is no longer safe, which isn't a surprise to anyone.</div>
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Most of us are usually worried more about the security of our desktops or laptops and forget to think about the consequences our smartphones can make if compromised or stolen.</div>
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Unlike desktops, your smartphones and tablets carry all sorts of information from your personal photographs, important emails, messages to your sensitive financial details. And due to rise in mobile usage, the hackers have shifted their interest from desktops to the mobile platform.</div>
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Nowadays, nearly all possible threats that were previously attacking desktop platform are now targeting smartphone users.</div>
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<a href="http://thehackernews.com/2015/09/android-lock-ransomware.html" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ransomware</a>, Phishing, Spams, Spyware, Botnets, <a href="http://thehackernews.com/2016/02/android-malware-source-code.html" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Banking Malware</a>, OS and Software vulnerabilities, just to name a few examples, but users don't understand the potential threat when it comes to mobile devices.</div>
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Additionally, your smartphones and tablets are also subjectable more threats like, Smartphone Thefts and <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unnecessary app permissions</i></span> that allow even legitimate & reputed companies to spy on you.</div>
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However, there are a number of solutions to solve all the above issues, but for that, you generally need to install multiple cumbersome and untrusted applications to your mobile devices.</div>
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Like a good antivirus to resolve malware and virus issues, an app to manage Android app permissions, a device tracking application in case your device is lost or stolen and lots more and installing all these apps consume lots of space, RAM, the battery of your device.</div>
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I frequently receive these types of queries from my readers who ask me for some good solution that could solve most of the security and privacy issues in one go.</div>
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So I headed to Google Play Store and started searching for an app that offers a full suite of security and privacy tools. I came across some reputed apps, but they resolve few issues and some apps that address several issues but originate from some vendor I can’t trust.</div>
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As its primary role, ESET offers the best antivirus scanning for your smartphone devices with up-to-date threat database and clean mobile app interface.</div>
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According to the latest test and review conducted by AV-TEST, an independent lab, ESET mobile security antivirus <a href="https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/mobile-devices/android/january-2016/eset-mobile-security--antivirus-3.2-160112/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">detects 99.9% of latest threats</a> with the protection and usability score 6 out of 6.</div>
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After installing and registering my account, the app's <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anti-Virus</span> feature offered me options to have my smartphone scanned periodically:</div>
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Moving further, I found 3 different levels of scanning available in the software: <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick Scan</span>, <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Smart Scan</span>, and <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Deep Scan</span>. So, one can choose to perform any of the options one's feel suitable. I chose Deep Scan that scanned every data and files available on my phone.</div>
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ESET Mobile Security also allows to access scan logs easily, and one can also have a look at quarantined items (suspicious files or malware) detected by the anti-virus.</div>
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Moreover, the anti-virus feature is also offering a series of advanced antivirus options, including support for ESET Live Grid, detection of potentially unwanted or harmful applications and real-time protection.</div>
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Anti-Theft (Remote Lock / Remote Wipe / Locate)</h3>
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It is always unfortunate when our expensive mobile device is lost or stolen. Many apps in the market offer device recovery feature via GPS-based tracking, but many times these apps are unable to locate the device. Even if an attacker somehow gets access to the device, it is easy for him/her to uninstall the tracking app.</div>
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But, I liked the way <a href="https://goo.gl/WQvqxy" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ESET Mobile Security Anti-Theft feature</span></a> works. It is designed to help you easily track your lost or stolen device, and password protects your app so that no one can uninstall it, except you.</div>
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All you need to do is:</div>
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In the case of lost or stolen, you can log into your ESET account at my.eset.com and track your devices through an easy-to-use web interface and ensure that all your data remains protected from unauthorized users.</div>
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As soon as you mark your device as '<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Missing</span>'<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>on the online portal, the location of your stolen or lost device will be displayed on a real-time map so that you can easily trace it. You can even view a list of IP addresses that your lost device was connected to.</div>
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Here's How you can Protect Your Smartphone:</div>
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Like other apps, ESET Anti-Theft feature lets you send an SMS message command from a trusted number to remotely lock or erase your smartphone data immediately, as well as ringing it in case it has been lost somewhere nearby.</div>
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On the top of that, ESET Anti-Theft functionality provides a series of new features, like even if an unauthorized SIM card has been inserted in your stolen smartphone, you can send remote commands to it.</div>
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Even if someone tries a wrong PIN or pattern on your smartphone, or insert an unauthorized SIM, your device will be able to take preventive actions on its own in an effort to ensure that your data remains protected.</div>
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Device Monitoring and Application Audit:</h3>
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These features are something that most of us ignore while searching for a good mobile security solution.</div>
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Today many apps, even legitimate, request for unnecessary app permissions. Some of your apps can make phone calls, track your location, read your browsing history, contacts, SMS, photos and calendar, and even share this data with third-party advertising companies without your knowledge.</div>
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And since I'm security conscious, I always make sure which app is requesting what permissions and for this I found ESET Mobile Security best fit for me.</div>
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ESET Mobile Security offers '<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Application Audit</span>'<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>feature to help you know what permissions various apps installed on your smartphone or tablet have.</div>
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You can click on any app listed in the Application Audit interface, which will land you to your smartphone’s settings menu, from where you can easily restrict unnecessary app permissions or even uninstall it.</div>
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Besides this, the app offers you '<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Device Monitoring</span>' feature that will help you inform any necessary settings you haven't set correct that could compromise your security.</div>
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Phishing emails, messages and even contacts are common these days. Hackers or malicious attackers can trick you handing over your sensitive accounts like banking, email or social media accounts access to them.</div>
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So, it has become important for us to keep an eye on every email and message that we receive every day, but it’s not as easy as it sounds.</div>
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This app resolves the above hurdle as well. ESET's <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anti-Phishing </span>feature offers an additional level of protection when you browse the web from your smartphone or tablet.</div>
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Though the app doesn't support all browsers currently, you can choose the one that is present on the list of supported browsers to navigate the web.</div>
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So you can easily opt to simply block calls and messages from all unknown numbers, or more interestingly, all or specific known numbers — with options for both incoming and outgoing blocks.</div>
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In short, I found ESET Mobile Security a package of security and privacy tools bundled into a single app.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The app is fast, provides a user-friendly interface, keeps you safe from malware, protects against phishing attacks, with numerous other tools to keep your smartphone safe even when it's out of your hands.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />However, ESET Mobile Security app doesn't provide any Encrypted Cloud-based Backups, device encryption, which I will like to see in-built in the future.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Overall, ESET Mobile Security for Android is a solid choice for protecting your smartphone or tablet with its top-notch malware protection and huge array of anti-theft and privacy-protection features.<br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="content: " "; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />You can download and install <a href="https://goo.gl/WQvqxy" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #428bca; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ESET Mobile Security</span></a> app for FREE for a lifetime from the Google Play Store if you are seeking for basic protection capabilities.</div>
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However, those seeking for Advanced security and privacy protection on their smartphones should upgrade to a premium subscription, via in-app purchase.</div>
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Getting swept up in holiday cheer is all part of the fun... but don't wake up with a financial hangover after your Black Friday and Cyber Monday spending spree.</div>
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There are plenty of apps available to help you make sure you don't lose sight of your finances as you buy presents for all the nice people on your shopping list.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mobile/one-thing-do-you-start-your-holiday-shopping-n684151" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Related: The One Thing to Do Before You Start Your Holiday Shopping</a></div>
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If you're like most Americans, chances are you're going to be dropping some serious dough on holiday gifts. And unless you're expecting a surprise pay raise this holiday season (we can all dream, right?) it might mean you're spending more money than you make.</div>
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This<a href="http://www.spendee.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;"> iOS and Android app</a> is free and will help you visualize where your money is going.</div>
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Spendee Premium will help you set budgets for all areas of your life to help keep you on track. Perhaps that means tightening those restaurant and entertainment budgets to free up more money for gifts.</div>
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Think of PocketGuard as your one-stop portal to seeing your financial health. This <a href="https://pocketguard.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">free app for iOS and Android </a>lets you know how much money you have "in your pocket" for the day, your net worth and whether you're bringing in the big bucks or need to slow your spending.</div>
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Arguably the best known money management app, Mint pulls together all of your accounts, helps you create budgets, and tracks your spending. Mint also has at least 20 different alerts that can give you a heads up if you're close to going over budget or if something looks suspicious.</div>
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The bad news: It's $1.99. The good news: The <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-christmas-list/id340779800?mt=8" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Christmas List iOS app </a>has an interface that will keep you organized and on track with your holiday shopping. Input who you're buying for and your budget for that gift. When you're done, make a note of what you've purchased and what you still need to buy.</div>
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A similar app, Christmas Gift List, is available for <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xmaslist&hl=en" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Android </a>users. It packs a lot of the same utilities but includes in-app purchases.</div>
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So you're tracking your money, but why not find ways to save some cash on your purchases?<a href="https://www.retailmenot.com/mobile/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;"> RetailMeNot</a> and <a href="http://www.offers.com/about/app/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Offers.com</a> both have apps that will help you find coupons you can use to save a few extra bucks.</div>
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Don't forget to check both for restaurant coupons, too.</div>
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Don't wait until you get to the register to find out if that hot deal you have is too good to be true. The <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discount-calculator-shopping/id473404571?mt=8" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Discount Calculator app</a> will help you figure out what 30 percent off of that new TV is, and then how much it will cost after applying an additional 10 percent off coupon and paying sales tax.</div>
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You may think you're alone, but there's a good chance a handful of apps on your smartphone are closely following your every move.</div>
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This week, rideshare giant Uber faced social media backlash <a href="https://help.uber.com/h/ba9dd342-158d-421f-a9ea-0e6c7aaad726" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">after updating its app to include the ability to track a user's location, regardless of whether or not the app was open.</a></div>
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Robert Siciliano, CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com, told NBC News the reason why companies like Uber — and plenty of other app makers — want to follow your move "boils down to functionality and long-term use."</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNovaBold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Related:</span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-may-have-just-built-his-first-bridge-silicon-valley-n690756" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/study-it-s-harder-get-uber-or-lyft-if-you-n675966" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">It's Harder to Get an Uber or Lyft Ride if You're Black</a></div>
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"When you go to use it [the app], they want you to be able to instantaneously have access to all of its features," Siciliano said. "Let's just say you have the app set to only track you when you are using it. When you go to use it, there may be a delay before the app becomes effective. It's in that time frame you may close the app, forfeit it and not use it."</div>
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If users opt to allow Uber to collect their data, the company says it will do so from the time the app is open until five minutes after a ride is completed.</div>
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Uber's rationale is that this will "improve pickups, drop-offs, customer service, and safety."</div>
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But not everyone is thrilled with the idea. With "always" and "never" as the only options, some users have lamented the lack of a "while using" option.</div>
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"Many people have raised concerns about this change, both questioning Uber's need for post-ride tracking and the change away from user control," a <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/uber-should-restore-user-control-location-privacy" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">blog post</a> from the Electronic Frontier Foundation said. "These concerns are quite understandable — there are many legitimate reasons that a rider would want privacy in their final destination, perhaps stopping the ride a block or three away from their true destination."</div>
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So the new <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" data-mentioned-user-id="19103481" data-scribe="element:mention" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/Uber" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">@</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">uber</span></a> location services options are always and never? Not cool, Uber. <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/privacy?src=hash" rel="tag" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">privacy</span></a><a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/overreach?src=hash" rel="tag" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">overreach</span></a></div>
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I can't drive, & I'm too poorly for public transport. <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" data-mentioned-user-id="19103481" data-scribe="element:mention" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/Uber" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">@</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">Uber</span></a> wants to have "Always" Location access. No dice. Hi, <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" data-mentioned-user-id="569569550" data-scribe="element:mention" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/lyft" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">@</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">lyft</span></a>! <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Privacy?src=hash" rel="tag" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">Privacy</span></a> <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Milennials?src=hash" rel="tag" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b7bb9; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">Milennials</span></a></div>
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So Who's Following You?</h3>
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Almost every app maker would love to have permission to follow your every move, even when you're not using it, Siciliano said.</div>
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"They will track your location and get as much information about you as possible," he said. "All of that metadata is being bought and sold every day. If they could get your blood type, they would."</div>
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While you'd have to check each app's privacy policy to determine who is actually using your data for financial gain, there's a simpler way to just opt out.</div>
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On an Android smartphone, go to "settings" and then choose "apps." From there, you can choose each app and go to "permission" and "location" to see who's following you.</div>
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For iPhone users, go to "settings," "privacy" and "location services" to choose which apps you want to allow to track you.</div>
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While it might not be that big of a deal to some people, Siciliano said it's worth taking charge of your privacy.</div>
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"I turn off everything with the exception of maps and my runner's app," he said. "Some apps are tracking location and I see no reason why."</div>
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If you're spending the holidays with a friend or relative who's doing a ton of cooking, make sure to bring a gift worthy of that home-cooked meal.</div>
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Whether you're looking for holiday gift ideas for a tech-savvy chef or someone who just needs a kitchen gadget upgrade, we've got some of the coolest gifts ideas any foodie would love.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNovaBold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Cuisinart Elemental Food Processor, about $200</span></div>
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The holiday recipes may be passed down from generations ago but the days of chopping and slicing by hand are over. <a href="http://www.cuisinart.com/products/food_processors/fp-13dgm.html#top" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Cuisinart's Elemental 13-Cup Food Processor</a> is a chef's dream, with a work bowl big enough to chop a meal for the whole holiday gathering.</div>
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It comes with slicing and dicing discs, chopping and mixing blades, accessory storage and so much more, but we love the easy electronic touchpad controls, perfect for working with sticky fingers. Use the food processor along with your favorite recipe app to save time in the kitchen so there's more time to spend with family.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNovaBold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Braun PureMix Blender, about $180</span></div>
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Blenders are an essential kitchen gadget, and we especially love when they're versatile enough to handle everything from breakfast smoothies to frozen margaritas and a hot soup recipe in between.</div>
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<a href="http://www.braunhousehold.com/en-us/products/food-preparation/blenders/puremix_blender-jb7172bk" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Braun's PureMix Blender</a>'s new smoothie attachment saves time and clean up because you can make your breakfast drink and take the container with you on the go. The ThermoResist glass pitcher can handle hot as well as cold ingredients, and has techy magic senses to figure out what's inside for optimal speed and blending, no matter which of the seven functions you're using.</div>
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The stainless steel and black design not only looks great in the kitchen but makes it super easy to clean up any drips and spills. Another plus: When the meal is over, the whole blade assembly goes right in the dishwasher.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNovaBold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Panasonic Countertop Induction Oven, about $600</span></div>
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Time-pressed chefs will appreciate how fast they can whip up a family holiday meal in <a href="http://shop.panasonic.com/microwave-and-kitchen/kitchen-appliances/countertop-induction-ovens/NU-HX100S.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Panasonic's Countertop Induction Oven</a>. Panasonic is the first to bring induction technology to the countertop so you don't need a full stove to cook a chicken and vegetables in under 30 minutes.</div>
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It looks similar to a microwave but combines induction technology and double-infrared heating to grill, bake or broil your food. Preset options and adjustable temperature controls let you cook two items at different temperatures at the same time.</div>
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Baking brownies with Perfect Bake means never having to measure flour again. The <a href="https://makeitperfectly.com/bake" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Perfect Bake Pro</a> is a smart scale combined with an interactive recipe app that takes care of all the measuring and weighing, even "scaling" a recipe according to how many people you're cooking for.</div>
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The scale is connected by Bluetooth to the app so it guides you step by step through the ingredients, letting you know when you've added enough to the included color-coded bowls. No need for measuring spoons or cups. For easy-to-make desserts, this gift takes the cake.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNovaBold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Fizzics Waytap Draft Beer System, about $130</span></div>
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For the beer lover on your list who prefers to drink beer from a tap, <a href="http://www.brookstone.com/pd/fizzics-waytap-draft-beer-system/320629p.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Fizzics Waytap Draft Beer System</a> is like having a tap right in your own home. Simply insert your favorite beer, it can be in a bottle or can, and pull the tap for great-tasting foamy beer, just the way you like it.</div>
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Fizzics aerates the brew and uses special micro-foam technology so you get enhanced taste and aroma every time. Since Fizzics is small and light and runs on batteries, you'll want to bring it to all your upcoming parties!</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: ProximaNovaBold, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Automatic Wine Opener and Foil Cutter, about $50</span></div>
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For easy access to that perfectly chilled bottle of wine, you'll want <a href="http://www.brookstone.com/pd/automatic-wine-opener-and-foil-cutter/902256p.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Brookstone's Automatic Wine Opener and Foil Cutter</a>. This is as simple as it gets — place the opener over the cork and press the down button to remove the cork from the bottle.</div>
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Once it's out, press the up button to release the cork from the opener. The foil cutter is built in so there's no chance of misplacing it once the wine is opened and consumed. The cordless charger comes with a base for recharging when you're not using it. But when would that be?</div>
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You may not think of the slow cooker as a state of the art appliance — but Belkin has given the Crock-Pot a high-tech upgrade. The <a href="https://www.crock-pot.com/wemo-landing-page.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Belkin WeMo Crock-Pot</a> slow cooker joins the Wemo family of connected devices so users can control the 6-quart stainless steel pot right from their smartphone.</div>
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It still works the old-fashioned way; assemble your ingredients in the morning and set the amount of time you want it to cook. Once you leave the house, you still have access to the controls via your smartphone so if you're late leaving work you can easily decrease the temperature or cooking time, or just switch to keep-warm mode so your dinner is perfectly done when you get home. And it works with Android and Apple devices!</div>
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The college student or midnight snacker in your life will enjoy feasting on <a href="https://www.graze.com/us/home" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">a gift box from Graze</a>, a subscription snack service specializing in healthy, personalized food. The boxes come with eight portion-controlled snacks based on the individual's personal taste preferences, delivered right to the door.</div>
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Snacks range from nuts and seeds to dried fruits and crackers, but we love the unique blends like Deconstructed Carrot Cake — which is not cake at all, but a snack bag made up of carrot chews, cinnamon flavored raisins, walnuts and ginger fudge.</div>
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You can buy someone a one-time box, a specified number of monthly boxes, or send a gift voucher so they can choose their own. Just try not to eat all their snacks before they do!</div>
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If it's too cold to go in and out to check the doneness of dinner on that outdoor grill, get an <a href="http://product.weber.com/igrill/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">iGrill</a>, a connected meat thermometer that sends temperature and doneness info to an app on your smartphone. Insert the iGrill probe right into the meat and let the app know what kind of meat you're tracking. Then simply go back to entertaining your holiday guests. The iGrill monitors the meat and sends an alert to your phone when dinner is ready.</div>
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If you're shopping for a smart-home-loving chef, Amazon's Echo makes a great kitchen companion. In addition to the voice-controlled music, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Echo-Bluetooth-Speaker-with-WiFi-Alexa/dp/B00X4WHP5E" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Alexa</a>, the Echo's virtual assistant, can read recipes from different partners like Allrecipes so chefs can search through a database of thousands of recipe options.</div>
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You can search based on specific ingredients or by the name of a dish, then Alexa will offer step-by-step instructions and walk you through cooking the meal. Alexa is as helpful as the skills you download.</div>
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Not sure how healthy that meal is? You can ask Alexa for the calorie count in a slice of carrot cake or have her read the news or an audiobook while you're cooking. Alexa can also set timers in the kitchen so you don't overboil the pasta water but best of all, she can also order take-out if you burn dinner. Not that you would ever do that!</div>
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Hackers had a busy 2015, breaking into everything from the Ashley Madison database to CIA Director John Brennan's AOL account.</div>
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This year, more than 178 million records on Americans were exposed in cyberattacks, according to the Identity Theft Research Center. The worst of them included the breach of the Office of Personnel Management, which exposed the personal information of 21.5 million people.</div>
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Even kids weren't safe. When electronic toymaker VTech was hacked in early December, 6.4 million children's profiles were compromised.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">Many experts don't believe 2016 will be any better. So what should the public be worried about in the coming year?</span></div>
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The Internet of Hackable Things</h2>
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Everything from smart fridges to connected Barbies to the Apple Watch found their way into American homes in 2015. That trend should continue in 2016 — something hackers will probably exploit, according to several experts.</div>
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"A new frontier of data breach issues is on the horizon," Lane Thames, a security researcher for Tripwire, told NBC News. "It is a result of the growing number of devices that belong to the Internet of Things, a.k.a. the IoT."</div>
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While the emergence of new smart products might be exciting, Thames said, "very few of these devices are designed and developed with cybersecurity and data privacy in mind. Often, a skilled hacker can break into a new IoT device within a matter of days, if not hours."</div>
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Someone hacking into a car or home appliance is scary enough. But the Internet of Things is becoming a vital part of U.S. hospitals, a problem because the healthcare industry already faces 340 percent more cyberattacks than the average industry, according to a report from <a href="http://blogs.websense.com/security-labs/raytheonwebsense-2016-security-predictions" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Raytheon and Websense Security Labs</a>.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">Fear of "false positives and delays" for patients means that 75 percent of hospital network traffic goes unmonitored, the report said, putting connected devices with access to sensitive patient information at risk.</span></div>
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Ransomware</h2>
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Security firm Trend Micro dubbed 2016 the "year of online extortion." Ransomware infects a computer, and then threatens to lock a user out forever or delete data if the user doesn't pay up.</div>
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There will be more of that, <a href="https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/research-and-analysis/predictions/2016" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Trend Micro said in a recent report</a>. But in the wake of the Ashley Madison hack, where members were outed as possible philanderers, the blackmail could be even worse.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">"Cyber extortionists will devise new ways to target its victim's psyche to make each attack personal," predicted Trend Micro.</span></div>
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"Reputation is everything, and threats that can ruin an individual's or a business' reputation will prove to be effective and — more importantly — lucrative."</div>
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Even more terrifying, the threat of ransomware and the growing Internet of Things could converge, <a href="http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2015/The-End-of-the-World-for-APTs-As-We-Know-Them-in-2016" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">according to Kaspersky Lab</a>, "begging the question, how much would you be willing to pay to regain access to your TV programming? Your fridge? Your car?"</div>
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Rise of hacktivism</h2>
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Greed isn't the only thing motivating hackers. In 2015, Anonymous went after ISIS and the <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anonymous-hackers-threaten-release-names-ku-klux-klan-members-n453246" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Ku Klux Klan</a>.</div>
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"Organizations need to realize that financial gain is no longer the only or even the biggest driver of some of their adversaries," Amit Yoran, president of security firm RSA, told NBC News in an email.</div>
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While Anonymous might grab the headlines, lone hackers with muddled motivations will be the bigger threat in 2016, predicted McAfee Labs in a <a href="http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-threats-predictions-2016.pdf" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">recently published report</a>. The people who hacked Ashley Madison and VTech both claimed they were simply exposing poor security practices.</div>
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Over the next year, McAfee Labs says to expect "attacks that appear to be inspired by hacktivism but actually have very different, hard-to-determine motives."</div>
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Hackers don't need advanced skills or lots of money to cause chaos these days, the McAfee Labs report said, calling modern hacktivism "nothing more than a case of copy and paste." That means any kid with an ax to grind and moderate computer skills could take up the mantle of "hacktivism" and cause the next big security breach.</div>
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There is no shortage of private security firms and experts promising to prevent cyberattacks. But 2016 could be the year Uncle Sam takes a stand against hackers — for better or for worse.</div>
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"As international cyber threats increase and cyber warfare tactics are increasingly used by America's high profile enemies — ISIS, North Korea, Iran — the pressure to do something at the federal level will provide politicians an attractive issue in an election year," Jeff Hill, channel marketing manager for STEALTHbits Technologies, told NBC News.</div>
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Expect new legislation meant to protect sensitive information, Hill said, as well as the possibility that President Barack Obama could appoint something like a "cyber security czar to coordinate efforts to combat national security and corporate espionage-driven attacks."</div>
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Not only will the government feel pressure to prevent attacks, it will also need to find ways to help the millions of victims of security breaches — some of whom never learn that their information was exposed.</div>
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"With breaches on the rise at all levels from government to the private sector we will see a push for more legislation dealing with reporting and protections," Lamar Bailey, research director for Tripwire's vulnerability and exposures research team, told NBC News.</div>
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After as many as 80 million records were compromised in the Anthem breach, the insurer <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/anthem-hack-credit-monitoring-wont-catch-medical-identity-theft-n300836" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">offered free credit monitoring to catch fraud. </a>That isn't enough, Bailey said.</div>
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"Credit monitoring is not sufficient for protecting victims of a breach — it is like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound," Bailey told NBC News, predicting that the government could require more from hacked companies in 2016.</div>
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Apple at risk?</h2>
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In the past, many assumed that Apple products were safer from cyberattacks than Windows and Android products. But as Apple's popularity grows — it currently owns 13.5 percent and 7.5 percent of the smartphone and PC markets, respectively, according to market research firm IDC — so too could the company's visibility as a target.</div>
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"A rising number of threat actors have begun developing specific malware designed to infect devices running Mac OS X or iOS," wrote <a href="http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/symantec-predictions-2016-looking-ahead" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">Symantec on its website</a>, noting that "Apple-related malware infections" have spiked in the last 18 months.</div>
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"Should Apple's popularity continue to grow, it seems likely that these trends will continue in 2016," said Symantec. "Apple users should not be complacent about security and change their perception that Apple devices are 'free from malware.'"</div>
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As always, there are steps that people can take to protect themselves, from always updating their software to coming up with a nearly unbreakable password (don't worry, there is an <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/want-nearly-unbreakable-password-give-2-girl-n452156" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">11-year-old girl who can help you with that</a>).</div>
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In 2016, IDC expects that more than <a href="https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS40855515" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4372b8; text-decoration: none;">3.2 billion people </a>will have access to the Internet. That is a lot of potential hackers and targets, so don't expect the number of security breaches to come down anytime soon.</div>
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As you can see, the 5.7” ZenFone 3 Deluxe is powered by a quad-core, <a href="http://hothardware.com/tags/qualcomm" style="color: #004fe0;">Qualcomm</a> Snapdragon 820 (up to 2.15GHz), with Adreno 530 graphics, various storage options, and a copious (for a smartphone) 6GB of RAM. In terms of connectivity, the phone supports 4G LTE (various bands), 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi with 5GHz 2x2 MIMO support, and Bluetooth 4.2. The chassis is all metal, and the 5.7” display uses super <a href="http://hothardware.com/tags/amoled" style="color: #004fe0;">AMOLED</a> technology. Cameras include an 8MP front-facing shooter, with a 23MP rear-facing sensor, and all of the modern sensors you’d expect on current-gen smartphone are present, including a fingerprint sensor.<br /><div align="center">
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Season's greetings; it's that time of year again, when we here at Hot Hardware assemble our holiday gift guides for your browsing and shopping pleasure. There was an embarrassment of riches this year, as the industry continued to innovate and come up with interesting new designs based on the latest, greatest technologies. Those of us buying computer hardware demand more and faster from every iteration, and many OEMs usually manage to deliver. Some don't but you won't see them on this list. This list is a collection of some of the best hardware for gifting in four top categories that we think are well worth the money, whether the purchase is for yourself or someone else.<br /><br />From budget products to flagship devices, we've got you covered. There is quite a collection here spanning a wide range of gear, but just in case we missed one, we hope you'll add your own recommendation in the comments below to help your fellow geeks.<br /><br />We'll start with convertible devices and tablets and move on to <a href="http://hothardware.com/tags/smartphones" style="color: #004fe0;">smartphones</a>, <a href="http://hothardware.com/tags/notebooks" style="color: #004fe0;">notebooks</a>, and desktop <a href="http://hothardware.com/tags/systems" style="color: #004fe0;">systems</a> on the pages ahead...<br /></div>
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<b><b>Amazon Fire HD8 - <a href="http://amzn.to/2f8SrTq" style="color: #004fe0;" target="_blank">Starting at $134.99</a></b></b></div>
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When you buy cheap Android tablets, you tend to get what you pay for. But <a href="http://amzn.to/2f8SrTq" style="color: #004fe0;" target="_blank">Amazon's Fire HD8</a> is one of the better, affordable media consumption tablets you can get. It's perfectly suited and totally optimized for things like downloading, streaming, reading, and watching Amazon content. It doesn't have any of Google's native apps or even access to Google Play, but Amazon made a tablet dedicated to consuming its content that can access Amazon's right ecosystem. That should keep many people happy, considering the affordable price on this device.</div>
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On the other end of the spectrum there is the Galaxy TabPro S, a Windows 10 based 2-in-1 that is even thinner than the iPad Pro or Surface Pro, and has the horsepower to do regular work. The TabPro S is roughly $100 cheaper than the Surface Pro but doesn't cut corners. Battery life is very good and in-line with other large tablets, while graphics performance is adequate for casual gaming. All told it's an excellent example of the convertible, 2-in-1 device experience. <a href="http://hothardware.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-tabpro-s" style="color: #004fe0;">Read our review here</a>.</div>
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Not every 2-in-1 is created equal. Some only do one task well. <a href="http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-12-9250/?oc=&l=en&s=dhs" style="color: #004fe0;" target="_blank">Dell's XPS 12</a>, though, is just as capable as a laptop as it is a tablet thanks to Dell using both a solid 12.5-inch screen and a top flight keyboard assembly. Some convertible keyboards are inferior to a standard laptop, but not here. For as low as about $600 you get a Skylake processor, 8GB of RAM and a speedy SSD. That's the kind of specs you'd expect to find in a full sized notebook. It even comes with the keyboard assembly, whereas Microsoft charges an additional $130 for its Type Cover attachment. Once again we have a solid alternative to the Surface products from Microsoft while saving a few dollars in the process. <a href="http://hothardware.com/reviews/dell-xps-12-2016-review" style="color: #004fe0;">Read our review here</a>.</div>
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While other 2-in-1s are aimed at general consumers, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 tablet is aimed at business users. Targeting a different market segment also means slightly different specs and features. For example, Windows 10 Pro is installed instead of Home, and Intel vPro is supported, just to name two. Also adding to the appeal are add-ons, such as a projector or extra battery, useful to a business user. Even better is that it comes without any bloatware and includes only useful applications like Lenovo's Solution Center, which can tell if a piece of hardware is defective or on the verge of failing, and Lenovo Companion to keep your laptop optimized and running smoothly, by automatically doing things like software and even BIOS updates. <a href="http://hothardware.com/reviews/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-tablet-a-modular-2-in-1-for-professionals" style="color: #004fe0;">Read our review here</a>.</div>
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<br style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">That is precisely the angle Micron is taking here. Looking at the total cost of ownership (TCO), Micron compared its 5100 Eco drives with 10,000 RPM hard drives to give an example of the kind of savings clients can achieve. In a typical 10K HDD deployment that spans 10 chassis and 240 HDDs, replacing them with just a single chassis of 22 5100 Eco SSDs results in the same capacity, 20X better performance, and about $100,000 cost reduction over the course of five years.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Micron's new series SSDs are broken down into three product lines. They consist of the following:</span></div>
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<li><b>Micron 5100 ECO:</b> Cloud services focused, optimized for content sharing (video and media streaming). Performance and endurance characteristics for consistent data throughput and fast information delivery.</li>
<li><b>Micron 5100 PRO:</b> A true workhorse. Excels in consistent performance delivery for latency-sensitive applications. Enhances your bottom line through better response times (e.g., databases powering e-commerce, trading transactions, etc.)</li>
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abirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12640616025038227167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7060716416780121267.post-14104605532530470662016-12-11T07:26:00.002-08:002016-12-11T07:26:38.562-08:00Meet Gooligan, malware that boost Google Play app rankings<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Meet Gooligan, malware that boost Google Play app rankings</u></span></b></div>
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If your device is still running on older version of Android, you should remain vigilant. <a href="http://hothardware.com/news/1-million-google-accounts-hit-by-gooligan-malware" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e5dc5; text-decoration: none; word-break: normal;" target="_blank">Security researchers at Check Point</a>has identified a <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; word-break: normal;">malware namely Gooligan where it boost app rankings on the Google Play Store.</span> Its estimated that over 1 million Google accounts have been compromised, with the malware infecting additional devices at a rate of roughly 13,000 daily.</div>
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Associated with the Ghost Push-family malware, Gooligan penetrates into your smartphone when an infected app is downloaded. Gooligan will then rely on Linux kernel exploits to root the device.</div>
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After that, it would proceed to <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; word-break: normal;">download additional payloads in its attempt to compromise the user’s email accounts and steal authentication tokens.</span></div>
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Next, codes will be injected into Google Play that<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; word-break: normal;"> allows it to install fraudulent apps in an attempt to boost said apps’ ranking</span>. The malware will also install adware, generating additional revenue for the creators of said malware.</div>
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If your device is currently running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above, worry not because Gooligan as Google has since patched the vulnerability. However, not so for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; word-break: normal;">Android such as 5.0 Lollipop, your device is still very much vulnerable to this malware.</span></div>
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Wary of Gooligan? <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; word-break: normal;">Check Point has come up with <a href="https://gooligan.checkpoint.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e5dc5; text-decoration: none; word-break: normal;">tool</a> that would allow you to check if your account has been compromised.</span> Its best that you perform a factory reset of said Android device to purge Gooligan if the result is positive</div>
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Source: <a href="http://hothardware.com/news/1-million-google-accounts-hit-by-gooligan-malware" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e5dc5; text-decoration: none; word-break: normal;" target="_blank">Hot Hardware</a></div>
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