Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Oops. Apple has seriously weakened iOS 10 backups against password hackers and other top stories.

  • Oops. Apple has seriously weakened iOS 10 backups against password hackers

    Researchers say iOS 10's password security checks for backups are now 2,500 times weaker than previous versions of iOS. Image: Apple A flaw Apple introduced in iOS 10 has made it far easier for password crackers to brute-force data backed up to iTunes, including credentials stored in Keychain. iOS 10 might be the most secure version of Apple's mobile OS, but Apple reportedly made a serious blunder in its imple..
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  • Oculus Rift release date, price and system requirements: VR devs drop Oculus support after Luckey's Trump scandal

    Oculus Rift release date, price and system requirements: VR devs drop Oculus support after Luckey's Trump scandal
    Oculus Rift at a glance 'Oculus Touch' motion control system delayed till second half of 2016 Retail price set at £549 Headsets available online and instore Jump to: Oculus Rift latest news 26/09/2016: VR developers have begun dropping support for the Oculus Rift in droves, after claims that founder Palmer Luckey is personally funding a pro-Trump advocacy group. The news emerged last week, when a report from The Daily Beast confirmed that Luckey was an active donor to Nimble America. The Bea..
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  • Google embraces the log-in, leaving cookies behind in new advertising updates

    Google embraces the log-in, leaving cookies behind in new advertising updates
    Google has been focusing for years now on finding better ways to track and measure ads as we switch from one device to another to consume media like TV, music or written articles like this one. And now, to coincide with Ad Week in New York this week, Google is revealing its latest moves in that effort: over the next few months the company will expand Brand Lift from measuring online  video to cover TV; it’s letting businesses ad Google Maps data and photos to their ads; and in a ver..
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  • How Hacked Cameras Are Helping Launch The Biggest Attacks The Internet Has Ever Seen

    How Hacked Cameras Are Helping Launch The Biggest Attacks The Internet Has Ever Seen
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  • Samsung Galaxy C9 Pops Up On Geekbench, 6GB Of RAM In Tow

    Samsung Galaxy C9 Pops Up On Geekbench, 6GB Of RAM In Tow
    Samsung had kicked off the all-new 'Galaxy C' lineup of smartphones by releasing the Galaxy C5 and Galaxy C7 handsets earlier this year. The Galaxy C5 and Galaxy C7 were introduced back in May, and have been available for purchase since June.
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  • Facebook accused of censoring Palestinian journalists

    Facebook accused of censoring Palestinian journalists
    Facebook has apologized for disabling the personal accounts of several editors and executives at two major Palestinian news publications, according to a report from The Electronic Intifada. Facebook says the accounts were mistakenly suspended after being reported for violating the site's community standards, but the publications believe the incident is related to Israel's recent push to combat online incitement to violence. Four editors at the Shehab News Agency and three executives from the Qu..
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  • China begins listening for E.T. on world's largest radio telescope

    China begins listening for E.T. on world's largest radio telescope
    China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope is being used to watch the galaxies and listen for possible intelligent civilizations beyond our solar system. Xinhua China on Sunday began using the world's largest radio telescope to survey the heavens and listen for signals of possible extraterrestrial life. Nestled in a valley surrounded by naturally formed karst hills in China's southern Guizhou province..
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  • Meeting Cellebrite - Israel's master phone crackers

    Meeting Cellebrite - Israel's master phone crackers
    Media captionSmartphone locks cracked by Israel's Cellebrite It's an Israeli company that helps police forces gain access to data on the mobile phones of suspected criminals. Cellebrite was in the headlines earlier this year when it was rumoured to have helped the FBI to crack an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter. Now the company has told the BBC that it can get through the defences of just about any modern smartphone. But the firm refuses to say whether it supplies its technology t..
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Josh Sitton “sad” about being cut by Packers .Source: Cowboys keep Romo on active roster .
Obama joins other world leaders to create new ocean sanctuaries .Apple fixes security exploits with emergency update for OS X .

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