All those flip phone fans out their who fondly remember the popular Motorola RAZR in its heydays, now have a chance to get their hands on another flip phone. But this one is from house of Samsung. While there were rumours about Samsung working on a flip phone codenamed “Veyron,” new leaks indicated that the South Korean smartphone giant is working on a separate mid-range Android clamshell smartphone. As usual, the leak popped up on the Chinese Twitter equivalent Weibo which shows a super slim Samsung Galaxy Folder 2....

An aviation expert has claimed that the shocking Germanwings Airbus A320 crash in the Alps may have been caused by hackers. In a letter to the Financial Times Matt Andersson warned of the complexities of aircraft accidents and highlighted the possibilities of secondary contributing factors – including external electronic hacking. Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany, operated by Germanwings, subsidiary of Lufthansa....

According to the report, global average internet connection speed has increased 12 percent to 7.0 Mbps in the fourth quarter of 2016 — a 26 percent increase year-over-year. The quarterly report includes data collected from across the Akamai Intelligent Platform about attack traffic, broadband adoption, mobile connectivity and other relevant topics regarding the internet and its usage, as well as trends over time. “Internet connection speeds continued to show positive long-term trends around the world, with particularly strong year-over-year increases across all broadband adoption metrics,” David Belson, editor of the State of the Internet Report, comments....

The company has contracts in more than 115 countries, of which many are with governments. The company came to limelight in March when it was reported that the FBI used its technology to crack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Since then, there have been reports that Cellebrite was not involved, and the company also refuses to comment. Nevertheless, it is known as one of the world’s leaders in such technology....

With the release of latest Android 5.1, the official code forum filled up with users complaining about downfall in performance after they updated to the latest version. The forum users stated that the reason the slowdown in performance was due to a old Memory leak bug which havent been patched yet. Following the comments from Android users, finally, Google has acknowledge the bug and said that they have internally resolved the same....

However, a newly discovered second data leak has now forced Google to shut down much before it has planned. According to the company, a bug in the Google+ API has exposed the data of 52.5 million users, which has compelled the search giant to kill off Google+ in April 2019. The company also added that the bug was fixed within a week of it being introduced. “We’ve recently determined that some users were impacted by a software update introduced in November that contained a bug affecting a Google+ API....

It looks like everyone wants to have their own “speed tests” these days. After, Netflix’s fast.com and Microsoft’s Bing speed test widget, it’s now the turn of Google to launch its own speed test. The search giant is reported to be trying out a way for people to allow them to check their internet speed by simply typing “check internet speed” into search. Pete Meyers posted a screenshot on Twitter showing the Google speed test tool in their search results....

According to Tech Crunch, the search giant’s chairman Eric Schmidt said that Google believes machine learning is “what’s next.” With this new cloud service, Google will make it easier for developers to employ some of the machine learning tech, the company already uses to power features like Smart Reply in Inbox. “Major Google applications use Cloud Machine Learning, including Photos (image search), the Google app (voice search), Translate and Inbox (Smart Reply),” the company says....

However, one thing is for sure, taking into consideration Google’s strong liking for naming their operating system after a candy or dessert, there are many possibilities for what Android M will eventually stand for. Each one comes with a new dessert-themed name for it. For instance, Android 2.2 was Froyo, Android 4.0 was Ice Cream Sandwich, and Android 5.0 was Lollipop. Google is majorly teasing Android M, with a new video posted to YouTube on Friday....

Google said in the blog post that the new Google Contacts comes with a fresh look which will help you to keep track of the people you know, Circles from Google+ or the people you mail/talk to in Gmail. Its not only the looks, Google is also working on to bring new improved features that will make it easier for the users to use Google Contacts. So today we’re releasing a preview of the new Google Contacts that makes it easier to keep track of the people you know and get the info you need, fast....

Google has a voice search feature “OK Google” in Google Search page; Yes, just by enabling “OK Google” and “voicing your search” i.e speaking it aloud, you can easily get it on Google. This is a hands free feature and can be used for lot more things than only searching which includes getting reminders and also directions. User would need microphone attached to their gadgets. The feature is easily activated on all the smart phones, desktop, laptops....

In an effort to “motivate” competitors like Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. to fix their buggy software before the real cyber criminals take advantage of the flaws in their unpatched code. Of course, both Microsoft and Apple are not keen on this. Opponents of Google’s Project Zero’s practice say it puts online security at risk by revealing gaps before they can be plugged. Of course, hackers in the know work fast to purposefully exploit software flaws when they become known....

The feature apparently not only allows Google to enhance its language recognition tools, as it lets people search with their voice, but also improve the results that it provides to the people. Also, it offers a simple way to listen and delete all of the information that it gathers. This is done through a special page that brings together the information that Google has on you. You need to go to the history page and look at the long list of recordings....

Suzanne Frey, Google Cloud Trust’s Vice President of Engineering, in a blog post published on Tuesday, revealed that the issue impacted G Suite enterprise accounts only and no free version of Google accounts like Gmail were affected. “We recently notified a subset of our enterprise G Suite customers that some passwords were stored in our encrypted internal systems unhashed. This is a G Suite issue that affects business users only–no free consumer Google accounts were affected,” Frey said....

Gtalk was already made unavailable for download from Google after it announced last year that the end is nearer. after which users looking to download Gtalk were redirected to Google Hangouts download page. Earlier this week Google once again notified Gtalk users to upgrade to Google hangout coz the app will go unoperational after Feb 16th. While Gtalk’s interface has become very familiar to many of its users not to forget mentioning that it loads better than Google Hangout on slow internet connections....

According to German civil service magazine Behörden Spiegel, the Patriot missiles placed on the Turkish side of the border under the Nato pact, were taken over by an unidentified hacker for a short period. The magazine does not reveal information regarding what these orders were or when they were carried out. However, it indirectly hints that hackers may have obtained access to the missile system through a computer chip which shows directions to the missiles, or through a real-time information exchange which lets the missiles to share information with their control system....

Now in another case, a serial doxxer and ‘swatter’ has been given ONLY one year in prison sentence. Mir Islam, who doxxed multiple celebrities and politicians, as well as called in fake threats that resulted in the swatting of at least nineteen people, including security researcher Brian Krebs, who uncovered Islam’s doxxing tactics. For the uninitiated, doxxing is a practice of researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual in order to publically leak their otherwise unknown information....

Shortly after the incident, Twitter said, “We’re aware that @jack was compromised and investigating what happened.” — Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) August 30, 2019 After gaining control of Dorsey’s account, the hackers sent sexist, racist and vulgar tweets to his 4.2 million followers. The tweets also included messages such as “Hitler is innocent”, anti-Semitic comments, the hashtag #ChucklingSquad, N-word, and a link to a gaming chat application Discord called “Chuckle with us....

The email sent out on October 19 says: “Most [law enforcement agencies] in the US and abroad will become ‘blind,’ they will ‘go dark:’ they will be simply be [sic] unable to fight vicious phenomena such as terrorism. Only the private companies can help here, we are one of them.” The email then continues: “It is crystal clear that the present American administration does not have the stomach to oppose the American IT conglomerates and to approve unpopular, yet totally necessary regulations....

Today everything is driven by Internet and so speed becomes much more important. Have you ever thought where your country ranks globally in mobile data speeds? Do you think that your country provides you the best mobile data speeds? If you compare your country with other countries of the world, you may find yourself wrong. OpenSignal, a company that specializes in wireless coverage mapping, today released their sixth Global State of the Mobile Network report on the global state of mobile networks....