Fresh Updates About Samsung Galaxy S8.

With just a couple of months to go until its unveiling, rumors are flying about the latest Samsung flagship smartphone. Presumably to be called the Galaxy S8, it carries the extra pressure of being a sort of comeback kid—Samsung’s first big announcement after the exploding Galaxy Note7 debacle.

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Automobile companies now must become a Tech company.

I recently met with Dan Cauchy at Automotive Grade Linux. He spoke to how all the car companies were flocking to participate in his Linux-based open-source platform. Well that’s the way it should be if only as a hedge. It seems

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Apple's brand new Apple Watch patent that is fully functional stand-alone device.

Apple’s latest Apple Watch patent is the one that could make it a fully functional stand-alone device.

Apple was just granted a patent for “modular functional band links” for a wearable device by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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48 percent small and midsized businesses has become victims to ransomware.

More than 50 percent of small and midsized businesses have fallen victim to ransomware, and of those, 48 percent paid a ransom, according to a survey released today by Ponemon Institute and Carbonite.

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Nvidia Shield TV becoming one of the best media streamer for geeks.

The Nvidia Shield TV, a $200 Android-based streaming box with excessive processing power, appeals to a scattershot of audiences. It’s the ideal streamer for PC gamers who also want to play those games in their living room,

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Secrets for Mac and Secrets Touch allows users to easily and securely store their confidential information.

If there’s one breed of app every Mac and iOS user should own, it’s a password manager. After all, it’s no longer possible nor advisable to repeat the same easily-guessed login credentials across all the websites and services we use, and nearly impossible for most of us to remember so many combinations of letters, digits, and special characters.

For my money, 1Password (for Mac and iOS) is hands-down the best choice, and one I highly recommend to others. But not everyone will benefit from that software’s more advanced features, while others are simply unwilling to shell out hard-earned cash for the convenience when jotting passwords onto a piece of paper gets the job done. (Sadly, my own mother is guilty of this!)

Keeping secrets

Secrets (free on the App Store) strips away most of 1Password’s power user features to offer a cleaner, more streamlined user interface. The basics remain the same: You can generate unique secure passwords, autofill website logins in Safari (as well as Chrome on the desktop), and seamlessly sync between Mac and iOS devices via iCloud. Everything is saved in OpenPGP format using proven AES, RSA, and SHA encryption standards for maximum security.

In many respects, Secrets for Mac is like the ghost of 1Password past—a basic, no-frills password manager akin to the one AgileBits introduced nearly a decade ago. The dual-pane UI displays a list of entries at left which can be sorted by four item types; there’s also a search field at the top that makes it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for.

With an item selected, a collapsible detail pane at right displays specifics for that record, masking sensitive data unless you hold down the Option key or click the Reveal button, which only appears when the mouse is hovered over the password field. Most of this functionality is cribbed right from 1Password, including the handy one-click Copy option. If all you need to save are website logins, credit card or bank account details, secure notes, and software licenses, Secrets will be a good match. But try to add other item types, and you’re out of luck. There’s no way to create custom classes for identities, reward programs, memberships, or many of the 18 categories offered in 1Password.

Passwords to go

As with most password managers, Secret for Mac is only half of the story. Developer Outer Corner also offers a universal iOS version called Secrets Touch (free on the iTunes Store) which faithfully replicates nearly all the functionality of the desktop version, including a sharing extension to autofill logins in Safari and other mobile browsers.

Unfortunately, this extension is less useful than 1Password’s own, which offers an option to fill pages on websites with similar domains. (For example, disneymovieclub.com and disneymoviesanywhere.com could use either login.) I had problems using iCloud to sync between Mac and iOS with earlier versions,
although the latest 2.2.2 update was more reliable on my iPhone 7 Plus; I never could completely sync to my iPad Pro, however.

Secrets is worth a look if you’re averse to the current trend toward subscription-based software. (1Password and LastPass now both rely on this business model, although the former continues to offer perpetual licensing, at least for the moment.) By comparison, Secrets has abandoned the paid model of the original release and is now free on both platforms, with one caveat: You can only store up to 10 items. That’s a bit stingy even for casual users, but it’s enough to get a sense of whether the apps will work for you.

Thankfully, a one-time in-app purchase of $20 for Mac and $10 for iOS enables storing an unlimited number of items, a reasonable price considering a 1Password subscription is $36 per year (LastPass is even more affordable at only $12 annually). By comparison, Secrets can be used forever—or at least until the inevitable 3.0 release.
 
It’s also easy to make the leap from competing password managers, since Secrets for Mac allows importing from 1Password, LastPass, RapidoSerial, or PasswordWallet, which can then be synced to Secrets Touch. You’ll need to first export data from those apps; I successfully transferred over 1,200 1Password entries, although a single rogue login from streaming provider VUDU.com repeatedly caused Secrets to crash.

Bottom line

Although nowhere near as robust as password managers like 1Password, there’s a lot to like about Secrets, especially if you prefer simplicity over a larger set of features you might never need.


Secrets 2 for MAC -  Available on 'App Store'.
Secrets Touch - Available on 'Tunes Store'.

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Samsung promises to release an innovative Note 8.

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Lavabit developer has developed a new end-to-end email protocol. Click to know more.

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Google is soon going to shut its older versions of Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides

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WhatsApp vulnerability may expose messages and pry eyes, though experts claim it remote and limited in scope

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Attackers started looking for new data storage systems using CouchDB and Hadoop databases

It was only a matter of time until ransomware groups that wiped data from thousands of MongoDB databases and Elasticsearch clusters started targeting other data storage technologies. Researchers are now observing similar destructive attacks hitting openly accessible Hadoop and CouchDB deployments.
Security researchers Victor Gevers and Niall Merrigan, who monitored the MongoDB and Elasticsearch attacks so far, have also started keeping track of the new Hadoop and CouchDB victims. The two have put together spreadsheets on Google Docs where they document the different attack signatures and messages left behind after data gets wiped from databases.

In the case of Hadoop, a framework used for distributed storage and processing of large data sets, the attacks observed so far can be described as vandalism.
That's because the attackers don't ask for payments to be made in exchange for returning the deleted data. Instead, their message instructs the Hadoop administrators to secure their deployments in the future.

According to Merrigan's latest count, 126 Hadoop instances have been wiped so far. The number of victims is likely to increase because there are thousands of Hadoop deployments accessible from the internet -- although it's hard to say how many are vulnerable.

The attacks against MongoDB and Elasticsearch followed a similar pattern. The number of MongoDB victims jumped from hundreds to thousands in a matter of hours and to tens of thousands within a week. The latest count puts the number of wiped MongoDB databases at more than 34,000 and that of deleted Elasticsearch clusters at more than 4,600.

A group called Kraken0, responsible for most of the ransomware attacks against databases, is trying to sell its attack toolkit and a list of vulnerable MongoDB and Elasticsearch installations for the equivalent of US$500 in bitcoins.
The number of wiped CouchDB databases is also growing rapidly, reaching more than 400 so far. CouchDB is a NoSQL-style database platform similar to MongoDB.

Unlike the Hadoop vandalism, the CouchDB attacks are accompanied by ransom messages, with attackers asking for 0.1 bitcoins (around $100) to return the data. Victims are advised against paying because, in many of the MongoDB attacks, there was no evidence that attackers had actually copied the data before deleting it.

Researchers from Fidelis Cybersecurity have also observed the Hadoop attacks and have published a blog post with more details and recommendations on securing such deployments.

The destructive attacks against online database storage systems are not likely to stop soon because there are other technologies that have not yet been targeted and that might be similarly misconfigured and left unprotected on the internet by users.

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