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At times, I wonder if the only Android devices out there should just be the Nexus ones. It’s like if you want iOS, you buy an iPhone. If you want an Android, and while there are so many devices out there, but the really ...
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You might as well know how to do this, since presumably criminals and terrorists also know just as well. The FBI may one day want to poke their noses into the secrets locked inside your smartphones. How do you keep them out? ...
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Apple and the FBI are currently locked in a fierce public relations battle. The fight is about privacy vs fighting terrorism. The FBI had asked Apple for help to unlock the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. Apple has ...
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Google’s free Drive and Gmail storage is awesome, but it’s never enough. If you’re hoping to get more space for your stuffs, well, you can grab an extra 2 GB storage capacity on your Google Drive for free ...
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I’ve been silent on the case of the man who was held partially liable for about $12K of fraudulent credit card charges over his hacked phone, even though I had quite a few cents to say. You see, I’m an IT security ...
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The ubiquitous USB ports on our computers have continued to prevail despite challenges from competing interface technologies. We don’t think much about them, except to know that all our gadgets have them, even though the ...
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One of the big features Android 6.0 Marshmallow brings to the table is an official Android fingerprint API. The new Nexus 5X and 6P smartphones which will be available this month will be the first devices to include Nexus ...
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If you have or use an iPhone or iPad, this is important news. Apple’s iOS App Store has not been hacked per se, but numerous malware-afflicted apps have made their way into the store’s offering. The malware has made ...
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The hackers got hacked, and the aftermath is telling. Like, for example, how the governments of several countries buy spy software. Governments like that of the United States, not surprisingly. Also, the Singapore government, ...
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The Mac has had built-in full disk encryption since the launch of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in July 2011. The feature is called FileVault. With full disk encryption, if by some misfortune your Mac gets stolen or falls into the wrong ...
