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Storing your email address and telephone number in and and the inherent drawbacks of these methods Shortcomings of disguising email in markup to avoid spam and other malicious requests (disguise such as mail [at] mail [dot] com) Pitfalls of CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) A widely used code snippet that is subject to XSS attacks Relying on the HTML markup for important data for the application (such as product prices) A loose security mechanism in an Australian governmental website....

People often see my last name and wonder where I’m from. The answer is Romania. I left as a small child though, so I don’t really remember much, but that’s besides the point. Right now I want to share with you a ridiculous video that, to me at least, proves Samsung has more money than commonsense. According to the Romanian website New Edition News, Samsung launched the Galaxy S4 in my home country by flying it in via helicopter to the top of the Crystal Tower in Bucharest, the capital....

Luckily, there’s now a new web app which will give you a call every night to record feedback on your day. You just need to leave your phone number and set the hour at which you want to be called on the CallFrank.org website and you’re set. If you miss the call, you can call back and Frink will pick up, allowing you to leave your message. If you want, you can call ahead if you think you can’t wait until the set hour....

This article will detail virtualization-based malware and explore: the differences between virtualized and emulated malware, virtualization-based sandbox malware generally and the three different techniques that malware use to evade virtualization-based malware. We’ll give a rundown of some of the different malware and malware families that take advantage of virtualization-based sandbox vulnerabilities. Virtualization-based versus emulated sandboxing Sandboxes are typically used to detect malware and the relative safety of code. However, advanced malware and malware families can evade both mainline consumers and next-generation sandboxes....

The rumor about Apple holding a media event on October 4th is indeed true. Apple has just started to send out media invites which says “Let’s talk about iPhone” which is a clear indication that the event will be about iPhone and we are now almost certain about iPhone 5 release on Tuesday, October 4th 2011. Surprisingly, this iPhone 5 event will be held within the Apple campus at Cupertino, unlike before when they used to have it at Yerba Buena Center for Arts Theater in San Francisco....

Now it seems that Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has come up with a set of guidelines it announced via social media and it guarantees that if drone pilots follow the rules in the United States, they will never find themselves in trouble. This will come across as a huge sigh of relief for the drone hobbyists who will now at least have access to a clearly chalked out regulations they can abide....

This is what opened the door to other measures that needed to be implemented. This step had forced Apple to remove VPN apps from its App Store in the Chinese territory. Now, it looks like Russia is also considering to follow a similar path. According to the reports from Reuters, a new law, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, bans any technology like VPNs and proxies that are used to visit banned website in Russia....

How often have we found ourselves in need of a vulnerable application, which we could use for various purposes? We could use such applications to test the web application scanners to assess the effectiveness of each scanner. We could also use vulnerable applications to test our knowledge of specific vulnerability detection and exploitation. In this article we’ll introduce two applications: the Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) and WebGoat. These two applications exist for one purpose only: to contain web vulnerabilities which we can exploit....

A few moments later, she looked up from her phone and across the room noticed a group of kids huddled up and giggling. She quickly realized she was being pranked by teenage AirDrop trolls. This isn’t a new phenomenon, we’ve told you in the past about other horror stories dealing with AirDrop. AirDrop is a cool digital transferring feature on Apple gadgets that allows you to send images, videos and other documents instantly to other Apple users....

Many researchers speculated the WannaCry authors to be Chinese speaking individuals Many security companies attributed nation-state actors to the Lazarus group. This group in the past was believed to have attacked Sony pictures and Bangladeshi banks. Initially, WannaCry demanded $300 for file recovery, but a kill switch domain registered saved many victims from being infected. This post will feature a complete analysis of WannaCryptor ransomware both from the dynamic and static point of view....

If you’ve never used a Fire TV stick before, they’re one of the best streaming sticks on the market. The USB stick plugs into the back of your TV for a seamless – and subtle – integration into your system. Perfect for teens, college students, or even just as a gift to another family member or friend, the Fire Stick uses a simple remote system to navigate to your favorite apps and shows....

Expected for some time that there are two new smartwatches which will be fed with the latest version of Android Wear. These new watches, it is now known, will arrive in early 2017, probably with the Android Wear 2.0. Google has always depended on its partners to present the device using their operating systems. But this changed dramatically with the new Pixel smartphones. This change in philosophy is evident in many areas and also in smartwatches seems to prepare....

Companies love making aspirational videos. You know the kinds of videos I’m talking about, the ones that show shooting stars, children laughing, and a perfect world that you can only reach by opening up your wallet and buying whatever new widget they’re trying to sell you. Samsung has just produced such a video, and it’s live on their YouTube channel. It’s roughly four minutes long and it shows an army of Samsung employees trying to convince you that the design process for the GS4 was an incredibly intense effort that required levels of creative talent that the human race has yet to know are achievable....

The Vivo X50 Pro is turning out to be an interesting smartphone, especially its quad-camera system. The phone will be launched in China next week, but its specifications have been revealed through a leaked presentation. The Vivo X50 Pro is not the company’s flagship smartphone as we had hoped, but it is still a really interesting device. The phone features a higher mid-range processor, a quad-camera setup, and an AMOLED screen with a high refresh rate....

Voltz Protocol said Wednesday that it has launched DeFi’s first synthetic, capital-efficient interest rate swap AMM, which will now provide the means for DeFi to compete with the interest rate swap marketplace in traditional finance, unleashing new possibilities for decentralized applications (DApps) to serve the financial needs of the world, especially for those in parts of the world with no access to traditional finance. Automated Market Makers, or AMMs, are smart contracts that create liquidity pools of Ethereum ERC20-based tokens, which are then traded automatically by using an algorithm rather than an order book....

It’s New Year’s Eve and the big ball drop in Times Square is just a few hours away. If you find yourself away from a TV when the clock strikes midnight, here are a few ways you can watch the Times Square event on your Android device.The official live stream of the ball drop can be found on the web at timessquareball.net. The site has a live video stream that can be watched through the Chrome browser on your Android smartphone or tablet....

Vu says the biggest highlight of these new televisions is the fact that they’re first ones to feature Android Nougat in India (which we aren’t really sure yet). And since all of them natively run Android without a custom skin on top unlike Xiaomi’s Mi TV lineup, you get all the Google-y novelties like the ability to download apps as well as games from the Play Store, OS-wide voice control, Google Assistant, Chromecast support, Netflix, and more....

Even today, as its adoption for personal use continues to grow among the masses, and the service appears to be one of the promising and secure solutions to access information while preserving user identity, it is still not the safest bet and has its share of flaws and shortcomings, which implies that even VPNs aren’t perfect, after all. To fathom this narrative, it is imperative to understand the working of a Virtual Private Network and its underlying intricacies that may lead to potential vulnerabilities and hold the scope of identity leak....

“Improving the security and performance of Google Play” Those are the two objectives of the tech giant Google when implementing these new measures, according to the headline in its official note. Specifically, three changes in the regulations aimed at strengthening these two areas will be applied. The first is that by the second half of 2019, the Play Store will require new apps and their updates to use a recent Android API....

Then what to do to promote it? So, the well-known Chinese smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi, decided to send the smartphone into space to take some photos of our round planet Earth. The most surprising thing is that it went, returned, and managed to keep itself running correctly. WATCH! Xiaomi Send This Smartphone To Space For A Photoshoot Generally, smartphones do not have anything very innovative, but the fact is that the Redmi Note 7 of Xiaomi stands out for its value for money, but it does not bring something new....