Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Trump still hasn’t picked leaders for the government’s two largest cybersecurity-focused agencies — the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. Though President-elect Donald Trump has yet to nominate new leaders for the government’s two largest cybersecurity-focused agencies — the departments The…
Indictment adds more child porn counts against person of interest in 1989 Wetterling abduction
A federal grand jury has added more child pornography charges against a man authorities have called a “person of interest” in the 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling. The 25-count indictment released Wednesday lets prosecutors proceed against 52-year-old Danny James Heinrich, of Annandale. It supersedes a five-count criminal complaint filed in…
Samsung adds two brand-new colors to Galaxy Note5 line-up
_ Samsung’s Galaxy Note5 phablet is one of the hottest properties in the mobile industry. An on-paper beast, Samsung has sought to bring more to the table than raw power in recent times, and as such, the Note5 follows the premium design language of the Galaxy S6. With the look of…
Line messaging adds “Letter Sealing” end-to-end encryption
People have their own reasons for wanting to keep their communication private and whatever that reason may be, every developer wants to create the service that people use for those private messages. Apple has long touted that iMessage has end-to-end encryption, Google has made emails between Gmail addresses encrypted all…
LoopPay hackers sought intellectual property, breach adds to mobile payment security challenges
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans LoopPay, the technology acquired by Samsung in its bid to differentiate itself from Apple Pay, was reportedly breached months ago by a Chinese hacking group looking to replicate its technology, Samsung has confirmed. The LoopPay network is physically separate from Samsung…
Update to Samsung Pay adds “Simple Pay” feature
With mobile payment service Samsung Pay set to launch in the U.S. on September 28th (after undergoing beta testing in the states), Samsung has updated the feature to version 1.3.1716. The update adds “Simple Pay,” which allows you to control where Samsung Pay will launch on your handset, so that…
Gmail for Android adds block and unsubscribe options
Gmail for Android is about to get a bit smarter by adding a completely new feature as well as one that has existed on the web version of Gmail for a while now. That’s right, we’re talking about Gmail for Android soon giving you the options to either block a…
Snapchat starts charging for multiple message replays, adds new filters and effects for selfies
Messaging app Snapchat has a valuation in the range of $16 billion to $19 billion. How can anyone justify such a figure? In 2014, the app brought in $3 million in revenue and for the year, it was $128 million in the red. An update to Snapchat that is rolling…
Tinder adds new ‘Super Like’ feature
Dating app Tinder has become extremely popular with its swipe left to discard, swipe right to approve a potential match. Today, Tinder has announced a new option. By swiping up, you can ‘Super Like’ a particular male or female. Tinder users will have the ability to tag someone with a…
6tag update adds support for Instagram’s new portrait and landscape image formats
Earlier this week, Intstagram announced that it was updating its iOS and Android apps to support viewing images in both portrait and landscape formats, in addition to the regular square format. While Instagram hasn’t updated its Windows Phone app since March 2014, the popular third-party app 6tag just got a…