Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The battle against credit card fraud is inching forward. As of Thursday, the liability for fraud committed using traditional MasterCard and Visa magnetic-stripe credit and debit cards will shift from banks to stores. The move is part of a drive by…
Are these are the only LG phones getting Android 6.0?
We’ve seen both Motorola and HTC list which of its handsets will receive the Android 6.0 update. In the case of Motorola, it is quite an emotional matter as owners of certain models ended up disappointed to find out that their handsets are forever stuck on Android 5.1. On LGWorld.com,…
Double trouble: LG V10 is packed with novelties, are you getting one?
LG went all-out with its new and unique V10 handset, just as promised. Apart from the Snapdragon 808 chipset, it is stuffed to the gills with the latest and greatest in smartphone technology, such as a big 5.7″ Quad HD display, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB storage, and a…
LG reportedly getting ready to mass-produce foldable displays for an unnamed partner
According to a recent report from South Korea, LG’s Display division is getting ready to mass-produce displays that can be folded up to 100,000 times with no physical damage. Unlike Samsung, which is the other tech giant that’s actively looking into foldable displays, the report says that LG will not…
HOW TO AVOID GETTING HACKED AT THE ATM
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans We’ve heard the warnings for years now to avoid sketchy ATMs, yet folks continue to withdraw from hacked ATMs and later watch helplessly as money drains from their accounts. Thanks in part to slow adoption of EMV chip smart cards in…
Getting set up with iCloud on Windows 10
It’s perfectly reasonable to expect a large number of iPhone and iPad owners to also use a Windows computer. The same was true back in the early days of the iPod and led to the development of iTunes for Windows. It’s never been the greatest piece of software ever, but…
Latest comScore data shows iOS getting even closer to Android in the U.S.
The latest data from comScore is out and it shows that iOS is continuing to close the gap with Android in the U.S. For the three months that ended in June, Apple’s mobile OS was installed on 44.1% of U.S. based smartphones owned by someone 13 years of age and…
In the future, your smartphone could be taking photos and videos without reflections, obstructions getting in the way
A team of Google and MIT researches have devised an ingenious computational approach to what they’re calling ‘obstruction-free’ photography, and will be presenting the fruits of their labor at SIGGRAPH 2015. Luckily for us, the team behind the algorithm — including Tianfan Xue, Michael Rubinstein, Ce Liu, and William T….
Welcome to your privacy nightmare! Is big business getting out of hand with Big Data?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans “When businesses are allowed to gather personal information, predict your behaviour and make decisions based on it, this is the information wild west. Welcome to the nightmare.” Richard Hollis, director of information security consultancy the Risk Factory, believes that the ability…
Security Experts: Getting to your money is top target for hackers in 2015
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ORLANDO, Fla. – 2014: The year of the hacker. It started with Target and ended with Sony. And in the middle other big box stores, websites and even celebrity smart phones. Cyber security experts say 2015 will bring new challenges. “We…