Is Vurb the one app to rule them all? Check this out — Vurb connects your apps to bring your favorite people, places, and things in one central hub. The idea here is to put an end to hopping between different apps. According to surveys taken by developers, planning a…
Study finds that Android lock patterns tend to be too simple, just like passwords
A study conduced by a woman named Marte Løge, a graduate of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, found that Android users choose to set similar lock patterns that might be too easy for others to figure out. The study looked at 4000 patterns created and discovered that 77% of…
Microsoft Band is available for just £124.99 on Amazon UK for the next few hours only
Amazon UK is currently running a promotion on the Microsoft Band, as part of the online retail giant’s Lightning Deals. The wearable (in both medium and large sizes) can be yours today for just £124.99, saving as much as 26% off the original pricing. View full post on MobileNations
Xiaomi racks up 800,000 sales of the Redmi Note 2 in just 12 hours
Xiaomi’s latest handset, the Redmi Note 2, went up for sale in China over the weekend, netting up over 800,000 sales in the first 12 hours. Xiaomi’s not new to strong sales figures during flash sales, with the impressive showing of the Redmi Note 2 allowing the vendor to create…
Microsoft’s NewsCast app reads the news to you just like a radio does
Microsoft is working on a new app called NewsCast that is supposed to give you a more productive commute by reading the news to you over your phone. While available for iOS devices only, at the moment, the app is being tested internally at Redmond, although you can click on…
Deal: Google’s Nexus 9 can now be snapped up for just $290
One of the major caveats with the Google Nexus 9 has been the comparatively high cost versus its peers. With some configurations lurking uncomfortably near to the $600 mark, it has long been at the higher end of the pricing spectrum, and to many, unjustifiably so. But with the shelf life…
Hacking A Phone’s GPS May Have Just Got Easier
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans One of the drawbacks of our increasingly connected world is the proliferation of new wireless connections to hack. More worrying is when hackers finding cheaper and more accessible ways to exploit those vulnerabilities. For some time it’s been possible to spoof…
Police just arrested 4 men suspected of running scams tied to one of the biggest data breaches in history
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans US and Israeli law enforcement officials have arrested four men for suspected involvement in cyber blackmail and stock manipulation scams believed to be tied to the 2014 JPMorgan data breach. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported the arrests of…
Here are all of the crazy illegal things for sale on the hacker forum the Feds just shut down
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans On Wednesday, news broke the the Department of Justice dismantled the storied computer hacking forum Darkode and filed criminal charges against 12 people in the US who were allegedly associated with the website. Darkode, which has been around since 2007, was one of…
A research company discovered the login credentials from 47 government agencies just sitting in plain sight on the internet
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans New research indicates that the login credentials of government employees have been online for years. Threat intelligence company Recorded Future just released a bombshell report indicating that these credentials are associated with 47 US government agencies. This data was discovered in…