Android flaw, namely that apps can do things (like give shell access to a remote user!) even when they don't ask for any permissions at all. Generally, when you download an Android app, you allow it to do a variety of things, but as you'll see in the video below, even a seemingly innocuous program could do some pretty unseemly stuff. Now, it's not like this would be a revolutionary exploit, as the kinds of users who don't bother to check where their apps are coming from are likely the same sort who don't check permissions to begin with, but it is a little concerning that the exploit has been around this long without Google patching it. According to ViaForensics, the hack was the topic of a presentation at Defcon 18 last year, works similarly to the capability leak vulnerability that North Carolina State University researchers discovered earlier this month, and yet it still works in all versions of Android including Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Scammers Are Trying To Steal Your iCloud Login Information
A certain proportion of shameless scammers have their eyes set on your iCloud account. They are sending phishing emails in which they claim to be Apple and request your login information. They say that if you do not provide it, your account will be terminated.
The Mac Observer reports:
In this case, the bad guys are hoping that users will reply to an email with their MobileMe login information. We’ve seen an example with SBC as the sender, and there’s another example online from December 14th that purports to be from Frontier Communications.
This is, of course, utter rubbish, and under no circumstances should you ever send details like this to people who request them via email. What makes this particular phishing scam completely transparent is that the faceless criminals still refer to the iCloud service as MobileMe, and they use spelling and grammar that you’d never find on a document produced by Cupertino:
Dear MobileMe Subscriber,
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Virus Notification
A DGTFX Virus has been detected in your MobileMe folders. Your email account has to be upgraded to our new Secured DGTFX anti-virus 2011 version to prevent damages to our web mail log and to your important files. Click your reply tab, Fill the columns below and send back to us or your email account will be terminated to avoid spread of the virus.
Email:
User name:
Password:
Reconfirm Password:
Note that your password will be encrypted with 1024-bit RSA keys for your password safety.
All MobileMe User Should Reply Now !!!
Failure to do this will immediately render your Web-email address deactivated from our database.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Again, do not reply to this email, and never send login information or other personal details to people you do not know who request them via email.
E2EK1EL
Untethered iOS 5 Jailbreak Is “Near Prime Time” [Video]
Oh boy, that's doesn't look good. The IP4 shouldn't be running that slow at all. I hope the Chronic Dev Team passes the exploits over to the Dev Team once they release the jailbreak to the public.
(Stock IP4 bootup)
What Clark Griswold’s House Would Look Like Had He Been Introduced To Angry Birds
Microsoft: Apple Was Right About Tradeshows, We’re Pulling Out Of CES
Today, Microsoft announced:
We have decided that this coming January will be our last keynote presentation and booth at CES. We’ll continue to participate in CES as a great place to connect with partners and customers across the PC, phone and entertainment industries, but we won’t have a keynote or booth after this year because our product news milestones generally don’t align with the show’s January timing.
As we look at all of the new ways we tell our consumer stories – from product momentum disclosures, to exciting events like our Big Windows Phone, to a range of consumer connection points like Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft.com and our retail stores – it feels like the right time to make this transition.
Sound familiar? It should: Apple said something pretty much identical when it announced it was pulling out of Macworld back in 2008.
Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple’s Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com website enable Apple to directly reach more than a hundred million customers around the world in innovative new ways.
E2EK1EL
Verizon sidesteps Galaxy Nexus antennagate, claims signal indicator is to blame [Video]
This is just hilarious. Remember when Verizon Wireless stated rather unequivocally that its Galaxy Nexus suffered from a "signal strength issue" and that a fix was coming? Worry not, dear readers, because the company now claims that it's identified the issue: apparently, there's really no problem at all. According to Big Red, the Galaxy Nexus doesn't suffer from poor reception, but simply reports its reception poorly. To resolve these 'perception' issues, the carrier states that it will deliver a software update that "will adjust the signal strength indicator to more closely match other Verizon Wireless devices." So, whether or not there really is a problem with the Galaxy Nexus (LTE), one thing is for certain -- very soon, its owners will have more bars to look at. Huzzah, indeed?
E2EK1EL
iMAME emulation app hits the App Store, humanity cheers in unison
No interest in snapping up an iCade? No sweat. Jim VanDeventer has just pushed today's app-to-end-all-apps into Apple's App Store, and while it's only been live for a few hours, iMAME is already on a mission to change the world. Built-in titles include Circus, Crash, Hard Hat, Fire One, Robot Bowl, Side Track, Spectar, Star Fire and Targ, and while it's not officially endorsed by Nicola Salmoria or the MAME Team, you can certainly pretend. It's available now in the source link for precisely nothing, and yes, both the iPhone and iPad (and iPod touch!) are supported. Get it while the gettin' is good.
(Load your own ROMs w/ iexplorer)
“Siri: The Holiday Horror Movie” Now Coming To A Theatre Near You [Humor][Video]
(SO CORNY)
E2EK1EL
BlackBerry 10 is a failure that won’t be able to compete, company source says
Bad products, horrible software and no cohesive vision have seemingly turned Research In Motion into a company without motion at this point. Throw in a huge delay before BlackBerry 10 smartphones start shipping, and it’s clear why people are losing, or have lost, faith in a company that played a tremendous role in making the smartphone industry what it is today. Thanks to one of our most trusted sources, BGR now has new information on what’s going on inside Research In Motion, and the picture it paints isn’t a pretty one.
Our source has communicated to us in no uncertain terms that the PlayBook 2.0 OS developers have been testing is a crystal clear window into the current state of BlackBerry 10 on smartphones. No email, no BlackBerry Messenger — it’s almost identical. “Email and PIM is a better on an 8700 than it is on BlackBerry 10,” our contact said while talking to us about RIM’s failure to make the company’s new OS work with the network infrastructure RIM is known for.
We also have some more background on why RIM’s BlackBerry 10 smartphones are delayed, and it has nothing to do with a new LTE chipset that RIM is waiting on. In what is something of a serious allegation, our source told us that Mike Lazaridis was lying when he said the company’s new lineup was delayed for that reason._”RIM is simply pushing this out as long as they can for one reason, they don’t have a working product yet,” we were told.
At the end of our conversation, our source communicated something shocking for a high-level RIM employee to say. He told us that RIM is betting its business on a platform and ecosystem that isn’t even as good as iPhone OS 1.0 or Android 2.0. “There’s no room for a fourth ecosystem,” he stated, “and DingleBerry also works on BlackBerry 10.”
(Some serious Bold statements there BGR)
LightsOut
Interesting how you have no problem posting negative BB news off BRG, but somehow miss the negative apple headlines. :rolleyes:
Meh, can't really take reports like that too seriously. I mean what's to stop someone from Apple/Google with a few true facts from calling into BGR claiming they're a RIM employee and saying that the ship is sinking with tons of false facts. Without proper sourcing stuff like that means zip to me.
The major differences with QNX 2.0 are fixes for the stuff that pissed a lot of people off with 1.0 (no BBM, native email). From my understanding they already had these working on QNX last year but quite glitchy, thus didn't release them on the Playbook. I would be highly surprised if 17,000 employees couldn't fix those glitches in the last year and a half. :haha:
As for the delay on BB10 who really knows. The 4s was pushed from Apple's traditional first half release to second and nobody was running around saying that Apple is lying, couldn't get things to work etc etc. When it finally did come the general sentiment was also that it didn't meet expectations, again the general media didn't seem that critical. Just supports my earlier statement that they're really taking every chance they get to on RIM these days.
Playa24_7
urban_legend
quote:
Originally posted by GGM
Meh, can't really take reports like that too seriously. I mean what's to stop someone from Apple/Google with a few true facts from calling into BGR claiming they're a RIM employee and saying that the ship is sinking with tons of false facts. Without proper sourcing stuff like that means zip to me.
The major differences with QNX 2.0 are fixes for the stuff that pissed a lot of people off with 1.0 (no BBM, native email). From my understanding they already had these working on QNX last year but quite glitchy, thus didn't release them on the Playbook. I would be highly surprised if 17,000 employees couldn't fix those glitches in the last year and a half. :haha:
As for the delay on BB10 who really knows. The 4s was pushed from Apple's traditional first half release to second and nobody was running around saying that Apple is lying, couldn't get things to work etc etc. When it finally did come the general sentiment was also that it didn't meet expectations, again the general media didn't seem that critical. Just supports my earlier statement that they're really taking every chance they get to on RIM these days.
+1 Most of it is working now, this report is such bull.
this thread should be titled for Apple fan boys only.....baaaaaaaahhhhhh (you silly sheep)
E2EK1EL
quote:
Originally posted by GGM
Meh, can't really take reports like that too seriously. I mean what's to stop someone from Apple/Google with a few true facts from calling into BGR claiming they're a RIM employee and saying that the ship is sinking with tons of false facts. Without proper sourcing stuff like that means zip to me.
The major differences with QNX 2.0 are fixes for the stuff that pissed a lot of people off with 1.0 (no BBM, native email). From my understanding they already had these working on QNX last year but quite glitchy, thus didn't release them on the Playbook. I would be highly surprised if 17,000 employees couldn't fix those glitches in the last year and a half. :haha:
As for the delay on BB10 who really knows. The 4s was pushed from Apple's traditional first half release to second and nobody was running around saying that Apple is lying, couldn't get things to work etc etc. When it finally did come the general sentiment was also that it didn't meet expectations, again the general media didn't seem that critical. Just supports my earlier statement that they're really taking every chance they get to on RIM these days.
BGR's "trusted sources" tends to fail 35% of the time when they source that type of source.
IMHO - BGR and many other blogs are having a field day with RIM's recent negative time; some of the things stated in the article "could" be true (who knows), but most of it is twisted beyond measures to gain them more hits counts for 2011. Hence why I stated "Some serious Bold statements there BGR", it wasn't cool to write an article like that and it's beyond harsh.
That was the biggest trolling article I've read ... It's ok to write some negativity, but that's like declaring war.
Orko
Being a neutral party, I have the following takes:
- RIM's demise is way over blown. I think some very influential speculators shorted the stock, and were able to get the media to follow and help them out.
- The playbook was DOA. No BBM, email, calendar support (WTF???). Android emulator delayed, flash wasn't a strong enough defining advantage.
- Watching RIM fumble and delay BB10 feels a hell of a lot like Symbian^3 or even MeeGo (Nokia). Waiting almost a year for it, is too long IMO. They said CPU's were the wait, but seriously, how does everybody else have powerful and efficient enough chips to pack into phones?
- Android is being adopted way too quickly 700,000 activations a DAY!. By the time BB10 comes out, the market is going to be full of android and ios devices.
As a Canadian, and as somebody who knows RIM employees, I would love for RIM to succeed. I just think the delays and negative press have had a very damning effect on the company. Their marketing team is in damage control, while their R&D team is working over drive to catch up. The CEO's must be earning their money, because there are some very high stakes decisions that are being made. I know I ain't man enough to even try and claim I have the answers to their problems.
Anybody who does have the answers, is already working at a big company and is keeping their lips sealed. Anybody claiming they know how to dig the company out of this "hole", doesn't have a clue what they are talking about.
LightsOut
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Originally posted by E2EK1EL
BGR's "trusted sources" tends to fail 35% of the time when they source that type of source.
That was the biggest trolling article I've read ... It's ok to write some negativity, but that's like declaring war.
Which begs the question, if you know its a trolling article and most likely isn't factual (as is the case with most BGR BB reports that fail to cite actual sources), why bother posting it here?
