Last year, Samsung and HTC received a lot of flak for automatically boosting the CPU and GPU speed on their flagship devices, while running certain benchmarks to inflate their scores. Now, it looks like CyanogenMod is adding a similar functionality to their ROM. Yesterday, Steve Kondik a.k.a Cyanogen himself pushed the code to their Gerrit along with triggers for popular benchmarks like Quadrant and Antutu. This means that going forward, all CyanogenMod running devices will also enter into a high performance mode, as seen on the One M8, while running benchmarks....

Black markets are the most important points of aggregation on the deep web for the cyber criminals, communities; they represent a privileged place where the criminal offer meets a demand even more specialized. Security experts consider the Russian underground as the most prolific, at least concerning hacking and payment card frauds. Meanwhile, the Chinese criminal ecosystem is the most popular for everything concerning mobile frauds and it is focused on the provisioning of hardware for several illegal activities....

The literally exponential growth of DDoS attacks, up to fifty times larger now than ten years ago, has many organizations worried about when they will be next. It is only a matter of time and when their number does come up, how prepared are they and how prepared could they actually be? A well organized and targeted DDoS attack could easily fire a sustained 100 Gbps of traffic at its victim....

Prerequisites to follow the steps: Set up an Android Emulator NDK – This can be downloaded from the link below http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html What are we going to do here? In simple steps, this is what we are going to do: Set up GDB Server on the emulator Connect to the GDB server from the client Start debugging Let’s begin. The first step is to push the gdb server to the emulator....

During the campaign the IB experts of the software security company ESET found, the fraudulent programs were already available on the Google Play store for more than four months and managed to achieve the download figure of 250,000 – 1,000,000, means it able to infect Up to a million users’ Android devices. The application requests the user’s personal data, permanent paid subscriptions, as well as consent to receive marketing messages and advertisements....

The game developers have sold almost 7 million copies of Fall Guys on Steam alone within a month. The game is heavily popular, and it has gone viral. As the game is getting more popular, Android and iPhone users are looking for ways to try out this fun-filled game on their smartphones. As of now, the game is not available for Android & iOS. However, the good thing is that the game is supposed to be released for Android & iOS next year....

According to the study, the percentage of healthy consumers – people who typically don’t have trouble making bill payments and have future financial stability – has decreased from 53% to 43%. At the same time, vulnerable consumers – consumers who have a difficult time making bill payments without being able to think of future financial stability – have increased from 25% to 32%. On average, financially vulnerable consumers are more likely to experience less satisfaction than the financially healthy....

If you ordered the Nexus 6 from the Google Play Store, today might be your lucky day as Motorola has started delivering the first batch of the device to customers. According to Android Central, many of its readers that had ordered the device through Motorola’s website have started receiving their Nexus 6 units or are scheduled to receive it today. The Nexus 6 first went up for pre-order on Google Play late last month and Motorola only started taking orders for it from earlier this month....

Paragon Partition Manager 9.5 Personal is a quality partition management software from Paragon software which can be your all-in-one tool for managing and controlling all your hard-drives. With Paragon Partition Manager 9.5 Personal, you can carry out copy, defragmentation, boot management, backup, restore and partitioning. Paragon Partition Manager 9.5 Personal is not the latest version, rather it is the previous version of the Paragon Partition Manager 10 Personal. As compared to Partition Manager 10 Personal, the Paragon Partition Manager 9....

A staggering amount of passwords have been found to be vulnerable by security researchers at Google. And now, it’s offering a tool that will scan your passwords to see if any of them are putting you at risk. If you’re a Google Chrome user, try this out. The longer your weak passwords remain unchanged, the greater your risk of identity theft, hacking and account hijacking. Try Google’s Password Checkup tool When’s the last time you changed your passwords?...

The cloud is not a fluffy white mass of water vapor in the sky, it’s actually just a fancy name for the internet and company servers. Just about every major company has a cloud service of some kind that provides a benefit to you. Cloud storage, for example, is a great way to access and share your computer’s media library remotely. If you save documents, videos and photos in the cloud, you’ll be able to reach them at work, on your laptop while traveling, or on your phone or tablet wherever you are....

Hoping to pick-up on the fitness b craze, will reportedly exp the activity tracker functionality of Android. The Operating System website recently uncovered code for an unannounced “Android Fitness A.” The purported new developer feature would likely allow apps to view edit activity data tracked by the Android OS then stored with your account in the cloud. First steps The search giant already added basic walking cycling tracking to Now in late 2012....

The message box says that we entered an Incorrect Name/Key pair and we must try again. Again, we must first look at the referenced strings and determine where the string comes from. This can be seen in the picture below: The picture deliberately contains two functions that display certain values in a message box. The first one start at address 0x00401720 and displays Congratulations !!! Go On !!! and the second function starts at address 0x004017240 and displays Incorrect Name/Key pair....

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a warning that “grandparent scammers” are being reported across the U.S. Taking advantage of seniors not being tech-savvy, criminals are shamelessly scamming them out of their cash. Tap or click here to set up a security camera in under 30 seconds (with stuff you already own). This is such a nasty scheme that we all need to spread the word to friends and family, so they know what to watch for....

1. Walgreens accidentally leaked sensitive user data Walgreens disclosed that some of its mobile apps’ users have been able to inadvertently access other users’ sensitive information because of a bug. The data leak incident was caused by the unauthorized disclosure of secure messages within the app. The bug persisted for only one week before being fixed by a January 15 security patch. Read more » 2. Hackers can use ultrasonic waves to secretly control voice assistant devices Researchers discovered a new method to target voice-controlled devices by transmitting ultrasonic waves through solid materials....

1. Like father, like son Jony Ive is hailed as a design genius and a lot of credit for it can be given to his genes. Born and brought up in London, England, son to Mike Ive, Jony Ive was surrounded by designs all his life. That was because Jony Ive’s father, Mike Ive, was a silversmith by profession and also helped craft a mandatory design curriculum for schools in the UK....

“Technology professionals are now accountable for bringing personalization and automation into their organizations’ customer experience solutions,” says Venu Gooty, senior vice president of digital strategy and transformation at Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS). However, corporate inertia tends to stand in the way. “It isn’t that developers, research and development, or IT managers aren’t interested in and aligned with customer experience,” says Jonathan Moran, head of MarTech solutions marketing at SAS Institute....

While keeping your system up to date is critical, a glitchy update can make the entire endeavor seem pointless and ineffective. Microsoft is no stranger to bad updates, and despite its flaws, we’ve continued to insist that Windows users keep their computers current. The same, however, cannot be said for the latest Windows update. Microsoft released an update to fix known CPU issues, and in the process has managed to break many commonly used features in Windows....

The reason for this confusion stems from the fact that in terms of overall shape, both devices do bear more than a passing resemblance to each other. Viewed from in front, both come with almost identically sized displays (5.10 inches on the S7, 5.15 on the Mi 5), with an earpiece, camera and sensors above it; and a slightly elliptical front facing fingerprint sensor-cum-home button flanked by two touch buttons next to it....

But boy, is it expensive. That’s more important nowadays, as getting a flagship phone for $199 thanks to carrier subsidies is largely a thing of the past (AT&T remains the sole holdout, but you’ll pay a lot more per month for a subsidy plan). If you have a Galaxy Note 4, you’re plagued with the ultimate first-world problem: whether or not to upgrade to the newest model. ile the siren call of the latest–greatest is strong, there are a few reasons you may want to hold on to your current Note....