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SecuTablet is based on Samsung Galaxy S 10.5 and has been developed by BlackBerry in partnership with IBM and Samsung. The SecuTablet is also a result of BlackBerry’s purchase of security firm, Secusmart last year and is BlackBerry’s attempt to woo buyers who are more inclined towards privacy and security. Priced at $2,380.oo BlackBerry has made it clear that, SecuTablet is not intended for everyday users but a elite niche because it is built with the sole purpose of preventing data on the tablet being leaked by any methods....

British Entrepreneur Richard Browning, a former Royal Marine Reserve and the company he founded, Gravity, have designed, built, tested and now filed a patent for a piece of human propulsion technology that has been created using six miniature jet engines and a specially designed exoskeleton. Known as Daedalus, the suit has been developed over the last year and uses four miniaturised arm-mounted gas turbine engines and two hip-mounted versions to enable the wearer to effectively take off from the ground....

Of course the broadband industry is now unable to shovel the same term, “broadband” to the 20% of households that are simply unable to obtain those speeds because of the reluctance of the DSL networks to upgrade those areas, which means the broadband industry is unable to claim and the receive subsidies paid to them for not having deployments of at least 10Mbps total. This redefinition will further highlight the fact that a lack of competition that has left large portions of the country with pricey and slow “broadband” service, which technically isn’t broadband anymore....

China’s media watchdog, The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT), has filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming that the tech giant has infringed its exclusive online rights to broadcast a film that depicts Chinese fighting against Japanese soldiers in northern China in the early 1930s. The Chinese government agency claims it has incurred “huge economic losses” because Apple allowed Youku Tudou — the Chinese equivalent of YouTube — to broadcast the film “Xuebo Dixiao” to Apple TV users....

With the help of webinars, you can communicate with just about anyone from your organization remotely, exempting you (and anyone you meet with) from the need to travel. That’s just one of the ways you can benefit from using webinars, of course. In this guide, we’re going to take a deep dive into ClickMeeting, one of the webinar platforms that organizations use most for video conferencing purposes. ClickMeeting is a web-based video and audio webinar solution designed for organizations of all sizes....

Security researchers from Sec Consult found that if a connecting computer has a name longer than 64 characters, a stack buffer overflow is triggered in the NetUSB service which can then be exploited for malicious purpose. The vulnerability is located in a service called NetUSB, which lets devices connected over USB to a computer be shared with other machines on a local network or the Internet via IP (Internet Protocol)....

LeakedSource revealed that the unknown hackers stole 85.2 million records consisting of usernames, email addresses, and some hashed passwords from Dailymotion. LeakedSource, who provides a searchable database of user details leaked in various hacks, has added the DailyMotion stolen data to its search index. Since opening, LeakedSource has added nearly 3 billion records to its database. The hack was possibly carried out on October 20, which means that the stolen data has been in circulation for a while, says LeakedSource....

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Dell currently owns and controls 80% of VMware, a company worth $55 billion. Dell, a private technology company that was once public, may again decide to become public by selling itself to VMware in a process that’s known as a reverse merger, according to CNBC. For those unaware, Dell, once a publicly traded company became private back in 2013 when it’s founder and CEO Michael Dell was able to purchase the company for $24....

Theoretically, if the smartphone is stolen or lost, this technology will give users additional, “intelligent” security, wherein the device will intuitively put self-protective measures into effect. The phone uses a “neuromorphic computer chip” that simulates human learning. This allows the chip to identify its owner’s manner of walking and talking, according to nextgov.com. The companies “pretty much are leveraging user behavior information” from data gathered by sensors found on any standard consumer smartphone, Vincent Sritapan, program manager for mobile security R&D at the DHS said....

It powered most ATMs worldwide until a couple of years ago, and many still rely on it. The last service pack, the famous SP3, solved almost every problem an average user had with Windows. The list is endless, but random crashes to instability during average usage were commonplace. After downloading XP, you can rely on Rufus, a bootable creator for Windows OSes, to create bootable media. Virtual machine users can skip directly to the installation and start using the legacy OS....

Until a few decades, artificial intelligence may have seemed like something straight from a science fiction novel. But this is a field that has been explored by industrial and military developers for many years, with researchers producing ever more sophisticated examples of unmanned equipment that actually make a lot of the hardware in those space movies look clunky. So what are some of the latest developments in this area? Commercial drones The use of drones for non-military purposes continues to expand, given their enormous potential to carry out hazardous tasks in a diverse range of industries....

In a thread on Apple’s Support Communities, several users describe a similar problem. According to them, the phone’s TouchID-equipped control regularly becomes ‘burning hot’, making the device not only uncomfortable, but at times impossible to use. However, the problem would go away after holding the home and lock buttons for 10 seconds, resetting the phone. Owners vented their frustration by voicing their displeasure on Twitter. “This morning, when I woke up, the home button was burning hot and the screen is just black,” says one Twitter user....

Emotet, a kind of malware originally designed as a banking Trojan, can steal data such as user credentials stored on the browser, install other types of malware and ransomware, and form botnets. It scans the networks to determine SSIDs, encryption type, and authentication methods. The newly discovered Emotet sample powers a “Wi-Fi spreader” module to scan unsecured Wi-Fi networks, and then attempts to infect devices that are connected to them by taking advantage of weak passwords and other security flaws....

This new law was set up as a catch-all for hacking has been widely used to prosecute behaviour that bears no resemblance to hacking. This ruling specifically references the case of David Nosal, a former employee of the International research firm Korn/Ferry, who used a co-worker’s password to access a computer after his access was revoked. “[This ruling] threatens to criminalize all sorts of innocuous conduct engaged in daily by ordinary citizens....

However the outage seems to be so acute that even the Like Widget on websites and blogs including the one on Techworm is throwing up error message. The Facebook outage first occurred around 1.10 am ET and Instagram went down subsequently followed by Tinder. Luckily for users, the Facebook owned mobile instant messaging App, WhatsApp is operating normally as of now. — Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) January 27, 2015 Users took to Twitter to vent their fury about the outage...

Paavo Siljamäki, director of record label, Anjunabeats, dropped in to the Facebook office for for enquiring about how to use Facebook optimally for his record label promotion. He however encountered a pretty bewildering scene when the person behind the desk at the Facebook office tapped into his Facebook account without even entering password, though he was politely asked for permission to access it. Siljamäki thought this a bit odd and made a Facebook post about it, here is what he had to say,...

“Facebook is in the bottom in terms of trust in housing your personal data,” said Harris Poll CEO John Gerzema. “Facebook’s crises continue rolling in the news cycle.” The poll was carried out by Harris Poll on behalf of Fortune in mid-October that surveyed over 2,000 U.S. adults. This obvious lack of trust is bad news for Facebook, which is mainly due to factors such as leadership, ethics, trust, and image....

Previously, such outlets claimed a “news exemption” to get political content posted on Facebook. According to the company’s new regulation, news Pages connected with different types of political entities, including political parties, PACs, politicians, and other organizations that can primarily engage in the influence of public policy or elections will be excluded from the Facebook News tab. Additionally, these pages won’t have access to news messaging on the Messenger Business Platform or the WhatsApp business API....

Both the down detecting services, DownRightNow and DownDetector have reported huge problems with Facebook. This is what I got when I tried opening it in my browser Update : though the services have recovered now, some Facebook users are still facing problems in opening their FB pages.