Articles for August 2014

When living in China, it looks like you need to carry your smart phone around as an alternative to full protection body armor. A man was shot with his Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 taking the brunt of the impact and the victim coming away mostly unscathed. ... Read more

The fight against the use of the internet to further child exploitation and pedophiles being able to search for sites with child pornography took a turn towards protection today when a man in Houston was charged with possession of child pornography. ... Read more

The Google Drive interface has been updated for their web app to allow a greater understanding of the Drive storage quota, what Google service data is taking up the most space (Gmail, Drive, Google+ Photos) and how much each file is using in storage. ... Read more

Reports are beginning to leak out ahead of an official Microsoft announcement that the second update to Windows 8.1 is going to be released on August 12. Multiple sources include ZDnet and others are suggesting that this as a likely scenario. ... Read more

Clever Danish scientists have broken network transmission speed records. The team behind the record-breaking network speeds at the Technical University of Denmark (known as DTU) managed to create a network with transfer speeds of 1TB per second. ... Read more

Forget everything you know about USB security because re-formatting, antivirus, spyware, anti-keylogger suites are not functional against BadUSB, which taps into the USB firmware. ... Read more

According to cyber security researches, all USB storage drives have an inherent flaw built into them. Any device that connects to a computer via USB can theoretically trick the computer into thinking it is another device entirely. ... Read more

The hacktivist group Anonymous has stepped into the Israel - Palestine war in its own way, by taking down Mossad’s official website (Mossad is the Israeli intelligence agency) among with several other Israeli government websites. ... Read more

Florian Kiersch is a Google Chrome and web search enthusiast who has been working on this improvement codenamed Knowledge Graph tool, which is designed to generate historical timelines automatically tapping into Wikipedia content. ... Read more

Instagram has released a new messenger app called Bolt to compete with Snapchat. The app is currently only available in South Africa, Singapore, and New Zealand. ... Read more

With automobiles becoming increasingly dependent on computer components, the most sophisticated hackers could hypothetically find a loophole that lets them control a vehicle remotely. ... Read more

Many European citizens are exercising their “right to be forgotten” by requesting that Google removes all traces of their online identity from internet existence by removing links to potentially information from the search engine's index. ... Read more

In an acquisition that makes a good deal of sense, Pinterest the digital pinboard web site and app is acquiring the Icebergs app that runs on iOS mobile devices (with an Android version that was being worked on but a distance away from release). ... Read more

Firefox Beta for Android is receiving some improvements to help users modify their home screen to open favorite web sites faster. The latest Firefox Beta released on Google Play allows users to adjust the thumbnail grid of previous visited sites. ... Read more