IBM is looking into a technology that can help detect and identify a fraudulent access of personal data stolen from its legitimate owner. The cognitive fraud detection system is especially useful to website developers and cloud providers that maintain logins and network access on a daily basis.
Google to phase out third-party add-ons for Chrome
In a far-reaching move to ensure that browser plug-ins and extensions finding their way into the Chrome world, Google reiterated and bolstered its plan to phase out third-party add-ons that do not comply with its goal.
Apple’s Find My iPhone feature vulnerable to ransomware schemes
The intended role of Apple’s Find My iPhone feature ends when your iPhone or iPad falls in the hands of nefarious scammers, as has been shown by a recent incident in Australia.
FBI cracks down webcam-spying malware called Blackshades
The idea of spying on Internet users through their webcams seems a no-brainer. And rightly so.
LG G3 officially announced with larger screen and flatter UI
Today at events taking place in London, New York and San Francisco, LG has officially announced its flagship smartphone, the LG G3. The phone runs the Android version 4.4 and features a Snapdragon 801 processor with two configurations, either a 32GB version with 3GB of RAM, or a 16GB version with 2GB of RAM.
Facebook would like to collect data through your smartphone microphone
Aside from the default friends-only privacy setting that Facebook has announced this week, and which made the headlines more prominently than anything else that it unveiled, the social media titan also introduced a feature to turn on a smartphone’s microphone as a way of collecting data.
