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Short Bytes: The exploding popularity of Apple’s programming language Swift and Google’s ongoing litigation with Oracle, has inspired the Android-owner to look for Java-alternatives. Being a clean, developer-friendly, and in-demand programming language, Google could adopt the open source Swift programming language in future. Apple’s Swift programming language is still in early days and it’s proving […]
Facebook’s CAPTCHA system too, over 70% accuracy achieved. A trio of security researchers have devised a new automated attack that can break the CAPTCHA systems employed by Google and Facebook. The researchers utilized a large number of factors in putting together their attack, leveraging tricks to bypass CAPTCHA security measures (cookies, tokens) and machine learning to […]
Short Bytes: To encourage open source app development, Google has launched the Android Experiments I/O Challenge. The three winners of this challenge will win a trip to Google I/O Developer Conference 2016 and their projects will be showcased at Android Experiments. Read more to know how to participate. If you are aware of Android Experiments […]
Here are some tips for website and blog owners If you’re a subscriber to Virtual Private Hosting, perhaps through a service such as UK2 VPS Cloud Hosting, then no doubt one of your prime considerations will be page-loading times. When your business operates in a competitive marketplace, the speed at which your pages open, both […]
Short Bytes: After FBI hacked San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone without Apple’s help, most of us almost thought that Apple was the only company having stiff tussles with FBI. But, the government has also tapped Google for help getting data from phones. In total, the government has asked tech giants like Google and Apple to help it […]
You can now have in awesome inside look at Bruce Wayne’s amazing residence on Google Maps — Enjoy ✋? Batman fans have now the opportunity to explore Bruce Wayne’s house and the Batman’s Cave on Google Maps’ Street View. The action takes place in conjunction with the release of “Batman vs. Superman movie: Dawn of […]
Demolition Company sabotages Wrong House, Employee Faults Google Maps A Texas-based demolition firm Billy “L Nabors Demolition” mistakenly damaged the wrong duplex house in Rowlett, and later blamed Google Maps for incorrect address information. As WFAA-TV reports, the company was permitted to demolish 7601 and 7603 Cousteau Drive, a tornado-damaged duplex in Rowlett, Texas. However, […]
Android re-installation ahoy to sink privilege elevation that opens avenue for rooting apps. Google has shipped an out-of-band patch for Android shuttering a bug that is under active exploitation to root devices. The vulnerability (CVE-2015-1805) affects all Android devices running Linux kernel versions below 3.18. The vulnerability allows a privilege elevation rated critical that lets apps […]
Comcast and LinkedIn are also backing the proposal. A group of independent security researchers and major Silicon Valley tech giants have submitted last Friday, March 18, 2016, a proposal for a new email protocol called SMTP STS (Strict Transport Security). STMP has never been a secure protocol, mainly because at the moment it was invented, in […]
Google has removed SmeshApp from PlayStore on the allegations that the app is a tool used by Pakistan’s ISI to spy on Indian military personnel The rivalry between India and Pakistan is known to the whole world with militaries of both countries at war for several times after getting independence from the Brits — Now the tools […]
A not so new bug called Stagefright, that affects Android devices has been discovered by security researchers. The bug leaves millions of Android devices at risk of attack. The research company, NorthBit, a software research company based in Israel, claims it had exploited the bug which was previously discovered as the “worst ever discovered” bug. […]
Google bug bounty program will now pay you more than you can image – So get ready! Since launching its bugs bounty program in 2010, Google has paid over $6 million to security researchers who have been finding bugs. The company still wants to appreciate the investigators and they have shown it by making two […]
Short Bytes: Here’s a quick and dirty implementation of Google AMP on Jekyll to create a website that loads faster that the most websites around. Google launched AMP open source project to make the web pages faster and bring a better internet to the users. Take a look and start your own blog that loads […]
Short Bytes: At this year’s annual Open Compute Summit, Google announced that it has joined Open Compute Project, a Facebook initiative to encourage the use of open source hardware in IT infrastructure development. Google has also collaborated with Facebook to develop a new 48V server rack that will be 30% more efficient that existing ones. […]
Android is the most vulnerable OS in the world but the “Accessibility Malware” threatens 65% of the old version Android devices An evolutionary malware, known as the “Accessibility Clickjacking”, has been discovered by SkyCure, a US-based global mobile threat Security Company, and revealed to the world at the 25th annual RSA conference, which is the world’s […]
Google and security firm Red Hat have discovered a critical security flaw in the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) that affects a library in a universally used protocol. This means an attacker could use it to infect almost everything on the entire internet. With the flawed code spread far and wide, it will likely take […]
Old is gold for sure but in this case old is bad and bold Google’s security researcher Dan Kaminsky along with Redhat Linux has identified a flaw in “glibc” also known as the Gnu C standard library. This flaw isn’t a new one as Kaminsky reported that it has “been around for quite some time,” […]
Protect your iPhone from the clutches of the FBI by switching to longer passcodes The on-going tussle between the FBI and Apple on the San Bernardino case has raised many concerns, most of which come from security experts. The FBI wants Apple to build a backdoor in one particular iPhone, but CEO Tim Cook is […]
Short Bytes: The Cupertino-based company was asked by the US court to unlock the Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone 5C which the FBI wasn’t able the crack since the last two months. As a response, CEO Tim Cook wrote a customer letter expressing his denial to the court order. WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum and Google’s CEO […]
Short Bytes: Third party app stores cannot always guarantee the user safety with each app they hand out to a user. On the other hand, app giant like Google Play is famous for providing security against the malicious apps. According to the latest research by Trend Micro, a new malware has been spotted in the […]
If you are following HackRead you must be aware of what is bug bounty and how it works but did you know who are the most famous Bug Bounty Hunters? Bug Bounty Programs are programs whereby an individual is rewarded by the company or website concerned after they have pointed out a bug in such website. […]