According to its commitment months ago, Twitter has released the native Windows 8 app. This Windows 8 App version comes with usual Twitter features and a few unique add-ons. This app has been designed uniquely for Windows 8 devices.
This year’s ACM Turing Award has been bestowed to two cryptography researchers from MIT – Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali. The duo has awarded this recognition for pioneering modern cryptography and devising mechanisms to secure internet communications.
After doing a success of Nokia Lumia 920, Microsoft is planning to bring a new Windows Phone to the Nokia Lumia series – the Lumia 928. The upcoming Lumia 928 is going to have some addition in its specs, compared to Lumia 920. So far we’ve come to know that Nokia will use aluminum body for the upcoming Lumia 928 and the device will feature Xenon and LED flash with 8-megapixel PureView camera.
Microsoft has been putting curbs on running Flash websites in Internet Explorer 10. The move, the company had cited, was meant to save the users from getting a non-compatible site running on their touchscreen devices. However, Microsoft has now announced that it will be enabling Flash by default in Internet Explorer 10, starting from tomorrow.
Google has rolled out an update for the Gmail web app for mobile devices as well as its offline app for Chrome users. The update has much to do with the looks, which the company has made neater, simpler and less cluttered.
Recently, news surfaced that the machines of a number of employees across multiple companies were hacked in malware attacks. The companies included the likes of Apple, Twitter and Facebook. Recently, Facebook’s security chief officer Joe Sullivan has stated that the malware was injected into users’ machines through iPhoneDevSDK.
Methods for controlling computer systems is increasing with the development of technology proliferates. And now, Munich-based company 4tiitoo is trying to make a device called eyeCharm, that can connect to your Kinect and allow your eyes only to control a computer!
Despite worries over new and more sophisticated mobile malware, cyber criminals still overwhelmingly prefer the older, more primitive attack techniques. Recently, mobile security company F-Secure has released a report on the status of mobile threats in 2012. According to that report, hackers prefer to target Android platform to spread malware rather than other OS. The security firm said that Android operating system accounted for 79 percent of all malware infections on smartphones, and the threat is multiplying.