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New Samsung Note 7 Officially Recalled
With as many as 70 reports of exploding batteries in the US alone, Samsung has officially announced that it is recalling all Galaxy Note 7 phones sold prior to, well, this week. In case you were considering ignoring the recall to continue using your shiny new phablet, know that even the US Consumer Product Safety
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60M Dropbox accounts exposed in 2012 breach
You know the general public is suffering from security fatigue when something as big as the Dropbox breach appears in the news, and almost as quickly, disappears. In case you blinked, online magazine Vice.com broke the news last week that a database recently surfaced which contains over 60 million Dropbox.com user accounts (email addresses) and
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iPhone – too beautiful for its own good?
With the hotly anticipated announcement of the next iPhone right around the corner, some parts of the technology media are once again navel-gazing about the world’s continuing love affair with Apple’s popular smartphone. It’s easy to see why so many are devoted consumers: the iPhone is a stellar example of a beautiful device that is
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Microsoft breaks millions of webcams with Win 10 update
Last week, the majority of US Windows 10 users received a big update from Microsoft nicknamed the “Anniversary Update”, primarily because it was initially released on Aug 2, approximately one year after the official launch of Microsoft’s latest operating system. Amongst a host of improvements to core features like Edge and Cortana and presumably numerous
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NSA possibly hacked, data for sale
Get ready for 1000% of your daily dose of Irony: America’s top surveillance outfit, the National Security Agency appears to have been hacked, according to announcements made by a group known as the “Shadow Brokers” and backed by a sample of data released as proof. Not only that, it may have happened as early as
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Up to 900M Android phones vulnerable via newly discovered bugs
Researchers from security firm Check Point announced at this year’s DefCon security conference that up to 900 million smartphones may be vulnerable to a set of up to 4 vulnerabilities that appear in Qualcomm-powered devices. Discovered earlier this year and reported to the manufacturer, Qualcomm has since published fixes, but not all manufacturers have pushed
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