Monday 2 November 2015
Why Android N is Going to Be the Biggest Change in Android’s History
Thursday 1 October 2015
A Low Price Smartwatch
It is a great invention of the twenty first century. The watch comes in a variety of colours and you have the opportunity to select your favourite colour. The colours range from black, white, beige and many others.
The ZGPAX S79 Bluetooth smartwatch is more than a watch. Some of its main amazing features include:-Bluetooth phone call
The watch has a dialer where you can make a call or answer call using the watch. With this incredible watch, you do not have to remove your phone from the pocket every time you want to make or receive a call. It is very easy to answer and make a call using your low price Smartwatch, ZGPAX S79 Bluetooth smartwatch.
Phone book, messaging and music player
The low price Smart watch enables you to send a message without having to type on your smart phone. You can also play the music in your smart phone by operating the wrist watch. With the watch, you can have fun with your favourite music any time and anywhere.
Inbuilt camera
The Smart watch has an excellent camera that takes very clear photos. The camera is also able to record high quality video. The videos and the photos taken using the low price Smartwatch are easily synchronized in your smart phone.
Skarp: laser operated razor!!!!
The normal method for removing hair for the most part includes sharp steel edges, a layer of shaving cream, and water to flush. In spite of the fact that this technique has worked for eras, the colleagues behind the Skarp Razor trust it’s conceivable that the same should be possible with laser operated razor . They guarantee that the Skarp can give close and smooth shaves without the scratches, cuts or skin bristliness that peril our customary shaving schedules.
Models of the Skarp are developed out of 6061 aluminium with the natural look of shaving razors. Be that as it may, rather than an edge of steel, the Skarp utilizes a solitary fibre optic wielding a low-power, class 1 laser. Morgan Gustavsson, who is knowledgeable about the field of restorative and corrective lasers, expresses that his research has prompted the disclosure of a chromophore in human hair that can be trimmed/broken when hit with a specific wavelength of light. The Skarp Razor is intended to focus on those particular particles upon contact, securely uprooting the hair without a powerful laser yield or any enduring impacts.
Not at all like some different routines for laser hair removal, the Skarp Razor not warm up or soften hair, dispensing with blazes or hostile scents. It should work like a sharp edge, trimming any shade of hair against all skin sorts and colours, paying little heed to age, sexual orientation, or race. Furthermore, given how the Skarp could be prepared and fuelled by a solitary rechargeable AAA battery, it can significantly diminish the waste connected with dispensable razors, sharp edge cartridges, and shaving cream canisters. Skarp is the first of its kind laser operated razor .
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Thursday 30 April 2015
Hacking WordPress Website with Just a Single Comment
Most of the time, we have reported about WordPress vulnerabilities involving vulnerable plugins, but this time a Finnish security researcher has discovered acritical zero-day vulnerability in the core engine of the WordPress content management system.
Yes, you heard it right. The WordPress CMS used by Millions of website is vulnerable to a zero-day flaw that could allow hackers to remote code execution on the Web server in order to take full control of it.
The vulnerability, found by Jouko Pynnönen of Finland-based security firm Klikki Oy, is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw buried deep into the WordPress’ comments system.
The vulnerability affects the WordPress versions 3.9.3, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and the latest WordPress version 4.2.
Pynnönen disclosed the details of the zero-day flaw, along with a video and a proof-of-concept code for an exploit of the bug, on his blog post on Sunday before the WordPress team could manage to release a patch.
Why the researcher made the 0-Day Public?
A similar cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability was patched this week by WordPress developers, which was nearly 14 months after the bug was reported to the team.
Due to fear of delay in fixing this hole, Pynnönen went public with the details of critical zero-day vulnerability in WordPress 4.2 and below, so that the users of the popular content management system could be warned beforehand.
Moreover, Pynnonen reported the vulnerability to the WordPress team but they " refused all communication attempts" he made since November 2014.
The exploitation of the 0-Day vulnerability:
The vulnerability allows a hacker to inject malicious JavaScript code into the comments section that appears at the bottom of Millions of WordPress blogs or article posts worldwide. However, this action should be blocked under ordinary circumstances.
This could allow hackers to change passwords, add new administrators, or take other actions that could only be performed by the legitimate administrator of the website. This is what we call a cross-site scripting attack.
Video Demonstration of the attack:
You can watch the video demonstration below which shows an attack in action:
Pynnonen described the 0-day flaw as below:
"If triggered by a logged-in administrator, under default settings the attacker can leverage the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the server via the plugin and theme editors," Pynnönen wrote in a blog post published Sunday evening.
"Alternatively the attacker could change the administrator's password, create new administrator accounts, or do whatever else the currently logged-in administrator can do on the target system."
How the 0-Day exploit works?
The zero-day exploit provided by the researcher works by posting a simple JavaScript code as a comment and then adding as long as 66,000 characters or over 64 KB in size.
When the comment is processed by someone with WordPress admin rights to the website, the malicious code will be executed without giving any indication to the admin.
By default, WordPress does not automatically publish a user's comment to a post until and unless the user has been approved by the administrator of the site.
Hackers can bypass this limitation by fooling the administrator with their benign first comment, which once approved would enable any further malicious comments from that person to be automatically approved and published to the same post.
WordPress patches the 0-Day flaw:
In order to fix the security hole, administrators should upgrade their CMS to Wordpress 4.2.1, which was released few hours ago.
"This is a critical security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately," the WordPress team said of the latest version.
WordPress version 4.2.1 reportedly fixes the zero-day vulnerability reported by Pynnonen. So if you own a WordPress website, make sure that you run an updated version of the CMS with all the plugins up-to-date.
Qualcomm's Jacobs: Samsung snub 'a good wake-up call
Qualcomm Executive Chairman Paul Jacobs says increased competition will help the company improve its game. Sarah Tew/CNET
NEW YORK -- Qualcomm, the world's biggest maker of chips for mobile devices, is under a lot of pressure from its competitors these days.
It's seen its Snapdragon processor replaced by a Samsung-made chip in Samsung's flagship Galaxy S6 phones -- a switch that's costing Qualcomm hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. At the same time, it's had to fend off increased competition from Intel and from makers of lower-end chips in Asia. The challenges have helped push Qualcomm's stock down about 8 percent since the start of the year and depressed its financial results.
Despite the difficulties, Executive Chairman Paul Jacobs said in an interview with a handful of reporters Tuesday that his company has a clear path forward out of the woods, and he welcomed the heightened competition to ensure that Qualcomm keeps fighting to maintain its lead.
"Competition is good," Jacobs said soon after the company's partner, LG, held an event here to unveil its new flagship G4 phone. "It's the silver lining of what's been going on with the Samsung situation. I think it's a good wake-up call."
Qualcomm remains the dominant player in mobile chips, with its Snapdragon processors, radio chips or both finding a home in Apple's iPhone, Samsung'sGalaxy Note 4 phone, HTC's One M9 phone, as well as many other devices. The arrival of more viable competitors in its market, though, could mean more choices for device makers and consumers.
To keep hold of the majority of the market for smartphone chips, Qualcomm plans to direct its roughly $5 billion annualresearch and development budget toward a handful of specific projects, so it can keep coming out with the most desirable technology, Jacobs said. Consumers might expect to see new technologies in the realms of virtual reality and robotics, as well as smartphone chips that can learn their owner's interests. Those are major areas of research for Qualcomm, said Jacobs, the company's CEO from 2005 to 2014 who now focuses on new technologies and long-term projects.
"What we're really going to do is focus in on some of the high-impact things," Jacobs said, "and a few of the other projects. We're going to do a little gardening."
That will mean the company will continue cutting costs -- it already laid off about 600 employees in December -- while still driving its technology forward, Jacobs said.
HTC has strong first quarter, but Q2 looks like a downer
HTC CEO Cher Wang talking about the company's efforts beyond mobile. Lynn La/CNET
HTC, the embattled handset maker that's trying to reinvent itself with help from its newly appointed CEO Cher Wang shared a bit of a mixed bag with investors on Wednesday.
HTC posted revenue during the first quarter of 2015 of NT$41.5 billion ($1.4 billion) -- representing a 25 percent increase in revenue over the same period last year. The company also posted its strongest US revenue growth since 2011.
In a statement, HTC, which also posted a small profit of NT$360 million, said that its success was due in large part to offering "tailored portfolios" of products to different markets around the world. According to that strategy, emerging markets, for example, will receive more affordable smartphones and fewer higher-end devices than developed countries.
The success in the first quarter, however, might be short-lived. HTC said that its revenue for the second quarter ending June 30 will fall between NT$46 billion and NT$51 billion. Depending on where HTC's revenue stands in that range, that would mean a decline of between 22 percent and 29 percent compared to the second quarter of 2014 when it posted revenue of NT$65.1 billion.
The forecast comes at a crucial time for HTC. The company, whose phones a few years ago had some momentum in the US, has watched its market share fall off a cliff. At last count, the company had approximately 2 percent market share in the worldwide smartphone space as Apple, Samsung and a handful of China-based handset makers, including Xiaomi, offer more appealing products. Such products include Apple's popular iPhone 6, which helped propel the company to 61.2 million unit sales in the last quarter. Meanwhile, Samsung's Galaxy S6 and the recently announced LG G4 have also caught the eyes of consumers.
Some investors had hoped for a stronger second quarter due to the release of HTC's latest flagship handset, the One M9. However, reviewers have been critical of the device, saying that it's a small upgrade over the previous model, the HTC One M8.CNET's Reviews team took the M9 for a spin, and while it received a solid 8 out of 10, they argued that the handset "doesn't exceed the competition where it counts."
But HTC might not be as concerned about its success in smartphones as it once was. Last month, HTC chairwoman and co-founder Cher Wang took over as the company's CEO, replacing fellow co-founder Peter Chou. Wang has said that while HTC will not abandon smartphones, the company will attempt to capitalize on other growth areas it sees, including wearables. Wang also wants to target specific markets with products tailored to them.
In a statement accompanying her company's financials on Wednesday, Wang focused on HTC's prospects in areas outside of smartphones. "We have made strides in expanding our product offerings into new connected smart devices in areas such as fitness and entertainment," Wang said. "It is vital that we drive the connected lifestyle through our pursuit of brilliance and by engaging strategic partners to bring the best and most innovative products to market."
Still, questions remain over whether Wang can actually help HTC. Wang was, after all, the chairwoman at the company while its troubles persisted and despite replacing Chou, he's still running the company's Future Labs, working on next-generation technologies. So, while there has been a shake-up at the top, the same players are in different positions, causing analysts and investors to wonder if HTC can be fixed.
"It remains to be seen whether Cher Wang is the right person to get HTC back on track," Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight, told CNET last month. "HTC has a very tough year ahead."
Based on what HTC is predicting for the second quarter, Wood's comments already seem prescient.
HTC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.