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Google Glass, tales (not) from the Goldman Sachs Elevator, and more
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Background monitoring on non-jailbroken iOS 7 devices — and a mitigation >> FireEye Blog
We have created a proof-of-concept "monitoring" app on non-jailbroken iOS 7.0.x devices. This "monitoring" app can record all the user touch/press events in the background, including, touches on the screen, home button press, volume button press and TouchID press, and then this app can send all user events to any remote server, as shown in Fig.1. Potential attackers can use such information to reconstruct every character the victim inputs.Mitigation: kill any apps running in the background.
Note that the demo exploits the latest 7.0.4 version of iOS system on a non-jailbroken iPhone 5s device successfully. We have verified that the same vulnerability also exists in iOS versions 7.0.5, 7.0.6 and 6.1.x. Based on the findings, potential attackers can either use phishing to mislead the victim to install a malicious/vulnerable app or exploit another remote vulnerability of some app, and then conduct background monitoring.
New zero-day bug in IE 10 exploited in active malware attack, MS warns (updated) >> Ars Technica
Microsoft has confirmed reports of a recently active attack that surreptitiously installed malware on computers running a fully patched version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser. The attacks also work on IE 9, the company warned.
The zero-day exploit was served on vfw[.]org, the official website for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, according to a blog post published Thursday afternoon by security firm FireEye.
Galaxy S5 ROM is a bit of a monster, taking up nearly 8GB of storage >> Android Central
We have to preface what we're about to show you with the following statement: Pre-release device, lacking carrier customizations, yadda yadda. But what you see here is the storage listing on the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S5.So, 32GB or SD card?
And what you can see is that on the 16GB model of the Galaxy S5, half of the on-board storage is used up before the owner even turns on the phone.
Power Map for Excel now generally available, automatically updated for Office 365 >> MSDNBlogs
Today, with Office Service Pack 1, we're announcing that moving forward Power Map will now be native to Excel. No longer a preview add-in, Power Map can now be found on the "Insert" tab in Excel for Office 365 ProPlus customers. Subscription customers will have access to all the new and upcoming features of Power Map, from new types of data visualizations on the Bing map, to new 3-D analysis features, to new ways of storytelling with your "tours". Power Map allows you to quickly visualize geospatial data that you have already brought into Excel with Power Query and mashed-up with Power Pivot.Looks rather good.
Three reasons why the new Nokia Android smartphones will make waves in emerging markets >> Jana Mobile
A Nokia Android smartphone has an exciting potential, particularly in high-growth mobile markets such as India, Indonesia, and Nigeria. Below are three reasons why the new Nokia Android smartphones will make significant waves in emerging markets.Spoller: price, brand strength of Nokia, brand strength of Android. That is, if Nokia (or Microsoft?) chooses to market it as "Nokia's Android".
Gox horror story thread - How much did you lose? >> Reddit
Lots of putative money lost, and lots of tales of losing.The details on Virgin Atlantic's Google Glass pilot | CITEworld
For the pilot [program], Virgin Atlantic agents meet Upper Class passengers as they arrive by special limousine, then provide personal assistance for everything from providing baggage tags to seat changes to flight information - which is instantly available through the devices, according to Graham.
"We kind of meet and greet them," he said. "Then they go through a private channel through security to the airline's lounge."
When announcing the wearable computing pilot project to affected employees, Virgin Atlantic first asked for volunteers to try them in their jobs. "There was a little bit of hesitation from some agents, who were afraid they would make them look funny. But now as one agent has led the way, we're now getting other agents interested in trying it out."
He continued, "Every day, they're getting another idea [for a feature to add] or for a key piece of information that they'd like to add," he said. "What started as a job allocation system with information about the passengers basically has already been expanded.
@GSElevator tattletale exposed (he was not in the Goldman elevator) >> NYTimes.com
The Twitter account, which has an audience of more than 600,000 followers, has been the subject of an internal inquiry at Goldman to find the rogue employee. The tweets, often laced with insider references to deals in the news, appeal to both Wall Street bankers and outsiders who mock the industry. Late last month, the writer sold a book about Wall Street culture based on the tweets for a six-figure sum.The official Goldman Sachs statement is hilarious. As are @GSElevator tweets such as this one.
There is a good reason Goldman Sachs has been unable to uncover its Twitter-happy employee: He doesn't work at the firm. And he never did.
The author is a 34-year-old former bond executive who lives in Texas.
Web Search interest: "galaxy s2", "galaxy s3", "galaxy s4", "galaxy s5" - Worldwide, 2004 - present >> Google Trends
The huge leap in interest from the S2 to the S3 was reflected in sales; the lower peak for the S4 seems to have been reflected in its sales too. How is the S5 going to do? It's just starting to show hockey-stick growth in interest.Facebook massively overpaid for WhatsApp >> Continuations
Albert Wenger, a partner at venture capital company Union Square Ventures:A couple of days have passed since the news of the monster acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook broke. More people have written about it already than I can possibly link to so I won't even try. My immediate reaction just based on financial metrics was that Facebook massively overpaid but I wasn't sure about the strategic side. Having had some time to think about that I am now convinced that this deal makes no sense.USV was not an investor in WhatsApp.
Why? Because phone number based messenger apps can bootstrap very rapidly off the graph that is contained in people's address books.
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