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App stores such as the iTunes App Store, Google Play, BlackBerry World, and the Windows Phone Store are meant to be safe havens for apps and its users where thanks to the review efforts, apps that are published in these stores follow a certain guideline and are generally malware-free, versus apps found on third-party stores. However recent reports from CBC and The Intercept have revealed that spy agencies from  the “Five Eyes” countries (which includes the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) have reportedly been working together, and one of the methods they planned to use to gather intel was to install spyware through app stores such as Google Play. The reports are based on the leaked Snowden documents which reveals slides in which Google Play was referenced (it was known as Android Market back then). It also detailed how they planned on using Samsung’s app store to perform similar operations, although to date it is unclear as to how far along their plans are, or if it w...

South Korean authorities introduce new regulations over smartphones usage. Specially developed spyware is required to be installed into the phones of those under 19 years old.Such a pattern of control is widely used by its Northern neighbor.However, the Seoul Communications Commission claims that it requires telecom companies and parents to ensure a monitoring app for the sake of children's security. New software is intended to block access to pornography, send a child's location data to parents and issue an alert when a child searches keywords such as 'suicide', 'pregnancy' and 'bully' or receives messages with those words. The measure is reported to slowly come into force over the next few years as it doesn't require old smartphones be updated, but most schools in South Korea send out letters to parents encouraging them to install the software anyway.

mSpy, a spyware company that sells "the most popular and user-friendly application for watching over your kids, preventing theft, and supervising your employees' performance," appears to have been hacked recently. Though still unconfirmed, the apparent hack has led to mSpy's database appearing on the dark web, according to an anonymous tip received by Brian Krebs. Pointed towards the Tor-based web page hosting the data, Krebs discovered "several hundred gigabytes worth of data taken from mobile devices running mSpy's products, including some four million events logged by the software." Krebs says the exposed data includes a large number of emails and text messages, as well as photos, payment and tracking data for potentially more than 400,000 victims. A message left by the apparent hackers of the database says: Full database from  http://mspy.com > 400 000 users apple id + password, tracking data, payment details, photo and more securi...

20. LinkedIn - $215,200,000 $7 per second 19. ClickBank - $350,000,000 $11 per second 18. Yandex - $439,700,000 $14 per second 17. Orbitz - $757,500,000 $24 per second 16. Groupon - $760,000,000 $24 per second 15. Taobao - $774,210,000 $25 per second 14. Zynga - $850,000,000 $27 per second 13. Skype - $860,000,000 $27 per second 12. Overstock - $1,100,000,000 $35 per second 11. Baidu - $1,199,000,000 $38 per second 10. Facebook - $2,000,000,000 $63 per second 9. NetFlix - $2,160,000,000 $68 per second 8. AOL - $2,417,000,000 $77 per second 7. Priceline – $3,072,240,000 $97 per second 6. Expedia, Inc. - $3,348,000,000 $106 per second 5. Alibaba - $5,557,600,000 $176 per second 4. Yahoo! - $6,324,000,000 $200 per second 3. eBay - $9,156,000,000 $290 per second 2. Google - $29,321,000,000$929 per second 1. Amazon – $34,204,000,000$1,084 per second

Mobile spyware firm mSpy's database has appeared on the dark web, following an apparent hack on its systems last week. Emails, text messages, payment details, Apple IDs, passwords, photos and location data for mSpy users have all been exposed, according to investigative reporter Brian Krebs, who broke the story  about the apparent — but as yet unconfirmed — breach. mSpy's technology is sold as a means for parents and employers to surreptitiously snoop on employees or family members, as its corporate blurb (which omits mention of one obvious market – suspicious spouses) explains: mSpy is the most popular and user-friendly application for watching over your kids, preventing theft and supervising your employees’ performance. Our mobile monitoring software runs invisibly on the target device to track all activity, including call log history, GPS location, calendar updates, text messages, emails, web history and much more. The firm – which boasts two million users and ...

Where were you when the 'ILoveYou' bug started spreading on 4 May 2000? Was your computer one of the tens of millions of PCs the Love Letter attacked? Fifteen years ago, email messages with the subject line 'ILoveYou' and the message 'Kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me' started propagating to millions of inboxes. The malware-laced attachment was named LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs. Since the vbs extension was hidden by default, it seemed to recipients that the attachment was a harmless txt file. Once the attachment was opened, a VBS script would overwrite image files and send the LoveLetter email to all contacts in the victim’s Outlook address book. The computer worm also tried to download and install a Trojan horse designed to intercept passwords and send them back to the perpetrators in the Philippines, and then rendered the machine unbootable. Because the email was being spread by infected machines and sent to known contacts in addr...

Today, ASRock Rack released the EPC612D4I server motherboard, a powerful mini-ITX platform designed for micro servers and other small form factor rendering solutions. First announced at CeBIT in March, the EPC612D4I features a single LGA2011-3 socket and appears to be the first mini-ITX platform designed for servers to support the Intel Xeon E5 v3 processor family and quad-channel DDR4 ECC SO-DIMM memory. I n recent months, manufacturers have been expanding their selection of mini-ITX motherboards in response to the small form factor's increasing popularity. The demand for more powerful hardware in the enthusiast market has led to some pretty outlandish creations, such as ASRock's X99E-ITX/ac motherboard. In our coverage, we weren't too subtle suggesting that a LGA2011 socket in a mini-ITX form factor didn't make much sense, as there wasn't enough I/O or expansion slots to take advantage of the chipset's abundant PCI-Express bandwidth and quad-channe...

Dropbox has enabled users to leave comments on files uploaded to the service, in addition to being able to edit some files directly on the website. Cloud-based storage services such as Dropbox have become increasingly popular in recent years because of their usefulness when sharing files and collaborating with others on projects. However, when collaborating over files in the past, users would need to contact each other by  other methods and could not directly communicate through Dropbox. This changes with the latest update to the system. Now you will be able to view files and then leave comments directly on them for others to see. You can even direct your comments towards an individual. If someone is already in the group and has access to the file, then you can type "@Jane Doe," and the comment will be posted with an email sent to Jane Doe's email to let her know. If the user does not have access to the files, then you can type their email address like "@j...