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Samsung Galaxy S8’s Facial Unlocking Feature Can Be Fooled With A Photo

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Samsung launched its new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, at its Unpacked 2017 event on Wednesday in New York, with both IRIS and Facial Recognition features, making it easier for users to unlock their smartphone and signing into… Continue reading Samsung Galaxy S8’s Facial Unlocking Feature Can Be Fooled With A Photo→

Pre-Order the Samsung Galaxy S8, Get a Free Gear VR

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Samsung has opened up preorders for its new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ handsets. And if you act quickly, you will get a free Gear VR virtual reality headset too.
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Samsung’s Sweet Galaxy S8 Will Make You Forget All About the Note 7

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The Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus put everything that was great about the Note 7 in a slicker, non-explosive package. The post Samsung’s Sweet Galaxy S8 Will Make You Forget All About the Note 7 appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Samsung’s Sweet Galaxy S8 Will Make You Forget All About the Note 7→

Here’s What a Samsung Galaxy S7 Hacked with Ransomware Looks Like

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A couple of months ago we reported about an Android-based LG Smart TV had its screen bricked after a critical ransomware infection. Now, a series of similar attacks is taking place against Samsung Galaxy S7 devices, in which hackers are infecting Galaxy S7 models with malware, locking out screens and demanding ransom payments. These attacks are currently raising […]

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Legal peril looms over companies hoping to acquire CIA intel from WikiLeaks

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A cloud of uncertainty hangs over a cohort of private companies that hope to receive software vulnerability information from WikiLeaks, according to top national security lawyers. “The law is unsettled as to whether tech companies can receive stolen, classified information from WikiLeaks for the purpose of patching security vulnerabilities that the CIA has allegedly been exploiting,” said Edward McAndrew, a former federal cybercrime prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Eastern District of Virginia. The transparency organization published thousands of internal, classified CIA documents two weeks ago in an effort to highlight apparent contradictions between how the U.S. government values digital espionage capabilities over the security and privacy of private technology companies. In a press conference live-streamed to Twitter on March 9, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange claimed he would work with affected technology companies by privately providing them with executable code and other technical details that had been redacted from the […]

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Half of Android Devices Unpatched Last Year

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Google said half of Android devices are unpatched and that percentage of potentially harmful apps on phones installed from all sources rose in 2016. Continue reading Half of Android Devices Unpatched Last Year→