Once described as ‘Britain’s greatest online fraudster’, reformed Tony Sales has been hired by West Midlands Police in the UK to help tackle ongoing cybercrime.
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Over the past few years, the number of highly sophisticated attacks targeting businesses has not stopped increasing.
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151 bytes small TCP reverse shell with password prompt shellcode.
Cloud-based webhost Linode, still under a DDoS attack, reset customer passwords after a suspected breach.
Deniss Calovskis, one of the men found to be responsible for the Gozi trojan, is free to return home to Latvia after being sentenced to time served.
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The 2016 AT&T Developer Conference took place on January 2-5 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
For nearly 10 years, AT&T has been bringing an annual developer conference to their partners and collaborators. This year, they creatively chose to combine their conference with a hackathon in order to encourage the participation of budding developers and to support young talent in achieving career-related goals.
This year’s conference and hackathon, which took place on January 2-5 in Las Vegas, Nevada, was packed with an array of topics split into six main sessions: devices and wearables, IoT, real-time communications, video, network advances and the connected home.
I’ve put together several of the sessions that stood out to me as especially relevant to the evolution of today’s technology.
Your world, protected and connected // Stephen Vincent
Abstract: Interactive security and home automation systems are evolving to become effortless for end users. Devices like smart thermostats learn the routines and patterns of users to ensure the consumer is returning home to their optimal temperature, thus increasing comfort and lowering home energy costs. Voice command and response systems allow users to speak naturally to their home security and automation system without learning complicated rules or programs. Lawn sprinklers and window blinds can be controlled by weather data indicating rain or shine. A day’s worth of user-generated surveillance video can be reviewed for significant events quickly and at the user’s convenience. Securing the home is a great benefit, but what about securing the personal IoT for the end user when not at home? In this session, we’ll discuss how Digital Life is a key contributor in the latest industry trends. We invite the developer community to join us on our quest to put the connected home to work for the end user.
View the slides from this session here.
Smartphones and beyond :Technologies for devices and IoT // Ginger Chien
Abstract: Smartphones, which will still be dominant in people’s lives for some time to come, have reached a state of maturity. This year’s phones will see mostly incremental advances offering improved capability and performance. Yet the smartphone will play an essential role through its familiar power and presence that will support the rising category of connected IoT devices, whether those be personal, wearable, distributed, or other forms yet to be seen. Join this session to learn about advances in the areas of smartphone and IoT device technology as well as get an idea of what the future of devices may hold.
View the slides from this session here.
Monetizing behavioral data analytics // Carole Le Goff and Dr. Brian Eriksson
Abstract: What can your home discover about your habits? When does a change in behavior at home demand intervention? How does this differ when considering yourself, or your teenager, or your mother across the country? This information can all be learned from home IoT sensor data combined with intelligent analytics, which can help you make a decision about how to act. Unfortunately, there is a wide gap between raw sensor data and actionable information. In this session, we will discuss gleaning behavioral context from this data and initial use cases to monetize this information. We’ll describe the science and challenges behind learning from IoT sensor data from the point of view of marketers and product managers explaining new revenue generating services as well as software engineers and data scientists.
View the slides from this session here.
Best Practices for the Unknown: Wearables, Devices & Things // Bill Weir and Pete Rembiszewski
Abstract: There are exciting new areas to explore in the bold new world of IoT and wearables, but there are also big land mines waiting for developers. Not only will we cover issues such as standards, security, network issues, data overload, and privacy, but also actionable tips, strategies, and techniques that developers can use to mitigate the risks.
View the slides from this session here.
As announced at the AT&T conference, a new tool called AT&T ARO helps users analyze their apps’ performance. Users can utilize the free diagnostic tool to improve their battery life, data usage, and responsiveness.
In addition to these valuable sessions led by highly talented speakers, Kevin Spacey was in attendance as the conference’s celebrity speaker. Spacey delivered a quality talk that emphasized the importance of companies making an effort to support and motivate young developers and IT professionals in their career paths.
This year’s AT&T conference and hackathon was a unique and educational experience. At Avast, we’re already looking forward to next year’s event!
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It is a common problem: Home Wireless Router’s reach is terrible that the WiFi network even does not extend past the front door of the room.
My house also has all kinds of Wi-Fi dead zones, but can we fix it?
The answer is: YES. The problem will improve with a future, longer range version of Wi-Fi that uses low power consumption than current wireless technology and specifically targets
AMSTERDAM – January 5, 2016 – AVG® Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG), the online security company™ for devices, data and people, today introduced Smart Photo Cleaner, a new feature within the AVG Cleaner™ for Android™ application. Perfect for consumers with a serious photo addiction, but who rarely delete blurry, duplicate or similar images, the new Smart Photo Cleaner helps users regain lost mobile storage by identifying and removing unwanted photos.
Additional updates to the latest version of AVG Cleaner, AVG’s flagship mobile performance app, include a new, one-click dashboard overview that analyzes the device’s status and initiates a one-tap clean-up of hidden files, storage and battery-draining apps.
“On average, we each carry 2GB of unnecessary photos on our smart devices,” said Ron Levy, Senior Product Manager at AVG Technologies. “These files slow mobile performance and take up valuable space that people would rather use for more memorable pictures, useful apps or new games. But manually editing your photo collection can be tedious and time-consuming. Smart Photo Cleaner does the dirty work for you, automatically finding photos you can do without, saving you time and improving your smartphone’s performance.”
AVG Cleaner for Android now includes
About AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG)
AVG is the online security company™ for devices, data and people. AVG’s award-winning consumer portfolio includes internet security, performance optimization, location services, data controls and insights, and privacy and identity protection, for mobile devices and desktops. The AVG Business portfolio, delivered through a global partner network, provides cloud security and remote monitoring and management (RMM) solutions that protect small and medium businesses around the world. For more information visit www.avg.com.
It’s the start of a New Year, and it’s time to Detox! Try this now: Pick up your phone, open up your photos app, swipe through your gallery and look at how many bad or duplicated photos of your daily lunches, sunsets or the cat sticking its tongue out, you’ve been hoarding over the months, or even years. Surprised by how many there are?
Well, you’ll likely be as shocked at my results: 27 poor selfies; 230 nearly identical shots; 81 blurry images. That’s a total of 3 GB wasted in just 6 months of using my Galaxy S6. And if you’re as lazy as I am about sorting out a messy photo collection on a weekly basis, here’s something for you.
Our own AVG Cleaner for Android has helped millions of users clean up browser traces, hidden temporary app files, forgotten downloads, among other performance tools. But today, we’ve taken a massive leap to focus on one of – if not the – single most storage-hungry type of data: your photos.
Upgrade now to get Smart Photo Cleaner, which scans your entire photo gallery and allows you to identify & clean:
Best of all, Smart Photo Cleaner gets smarter about your choices and will give you more personalized suggestions on which photos to keep or clean up. Keep an eye out for an upcoming post soon, explaining how Smart Photo Cleaner works and how to use it. And that’s not all…
AVG Cleaner has received a major redesign, a term which probably doesn’t do it justice. Let me explain:
See the big fat ANALYZE button in the middle? Hard to miss. One tap on it, and AVG Cleaner will identify all the top resource-draining apps, bad photos, wasteful junk files and battery-draining settings, on one, simple screen – and helps you instantly fix it all. Basically, you get all of AVG Cleaner’s key features on one screen; and as you scroll down, you see all the issues with your device, such as Cache files, history leftovers, low-battery warnings, bad photos or battery-hungry apps:
Tap on one tile to fix these issues. Here’s what’s behind them:
If you’re looking for a quick clean-up of all of your unwanted photos, check out our newly re-launched Cleaner today for free!
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.
CVE-2015-7201, CVE-2015-7205, CVE-2015-7212, CVE-2015-7213, CVE-2015-7214
