Microsoft adds macro blocker to Office 2013 to stymie old-school attackers
Microsoft yesterday said that it had added a malware-in-macros blocker to Office 2013 after customers demanded that it expand the…
Inside Uber’s Plan to Take Over the Skies With Flying Cars
Within a decade, ‘Uber Elevate’ could provide network of on demand, fully electric aircraft. The post Inside Uber’s Plan to…
Why Samsung would be crazy to kill the Galaxy Note brand
There are a lot of claims being made currently about why Samsung should kill off the “tainted” Galaxy Note brand…
Google Cast App Rebranded to Coincide With Impending Launch of Google Home
Google has officially rebranded its “Google Cast” iOS and Android apps to “Google Home,” getting the mobile apps ready for…
Qualcomm to buy iPhone Apple Pay chip manufacturer NXP for $47 billion
The deal, if approved by regulators, will put the one-time manufacturer of the motion co-processor and the current supplier of…
ZTE Axon 7 Max is official, boasting a bigger battery and display
Not even a day has passed since the ZTE Axon 7 Max leaked in a nice detailed render, and the…
When coffee makers attack
It was shocking to learn that the recent distributed denial-of-service attack of the nation’s internet infrastructure via DNS provider Dyn…
Italian Judge Agrees to $50K Settlement for Apple Exec in Irish Tax Probe
An Italian judge has accepted a nearly $50,000 settlement agreement with the head of Apple’s Irish-based unit as part of…
Protection is dead. Long live detection.
When it comes to security, protection will fail. USB drives will be lost. Users will click on and respond to…
How to create an SMS app part 2 – intercepting messages, reading contacts and more
In part one, we saw how to create the bare bones of an SMS app. That is to say, we…