March Madness has begun for NCAA basketball teams—and for cybercriminals, who are getting ready for some games of their own. The extreme popularity of March Madness makes the event a prime target for phishing scams, malware exploits and other cyber attacks. Cybercriminals will use any major event or tragedy that has captured the attention of the general public as bait for attacks. The increased interest from users and the dramatic spike in emails, links, and other communications related to the event make it much easier to blend in. The demand for information combined with the massive audience also mean that the odds of an attack’s success are significantly higher.
Android devs are getting more tools to inject Google Maps deeper into their apps. Google is launching a new The Place Picker widget lets you drop a pin and look around for what’s nearby, just as you would in the standalone Google Maps app. It also gives details on the location and what else is nearby - details pulled from the massive
Unless you’ve been under a rock all morning—or don’t care too much about the “inside baseball” business news of tech companies—HTC Wang studied abroad at The College Preparatory School in Oakland, Calif. and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 with a degree in economics. Not only did Wang help start HTC in 1997, but she also helped found the motherboard and processor company VIA in 1987. It’s still the world’s largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets and her husband is the CEO. Her
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Apple is reportedly prepping a new Apple TV set-top box for this summer, with Siri, the App Store, and home automation as centerpieces. The report comes from The hardware itself could be a “significant overhaul,” possibly with Apple’s latest A8 system-on-chip and much more storage than the current Apple TV’s 8GB. The operating system will get a revamp as well, allowing for Siri voice commands and remote control of
CCP Atlanta has created a beautiful virtual reality monster—a Frankenstein creation hacked together from two separate technologies, tethered by a 24-foot cable, meticulously assembled, and all so that I can play... Take a look at this thing: It's ridiculous. You've got an Oculus Rift DK2 headset, the accompanying position-tracking camera, and then a Kinect V2 for Windows all tethered up and across the ceiling into a computer (running Nvidia's new
HTC founder Cher Wang is taking over as company CEO, as the Taiwanese Android smartphone maker fights to revive its struggling business. Peter Chou, the previous CEO, will remain with the company, and lead its “Future Development Lab” to identify new growth opportunities, HTC said Friday. Wang, who was already company chairwoman, had been taking a larger managerial role in the last two years, so that Chou could focus on product development. On Friday, the board of directors and HTC’s executive team agreed to formalize that progression and name Wang as CEO to usher in its next stage of development, the company said. During Chou’s tenure, HTC became a major Android handset maker, but its market share and sales have since declined in the face of fierce competition from Apple, Samsung Electronics, and an emerging crowd of Chinese vendors.
Sony, HBO, and Showtime are reportedly seeking special treatment for their new streaming video services, though they seem unlikely to get it. All three companies have talked to Internet service providers such as Comcast about treating their online video offerings as “managed services,” sources
What, music streaming services are just beating CDs now?! In 2014, the money generated from streaming services finally outpaced compact disc shipments, according to a recent report from the Recording Industry Association of America. Revenue from streaming services such as Pandora, Spotify, and music video services like Vevo and YouTube hit $1.87 billion in 2014. CD shipments, meanwhile, were valued at $1.85 billion. Major superstars like Taylor Swift may have
So much for browser security. Researchers who participated in the Pwn2Own hacking contest this week demonstrated remote code execution exploits against the top four browsers, and also hacked the widely used Adobe Reader and Flash Player plug-ins. On Thursday, South Korean security researcher and serial browser hacker JungHoon Lee, known online as lokihardt, single-handedly popped Internet Explorer 11 and Google Chrome on Microsoft Windows, as well as Apple Safari on Mac OS X. He walked away with US$225,000 in prize money, not including the value of the brand new laptops on which the exploits are demonstrated and which the winners get to take home.