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Microsoft is holding a new event tomorrow, and this time the focus will be on the company’s education efforts, bringing us several new products, including a brand new Windows 10 version. On May 2, Microsoft is expected to take the wraps off a new operating system SKU called either Windows 10 Cloud or Windows 10 S (the first name has already been used for preview builds before the release of the Creators Update, but it’s not clear if the company wants to keep it for the production version as well). Windows 10 S will be limited to Windows Store apps and will spearhead the company’s efforts in the education business, as it will be primarily installed on more affordable devices whose role will be to challenge the growth of Google’s Chromebook here. As a result, Windows 10 S is more or less the successor to Windows RT, the operating system version that Microsoft launched in 2012 and which was installed on the original Surface RT and then on the Surface 2. Microsoft is expected to highlight ...

Considering the gigantic size of the Google Play store, one can easily agree that malicious apps might exist on the platform. But what’s has been known lately has a hidden surprise element. A malware, disguised as managed to exist on the Google Play Store for around three years since it was last updated in 2014. It might have lived for some more time if a security firm Zscaler didn’t contact Google regarding the existence of the app, hiding a spyware called SMSVova. “The application updates and enables special location features,” reads the description on the app’s page which itself looked rather dubious, featuring blank white screenshots. Still, the app had a download count between one and five million. People who downloaded the app posted reviews stating that the app didn’t update their system and their device froze after the installation. In the blog post, Zscaler’s Shivang Desai described the working of the app. When launched, the app displays an error message saying the update serv...

The Justice Department has announced the arrest of a man last month who is allegedly swindled in more than $100 million from two U.S. tech giants. This news came wrapped in a little mystery. The agency did not say who was robbed, and also did not say who is the Asian supplier the crook impersonated to pull off this scheme. The mystery is now unravelled. A Fortune investigation, which has involved the interviews with sources close to the law enforcement and other figures, has revealed the identities of the three unnamed companies and other details of this case. The criminal case shows how the scams involving fake suppliers and email phishing can victimise even the most sophisticated and tech-savvy corporations. But the crime also raises the questions about why these companies have so far kept this silent and whether as a former head of the Securities and the Exchange Commission observes as it triggers an obligation to tell the investors about what had happened. In 2013, a 40 or somethi...

You can no longer send JavaScript Files over Gmail starting now You may already have found this out! If you try to add a JavaScript file as an attachment via Gmail, you will receive a notification that the attachment is blocked. While Google had announced that it was going to block JavaScript attachments a few weeks back, it has been enforced only now. The move has been triggered by due to the fact that malware has been found hiding in JavaScript in recent years, with the situation escalating over the past few months. Now, if you try to send a JavaScript attachment using Gmail or if you want to download such an attachment from an older email, you’ll get a new warning saying “Blocked for security reasons.” Alternatively, you’ll also find the message “1 attachment contains a virus or blocked file. Downloading this attachment is disabled.” Google has been blocking such file types as .exe, .jar, or .pif, to name a few, since a long time back for security reasons but JavaSript had so far be...

In an effort to expand its certificate authority capabilities and build the "foundation of a more secure web," Google has finally launched its root certificate authority. In past few years, we have seen Google taking many steps to show its strong support for sites using HTTPS, like: Giving more preference to HTTPS websites in its search rankings than others.   Warning users that all HTTP pages are not secure. Starting an industry-wide initiative, Certificate Transparency − an open framework to log, audit, and monitor certificates that CAs have issued. However, Google has been relying on an intermediate Certificate Authority (Google Internet Authority G2 - GIAG2) issued by a third party, with the latest suppliers being GlobalSign and GeoTrust, which manages and deploys certificates to Google's products and services. Google announced Thursday the creation of its own certified, and independent Root Certificate Authority called Google Trust Services , allowing the compa...

Gmail users have been warned to beware a new online scam which could leave them open to hackers. Hackers are tricking customers of Google’s email service into clicking on fake links which then let criminals steal their personal information. Discovered by Mark Maunder, the CEO of WordPress security plugin Wordfence, the attack first sees the hacker send an email appearing to contain a PDF with a familiar file name. That PDF, however, is actually a cleverly disguised image that, when clicked, launches a new tab that looks like this: It’s the Gmail sign-in page, right? Not quite. A closer look at the address bar will show you that all is not quite as it seems: However the page is actually a portal for hackers to steal your email address and password information – giving them full access to your account. The hackers can then spread their virus even further by sending emails to all of your contacts. And even worse, if you use the same login details for other websites or accounts, the hacker...

As like Google which have Now and Apple have its AI Siri, now Finnish company Nokia is also working on its own Artificial Intelligence app which may be named as "Viki" . GSMinfo obtain an document that points Nokia has filled a trademark request with the European Union for what might be an upcoming virtual assistant. This trademark has been filled only by Nokia brand not the HMD Global who have recently acquired Nokia . Recently Samsung have also acquired AI firm Viv, that clearly makes that Samsung also featuring AI with its smartphones.   This news about AI has been out just after Nokia announced its first Android based smartphone Nokia 6. Nokia 6 will be initially available in China on JD.com with the price tag of 1,669 CNY (RS 16,750). Given that the Finnish company appears to be working on its new AI-powered assistant independently of HMD, details are still hazy as to whether Viki will remain exclusive to the Nokia brand or will eventually make its way to other Android ...

The Bangladesh domain belonging to Google is the latest to become the victim of hackers, as a group of attackers apparently coming from Pakistan managed to deface the search engine page and post their own message on the site. Hackers who are part of a group called Team Pak Cyber Attackers hijacked the Google Bangladesh search engine domain and posted a message that taunts the security systems put in place by Google. The breach was mostly possible with DNS hijacking, which was the same method that other hackers turned to in the past to disrupt other Google websites, including the Vietnamese homepage. In this latest hack, the attackers posted a message on the Google Bangladesh page that included the Pakistan Zindabad slogan, which translates to Long Live Pakistan. “Struck by Faisal 1337. Google Bangladesh Stamped by Team Pak Cyber Attackers. Security is an illusion. Pakistan Zindabad,” the full message posted on the Google website read. Google has obviously moved very fast to restore acc...