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Caught With Your Pants Down? Fake Porn App Loads Ransomware on Android Devices – Sputnik International


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Caught With Your Pants Down? Fake Porn App Loads Ransomware on Android Devices
Sputnik International
A strain of the Koler ransomware spread to Android devices by tricking users into downloading an application designed to look like Pornhub, one of the US' most frequented adult sites. Malware researcher Lakas Stefanko from the ESET security firm first …

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In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants (Joichi Ito/New York Times)

Joichi Ito / New York Times:
In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants  —  The Internet isn’t really a technology.  It’s a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation.  And it’s a philosophy that has begun to change how we think about creativity itself.

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Hold on to your pants: Microsoft ‘PocketTouch’ enables device input through fabric (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Hold on to your pants: Microsoft ‘PocketTouch’ enables device input through fabric  —  Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make devices sensitive to touch input through fabric — for silencing a phone or even entering text without taking the device out of a pocket or bag.

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