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What you missed in tech last week: AMD Ryzen 7, Pornhub Android ransomware scare
The INQUIRER BEFORE YOU GET STUCK INTO the never-ending stream of MWC announcements, let us catch you up with all the news you might have missed last week. First off, AMD released details of its first three Ryzen microprocessors which, it claims, will offer better … |
Concerns have been raised about whether Pokémon Go is considering privacy and security properly when it interacts with your Google account.
For a long time there was a commonly held belief that open source products were inherently more secure because there was nothing hidden. The thought was that with the code for popular applications out in the open, there’d be scores of good guys looking at every line and bugs and flaws would be few and far between.
Alas, this turned out to be a pipe dream because even the most examined code can still contain flaws so obscure and arcane, even highly skilled and incredibly talented coders can’t find them. Why? It’s usually because the good guys don’t have the time to play hacker as intensely as the real hackers do. For the bad guys, the rewards for finding exploitable flaws are tangible while for the good guys, the cost of not finding flaws far exceeds, by orders of magnitude, the value of the few flaws they do find because those flaws are the most easily found.
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AH Primetime: Google Didn't Have To Go To CES To Scare Big Auto
Android Headlines – Android News On a more future-facing note, Volkswagen revealed a partnership with Mobileye, a sensor firm, to effectively turn its vehicles into a sort of mapping botnet. The purpose of this, of course, is for development of autonomous drive functionality, which … |