Day: January 3, 2019

Klipsch debuts true wireless earphones ahead of CES 2019 – CNET

Klipsch teases its new line of T5 headphones, which includes the T5 True Wireless. …read more Source:: CNet


MobSTSPY Info-Stealing Trojan Goes Global Via Google Play

Across six apps, the spyware managed to spread to 196 different countries. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Town of Salem Game Breached, 7.6M Players Affected

BlankMediaGames disclosed a data breach that affects millions using the browser-based role-playing game. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Ask Slashdot: An Android or iOS App For Boosting the Volume of Speech-Impaired Person?

dryriver writes: A relative of mine has been left with extremely low speech volume — about 25% of a normal speaker — and lack of high pitch capability after a major throat surgery. He cannot speak on the phone at all now — you cannot hear him properly on the other end of the line,…


2600-Inspired Handheld Brings the Faux Woodgrain

The Atari 2600 is a console from a very different time, when home appliances, furniture, and even automobiles were all covered in fake vinyl woodgrain veneer. Somehow it was the in thing for a decade, and then immediately became tacky overnight. Regardless, if you want to evoke the era, that’s what you do – and…


Snowden’s Attorney Talks Govt Harrassment of Whistleblower Helpers (Part One)

Robert Tibbo discusses the challenges he and his clients face in Hong Kong as the government there targets both in a harassment campaign for aiding Edward Snowden. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Florida man stumbles on biggest prime number after working plucky i5 CPU for 12 days straight

Processor thrashed by GIMPS The largest prime number made up over 24 million digits has been discovered by a lone IT professional quietly crunching numbers with an Intel CPU in December.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Paul Whelan, American Accused of Spying, is Said to Be Charged in Russia

Russian investigative agencies on Thursday indicted Whelan, a 48-year-old former U.S. Marine, on charges of spying, Interfax cited an informed source as saying. From a report: Mr. Whelan’s lawyer, Vladimir A. Zherebenkov, who said he spent much of Wednesday with Mr. Whelan, said he had found his client in an upbeat mood despite the long…


Redefining Critical Infrastructure for the Age of Disinformation

In an era of tighter privacy laws, it’s important to create an online environment that uses threat intelligence productively to defeat disinformation campaigns and bolster democracy. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Apple: Beginning of the end, or a new beginning?

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. …read more Source:: ZDNet