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When first discovered by Trusteer in 2012, the Tilon banking malware received its name because of some similarities with the Silon banking Trojan. As Silon before it, Tilon performs Man-in-the-Browser attacks by injecting itself into the browser and thus gaining control over the traffic going to and
If you home isn’t selling the conventional way, trying dogecoins., it could attract attention. Exhibit A: This blog, and others that are writing about Matt Thompson, 27, who is selling his vacation home in Wisconsin for 100 million dogecoins, or about $135,000. Before resorting to dogecoins, Thompso
What if you could turn the music down on your phone by just waving your hand? That’s the idea behind AllSee, a new gadget under development by computer scientists at the University of Washington. Built by the same guys who created the gesture-recognition in the Galaxy Nexus, the tiny sensor wo
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, with help from chipmaker Broadcom, is laying out a path toward an open source graphics driver for the tiny computer. Broadcom today “announced the release of full documentation for the VideoCore IV graphics core, and a complete source release of the graphics stack
Chances are that you have a set of five or 10 places you go to on a regular basis. ETA is an app that shows your current estimated drive times to those places from where you’re at. When you first open ETA, you’ll need to go in and add your favorite locations. After that, every time [&hel
For those who don’t know, Project Tango is a Google-built prototype smartphone jam packed with Kinect-like 3D sensors and components. One of Mountain View’s software partners involved in the project, FlyBy Media, has built what it’s calling the first consum
Back in 2013, Lenovo thought that it would be a good idea to hire celebrity Ashton Kutcher to be one of their product engineers. This is not the first time we’ve seen tech companies use celebrities to help raise awareness for their products. In the past we’ve seen BlackBerry hire Alicia Keys, Intel
Although Samsung has reportedly considered pricing the Galaxy S5 lower than it priced the Galaxy S4, new information posted by U.K.-based retailer Clove suggests that Samsung’s next big thing will have the same price as its last big thing, if not higher. SamMobile notices that Clove is now taking pr
Tor, a privacy tool-maker, plans to create a secure messaging service that encrypts all user communications by default. The service will be bundled with the default Tor package, which includes a variety of programs and services meant to preserve their users’ online anonymity. Those tools are often u
Vishal Gondal, who had resigned from his post as the managing director of the digital arm of Disney UTV in April last year has launched his new venture. Gondal, who is the founder and CEO of Indiagames, the country’s largest digital gaming firm, had decided to leave the company to pursue entrepreneu
A number of IBMers are trying on the new identity of “ex-IBMers” today as the company’s 2014 downsizing has come to pass. IBM won’t say how many people. And you can’t count it up because the company has, for the first time in years, eliminated a document that was part o
Adobe reported it will kick in $300 million worth of software and teacher support as part of the Obama administration’s ConnectED initiative. According to Adobe, the company’s commitment includes education versions of its creative software, including Photoshop Elements and Premiere Eleme
