Daily Archives: July 12, 2016
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COMPUTERS 
July 12, 2016 Researchers Probe How Humans Recognise Images Better Than Computers
What makes computers and a human brain different when it comes to recognising images? The presence of an “atomic” unit of recognition – a minimum amount of information an image must contain for the recognition to occur – in human brain, researchers report. Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Massachusetts […]
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July 12, 2016 Cybercriminals Snap Up Expired Domains to Serve Malicious Ads: Report
Expired domain names are becoming the latest route for cybercriminals to find their way into the computers of unsuspecting users. Cybercriminals launched a malicious advertising campaign this week targeting visitors of popular news and entertainment websites after gaining ownership of an expired web domain of an advertising company. Users visiting the websites of the New […]
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July 12, 2016 India Fourth-Most Affected Country by Downadup Malware: F-Secure
India is the fourth country that has most number of attacks by the Downadup malware family, a report by Finland-based online security and privacy company F-Secure, said. It added that besides India, this threat was most frequently detected in Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Norway. F-Secure Threat Round up Report 2015 details the trends and […]
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July 12, 2016 Adobe Issues Emergency Update to Flash After Ransomware Attacks
Adobe Systems Inc issued an emergency update on Thursday to its widely used Flash software for Internet browsers after researchers discovered a security flaw that was being exploited to deliver ransomware to Windows PCs. The software maker urged the more than 1 billion users of Flash on Windows, Mac, Chrome and Linux computers to update […]
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July 12, 2016 Intuition Helps Humans Beat Computers in Thorny Physics Game
Computers may have us beat at chess and checkers, but new research suggests our brains still have an edge when it comes to solving certain tricky problems thanks to a very human trait: intuition. Scientists in Denmark have found that people who played a game that simulated a complex calculation in physics sometimes did better […]
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July 12, 2016 Intel Announces Next-Gen ‘Apollo Lake’ Platform For Affordable ‘Cloudbook’ PCs
Intel formally announced its new Apollo Lake platform for affordable PCs at the 2016 edition of the annual Intel Developers Forum in Shenzhen, China. CPUs based on this design cane be used for a variety of device types, but the company is specifically targeting the new netbook-like “cloudbook” category of affordable clamshell devices. Apollo Lake […]
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July 12, 2016 Swift Says Customers Responsible for Securing Their Own Computers
Swift has told its bank customers that they are responsible for securing computers used to send messages over its global network, which was used to steal some $81 million from a Bangladesh central bank account at the New York Fed in February. The theft marked one of the biggest-ever cyber-heists. “Swift is not, and cannot, […]
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July 12, 2016 Chromebook Shipments Overtook Mac for the First Time in the US: IDC
HIGHLIGHTS An IDC analyst claimed that Chrome OS overtook OS X in the US. PC shipments recorded a decline last month. Dell overtook HP in the US PC shipments last month. Google’s Chrome OS-powered laptops and PCs have for the first time outsold Apple’s OS X-based Mac PCs in the US. The Verge cites IDC […]
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July 12, 2016 Spread of Locky Virus in Mantralaya PCs Contained, Data Safe: Official
HIGHLIGHTS The Locky virus had affected about 150 computers in Mantralaya. Virus was first detected on Friday last week. The virus has encrypted documents and files to locky files. The state’s Information Technology department has managed to contain the spread of Locky virus, a file-encrypting ransomware, in computer systems at Mantralaya and all the data […]
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July 12, 2016 Maharashtra Government Bans Use of Private Email Accounts for Employees
HIGHLIGHTS Last month Locky virus infected Maharashtra Mantralaya computers. It encrypted all the files to the Locky type. Private email services have been asked not to be used. After the file-encrypting ‘Locky’ virus infected computers at the Mantralaya (the secretariat) recently, Maharashtra government has banned use of private email accounts by the staff for official […]
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July 12, 2016 Toot Toot: The Politely Honking Driverless Car Is Here
HIGHLIGHTS Google’s self-driving cars can honk the horn like a regular human. The system will likely require a lot more fine-tuning. Google’s honking will be more reliable than human honking. Google has revealed that its self-driving cars don’t just know how to change lanes and run yellow lights – now, they can even honk the […]
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July 12, 2016 Singapore Blocking Internet Access on Government Computers
Singapore confirmed Wednesday it would cut off Internet access for government work stations within a year for security reasons, a surprise move in one of the world’s most wired countries. The decision will not disrupt government operations, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) said after local daily The Straits Times reported that some 100,000 computers would […]
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