The pre-orders of iPhone SE sound successful

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Published on Wednesday, 30 March 2016 09:25

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Apple newly 4-inch iPhone SE will be on sale in the first round countries and regions. Its data showed that iPhone SE attracted a great deal of users though its performance did not break the record. 

Slice intelligent reported the data that the sales volume of pre-order on Monday was only 6% of iPhone 6s that being released in 2015. Its sales volume accounted for 3% of iPhone 6's.Most iPhone SE pre-orders makers did not purchase larger screen iPhone in the past two years. In other words, they are attracted by its size. 

The report also indicated that 35% of iPhone SE buyers used other previous iPhone in the past two years. It seemed that iPhone SE has better competitiveness to rival Android phones or attract other platform users. 

Among 16% of iPhone SE buyers are from Android phones. This rate was 10% when Apple released iPhone 6S last year. The sales trend and analysis of iPhone SE have not completely collected yet. It is possibly that more potential smartphone buyers will choose iPhone SE with reasonable price. 

Comparing with traditional iPhone buyers, the iPhone SE buyers are relatively older. Over 20% of iPhone SE buyers are between 45-54 years old, while traditional iPhone buyers are 18%. To those who are between 34-44 years old, they have less interest to buy iPhone SE. The male buyers accounted for 77% for online iPhone SE sales, while the traditional iPhone buyers accounted for 69%. 

The Slice Intelligence data is based on the collections of 4 million online buyers. It has been analyzed and concluded by its analysts. 

Apple did not announce the first week's sales for iPhone SE yet.Some institute estimated its sales in Chinese market reached 3.4 million units. 

iPhone SE and 9.7 iPad Pro started on pre-orders last week. U.S., China, U.K. and Hong Kong are included the countries and regions that iPhone SE being released for the first time. They will be introduced to more countries in April. 

Microsoft introduced macro lockdown feature in Office 2016

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Published on Friday, 25 March 2016 03:35

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The Microsoft Malware Protection Center revealed an increasing number of threats relying on macros to spread their malicious code. The technique will be able to infect a system by using spam emails and social engineering. The macros malware has scared users for a long time. Yet Microsoft this week added macro lockdown feature in Office 2016, which will prevent users from being hacked by the malicious code.

Microsoft once revealed that threats come from macro malware was gradually increasing last year. But now the company has implemented a new security protocol to secure its users.

The macro malware will infect user's system with a favorite malware infection method: Microsoft Office documents with malicious macros. Microsoft users may have encountered the macros malware when they are opening Word, Excel, and Powerpoints documents.

Hackers may give preference to use the spam emails to induce people to open the malicious emails and attachments. Microsoft wrote in its official blog post that in enterprises, 98% of Office-targeted threats used macros. Except for the enterprises, macro-based malware were increasing higher and higher over the past three months, so users of Office Home also had to be cautious.

In response to the increasing threats, Microsoft now allows enterprises system administrators to block macros with the new option in Microsoft Office 2016.
"For enterprise administrators, turn on mitigations in Office that can help shield you from macro-based threats, including this new macro-blocking feature," researchers from Microsoft Malware Protecttion Center said in the blog post. "If your enterprise does not have any workflows that involve the use of macros, disable them completely."

While as for end-users, the company also advised them not to enable macros documents from unknown sources, or those documents they don't trust.

To ensure the security of Microsoft Office 2016 users, they have to be sensetive to the threats, the malicious code and spam emails, and there may be another way to stay away from the macros malware, that's to totally ditch and uninstall Microsoft Office 2016 completely from your computer.

Researchers: The first real-world ransomware meant to hit Macs

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Published on Thursday, 10 March 2016 08:40

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Many people prefer to purchase a Mac computer due to the excellent operating system, the hardware of good quality, and also a culture of very good quality freeware or software. Yet Mac users now seem not safer than the regular PC users. Recently researchers discovered that the first-ever ransomware attack targeted at Mac users.

It is not the first time that Mac-targeting ransomware has been detected. Ransomware is a type of software that prevents users from entering the system, forcing users to pay ransom to access their systems. Your Mac can be infected once you open an attachment to an email or download software.

How can you secure your Mac and stay safe
The Security &Privacy system preferences pane on Mac enables Mac users to set safeguards for download applications. To stay safe, the first thing you need to learn is to download applications on the official sites. Or you can also rely on your Mac, making sure that your Mac will stop unknown applications. Click on System Preferences >Security and Privacy >General, and then you can see there are three safety levels according to where you download the Apps. Here, you’d better not select "Anywhere" for your Mac won't stop you from running any software you download even it is dangerous for you system.

Another way to keep your Mac safe is to update your system in time.
Once there are update prompts, do not ignore the update reminders. Updating your system is the most effective way to defend your machine. If you are too busy to notice the update prompts, you can turn on the automatic update. Navigate to System Preferences >?App Store, and then select “Download newly available updates in the background.”

In addition, you can resort to professional antivirus software to scan out the malware. Furthermore if you have just downloaded applications like Transmission of the BitTorrent software that has infected with ransomware, you will be at risk, and don't hesitate to completely remove the Apps from your Mac.
Click here to completely uninstall Transmission from your Mac.