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New York Bill to force Apple and other manufacturers to decrypt smartphones

Details: Category: Uncategorised1; Published on Monday, 18 January 2016 07:44; Written by Super User; Hits: 7325

New York state assembly issued a bill, which was first spotted by On The Wire via The Next Web, would require Apple and other manufacturers of smartphones and also the mobile operating system providers to decrypt the devices.

Notes on the Bill says,"The safety of the citizenry calls for a legislative solution, and a solution is easily at hand. Enacting this bill would penalize?those who would sell smart- phones that are beyond the reach of law enforcement."

Apple provides encryption function to protect user's privacy. However, New York assembly claims that such encryption becomes a protect for criminals according to the notes.
“The fact is that, although the new software may enhance privacy for some users, it severely hampers law enforcement's ability to aid victims. All of the evidence contained in smartphones and similar devices will be lost to law enforcement, so long as the criminals take the precaution of protecting their devices with pass-codes. Of course they will do so. Simply stated, passcode-protected devices render lawful court orders meaningless and encourage criminals to act with impunity."

The Bill require smartphones sold or released in New York after January 1. 2016 would have to be capable of being decrypted or unlock by manufacturers or operating system providers. Any manufacturers or OS providers who do not comply the bill would be fined $2,500 per device.

Apple's CEO Tim Cook has expressed his views on the necessity of the encryption on smartphones, arguing that the decryption means allowing a backdoors for"bad guys". Tim Cook slam White House officials on their encryption policy, asking them to embrace a"no backdoors" approach.

On the issue of smartphones encryption. Tim Cook had made it clear that he would defend the company's decision to provide iPhone users with text messaging and Face Time encryption. Since New York state has issue a Bill to force smartphones manufacturers to decrypt the devices and unlock manufacturers, what measure will Apple take next seems to receive much concerns.

People have various comments on this issue, some people think the politicians are out of mind, and some are wondering whether Tim Cook will stand up to his pledge for user's privacy and stop selling iPhones in New York.

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Microsoft declared 9 security bulletins to fix flaws in Windows, Office, IE and some other products.

Details: Category: Uncategorised1; Published on Thursday, 14 January 2016 09:33; Written by Super User; Hits: 7090

Apple launched new OS X, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, Xcode, Configurator betas two days ago, and now Microsoft company also make a big move for the company’s products. News said said that Microsoft has published totally nine bulletins to fix critical flaws in Windows, Edge, internet Explorer, and some other Microsoft products, which is the first batch of security updates for 2016, and the last updates available for Windows 8.

Microsoft released totally nine security bulletins covering patches of 24 vulnerabilities. Systems running Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Server 2008 will be assigned a priority, and the MS16-005 security bulletin might be prioritized among all bulletins,

Qualys, the CTO of security firm states that MS 16-004 security bulletin takes the second place and seems to be a focus, which reveals 6 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The security rating is based on a special remote code execution vulnerability which has been tracked as CVE 2016-0010. This remote code execution vulnerability exist in Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2011, and all other versions of Office. The culprit also plagues in the Office running on Mac OS X and Widows RT, according to a blog post by Kandek.

There are different opinions about the priority of the security bulletins, researchers from Tripwire holds that the Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge patches should be in the highest priority. Companies that use Outlook Web Access should prioritize MS16-010 for the vulnerability it covers will allow hackers or attackers to launch business email compromise attacks.

This batch of updates covers a wide range of Microsoft products, also, the updates will be the last ones for Windows 8, and Microsoft won’t provide any security support for Windows 8users. Only users who use Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 can continue receiving security support from the company.

How Apple increases the market share of Apple Watch in 2016?

Details: Category: Uncategorised1; Published on Monday, 11 January 2016 16:12; Written by HeartHealthv; Hits: 5840

Apple did not reveal the specific sales of Apple Watch in 2015, however, it could not stop the analysts predicting its sales.

Apple Watch was released in last April and started mass producing in the third quarter. However, the consumers feedback seem ordinary so far.

It has been welcome by the Apple fans since its release. The wearable devices still seem to be a new-style product. Its consumer groups are limited. Fitbit is still in a leadership position in such field.

Consumer Technology Association did a survey from 1,001 internet users onccerned how many people plan to buy the health or fitness device in 2016.74% of interviewees have willingness to buy the health or fitness device which is a good news to Apple and Fitbit.

According to the estimation of eMarketer, US wearable market will increase by 60%, from 39.5 million units in 2015 to 64 million units in 2016.

Fitbit specializes in producing fitness devices. More and more people pay close attention to health and fitness. According to the data from CTA, Fitbit is still the leader in wearable device field.

35% of interviewees wish to buy a well-equipped Smart Watch, while 27% of interviewees wish to buy health or fitness device that trend to Fitbit products. Among the rest of the interviewees, 30% of them plan to buy an application, 27% of them aim to buy the smart suite and 23% of them wish to buy the sleeping tracker.

Apple is not the only publisher that produces Smart Watch. It upgraded the Apple Watch OS recently. It is said that it will launch Apple Watch 2 in the early of 2016.

Apple Watch decreased the reliability to iPhone after the upgrade. Apple works hard to improving the independence of Apple Watch. It has great potential to beat Fitbit in the near future.

According to the statistics of IDC, FitBit obtained 22.2% of the market share for the first place, while Apple took up 18.6%, ranking in second.

The sales of Fitbit doubled in the last third quarter, up to 4.7 million from 2.3 million units. Apple sold 3.6 million units of Apple Watch in the last 2nd quarter, and 3.9 million units in the third quarter.

It seems a bit hard for Apple to beat Fitbit and become the top leader in such field so far. Its upgrade for Apple Watch will help Apple to obtain more market share.

Why Should We Use A VPN?

Details: Category: Uncategorised1; Published on Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:50; Written by Super User; Hits: 7884

As Internet-based business grow fast, securing privacy and related terms is a mass movement. In order to make their business productive, businessmen need a secure and reliable way to share information over the networks from remote locations. Sometimes you may see a businessman is using his laptop on the go when you’re walking on the street, he is quite possibly using a VPN connection to his company’s network to help with his work.