Saturday, July 28, 2012

New Mac Malware Spies on You!!

 SophosLabs recently received a intriguing Mac malware sample, variously known as Crisis and Morcut.

Thee're still digging into the details of the malware itself, but the delivery mechanism is interesting.

The malware package arrived in a file named AdobeFlashPlayer.jar.
JAR stands for Java Archive. JAR files, which are structurally just ZIP files with a special name, are used as a standardised way of packaging and delivering Java software. 

Friday, July 27, 2012

Monitor Changes in Directory (Folders)

We all know that many of our friends deletes or changes every time our files whenever we leave our pc or laptop to them. But this would be difficult for us to monitor or to know what they modified or deleted. So this free utility will help you with that.

All-in-One utility to Protect Files, Folders and USB drives - File Secure


These days as hackers tracks keys and all data it is very essential to protect our files, folders and data.  To protect we should encrypt the files or folders. So today I'm going to share a an all-in-one free tool which you can use in order to encrypt and decrypt the data easy. And the best thing about this software is that, it works with files, folders and also USB drives. As many of us use flash drives sometimes they need to keep password in order to protect their data. This is where this tool comes to survive us. 

Sony Ericsson phones from 2011 will not be getting Jelly Bean

UK Product Manager for Sony Mobile, John Cooper was taking questions from customers on Facebook recently, and revealed that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S and Xperia Mini Pro will not be getting updates to Android 4.1 aka Jelly Bean OS.

Sony was yet to make an official statement regarding their 2011 phone lineup, and the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update before this. The Xperia Arc S was the Xperia phone with the highest specs released in 2011. So if it isn’t getting the update, you can be sure that none of the other 2011 phones would be getting it. Sony is also yet to announce if the 2012 lineup of Xperia phones will be getting the update to Jelly Bean.

Snapdeal Unveils HCL ME Y2 Tablet

Snapdeal.com, India’s leading e-commerce company has launched the new HCL ME Y2 Tablet on its website. The Y2 comes with the latest Android v4.0.3 and Mali 400 Multimedia Processing. It has a 7 inch screen with capacitive multi-touch.

It supports 8GB internal memory and has an expandable memory up to 32GB by Micro SD card. It also features 0.3MP camera in front and 2.0MP camera at the rear and supports full HD playback of 1080p. The tablet not only supports wifi but also possesses 3G, EDGE and GSM capabilities. Users can even access the HCL ME App Store on the Y2 to download various applications. This Bluetooth enabled Tab has SIM based network connectivity and runs on 4000 Mah Battery power.

2 Crore Mobile Users Cut their Newspapers and TV consumption by 50% : Survey

2 Crore of the estimated 4.8 crore Mobile Internet users have shifted 50% of their newspaper and TV time to their mobile screens and what’s being consumed is – entertainment, all categories of news, travel and sports content. This got established in the recently concluded Mobile Internet behavior & usage study conducted by ViziSense, India’s leading online audience and ad measurement platform.

Of all mobile internet users in India (estimated at 4.8 crores by IAMAI in their August 2011 Mobile Internet in India report), a huge 87% are online on mobile every day. Almost half of these users go online through their cellphones every 2-3 hours and the duration of these visits is more than an hour. Almost 60% of these users have been on this medium for over an year already.

Facebook Phone? Mark Zuckerberg Denies

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has denied rumours that the company is working with HTC to produce self-branded smartphone with an exclusive operating system.

At the company's first-ever earnings call, Zuckerberg said that “it would not really make much sense” to build a Facebook phone. He further pointed out that Facebook is most used app on all platforms, therefore every phone out there is a Facebook phone.

Zuckerberg's comments are likely to put an end to all sorts of speculations related to Facbeook developing self-branded phone.