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Fingerprint lock in Samsung Galaxy 5 easily defeated by whitehat hackers

The heavily marketed fingerprint sensor in Samsung’s new Galaxy 5 smartphone has been defeated by whitehat hackers who were able to gain unfettered access to a PayPal account linked to the handset.

The hack, by researchers at Germany’s Security Research Labs, is the latest to show the drawbacks of using fingerprints, iris scans, and other physical characteristics to authenticate an owner’s…

How to Embed Google Map in Blogger Blog?

WordPress blogs are much easier to operate as compared to Blogger because they support Plugins which simplifies the task of Bloggers. However, not everyone can afford hosting charges so they use Blogger Platform for blogging because it’s completely free.

  If you are running a travel  or any similar niche blog, you will definitely feel the need of embedding Google Map in your articles. If you are…

Why the enterprise must ensure it has a proper security policy

IT security is an ever-increasing concern for all organisations, and it’s not just from the often-reported outside threats of cyber criminals and computer hackers – there are a number internal threats, not all of which are malicious, that have to be managed in order to protect the business.

With the rise of smartphones and tablets, organisations are under enormous pressure to develop their online…

An Error Occurred In The Upload.Please Try Again Later-Fix this WordPress Media Uploading Error

WordPress Platform is always recommended by most of the probloggers due to ease and other powerful factors.However some of the wordPress users who has installed the latest updates are complaining that they are not able to upload image files.Most of them has reported that they get an error message “An Error Occurred In The Upload.Please Try Again Later” when trying to upload pictures for Featured…

Heartbleed: First reports of exploits emerge, warns US government agency

The US Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), a part of the Deparment of Homeland Security, has warned that the first sightings of exploits seeking to take advantage of well-publicised security flaws in OpenSSL have appeared in the wild.

OpenSSL is an open-source security tool widely used to encrypt passwords when people log-in to a system. A flaw in the…