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It has a 2.5D glass HD quality display and is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 Octa-Core 64bit processor running on the Android 7.0 LATEST NEWS : Chinese tech giant Huawei's sub-brand Honor on Thursday launched the Holly 4 Plus smartphone with a 4000mAh battery and 8MP front camera for Rs 13,999, in India. The device available in grey, gold and silver colours, will be available November 3, across all Honor partner stores. "Holly 4 Plus has been curated to meet the preferences of our consumers better. "The device is another offering with an aim to cater to the diverse Indian market and serve it in the best way possible," said P. Sanjeev, Vice President - Sales, Huawei Consumer Business Group India, in a statement. Holly 4 Plus comes with a sleek 8.2mm thin body with a metal finish and a rear fingerprint scanner. It has a 2.5D glass HD quality display and is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 Octa-Core 64bit processor running on...

Administrator must include only those members who are personally known to him or her Think twice before becoming administrator of a group on WhatsApp or Facebook as one is liable for prosecution if any rumour or fake news is circulated on it. Social media platforms allow a person to create a group on which members can share views, photographs or videos. READ THIS : Data privacy rules to be ready by August-September Concerns have been raised about social media misuse as fake news, morphed photographs and disturbing videos with fabricated local narratives can easily be circulated that can trigger tension and an even communal rift in an area. In a joint order issued by District Magistrate Yogeshwar Ram Mishra and Senior Superintendent of Police Nitin Tiwari, it has been made clear that any factually incorrect, rumour or misleading information on a social media group could result in a FIR against the group administrator. "There are several groups on social me...

Fingerprint sensors have turned modern smartphones into miracles of convenience Fingerprint sensors have turned modern smartphones into miracles of convenience. A touch of a finger unlocks the phone — no password required. With services like Apple Pay or Android Pay, a fingerprint can buy a bag of groceries, a new laptop or even a $1 million vintage Aston Martin. And pressing a finger inside a banking app allows the user to pay bills or transfer thousands of dollars. While such wizardry is convenient, it has also left a gaping security hole. New findings published Monday by researchers at New York University and Michigan State University suggest that smartphones can easily be fooled by fake fingerprints digitally composed of many common features found in human prints. In computer simulations, the researchers from the universities were able to develop a set of artificial “MasterPrints” that could match real prints similar to those used by phones as much as 65 per cent of the t...

Number of total ransomware samples grew 88% in 2016, despite 71% drop in Q4 Two and a half million Internet of Things (IoT) devices were infected by Mirai botnet by the end of fourth quarter last year, a new report by cyber security company McAfee said on Tuesday. Mirai is a malware that turns networked devices running on obsolete versions of Linux into remotely controlled "bots" which can be used for a large-scale network attacks. The 'McAfee Labs Threats Report April 2017' estimated that five IoT device IP addresses were infected by Mirai botnet each minute. "The security industry faces critical challenges in our efforts to share threat intelligence between entities, among vendor solutions, and even within vendor portfolios," said Vincent Weafer, Vice-president McAfee Labs, in a statement. Overall count of new malware samples grew 24 per cent in 2016 to 638 million samples despite showing a drop of 17 per cent in fourth quarter. ...