Daily Archives: August 25, 2015

El phising vuelve a WhatsApp con Starbucks de protagonista

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Estafa en WhatsApp usando a Starbucks

WhatsApp es una aplicación que todos, o casi todos nosotros, utilizamos a diario –por no decir todo el día–. Por este motivo, esta aplicación es caldo de cultivo para que los hackers y abusones puedan intentar acceder a nuestra información o hacernos algún daño. Hoy queremos preveniros de un nuevo ataque que se está poniendo muy de moda. Se trata de un ataque phising que se está realizando a través de WhatsApp, por lo que vamos a ver cómo identificarlo.

El phising consiste en la suplantación de identidad de los usuarios que se suele realizar a gran escala con mensajes masivos. Básicamente, el funcionamiento suele ser el siguiente: se nos envía un mensaje con alguna promoción u oferta de alguna marca reputada. Si pulsamos en el enlace y damos una serie de datos, se puede suplantar nuestra identidad y hacernos, como os podéis imaginar, un daño difícil de medir.

La marca protagonista del nuevo modelo de ataque es la famosa empresa cafetera Starbucks. Tal y como informan desde ESET, se nos envía un mensaje ofreciéndonos 500 unidades monetarias de nuestro país a cambio de rellenar una encuesta con nuestros datos personales y el reenvío del susodicho mensaje a 10 de nuestros contactos. Con nuestro correo pueden enviarnos correos SPAM sin que nosotros lo hayamos consentido expresamente, pero con nuestra dirección pueden contratarse diferentes servicios que a más de uno puede causarle muchos problemas.

Estafa en WhatsApp

Según informan desde la fuente, el mensaje ha sido detectado, sobre todo, en países de América como México, Brasil, Argentina y Estados Unidos, pero se prevé que se expanda a otros países en no mucho tiempo. Para evitar cualquier perjurio, lo más razonable no es instalar un antivirus, sino usar el sentido común y no lanzarnos de cabeza a cualquier cosa que nos llegue al teléfono, porque muchas de esas no tienen un buen final. Si os llega este mensaje, no solo debéis obviarlo sino advertir a vuestros contactos de él. Pensemos por un momento, ¿qué empresa nos regala 500 euros a cambio de rellenar una encuesta?

¿Habéis recibido este mensaje alguna vez? ¿Conocéis algún caso similar?

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Iron Man Might Use The New HP Blended Reality 3-D Scanner

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Whether it is the Iron Man heads-up display in his suit or the virtual-reality, holographic-like display on which he moves around inventions and objects with the flick of a wrist, many of us are eager to see computer reality blend with, well, “real reality,” our everyday space. We want to combine the two as seamlessly as Robert Downey Jr. does in the various Marvel films.

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Project Harpoon: How Video Game Characters With ‘Real Bodies’ Inspired A Fat-Shaming Troll

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Less than a week after People magazine profiled a dubious “skinny acceptance” group using negligible Photoshop skills to reveal “thinner beauty” of Meghan Trainor, Melissa McCarthy and everyday women who dare to post photos on social media, Project Harpoon has been Facebook banned and Twitter bounced. All this, despite People-identified group

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Intel’s Aggressive Push In IoT Positions It Well To Leverage Growth In The Market

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The annual Intel Developer Forum held in San Fransisco last week underlined Intel’s increasing focus on Internet-of-Things (IoT) and wearable technology. For years, the leading PC microprocessor company has used IDF as a platform to update investors primarily about its PC processors roadmap, but this time the key focus and the flavor of the year was IoT. Intel introduced a number of new products, tools and programs that support the growing personalization of computing across a wide range of technologies.

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‘Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain’s’ Launch Trailer Is Almost An Apology To Hideo Kojima

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I have no idea what happened between Konami and Hideo Kojima. Konami’s had some tough financial times, Kojima is a notorious personality, something went wrong, and the relationship between the two is changing somewhat drastically. It has appeared downright nasty at times and more civil at others, but one game has loomed large over the entire affair: Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, the latest installment in the legendary Metal Gear series, even if Konami has removed all hints of it being a Hideo Kojima game from the game’s branding. It’s almost definitely Hideo Kojima’s last time leading a Metal Gear game, which is something bittersweet. Bittersweet would be the tone of Metal Gear Solid 5’s launch trailer, out today.

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HTC A9 (Aero) gets photographed in the wild looking like an iPhone

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The HTC Aero has been a constant presence among mobile world rumors for around two months. That said, we’ve never actually seen it before in live images.

Yet thanks to a leak originating in China, we can do just that now. What you see below is said to be the upcoming HTC flagship smartphone, the one that’s supposed to turn the tide for the struggling Taiwanese company.

And it looks almost exactly like an iPhone. HTC probably only decided to put the camera dead center on the phone’s back in order to (hopefully) avoid a lawsuit from Apple. Had it not done that, it would have been almost impossible to tell this handset and an iPhone apart, at least when looking at their backs.

On the front fascia, things are a bit different, and the prominent HTC logo helps too. The HTC Aero has been rumored to be marketed as the HTC A9 when it launches later this year.

We get no new leaked specs this time around, but previously outed ones include a QHD touchscreen with Gorilla Glass 4 and 2.5D curved edges, as well as a rear camera with f/1.9 aperture. The A9 should be launched in the US by AT&T and Sprint (at least). It’s due to be announced in October and will hit the streets in November.

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Meet The Companies Whose Business Is Letting Governments Spy On Their Citizens

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Meet The Companies Whose Business Is Letting Governments Spy On Their Citizens
Emails exchanged between the Israeli and Italian companies, which were leaked by Wikileaks, shows how they have built partnerships to develop and distribute surveillance software to nation states.

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This is what the Samsung Gear S2 looks like on someone’s wrist

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Samsung will finally announce its first round smartwatch on September 3 at IFA in Berlin. In the meantime, the Korean company has been teasing its next wearable, outing various renders showing it, and even a promo video of sorts.

What we haven’t yet seen however is what the Samsung Gear S2 actually looks like on someone’s wrist. Well, here it is now.

This image was posted on Instagram by Dennis Miloseski, a Samsung VP who is Head of Studio, Samsung Design America as well as Head of Samsung Mobile UXCA. So it’s obviously legit. Furthermore, it aligns perfectly with the teaser images that the company has released so far.

According to previously leaked and rumored specs, the Gear S2 should come with a rotating bezel, a 360×360 touchscreen, an Exynos 3472 chipset with a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and a 450MHz Mali-400 MP4 GPU, 768MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, an accelerometer, a gyro, a barometer, a heart rate monitor, and a 250 mAh battery. It will run a special version of Tizen.

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