ATM Programmer’s Reference Manual Leaked Online

A document containing various references for programming automated teller machines (ATMs) has been found online using the Chinese Baidu search engine. News of malware designed specifically for ATMs has become more frequent lately, and with such an asset at the disposal of malware authors, things may have just started to get worse. Security researchers at F-Secure found the API documentation for cashpoints manufactured by NCR Corporation, which would help a malicious actor create malicious code that can interact with the ATM. These machines run on Windows Embedded operating system and feature some differences when compared to the regular editions of the OS. Understanding malware behavior prompts documentation search The search...

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HTC Desire Eye Gets Benchmarked Ahead of Official Announcement

With just a few hours left until HTC’s “Double Exposure” event is scheduled to begin, new details confirming some of the specs of one of the devices to be unveiled today leaked online. The folks over at Techtastic have just spotted the HTC Desire Eye, the selfie smartphone to be announced later today, at GFX Benchmark site. Along with the smartphone’s benchmark scores, a list of specs is available as well. Although we knew most of the hardware and software configuration of the Desire Eye, it’s nice to have another confirmation of the smartphone’s capabilities. According to the listing at GFX Benchmark, HTC Desire Eye will be equipped with an impressive 13-megapixel rear-facing camera with dual-LED flash, autofocus and full HD (1080p)...

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China’s Youngest Hacker Wants to Be a White Hat

13-year-old Wang Zhengyang, considered the youngest hacker in China, was invited to speak at this year’s China Internet Security Conference, where he said he wanted to be one of the good guys in the security industry. The boy is regarded as a prodigy child as far as computer security is concerned, mainly because he came to media attention when he hacked into one of his school’s websites. At that time, media outlets informed that the reason for leveraging the security flaw he discovered was that Wang wanted to avoid submitting his homework. The boy, however, came out with a different story, saying that the website he breached wasn’t even intended for his junior class, and held records of high-school students. Another of his deeds included...

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Nokia HERE Maps Beta for Android Now Available for Download on Samsung Galaxy Smartphones

Nokia has finally released the long-awaited HERE Maps application for Android. Even though it’s only available in its beta version form, Android fans will probably be happy that they now have a worthy alternative to Google Maps service. There’s a catch though. It looks like Samsung has paid Nokia a lot of money for exclusivity over HERE Maps, at least for period of time. Although Nokia revealed its plans to make the navigation service available on the most important mobile platforms in the market, Android and iOS, it appears that now everyone will have access to the beta version from the beginning. HERE Maps, in its final version form, is only available on Windows Phone, but that’s about to change as the Finnish company is trying...

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ASUS Brings Out ROG G751 Gaming Laptops with NVIDIA GTX 980M / 970M GPUs

Traces of the upcoming high-end ASUS ROG G751 gaming system appeared a while ago and since NVIDIA has unveiled its latest GTX 980M / 970M graphics cards, the device maker is free to roll out the machine into the wild. The ROG G751 family is composed of four laptop models, three of which take advantage of Intel’s Core i7-4710HQ processor while the last one makes use of Intel’s Core i7-4860HQ processor. The four models bring different characteristics In the GPU department, the G761JT-CH71 and the G751JT-DH72 will take advantage of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970M GPU with 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM. If you want more, there’s also the G751JY-DH71 and G751JY-DH72X which take advantage of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 980M with 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM. Naturally,...

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Google Confirms Nexus 5 Battery Drain Issue Will Be Fixed in Android L

The latest smartphone in the Nexus family is a great device. Those who managed to grab one via Google Play made a great deal getting the Nexus 5. However, even though the smartphone is more than decent when it comes to specs, there are still a few software issues that need to be fixed. One of the most annoying problems currently affecting Nexus 5 is related to the smartphone’s camera. The so-called “mm-qcamera-daemon” process that remains in the phone’s memory will drain the Nexus 5 battery quite fast. Even keeping the smartphone in idle mode will result in a complete depletion of the battery in less than a day. The main problem is the “mm-qcamera-daemon” process can’t be killed manually or using a third-party application. Even after...

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