Amazing drone display enters Guinness

Recent CES 2016 saw the unveiling of the new technologies that included drones as the future of aviation and technology. Yuneec electronic aviation had developed a done with the help of Intel 6th generation processors. A drone display that used 100 drones was conducted that has entered the Guinness book of records. Here is the link of that video
https://youtu.be/mOBQXuu_5Zw

Lenevo to phase out motorola

Lenevo's acquisition of Motorola in 2014 will now result in disappearance of Motorola brand name from the smartphone market.
In his interaction at the CES 2016, Motorola Chief Operating Officer Rich Osterloh said that Motorola beans would be phased out this year. However, lenevo would use the Moto brand name for it's high-end smartphones and the Vibe brand name for its budget phones.

Google patches critical flaws in Android

Again you heard of the security flaw in Android. Last time, Google has fixed some security flaws which included the core part of the system. This time also, it include the core of the system.

Google has fixed a dozen security vulnerabilities of which 5 are rated critical.This time, Android 5.0 and later are the versions affected.

You might think that you would have heard this on this vulnerability before. That's because month after month, the "mediaserver" service remains the most problematic component of Android. Google has copied and pasted almost every word from the same text every month for every component affected.

The critical vulnerability affects the core part of (Android) software which has got the access to permissions that the third-party apps do not have. Another flaw that exists in handling of bluetooth and Wi-Fi handling of the Android software. Other flaws include those that affect the kernel.

While it's a good news that Google's own security team discovered the flaw, it's surely not good to hear that the most popular mobile operating system has been affected by critical flaws.

Android N:Google may use online pool to name the new version

With Android Marshmallow (6.0) released and Android N undergoing development, much is anticipated on the name that must be given to it. In his recent visit to India, Google CEO Sunder Pichai was asked on why an Indian Dessert name was not given. Reacting to it, Sunder said that he would conduct an online poll to decide on it.

Yes.Google has decided to conduct an online poll to decide on the name. This is a good news for android fans across the world as many of them have been suggesting names in many online portals from the time Google started naming its OS versions after desserts. This way Google is indirectly making its users to contribute to their favorite platform.

So far, the following names have been getting a lot of traction from across the world: Android Nankhatai, Android Nutella, Android Nougat, Android Nut Brittle, Android Nerds.

Google patches crticial vulnerabilities in android

Any news on vulnerability would surely be like the striking of the thunder. Chill...This time its not a news on any new vulnerability discovered.

Google has released a new patch of security fixes for its Nexus devices that would fix the flaws which enabled the attackers to compromise the android device via spam mails, web pages and MMS messages. Firmware updates are being rolled out for supported Nexus devices and the patches will be added as part of Android Open Source Project. The updates address five vulnerabilities in which 1 is rated as critical, 2 rated as high and 2 rated as moderate.

A handful number of flaws were located in the OS' media processing components that handle audio and video file playback parsing. One of the critical vulnerabilities is said to be located at a core part of the OS (mediaserver) that can be exploited with the privileges that third-party applications are not supposed to have. Attackers would trick the users into playing specially crafted media in their browsers or using MMS messaging.

Another critical vulnerability is the privilage escalation of Android kernel. This allows the applications designed by attackers to execute code at the root level. This vulnerability has been patched in the updated.

Google Photos will now free up your storage space

Storage has become a major issue nowadays as people want more and more storage space to store their data. When it comes the matter of personal details such as snaps and videos, 32GB or 64GB of space is just not enough for people to record their day to day activities. Just then Google launched it application Photos, an application that would store pictures and videos on cloud and access anywhere.Now, an update to the application would free up the storage space in your android device on just one click.

On Tuesday, Google announced in its Google+ page that a new 'Free Up Space' button has been added to the Settings menu of the Google Photos application on android. When you click on this button, you will be prompted to delete all the copies of photos and videos that have been backed up by the application. The update also gives SD-card enables devices the ability to delete photos and videos from SD card.

In addition to this, Google is rolling out a website feature which will allow users to downgrade the photos uploaded in "Original Quality" to "High Quality" from their browsers. This feature is already present in the the Photos application for android devices

This is a welcoming move by Google as it would save a lot of storage space of the device.

iOS apps more vulnerable than android apps

Application written for iOS are more vulnerable than those written for android. As attackers are moving to application based threats, this vulnerability (has the potential for security problems in the future) can be the budding for the future attacks.

According to report from mobile application security vendors Checkmarx and AppSec Labs, the average mobile app has nine vulnerabilities of which 40% were critical and highly severe compared to 36% from android.

The researchers carried out tests on hundreds of applications of all type (that included banking, utilities, gaming and security). Major banking applications had vulnerabilities such as faulty authentication and data leakage. The most common vulnerability was the leakage of personal and other sensitive details. The authentication and authorization vulnerabilities were found to account for 23% of the total which takes the second place in the list. Other vulnerabilities included disclosure of technical information such as application logs and input validation handling.

Although there is assumption that iOS devices are more secure than android, it proved to be wrong from this report. What actually happens in iOS is that iOS has more restrictive controls over what developers can do and strict application sandboxing. If any vulnerability is found, the application would be immediately removed from the Apple App Store.