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We tend to focus on the top-tier "super" phones here, but we should never forget that the important market is made of the people who don't yet have a smartphone in areas where technology is only beginning to penetrate. Labeled "emerging markets" by the media, these areas are filled with folks who might not want nor be able to afford $700 smart phones.  The folks making the phones, and the people like Qualcomm who build out the components know how important this sector is. They want people to have devices they can afford, and while it's more of a business decision than a humanitarian one, they do what is necessary to deliver products that will make an impact. We're seeing more evidence of that today from Qualcomm. In a press release they just sent out, they have announced six new variants of the Snapdragon 200 chip, ready for use in phones and other devices that won't break the bank. Complete with an Adreno 302, the new chips will offer eno...

Google promoting Google Play Music when connecting to Starbucks free Wifi Logging into free Wifi at Starbucks? Now you'll be shown a free trial offer for Google Play Music All Access Starting this week, Starbucks and Google have partnered up to offer customers that connect to its free Wifi promotional deals to check out content from Google Play. For some time now Starbucks has been partnering with different companies -- most recently The Wall Street Journal -- to advertise on their free WIfi login page, offering different deals or showing promotional videos before you were able to log on. At many Starbucks locations customers will now see an advertisement (shown above) for Google Play Music All Access, promoting the features of the service and offering a click-through to a free trial.  Clicking through offers customers a full browser page where they'll see the merits of the service and give them a chance to start the same 30-day free trial that has been offered si...

Linux Kernel 3.9.6 is the sixth maintenance release for Kernel 3.9 series which is now available for download for all Linux users. This new release brings some ARM fixes and sound enhancements. In this page, we will see as usual how to upgrade to this new kernel using a bash script dedicated for users of Ubuntu, Linux Mint and any other Ubuntu-based system. http://latestlinuxupdates.com/linux-kernel-3-9-6/

In recent weeks, numerous high profile organizations and financial institutions have been targets of massive service disruption attacks.  Several of these attacks are characteristically similar to attacks against top level domain name servers in 2006.  ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee published an Advisory, SAC008 [PDF, 963 KB]: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks, shortly after the 2006 incidents.  Recommendations from that Advisory remain relevant today.  DDoS attacks commonly use IP addresses that are not allocated to the subscriber or IP addresses from reserved/private space to make it difficult to identify sources of attack traffic. This is called IP address spoofing. Access service providers or corporations should apply network ingress filtering (described in SAC004 and recommended by the Internet IAB in BCP038) to prevent spoofing. Squelching attack traffic close to its origins has the added benefit of relieving ISPs from forward...

Security researchers have released details about a vulnerability in the MySQL server that could allow potential attackers to access MySQL databases without inputting proper authentication credentials. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2012-2122 and was addressed in MySQL 5.1.63 and 5.5.25 in May. However, many server administrators might not be aware of its impact, because the changelog for those versions contained very little information about the security bug. The vulnerability can only be exploited if MySQL was built on a system where the memcmp() function can return values outside the -128 to 127 range. This is the case for Linux systems that use an SSE-optimized glibc (GNU C library). If MySQL was built on such a system, the code that compares the cryptographic hash of a user-inputted password to the hash stored in the database for a particular account will sometimes allow authentication even if the supplied password is incorrect. The probability of triggerin...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Russian hackers released a giant list of passwords this week, and on Wednesday security researchers identified their likely source: business social networking site LinkedIn. LinkedIn confirmed in a blog post late Wednesday afternoon that some of the stolen passwords correspond to LinkedIn accounts. The company did not offer any information about how the passwords were stolen or the extent of the damage, but it said it is "continuing to investigate" the matter. The 6.5 million leaked passwords were posted Monday on a Russian online forum, camouflaged with a common cryptographic code called SHA-1 hash. It's a format that's considered weak if added precautions aren't taken. Roughly half of the "hashed" passwords have already been decoded and posted online in human-readable text. Several security researchers tweeted Wednesday that they have found their passwords among those that were revealed. Web security firm Sophos...

Since 042stab056.5 : [cfq] kernel BUG at block/cfq-iosched.c:386 has been fixed (PCLIN-30890) [fuse] added possibility to disable fuse O_DIRECT with help of fs.fuse_ext_caps sysctl (enabled by default) (debug for PSBM-13075) [fuse] flush writeback data on file close. In particular this fixes checkpointing (PSBM-13226) [fuse] several other bugfixes [quota] remounting of FS with quota on ploop could crash host (PSBM-13231) [fs/writeback] writeback writer throttler algorithm has been enhanced [mount namespaces] mount namespaces support for has been added. This is required for Fedora 17 (PSBM-13004). Note: online migration support has not been added yet [cpt] kernel BUG at kernel/cpt/rst_socket.c:407 (on a self-connected socket restore) fixed (PSBM-13367) [cpt] sleep-in-atomic at dumping cgroup has been fixes (PSBM-13297) [cpt] timerfs irq-safe locking has been fixed [cpt] false positive error messages "_rst_get_object: wrong object type" has been fixed...