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Android will force users to manually switch to winter time in Russia

Devildog-leo — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 13:07:20 GMT

Android will force users to manually switch to winter time in Russia

Russian owners of Android-smartphone and tablets have to manually transfer their devices to standard time on Sunday, October 26th. On this "Lente.ru" the company said Google, which is developing Android.

"This Sunday hours in all time zones in Russia are translated back 1 hour. Unfortunately, your Android will not be able to automatically reset the clock to a new time, "- said in a statement. The user is cautioned that because of this alarm can work an hour earlier than necessary. Google apologizes to its users.

To smartphone display correctly transition to winter time, Google recommends that you disable the function "Date and time of the network" and "Time Zone" in the settings of the network device. The user can set the correct time by hand.

In the Russian office of Google is not able to quickly clarify what has caused this problem and how you plan to fix it at the platform level. Apparently, Google is not prepared for the fact that in Russia this year again entered the transition to winter time.

At the same time, one of the competitors in Google - the company Microsoft - a month ago has released an update of its software products that are designed to help users to switch back to winter time on October 26 and to ensure correct display of 11 time zones in Russia. According to Microsoft, the update to correct the calculation of time and determine the time zone in Russia installed on 558 million user computers and servers worldwide.

Russian State Duma adopted in July a bill to return to the winter time as well as the establishment of a new system of time zones. As a result, 26 October 2014 in most regions of Russia time will again set back one hour, and the country will have 11 time zones instead of the 9 existing now, and their boundaries will change.

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iPhone 6: in the pursuit of long-smartphone

Devildog-leo — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:27:55 GMT

iPhone 6: in the pursuit of long-smartphone

Apple again encroach on conventional ideas about what should be the iPhone. She presented on September 9 iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus with noticeably larger than in previous models. "To Lenta.ru" scanned the first look iPhone 6 and compared it to its predecessor.

Two years ago, Apple for the first time to grow up your smartphone, releasing the iPhone 5, and the network immediately went to joke about the meter 20-second versions. Apparently, Cupertino is perceived as an endorsement and two generations later again ventured out to increase the size of the screen. Bold move was approved by users who have set a record for the number of iPhone, ordered during the day since the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus online stores - 4 million pieces. We checked how far iPhone 6 left from its predecessor - and the outside and the inside.

design

iPhone 6 is different from the iPhone 5S as "flat» iOS 7 of filled skvemorfizmom iOS 6. There is no doubt that the devices belong to the same manufacturer, but if you do not treat them with five meters, and hold in their hands, it is noticeable that Apple has changed the attitude of not only to the design of its operating system.

Dry statistics says that the new smartphone is longer and wider, but thinner than its predecessor. However, we can not say that to keep it simple convenient. He felt quite differently in the hand, the sharp edges are gone, replaced by a flat side rounded, instead of escaping round volume buttons oblong, hardly protruding from the case.

The answer to all the exciting question: yes, the camera sticks. This is especially noticeable when the smartphone is on the table, they can beat the Morse code, as it is based on just two points: a camera and an opposite bottom edge (as we have demonstrated in the video).

On the back side of the plastic inserts with antennas turned into narrow stripes. At the touch of now all seems to cover the metal. Again, we can not say whether this is good or bad - just in new ways. And judging by the pre-order record, Apple fans will have to assure that this is the most correct design

New sensory experience

Grade has not changed, except for the smartphone in the box charger cable with Lighting and headphones. Rediscover your headphones, like iPhone 5S, buy Beat has not affected the audio enhancements Apple. And here is a picture from the phone box was gone, and now the cover is white and her - embossed in the form of iPhone 6.

If it is not self-hypnosis, the screen of the iPhone 6 looks brighter and more interesting than the iPhone 5S. At least subjectively pictures on it look sharper than its predecessor. Many software changes are associated with the eighth version of iOS, preloaded on a fresh model Apple. Some of them will be able to get and the owners of older versions when you update the operating system.

External differences from 8 iOS iOS 7 is not as global as the difference between the seventh and sixth versions. However, wandering through the new interface, regularly come across surprises here to install the new OS offers a family access to the app store (control purchases child), there - move documents to iCloud Drive, and fotoprilozhenii added the ability to edit the color image, brightness of the image and its monochrome . The last paragraph is particularly interesting to see how many variations of black and white images can be made of the color image.

In video mode option has been added Slo-Mo with the speed of shooting 240 frames per second. It allows you to play videos from eightfold deceleration (5S cope only with quadruple).

Performance

It is known that the iPhone 6 is the new A8 processor and coprocessor M8. Last learned how to fix the vertical movement of the wearer. Processor, of course, 64-bit, except more productive mode Slo-Mo, he is entitled to as much as four times higher performance in games, but we could not find without thinking game in which the brakes to iPhone 5S. We measured the performance in the test 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, which measures performance in games and iPhone 6 scored 17406 points. This result is better than the iPhone 5S (14998 points) and even superior to the results of the test iPad Air (15029 points).

Notable change was the emergence of a 128-gigabyte model. This volume of storage can not boast of all notebooks. And this is very useful, given that the program grow, and memory expansion cards smartphones Apple has traditionally not supported. So the new iPhone 6 available to the user only 114 gigabytes of internal memory, then a further 5 gigabytes set aside for system needs (and 9 gigabytes eats specificity counting capacity memory manufacturers).

Battery life

Along with the screen in a fresh Apple devices grew and the battery. Who won the race? We were severely limited in time of testing, so the results are only preliminary. iPhone 6 is charged for about 1.5-2 hours. And spends a full charge in about 8 hours (internet, photo) and 14 hours of waiting - almost a full day between connections to a power outlet. Figures calculated on the basis of loss of charge in a shorter time.

One of the interesting factors, we note that a significant flow occurred in the camera mode (Slo-Mo 240 frames per second has been very "greedy") and background activity on App Store - about 20 percent of the total battery consumption. We assume that the app store will be less impact on consumption of the battery after the new device will have all updates.

When compared to the iPhone 5S, it has grown and charging time, and battery life. In general, "your Captain Obvious": The battery charge has increased, and the charger remains the same.

All accustomed

Impressions from a brief acquaintance with the iPhone 6 can be expressed as follows: "It is different, but this iPhone». All changes made accurately enough and do not cause complaints. We do not think that the new models will be wearing in the bag on the belt - the unit has grown too. However, to work with it rather convenient. We believe the majority of users of the new iPhone, or come to the delight or put up with the changes in the form factor.

Russia contributed to successful sales of iPhone

Devildog-leo — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:59:29 GMT

Russia contributed to successful sales of iPhone

Photo: John Moore / Getty Images North America / AFP
Successful sales of the iPhone in the third quarter that Apple has ended June 28, were due to the high demand for smartphones in the BRIC countries (Brazil, India, Russia and China). This was during a conference call, said Apple CEO Tim Cook.

"In demand in the BRIC countries is difficult to believe," - said Cook. According to him, the iPhone sales in these countries in the amount increased in April-June, 55 percent in China - 48 percent.

Apple is the third consecutive quarter separately mentions Russia among the countries with a high demand for its products.

During the reporting quarter the company managed to increase sales of smartphones iPhone to 35.2 million units, compared with 31.2 million for the same quarter a year earlier. The share of iPhone accounted for about 53 percent of Apple's revenue quarterly or about $ 19.75 billion.

According to Apple CFO Luca Maestri, iPhone sales for the quarter reflected the upper limit of its forecasts Apple, despite rumors of new products, which, according to Apple, could keep users from buying. According to rumors, Apple is preparing to introduce in September two new smartphone iPhone screens with diagonals of 4.7 and 5.5 inches.

Half-hour crash cost half a million dollars in Facebook

Devildog-leo — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:25:40 GMT

Half-hour crash cost half a million dollars in Facebook

Half-hour crash on Facebook, in which users worldwide could not get access to the service, cost of more than 500 thousand dollars. Such an assessment leads analyst magazine Forbes.

If we consider that in the first quarter of 2014 was Facebook's revenue of $ 2.5 billion, the average per hour, the company earned during this period with 1.16 million dollars. Consequently, a simple half-hour cost of social networks in more than half a million dollars. However, this small amount is given, for example, that Facebook last year spent about $ 20 billion just for the acquisition of other companies.

Facebook was not available on Thursday from 12:00 Moscow time. When you go to a page of social network reported that "something went wrong." On the basis of user messages in Twitter, the failure was global. Facebook monthly active audience of about 1.3 billion people, and every day in gay go about 800 million users.

"We have a technical failure occurred because of what people could not update their page on Facebook for a short time. We quickly corrected this fault and completely restored work. We apologize for the inconvenience "- said" Lente.ru "the press service of Facebook.

Serious damages in the social network was also registered in October 2013. Then when you go to a gay display a message about closing the site for temporary technical work. Failure was eliminated after about three hours. In December 2012 the social network site was not working for about 45 minutes around the world. Failure then affected Facebook users in North America, Western Europe and Russia.

In Russia prepared to release a new processor

Devildog-leo — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:43:53 GMT

In Russia prepared to release a new processor

The Russian company MCST finished testing the new processor "Elbrus -4C " and ready for mass production . This is stated in the report of the enterprise. "Elbrus -4C » ─ quad microprocessor designed for 65 nanometer technology and supports three channels of DDR3-1600 memory . CPU core clock speed of 800 megahertz , and its maximum power dissipation ─ 60 watts.

The new processor by comparison with the " Elbrus 2C + " refers to the next generation chips . It increased cache , added support for binary translation in multithreaded mode, introduced hardware support for binary translation of 64-bit codes Intel / AMD and is optimized to work with memory.

Main operating system for the processor is "Elbrus" , developed based on Linux kernel version 2.6.33 and supports the work of more than three thousand packages from a distribution Debian 5.0. Today "Elbrus -4C » ─ highest performing domestic processor . It clarifies the RIA Novosti , these processors are comparable with modern Intel i3 and Intel i5.

The latest generation of processors and Intel i3 Intel i5 Ivy Bridge architecture uses a 22 nanometer process. Process technology using 65 nanometer technology began to be used global chip maker for its processors in 2004 , and mass production , these chips were in 2006.

Microprocessor "Elbrus -4C " the company expects to use on the server hardware , and where necessary replacement of foreign technology in order to ensure the autonomy and privacy.

RUSSIA world's top three spammers

Devildog-leo — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:17:56 GMT

RUSSIA world's top three spammers

According to a report by Symantec in January 2014 , last month, Russia ranked third in the number of spam relayed - its share was 6.4% of the total volume of junk e- mail.

According to Symantec, last month, global spam levels fell by 1.9% to 62.1%. In addition, each 431st letter was malicious. It is worth noting that a month earlier , the figure was 1 an 164. With the largest number of users encountered malicious emails in Hungary, where the viruses contained in every 217th letter. As for the sources of malicious correspondence , there were U.S. leader - 66.5% .

Most spam emails in January came from Canada (7.7%) , followed by Spain ( 6.8%). In addition , the top five distributors of spam includes the U.S. (5.9%) and Finland ( 5.6%).

Experts also said that 17% increase in the number of vulnerabilities , which reached 6443 . Last month, experts reported 555 new flaws . In addition , it was discovered three new species and 139 types of malicious software for mobile devices. About 32 % of them carried out surveillance of users , 15% steal confidential information . Another 14 % are present backdoors and Trojans downloaders .

There was a major in the history of the theft of credentials

Devildog-leo — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:16:38 GMT

There was a major in the history of the theft of credentials

In the sale of the "black market" entered the biggest in the history of an array of stolen accounts belonging to 360 million users.

This was reported by Reuters to the head of the IB- Hold Security Alex Holden (Alex Holden). Holden says , all 360 million accounts leaked on the market within the last three weeks .

Also compromised accounts on the "black market" got data on 1250000000 e-mail addresses for spamming .

Holden , who participated in last year's disclosure abduction 150 million compromised " uchetok » Adobe Systems, now calls the amount of theft " stunning » (overwhelming).

Present theft is more of a danger for users and companies than credit card data theft , says the analyst . After the analysis of such a colossal number of user logins and passwords , hackers can gain access to online banking services , corporate networks, medical records and any other services , with Internet access .

Holden suggests that the data received at the auction were stolen as a result of attacks on several different services , not all of these attacks to the present time to make public statements . In any case , he believes, is the world's largest kidnapping credentials known to date.

On what grounds were abducted " uchetki " to Hold Security is not safe to say, however , according to the head company of selling information have user logins , email addresses and unencrypted passwords related to the services AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

It is possible to say Hold Security, hackers obtained data as a result of hacking dating services .

Moreover, among the proposed sale of information have credentials from corporate postal services "almost all companies of the Fortune Global 500" , which includes the 500 largest companies in the world by revenue.

Hackers often collect usernames and passwords , user infecting PCs with malicious software , however, according to Holden , in this case could hardly be used in this method of attack as " a huge amount of data must comply with a certain number of compromised computers ." An array of stolen data in the last days , says Alex Holden shows that hackers changed tactics , shifting their focus from individual users to large services .

Until now, the biggest leaks user data was considered last year's incident in the company Adobe, which was lost at 150 million user accounts.

Case with Adobe was exacerbated by the fact that the company uses to encrypt passwords used a relatively simple method without hashing .

The largest case of theft of credit card data is considered malware infection BlackPOS trading terminals American retail chain Target, which resulted in the copied data on approximately 110 million payment cards , including their encrypted PIN- codes. Fact hacking retail chain Target confirmed in December 2013

WEBSITE OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENT LEFT offline

Devildog-leo — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:16:03 GMT

WEBSITE OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENT LEFT offline

Official site of the President of Russia kremlin.ru gone offline. Thursday evening, February 27 when you go to the main page of the resource was issued an error message.

Unavailability of the resource was also confirmed by testing it using the service downforeveryoneorjustme.com. At 20:05 Moscow time service reported a problem when connecting to a presidential resource.

Subsequently, the site became open for a number of users , but access to kremlin.ru is intermittent . As of 21:32 Kremlin 's reopened . Official comments on the causes of the fall of the site have been reported.

Earlier, on February 27 went offline official website of State Duma deputy Alexei Mitrofanov . Internet site located at alexeymitrofanov.com was unavailable about 15:30 Moscow and does not open until now.

Media linked the "fall " of the site with the bill , which not so long ago approved Mitrofanov . The bill proposes to introduce in Russia the procedure of compulsory registration of all websites in Roskomnadzor .

CHAMELEON - VIRUS ATTACKS IN WI-FI NETWORK

Devildog-leo — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:15:31 GMT

CHAMELEON - VIRUS ATTACKS IN WI-FI NETWORK

Engineers from the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Science at the University of Liverpool said that developed the concept of the virus Chameleon, which spreads over a wireless connection between Wi-Fi- routers , replacing the firmware of the victim. For an unusual method of distribution - "on air" - it was compared with a cold.

Scientists do not publish any details about the creation of the concept , except for the general algorithm of its work.

Drawing up a list of suitable access points within affordability.

Hacking cryptographic protection of the access point .

Bypassing the management interface of the access point .

Identification and preservation of the current settings of the access point .

Replacing the original firmware malicious access point firmware.

Loading previously saved settings.

Further spread of the virus ( return to step 1).

Lack of technical details suggests that the virus is not as viable Chameleon as I would like creators. However, this does not negate the possibility of creating such a virus .

However , the authors reported success in laboratory experiments on the infection of neighboring access points - and continued to experiment by clicking on the practical "proof" of the existence of the possibility of such a virus to study its propagation velocity in real urban environments. For computer simulations , they used information about Wi-Fi- hotspots in Belfast and London.

The study showed that in Belfast works 14,533 access points , of which 22 % are open for access, 61% reserved WPA/WPA2, 14% reserved WEP.

In London, at the time of the study worked 96,433 access points , of which 24 % were open to access protected 48% and 19 % WPA/WPA2 protected WEP.

"Chameleon" behaved like a droplet infection and traveled between access points . In the simulation of a hypothetical virus router considered "available" if located at a distance of 10-50 meters. Model initiated the original " infected" with a certain amount of access points , selecting them randomly, and then counted how many days it takes to process all the hotspots in the city, it is either infection or tagging router as unreachable . In the absence of changes in the pattern within two days the model is randomly selected another model for more " spiking " of the virus (reseed).

The results are shown in Table . For example, with a maximum radius of 50 meters to cover all hotspots in Belfast in 2499 it took 988 days with additional " spiking ." In this recorded 212.6 thousand P2P- connections between access points and the final infection rate of 6.1 % (not counting forced infected in early ) .

" Infection " London needs more time : 4288 days in 1294 additional " spiking ." Model counted 7.04 million P2P- connections between access points , and the resulting infection rate of 6.9 %.

The researchers emphasize that the final infection rate strongly depends on the density of hotspots in the city.

Scientific work published in the journal «EURASIP Journal on Information Security».

APPLE IPHONE advised often let

Devildog-leo — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 12:14:47 GMT

APPLE IPHONE advised often let

Head of Sony Mobile Europe Pierre Perron believes that Apple loses a lot , releasing new iPhone models only once a year .

According to him , the U.S. company would have to flood the market with smartphones , updating lineup every few months. People want to have machines with the most relevant components and technology , argues Perron.

Executive at Sony said that the companies' ability to rapidly respond to market trends and to produce actual models more frequently than once a year , reports The Inquirer. Otherwise manufacturers risk leaving customers without modern technology such as , perhaps, comes Apple. As an example, he cited the smartphone Xperia Z2, supports recording video in 4K ( the predecessor was not possible ) .