Launched in the U.K just days ago, the design of the Huawei Honor 7 comes directly from another success story of the brand: the Huawei Mate 7. The Honor 7 is the new top phone in Huawei’s line of “Honor” phones, which is crafted as a premium product for their most demanding customers.
At the same time, it is designed to be affordable and retails for nearly half the price of classic high-end phones. Yet, Huawei is a huge company with a great business, so how can this all be reconciled? We took the Honor 7 for a spin and put it to the real world test, along with synthetic tests to observe and analyze how good it is, and where it stands in a competitive smartphone world. Large screen, large battery, great camera – at an affordable price. Let’s take a closer look.
Performance
In terms of system performance, the Huawei Honor 7 has mixed results. On one hand, it has “OK” CPU and system performance, which means that the day-to-day usage is quite good. But on the other hand, it has low graphics performance, which means that heavy gamers should move onto another handset. We’re talking about complex 3D-driven games here. If you’re a heavy 2D gamer and play Candy Crush or Angry Birds 2, the performance is perfectly fine.
As India attempts an upgrade to a cashless society, cyber security experts have raised serious concerns and revealed how to find credit card information – including expiration dates and CVV numbers – in just 6 Seconds.
And what's more interesting? The hack uses nothing more than guesswork by querying multiple e-commerce sites.
In a new research paper entitled "Does The Online Card Payment Landscape Unwittingly Facilitate Fraud?" published in the academic journal IEEE Security & Privacy, researchers from the University of Newcastle explains how online payments remain a weak spot in the credit card security which makes it easy for fraudsters to retrieve sensitive card information.
The technique, dubbed Distributed Guessing Attack, can circumvent all the security features put in place to protect online payments from fraud. The similar technique is believed to be responsible for the hack of thousands of Tesco customers in the U.K last month.
The issue relies on the Visa payment system, where an attacker can guess and attempt all possible permutations and combinations of expiration dates and CVV numbers on hundreds of websites.
Researchers discovered two weaknesses in the way online transactions are verified using the Visa payment system. They are as follows:
Online payment systems do not detect multiple incorrect payment requests if they're performed across multiple sites. They also allow a maximum of 20 attempts per card on each site.
Web sites do not run checks regularly, varying the card information requested.
Newcastle University PhD candidate Mohammed Ali says neither weakness is alone too severe, but when used together and exploited properly, a cyber criminal can recover a credit card's security information in just 6 seconds, presenting "a serious risk to the whole payment system."
Here's how the attack works:
The attack is nothing but a very clever brute force attack that works against some of the most popular e-commerce sites.
So, instead of brute-forcing just one retailer's website that could trigger a fraud detection system due to incorrect guesses or lock the card, the researchers spread out guesses for the card's CVC number across multiple sites with each attempt narrowing the possible combinations until a valid expiration dates and CVV numbers are determined.
The video demonstration shows that it only takes 6 seconds for a specially designed tool to reveal a card's secure code.
First, an attacker needs a card's 16-digit number, which can be obtained either from black-market websites for less than $1, or from a smartphone equipped with a near-field communication (NFC) reader to skim them.
Once a valid 16-digit number is obtained, the hacker use web bots to brute force three-digit card verification value (or CVV) and expiration date to hundreds of retailers at once. The CVV takes a maximum of 1,000 guesses to crack it and the expiry date takes no more than 60 attempts.
The bots then work to obtain the billing address, if required. The paper suggests the whole attack can be carried out in just 6 seconds.
"These experiments have also shown that it is possible to run multiple bots at the same time on hundreds ofpayment sites without triggering any alarms in the payment system," researchers explain in the paper.
"Combining that knowledge with the fact that anonline payment request typically gets authorized within two seconds makes the attack viable and scalable in real time. As an illustration, with the website bot configured cleverly to run on 30 sites, an attacker can obtain the correct information within four seconds."
The attack works against Visa card customers, as the company does not detect multiple attempts to use a card across its network, whileMasterCard detects the brute force attack after fewer than 10 attempts, even when the guesses are spread across multiple websites.
How to Protect yourself?
The team investigated the Alexa top-400 online merchants’payment websites and found that the current payment platform facilitates the distributed guessing attack.
The researchers contacted the 36 biggest websites against which they ran their distributed card number-guessing attack and notified them of their findings. As a result of the disclosure, eight sites have already changed their security systems to thwart the attacks.
However, the other 28 websites made no changes despite the disclosure.
For Visa, the best way to thwart the distributed card number-guessing attack is to adopt a similar approach to MasterCard and lock a card when someone tries to guess card details multiple times, even tried across multiple websites.
For customers, avoid using Visa credit or debit cards for makingonline payments, always keep an eye on your statements, and keep spending limit on your Visa card as low as possible.
It's official, PewDiePie didn't delete his YouTube channel - he just made a joke about YouTube's glitches.
Earlier this month PewDiePie revealed that once his YouTube account hit 50 million subscribers, he would delete it. Yesterday, he set the time of deletion at 5PM GMT/ 12PM EST. Since August 15, 2013, PewDiePie has held the title of the most subscribed YouTube user (although he was briefly surpassed between November 2013 and December 2013) and now he's bigger than ever.
The joke is that PewDiePie couldn't delete his channel because of the ongoing glitch that caused his feud with YouTube. In reality, he just deleted another YouTube account he made back in October.
What was the feud about? Well, a number of channels have been suffering from glitches that cause channels to lose subscribers for no reason other than the glitch. PewDiePie's channel has been one of the victims of this. It's not a new glitch, but an annoying one. In addition to that, YouTube hides videos from people you're subscribed to behind another tab instead of featuring it on the homepage.
Well, everyone who subbed so he would delete his account just helped him become the first guy with 50 million subscribers and on his way to make lots of money.
YouTube has evolved drastically since its debut in 2006. Initially created to share videos with people online just for fun, that platform has turned into a place where people can become famous and make millions of dollars. Whether you want to play video games, make vlogs about your daily life, short films, review makeup, or create songs, you can make a career out of it on YouTube. One of the biggest people in pop culture, Justin Bieber, began on YouTube and is now one of the biggest music artists out there. One other person who has taken advantage of the platform is PewDiePie, a Swedish YouTuber who plays video games from all genres. PewDiePie is one of the biggest YouTubers out there and makes millions of dollars off of his videos, merchandise, and sponsorships. His channel has been thriving for years with thousands of hours of content. He has one of the biggest success stories from the popular social media website and tomorrow, it'll all come to an end. The Swedish internet star will be deleting his channel tomorrow after an ongoing battle between him and YouTube. A number of channels have been suffering from glitches that cause channels to lose subscribers for no reason and PewDiePie has been one of the victims of this. This isn't anything new, as it's been happening for years but it has yet to be fixed. To make matters worse, YouTube hides videos from people you're subscribed to behind another tab instead of featuring it on the homepage.
PewDiePie recently stated if his channel hit 50 million subscribers, he would delete his channel. Many were skeptical if he'd actually throw away his career which nets him all of his money, but it appears he will. He made a tweet today after hitting 50 million subs stating it'll be deleted tomorrow at 5 PM GMT. Update !! Click here to read update
As video games increasingly matched movies in their use of sweeping cinematics, it was only a matter of time until the gaming industry began taking its marketing cues from Hollywood as well. It’s been no surprise then that video game trailers have increasingly become a key promotional medium beyond the standard commercial.
And like its film cousins, while the video game trailer might be a mere advertising tool to sell more copies, that doesn’t mean it can’t be a form of art. In just a few minutes a well-crafted game trailer should draw you in, make you care about the characters you’re watching and, yes, make you want to buy the game. So with that in mind, here are Top 10 Video Games Cinematic Trailers 2016/2017.
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