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Don’t act like you are surprised, but no, Verizon isn’t going to follow in the footsteps of AT&T and T-Mobile with a rollover data plan. According to Fran “ShamWow” Shammo, Verizon’s CFO, his company is “a leader, not a follower” and will instead stick to their current, traditional data plans that gobble up your data if you don’t use it by the end of your billing cycle. Shammo made these comments in an interview with CNET following the carrier’s Q4 earnings release, even noting that back in 2007, when AT&T first introduced rollover for voice minutes, they didn’t follow then either. 

He didn’t stop there. Shammo weighed in on a variety of current wireless trends, like how his competitors are starting to battle over discounts and promotional programs, another area they won’t necessarily dive headfirst into. In fact, Shammo knows that certain customers are going to leave them because of price, but they are “just not going to compete with that because it doesn’t make financial sense,” he noted.

For now, Verizon is still bringing in new customers and meeting Wall Street expectations for the most part, so you can’t exactly fault them for not caving into the “UnCarrier” movement.

Again, you aren’t surprised, are you?

Via:  CNET

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We’ve written previously about how drones will impact future wars, and various other industries, but drones have lighter uses as well, Today, we’re going to take a look at some recent, amazing videos that’ve been recorded using some of the latest UAV tech that’s out there. It was back in the mid 1800’s when un-manned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and aerial photography first made their (individual) debuts. When the Austrians were reportedly attacking Venice with unmanned balloons laden with explosives (1849), French photographer Gaspard-Félix Tournachon was floating over Paris, in his balloon, with his trusty camera (1858). Since then, their history and progress have been tightly intertwined. At the...

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CentOS has updated glibc (C6: multiple vulnerabilities).

Fedora has updated mpfr (F20; F21: buffer overflow), nss (F20: information leak), nss-softokn (F20: information leak), nss-util (F20: information leak), openvas-cli (F21: SQL injection), openvas-manager (F21: SQL injection), openvas-scanner (F21: SQL injection), tcpdump (F21: code execution), and thermostat (F20; F21: privilege escalation).

Mageia has updated apache (M4: access-restriction bypass), asterisk (M4: denial of service), ettercap (M4: multiple vulnerabilities), glibc (M4: multiple vulnerabilities), libsndfile (M4: multiple vulnerabilities), and libssh (M4: denial of service).

Mandriva has updated mediawiki (BS1: multiple vulnerabilities).

openSUSE has updated libssh (denial of service) and php5 (11.4: multiple vulnerabilities).

Oracle has updated glibc (O6: multiple vulnerabilities).

Red Hat has updated glibc (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities).

Scientific Linux has updated glibc (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities).

Ubuntu has updated bsd-mailx (code execution), exiv2 (14.10: denial of service), mime-support (code execution), and nss (information disclosure).

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Former workers at a California slaughterhouse involved in one of the largest meat recalls in years have been charged with knowingly processing and distributing meat from cancerous cows, according to court documents released Monday.

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The next logical step for electric vehicles is being explored by two German auto manufacturers. BMW and Daimler are jointly developing a drive-over wireless charging system for electric vehicles. Maintenance is already simplicity personified on electric vehicles and removing the last vestige of manual power charging may be the added incentive to entice future buyers. BMW and Daimler's charging tech works in the same way wireless cell phone chargers do, just on a larger scale. An alternating magnetic field transmits energy between two sets of coils: one mounted onto the car's parking area (usually a garage floor), and a secondary coil on the vehicle itself. Comments

Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, has set a new broadband speed record of 10 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) using traditional copper telephone lines and a prototype technology that demonstrates how existing copper access networks can be used to deliver 1Gbps symmetrical ultra-broadband access services. Achieving 1 Gbps 'symmetrical' services – where bandwidth can be split to provide simultaneous upload and download speeds of 1 Gbps – is a major breakthrough for copper broadband. It will enable operators to provide Internet connection speeds that are indistinguishable from fiber-to-the-home services, a major business benefit in locations where it is not physically, economically or aesthetically viable to lay new fiber cables all the way into residences. Instead, fiber can be brought to the curbside, wall or basement of a building and the existing copper network used for the final few meters. Comments

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Most phishing and data grabbing attacks have a major problem: they cannot use the domain of the official service, but need to use another one.

Some use similar looking domains, or very long domain names that start right but are only sub-domains and end with an unrelated domain name.

The latest phishing scam that Symantec noticed recently takes the idea to a whole new level. Instead of hosting the fake website on a different domain, the attackers use Google's own Drive and Docs service to host the files.

The effect? When you check the url, you see that it is using https and that it is a google.com domain. So, everything is alright then, right?

The scam begins like many other scams. You get an email with a link. This link points to a google.com address, and when you follow it, you are asked to sign in.

The problem here is that this is not an official Google sign-in link, even though it is hosted on a Google domain and using a Google SSL certificate.

How the spammers do it? They have created a folder on Google Drive, made that folder public, uploaded a file to it, and use the preview feature of Google Drive to get a publicly accessible address that they use in their phishing attempts.

So, the sign-in form is fake, even though it looks real, is on google.com, and uses SSL.

If you sign-in here, your authentication credentials are transferred to a PHP script on a compromised web server. You are redirected to a Google document afterwards, which means that you may not even realize what just happened -- that you gave away your Google account to a third-party.

There are a couple of indicators that may warn you that something is not alright. First of all, the link you are taken to is not a Google Sign-in link which -- as far as I know -- always begins with accounts.google.com no matter which service you are accessing from the company.

If you do not see accounts.google.com, chance is that you are not on an official sign-in page.

Second, and this is more  a behavioral suggestion: never click on links directly in emails, especially not if you do not know the sender of that email. Instead, visit the website of the service directly by loading the page manually in your web browser of choice, signing-in there, and checking out whatever someone added to the email.

And even if you click on the email link, warning flags should go up when you are asked to sign-in if you are already signed in to your account.

Google seems to have fixed the issue according to Gizmodo information. Fixed in this case means that Google has removed the fake pages but has not yet released a fix that protects future abuse. The team appears to be working on that though.

Google suggests that you reset your password if you think that you may have given out your account information accidentally.

Closing Words

Phishing attacks get more sophisticated all the time, but this is a whole new level. If you can host your fake login pages on domains owned by the company that you want to steal user credentials from, then it is taking phishing to a whole new level.

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Tomorrow kicks off the first day of Google I/O, and that means lots of product and service announcements throughout the week. One of those is likely to include the next major release of Android, though not before leaked screenshots made their way to the web. A couple of new icons in the screenshots has sparked a bit of speculation as to what...

Google  used its Google Fiber internet access business Wednesday to chime in on the continuing debate around peering and internet fast lanes, and guess what: the company doesn’t use either. Fiber, which is slowly expanding its footprint, doesn’t have “any deals to prioritize (some content companies’) video ‘packets’ over others or otherwise discriminate among Internet traffic,” according to a blog post published Wednesday afternoon.

Google also said it doesn’t charge for peering, and instead invites content providers and content delivery networks to colocate within their facilities to get their content closer to the end user. Google identified Akamai and Netflix as two companies that make use of colocation; Netflix has for some time tried to partner with ISPs and place its own OpenConnect caching appliances within the ISPs’ networks.

From the blog post:

“We also don’t charge because it’s really a win-win-win situation. It’s good for content providers because they can deliver really high-quality streaming video to their customers. For example, because Netflix colocated their servers along our network, their customers can access full 1080p HD and, for those who own a 4K TV, Netflix in Ultra HD 4K. It’s good for us because it saves us money (it’s easier to transport video traffic from a local server than it is to transport it thousands of miles). But most importantly, we do this because it gives Fiber users the fastest, most direct route to their content.”

Of course, this was more that Google gloating about how fast Fiber is. The post also comes at a time where Netflix sees itself pressured to strike paid peering deals with companies like Comcast and Verizon to improve an otherwise subpar video streaming experience for the customers of those ISPs.

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Hold onto your set-top boxes if you are a DirectTV customer, you are about to join the AT&T family. In a deal worth about $50 Billion bucks, AT&T will be taking over DirectTV's 20 Million subscribers. A formal announcement will be made by AT&T spokesmen on Sunday. "The deal is done," the source said, adding that DirecTV CEO Mike White has already informed senior executives that the deal is finished and plans to give public confirmation Sunday. Comments

Microsoft will be releasing eight updates this Patch Tuesday, with two of them rated as critical. This will mark the first time when there will be no updates for Windows XP and Office 2003 In such cases it is inevitable that the bug will be critical on Windows XP as well, but XP is not listed as among the products to be updated. Comments

Attention Yahoo Mail users, if you're rocking a browser release that's now dated, you'll need to upgrade to a newer version to continue to have access to all the same features you've grown accustomed to. Beginning June 5, Yahoo will put into effect a new policy to support only the two most recent versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome,...

If you are in the market for a new browser, Opera has just released version 21, bringing with it much higher browsing speed and a host of fixes and improvements. Comments

Another first for Japan. Authorities in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, arrested their very first manufacturer of 3D printed guns in violation of Japan's firearm control law. The 27 year old man had posted a YouTube video showing him firing the printed weapons, alerting the police to his gun possession. Comments

The second Tuesday of the month seems to have become the favored day for update releases. Adobe is jumping into the update game on Tuesday by releasing fixes for Adobe Acrobat and Reader on both Windows and Mac. No further details were provided, but the vulnerability or vulnerabilities are rated priority 1, which is Adobe's most severe. Comments

While not expected to be readily available until 2020, Japan's DOCOMO is about to begin test runs on 5G working with the world's leading manufacturers. Trials will first begin indoors at DOCOMO's R&D Center, with outdoor field trials following in 2015. DOCOMO aims to begin sharing its data in 2016 as carriers work to standardize 5G in advance of its eventual launch. Comments

If you have a PS4 and have been wondering all of this time what the heck the lightbar was for when it turned different colors, you will know very soon. Just think Project Morpheus. Sony hasn't revealed more about the Morpheus prototype headsets since the reveal at the Game Developers Conference in March, but we can expect to learn more next month at E3. Comments

French aeronautics firm Airbus is working on the next generation in aviation; the electric-powered aircraft. Airbus is better known for its really, really large aircraft, but is starting small in this new venture electric aircraft known as the E-FAN. Comments

Samsung today announced the worldwide commercial availability of its updated Enterprise Security and Management suite for Android - KNOX 2.0 - which is available first on the Galaxy S5, and with other Galaxy devices to follow via OS updates.

The original version of KNOX was first launched with the Galaxy Note 3 in late 2013, and offers additional controls and policies for IT Admins wishing to allow Android phones into the enterprise. KNOX brings a level of control to the enterprise by incorporating a secure boot chain and enterprise-controlled containers which allow both consumer and enterprise data to exist on the same device.

KNOX 2.0 evolves the feature set and branding, with the core platform and app container being re-branded to KNOX Workspace. The entire KNOX brand now includes KNOX Workspace, EMM, Marketplace, and Customization. The original KNOX 1.0 MDM is fully compatible with KNOX 2.0.

Changes to KNOX Workspace include:

• TrustZone-Protected Certificate Management
• KNOX Key Store
• Real-Time Protection
• TrustZone-Protected ODE
• Two factor authentication support with Biometric Authentication
• Enhanced Framework
• Enhanced features for the KNOX container allowing support for all Android apps from the Google Play Store, eliminating the need to perform app wrapping for third party apps
• Third party container support
• Universal MDM Client and Samsung Enterprise Gateway to simplify user enrollment
• Split-Billing
• A multi-vendor VPN framework that allows a variety of 3rd party clients including SSL VPN
• An open SmartCard framework that allows enterprises to choose from an array of smartcard readers

Most of these changes are to make the IT Admin’s job a lot easier, which in theory should increase adoption rate, but there is one change that is aimed squarely at the consumer – Split-billing.

Split-billing works with the SIM provider to allow separate billing for personal apps and company apps. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing likely depends on whether your company pays your cell bill in full, or if they expect you to pay for it. It opens the door to allowing companies to only pay for their portion of the bill without using a dual SIM phone. It’s an interesting idea but I don’t think it comes with any sort of arbitration in the event there is a billing dispute between the employer and employee.

The other components of KNOX are:

• KNOX EMM – a cloud-based MDM and directory service with single sign-on (SSO) including a set of policies for companies to implement
• KNOX Marketplace – a marketplace for SMBs to find and purchase enterprise cloud apps
• KNOX Customization – a way to create customized business to business solutions using off the shelf hardware

Clearly, Samsung has gotten a taste of the enterprise market, which is certainly a higher margin environment than the consumer market. Enterprises will pay well for a quality product with a decent return on investment, and of course Samsung would love to take some of the MDM management market share away from the likes of Blackberry and others, as well as get a hold in the BYOD market that Apple has done well with.

If you’d like to learn more, Samsung has released a white paper outlining KNOX here.

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Only pre-sceened members of the TSA's PreCheck program could waltz through security without having to remove their jackets, shoes, and belts while keeping their laptops tucked away. But that might soon change.

In its never-ending mission to suck less, the Transportation Security Administration unveiled a new app called the "Randomizer" that aims to help travelers scoot through security checkpoints faster. You might even be able to keep your Evian bottles.

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Empires crumble and the sands of time sweep all away. And so it is that Foursquare is freezing all of its current mayorships and eliminating ousting, starting today. This means you may never get to hold Brenda H.'s throne atop your local laundromat.

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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden told lawyers he met during his sojourn in Hong Kong to put their cell phones in his fridge to thwart any eavesdroppers.…

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