Jeffrey Evans: The Apple of Big Brother's Eye (Or, They Now Have a Camera in My Bedroom) "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes.
It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. " - Apple CEO Steve Jobs as quoted in the book, The Journey is the Reward. » Understanding the Aesthetics of Apple’s SSL Bug Nadim Kobeissi. Tech Q&A: Camera hackers, blocking phone contacts, erasing data and more. New Snowden documents show how the GCHQ tracked iPhone users.
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By using this collaborative presentation solution you can enrich your presentations using Twitter and social media conversations. It was created using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius and requires PowerPoint for Windows and Adobe Flash to run. Convert PDF Files To PowerPoint Presentations With PageFlip. Transferring content from a PDF document to a MS PowerPoint presentation can be a laborious task, as it can be quite time consuming to recreate the entire PDF document in the form of a PowerPoint Presentation.
Furthermore, many official documents are only available in PDF format. This creates the dilemma of having to manually transfer data from a PDF document to a MS PowerPoint Presentation. PageFlip Free PDF to PowerPoint is a handy application that allows easily converting entire PDF documents to a PowerPoint presentation in no time. The main screen of PageFlip displays three different modes for file conversion, namely the Batch Convert Mode, Hot Directories Mode and Command Line Mode.
The Batch Convert Mode converts multiple PDF files to PPT format, whereas the Hot Directories Mode provides the option to monitor a folder on a server for automatic conversion of PDF documents to PPT format. This will convert the PDF files to PPT format.
Apple records Siri's data. Apple patent to disable GPS tracking. Apple ID stolen from FBI. Apple patent to remotely disable camera. Spyware Matching FinFisher Can Take Over IPhones. FinFisher spyware made by U.K.
-based Gamma Group can take control of a range of mobile devices, including Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone and Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM)’s BlackBerry, an analysis of presumed samples of the software shows. The program can secretly turn on a device’s microphone, track its location and monitor e-mails, text messages and voice calls, according to the findings, being published today by the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs’ Citizen Lab.
Courthouse News Service. Confidentiality, Privacy, and Transparency in the Age of Wikileaks. The recent disclosures of hundreds of thousands of US State Department diplomatic cables by Wikileaks have led CEOs, CIOs, and senior managers to ask, "How can I lock down my organization's information and make sure this doesn't happen to me?
" But in some quarters, a question that is even more important is being asked: "What data and information that we've always considered confidential should we be making available online – and how could we leverage the disclosure of that information? " This project will assess how companies, government agencies, and non-profit institutions that have embraced transparency have fared and what lessons they might have for other companies, which due to the nature of their business, government privacy and security regulations, and other constraints, follow more traditional information management practices.
iPhone 4 vulnerability could reveal your Address Book via Safari - Los Angeles Apple Products. Busting an iPhone thief. Monday - The Setup The whole thing started when my plane landed in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon at 2:55pm coming from Cabo San Lucas.
Mozilla Firefox Start Page. German Street View error lets iPhone users see hidden images. November 05, 2010, 8:00 AM — Google is facing fresh complaints over Street View in Germany, after technical problems caused some properties to be visible rather than blurred in a preview of the service launched earlier this week.
Users of Apple iPads and iPhones found that the blurring was not complete on their devices, said Johannes Caspar, head of the Data Protection Agency (DPA) for Hamburg, on Friday. Google released imagery for the city of Oberstaufen and landmarks in five other German cities on Tuesday. Google "agreed with our objections that nobody should see these pictures," Caspar said. The company has agreed to black out the images, Caspar said. iPhone user privacy at risk from apps that transmit personal info.
The user data collected by some iOS apps can be correlated to real-world identities, posing a privacy risk to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users.
According to research from Bucknell University, a majority of iOS apps transmit user data back to their own servers. But because some store more info than others—and in some cases, in plaintext—it can be easily pieced together to reveal more about individual users than they bargained for. Bucknell University Assistant Director of Information Security and Networking Eric Smith authored the paper, entitled "iPhone Applications & Privacy Issues: An Analysis of Application Transmission of iPhone Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs). " He and his team studied a total of 57 applications from the App Store—a combination of the Top 25 Free apps as well as some from the News: Top Free app sections.
Michael Robertson. Buried in the release notes of an updated iPhone app is significant new functionality which lets Apple devices stream music from its online storage in a useful manner for the first time.
This is in defiance of record labels demands that any streaming service requires a license, but more on that later. First lets examine the new functionality. Apple recently pushed a new version of their iDisk software. iDisk is Apple's online storage service similar to Microsoft Skydrive and Google Docs. Quietly mentioned in the release note of version 1.2 is the ability to play music files from remote storage in the background.
iTunes hasn't been hacked, though your PayPal might have been phished (updated) Update: based on some of the comments here, it's clear that there have been purchases made very recently on the iTunes Store which have used people's login details - though apparently all linked to PayPal accounts.
See the follow-on post for more on this - and what the scammers' motives might be. In the meantime, the opening of this article isn't supported by the facts we now know, so we'll strike it out. Jeffrey Evans: The Apple of Big Brother's Eye (Or, They Now Have a Camera in My Bedroom) Checkmate iPhone App Uses Background Location for Automatic Checkins on Foursquare. Foursquare players too busy painting the town red to go to the trouble of whipping out their iPhone and checking in can sit back and let Checkmate do the work for them. At $1.99, Checkmate offers a convenient alternative for those looking for a passive aggressive way to play the geosocial game.
The brand new app harnesses background-running location on the iPhone to check in Foursquare players automatically at specified venues. Researcher warns of risks from rogue iPhone apps. Lax security screening at Apple's App Store and a design flaw are putting iPhone users at risk of downloading malicious applications that could steal data and spy on them, a Swiss researcher warns. Apple's iPhone app review process is inadequate to stop malicious apps from getting distributed to millions of users, according to Nicolas Seriot, a software engineer and scientific collaborator at the Swiss University of Applied Sciences (HEIG-VD).
Once they are downloaded, iPhone apps have unfettered access to a wide range of privacy-invasive information about the user's device, location, activities, interests, and friends, he said in an interview Tuesday. In a talk scheduled for Wednesday at the Black Hat DC security conference, Seriot will explain how an innocent-looking app could be designed to harvest personal data and send it to a remote server without the user knowing it. The rogue app could be hidden within an innocent-looking app, such as a game. The threat is not theoretical. Iphone capable of recording users pictures. Apple acquires face-recognition firm Polar Rose. Apple has reportedly bought Swedish face-recognition firm Polar Rose.