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flaw in Android's GUI framework let university researchers hack into applications with up to 92 percent success rate.

They tested apps from Gmail, H&R Block, Newegg, WebMD, Chase Bank,Hotels.com and Amazon.

"Changes in the shared memory side channel allow an attacker to infer if there is an activity transition going on in the foreground," researcher Zhiyun Qian, an assistant professor at the University of California at Riverside, told LinuxInsider.

"This is a design choice by modern OSes ... . The same attack may work as well [on other mobile OSes]," he added.

Details of the Flaw

When a new screen or window is shown, the GUI framework allocates a fixed amount of memory in the shared memory register that's proportional to the size of the screen, Qian said. This memory is allocated inside the app process and shared with a separate window compositor process.

Shared memory is commonly adopted by window managers to receive window changes or updates from running applications. This gives rise to the side channel.

When a user downloads a malicious app, the shared memory lets attackers steal information such as login credentials, and obtain sensitive camera images such as photos of personal checks sent through banking apps

linux news

 was just a few short weeks ago that we here in the Linux blogosphere were rehashing the open source world's documentation dilemma -- one of those perennial topics bloggers love to resurrect whenever there appears to be a lull in the conversation.

At the time, alert readers may recall, Linux Girl compared the topic to the ongoing "Year of Linux on the Desktop" debate -- another favorite that just keeps coming back for more.

Well guess what? That one's now back too, courtesy of none other than Linux creator Linus Torvalds himself.

"I still want the desktop," Torvalds reportedly said at LinuxCon in Chicago last week. "The challenge on the desktop is not a kernel problem. It's a whole infrastructure problem. I think we'll get there one day."

Thunderous applause ensued -- at the conference and beyond -- but it was quickly drowned out by the din down at the blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge.

want best budget phone for 5999 rs check this

The Redmi 1S features a 1.6Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage (expandable via micro SD), 4.7-inch 720p IPS LCD, dual cameras (1.6MP front and 8MP rear with 1080p video recording) and dual SIM card slots (one 3G and one 2G). Note that both SIM slots use the older mini SIM standard and not the more common micro SIM - helpfully, the company is including two micro to mini SIM adapters in the box. 

it would be available through flip kart 

Intel poised to launch luxury smart bracelet at Barneys

Intel, moving beyond just making the processors inside tech gadgets, is expected to announce its first luxury smart bracelet in the next few weeks, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Barneys New York will sell Intel's new smart bracelet.Credit: Getty Images

The bracelet is being engineered by the tech company, designed by fashion house Opening Ceremony, and sold at luxury retailer Barneys New York. Intel in January announced plans to move into the wearables market with Internet-connected or smart devices at the Consumer Electronics Show, unveiling plans to make the bracelet in partnership with Barneys and Opening Ceremony as part of the effort.

"One of the greatest opportunities for wearable technology as a concept to be successful is fairly simple -- to design a beautiful accessory that our customers would desire," Daniella Vitale, COO of Barneys New York, said Jan. 6. "It is exciting to be part of an elite group of brands to bring the reality of smart fashion to life."

Mozilla Firefox launches 1999 rs phone in india

he Intex Cloud Fx will have a price tag of Rs 1,999 and will be the best bet for a lot of people to access the Internet. The phone has a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen which should keep people in this product catergory happy along with the 2G/3G dual SIM support.

The phone will initially be available only on Snapdeal.com, which you might think will prevent a lot of people in the target audience from getting to the phone. But Keshav Bansal, director marketing at Intex Technologies, says the etailer will take the product to 400 towns in India, especially the Tier 2 and 3 cities. He said the company is confident of selling half a million units of the phone this year with their “massive marketing plan”. Intex has presence in 50,000 outlet, 10,000 of which sell their smartphones.

AMD announces Radeon R7 SSD

AMD said Tuesday that it will sell three 2.5-inch SSDs manufactured by enthusiast house OCZ, allowing AMD to offer high-speed storage alongside microprocessors and graphics chips.

AMD will sell the three SSDs—sized at 120, 240, and 480 gigabytes, respectively—as Radeon R7 SSDs, tying them to its Radeon family of GPUs. OCZ, which was recently acquired by Toshiba, will actually make the drives, together with its own flash chips and controllers. 

Right now, AMD’s new drives sit among the cream of the enthusiast SSD crop, with sequential read speeds of 545MB/sec and write speeds of 530 MB/sec. The number of random read I/O's per second (IOPS) clocks in at 100,000 IOPS, with 90,000 write IOPS. Perhaps more importantly, AMD is offering a four-year warranty that assumes users will write 30GB daily to the drive for each of those four years—far more than most users will likely do.

The prices of the Radeon R7 SSDs will begin at $100 for the 120GB model, AMD said. That’s not a great price, as at press time you could buy the slightly slower Crucial M500 120GB SSD at Amazon for $74.99. Given AMD’s branding, however, we’d say that an SSD/graphics card bundle might not be too far-fetched. 

iPhone 6 at top most best selling phones

                                                                THREE REASONS:-

The rumor mills are at it. The Internet trolls are coming out from under their cyber-bridges. The social media sites are abuzz with opinion, positive and not. September 9 is fast approaching. That’s the date, as rumor has it, that theApple iPhone 6 will be released. Everyone wants to know whether this next generation Apple AAPL +1.38% iPhone will prove that Apple still has what it takes to be the standard bearer in the category.

I vote yes. It’s a preemptive vote, but I have my reasons. I’ve always been an Apple guy, but my reasons for voting that this iPhone will be a winner are based more on my instincts as a branding professional.

Of course, you don’t have to be a branding professional to understand that smartphones have become mission critical to everyone’s lives. They’re no longer nice-to-have conveniences, a way to tell someone you’re stuck in traffic and will be late for dinner. Rather, they’re life lines. We shop with them. Pay bills with them. Document our kid’s first day of school with them. Check into airline flights with them. Jog to music with them. Find out alternate routes around traffic jams with them. There are no excuses or empty rationalizations required for wanting the best smartphone money can buy.

So, my reason one is as follows. Even though the iPhone 6 may be among the most expensive on the market, rumor has it (strongly supported rumor) that it will be made from materials that are scratch-resistant and far more rugged and durable than any other smartphone on the market. More than this, even though it will be more rugged and durable, it will also be lighter in weight than iPhones past. Plus, in addition to the standard 4.7 inch model, speculation has it that Apple will offer a model with a 5.5 inch screen. Much like Apple’s last new release with the iPhone 5, the iPhone 6 won’t be a total reinvention. But, like the iPhone 5, it will offer a few, very simple, very smart features meant to make life easier. People like very simple, very smart things that make life easier. And, I believe they’ll be willing to make the investment, especially the Apple loyalists.