Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Poses the biggest risk for the Automatic App installation from Google Play

Android users often download and install apps from the Google Play Store for many activities , including requests for permission to use the app to watch. The confirmation of our malicious and potentially unwanted system helps avoid installing applications.

However, McAfee recently found a suspicious app on Google Play that almost automatically downloads,installs, and launches other apps from Google Play without these interactions. This automatic installation occurs with the Google account’s authorization tokens, provided by the user only once, which communicates with Google Play URLs in an unofficial way.

The automatic installation thanks to app users are allowed to provide GET_ACCOUNTS and USE_CREDENTIALS permission requests. This permits the application to provide users accounts ( perhaps more than other services Google accounts ) provides a powerful position, said. A device to run applications such as Google Account to access the benefits of these requests during the installation of an unfamiliar application, and users should be very careful. Privacy cause terrible damage to devices and applications allows malicious benefits.

Sources:McAfee

Monday, March 3, 2014

Top 3 Things You Need To Know About Bitcoins

1. What Are Bitcoins?
The Bitcoins are not in the form of banknotes or coins, it is a digital currency.

2. Who Developed The Idea Of Bitcoins?
The concept of Bitcoins was developed by Satoshi Nakamoto, who resides in total anonymity. He is said to be from Japan but his mail ID was from Germany, plus the bitcoin software was not available in Japanese. He developed the system and the Bitcoin software (that is used to run the system) in 2009 but disappeared into thin air in 2010.

3. How Do You Use Bitcoins Then?

Bitcoins are kept in a digital wallet which you can keep in your website online, or on a computer, which will manage and secure your digital wallet for you. You can have many number of digital wallets and bitcoin addresses (helps you to receive money from others) as you like.

The only problem is that many places the currency will not be accepted, but nevertheless, it's great open source project, that I'm sure that many of you can make use of it.


Source:- wiki/Bitcoin