I'm Danial Payne I’ve been a freelance writer, video, and web person since 1988. My passion is technology, whether it’s the latest cameras or cutting edge ways the internet is used to improve medicine. I write for Internet News Flash and am helping with the online resurrection of Digital Content Creators Magazine Contact me: danielpaynetech@gmail.com
An AI will help judges of the International Gymnastics Federation tournament taking place in Germany. Fujitsu has developed an AI that works in conjunction with an array of 3D sensors to capture the gymnast’s movement, analysing and scoring their performance. The technology called the Judging Support will be used atContinue Reading
Zendesk has disclosed a security breach impacting some customers who registered with the service prior to November 1, 2016. The customer service software company says a hacker accessed personal information of approximately 10,000 customers that had Zendesk Support and Chat accounts. The company said it discovered the breach on SeptemberContinue Reading
A security researcher going by the handle “axi0mX” has discovered a supposedly unpatchable iOS vulnerability affecting six generations of Apple devices. The anonymous researcher published code demonstrating the flaw on GitHub earlier today, and within a few hours, others in the cybersecurity community appear to have verified that the exploit works. The vulnerability isContinue Reading
A report by Buzzfeed News published today says that Google quietly removed 46 apps by iHandy from the Play Store last week. iHandy is a Chinese mobile app developer, that makes selfie, security, antivirus, keyboard, horoscope, emoji, coin flip, health, and utility apps. Collectively the developers apps have been downloaded tens ofContinue Reading
Google today announced a series of privacy focused changes that will soon come to Google Assistant. The goal is to address recent concerns about how the company was processing data of users of that service. In the past Google used contractors to listen to portions of customers’ conversations with their voiceContinue Reading
After getting roasted widely since yesterday’s announcement that the platform would be removing verification from a lot of creators. YouTube announced one day later that it will not be de-verifying currently verified creators. “We heard loud and clear how much the badge means to you […] Channels that already have theContinue Reading
Thousands of internet connected devices, including, printers, cameras, DVRs, and other IoT gadgets can be used to amplify DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. These devices are misconfigured to listen for, and respond to WS-Discovery protocol requests. WS-Discovery (WSD) is a communications protocol used to automatically discover internet connected devices inside ofContinue Reading
A team of researchers from Northeastern University and the Imperial College of London found a variety of IoT devices are collecting and sharing data. The devices the research claim are collecting users data like smart TVs and set top boxes for streaming, are also sharing data with third parties includingContinue Reading
A hacker has published the entire user database of Lumin PDF, this contains more than 24 million users records. According to ZDNet the hacker resorted to releasing user records after Lumin PDF administrators didn’t respond to numerous queries over the past several months. Lumin PDF is a cloud-based service letting usersContinue Reading
Et tu, LastPass? The popular password manager LastPass released an update last week fixing a security flaw that exposed credentials entered on previously visited websites. The bug was discovered last month by Project Zero, on August 29th. Project Zero is a white hat hacking team at Google who look forContinue Reading