 | Hard drives: A bit of progress May 10th 2012, 13:56 A modified approach to fabrication of magnetic memory elements may lead to a new generation of stable, ultra-high-capacity hard drives. | | Android vulnerability debugged Apr 12th 2012, 14:54 Researchers have discovered and neutralized a serious vulnerability present in all versions of Android, the popular operating system developed by Google specifically for smartphones and tablet computers. The vulnerability could have been easily exploited by malicious software applications, with the effect of making devices based on Google's operating system currently on the market completely unusable. | | Including ads in mobile apps poses privacy, security risks Mar 19th 2012, 15:17 Researchers have found that including ads in mobile applications poses privacy and security risks. In a recent study of 100,000 apps in the official Google Play market, researchers noticed that more than half contained so-called ad libraries. And 297 of the apps included aggressive ad libraries that were enabled to download and run code from remote servers -- which raises significant privacy and security concerns. | |
