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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- June 18, 2015

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Routers Becoming Juicy Targets for Hackers
Swiftkey Security Slipup Exposes Samsung Smartphones
Nintendo's E3 Direct Gives It to Fans Straight
Senators Aim to Ground FBI's Warrantless Spy Planes
San Jose to Dabble With Smart City Tech
Linbit Launches New Synchronous Server Storage Software

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Routers Becoming Juicy Targets for Hackers
Most consumers pay as much attention to routers as they do to doorknobs.
That's not the case with Net marauders. They're finding the devices ripe
targets for mischief. "We've seen a big increase in malware designed for
home routers," said Incapsula researcher Ofer Gayer. "Every week, we see
a new vulnerability in a vendor's routers," he said. "They're low-
hanging fruit if you're a hacker."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82188.html

Swiftkey Security Slipup Exposes Samsung Smartphones
At least 600 million Samsung smartphones are vulnerable to remote
attacks because of the way the company implemented the SwiftKey
keyboard, NowSecure researcher Ryan Welton warned Tuesday. A phone can
be attacked if it's connected to a compromised or malicious WiFi network
and the SwiftKey app is updating existing languages or adding a new
language pack.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82184.html

Nintendo's E3 Direct Gives It to Fans Straight
Nintendo allayed the fears of some gamers in Tuesday's E3 Direct
presentation, assuring them that long-term projects have not been
scrapped. Many fans and analysts had been expecting the company to close
the pipeline of games designed for its current hardware as it gears up
for a new console. However, the main focus of E3 Direct was the near
term -- that is, the second half of this year.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82178.html

Senators Aim to Ground FBI's Warrantless Spy Planes
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., on Wednesday
introduced legislation that would require federal government agents to
get a warrant before snooping from the sky. "Americans' privacy rights
shouldn't stop at the treetops," Wyden said. The issue came to a head
following the revelation earlier this month that the FBI was engaged in
warrantless aerial surveillance across the U.S.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82182.html

San Jose to Dabble With Smart City Tech
The city of San Jose, California, recently decided to undertake an
Internet of Things pilot project. Under a deal finalized last month,
anyCOMM, will deploy WiFi sensors on 166 streetlights, to collect data
on traffic, sense movement on the streets, turn off streetlights when
sidewalks and roads are empty, detect ground shifts and send earthquake
warnings, and act as WiFi hotspots.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82179.html

Linbit Launches New Synchronous Server Storage Software
Linbit on Tuesday announced the release of DRBD9, its new distributed
replicated block device product. DRBD9 provides enterprise Linux users
with synchronous server storage replication including support for native
remote direct memory access and OpenStack integration. "It was six years
of work and an 80 percent code rewrite to make it happen," said Linbit
Business Development Manager Greg Eckert.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82176.html

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