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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- March 24, 2016

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Ransomware's Aftermath Can Be More Costly Than Ransom
FBI Would Rather Crack Terrorist's iPhone Itself
Google Says Sayonara to Chrome App Launcher
Apple's CareKit Gives More Power to the Patient
Gadget Ogling: Bathroom Bots, Bedroom Bulbs, and Doorbell Detectives
Hopkins Boffins Break iMessage Encryption
New Stagefright Exploit Takes a Bow

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Ransomware's Aftermath Can Be More Costly Than Ransom
Downtime caused by a ransomware attack can cost a company more than
paying a ransom to recover data encrypted by the malware, according to a
report released last week by Intermedia. Nearly three-quarters (72
percent) of companies infected with ransomware could not access their
data for at least two days because of the incident, and 32 percent
couldn't access their data for five days or more.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83279.html

FBI Would Rather Crack Terrorist's iPhone Itself
On the eve of a court showdown with Apple over unlocking the iPhone of
one of the San Bernardino shooters, the FBI put its case on pause Monday
to pursue an attack method that could allow it to crack the phone
without Apple's assistance. After reviewing the FBI's request for
postponement of oral arguments in the case, a U.S. District Court in
California granted the delay.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83276.html

Google Says Sayonara to Chrome App Launcher
Google on Tuesday announced that it was shutting down the Chrome app
launcher everywhere but in the Chrome OS. That means users who like to
launch their favorite Google apps from a menu will have to settle for
launching them only within the Google Chrome browser or through
shortcuts in their bookmark bar. Windows, Mac and Linux users prefer
launching their apps within Chrome.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83277.html

Apple's CareKit Gives More Power to the Patient
Perhaps worthy of more attention than it received at Apple's Loop You In
event on Monday is CareKit. The open source platform will allow
developers to create consumer-focused applications to help patients
communicate with healthcare providers and closely monitor their own
health conditions. Similar to ResearchKit, CareKit applies many of the
same tools to patient care.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83274.html

Gadget Ogling: Bathroom Bots, Bedroom Bulbs, and Doorbell Detectives
Can you imagine a time before robot vacuum cleaners? The world was a
messier place, certainly in the homes of those with too little impetus
to pick up a broom or vacuum cleaner once in a while. Thankfully, for
those of us who don't mind sweeping but are less enthused about using
the mop, robotic help is on its way in a more affordable model: the
Braava Jet from iRobot.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83267.html

Hopkins Boffins Break iMessage Encryption
A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University has found a way to
crack open files sent as encrypted instant messages in Apple's iMessage
app, according to news reports published Monday. Although it took months
to do, the researchers, led by Professor Matthew Green, were able to
brute force a 64-bit encryption key, allowing them to unscramble an
image file stored in Apple's iCloud.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83268.html

New Stagefright Exploit Takes a Bow
Stagefright, a multimedia library in Android 2.2 and higher, has been
exploited again, according to news reports published last week.
Zimperium last year reported a Stagefright exploit that it said exposed
95 percent of Android devices. Details of the latest exploit, named
"Metaphor," were published earlier this month in a paper from NorthBit.
Metaphor affects Android 2.2-4.0 and 5.0-5.1.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83270.html

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