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Your selfie to verify online transactions

Master Card is exploring with a smart phone app which allows people to confirm their identity and authenticate online transactions via their selfie, a facial scan. selfie authentication

“ The new generation, which is into selfies…I think they’ll find it cool. They’ll embrace it, ” said Ajay Bhalla, security expert at the American financial services company Master Card.

The users will have to download the Master Card phone app and at checkout they will be asked to hold up their phone to stare and blink at it.

Currently, users have the option of “Secure Code”, which requires a password while shopping online. But, there is a chance that password can be forgotten, stolen or intercepted.

Master Card is launching a small pilot programme involving 500 people that uses finger prints but also facial scans to verify online transactions, ‘CNN MONEY’ reported. A pop-up will ask people, for authorization to select the option of fingerprint or facial scan, after they buy something. The facial recognition users will be asked to stare at the phone and blink once.

Master Card’s security researchers believe that selfie, the facial scan is the best way to prevent the robber from fooling the system.

Bhalla said Master Card is also experimenting with voice recognition, so people can simply approve an online transaction by speaking to their phone. Master Card is also working with a Canadian firm, Nymi, to develop technology that will approve transactions by recognizing a person’s unique heartbeat.

But for now, it’s the trial of facial and fingerprint scanning to look out for — you might be using your face/selfie to make your next online purchase.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is a Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news; http://www.therakyatpost.com/world/

Is your site Mobile-Friendly?

Is your site Mobile-Friendly? This is what the Google is looking for. I just want to re-post this topic, which was posted last year as a reminder to check if your site is Mobile-Friendly.

The new Google algorithm that launched a couple of weeks ago, is revolutionizing the way that mobile search results will give preference to mobile ready websites over non-mobile ready websites.

The mobile device searches are increasing day-by-day, as it’s very easy to find and buy products, buy vacation tickets, book hotels and so many online activities, just while on the go. Mobile_Friendly

So, the Google is favoring the mobile search by boosting the ranking of mobile-friendly pages on mobile search results as now searchers can more easily find high quality and relevant results, where text is readable without tapping or zooming, tap targets are spaced appropriately, and the page avoids unplayable content or horizontal scrolling, according to Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.

With the mobile search growing faster than the desktop, businesses that don’t have mobile ready sites are losing their rankings and traffic. More than 40% of Fortune 500 companies’ websites are not mobile-friendly, which will have a big impact with the new Google’s algorithm.

Our website, DMG Weblabs is mobile-friendly. Is your site mobile-friendly, if not, it’s time to think.

Check if your site is mobile-friendly with the Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is a Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca

Electric car by Apple

Apple is planning to build an electric car with an electric car project, Titan, in five years, which might compete with Tesla Motors, Nissan Motors, General Motors, Ford Motors & other companies.
Though Apple hasn’t officially announced the electric vehicle, it hired few hundred people including some new hires from the auto industry including experts in technologies such as batteries and robotics, on a skunkworks project to do the early development of an electric vehicle resembling a minivan.
The company is probably looking at several options and would be more likely to engineer the software that controls autonomous-driving cars or rethink the human control of today’s cars, said Jon Bereisa, CEO of consulting firm Auto Lectrification LLC who worked on the Chevy Volt program.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is a Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: http://www.timesofindia/

Tips to Choose a Right Tablet

Now-a-days as the trend is going on to buy tablets, you should know which tablet is right for you and what you should know. Here are some tips for you to choose from Apple IPads, Android Tablets & Windows model.
The operating system on the iPad Air and iPad mini tablet lines is very clean and intuitive, and the wide selection of iPad apps that you can buy right on your tablet. This is the greatest strength of Apple’s iOS.

Google’s Android mobile OS gives you a choice of hardware from several manufacturers and offers maximum configurability, a top-notch notification system, fast and smooth Web browsing, and seamless integration with Google applications like Gmail, Google Maps, and Hangouts for video chat. Android also includes support for multiple user logins so you can share your tablet with a friend or family member.

Windows 8 comes the closest to offering a traditional computing experience with full x86 support for all of your Windows software. And you can run the full version of Microsoft Office when you buy a Win 8 tablet. Also, connectivity options and hardware add-ons for Windows models are also typically more plentiful than with other tablet types.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is a Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/

A Glossary of a hacker’s dictionary

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Advanced persistent threat (APT):	A strategic cyber attack that infiltrates a system and persists over a prolonged period of time, potentially undetected. APTs may be carried out by a nation state or criminal organization to steal sensitive data or compromise a target system.
Botnet:	A large network of virus-infected computers that can be used to generate spam, spread viruses, perpetrate click fraud or conduct attacks on other systems.
Bug bounty program:	A program where software companies offer cash rewards to hackers to find and report exploitable vulnerabilities before they can be used by cyber criminals. Facebook, Google, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft have been known to offer thousands of dollars in return for bugs.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack:	An attack designed to disrupt a computer system or website service by bombarding the site with so much web traffic that it crashes. Botnets are often used to carry out DDoS assaults.
Ransomware:	Malicious software designed to block access to a system or account until a sum of money is paid.
Social engineering:	Non-computer methods of manipulation to obtain sensitive personal information, such as birth dates, or social security numbers. Personal knowledge often used to bypass passwords.
Special phishing:	An email masquerading as being from a trusted source or person you know sent with the goal of obtaining sensitive information, often by downloading data-sniffing and computer-controlling malicious software.
Zero-day exploit:	A previously undetected software vulnerability that is used to hack into affected system before developers or manufacturers can address or fix the problem.

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Facebook creates ‘Safety Check’ tool for disasters

A tool that push users notify friends and family that they are safe during or after natural disasters like Tsunami & Earthquake, is launched by Facebook.

The tool, called ‘Safety Check’, which includes the basic “feature” phones many people still use to access Facebook, will be available worldwide to the social network’s users on computers and mobile devices, especially in developing countries.

Though the people already use Facebook to tell people they are “OK” after earthquakes and other disasters, the Facebook’s Safety Check tool will make it easier. This tool was created in 2011 by Facebook engineers following the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan as a disaster message board.

Once users activate the tool, it will determine their location using the city they have listed in their profile, the last location they’ve shared or the city where they are using the internet. If they are in an area affected by a natural disaster, Safety Check will send them a notification asking if they’re safe.

If they say yes, their Facebook friends will be notified. There’s no option to say no. Users can also mark their friends as safe, but the friends have to approve it.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is a Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/44834579.cms?intenttarget=no”

Ex-Googlers launch an app to make people talk

An app called Cord, developed by two former Google employees, Thomas Gayno and Jeff Baxter, is hoping to let people quickly record and send their brief voice messages lasting no more than 12 seconds to one or several people at the same time with just a single tap.

“Over the past decade, people are speaking to each other less and less,” Gayno told AFP.

“Increasingly they communicate by text — either by SMS, email or instant messaging. We want to tackle that and get people speaking to each other again.”

To transmit the voice with Cord, users will simply tap on the face of a visible contact placed in a circle, pressing once to listen to a message or to respond without the requirement of any number or text.

This voice enabled app will certainly play a key role in controlling new devices, from smartphones to wearables and other connected objects, as said by Thomas Husson, an analyst with Forrester Research. “However, I doubt that a service based on the promise of voice-services alone can scale – it will have to embedded among other features in an open way to control new devices.”

The two Google Veterans are hoping that this innovative new app will trigger a renaissance in an increasingly unfashionable method of human communication: talking.

This post was posted by Daizy for DMG Weblabs, Toronto. DMG Weblabs is Toronto based web design company specialized in creating SEO web sites and mobile ready websites.

Source: “http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Ex-Googlers-launch-an-app-to-make-people-talk/articleshow/44500960.cms”