The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanwu Festival, is an important traditional holiday that has been celebrated by Chinese people as well as other people in East Asian societies for nearly 2,000 years. It is a day for people to drive away epi…
ウェアラブル技術、つまり身に着けて生活を快適にするための技術について、多くのハイテク企業が研究を進めています。この種の技術のコミュニティを最近最も賑わせているのがスマートグラスであり、なかでも話題の中心になっているのが Google Glass です。拡張現実(AR)を利用した視覚支援という機能は魅力的に思えますが、プライバシーの観点からどこまでを許可するかという議論も巻き起こっています。友人を撮影するときに必ず通知する必要があるとしたら、おそらく、録画中は Google Glass で赤い LED を点滅させるべきでしょう。「邪視(Evil Eye)」という言葉の意味も変わってきます。Google Glass の組み込み機能を拡張しようとしているユーザーを Web で検索してみると、ありとあらゆる統合機能について面白いアイデアが見つかります。そのひとつが、議論を呼んでいる顔認識機能です。
しかし、注目に値するウェアラブルデバイスは、Google Glass だけではありません。スマートブレスレットやインテリジェントシューズから、他のデバイスと通信できる腕時計まで、購入可能なデバイスすべてがそうです。先日開催された「D: All things Digital」カンファレンス(D11)でも、試作品が何点か公開されました。
Recently, we discovered a threat that abuses the Encrypting File System (EFS), which Symantec detects as Backdoor.Tranwos. Not only is it trivial for program code to use EFS, it’s also very effective at preventing forensic analysis from accessing…
The McAfee Threats Report for the first quarter of 2013 highlighted a noteworthy increase in the number of Koobface malware samples on record. This data point is based on the number of unique malicious files associated with the Koobface family, and is generally one indicator of active malware development. Besides the number of changes made Read more…
Many high-tech companies are researching wearable technologies, i.e. things that you can wear and help to make your life easier. Probably causing the biggest stir in the technology community recently are smart glasses, with Google Glass being the prima…
In a previous blog McAfee Mobile Research reported on fraudulent adult dating-service applications on Google Play that target Japanese users. Many other suspicious applications are spreading on Google Play in Japan, and try to lure users to similar fraudulent sites. These suspicious applications have appeared on Google Play since May. They offer adult or nonadult Read more…
McAfee Mobile Research monitors adult one-click-fraud applications on Google Play that are targeted at Japanese users. Although the attackers appeared to have stopped uploading these apps in May, they have now resumed the attacks. We have confirmed about 600 malicious applications have been published since the beginning of April. We have also confirmed that another Read more…
In the age online sharing (and over sharing), opting for privacy is nearly becoming a social faux pas. Think about it. Have you ever noticed the snub you get if you untag yourself from a photo, hide a post someone put on your page, or leave group conversations? Have you felt the digital shiver when Read more…