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Beware of Fake Blackberry Messenger Apps

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It’s only last week that Blackberry Limited, formerly Research in Motion (RIM) announced that it would launch its popular Messaging app Blackberry Messenger (BBM) for Android and iOS platforms. No sooner was the announcement made, a slew of lookalike and fake apps cropped up in the Android Play Store and prompting the RIM to postpone its messenger for the Android platform. It had actually started to publish it for some regions for the IOS platform.

If you search for BBM or Blackberry Messenger in the Google Play Store, the following results come up and all of these are bankrolling on the “BBM” or “Blackberry” terms. Be aware that these are not the real messenger apps. If you look carefully at the publisher and the description of the apps, you can easily make out their actual functionality. Stay away from these apps.

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Hackers Break Apple’s Biometric Security TouchID

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According to an article published by the Chaos Computer Club popularly called CCC, a group of its hackers have successfully broken the much touted Fingerprint scanner by Apple called TouchID. This feature is included in it’s latest iPhone 5s series and was advertised as highly secure and extremely difficult to break into. However, in the video evidence provided by the CCC, they have made use of the day-to-day available resources to break the biometric security of the latest iPhone.

According to the hacker who goes with the nick name of Starbug and who was instrumental in breaking this, Apple has used a higher resolution of the fingerprint scanner compared to the sensors currently available and once they were able to match this, manipulating the same was easy.

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