The SQL injection technique used against Yahoo in Password Leak

Lawsuit claims Yahoo was negligent in not encrypting data and not securing database against an SQL injection attack.

A New Hampshire man filed suit against Yahoo this week alleging that lax security measures allowed hackers to get into a Yahoo database and steal passwords from 450,000 accounts.

In his lawsuit seeking class-action status -- filed in federal court in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday (PDF) -- Jeff Allan is asking the court to order Yahoo to compensate him and others for "resulting account fraud" and measures people had to take to protect against identity theft.

Not only was Allan's Yahoo password stolen but someone also had accessed his eBay account without his permission after the Yahoo breach because he had used the same log-in credentials there, according to the suit. He also said he bought a subscription to Experian credit monitoring services for $14.95 a month.

Nokia Asha 305 review: Smarter 2gether

The Nokia Asha 305 is easily one of the cheapest phones with two SIMs and a touchscreen, the closest Android being almost twice as expensive. Price may be the biggest advantage this phone has over the competition but you'd better be prepared for more than a few surprises.

   
Nokia Asha 305 official photos

With the new Asha touch interface, an updated browser and access to the Nokia store, the Asha 305 promises a near smartphone-like experience. And that's on top of the dual-SIM capabilities, including a hot-swappable SIM slot and a dedicated SIM management app that lets you configure how calling, texting and data are juggled between cards.

RIM to launch new PlayBook line next week

(Reuters) - Canada's Research In Motion has chosen its home country to launch a PlayBook tablet with built-in support for cellular networks, a crucial feature missing from its poor-selling initial models.

The BlackBerry maker said on Thursday it would launch the new tablets in Canada next week and roll them out in coming months in the United States, Europe, South Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

The PlayBook tablet, introduced more than a year ago, is strategically important for RIM as it is the first product to use the QNX operating system that RIM is adapting for a new generation of BlackBerry phones designed to compete with sexier devices already on the market.

But the PlayBook was widely criticized at launch for lacking basic features such as email, and it has failed to wow consumers despite sharp discounts and a major software upgrade.

Google Play cracks down on "confusingly similar" apps

New developer policies also place limits on spam, ads, billing

With the latest changes to its developer policy, Google seems to making a serious effort to try to impose some sort of order on the wild west town that is its Google Play Android app store.
The most important change for the unsavvy consumer might be the new restrictions on copycat apps. Now, these knock-offs "must not have names or icons that appear confusingly similar to existing products." That new policy should be useful in combatting apps like Infinity Blade II, a fake version of Chair Entertainment's popular iOS game that surfaced on Google Play recently, or Temple Run, which appeared in many forms on Google Play before the official version was ready. Apps with names like "Irate Birds" or "Snip the Rope" might also come under fire for being "confusingly similar," depending on how strictly Google plans to enforce the clause.
But with over 600,000 apps and counting on the service, it's going to be hard for the company to ferret out every single copycat on its own. Google will likely rely on users and developers to report the mimicry in a manner similar to that for reporting copyright infringement.
Google Play isn't the only App Store to have problems with apps pretending to be something they're not. Back in February, a fake Pokemon Yellow app managed to rise to the No. 3 spot on iTunes before being removed.
The new developer agreement also places limits on in-app ads, requiring them to be clearly linked to their associated app and preventing them from interfering with the normal operation of the device. Apps that bill users monthly will now have to allow users to finish out the month if they cancel before it is up. And Google also strengthened its restrictions on spam notifications and disclosing private user information with further examples of what is and is not allowed.
Of course, developers and users can still sideload apps onto Android devices without having to worry about all these restrictions. Apps that break the new rules will just be barred from the prominent Google Play storefront.
Developers of existing Google Play apps will have a 30 day grace period to make necessary changes before their products start to be removed from the Google Play store. Newly submitted apps will be immediately subject to the new rules.
by Kyle Orland - Aug 1 2012, 9:40pm IST

Amazon now gives you 10x more storage than iTunes

                                         Amazon vs. iTunes: For $25 each, Amazon will store 
                                                       250,000 in the cloud while iTunes will store 25,000.

SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon.com Inc. has updated its cloud music player to mimic Apple Inc.'s iTunes Match, but is offering 10 times more storage space for the same price.

Songs purchased on Amazon.com have always been stored for free on its servers for playback on mobile devices. Now the online retailer will scan a person's computer and automatically match songs found there on the person's storage space in the cloud.

Like iTunes Match, Amazon will upgrade songs of lesser quality found on computers or existing cloud lockers to files encoded at 256 kilobits per second.

The price is the same as iTunes Match at $25 a year.

But Amazon.com offers free storage for 250 songs bought elsewhere, and will store 250,000 songs for paying customers. ITunes Match tops out at 25,000 songs.

AP  |  Posted: 07/31/2012 8:15 pm Updated: 08/01/2012 9:20 am
Source-huffingtonpost