TECHNOLOGY

What comes to mind when you think about spam? Miracle pills from digital doctors and Internet pharmacies that guarantee to grow your hair and other things? How about chain emails like the one that promised you a portion of Bill Gates’ fortune if you forwarded the email to your friends? What about the ubiquitous advertisements for XXX, hardest of the hardcore adult video sites? Or do you hear the word “Spam” and think, what’s for lunch? Emotet, the world’s most costly and destructive botnet, returned from a five-month hiatus on Friday with a blast of malicious spam aimed at spreading a backdoor that installs ransomware, bank-fraud trojans, and other nasty malware. The botnet sent a hefty 250,000 messages during the day, mostly to people in the United States and the United Kingdom, Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat research and detection at security firm Proofpoint, told Ars. Other researchers said targets were also located in the Middle East, South America, and Africa. The bot...

The quarterly ranking of the smartphone makers in the world is out and gives us a glimpse of how each company performed in the last quarter. According to a report by IDC, Samsung remains the leader and Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has surpassed Apple. Smartphone makers shipped a total of 342.0 million units during the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18), resulting in a 1.8% decline when compared to the 348.2 million units shipped in the second quarter of 2017. Wondering which are the 5 biggest smartphone companies worldwide? Read on to find out … There was a time when mobile phone or cell phone was considered to be a luxury. Telecom companies use to charge for both incoming and outgoing call. Today the world has changed. We have progressed from First Generation of Mobile Phone Technology to the 5Th Generation. Now, in most countries in the world, telecom companies charge for only outgoing calls. Incoming calls are free. Similarly, there was a time when there were few reputed and trusted M...