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Dangerous Android Apps on Google Play Store Can Steal Your Money

Android is the most popular mobile OS for smartphones, but that doesn’t mean that every app which is compatible with Android is safe. Even more concerning is that there are some dangerous Android apps on Google Play Store that can steal your money, according to a recent ESET report.

As reported by ESET, several cybercriminals managed to bypass Google Play Store’s security measures and upload dozens of apps packed with malware that can steal your money on Google’s Android apps store. According to ESET, these apps come as device cleaners, horoscope apps, and battery optimizers.

What more concerning regarding these malicious apps is that they are designed to send and receive SMS to and from the infected smartphones, which can bypass the two-factor authentication methods and grant access for the cybercriminals to internet banking apps or other private applications. Besides, the infected apps can download additional programs and ‘clone’ any other application that is already installed on the infected smartphones.

Dangerous Android Apps on Google Play Store Can Steal Your Money

“Fortunately, these particular banking Trojans do not employ advanced tricks to ensure their persistence on affected devices. Therefore, if you suspect you have installed any of these apps, you can simply uninstall them under Settings > (General) > Application manager/Apps,” ESET stated.

“We also advise you to check your bank account for suspicious transactions and consider changing your internet banking password/PIN code,” the IT security experts of ESET added.

According to ESET, we can avoid installing such malicious apps by only downloading Play Protect-verified apps from Google Play Store, having a trustworthy anti-malware software up and running on our devices, and always installing the latest Android security patches as soon as they roll out. In addition to all that, we shouldn’t install suspicious applications, including horoscope apps, unknown device cleaners, or low-profile battery optimizers, and we must only rely on apps with plenty of reviews and from trustworthy developers.

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Tech

YouTube To Come To Nintendo Switch Soon

As we speak, the only video streaming service available on Nintendo Switch is Hulu, and that’s not quite a feature appreciated by the console’s fans. Now, however, a new rumor says that YouTube would come to Nintendo Switch soon.

According to the guys on ResetEra, some hints pop up, indicating a YouTube app for Nintendo Switch pops up when users search for Nintendo’s website for games. Even though there is no product page linked to the before-mentioned app, many believe that those suggestions hint to an upcoming YouTube app on Nintendo Switch. Also, the same rumors popped up on a French site, Nintendo Home, where users reported they were getting YouTube app suggestions whenever they searched for Nintendo’s game site.

Hopefully, these rumors would turn out right, eventually, as the Japanese Nintendo Switch console lacks a reliable and popular game streaming service. If YouTube would indeed come on Nintendo Switch, that would be excellent.

YouTube To Come To Nintendo Switch Soon

When it came out in March 2017, Nintendo Switch launched with no streaming apps or options. Only in November 2017, roughly one year ago, Hulu streaming service rolled out for Nintendo Switch, while Niconico (a Japan-only streaming app) came out after Hulu. Besides, Netflix, the renowned video streaming service announced in January of this year that it’s in talks with Nintendo for adding Netflix to Nintendo Switch.

While Nintendo Switch is becoming more and more popular worldwide, it would need a popular streaming service to work with to fulfill the fans’ wishes.

As mentioned above, some rumors emerged in the US and France, too, saying that it is possible that a YouTube app to come to Nintendo Switch soon. That would be indeed excellent news for all the Nintendo Switch fans worldwide to get direct access to the world’s most popular streaming service.

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Tech

Motorola One To Launch in the US On November 9th

Now, some months after Lenovo launched its Motorola One device on several international markets around the world, Motorola One will launch in the US on November 9th. The Motorola’s Android One smartphone would only be available through Best Buy in black and white. Accordingly, the new Motorola One smartphone will come to the online version of Best Buy on November 9th at $399. However, if you want to buy it from the physical Best Buy stores directly, you would have to wait until November 11th.

As reported by Best Buy, you can buy only the Motorola One black variant, while for the white version you’ll have to wait until the device reaches the physical Best Buy stores on November 11th. Also, as it is a GSM-only Android One smartphone, Motorola One should work with T-Mobile and AT&T, but not with Sprint and Verizon.

Motorola One To Launch in the US but the Motorola One Power version Will Not Be Available

On Engadget, a Motorola brand’s representative said that the Motorola One Power variant would not be available in the US. Well, sincerely, that’s not good news since the One Power device is much better than Motorola One, as it boasts a larger screen, a more powerful chipset (Snapdragon 636), and more potent battery, a 5,000-mAh accumulator.

However, that doesn’t mean that the Motorola One smartphone is not a performant Android One device. It boasts a 5.9-inch display with a 1,520 x 720 resolution, Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 chipset, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of expandable storage. Also, it comes with a dual-camera setup on the back, with one 13-mp sensor and the second one of 2 megapixels.

The Motorola One smartphone also comes with raw Android 8.1 Oreo, as part of the Android One (the Google’s Android version designed for low- and mid-range devices) and a 3,000-mAh battery.

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Crypto News

IOTA (MIOTA) To Be Integrated With The Ledger Nano S Wallet

The IOTA Foundation will integrate IOTA (MIOTA) tokens with Ledger hardware crypto wallets, according to a press release recently released on Cointelegraph. The IOTA Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the development and standardization of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and focuses on building ecosystems around IOTA (MIOTA) to facilitate its commercial adoption.

In November 2017, the Foundation had $255 million in tokens as foundation funds, $22 million as ecosystem fund and $20 million as unclaimed IOTA from the sales to the public. After integration with the Trinity and Romeo IOTA wallets, the Ledger Nano S hardware portfolio will allow users to protect their private keys by only accessing to their IOTA (MIOTA) tokens on a particular chip isolating the keys of users from their computers or smartphones.

That will allow users to validate transactions in their Ledger Nano S hardware wallet as part of the security protocol. The Ledger wallet has a chip similar to that used for credit cards or passports. As previously reported, the Japanese ICT conglomerate Fujitsu announced the launch of a proof of concept (PoC) based on IOTA (MIOTA) for audit trail processes in the manufacturing industry.

IOTA (MIOTA) to be integrated with the Ledger Nano S wallet

IOTA and Fujitsu are reportedly working on implementing the IOTA protocol as an “immutable data storage medium” for audit trails in “industrial production environments and supply chains” to improve transparency, data trust, and data security.

Also, in June, IOTA and Volkswagen presented a PoC that uses IOTA Tangle technology for stand-alone cars. The PoC allows Volkswagen to use IOTA Tangle architecture to transfer software updates “over the air” as part of the automaker’s new “Connected Car” systems. IOTA Tangle is another type of DLT explicitly designed for the Internet of Things (IoT) environment.

It is an open-source protocol that facilitates interactions between machines, including secure data transfer, real-time micropayments, and other data. At the moment of this article, the IOTA (MIOTA) token is trading at $0.483, with a market capitalization of about $1.34 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data.

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Shazam Update Allows Users To Share Songs Directly on Instagram Stories

In recent months, we are seeing increasingly more applications which are trying to access the functions of Instagram Stories to integrate with this feature of the social network much better. In the case of Spotify, we can already publish the songs we are listnening to as a “sticker.” It’s a form of symbiosis between both platforms. Now it’s Shazam’s turn to make the same approach, as the new Shazam update allows users to integrate the results of the Shazam songs in their Instagram Stories so that their followers can access the song.

The acquisition of Shazam by Apple was completed in September and, since then, there have been a few updates that changed the app’s main features. Shazam version 12.3 now allows sharing the content from Shazam on the Instagram Stories, the Facebook’s social network. It works similarly as Spotify permitting users to publish songs in Instagram Stories.

Next, we’ll show you how to share your Shazam songs with your Instagram Stories.

How to publish the songs from Shazam directly on Instagram Stories

  • Go to “My Shazam” and choose a song;
  • Click on the three vertical bullet points at the top right of the song cover;
  • Then click on “Share” and then on “Instagram Stories”;
  • You will be asked for permission to open Instagram and, once you’ve accepted that, you will access the Instagram Story section directly, and you’ll be able to see the image of your published Shazam song;

The concept of the new Shazam updated that allows you to post songs directly on Instagram Stories is quite simple. On the one hand, the cover of the shared song is published, and below it appears the number of captures of this song that has been made in the Shazam application. We can also store this song by clicking on “Open in Shazam” at the top left, once it is published on Instagram Stories.

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