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Google Play Store 10.8.33 Download Available for Android Wear and Android TV

The Google Play Store offers you access to many downloads for Android devices. These include apps, games, music, videos, and books. Play Store allows you to download the content from the store and to use it on smartphones or tablets running the Android operating system. Earlier today, Google Play Store 10.8.33 download is available for Android Wear and Android TV.

The range of games, tools or applications on Android’s Google Play Store is almost as extensive as the one on App Store on iPhone and iPad devices. All essential apps from WhatsApp to navigation systems and games such as Pokemon GO are available via Google Play Store. To get an overview of all relevant new releases and top products in the hundreds of thousands of apps, the free platform Google Play Store is ideal.

The Android’s Google Play Store is frequently updated to enhance the users’ experience within the app and to add new security updates, as well as bug fixes. Now, Google Play Store 10.8.33 for Android Wear and Android TV rolled out.

Google Play Store 10.8.33 download is available and comes with speed improvements and bug fixes

Not that the older version of the app has been slow, but, in certain circumstances, the download speed was suffering, a fact that’s not happening this new 10.8.33 update.

Google Play Store 10.8.33 is available as an APK file on APKMirror, but remember that to install the new update manually, you must authorize the installation of applications from unknown sources under the Security section from your device’s Settings menu.

After doing that, go to the link above and download the Google Play Store 10.8.33 APK file. Locate the installation package (usually under the Downloads section of your Android device) and tap on it to install it. Once the update installs, you’ll have the new Google Play Store 10.8.33 running on your Android device, including Android Wear and Android TV.

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Exploit Kit Devs Aims To Old And Forgotten Vulnerabilities

Similarly to hackers, who adopt newer and more complex attack vectors, exploit kit devs are aiming to old and usually forgotten vulnerabilities within pieces of software.

A recent analysis of some current exploit kits, including Angler, Rig, and Sundown, revealed that hackers and cyber-attackers are continuously changing their approaches with new crypto mining malware, botnets, and Trojan attacks. However, the hackers are still focusing on forgotten vulnerabilities that should have been fixed a long time ago.

New cyber attacks using old and forgotten vulnerabilities

As reported by Trend Micro in their analysis, Rig is the most used exploit kit, developed in 2017 and updated for more than four times, outperforming other similar packages which vanished or has been disabled.

Usually, cyber-attackers use Internet Explorer or MS Office’s vulnerabilities to deploy crypto mining malware that uses the computing power of the infected computers for their purposes. Also, they could steal credentials, banking information, private data, and many others.

Palo Alto Networks revealed in June 2018 that exploit kit devs are also aiming the old and usually forgotten vulnerabilities of Adobe Flash Player, a famous piece of software for its security flaws which become gateways for cybercriminals to deploy their exploit kits.

Exploit kit devs target zero-day vulnerabilities which are more common lately

In June this year, a report signed by Malwarebytes indicated that exploit kit devs are more and more aiming to the increasingly more zero-day vulnerabilities in recent software releases. The IT security experts also stated that more 0-day flaws would emerge in upcoming releases.

In order to get protection against cyber attacks that target old and usually forgotten vulnerabilities, as well as zero-day vulnerabilities, the security specialists from IBM recommend software developing companies to enhance their antivirus protections and adopt better patch-management policies to update their software programs against possible attacks regularly.

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Google Chrome 68.0.3440.75 Offline Installer Download Available

For sure, your Internet browser is an essential software you have on your device be it a mobile, laptop, or PC. The majority of your day-by-day activities on your laptop or desktop PC, including social networking, chatting, reading blogs, watching online movies, and so on, you conduct through a browser. Google Chrome is considered by many as the best and most reliable Internet browser on the market. However, it’s regular installation process needs an active Internet connection, but sometimes you might need an offline installer. Here’s how to grab the Google Chrome 68.0.3440.75 offline installer.

Google Chrome employs a simple GUI that’s quite straightforward and pleasant to use, but, under the hood, there are advanced technologies to speed up browsing and security while you navigate on your favorite websites.

With so many features to enhance user experience while browsing the Internet, Google Chrome offers easy access to your useful Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Google Plus, and so on, as well as to the automatic website translation feature and a multitude of web-based apps and extension via its Chrome Web Store.

Google Chrome 68.0.3440.75 Offline Installer

Usually, Google Chrome installation package requires an active Internet connection to fulfill the installation process. However, there are some situations when you might need an offline installer to get Google Chrome browser on your laptop or desktop PC.

For that reason, Google Chrome 68.0.3440.75 comes in its regular web-based installer, but also as an offline installer which is suitable for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

The new Google Chrome 68.0.3440.75 version comes with bug fixes and many security enhancements. Also, since the 68th versions, Google Chrome will dub sites using HTTP protocol as “Not Secure.”

Also noteworthy, the Google Chrome 68.0.3440.75 offline installer is not containing the automatic updates features, so, after installation, you have to update to a newer version when it comes out manually.

Google Chrome 68.0.3440.75 Offline Installer: 32-bit/64-bit/MSI Installers.

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Lufthansa Teamed Up With SAP To Sponsor Blockchain Technology Contest To Revolutionize Aviation Industry

Two of Germany’s leading global companies, Lufthansa Airlines and SAP software developer, have teamed up to develop and implement blockchain technologies and other related innovations to add value to the commercial aviation industry. In this regard, Lufthansa Innovation Hub and SAP.iO Foundry launched the “Aviation Blockchain Challenge,” a competition to draw attention to the potential of blockchain in the industry and to discover projects aimed at improving processes in different areas.

According to a statement published by SAP, the proceeding emerged from the belief that blockchain technologies can transform processes and increase the value of the aviation industry, in this case.

The impact of blockchain technologies on the aviation sector is not yet felt. We want to change that along with SAP and see substantial potential in our industry to use blockchain and other decentralized networking systems.

Gleb Tritus, Managing Director at Lufthansa Innovation Hub

Regarding the partnership between Lufthansa and SAP, Tritus said the collaboration of the two multinationals with a strong culture of innovation provides the best possible framework for attracting talent on a global scale.

Lufthansa and SAP teamed up to sponsor a blockchain technology project to revolutionize the aviation industry

Deepak Krishnamurthy, chief strategy officer and executive vice president of SAP, said participants would compete in three categories in which to focus solutions. These include user-focused ideas, with the goal of achieving a more optimal travel experience for travelers. The relationship with the airline, where they will evaluate projects focused on operations, and, finally, proposals focused on maintenance of the supply chain in the aviation industry.

The winning idea could become a pilot project of the Lufthansa Group, and the team would have up to 3 months to work on its development in Berlin, Germany. Also, they will be able to access SAP’s Blockchain-as-a-Service platform to build or improve their project.

The possible applications of blockchain technology in the aviation industry have been under discussion since 2017. In late-2017, the Accenture consulting firm pointed out in an article that areas such as maintenance, ticketing and security would be susceptible to optimization through a blockchain technology.

Air France KLM Group also discussed the possibility of applying blockchain technology for tracking aircraft spare parts. More recently, it became known that specialist security controls and supply chain companies in the aviation industry, such as Moog, Rolls Royce, Sabre and Air Bus, are exploring the application of blockchain in supply chains.

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Bitmain Crypto Mining Company Launched Its New Litecoin (LTC) Mining WiFi Router

Bitmain crypto mining equipment manufacturer announced the launch of Antrouter R3-LTC WiFi Litecoin (LTC) mining device.

The Antrouter R1, announced on July 4th, with a price of $39 and a hash rate of 1.7 MH/s, has a much lower performance than the Antminers equipment dedicated exclusively to mining. This machine cannot work in the Antpool mining mode, which supports the P2P mining protocol and it forces Bitcoin (BTC) mining in standalone mode.

Antpool, as Bitmain said on Bitcointalk.org, brings together the hash power of several miners and directs it to their servers, to be used in a collaborative mining task.

Consequently, because of its moderate hash rate, the chances of mining LTC are minimal.

The Antrouter R3-LTC, announced by Bitmain on July 18th and designed to mine Litecoin (LTC), is based on the ASIC BM1485 chip. It contains six of these chips, capable of delivering a hash rate of 9.9 MH/s and consumes 23.2 watts, according to specifications.

Bitmain launched its new Litecoin (LTC) mining WiFi router

In a review, this Litecoin (LTC) mining WiFi router has a noise level of 50 decibels at a one-meter distance, at an ambient temperature of 30 degrees Celsius, measured in a quiet room.

“It is highly doubtful that anyone would want to have such a noisy WiFi router on their desk, even if it is used for Litecoin (LTC) mining,” as reported on Bitcointalk.

In September 2015, Bitmain had made its debut into this type of mining-capable WiFI router with the Bitmain R1, which was designed to mine Bitcoin (BTC).

Bitmain has between 70% and 80% market share in the Bitcoin (BTC) mining equipment market and, in just four years of existence, managed to match and exceed the operating profits of established companies in the graphics card market like Nvidia, according to a report by analysts at Bernstein Research, the leading US research and brokerage firm on Wall Street.

In April, Bitmain crypto mining equipment manufacturer launched its first mining team for Ethereum (ETH).

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