1. Trello
Whatever the size and nature of your projects are, Trello is the most straightforward tool to help you coordinate them. It can be used for anything, from personal to-do lists to big projects with a lot of people involved. Every project it can be represented from a Board that is basically a list. A list of other lists that each one of them is consisted of cards. With these lists and the cards you are able to organize tasks by adding labels, assign duties, set deadlines, add comments and get feedback, upload file attachments and create checklists with team members. Keeping everything visible and everyone in the team informed and up to date. Trello is even smart enough to notify its users in order to keep them in track and to remember them for the upcoming deadlines and assignments. It can notify from inside the app, via email, desktop notifications via the browser, or via mobile push notifications but most importantly, Trello is always synchronized across all of your devices organizing the coordination of your projects making it one of the best tools for organizing your work.

2. Slack
Maybe the most famous way of communication in-between teams and communities. Basically, Slack is a platform for team communication. The main idea of it is to make working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive by keeping everything in one place. Teams can organize into channels every conversation, or every specific topic for discussion, or every project along with the needed material. These channels can be closed only for specific team members or they can be open to the public creating an open community for anything. For more private use, there is available a feature of direct messaging between colleagues and you can always set who can see what. Private or public use, you can always send and share files, images, PDFs, documents, and spreadsheets with others for team editing and viewing, and you can easily search through all these media together. Specially for teams that work from distance, Slack is the ideal tool to improve the communication between the team and organize everything, conversations and material. Everything will be indexed and archived so that you can have it at your fingertips whenever you want with just a simple search. And you can do it from everywhere you want with everything synchronized in all of your devices(iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and web apps available). You can even use the Slackbot to get automated notifications and you are always able to customize your notifications in order to get just what you need.

3. CoSchedule
Maybe the most integrated and powerful tool for teams that are creating, organizing and coordinating content in blog posts, social media and videos. CoSchedule offers the ability of handling all these in one place with a marketing calendar that helps you to prioritize your projects and customize your work-flows to create content more efficiently. Organizing and coordinating the team can be easily done with the work-flow management feature in which you can set publishing dates and attach simple task-based work-flows in order to stay in track with deadlines. CoSchedule also offers a channel of communication for the members of the team where they can discuss anything related, they can exchange feedback and they can share useful content. If you are looking for a tool to help you on managing social media, scheduled blog posts, authors with their drafts or even for creating a cooperative content development system then you will find CoSchedule very handful because is definitely one of the best tools for organizing your work.

4. Pocket
Nowadays, new information is coming from everywhere. Whatever we do, is related with some information that we need to dominate. Even if it is for pleasure, for work or for personal development. In just a simple scroll to the news feeds of our social media and we find so many links of interesting videos and articles.But time is limited most of the times to check them all. Pocket is a tool that will help you to save all these interesting information to have them organized for when the time is more convenient to deal with them. How many times people just want to save a link and send it to their selves? This is no longer necessary. You can easily have links, articles and videos in Pocket well organized.

5. Evernote
How many times do we want to read about something in the web and get easily lost in our browsers with so many tabs open that at the end of the day we are confused from the enormous amount of information we are facing? Evernote is a tool that helps you organize the content you are collecting from the web and save everything you like. You can organize the content you collect by saving parts of websites as notes or you can save whole articles keeping notes with them. You can even keep lists among with the notes for even better organization. It is even suitable for teams because you can share your Notes and groups of notes that you have captured and keep references of all the useful content that every member found. You can always discuss projects with others with Evernote’s live chat feature that is allowing personal conversation with someone or conversation between a group while viewing the same document, so there’s no switching back-and-forth between windows. Collaborative work in a single document has never been easier than that.

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Trojan is a non-self-replicating malware that appears to perform a desirable function for the user, but instead, facilitates unauthorized access to the user’s operating system.

Backdoor.AndroidOS.Triada, as Kaspersky Lab called, granted superuser privileges to downloaded Trojans, as well as the chance to get embedded into system processes. It’s a unique Trojan that first collects several information about device’s name, operating system version, size of the SD card, information about device memory (from the file /proc/mem), IMEI, IMSI and a list of applications installed. The information are being sent to the cyber-criminals’ server. Then the malware stores to the system a small database to be used later during its action.

The main function of this malware is to redirect financial SMS transactions when the user makes online payments to buy additional content in legitimate apps and as a result the money goes to the attackers rather than to the appropriate developer.

As Kaspersky Lab said:
“Applications that gain root access to a mobile device without the user’s knowledge can provide access to much more advanced and dangerous malware, in particular, to Triada, the most sophisticated mobile Trojans we know. Once Triada is on a device, it penetrates almost all the running processes, and continues to exist in the memory only. In addition, all separately running Trojan processes are hidden from the user and other applications. As a result, it is extremely difficult for both the user and antivirus solutions to detect and remove the Trojan.”

Android OS versions infected

So what’s the new threat for now?
Kaspersky Lab after the detection period also found that there is a module inside the Trojan that enables a dangerous attack: spoofing URLs loaded in the browser. The attack can infect only those browsers listed below:

• com.android.browser (the standard Android browser)
• com.qihoo.browser (360 Secure Browser)
• com.ijinshan.browser_fast (Cheetah browser)
• com.oupeng.browser (Oupeng browser)

So, when the user tries to open a specific website, the module analyzes it and changes it to another URL address if necessary. The rules are determined from the database created before.

Attack sequence as described from securelist.com

In an uninfected system, the browser sends a request with a URL address to the web server via the Internet, and receives a page in response.

After infection by Triada, a DLL intercepting URLs is added to the browser’s process. The URL address request finds its way into this DLL, where it is modified and sent to another web server.

As a result, the browser receives data that’s different from that requested, meaning the user ends up viewing a different page.

Number of users attacked by Backdoor.AndroidOS.Triada.p in different countries

“..we have recently observed that some cybercriminals have begun to actively study the structure of the operating system, expand their repertoire of technical skills, and launch sophisticated attacks like the one we examined above.” – Anton Kivva, securelist.com

As BadFive, we recommend that you to stop using the browsers mentioned above and start using the chrome browser, as google seems very serious with its encryption and security on that.

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Google’s self driving car revealed itself and here and a while is hitting the roads of Mountain View in California. Google is definitely doing a fantastic job and the project is always in progress. They keep trying to challenge and improve their software in order to optimize it to the best. But as it seems, the car is not so ready to be completely autonomous.

According to a report released by the California Department of Motor Vehicles recently, Google’s self driving car would have hit something inevitably for at least 13 occasions. In the particular testing, that happened in California for 14 months and ended at November of 2015, human needed to take over the control for 341 times. When they later simulated these incidents to work on them the simulators showed that 13 of the recorded incidents were going to inevitably cause an accident without the interaction of human. In fact, according the report another 272 times from those 371, human interaction was needed due to a failure of the autonomous technology installed.

In the end of the day, what we understand from this report is that autonomous vehicles are not mature yet. There is a long way yet in order to be a completely mature concept that will do things better and safer in our roads. Of course, self driving cars are an upcoming technology, maybe for some the hottest upcoming technology and progress will be made. We are all certain for this. There are a lot of competitors from car industry and software industry and they are already trying to give us a taste for how the future car is going to be. Google is trying with its self driving car, Volkswagen with its Budd-e and among with other companies like Tesla, Apple, Nissan, Toyota in the field we need to prepare our selves and just sit back and watch the car evolution.

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Gartner has released, as it does every year, its Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is basically a report that provides a perspective on technologies and trends through the scope of an industrial oriented point of view. As it seems, 2015 was a pretty interesting year in the technology field that even surprised some. With the absence of the Big Data for example or with the absence of any technology that deals with environmental issues. We guess there are no issues about the environment anymore and they are all solved, or simply, a part of the industry still doesn’t care about these issues. The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies represents technologies and trends in a graph with five main parts containing the most Emerging and popular. Every part of the graph of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2015 among with some interesting technologies are represented below.

Technology Trigger

This stage is mostly representing the upcoming technologies that are just getting started. Here are usually hidden the most fancy technologies and a lot of technologies and trends that look like Sci-Fi. In 2015’s cycle you can find creepy and scary technologies like Smart Dust, Human Augmentation, Brain-Computer Interface, 3D Bioprinting Systems for Organ Transplant and Biochips as well as trends expected to show them selves due to the radical evolution of the Internet Of Things. Those trends are the IoT Platforms, Connected Home and Citizen Data Science. Those and some more technologies and trends are triggered to get into our lives in the future. All it remains is to wait and see which from those technologies they will become actually viable and useful.

Peak of Inflated Expectations

The second stage is about the rapid success of a technology and the point where it gets really trendy because of the early and excessive publicity. There, we found as it was anticipated the Internet of Things in the top among with the Autonomous Vehicles that are rapidly evolving in car industry. Other technologies up there are Smart Advisors, Machine Learning, Wearables and some more. No technology of them was totally unexpected to be there since they are approximately all in high publicity and really trendy.

Trough of Disillusionment

That is the stage were the technology is dangling due to some of the failures that are naturally happen. The success of the technology from here is mainly based on the investments that are very depended from the improvement that providers made. Technologies that are struggling to survive or they are about to start their fight during this year are among others Hybrid Cloud Computing, Augmented Reality, Cryptocurrency Exchange and Consumer 3D Printing. There is also Virtual Reality and Autonomous Field Vehicles that have nearly done it.

Slope of Enlightenment

Here is where the benefits of the technology are getting more clear and most of the enterprises understand how to gain from the technology and how to use the new technology. Everything is approximately plant and production is starting to get into its second and third generation optimizing the technology. Here is Gesture Control and Enterprise 3D Printing.

Plateau of Productivity

Here everything is clear and the technology is clearly translated into viability. Everything is optimized and a market is created. The technology that used to be a trend starts to widely developed and is paying off.

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