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Summary: There are no shortage out there of power banks for iPhone and Android devices, but Ugreen introduces a portable charger for GoPro Hero 5/6 owners. GoPro cameras are great fun and capable of capturing some amazing shots, but I do find that they burn through batteries at quite a rate. While you can charge a GoPro direct from a power bank, you can't use the GoPro as a camera while it's charging the internal battery. But accessories maker Ugreen has come out with a power bank that can be used to recharge GoPro batteries directly without going through the camera. The  Ugreen 10,000mAh portable battery charger  not only features the regular USB-A 5.1V/2.4A port, but also has a slot that can take a single GoPro Hero 5/6 battery for recharging. The 10,000mAh battery pack has enough power for the following: iPhone X: 2.7 times iPhone 8: 4 times Samsung Galaxy S8: 2.4 times iPad mini 4/Nintendo Switch: 1.4 times GoPro Hero 5/6battery: 6 times The power ...

Summary: Welcome to the future transparency of today as quantum computers reveal all currently encrypted secrets -- a viable scenario within just a few years. Quantum computers will be able to instantly break the encryption of sensitive data protected by today's strongest security, warns the head of IBM Research. This could happen in a little more than five years because of advances in quantum computer technologies. "Anyone that wants to make sure that their data is protected for longer than 10 years should move to alternate forms of encryption now," said Arvind Krishna, director of  IBM Research . Krishna was speaking at a meeting of The Churchill Club in San Francisco on a panel (above, second from right) discussing quantum computers in business. The panel, which included Kam Moler, a professor of Physics at Stanford University, as well as Bob Stolte, a managing director at JPMorgan, was moderated by journalist Martin Giles (first from left). Quantum compute...

Summary:Microsoft patches two flaws that are already under attack, among the 67 bugs in May's Patch Tuesday update. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update addresses a critical flaw in the Windows VBScript engine that attackers are using to compromise Windows machines through Internet Explorer. The patch follows an alarm by researchers at Qihoo 360 Core Security in April that well-resourced hackers were using a then suspected IE zero-day flaw to infect Windows PCs on a "global scale". The IE attack, dubbed 'Double Kill', was delivered via Office documents that open a malicious webpage in the background. In  an advisory  crediting Qihoo 360 Core Security researchers and Kaspersky Lab malware analysts for discovering a critical bug tagged as CVE-2018-8174, Microsoft details a remote code execution flaw residing not in Internet Explorer but the Windows VBScript engine. However, it also explains the bug can be exploited through Internet Explorer. Micros...

Summary: Microsoft wants to banish '​inconvenient, insecure, and expensive' passwords. So what's going to replace them? Microsoft wants to banish the use of passwords to log into Windows devices, and has showcased some of the new technologies it wants to use to make this happen. "Nobody likes passwords. They are  inconvenient, insecure, and expensive . In fact, we dislike them so much that we've been busy at work trying to create a world without them -- a world without passwords," said Karanbir Singh, principal program manager for enterprise and security at Microsoft, in a blog post. Singh said the goal was to make it possible for end users to never deal with a password in their day-to-day lives, and to provide instead user credentials that cannot be cracked, breached, or phished. For Microsoft, multi-factor authentication and biometrics is seen as a good replacement for passwords -- using a physical key, and/or your face or fingerprint to log ...