Misfortune Cookie affects Millions of Routers

Researchers at Check Point, a security company, had discovered a serious security vulnerability that affects at least 12 million branded home and small-business routers that appears to have gone undetected for over ten years. Dubbed the ‘Misfortune Cookie’ flaw, Check Point plans to give a detailed account of the issue at a future security conference.  It has been assigned the…

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Latest Mediatek MT6592 Outperforms Galaxy S4 and Note 3

Less than a month ago, Mediatek, the maker of mobile phone chipsets featuring the MT6577 and MT6589 computing cores, released their latest product – the MT6592. According to Mediatek, the MT6592 is the “world’s first heterogeneous computing SOC with scalable eight-core processing for superior multi-tasking, industry-leading multimedia and excellent performance-per-watt.” The MT6592 will build on…

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