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Thrifty individuals—the sort that hold onto old appliances and electronics until they self-combust—are a notoriously elusive and fickle market. Rather predictably, it is tough to wrangle a demographic  that is loath to spend money to sustain survival, let alone on new consumer electronics. None the less, this is the market that Scratch Wireless hopes to corner. The bait with which ...

To everyone’s surprise, a hacker backdoor was built into the software of Coolpad smartphones. Coolpad is a Chinese smartphone manufacturer and it seems the OEM allowed for the introduction of a hacker backdoor in most, if not all, the devices they have sold to customers. Palo Alto Networks malware security firm discovered the hacker backdoor and immediately reported the issues, ...