Comcast wants to turn your home router into a public Wi-Fi hotspot

The worst carrier in the US

That's the story Comcast is hoping to tell as it attempts to turn its massive customer base into an unprecedented public Wi-Fi network, potentially eliminating the need for cellular service in some areas. But at a time of heightened online privacy concerns, the company faces the challenge of getting its customers on board.

What you need to know

-- The modems. Certain newer broadband Comcast modems double as Wi-Fi routers and build in that public-hotspot feature. Such devices are called "wireless gateways."
If you are not certain if your device has these features, you have a couple of ways to check this.
One is to search for a Wi-Fi network called "xfinitywifi" in your vicinity. If the network's signal is strong, it is likely emanating from your router.
Confirm this by logging in to your Xfinity account at customer.comcast.com. Click "my account" at the top. On the next page, click "users and preferences" at the top.
On the next page, look for the "service address" section, and see if a "manage Xfinity Wi-fi" link is immediately below that. If it is, you do have a home-hotspot option. Clicking the link leads to a pop-up control panel for turning the home-hotspot feature on and off.

Are you worried?

1. Call the Comcast customer service and request to opt out. 
2. You also have the option to switch this public-hotspot feature off even though Comcast does not want you to do so. The choice is entirely yours, and don't let Comcast tell you otherwise.

Bottom Line

if you willing to sign up with Comcast services in the US check your terms and conditions before you join them otherwise seek advice if you need to opt out this option from your home router. please leave you comments below and share your experience with us this matter.

Evernote Hacked: Evernote Resets Everyone's Passwords After Intrusion

For what it seems the giant cloud service Evernote has been hacked and all users of an online note-taking app are being forced to change their password after "suspicious activity" was discovered on the company's network. This is including us "Droid Tech News", please see above email we had from the company.

Evernote will also be releasing updates to their apps very soon to address the attack. Thus, if you haven't had an update for your mobile/tablet then head to Playstore/itunes store and check for an update for your device.

Please follow us on Facebook in real time update and stay tuned for more news. 

Source: Evernote

Twitter Has Been Hacked: 250,000 Twitter Accounts Compromised

Security Warning!

Twitter says that approximately 250,000 users may have been affected by the hack, with the hackers gaining access to usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted version of passwords. Not good.

In response to this incident the company said:

"As a precautionary security measure, we have reset passwords and revoked session tokens for these accounts. If your account was one of them, you will have recently received (or will shortly) an email from us at the address associated with your Twitter account notifying you that you will need to create a new password. Your old password will not work when you try to log in to Twitter".

We would recommend to our audiences to visit their twitter accounts and update password as soon as for better. For more information please see below video from BBC technology news.  

Stay tuned for more update.

Source: BBC 

World Wide Web - Cold War

Now days, everybody relies on the internet for business, personal use however, as the technology evolved things got more complicated interms of privacy, copyright materials and the new law currently emerging. But what do you know about SOPA bill (Stop Online Piracy Act)?. Therefore, if you live in the US then we would reccomend to watch below video at least once or just to bear in mind what is happening around the world.

Source: Idlegeek

NASA lost an unencrypted laptop in car!

A Halloween October 13 2012, unencrypted NASA laptop stolen from an employee locked in a vehicle which contains unsecured personal data (Personal Identifier Information) on large number of people. However, it was password protected but not encrypted.

Unfortunately, password protected will prevent Operating System booting but all you have to do attach the hard drive to USB already booted system, and you have full access to the drive.

This was not first time as the organisation lost yet another unencrypted laptop back in March 2012 which containing sensitive data including a number of codes for international space station, names, GPAs, addresses, emails, etc.

Last but not least, the organisation issued direct order on 21st November 2012 prohibited a removal of computers from any NASA facility unless whole disk “Hard Drive” encrypted is enabled or all sensitive file individually encrypted.

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Note: If you reading this article and you have sensitive data in your laptop, remember to encrypt your data or encrypt individual necessary files in advance. .

HTC promises fix for massive Android security flaw

There is security leak and HTC said they are aware of the problem and a update should come soon to fix the issue. basically what happens when you download thirty part apps "specially untrusted apps" hackers can access the vulnerable data includes the phone’s IP address, CPU information, and running processes. However HTC made very clear and said “A third-party malware app exploiting this or any other vulnerability would potentially be acting in violation of civil and criminal laws.”

So far, HTC says no customers have been affected by the issue, which affects its Sense software on Android phones. Sense contains a logging application that collects data about your phone but mistakenly leaves it open to third-party apps.

HTC says it’s working “very diligently” on an update that will fix the issue, which will first be tested with its carrier partners before its released over-the-air. For now, the company says users should be extra cautious about obtaining apps from untrusted sources.