Hollywood Celebrity Nude Photos Stored in iCloud Got Leaked

Recently, there's a scandal widely spread among social networking or some media news that Hollywood celebrity nude pictures get hacked and leaked out from Apple iCloud. After that, Apple Inc. has looked into it and the FBI is also investigating.
What's the Scandal about?
Ever since Aug. 31st, many nude pictures of Hollywood celebrity have sprung up across the Internet. Celebrity that involved in this scandal are too numerous to count, to name a few, Jennifer Lawrence, the Oscar-winning actress, Kate Upton, the model and Kirsten Dunst, the famous chief actress in Spider Man. It is said that these photos are first published on 4chan Forum. The publisher claimed that the hacker gets the pictures by hacking in the iCloud account. Apple Inc. has paid much attention on it and will check what's wrong by themselves and the FBI is also invited to investigated it.
Apple Inc. spokesman, Natalie Kerris claimed, "We take Apple users' privacy seriously and are investigating it." The Los Angeles Times reported that the scandal of Hollywood celebrity nude pictures aroused resentment and some people claims that they will take legal actions to punish the unscrupulous people. Some netizens assume that it is Brayon Hamade, the expert programmer who graduated from The University of Georgia, that is the one who hacked and leaked out the naked photos. He has once tried to exchange Jenifer Lawrence's naked photos for Bitcoin and sell the pictures for $100/pcs on the social network. But Brayon denied that he is the hacker who stole and leaked out the nude pictures. Once the hacker is found, he will be sent to the prison. In 2012, Christopher Cheney, the man who hacked into Scarlett Johansson's email, stole her nudes and leaked them out. As a punishment, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Are the Nudes Real?
Mary Winstead, the actress, claimed that she took those pictures few years ago with her husband in their apartment and was deleted for long.
Victoria Justice, also the actress, responded on her Twitter that the girl in the pictures is not her.
Ariana Grande, the singer, also denied that the pictures are hers.
Kate Upton, the model, admitted that the photos are of her. However, she also claimed that this move has already violated the privacy of the customers already.
Jennifer Lawrence, the actress, admitted that the photos are of her and also she said "My iCloud always prompt me to do backup, but I don't know what to do, so I make it automatically." However, data backed up with iCloud can be recovered with the help of some certain software.
How these Nudes Get Hacked?
Darian Kindlund, the expert in FireEye, Inc. said that it is possible that there's a bug on one of iPhone' s function, Find My iPhone. And the hacker took advantage of that and got the iCloud account and password. Few hours after this happen, Apple Inc. restore the bug in no time.
Some tech website reported that it is possibly related to the software called iBrute on GitHub. iBrute was developed by Russian Information Security researcher. And the iCloud account can be hacked in some certain situation.
Note: If you are still worrying that your iCloud account will be invaded, you can set it by entering setting > iCloud and close the Photo Sync function. In this way, the photos will only be backed up on your smart phone or your computer but not on iCloud.

How to Data Backup Your iPhone

iCloud which were provided by Apple can help us back up iOS data. Also, you can connect your iPhone/iPad to your computer.

Step1: Find the "Settings" icon on your iPhone or iPad, click and open it, then find out the "iCloud" icon, as shown below.

Step2: Click the button "iCloud", enter your Apple ID and password. If you don't have one, click the mark that shown on the picture below, "Free Access to Apple ID".

Step3: After entering the account and password, click on "Login". Now, the system is verifying, as the picture below shows.

Step4: After finishing the verification, the system will ask us whether to merge our data and iCloud on our phones. Click on "Merge" if you want to merge, and the system will display "Saving", as shown below.

Step5: Then, we will be asked whether to start the function - "Find My iPhone", click on the "OK" to continue, as shown below,

Step6: As all things are set up, click on "Storage and Backup", as shown below,

Step7: The system will display our current iCloud storage space. Click "iCloud Backup", to enables it. Next time when we charge, and access to a wireless LAN, the device will back up the data automatically.

That's it, after operate the steps mentioned above, you have backed up your iPhone 5s data. It's easy, isn't it? Got it? You can back up your iPhone data and prevent iOS data from losing easily.

iPod Could be Replaced by iWatch

Though Apple authority hasn’t announced that iWatch, the wearable device will be put into the market, there are many rumors about iWatch. Recently, Apple Company has applied for the trademark protection of the jewelry and watches field, which confirms that iWatch will come out into the market sooner or later. It is said that iWatch is meant to be a smartwatch with a health-focus which can be used with Healthbook app on iOS 8.

Will iWatch take the place of iPod? Even though iWatch and iPod show great difference, Christopher Caso, the analyst of Susquehanna Financial Group claims that iPod will be replaced by iWatch finally.
He also predicts that Apple won’t release the new iPod this year. Since smartphones are nowadays used not only for calling, but also for listening to music, the MP3 players become less and less important. So there’s not surprising that the sales volume of iPod is reducing.
iPod is tiny and easy-carrying, however, iWatch is portable and have more abundant functions. That’s apparent that there’s certain possibility for iWatch to take the place of iPod and become the new favorite portable device.

Google Glasses Enables You to Check Your iPhone SMS

After updating Android 4.4 KitKat, Google has added two more new functions of Google Glasses. One of it is supports checking iOS messages. That is to say, you can check but not reply the text messeages of your iPhone.

Besides, the calendar function of Google Glasses has also improved so that users can check their agenda by clicking the cards on the timeline to change information like time and location of the agenda on the left side of the main interface. It is said that Google will push the update in the following few days. I am sure that these two new awesome functions will may Google Glasses more practical and popular among its fans.

Samsung Galaxy S5 to Include Home Key with Finger Scanner

The Samsung Galaxy S5 was launched at MWC 2014, with Samsung's Unpacked 5 conference packed with journalists looking to see what the latest Galaxy device holds on Feb.25. This flagship smartphone improved its camera, screen, Power Saving Mode (+Ultra Power Saving Mode), Download Booster and etc. Galaxy S5 will be globally at launch on Apr. 11.

Color-diversity, IP6/7 certificated Dust & Water Resistant
The Samsung Galaxy S5 adopted new material and surface texture, available in shimmery WHITE, GOLD, electric BLUE and charcoal BLACK color options.
The biggest breakthrough would be IP6/7 certificated Dust & Water Resistant.

Camera: Capturing Lifetime Moments
The Samsung Galaxy S5 features a 16-megapixel camera, which includes HDR rich tone. It makes photos brighter and vivid captures.
In particular, the camera features Phase Detection Auto Focus, which allows shooting in 0.3 seconds, a big improvement over the rather-slow image capture process on previous Galaxy phones.
Selective Focus allows you to focus on what's important by blurring the background.
Samsung Galaxy S5 also featured camera options and phone menu, which allow users to photograph, photo-edit and photo-sharing.

Super Amoled Screen
The Galaxy S5 has a 5.1inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel Super Amoled screen. However, it has the same resolution although it grown from 5 inches on the Galaxy S4 to 5.1 inches on the S5.
The screen of the device adopts Adaptive Technology for the first time that not only automatically adjusts your screen parameter in RGB ambient light but also makes the screen look great.

Home Key with Finger Scanner
Samsung Galaxy S5 became the third mobile phone of this year which integrated with the finger scanner. It joints sensor and Home key.

Focus on new features
In the conference, Samsung did not mention the parameters of the Galaxy S5 hardware, but only admitted the 2.5GHz Quad core application processor as well as the screen and camera.
The device also has 2GB RAM memory and supports WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 BLE / ANT+, NFC, USB 3.0 and IR Remote.

Leading role: functional 
Samsung Galaxy S5 emphasizes on functional and practical. It adopts Ultra Power Saving Mode, with the battery of 2800 mAh. Even when your mobile phone is running down, only 10% power, on battery, it still can hold to 24 hours.
In addition, Download Booster, S Health 3.0, Quick Connect, Private Mode and Kids Mode appear in the Samsung Galaxy S5.

Combine with Gear Fit
The Samsung Galaxy S5 and its companion devices, Samsung Galaxy Gear Fit, will be more complete.
Samsung has been looking for a sustainable development. Samsung Galaxy S5 continues to make further attempts on function and practicability.
This attempt not only improves the mobile phone itself, but also brings its companion products: Galaxy Gear. Now, the Samsung Galaxy S5 successfully achieves the combination with the intelligent wearable device. Therefore, only with Gear Fit, Galaxy S5 will give its users the most complete experience.

What to Do If the Return Key Doesn't Work

It is quite common that the return key of our Android phone doesn't work.
The solution is quite simple, what you need to do is to set the searching key as the return key.

Below are three steps to solve this problem.

Step 1: Use the senior permission manager. Use RE manager to lead out the files that were stored under the catalogue "SYSTEM/usr/keylayout/qwerty.kl" and back up them to any catalogue under /sdcard/.
Step 2: Change the permission. Use the text editor and rename KEY 127 SEARCH to KEY 127 BACK and save it.
Step 3: Restart your phone. Power off your phone and remove the battery. Remember to perform these steps otherwise the system won't reread the file.

That's it, only within 3 steps, you can solve the problem if your return key doesn't work.

Camera Shooting of Samsung Galaxy S5 will Improve

Samsung Company has recently combine phone department and Camera Department. The camera department will make full use of the experience of the brand, selling network, developing skill of software and the manufacture of phone department so as to complement each other's advantages and manufacture more outstanding smart phones.
It is said that Samsung Galaxy S5 which is the next-gen of flagship smartphone of Samsung, will upgrade its camera: it will use a 16MP camera sensor with 1.12um pixels and rolls out with wide dynamic range and auto-focus as well.
To replace BSI photosensitive element with ISOCELL one also means the function of camera shooting will play an important role in Samsung's future developing strategy.