Carbonite sells SMS Backup & Restore to SyncTech

If you constantly switch devices, you might be familiar with SMS Backup & Restore. The app was bought by Carbonite last year and now it’s switching hands again to go to Australian company SyncTech. As its name suggests, it easily backs up and restores your SMS, MMS, and call log. At the moment, the app is still listed on Carbonite’s site as one of their products but with the holiday weekend we aren’t surprised that hasn’t been updated yet. We got the news from the update of the app on the Play Store where SyncTech announced plans to have an opt-out option for advertisements as well as updated contact/support details. No other news about what the company has planned for the app though.

Source: Android Police

Apple Watch helps you ring in 2018 with fireworks on the clock face

One of the Easter eggs Apple hid inside the watchOS 4 update got debuted to users around the world as the clock struck 12 to welcome the New Year. If you own an Apple Watch, you might have seen (or you will be seeing) fireworks light up your watch’s face. The Apple Watch does the same for birthdays, too. So, if it isn’t midnight yet where you are, you can keep your eye out for this.

Source: 9to5Mac

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Forever 21 confirms hackers breached their payment system

Forever 21 confirms hackers breached their payment system

Bad news for you Forever 21 shoppers in the US. The retailer just confirmed that hackers have breached “various point of sales terminals” throughout the country and were able to collect “credit card numbers, expiration dates, verification codes and sometimes cardholder names” covering the dates April 3 to November 18, 2017. Forever 21 detailed in a statement how hackers were able to install malware software on some of its POS terminals. They first disclosed this back in November 14, but this is the first time they’ve gone into detail about how the attack went down.

It seems that the encryption was turned off for some machines that logged payment card details from transactions at certain times and this was when the hackers installed malware to get the data. Some were said to be affected for days or weeks, but others could’ve been affected for the duration they stated. They didn’t specify how much information the hackers got. But they did say they’re looking into whether Forever 21 stores outside the US have been affected. But with those using different POS systems, this might be an unlikely scenario. Now is the time though to remind you to always check your credit card transactions to see if there are any purchases you didn’t make.