Attachments to e-mails remain a particularly easy place to store malicious code of all sorts, so be sure of an attachment's provenance before you open or save it.
Some scientists have been experimenting with ways to use that code to store other kinds of information.
Or if you're in a store scanning a QR code because you want to know where is this taking me on my smartphone?
McDonald's and Macy's are both integrating QR codes into their hiring ads, so that job seekers or customers can walk into a store, scan the code they see on a poster, and be sent directly to the openings available at that location.
By scanning a bar code in the store, Amazon would give the customer a 5 percent discount, up to five dollars.
And yet while developers have GitHub as a place to store, share and discover code, designers and associated creatives have no equivalent platform.
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In a recent article, Joseph Turian observes that crowdsourced labor is already being used by many companies to analyze and code retail-store surveillance footage for customer visitation patterns, or by ad and marketing agencies to perform granular sentiment analysis and do keyword research, writing, editing and tagging images.
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People waiting for trains in the subway were presented with a wall of products from the store, each with a QR code (Quick Response code) next to it.
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To fight back, law enforcement agencies argue that everyone should store the keys to their encryption code with a third party that in turn will allow the government to access information if a crime is suspected.
In recent years, they have found ways to encode trademarks in cells and poetry in bacteria, as well as store snippets of music in the genetic code of micro-organisms.
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According to a Microsoft spokesperson we contacted, however, many of the vulnerabilities are common to any app store, and supposedly thwarted with the right code.
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For example, once the code-morphing software has translated a particular chunk of x86 code into micro-ops it can store the translated chunk in a special memory to avoid having to translate it again.
In store coupons get pushed to your device with a bar code to be scanned for instant redemption.
It allows smartphone owners to make in-store purchases by typing in a telephone number and personal ID code at the cash register.
If you buy it at a retail store, you're getting only a 25-character code, which you use to activate the software after downloading it at home.
He found that each one of these associated sites was allowed to store up to the limit of data because browser makers had not written code to stop this happening.
More than 10 million people thought to have accounts with Electronic Arts's (EA) Origin game store are at risk from a hack attack that swaps games for malicious code, researchers say.
To really make a ground-breaking shift in mobile app security someone should open an app store that requires apps to run through a suite of security checks including code audits, fuzz testing and vulnerability assessments.
When users are in a store considering whether to purchase an item, they can punch in its bar code number on their phones.
The following summer, Ternovskiy holed up at home and began to toy with the code for a new site that would re-create the atmosphere of the store.
This makes for an easy root, Alephzain writes, but leaves devices open to attack -- allowing Kernel code injections and RAM dumps from malware-laden apps from the Google Play store.
Customers purchasing a subscription through the App Store will be given the option of providing the publisher with their name, email address and zip code when they subscribe.
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