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Google+ launches online games

Facebook is one the most successful social hub, but Google+ sets the competition and now its like a war where users getting most of it. Google+ yesterday launched a Gaming section which have included some of the famous games we have played online but Google+ is working hard to give more pleasure to its users. Lets check it out.

Gaming is always been a part of Facebook, so following that concept Google is offering you it with swift and clean UI.

So to start you can now see a game icon right next to the Google+ circles.

 

Clicking on that icon will reveal gaming section

Here you can select your choice games to play

 Selection on a game will show you a social gaming message, which means games played by you and high scores will be available to other users in your circle. 

Allowing window for a game to get your personal information. 

After allowing your game will loaded up, above is Diamond Dash game

Diamond Dash game play  

Diamond Dash Game  

Scores for your game

In all total games can be played like a breeze in Gooogle+ with very clean interface unlike Facebook.
Your flash player must be updated to the latest version otherwise some of the games will not load up.
Enjoy Gaming , set and beat the high scores of your friends.

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Android Phones - A Trojan can record your calls

A Trojan spying on your conversations

A recent malware for the Android platform, comes bundled with a game.


The malware logs all outgoing and incoming calls and for incoming calls it logs the call duration as well.



Fig.1: Two Android phone emulators running in a controlled environment

Fig.2 illustrates the game bundled with Trojan installed in the emulator device.




Fig.3 shows the contents of the data files of the application running in victim's device.




Fig.4 is the screenshot of a call being made from the victim's mobile to his friends number.



Fig.4: Making a phone call from victim phone

After few seconds, we can terminate the call and make a call from the friend's number to victim's mobile (to trigger the incoming call alert event).

Now, we shall look at the data files of the application as illustrated in Fig.5



 Fig.5:The data files after triggering the payload

You can see that the file contains logs of the incoming and outgoing calls, the timestamps of the calls made and received as well as the duration of the incoming calls.
Reference:CA Community 

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Import Facebook contacts to Google Plus

Now anyone who is on Facebook and want to copy all its contacts to Gmail or Google + can do that with "Friends to Gmail", its a   Facebook app that copy your Facebooks contacts in .CSV format and then lets you save it on your computer and then tells you to import it on Google Contacts.
So go a head and follow the step by step guide to use Friends to Gmail

Friends to Gmail click me to begin
Click on "Connect with Facebook" icon on website it will open up a new browser window to login with Facebook account

Fig1. Log in to Facebook window

Fig2. Facebook app access confirmation you must click on "Allow" button.
After this you will see a lot of text in a box of  "Friends to Gmail" page so you to just select all and copy it to your notepad application, when u are saving that file be sure to "Save as type:" should be "All Files" and "Encoding" must be select to "Unicode"

 Sorry for hiding the content due to privacy in above figure.

Fig3. Now notepad save as box setting

Now log on to your Gmail account where you want to import all your contacts

Step 1

Step 2 "Click on 'More actions' on left"

Step 3 "Choose or select 'Import' "

Step 4 "Click on 'Choose File' button, browse and select your 'facebook.cvs' file"

You can manage all imported contacts to a group here

Now all your contacts have been uploaded into to your Google Account, which can be accessed via Gmail or Google+. You might also be in can also move all your Facebook albums to Google+ with a Chrome extension.