Sentences with phrase «activated kill switch»

Just after the dust finished settling on Apple's controversial admission that the iPhone has a remotely activated kill switch for applications, Google has plainly stated in their Android Market terms of service that they've got one too.

A man in California knows that firsthand now after his attempted theft of a new white Corvette Stingray ended in his arrest when Onstar was used to locate the vehicle, activate a kill switch and decelerate it — all in less than two hours.

The FCC is also interested in seeing handsets with better anti-theft protection, but wants an «automatic, common solution,» that will work whether chooses to activate the kill switch in a smartphone or not.

Not exact matches

Even your platform - spawning ability evolves to fire bricks and lasers downward to kill enemies and activate switches.

While an electrical kill switch and push - button - activated fire extinguisher have been added, the rear seats have been replaced by an X-shaped cross member to increase body stiffness.

This week the engineers at Google remotely activated the so - called Android «kill switch,» a technology that allows the company to remotely remove applications installed on users» phones.

Google went on to say the company is activating a «kill switch» feature that will grant them the ability to remotely zap malicious applications without any input from the user.

Researchers at Check Point spotted a new variant of WannaCry that used a different kill switch domain (it pings it and if it finds it isn't registered, it activates the ransomware; for more details, check out the original post on this behavior).

Over the weekend a «kill switch» was discovered by accident, which doesn't stop the malware from spreading, but at least prevents it from activating the code that encrypts and ransoms your data.