Chameleon

Security researchers say they have identified a botnet that steals more than $6 million per month by generating fake customer clicks on online display ads.

Dubbed Chameleon, the botnet has infected more than 120,000 Windows-based computers in the U.S., mimicking human behavior on select Web sites to generate billions of ad impressions and fraudulent income for its creators, according to security firm Spider.io.

Click fraud costs Web advertisers in lost revenue by making them pay for illegitimate clicks. Spider.io reported that advertisers paid an average of 69 cents per one thousand impressions generated by the botnet. … Read more

Ottawa design firm Teknision created Chameleon with the intent of injecting some serious style into the Android home screen and app launcher, and it sure did a heck of a job.

Perhaps what separates the Chameleon from the rest, aside from the layout, are the multiple home screens that can change based on a particular setting. For example, after waking up in the morning, the associated home screen displays weather, feeds, and so on. When you go to work, Chameleon detects the location via GPS and displays e-mail, tasks, calendar, etc. Later, after settling in for the evening, Chameleon could display things such as social media and multimedia content.

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Most modern computers have the processing power to run lots of programs at once with no problem, but that leads to a new issue: a desktop cluttered with open windows. Chameleon Window Manager Lite is a clever program that adds extra ways to handle windows without making major changes to the way your desktop functions.

The program's interface is plain and easy to figure out. When it's first launched, Chameleon Window Manager displays a configuration menu where you can customize the way the program acts. Once it's running, the program simply adds extra buttons to each window'… Read more