The issue was first noticed by e-Sushi, a well-known anonymous security researcher, and reported by the Daily Beast. — e-sushi (@originalesushi) March 31, 2019 “To continue using Facebook, you’ll need to confirm your email. Since you signed up with [email address], you can do that automatically through [email host website],” the message demands. A form below the message asked for the users’ “email password.” Apparently, the new Facebook users who were asked to give their email password were the ones who tried to register with certain email providers, including Yandex and GMX....

Similar sort of situation seems to have emerged when you try to make a promote a post containing “Scunthorpe.” Facebook wont let you do that. According to Independent, Facebook has enabled profanity filter feature for the use of the word Scunthorpe. It is currently banning all posts with that word because it contains within it a word describing a woman’s genitals. Facebook’s action came to light when the band October Drift was trying to promote its Scunthorpe show....

The lawsuit was filed on July 10th in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Facebook is accused of being a medium for Hamas. The complainants also argue that Facebook should be held liable for the attacks because “Hamas has used and relied on Facebook’s online social network platform and communications services as among its most important tools to facilitate and carry out its terrorist activity....

Both the rocket and the satellite were destroyed in the explosion, which resulted from an “anomaly” with the launch pad and not the rocket itself. However, there were no injuries, SpaceX said in a statement. “SpaceX can confirm that in preparation for today’s standard pre-launch static fire test, there was an anomaly on the pad, resulting in the loss of the vehicle and its payload,” SpaceX said in a statement about an hour after the explosion....

The new ‘App Lock’ feature on Facebook Messenger will help users prevent others from accessing their private messages. The users will be able to lock the app and their private chats behind Face ID or Touch ID on iPhone or iPad devices. To open the app and access the messages, the user will be required to use either Face ID or Touch ID authentication. “App Lock lets you add another layer of security to your private messages and helps prevent other people from accessing them....

Following the ruling, a Facebook spokesperson echoed this sentiment. “We’ve used the ‘datr’ cookie for more than five years to keep Facebook secure for 1.5 billion people around the world,” a spokeswoman said. “We will appeal this decision and are working to minimise any disruption to people’s access to Facebook in Belgium.” CPVP meanwhile said Facebook may find it hard to convince the Belgian courts. The court said that “even an ‘internet illiterate’ understands that systematically collecting the datr cookie as such is insufficient to counter the attacks referred to by Facebook because criminals can very easily circumvent this cookie from being installed by means of software which blocks cookies being installed,” according to a CPVP statement....

— MannahattaMamma (@mannahattamamma) March 27, 2015 https://twitter.com/CandiceSilvas/status/581476091908349954/ — Ben (@benmathmedia) March 27, 2015 — Gaurav Ojha (@juniorojha) March 27, 2015 Even I log in into Facebook via my desktop and was surprised to see the error message which i got some hour back and was actually shocked because my friends confirmed they did not have this issue!!. For affected users Facebook was throwing up an error page which read: “Facebook will be back soon and it is down for required maintenance....

“We have committed to formal recognition and compensation for discovery of reproducible and legitimate vulnerabilities, provided they are disclosed responsibly,” the company says. “Our goal with the Bug Bounty project is to foster a collaborative relationship with researchers to participate in responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in FCA’s vehicles and connected services.” FCA will offer the bounty on the Bugcrowd platform. The platform will manage the payouts. Bugcrowd says it has about 30,000 security researchers as members....

The very first build of Lineage OS, as the unofficial release has already garnered more than 50,000 downloads. Now apparently, Lineage OS – the harder, better, faster, stronger version of CyanogenMod (CM) – will be ready for download this weekend. The team is ready to release official builds on multiple handsets, offer weekly updates and support more than 80 devices with both Nougat and Marshmallow builds. The Lineage team has also added a download portal, wiki and install stats pages to its website....

According to the US Department of Justice (DoJ), Bridges admitted that as a part of his criminal investigation he was granted the rights to administrator account on Silk Road which he misused by resetting the passwords and even lifted around 20,000 Bitcoin from numerous wallets on the service and deposited them in his own wallet. Ultimately, he sold off the stolen Bitcoin on the Mt Gox exchange in between March to May 2013 for a whooping figure of $820,000 in cash....

In this article, we have shared Free YouTube Proxy that can help you Unblock Youtube. YouTube has completely revolutionized the way we consume content. The world’s second-largest search engine has millions of hours of entertaining content, helpful tutorials, and exclusive news in form of videos. Sadly, YouTube is inaccessible to millions of users due to censorship imposed by governments, ISP blockages, and geographical restrictions. Youtube is even blocked in schools and workplaces....

Reardon was over smart and he deliberately “liked” his own “wanted” poster. The police subsequently traced him down and finally arrested him on Friday evening without any incident as per police records. As per Great Falls Tribune, Reardon already had 2 warrants against him for his arrest. Earlier this week, on Monday, he made his first court appearance for the theft charges and felony forgery. As per the reports Reardon was held on $2,500 bond and his arraignment is set for May 7th....

CVE-2015-0235 Ghost Vulnerability in Glibc poses serious risks for Linux distributionThe Ghost Flaw Researchers at Qualys disclosed the flaw on Tuesday after many of the Linux distributions had released a patch for the flaw. The flaw has been assigned vulnerability id CVE-2015-0235. The Ghost Flaw The Ghost vulnerability is present in the GNU C Library known as glibc. Glibc is the C library that defines system calls in Linux. The bug was first discovered to appear in in glibc in 2000....

Last week, Anatoliy Kashkin, a 21-year-old Russian citizen who lives in the Crimea region of Ukraine, was told by GitHub that it had “restricted” his GitHub account “due to US trade controls”. Kashkin, used GitHub services to host his website and GameHub, a launcher for Linux systems that brought Steam, GOG, and Humble Bundle games in a single user interface. The developer also posted a message on July 24, 2019, on GitHub stating: My GitHub account has been restricted due to US sanctions as I live in Crimea....

Now, a similar kind of accusation has been made against the search giant, Google for allowing third-party app developers access to user’s private messages in Gmail, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Google “continues to let hundreds of outside software developers scan the inboxes of millions of Gmail users who signed up for email-based services offering shopping price comparisons, automated travel-itinerary planners or other tools,” the report said late Monday....

Over the past two years, Google and Udacity have been able to roll out 1,000 and 10,000 scholarships for coders in 2015 and 2016, respectively. This year, German media company Bertelsmann too was involved in their scholarship program wherein more than 75,000 people were offered the opportunity to benefit from free developer courses. While the first phase of 60,000 scholarships had courses focusing on Android and Web development, the remaining 15,000 scholarships included courses in data science at both beginner and intermediate level....

This will help decrease the overall amount of memory used by Win32 applications on Windows 10 version 2004 (build 19041) and later. “Our goal on the Microsoft Edge team is to deliver the best performing browser possible on Windows and other platforms. When a browser uses too much memory, it can slow down the whole system; memory, in general, is a critical resource to keeping any device running smoothly,” Microsoft said in a blog post on Wednesday....

Google has silently altered its privacy policy to include one of the biggest changes that it previously said it would avoid, which is the longstanding wall between anonymous tracking of online ads and user’s names, reported ProPublica. When Google had purchased the Double Click advertising network in 2007, the company’s founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s “number one priority when we contemplate new kinds of advertising products....

After getting your clicks, now Google wants to suck your bloodGoogle’s needle-free blood draw system is a small barrel would be placed against the skin, and a surge of gas would then cause a microparticle to pierce the skin. According to the patent filed by Google, a small barrel would be placed against the skin, and a surge of gas would then be pushed inside it. This causes a microparticle inside the barrel to then pierce the skin....

Google releases Nogotofail tool to test vulnerability to Man-in-the-Middle attacksSecurity ProtocolsMan-in-the-MiddleNogotofail Tool Security Protocols Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols designed to provide communication security over the Internet. Both these layers are used for securing internet communications. SSL was the one of the earliest and hence is the most popular protocol. It used a 128-bit encryption which is theoretically next to impossible to crack, which should make it the near perfect security mechanisms....