Reporting the “Masque” attack in an interview with Business Insider, Simon Mullis, FireEye Global Technical Lead said that “The most recent version of the Masque attack uses a technique called ‘URL Scheme Hijacking.’ The attacker is initially able to bypass the mechanism used by Apple to ensure that a user trusts an app that is being installed.” Hacking Team is a Milan-based information technology company that sells offensive intrusion and surveillance capabilities to governments, law enforcement agencies and corporations....

Security researcher Benjamin Kunz Mejri from Vulnerability Lab revealed the persistent injection flaw on his website and said that the vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject malicious script codes into flawed content function and service modules. The vulnerability has been deemed critical and assigned CVSS 5.8 severity rating. It is basically a Application-Side input validation web vulnerability that actually resides in the Apple App Store invoice module and is remotely exploitable by both sender as well as the receiver....

The issue was reported to TikTok in February 2022 through its vulnerability reporting page for which a fix was included in an update released within a month’s time after the initial disclosure. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-28799 with a score of 8.3, and particularly affected TikTok on Android version 23.7.3 and lower, required several issues to be chained together to exploit, and was not used in the wild, according to Microsoft....

Before the Euro became the currency for 19 European countries, there were many who scoffed at the idea of a universal currency for the continent. But, eventually those 19 countries switched to the Euro and it all seemed quiet for a while. That is until 2017, which ushered in a new wave in finance – the rise of cryptocurrency and the blockchain. The blockchain has signaled a new age in the financial world....

Android’s popular third party ROM, CyanogenMod susceptible to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attackCyanogenMod ROMMan-in-the-Middle attackThe Anonymous tipperThe FlawConclusion This zero day vulnerability is present in the most popular Android ROM thanks to reuse of vulnerable sample code by Team CyanogenMod over various builds. CyanogenMod ROM CyanogenMod ROM is an open source operating system for Android smartphones and tablets. Most users who are not happy with the stock Google Android OS or want to do some technical wizardry with their smartphones use CyanogenMod Rom or other ROMs....

The current ad-free plan from Disney+ is available for $7.99, and you have to pay additional charges if you want Hulu and ESPN+. So, even though users can have access to Disney+ content at a lower rate, they will have to tolerate occasional advertisements in-between content playback. This move from Disney Plus comes when the company is trying to attract more users in the US and other markets. Also Read – Disney+ Customer Exec Recommends using VPN for extra content Even though Disney+ has announced that it will broaden the subscription plan offerings, official details are not available about the price....

Musk purchased the company at $54.20 a share. Well, this is the same price stated in his initial offer on the 14th of April. In a statement, Elon Musk stated that, “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” He further added that, “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spambots, and authenticating all humans....

First Round writes, “We launched State of Startups to capture what it means to be an entrepreneur. We asked the leaders of venture-backed companies about everything from the fundraising environment to their working relationships with their co-founders to their office’s price per square foot.” Adding, “Once again, we asked founders to write in which current tech leader they admire the most and we tallied 125 names. The Tesla and SpaceX leader held firm at the top spot (23%),” ranking Musk as most admired leader....

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The video enclosed here is one of its first UHDs which NASA posted into its YouTube account- ReelNASA. The one given here is a short tease however the magnificent ones are yet come in near future. ReelNASA is one of NASA’s official YouTube accounts and it has most of the International Space Station’s video content. NASA said: “The view of life in space is getting a major boost with the introduction of 4K Ultra High-Definition video....

Back then, Zuckerberg explained this move by commenting, “We didn’t want to just build a Dislike button because we don’t want to turn Facebook into a forum where people are voting up or down on people’s posts. That doesn’t seem like the kind of community we want to create.” However, the social media networking giant has now revealed that it is testing a Reddit-like “downvote” button that will allow users to flag and hide comments in the News Feed....

Some iOS users can now see an ‘add a link’ option alongside ‘add photos, locations and feelings’, according to a report by Techcrunch. Basically, users can search a keyword or put in a query in the link function and Facebook will then show a list of related news articles that one can post, let you tap on it to add it to your status with a caption or share statement and let you see what is on those sites....

“Broadly, (clear history is) going to give us some headwinds in terms of being able to target as effectively as before,” said David Wehner, Facebook’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference held in Barcelona on Tuesday while announcing the feature, reports CNBC. For those unaware, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had first publicly announced the “Clear History” feature in May 2018 as a mere idea after the Cambridge Analytica scandal....

Considered as an answer to YouTube, Facebook Watch, the video-on-demand (VOD) platform, allows users to view video on different genres like sports, news, entertainment along with videos from content creators in their personalized Watch Feed. It also allows users to comment and react to videos on real time on Facebook Watch. For those unaware, Facebook Watch was only launched in the U.S. in August 2017. By breaking loose from its limited availability in the States, Facebook is looking to attract more people to its VOD platform through its global reach and also increase its advertisement revenue....

Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in London, Comey was asked by a moderator how much the FBI paid for the software that eventually broke into the iPhone. Comey said, “A lot. More than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven years and four months, for sure. But it was, in my view, worth it?…?I think it was very, very important that we got into that device....

For those unfamiliar, the main reason for the shutdown was the lack of business for the OS. Firstly, it was reported that 20 percent of its employees were fired in July 2016 after running into financial trouble. Other than support from one or two smartphone companies, there weren’t enough mobile manufacturers convinced that Cyanogen should be the de facto Android. However, a couple of weeks ago, a team of developers who worked on the CyanogenMod decided to come together and form the next open-source project, Lineage OS in order to carry forward CyanogenMod development in the new model....

Gest comes fitted with 15 sensors that allow the user to interact with a mobile device or computer without the need of a keyboard and mouse. The company behind Gest is seeking $100,000 in crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The company is also offering the digital toolkit to developers and early adopters until the Kickstarter campaign ends. Gest has one palm strap, plus four finger connectors, each one linked to the strap by wires....

The report adds that after the business plan is drafted by employees, teams will be able to work within the incubator full-time. After some months, they get the option to pitch for additional funding and create a whole new company (which Google will invest in). The name “Area 120” is a reference to Google’s famous “20% time”. Here’s a description of 20% time that Larry Page and Sergey Brin included in their 2004 IPO letter: “We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google,” they wrote....

“This month’s update represents the largest gain in Chrome performance in years, thanks to many under-the-hood improvements,” Google said. Coming to the biggest performance improvements, Google claims to have reduced the CPU usage by up to 5x while extending battery life up to 1.25 hours at the same time as per internal benchmarks. This has been possible by prioritizing active Chrome tabs over background content, which Google calls Tab Throttling and Occlusion Tracking....

The biggest highlight of this browser is that Chrome will now automatically warn you if your password has been compromised in a data breach. The new feature was also tweeted by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. With the latest release of Chrome, anyone whose login credentials has been leaked in a data breach previously will get a notification when logging into a site. How does the new password feature work? Google always stores a hashed and encrypted copy of the username and password exposed by another company’s data breach on its servers....