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The App has quickly become popular and has clocked 500,000 downloads so far. According to Guardian, the app’s servers have processed more than 3 million requests in that time as FindFace matches users using Vkontakte’s database, a very popular social network in Russia and the Eastern European countries. Trinity Digital, the App developer says that it is building its database so that in future users can instantly know who anyone on the street is and what their interests are....

Google and Facebook are two of the most sought after companies to work in primarily due to employee pay and benefits, office perks, compensations, and a desirable work environment. Of both the tech-giant companies, Facebook has been rated as the ‘best place to work’ three times in the past 10 years. However, this time the social media giant was ranked 23rd in Glassdoor’s best-places-to-work survey for 2020. This is the company’s lowest position since it was ranked number one in 2011 as the top-rated workplace....

“Facebook is releasing the Express Wi-Fi app in the Google Play store to give people another simple and secure way to access fast, affordable internet through their local Express Wi-Fi hotspots,” a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch confirming about the app’s rollout. For those unaware, Express Wi-Fi is a part of Facebook’s Internet.org, where it collaborates with carriers, internet service providers, and local entrepreneurs to help expand internet connectivity to underserved locations around the world....

The malware campaign was discovered by David Jacoby, a senior security researcher in the global research and analysis team at Kaspersky Lab, who was himself targeted after a Facebook friend with whom he rarely interacts, sent a link to a purported video file in Messenger. “After just a few minutes analyzing the message, I understood that I was just peeking at the top of this iceberg. This malware was spreading via Facebook Messenger, serving multi platform malware/adware, using tons of domains to prevent tracking, and earning clicks,” David said....

The Photo Sync feature was introduced by Facebook in 2012 so that users across platforms like iPhone, iPad and Android can sync their images seamlessly. Once the user enabled the photo sync feature, Facebook automatically syncs all photos saved on mobile device into the users Facebook account. The mobile app saves the photos (upto 2GB) in the background which the user can call at will to share with his/her friends or to the wall....

Removing the Feeling Fat emoticon was a response to a petition launched by activists associated with Endangered Bodies, a group that fights body hatred internationally. The Petition which said “fat is not a feeling,” and that by including the smiling, double-chinned emoticon, Facebook was “encouraging negative body image among girls.” gained more than 16,000 signatures in just few days. Such a large scale user opposition finally made Facebook sit up and remove the Feeling Fat emoticon, a spokesperson from the FB said that, Facebook will keep listening to feedback as it helps Facebook to help people express their feelings or emotions, the spokesperson added further....

“I’m focused on building our community at Facebook and working on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,” he said, referring to the limited-liability corporation founded by him and his wife Priscilla Chan in 2015, which aims to makes investments in scientific and leadership research. BuzzFeed News also quoted a source close to Zuckerberg as saying the latter had privately denied he had any political ambition. “There’s absolutely no truth to the idea that Mark is running for office and I’ve heard it directly from him,” the source said....

In a recent security review, the social networking giant found that the apps- primarily social media management and video streaming apps – retained access to information like names and profile pictures of members in various Facebook groups, linked with their activity in those Groups, from the Groups API (application programming interface), despite announcing Groups API restrictions in April 2018. Facebook found that at least 11 developers improperly accessed users’ information in the last 60 days through the Groups API....

Facebook had earlier tried to circumvent the net neutrality laws by introducing a service called ‘Free Basics’ with a aim of providing free Internet (read Facebook) to Indian. Free Basics created a huge public outcry both in India and aboard forcing the Government of India to ban it. Now with Express Wi-Fi, Facebook is again attempting to bring millions of Indians to its social networking under the garb of providing free Internet....

Fappening 2.0 is still alive and clicking. After being a bit quiet for over past week, the Fappening hackers are back with a bang. After leaking nude and explicit images of Dutch actress Carice Van Houten, the Fappening 2.0 hackers had leaked NFWS images of minor celebrities like Luisa Zissman, Lacey Banghard, Madison Reed Justice, Melissa Benoist and Alana Mamaeva. However, the big fish of Fappening 2.0 came today morning when the hackers leaked nude images of WWE diva Alexa Bliss....

The girl, who is from Manchester, was arrested earlier in October for planning mayhem on Anzac Day in Australia. She avoided custody for possessing material on Thursday after pleading with the court to give her a second chance to show she was not a fanatic. Prosecutors said that she used her school computers to look up ISIS killer Jihadi John and claimed a chemical recipe found by detectives was in response to a Blue Peter children’s TV programme on fireworks....

The company had started testing the Firefox Private Network since last year. This paid VPN service aims to offer user browser-level or device-level protection, protect web browsing within Firefox, stop eavesdroppers on open, public Wi-Fi from spying on your browsing activity. Most importantly, it doesn’t keep user logs and protects your browsing history from internet service providers so that they can’t collect or sell it and hide your location from websites and data collectors that profile you to serve you targeted ads....

Smuggling 5,700 iPhones is definitely a task that’s not fit for a single person. The employee goes by the family name of Tsai and was responsible for working with eight accomplices to start the smuggling phase of the iPhones. According to the source, the smartphones comprised up of iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s models. These models were supposed to be scrapped, but were instead sold to stores in China, thus making the group much richer than before....

Garena Free Fire is one of the highest downloaded games globally; one of the many reasons for it to be so famous is an opportunity to have a unique experience with different characters. Players can collect characters; each character has its own unique ability; players can also collect gun skins, outfits, vehicle skins, etc. Free Fire provides different graphics for low-end mobile devices and mid-end mobile devices. The game lasts for about 10 minutes; at first, all 50 players gather on a Spawn Island (waiting area)....

GoDaddy has patched a CSRF vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to take over domains registered with GoDaddyFlaw in DNSProof of Concept (PoC)Patch Flaw in DNS Saccomanni said that he noticed the flaw in GoDaddy’s DNS management actions. The DNS management actions on GoDaddy website are state-changing POST requests (no CSRF token in request body or headers, and no enforcement of Referer or Content-Type). POST requests that the server accept the entity enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the web resource identified by the URI....

So, how is Google’s Allo different from other messenger apps? The thing that differentiates Allo from other messenger apps is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to help user conversations. Allo’s biggest asset is its integration with Google Assistant, the company’s conversational new virtual aid that can answer questions and make suggestions. With the introduction of Allo, how would it fare against the messaging veterans like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger?...

Ivyrevel, an H&M Group’s digital fashion house is working on a collaboration with Google called the “Data_Dress.” A part of the “Coded Couture” project by Ivyrevel, it is based around an Android app that learns about user’s unique lifestyle and preferences and designs a personalized garment for them. In other words, it will make different types of clothes for your different activities based on what you do during the day....

Last year we had discussed how Google can be used to almost anything on the Internet using a method called Google Dorking. If you have not read that article, it is available here. As you know Google is a vast repository of data, some of which are available to people while some are not. Users use Google to find answers to their queries, images, videos, news, and notes, etc. But advanced users use a method called Google Dorking to glean hidden information from Google....

Google fixes critical CSRF flaw in the default share buttons on Blogspot domain which would have allowed attackers to hijack blogsDiscoveryTimelineVideo Discovery Below the steps followed by the Mesbah to discover the flaw: I found the vulnerability in Button of Share Articles in blog as shown in the following picture. When I noticed this button I decided to investigate the possible presence of a flaw affecting it. When I click on Blogger Share button I noticed the CSRF token the Request, then I tried to bypass the mechanism of authentication based on it....