Dropbox Quietly Launches An Invite Only Password Manager App For Android And Ios

Dubbed as Dropbox Passwords and first spotted by Android Police, this is an invite-only (Early Access) Android app, which can be now downloaded from the Google Play Store. Similarly, an iOS version of the app too is available on the Apple App Store. Although the current version of the app can be downloaded from the Stores, you won’t be able to use it unless you have not received the invite....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 369 words · John Rider

Duckduckgo App Launches App Tracking Protection For Android In Beta

This new feature will block third-party trackers like Google and Facebook lurking in other apps. This feature is free to use and currently in beta phase. “You’ve probably heard about companies tracking you behind the scenes on smartphone apps they don’t own (like Google hiding in the Nike app). These hidden app trackers are super creepy because they can track everything you do in an app and also can continue to track you even when you’re not using the app....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 390 words · Mary Wilson

Edge Browser And Cortana Feature In Microsoft S Latest Windows 10 Build

Microsoft is rolling out another test build just one day after releasing a new Windows 10 preview build for PCs. Yesterday, Microsoft released Build 10158 to its Fast Ring testers. Today, Microsoft released another Windows 10 build for PC, numbered 10159. They have included the new wallpaper that will be the hero image for the OS and also updated the login screen as well. Looks like this build is primarily a bug fix update, as it only one version newer than what was released yesterday....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 542 words · Rosa Caballero

Elon Musk Joins Twitter S Board Of Directors Techworm

He will serve as the class II director on the board until 2024, with a stipulation that prevents Musk from owning more than 14.90% of company shares. This is in the company’s bylaw to prevent a hostile takeover of the group. What’s the Stake? Elon Musk is now the single largest shareholder of Twitter, having more than four times the shares owned by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 304 words · Ernestina Smith

Espn Sportswriter Chris Broussard S Twitter Account Hacked Techworm

Tweets continued flowing for more than half an hour, before Chris Broussard sent an apology confirming that his Account was hacked

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 21 words · Genevieve Mcwilliams

Facebook Asking New Users For Their Email Passwords For Using The Site

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....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 360 words · Patricia Riojas

Facebook Doesnt Allow You To Type Scunthorpe In Promoted Posts Techworm

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....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 302 words · Sunni Custer

Facebook Faces 1 Billion Lawsuit For Providing Support To Terrorist Organisation Techworm

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....

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 208 words · Jose Gendron

Facebook Internet Satellite Destroyed In Spacex Rocket Explosion Techworm

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....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 421 words · Donna Manning

Facebook Messenger Introduces App Lock And New Privacy Settings

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....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 356 words · Brian Hernandez

Facebook To Tell Belgian Court It Is It S Right To Track Non Users With Datr Cookie

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....

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 158 words · Mark Sanchez

Facebook Went Down For Many Users However It Is Back Now

— 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....

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 212 words · Rosalva Mayo

Fiat Chrysler To Pay Upto 1 500 To Find Security Flaws In Its Cars Techworm

“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....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 531 words · William Franzen

First Official Lineage Os Builds To Roll Out This Weekend Techworm

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....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 293 words · Roberto Strother

Former Us Federal Agent Investigating Silk Road Admits He Stole 820000 In Bitcoins

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....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 222 words · William Glasco

Free Youtube Proxy 2023 Unblock Youtube With Proxy Sites

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....

December 6, 2022 · 5 min · 994 words · Jesus Lamb

Fugitive Likes His Own Wanted Poster On The Crimestoppers Facebook Page And Gets Arrested

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....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 293 words · Ashley Bishop

Ghost Vulnerability In Gnu C Library Can Be Exploited Remotely To Hijack The Linux System

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....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 402 words · William Grant

Github Restricting Access For Developers In Us Sanctioned Countries

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....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 584 words · Lavern Caudell

Google Allows Third Party App Developers To Read Your Emails

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....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 541 words · Roderick Kimball