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ICANN is planning to scrap proxy registration policy and give out the Whois Data of all the commercial domains.What is Whois Data and Proxy registration scheme for Domain owners : What is Whois Data and Proxy registration scheme for Domain owners : As per the rules of the global domain name authority, ICANN, providing the contact information is a must for all the domains during its registration. However, ICANN has a provision of Proxy Registration Scheme which helps user to keep their actual details private by paying some charges and the organization maintains a Whois Data to keep the privacy of the domain’s user intact....

The announcement made by Facebook on Wednesday comes as a major win for low-wage workers amidst the increasing tension over the wage gap between the technology sector’s elite and the lower-paid workers. It is likely that Facebook will work only with those companies that would comply with these rules. Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook who resumed work following the sudden demise of her husband this month said “Taking these steps is the right thing to do for our business and our community....

The major changes of the Pages mainly include Redesigned layout, Dedicated News Feed, Easy navigation, Updated task-based admin controls, Actionable insights, and Safety and integrity features. However, one of the prominent change is the removal of the “Like” button from redesigned Public pages. Facebook Pages will now instead show “Followers” that will give public figures a stronger indication of their fan base. “We are removing Likes and focusing on Followers to simplify the way people connect with their favorite Pages,” Facebook said about the redesign in a blog post....

In order to trigger the Pirate Reactions, users can simply change their language to “English (Pirate)” via settings. Once the setting is changed, then the reactions will get updated to ‘shiver me timbers’ instead of a regular ‘wow’. On the top of your page, where Facebook usually asks users to “update status” Pirate mode will ask you to “update your pludnerin”. Event updates will be featured as “looming grog fests” and your “home page” transforms into “home port”....

Both the down detecting services, DownRightNow and DownDetector have reported huge problems with Facebook. This is what I got when I tried opening it in my browser Update : though the services have recovered now, some Facebook users are still facing problems in opening their FB pages.

“We’re excited to announce the latest in an engaging line of optional product features geared towards making Messenger the best way to communicate with the people that matter most,” wrote a Facebook spokeswoman in a statement. “Starting today, we’re conducting a small test in France of a feature that allows people to send messages that disappear an hour after they’re sent. Disappearing messages gives people another fun option to choose from when they communicate on Messenger....

Bitcoin exec to spend two years behind bars for Silk Road transactionsEnd of the road Plea End of the road Silk Road was one of the causes of the phenomenal rise in crypto-currencies, most notably – Bitcoin for its anonymity. Silk Road itself was dealing in contraband goods and as such, it was taken down by an operation by the FBI which resulted in arrest of its found Ulbritch. Soon another clone, Silk Road 2 surfaced after the original had been taken down, but that too suffered the same fate as before....

Don’t stop! Keep reading this article to know what are the FF rewards and all the active Free Fire rewards right now. Free Fire is a free-to-play battle royale game developed by 111dots Studio and published by Garena. The game is available on both Android and iOS platforms, playable on most devices powered by the respective operating systems. Even though Free Fire was quite popular, it gained popularity after PUBG Mobile got banned in India....

In order to keep up with the latest virus definition, every anti-virus software has to update itself. In fact without these updations, the anti-virus software is a dud. For unknown or new threats they first have to be updated and that gives attackers a very brief window of opportunity to attack a computer and most of the times that’s all they need. Security researchers have been working on ways to fix this dilemma and what they propose means that future antivirus softwares may be able to capture new malware without requiring any updates thus closing the brief window open to the cyber criminals....

BloodSec was apparently not happy with internet services provided by Globe Telecom Globe later confirmed that mybusiness.globe.com.ph, payroll.globe-csme.com, duointernational.globe-csme.com, and update.globe-csme.com, were defaced. all hosted by a third party hosting provider. It also added that, all effected websites are only used for promotional and advertising campaigns and is not connected with customers data system, so there is nothing to worry about. “The server where the four websites are hosted are managed by a third party partner and outside of the Globe Corporate and Enterprise Network, where appropriate preventive and detective controls are in place....

Aw, Snap! If you are facing issues running google chrome on windows 10 then you are not alone, lots of users have reported the same after the new windows 10 update. The majority of these issues are reportedly coming from Symantec endpoint protection users, in this case, you should first update your Antivirus. While there can be several reasons why chrome is not working for you or is crashing on your PC....

Google launches two new Pixels on Wednesday, Google Chromebook Pixel 2 for $999 and Google Chromebook Pixel “Ludicrous Speed” (LS) version for $1,299Pixel 2 specsNew Apps Comparing to its previous avatar the Google Chromebook Pixel 1, the new Pixel is faster and has a higher resolution screen but lack of Apps means that users will have to shell out 1K for a super speed web browsing laptop which cant do anything else....

For those unaware, under the revised disclosure policy, GPZ needs to wait for at least 90 days before publicly revealing the details of a security bug, even if the bug is fixed ahead of that deadline. Also, vendors can request an additional 14-day grace period from Google if they believe they won’t be able to fix the reported vulnerability within 90 days. The flaw concerns a low integrity process that can send LPC messages to splwow64....

For those unaware, Apple also has a similar AR measurement app for iPhones that too goes by the name ‘Measure’, which was introduced as a new feature in iOS 12. This feature allows users to measure real-world objects using AR on their phone. In fact, Google’s Measure app has been around for a long time although it was available only on Project Tango devices that had specialized sensors. The Measurement app helps in quick, everyday measurements around the house or office....

While every year, Facebook pays millions of dollars to researchers and bug hunters to find security holes in its products and organization, it is still facing security breaches. Facebook has been running its Bug Bounty program since 2011. Now, in order to step up its efforts to tighten the security of the platform, Facebook on Tuesday announced in a post that it has increased the average payout for account takeover vulnerabilities so as “to encourage security researchers to work on finding high-impact issues”....

Lamo, who was also occasionally known as the “homeless hacker” for his nomadic life, died in Sedgwick County, Kansas on Friday. Although the exact reason behind Lamo’s death is unknown, the coroner for Sedgwick County, Kansas, confirmed his death without giving more details, according to ZDNet. Lamo’s death was also confirmed by his father, Mario Lamo who in the Facebook group “2600 | The Hacker Quarterly,” posted a tribute to his son on Friday....

Speaking to Motherboard in an email, Philippines-based freelance penetration test and bug bounty hunter Allan Jay Dumanhug said, “I tried to think of different possibilities or testing cases on how can I delete a story of any user. And fortunately, I found a severe bug.” In a blog post published at the end of last month, Dumanhug explained the trick that centres around Medium’s “Publications” feature. Users can make their own publications such as a page devoted to infosec news, for example and then request to add other users’ posts to it....

For those unaware, VLC media player is one of the best and most popular media players with over 3 billion downloads. It is a free, open source, and portable, cross-platform which can be used on Windows, macOS, Linux, as well as Android and iOS mobile platforms. Whatever the format is, VLC media player can play almost any kind of audio and video formats you want. Symeon Paraschoudis, a researcher from Pen Test Partners, who identified the first high-severity vulnerability as CVE-2019-12874 is MKV double free flaw and resides in ” zlib_decompress_extra() (demux/mkv/utils....