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Facebook is seen to be opposing CISA though it has not yet gone on record either for or against it. But a digital privacy group Fight for the Future says that Facebook has been quietly supporting it, crediting several anonymous sources on Capitol Hill. Jeff Lyon, CTO of Fight for the Future made a a Reddit post denouncing Facebook for its two faced stand on CISA, “Multiple sources on the hill have reported that Facebook is THE tech company lobbying in favor of CISA, several offices have heard from Facebook that they support CISA....

Andrew Bosworth, Facebook’s VP of Ads and Business Platform, told in an interview that the feature is rolling out after a Facebook-commissioned survey of small business owners in the U.S. and Canada showed that the most difficult problem they had is finding the right people to hire. This feature will help businesses reach to people particularly among low-wage, hourly workers who may not have profiles on job-search sites such as LinkedIn or Monster....

According to a letter addressed to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), written by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, and obtained by Motherboard, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) often uses ad blockers extensively. For those unaware, the IC is a group of separate U.S. government intelligence agencies and subordinate organizations, that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities to support the foreign policy and national security of the U....

According to a source, the FBI’s completed the process as follows: In its crusade against exposing website owners that peddle child pornographic content, the FBI’s efforts are only now coming to light, with court documents revealing that the agency had to hack over a 1,000 computers in order to reach its goal. However, Playpen server was not shutdown, but seized by the authorities in order to monitor the activities of other visitors, which is a good course of action, because it will lead to the capture of other child pornographic websites that are scattered across the Dark Web....

25 Mb/s was the broadband standard twenty-five years ago, back in 1994 (Think Clinton in the news for sexual harassment and the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.) Technology has moved on. Your computer is 100 times faster and you have many more internet-connected devices: But standard broadband speeds are the same as they were in 1994. The internet is over-crowded because more people are using it, there are more video downloads, and online gamers are hogging bandwidth....

In situations like this, it is often comforting to have a standard policy of some kind in place. At the same time, it is important to recognize not all security issues are the same, therefore, some cannot be properly addressed with a standard incident response procedure. Experience comes into play in most situations, but ultimately it is knowledge combined with experience that makes it possible to navigate difficult circumstances and come out stronger as a result....

As we all know, Windows 10 is still vulnerable to viruses, malware, spyware, and all sorts of unwanted harmful programs. Thankfully, feature-rich antivirus software like Avast helps users to safeguard their PCs against viruses. Recently many Avast Antivirus users have been getting an error after updates from windows or avast antivirus that says: ‘UI Failed to load. This is really embarrassing. AV Service is not responding.’ Additionally, the error dialog offers ‘Exit’ and ‘Restart Service’ buttons....

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is a free professional data recovery software that helps to recover up to 2GB of deleted, formatted or lost data from PC, laptop and removable storage devices (SD card recovery, flash drive recovery and so on) . Be it an accidental format, partly deleted data, hard drive crash or a virus attack, everything is possible to recover in a matter of seconds. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard provides a well-polished and easy to use UI (user interface)....

Indian smartphone maker Ringing Bells shook the entire tech world in February this year by announcing the world’s cheapest phone, Freedom 251 exclusively at a price of Rs. 251 (which is less than $4). They invited everyone to make registrations for grabbing the smartphone at an inexpensive price. However, their online payment model didn’t work as expected and there were many bugs in their website. Also, Ringing Bells’ claim to be a part of Indian Government’s ‘Make In India’ program was found to be false....

Google Adsense Ads redirecting users to scam websites impersonating reputable magazines and blogs that sell shady health productsTop websites cloned Denis Sinegubko of Sucuri stated that at least two AdWords campaigns have been hijacked by scammers who modified legitimate ads to automatically redirect visitors to scam sites once they get displayed (no clicks required). The malicious redirect worked even in the Ad Review Center of the Google AdSense dashboard on google....

Yes, you heard it right, they have asked the search giant to remove more than 1,000,000,000 allegedly infringing links from its search engine in recent years. The remarkable milestone, reached this week, is at the center of an ongoing debate over how search engines are expected to deal with pirate sites. As I have noted above, this year has been a terrible year for the torrent websites. Consider this, in 2008, Google received only a few dozen takedown notices during the entire year....

According to Buzzfeed, Google sent an email to its employees last week notifying that the video-conferencing app would no longer work on their machines from this week, citing “security vulnerabilities” within Zoom. However, the employees could use the Zoom app to stay in touch with family and friends through mobile apps and browsers. “We have long had a policy of not allowing employees to use unapproved apps for work that are outside of our corporate network....

Therefore, in a bid to make the login process more secure than before and hassle free, Google confirmed that it’s now testing a new login process that lets one login their Google account without a password. The new password-free login procedure does away with the need of typing in the complex combination of characters altogether and requires the user to login by responding to a notification sent to their smartphone....

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast. Used by over 50% of the Internet, the browser Chrome is officially preferring HTML5 ads over Flash content to better browser performance. Flash ads will be paused by default, and advertisers just have to hope users will decide to play them voluntarily....

Google engineer and serial bug finder finds holes in Avastium, Chromodo and Malwarebytes anti-malware browsersAVASTComodoMalwarebytes Anti-Malware browser AVAST Ormandy said that he had informed Avast on December 8th, but Avast released a patched version of its Avastium browser only on February 3rd. Comodo When users install the Comodo software suite, it replaces user’s Chrome browser installation with Comodo’s own browser called Chromodo. Ormandy states that when Chromodo is installed “all shortcuts are replaced with Chromodo links and all settings, cookies, etc are imported from Chrome....

The lightning strike was so fierce that it wiped data from one of the disks at its Google Compute Engine (GCE) storage system marking it permanently unusable. In an online statement, Google said that just 0.000001% of disk space was permanently affected. Google said that some of the affected disks later became recoverable but some hardware at the data center has suffered irreversible data loss. Google operates GCE service which allows its worldwide customers to store data and run virtual computers in the cloud....

As part of the initiative, the search giant would fund 100,000 need-based scholarships and it will consider all of its Career Certificates as the equivalent of a four-year college degree for related roles in the company. “College degrees are out of reach for many Americans, and you shouldn’t need a college diploma to have economic security. We need new, accessible job-training solutions — from enhanced vocational programs to online education — to help America recover and rebuild....

Google VP of communications Nick Fox is said to be personally leading the group that is making the service possible. The team is making use of the fact that Google has an in depth knowledge and experience in AI technology and machine learning, which would be able to understand commands and responds. Google is known to offer users with search engine services, web browsing services via Chrome, email services via Gmail, Google Hangouts, Google+ and many other services....