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Facebook’s rapid rise may point out investor confidence that the company will persist in increasing mobile-advertising sales on its application and others. To some extent, the increase in value also reflects froth in tech stocks; since Facebook went public, the Nasdaq Internet Index has almost doubled. Facebook’s shares trade at 87 times earnings, almost five times the average in the S&P 500. At the same time, companies in the Nasdaq Internet Index trade at a price-earnings ratio of 27....

Here is what your stolen data is being sold for on the dark webCredit/Debit card detailsPayPal accountsGift cardsPassport scansTicketsHotel loyalty programsEmail ids and passwordsGaming accountsCloud accounts for IaaSHBO GO accountsSports network streaming service accounts Credit/Debit card details A hacker gets around $5 per record for basic account number and expiration date details, which is nothing when you think some of the hacks that have got hundreds of thousands of these records....

These separate containers will allow the user to log into a website using different identities. For example, one tab can be logged into Facebook using one account for friends and family, while another tab displays a second work-related Facebook account. By default, Firefox Nightly comes with four different containers called Personal (blue), Work (orange), Banking (green), and Shopping (pink), which means users would be able to log in with four different IDs....

Growing health conscious and smartphone owning population in India along with the success of Xiaomi’s Mi Band of fitness wearables seems to have egged Fitbit into entering the price conscious Indian market. James Park, CEO and Co-founder of Fitbit added: “With a growing focus on personal health, fitness and wellbeing across India, and the strong demand for mobile devices and technology in the market, Fitbit is thrilled to provide consumers in India with our full line of trackers—at affordable prices across all mobile platforms—ensuring that everyone can find the right fit for their lifestyle and their goals....

The European Space Agency said that it had received signals from the lander, named Philae, late on Thursday, when it began “speaking” with its team on the ground for the first time as it went into emergency hibernation following a poor landing on the comet in November. Scientists think that the space probe is receiving increasing amounts of sunlight as the comet comes closer to the sun which enables its solar panels to generate the power required to send data....

Fortnite and Xbox raised USD 144 million for Ukraine Fortnite officially made a tweet that they were able to generate 144 million USD for the people in Ukraine along with Microsoft Xbox. The proceeds will be used for people living in Ukraine, affected by the war, refugees who had to relocate, and the food that people need in the war affected country. Together with the Fortnite community and @Xbox, we raised $144 million USD for @DirectRelief @UNICEF, @WFP, @Refugees and @WCKitchen....

2014 Protests in Hong Kong The 2014 Hong Kong protests, which is also known as the Umbrella Movement or Umbrella Revolution, began in September 2014 when activists in Hong Kong protested outside the government headquarters and occupied several major city intersections after the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC) announced its decision to nominate only the Mainland China vetted candidates. The protesters who are made up of mostly students and pro-democracy advocacy groups based in Hong Kong dont want a Beijing controlled puppet government in Hong Kong and also want that they be allowed to nominate and choose their own leaders....

And now one of the biggest news of this week is the leaked script of GOT Season 8 on internet. Going according to DNA’s reports, one of the Reddit users posted four pages of Game of Thrones’ script: one page from Episode three, two from Episode 5, and one from Episode 6. According to the leaked scripts, Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie), Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner), Podrick Payne (Daniel Portman), and the Hound (Rory McCann) will try to run away from a group of wights using the Hound driven wagon....

Launched in technical preview last year, GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, an AI system trained on billions of lines of public code. It is an AI pair programmer tool that developers to write code faster and with less work. It draws context from comments and code to suggest individual lines and whole functions instantly. So, how does GitHub Copilot work? OpenAI Codex was trained on publicly available source code and natural language, so it works for both programming and human languages....

For those unaware, this is GitHub’s first major update since it was officially acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in October last year. While GitHub always had a free tier that developers can use to store and manage their code, the company, however, charged $7 a month for a private repository. “For the first time, developers can use GitHub for their private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free,” the company said in a brief blog post....

Glassdoor Account Take-Over CSRF VulnerabilityAbout GlassdoorProof of Concept (PoC)Video of the PoC Mohamed while researching the Glassdoor website found that it is vulnerable to critical account hijacking via CSRF flaw. Mohamed says that a potential hacker can take over the website via account takeover and use it to deface the Glassdoor website as well as add new content which can lead them to a new page laden with malware. The hackers can also any details in user account settings and this is the most critical point in this article so you can change user password ,change user e-mail and this can be done via just one-click malicious URL....

Google bans ‘explicit’ images and videos from BloggerGoogle starts penalizing blogger blogs which contain NSFW images and videos Blogger is free blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google servers at a subdomain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. Earlier Google used to allow “images or videos that contain NSFW content” as long as the blogger warned its visitors it was hosting above 18+ content and the blog reader was above 18 year of age....

Kamil was invited with a grant of $1337.00 to take part in Google Vulnerability Research Grants which he accepted and decided to take a look at the security of Google products. He was working with the YouTube Creative Studio when he found out that a logical bug that allowed him to delete any video by entering a video ID against any session token. PoC Being a Bieber fan, he wanted to try out his new found exploit by deleting one of Justin Bieber’s videos posted YouTube....

The yearly Global 500 rankings, which calculates the most valuable and powerful brands across the globe, found that the search engine’s brand value rose 24 percent to $109.5 billion in this year’s report, from $88.2 billion last year. The company “enables the world’s biggest brands reach their customers and build their own brand equity (through search and advertising respectively)”, the report said. “Google remains largely unchallenged in its core search business, which is the mainstay of its advertising income,” which was up 20% in 2016, it added....

Google has now added “Kodi” to its autocomplete piracy filter of the search engine, as it is viewed as being “closely associated with copyright infringement”, reports TorrentFreak. For those unaware, Kodi works as a centralized, legal, open source media center that allows you to access all of your digital audio, movies, TV shows, music collection and photo library from a single, convenient place, whenever and wherever you are. However, its support for third-party add-ons, including those that allow for illegal streaming of copyrighted content without paying for it, often makes it look illegal....

What would this mean: Usually the blog sites which filter in loads of information on Google get rankings based on the links pasted and the popularity. However, recently Google found that the higher rankings need not also give the right or true information. Hence it has now decided to implement a new technology which would be based on “truth score” to give the ranking and not popularity. This idea is still on the research paper and not yet implemented....

The Android legacy SOP flaw which was discovered by Rafay Baloch, a Pakistani security researcher, affects the webview component of the Android default browser shipped with around 930,000 smartphones operating on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and below. The vulnerability in the WebView component, occurs when replacing the ‘data’ attribute of a given HTML object with a JavaScript URL scheme. A potential hacker could leverage the UXSS flaw to scrape cookie data and page contents from a vulnerable browser window....

Street View is the search giant’s virtual mapping tool that lets users view 360-degree, panoramic and street-level images across more than 65 countries, and seven million miles. Despite the fact that Google blurs faces, licence plates and other sensitive information, India’s security agencies and defence department reportedly objected. Street View in India until now has only mapped major landmarks and tourist attractions such as the Taj Mahal in Agra and the Gateway of India in Mumbai, rather than the street-level detail seen in cities in the UK or the U....

However it seems that the Indian government has erred big time if one goes by the leaked copy of the order which reveals that some of websites that are blocked cannot be classified as adult websites by any iota of imagination. The leaked copy of the purported order issued by the Department of Telecommunications was made by public by Pranesh Prakash, policy director at Centre for Internet and Society (CIS)....

With about 170 million copies sold, GTA 5 or Grand Theft Auto 5 is second on the list of the best-selling Video games ever. One of the most loved things about the GTA Series is the ability to use Cheat Codes. Cheat Codes allow you to gain special powers in the game for a short duration of time. Ever since GTA: San Andreas, cheat codes have been a special part of all GTA games....