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A new report suggests that Meta is now tracking your browsing activity done using the custom in-app browser present on both Facebook and Instagram. Well, these browsers inject a javascript code into each website that you visit. This allows the parent company, Meta, to potentially track you across several websites. This issue was discovered by researcher Felix Krause. In an official blog post, he stated that, “The Instagram app injects their tracking code into every website shown, including when clicking on ads, enabling them [to] monitor all user interactions, like every button and link tapped, text selections, screenshots, as well as any form inputs, like passwords, addresses, and credit card numbers,” If your primary smartphone runs on iOS then you might know that Apple allows users to opt-out of the app tracking done by Instagram and Facebook....

The argument took place over a family dispute which was playing out on Facebook messenger. Both Mailand and Dominiguez were not known to Romero and somehow got involved in the dispute. Mailand had a heated exchange with Romero on the Messenger. “And the whole time, I know this sounds stupid, but I was joking about it,” Romero said. “Not joking, but making a joke of it.” Mailand turned up on Wednesday night at Romero’s doorstep....

However the outage seems to be so acute that even the Like Widget on websites and blogs including the one on Techworm is throwing up error message. The Facebook outage first occurred around 1.10 am ET and Instagram went down subsequently followed by Tinder. Luckily for users, the Facebook owned mobile instant messaging App, WhatsApp is operating normally as of now. — Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) January 27, 2015 Users took to Twitter to vent their fury about the outage...

The social media giant announced on Thursday that it would be rolling out TV commercial-style ad breaks in live videos, and would begin testing ad breaks in traditional News Feed videos as well. “Whether on Facebook or off, we’re committed to continuing to work with our partners to develop new monetization products and ad formats for digital video,” Facebook’s vice president of partnerships, Nick Grudin, said in a statement. “It’s early days, but today’s updates are a step towards this goal....

Sshhh!!! Even Facebook has ears and they want to hear what you have to say. Literally!!! According to an expert, Facebook is listening in on people’s conversations all of the time to gather data on what they are talking about. However, the social networking giant says that its app does listen to what’s happening around it, but only as a way of seeing what people are listening to or watching and suggesting that they post about it....

Last year, a similar measure was introduced by another social media giant Twitter on its platform, which prompts its users to read an article before they retweet it. This move has led to users opening articles 40% more often and also reduced the rate of inadequate awareness of the current news and events. On Monday, Facebook announced on the Facebook Newsroom Twitter account that it is testing the pop-up feature to promote more informed sharing of articles and curb misinformation....

The Like Box is a variant of the embeddable Like Button that allows you to Like a page from other sites. The embed would also show off some of the other people who liked a given Page. Facebook suggests you to instead use the newer Page Plugin, which functions similarly, but looks a little cleaner visually and is able to pull in content feeds from your Facebook Page if you want....

The root of this flaw resides in the way proxy authentication is performed. This kind of authentication is a backbone for organizations that deploy a strong firewall. An attacker, who is placed inside the network and can sniff the proxy traffic, can force the user(s) for unnecessary logins and thus collecting their credentials. How It Works: Suppose your organization has a security implementation that requires users to log in to a proxy server before they can access the internet....

However, the Tor Project, a non-profit that maintains a privacy-minded web browser that is responsible for maintaining the Tor anonymizing network in one of the most shocking blogs has claimed the FBI paid Carnegie Mellon University security researchers atleast $1 million to reveal the identities of Dark Web users. The Tor Project is best-known for Web browser software, which is widely used to cruise the Dark Web. The Tor Project wrote in a blog post that the academics made changes to some of the technical protocols used to obscure peoples’ locations and crafted an attack....

DX ham radio is not just about talking to each other. A huge part of being a ham include communication, sharing experience and helping other people who also want to become a part of this global community. For this reason, more and more special groups and memberships appear unite DX enthusiasts. The regularly gather together to share some of the latest ham radio news, operating experience, knowledge and some other useful things you will take the advantage in future....

But what were we doing on our shiny new iPhones? Here’s a look at the new iPhone apps that proved just how adaptable our mobile friends were in 2017. Super Mario Run Ok so we’re cheating with this one as it was actually released in late December 2016. But despite this technicality, it’s clear that this was the gaming app that most of us were playing throughout 2017. Whether you were perfecting your expert swipe moves to transport Mario over the endless obstacles, or just amusing yourself with the fact that Android users had to wait four months to get their version of the game, it was clear that there’s nothing like a bit of Mario for gaming on our mobiles....

Similar to PUBG, Fortnite can be played on every smartphone, computer, and gaming consoles. Also Read– PUBG PC Download So here’s a detailed guide to download and play Fortnite Battle Royale and Fortnite: Save the World on every supported device. Fortnite Download For Mobile, Windows PC, And Gaming Consoles Fortnite Download For Smartphones (Android and iOS) Fortnite Download For Mobile, Windows PC, And Gaming ConsolesFortnite Download For Smartphones (Android and iOS)Fortnite Download For PCFortnite Download For Xbox, Playstation, And Nintendo Switch...

Adrien Guinet, a French security researcher from Quarkslab, has discovered a method for finding the ransomware’s decryption key making use of a flaw in which WannaCry functions, according to The Hacker News. Basically, WannaCry encryption creates a pair of keys – “public” and “private”. While the ransomware uses prime numbers to generate a “public” key, the “private” key is for encryption and decryption of the system files. WannaCry erases the keys from the system, thus compelling the victim to pay $300 to the cybercriminals....

Researchers from antivirus provider Trend Micro said in a blog post published on Tuesday that the attackers behind Pawn Storm are using a new Adobe Flash zero-day exploit in their latest campaign. Pawn Storm is a long-running cyber-espionage campaign known for its high-profile targets and usage of the first Java zero-day in the last couple of years. The researchers wrote: In this most recent campaign of Pawn Storm, several Ministries of Foreign Affairs received spear phishing e-mails....

After the examination of the code was done by Zeidman, the previously unavailable source code for MS-DOS was donated by Microsoft to the Computer History Museum. Zeidman has used QDOS to do his original analysis. Later, the museum also traced and released a more complete version of the CP/M source code. Zeidman re-ran his analysis, and presented the results at the Vintage Computer Festival West on August 6. So, what was the conclusion of the analysis?...

Likebook Brings live All your data from Facbook servers into a book from your timeline starting from the year 2007 and make the book of your lovely memories, it is available in 8 colors, 3 different layouts and 2 types of covers.

A Google driverless car has been involved in an accident with a bus and Google has said it “bears some responsibility” for the first time. The company admitted that it was partially responsible for the minor collision, which happened earlier in February. The collision which happened in February, 2016 which go down in record books as the first accident where an autonomous car has hit another vehicle. On 14 February the car, travelling at 2mph (3km/h), pulled out in front of a public bus going 15mph (24km/h)....

Google India said, “Today, we are taking a big step forward by partnering with Pluralsight and Udacity for a new scholarship program that will help 130K developers and students across India to gain the skills they need to be successful in the changing technology landscape.” Adding further, the tech giant said, “At Google, we have consistently invested in helping the developer and Startup community to get easy access to all the latest technology that is shaping the world today....

RC4 aka Rivest Cipher 4 also known as ARC4 or ARCFOUR is a stream cipher used for cryptography in Internet browsers. While it was remarkably simple and fast, multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in it making it most insecure cipher. It is especially vulnerable when the beginning of the output keystream is not discarded, or when nonrandom or related keys are used; some ways of using RC4 can lead to very insecure protocols such as WEP....