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Created by Facebook, osquery is an open-source framework that converts operating systems to relational databases, which allows users to write SQL-based queries and look for potential malware or malicious activity on their organization’s networks. Companies can use the program for a variety of system maintenance and security functions, such as verifying that a system is running the latest versions of software, monitoring and auditing who accesses a particular file and searching for specific active processes that might indicate malware....

Bloomberg said the contractors working on the project were neither told where the audio was recorded nor informed how it was obtained. The contractors were paid to listen in on countless private audio clips, sometimes occasional vulgar conversations among Facebook Messenger users. They were also not provided an explanation as to why they were doing the transcribing, which made them “feel their work is unethical.” Facebook later acknowledged to Bloomberg that the human transcriptions were being used to test the ability of its automated speech recognition systems in interpreting messages....

Facebook has been urging U.S security agency to let them provide more transparency and flexibility around national security orders they have been complying with. as a result Facebook is now able to include a transparency report all U.S. national security-related requests (including FISA as well as National Security Letters) – which until now no company has been permitted to do. For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests Facebook received from any and all government entities in the U....

The company said that “We are gradually rolling out an experimental new feature that enables people to add OpenPGP public keys to their profile; these keys can be used to ‘end-to-end’ encrypt notification emails sent from Facebook to your preferred email accounts. People may also choose to share OpenPGP keys from their profile, with or without enabling encrypted notifications.” In order to avoid countless spams or alerts, many of the users turn off their email notifications from Facebook....

That’s what happened when Facebook itself started declaring people dead when in fact they are not. The social media giant acknowledged the problem after fixing it on Friday saying that there was a “terrible error”. Some two million wayward memorials were posted on profile pages reported the media. “For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialised profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts,” a Facebook spokesperson told Wall Street Journal....

The Fappening 2.0 leaks continue unabated. This time the Fappening 2.0 hackers have leaked nude images of British actress and The Girl star, Sienna Miller. The hackers leaked several images of Sienna in various poses of undressing. Some images show the actress topless and in a mask. A post shared by Sienna Miller (@siennamiller1) on Jul 1, 2016 at 3:23pm PDT The hackers hacked into Sienna’s iCloud account according to sources....

This gimbal is designed for DSLR and mirrorless cameras and it’s dedicated to both professional and aspiring filmmakers. So here’s a detailed review of the FeiyuTech AK4500 that will help you in making the purchasing decision. FeiyuTech AK4500: Design Aesthetics And Main Features FeiyuTech AK4500 is a well-constructed gimbal and it’s made up of aluminum alloys. This gimbal weighs 1656 grams without the battery. Unlike, many other gimbals in the market FeiyuTech AK4500 offers three-axis locks which make the process of mounting cameras and balancing them a breeze....

Due to its enormous benefits in terms of multitasking for people who work with many programs at once, using multiple displays has become increasingly popular. In general, it boosts productivity while also improving a workspace’s appearance. This is the reason why many Youtubers, Programmers, and Video editors prefer a dual monitor setup nowadays Setting up a second monitor is quite easy and can be done in a short period of time....

The city described the incident as a “triple threat” that affected everything except for Lake City’s police and fire departments, as they were on a separate server. “As a result, all Emergency services remain intact,” the city said when it revealed about the attack. The incident took place on June 10 when an employee clicked on a malicious email that infected the city’s computer system with the Emotet trojan, which subsequently downloaded the TrickBot trojan, and then, the Ryuk ransomware....

In future the gold nano-particles may be used to remotely activate brain cells and help to treat the neurological diseases. As per a report from The Guardian, Mo Costandi has given details of two proposed treatments which involves the use of gold nano-particles to transform the nerve cells. In one of the treatments a group of researchers at the University of Chicago, used gold nano rods which was attached to precise molecule which was embedded in the nerve cell membranes then infrared light was made to pass through these nano rods which warmed up the rods thus resulting in neurons to fire....

Strike shut down permanently following a lawsuit from the RIAA. However, Strike developer Andrew Sampson has now released the search engine’s source code to the public. Strike was engulfed in a tortuous legal battle with RIAA which Sampson reportedly settled for a massive $3 million. Since the legal disputes started, Strike has been offline for weeks. Even though the site was as good as dead, Sampson said that it still got million visitors daily who were served pages cached by CloudFlare....

One of the several tweets fired by Syrian Electronic Army over twitter. A screenshot tweeted by sea On their official twitter account shows they were having full control of Registry system Portal of qatar. A series of tweet fired from the Account showed various websites were effected, including https://google.com.qa , ooredoo.com.qa , diwan.gov.qa , qaf.mil.qa, https://mofa.gov.qa, aljazeera.net.qa , https://isp.qa , https://vodafone.qa , gov.qa , https://mozabintnasser.qa , qtel.com.qa, facebook.qa , qe....

Almost four years later, the search giant has decided to pull the plug on the Trusted Contacts app. Ever since the launch of Trusted Contacts app, functionality found in this app have been built directly into Google Maps with Location Sharing making it even easier for users to share their live location with trusted family and friends. As a result, effective October 16, 2020, Google has removed the Trusted Contacts app from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store....

To make matters worse, Google has pushed out a major security update to the latest version of Chrome, the 67, that will increase Chrome’s RAM usage by over 10%. However, this time around, it is done to reduce any future security threats posed by the highly-publicized system vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown that shook the technology industry in January. This was due to the design flaw that affected every CPU in the market, enabled hackers to launch attacks such as stealing sensitive information when victims visit malicious websites....

Search Engine Land, who was the first one to notice the statement by Google, made it clear that the service is temporarily shut down while a new moderation system is under construction. “Given the current state of the [moderation] system, we have come to the conclusion that it is not fair to any of our users to let them continue to spend time editing. Every edit you make is essentially going to a backlog that is growing very fast,” Google rep Pavithra Kanakarajan wrote....

Titan Solara 50, one of Google’s 5G drones had crashed during a test flight in New Mexico in May 2015 last year. The drone was solar powered and didn’t last long in the air after it encountered an updraft and one of its wings failed before crashing in the company’s Albuquerque test field. This drone was part of Google’s larger effort to deliver Internet from the stratosphere. It has been more than half a year since the May 2015 incident, and U....

The GPD Pocket is a 7-inch laptop with a capacitive touch-screen and Gorilla Glass 3 protection along with an impressive 1,920 x 1,200 resolution – 323 pixels per inch (PPI). It is powered by an x7-Z8700 quad-core Intel Atom processor running at 1.6GHz (2.4GHz burst). It comes with 4GB of LPDDR3-1600 RAM along with 128GB of eMMC storage. It has an all-in-one body made of magnesium and alloy. There is a fan under the hood to help keep the system cool....

According to Cyble, Unacademy was compromised in January 2020, and the hacker apparently had access to the complete database of the edtech platform. “However, they decided to only leak users’ accounts at this point in time, further leaks are expected in the near future,” Cyble said in its blog post. “Along with disclosing the data breach, Cyble has also acquired the leaked database which approximately contains 22 million (21,909,709) Unacademy’s user account details,” the company added....

Google has discovered three new critical vulnerabilities that allow hackers to hack an Android smartphone just by looking at a PNG image. This bug has affected millions of devices that run on Android OS versions, ranging from Nougat 7.0 to its current Android 9.0 Pie. The vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2019-1986, CVE-2019-1987, and CVE-2019-1988, were, however, patched in Android Open Source Project (ASOP) by Google as part of their Android Security Updates for February 2019....