Collaborate Disseminate
A lot of fake news has been spreading in recent times via social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and so on. A group of researchers from the University of Southern California came up with a paper titled “Combating Fake News: A … Continue reading Virality of fake news on social media: Are weaponized AI bots to blame, questions Destin Sandlin
Two days ago Apple revoked Facebook’s Developer Certificate that barred Facebook employees from using the early versions of Facebook apps such as Instagram and Messenger, and other day-to-day activities on their iPhones. However, yesterday Apple … Continue reading Apple reinstates Facebook and Google Developer Certificates, restores the ability to run internal iOS apps
TechCrunch, in their recent report mentioned, Facebook has been spying on user’s data and internet habits by paying $20 a month, plus referral fees for users aged between 13 – 35 to install a ‘Facebook Research’ VPN via be… Continue reading Facebook pays users $20/month to install a ‘Facebook Research’ VPN that spies on their phone and web activities, TechCrunch reports
Yesterday, the Microsoft suffered a worldwide issue affecting its various cloud services including Office 365, Azure Portal, Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn, where many users were unable to log into its cloud-based services. This outage issue was reported ar… Continue reading Outage in the Microsoft 365 and Gmail made users unable to log into their accounts
Last week, Cisco announced of a severe vulnerability in the web-based management interface of its Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers. This vulnerability could easily allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to retrieve sensiti… Continue reading Cisco announces severe vulnerability that gives improper access controls for URLs in its Small Business routers RV320 and RV325
OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF), the world’s largest collaborative mapping community, saw some unusual rise in signups for their memberships, in November 2018. Guillaume Rischard, an MWG(Members of the Working Group) member (and then-board candid… Continue reading OSMF’s (OpenStreetMap Foundation) investigation report on unusual membership signups just before their board elections
Recently, Confiant and Malwarebytes analyzed a steganography based payload which was utilized by a “malvertizer” dubbed “VeryMal” by the two firms, to infect Macs. According to the firms, the attempted attack ad was viewed on as… Continue reading Mac users affected by ‘Shlayer Trojan’ dropped via a Steganography-based Ad Payload; Confiant and Malwarebytes report
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced of its search engine, Bing, being blocked in China. However, they were unsure if it was due to China’s great wall censorship or due to a technical glitch. However, the search engine is back online after being shu… Continue reading Microsoft’s Bing ‘back to normal’ in China
Yesterday, Microsoft announced in a statement, that their popular Bing search engine was banned in China. This would be Microsoft’s second setback since November 2017, after its Skype internet phone call and messaging service were discontinued fr… Continue reading China blocks Microsoft’s Bing search engine
Yesterday, Microsoft announced in a statement, that their popular Bing search engine was banned in China. This would be Microsoft’s second setback since November 2017, after its Skype internet phone call and messaging service were discontinued fr… Continue reading China blocks Microsoft’s Bing search engine