These simple Facebook tips and tricks will help you use it like a pro1. Change your profile pic into an animated GIF2. Get to know how your profile looks like to the public and individual friends3. You can save interesting news in your News Feed for later viewing4. See your Facebook activity done on the same day in the past5. Turn off auto-playing videos in your News Feed6. What’s trending on Facebook allows you to stay updated on the hottest news7....

The Register reports that these extensions are open to attacks that can quietly compromise machines and pass Mozilla’s automated and human security tests. Boston University Ph.D. Ahmet Buyukkayhan and Northeastern University Professor William Robertson demonstrated how the attacked dubbed Extension Reuse can be leveraged by hackers to install malware on users computers. The two researchers said that had researched the vulnerability for two years by creating malicious extensions which use a so-called “extension reuse” mechanism to make malicious calls to other extensions, which then pass them along to the underlying system....

Some of the victims of the spyware hack belong to the United States, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Mexico, Pakistan, and India. WhatsApp on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California against Israeli surveillance software company, NSO Group. The company has been accused of building and selling a hacking platform that exploited vulnerabilities in the WhatsApp messaging app. As a result, it helped unnamed entities’ spies to hack into phones of roughly 1,400 users around the world between April and May 2019....

Soon after posting of the message by Thomas, tech and underground forums were agog with the rumours of raids by authorities. Tor has been in news for some time now since the revelation that FBI had exposed Tor users IP addresses to catch a criminal. However, at 23:54:32 UTC, Thomas posted another message to assuage the fears of Tor users of a possible raid by authorities and stop the rumour mongering going on in the forums and chats....

Torrents related news aggregator, Torrent Freak down, Lizard Squad claims Lizard Stresser at workLizard Stresser at work? The TorrentFreak website is up now but is suffering from intermittent downtime. Exactly four hours ago the official Twitter account of TorrentFreak tweeted about it being down — TF (@torrentfreak) January 12, 2015 Followed by another tweet around two hour ago saying they were up and running — TF (@torrentfreak) January 12, 2015 This was followed by another tweet saying that they again offline...

Although Microsoft has already launched a beta version of Windows 11 for Windows Insider Program users under Beta and Dev channels, the full version of the OS will be rolled to Windows 10 users with compatible PCs later this year. Now, a developer named Blue Edge has built an open-source web simulator for Windows 11 for those who are curious to try out Windows 11 within their browser without having to install or download the Windows 11 ISO....

Games developer Ubisoft deactivating keys it says were “fraudulently” obtained and resoldUbisofts stand The deactivation decision has hit mainly Far Cry 4 and Assassin’s Creed players who had purchased the keys legally and yet find themselves unable to play the game due to Ubisoft’s arbitrary decision.The Ubisoft forum was filled with huge number of complaints from gamers all over the world over the weekend when they found that games like Far Cry 4 have been removed from their libraries....

Scientists have further warned that cables and fiber optics will not be in a position to take data from a single optical fiber and this will be the major cause of Internet collapse. The cables and fiber optics are responsible for relaying information to our computers, smartphones, laptops etc. What are optical fibers? They are transparent strands that bears the thickness of a human hair; the information first gets transformed into light and is sent down the optical fiber and it then gets transformed back to information....

Now you dont have to worry about as Mozilla has released a finished version of Firefox with its promised stricter Private Browsing mode. After you switch on the Private Browsing mode, Mozilla says that you’ll get additional tracking protection that blocks code from those ads and social services that follow you from site to site. The new browser also has a central control panel on the desktop for managing privacy and security, including the option to turn tracking protection off if it’s breaking an important page....

While most of us keep updating our day to day activities online, criminals these days are not behind. As a result, one can expect that police will follow and investigate crimes online. However, the recent government requests report from Facebook unveiled an unexpected and dramatic rise in real-time interceptions, or wiretaps. While in all of 2014, Facebook received only 9 requests for 16 users or accounts, but on the other hand, in the first half of 2015, US law enforcement agencies sent Facebook 201 wiretap requests (known as “Title III” in the report) for 279 users or accounts....

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has released a eerie video ahead of the independence day to remind you to stay safe. The video which is hauntingly scary shows just how dangerous the fireworks can be and in the process has destroyed many mannequins. The video, which you can see below, shows a series of circumstances you don’t want to be in. Happy Independence Day to all our American readers and Stay Safe

While there are no details on naming or products, Hidemi Moue, chief executive officer of Japan Industrial Partners (which owns VAIO) says the deal is expected to be announced by the end of March. VAIO was earlier a part of Sony Corporation and spun off in a massive restructuring exercise. The news of this super merger emerged after Toshiba confirmed it was not considering withdrawing from making PCs Toshiba has been bleeding big bucks in its PC manufacturing division and has already cut around 7,800 jobs in December amidst an accounting scandal....

Using VidMate you can easily download videos from every major video hosting website including Youtube. VidMate is available as a free application for Android smartphone users. Due to the lack of storage on many smartphones, downloading a humungous collection of videos and movies is not feasible. Consequently, many users prefer downloading and saving their media libraries on computers. So, if you are looking to download Vidmate on your Windows 10 PC or MAC you are in right place....

Soon, after the initial release of the ransomware took place on May 12, 2017, a U.K.-based researcher going by the name of MalwareTech happened to accidentally discover a “kill switch” hardcoded in the malware while trying to analyze the attack. The researcher then registered a domain which the malware seems to ping before infection. This stopped the attack spreading as a worm and acted like a kill switch, thereby instructing the malware to not proceed with the encryption of files, making it inactive....

Microsoft Botches Windows 10 Creators Update, Urges Users Not To Manually Update ItManually Installing Windows 10 Creators Update May Freeze Your PC/Laptop Says Microsoft However, users installing the all important Windows 10 Creators update have reported that their PC/laptops freezing up with some reporting BSOD screens. Now two weeks after Microsoft has made its Creators Update available, it is warning its users against installing it on their own, and is also blocking the update to devices....

“It controls what people see, creates mechanisms for the people to interact,” he said of the modern day web. “It’s been great but spying, blocking sites, repurposing people’s content, taking you to the wrong websites: that completely undermines the spirit of helping people create.” Since, the World Wide Web is often subject to control by governments and corporations; Berners-Lee wants to create a decentralized web that has more privacy, less government control, and less corporate influence....

Following public outcry over investigation and compulsory storing of messages, the Modi government yesterday issued clarification that social media websites like WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and applications will be exempted from the purview of the Encryption Policy. There are certain categories of encryption products that will be exempted from the purview of the draft national encryption policy, according to the draft posted by The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY)....

The iPhone models that would be affected by the move are Apple’s very two old devices, iPhone 5 and iPhone 5c, which run iOS 10 and iOS 11. In other words, users of such devices will have to upgrade to a new device to continue using WhatsApp. The Meta-owned company has already started sending out in-app notifications to iPhone users running iOS 10 or iOS 11 asking them to update their devices in order to keep their WhatsApp services active after October 24th....

Find out which Programming Language is best career choice for you based on jobs, search engines and other parameters1. Java 2. C 3. Python 4. C++ 5. JavaScript 6. C# 7. PHP 8 Swift 9. Objective-C 10. R David Gewirtz, a computer scientist, lecturer, journalist, and author at ZDNet, took a look at the most popular programming language in the market and what that actually means. Gewirtz developed a pretty encompassing list that uses data from PYPL (PopularitY of Programming Language), which looks at the popularity of language tutorials on Google, plus TIOBE, which uses search engine aggregates to calculate popularity, and IEEE Jobs, IEEE Open, and IEEE Trending....