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“In recent weeks, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming presidential election, including unsuccessful attacks on people associated with both the Trump and Biden campaigns,” said Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President of Customer Security and Trust with Microsoft, in a comprehensive Thursday post. “The activity we are announcing today makes clear that foreign activity groups have stepped up their efforts targeting the 2020 election as had been anticipated, and is consistent with what the US government and others have reported....

According to the officials, hospitals, research laboratories, health care providers, and pharmaceutical companies all have been hit. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) managing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been hit by a wave of daily strikes, an official having direct knowledge of the attacks said. “It is safe to say that there are only two places in the world that could hit (the Department of Health and Human Services) the way it’s been hit,” an official familiar with the attacks told CNN....

What is called the “New Facebook” is the more streamlined UI, on par with the transitioning UI norms and preferences amongst the users. Users were Notified Coming September 1, the old Facebook UI will be gone forever as users across the globe got the notification a day or two back, as they logged into their accounts. Users were NotifiedThat’s Not AllBeta Testing Lasted for Months You can manually try the new Facebook UI on your computer through the account button....

But don’t be fooled. In reality, app development is a complex process that often takes far longer to complete than anticipated. From design to development, to debugging, to completion – and then, more often than not, even more debugging – the entire process takes an average of three to nine months to complete when working with an experienced app development company. For the inexperienced developer, it could take years. Increasing your efficiency through streamlining The efficiency of a software development team is more important than ever – particularly for smaller teams who don’t have the time, or resources, to waste, and need to get a working product out the door as soon as possible....

Joe McCloskey operated a Facebook page called ‘Keeping Our Kids Safe From Predators 2’ with the purpose of naming and shaming child abusers in public and acting as a deterrent for such kind of acts. However based on a complaint filed by man identified only as CG, Mr.Justice Stephens held that Facebook will have to pay £20,000 ($30000) in damages to CG. The judge also held the page operator, McCloskey equally liable for misusing private information and ordered the closure of the ‘Keeping Our Kids Safe From Predators 2’ Facebook page....

Techworm team researched how Bihar’s businesses who are linked to the infamous coal mafia and some insiders are cheating on the Bihar Government and several small businessman to appropriate tax worth many crores by stealing identities. The identity theft scam involves using the unique Tax Identification Number (TIN) provided by the state government. A businessman from Bihar, who wishes to remain anonymous, accessed the Commercial Tax Department, Government of Bihar portal to find out the outstanding tax on sales for the current year....

Detekt tool to scan your system for Government SpywareGovernment funded spyware marketThe SolutionNot 100% effective yet Government funded spyware market FinSpy, maintained by German developer FinFisher, is one of the most publicized examples. It has been used to monitor the communications of human rights lawyers and democracy protesters in Bahrain, Pakistan and many countries. Services from the company could amount to millions of dollars to the buyer nation. Another company developing such a product is the Italian Hacking Team, offering Remote Control System (RCS), a spying tool that can be adapted to any platform, to different government entities....

The world’s first hacking happened 115 years ago! Surprised? In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor, and electrical engineer was all set to demonstrate wireless transmission in England. Not many know that Marconi had many rivals who wanted to prove him wrong. Marconi claimed that his Wireless transmission was unhackable and could not be interrupted or encroached on. A rival inventor named Nevil Maskelyne went on to prove him wrong....

According to DuckDuckGo, its desktop browser will redefine user expectations of everyday online privacy. It promises “no complicated settings, no misleading warnings, no “levels” of privacy protection – just robust privacy protection that works by default, across search, browsing, email, and more.” “It’s not a “privacy browser”. It’s an everyday browsing app that respects your privacy because there’s never a bad time to stop companies from spying on your search and browsing history,” reads the blog post....

For those unaware, Epic Games had filed a lawsuit against Apple in August 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, related to Apple’s practices in the iOS App Store. Epic Games specifically had challenged Apple’s restrictions on apps from having other in-app purchasing options outside of the one provided by the App Store. Apple typically takes a 15% to 30% revenue cut of gross sales on each purchase made in the App Store, which was challenged by Epic Games’ founder Tim Sweeney....

Talking about the project, Carlos Uraga, CEO of the Spanish company Erle Robotics, told Ars Technica in an e-mail: “It was interesting to several companies and communities to see that drones are not just aerial platforms and get to a robot able to walk for specific missions where a copter is not enough.” But things soon moved beyond a simple walking robot: “The final result of Erle-Spider is not the initial ‘idea’ of e....

Well, everyone knows that internet is a pretty sinful place and the adult content very often finds its way onto Facebook, Instagram and their likes. To provide a ‘sin-free’ competition to the world’s largest social network, a group of Evangelical Christians in Brazil has launched a site named Facegloria. The site’s religious motive is to help people erase the sins created by the use of Facebook and to cleanse the already dirtied hearts of religious people....

ESA scientists are now worried because a recent study reveals that though the space debris that can be detected by radar do not pose much threat to other spacecrafts however the smaller space debris, that are non detectable by radar, are the ones that are hazardous to the future missions and spacecrafts. Hugh Lewis said it is essential to understand these objects and added: “Even though many of these objects will be no bigger than the ball in a ballpoint pen, they can disable a spacecraft in a collision because of their enormous speed....

Bidding goodbye to its millions of fans, the ExtraTorrent homepage displays a simple message that reads: “ExtraTorrent with all mirrors goes offline. We permanently erase all data. Stay away from fake ExtraTorrent websites and clones. Thx to all ET supporters and torrent community. ET was a place to be….” ExtraTorrent has decided to shut down permanently and the message on the homepage also does make it clear that the website will not return....

For those unaware, the iOS 14.5 update comes with a new privacy feature called App Tracking Transparency (ATT), which was released to the public on April 26th. The ATT feature requires apps to get user’s permission before sharing their activity and data with websites and apps owned by other companies. In other words, this feature gives users a little more control over whether or not they want an app to be able to track them....

The problem was universal and many users took to Twitter to express their shock at the sudden draining of their smartphone battery. — u!?? ??? (@kataykin) January 10, 2017 — Robb Lewis (@rmlewisuk) January 10, 2017 David Marcus, the VP of messaging products at the social network, confirmed on Twitter that this problem had arisen due to a bug, and that it should now be solved. “Issue was isolated and fixed server side,” he wrote on Tuesday....

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....

The detailed report by WSJ highlights the relation shared between Facebook-Apple with both the companies even once being on the same side while underscoring the competitive threat posed by Google’s Android operating system to both the companies. During an interview in 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook had even referred to Facebook as a ‘partner’. However, things started taking a different turn when Apple in 2014 introduced stringent ways that would make it harder for Facebook to track usage and target ads to users....