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Latest Captcha’s used by Google and Facebook are vulnerable!     Have you ever seen that “Image Captchas” while using internet? Tech Giants Facebook and Gmail are also using that captcha and according to the security researchers of Columbia University, this captcha is vulnerable. Angelos D. Keromytis, Suphannee Sivakorn and Iasonas Polakis are three security researchers, who found major vulnerabilities in captcha used by Facebook and Google. During research, an a

Beware! Cybercriminals are using facebook to spread malwares! According to a report Cybercriminals are using Facebook to spread harmful banking Trojans. They are using twitter too. A number of cases related to it have been found in Brazil. Cybercriminals are using social engineering techniques to trick the Brazilian Portuguese-speaking users. According to a Dec, attackers trick the users to download a Spy Banker Trojan. Using social media platform attackers send a short URL that provides the

The Social Network Giant, Facebook was recently in news for tracking even the non-users of its service. In other words, if you don't even have a Facebook Account, still you are being tracked by Facebook Inc. This is scary! At least for those who chose to be anonymous, and don't register for Facebook.In a recent report, Facebook researchers have claimed to find a "bug" that simply allowed them to track people who haven't ever visited the website.The disclosure was made public by Richard Allen, th

On March 24th, the highest court of land, Supreme Court of India will pronounce its verdict on the validity of 66A IT act amendment which has been in the eye of storm due to it's draconian powers. Ever since this amendment came into effect in 2009, there have been numerous cases being filed against common citizens for their online posts on social media namely, Twitter & Facebook. 66A. Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc. Any person who sends

Two Days ago on 14th of March 2015, the official Anonymous YouTube channel came up with a new video allegedly claiming a Facebook Group being deleted by Facebook itself, having more than 30,000 odd members supporting OPISIS started by Anonymous to fight online against ISIS. Anonymous asked a simple reason why the group was deleted without a prior notice/warning and at last thrashed Facebook saying it is now proved that they take sides and does not come out as a unbiased Social Network for peop

An Independent researcher named Mohammad Reza Faghani has disclosed a new Malware in the wild affecting Facebookers. A new trojan is being spread all through the Facebook which has approximately infected more than 110k Facebook users just within two days. Medium of Facebook Trojan The behavior of the trojan is said to be as follows: tags infected user's friends in an enticing post when the tagged person open the post, then an adult video preview is shown and abruptly stops then, it

Social Networking Giants Facebook and Instagram went offline Today. The infamous hacker group Lizard Squad has taken the responsibility of the worldwide outage. Along with Facebook and Instagram, AIM, Tinder and Hipchat also went offline today with error messages shown worldwide. The official news calls it a Technical outage, but the other side shows something else. Lizard Squad tweeted from their official twitter account about the same story, claiming the attack on all the five social networki

The famous Android messaging client, WhatsApp is getting serious over its Clone app i.e. WhatsApp Plus, which is becoming equally famous these days among the users. The Facebook owned WhatsApp is believed to ban users who are found guilty on the basis of "Violation of Terms of Service" agreement. The users get a direct ban of 24 hours on using WhatsApp, displaying the below message: It was recently rumored that WhatsApp is working on a new App called WhatsApp Plus, which will