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A new flaw – dubbed FREAK – is affecting many Apple and Google browsers (including about a third of encrypted websites at last count). If you’re using one of the affected browsers, or visit an affected site, attackers could potentially decrypt your connection and get into your system Get the latest on the situation ( source UKFAST)
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This Facebook Bug Allowed Anyone To Delete Your Photos
orginal article from techcrunch.com
We came across this cheeky little news story the other day and thought it was an interesting read
How many photos do you have on Facebook? How many of those are photos you never thought to back up?
This just-disclosed Facebook bug would have allowed for anyone with a bit of technical know-how to delete any photo on Facebook.
Fortunately, the guy who discovered the bug (Laxman Muthiyah of India) was quick to give Facebook a heads up — and for his troubles, he got a $12,500 bounty. (Sure, the bug could have pretty easily done more than $12,500 worth of damage to Facebook — but that’s not quite how bug bounty projects work.)
Facebook turned around and fixed the bug in about two hours.
Facebook’s Graph API wasn’t checking permissions properly. If you sent a request to the Graph API to delete another user’s photo album and toss your own Facebook for Android token as the required stamp of approval, it’d blindly accept it and the album would vanish.
On the attacker’s end, the album delete command would have looked something like this:
Request :-
DELETE /[Victim’s_photo_album_id] HTTP/1.1
Host : graph.facebook.com
Content-Length: 245
access_token=[Your(Attacker)_Facebook_for_Android_Access_Token]
On the victim’s end, the photo album would have just… disappeared.
It’s a rather simple bug, really — one of those things that you’d just never expect to actually work.
But it did — and it could have had pretty nasty consequences. As Sophos security points out, Facebook photo albums are identified and stored with simple, sequential numbers. If someone were to have popped this thing on a server and scripted up a basic number incrementer to blindly dig up albums, the attacker likely could have deleted a lot of photos before Facebook was any the wiser.
Let it be a gentle reminder: Facebook isn’t a backup drive. While your photos hopefully won’t vanish without warning, Facebook’s code isn’t infallible. Back up the stuff you love.
Asus Mobile Phone!
Asus announces the Zenfone 2 and Zenfone Zoom at CES 2015
The Zenfone 2
The Asus Zenfone 2 is boasting a 5.5″ display with thin bezels, dual-SIM/dual-active connectivity with LTE and finally, a 2.3GHz Intel Atom Z3580 chipset with the world’s first 4GB RAM in a mobile phone.
The Zenfone 2 has a curved back with a brushed metal finish and it tapers towards the edges to form an outer edge of only 3.9mm.
The 5.5-inch IPS screen on the Zenfone 2 has a 1080p resolution, which works to a pixel density of 403ppi. A bezel of only 3.3mm makes for an immersive experience, while Gorilla Glass 3 layer makes sure it’s kept as safe as possible.
The Zenfone 2 has a 13MP f/2.0 camera with HDR and Manual mode, as well as a True Tone flash for flash photos with more accurate colors and skin tones. The 5MP front camera has a 85-degree field of view and can capture Selfie Panoramas with a 140-degree field of view.
The smartphone has a 3,000mAh battery and with fast charging technology it should recharge up to 60% of its capacity in 39 minutes.
The Zenfone Zoom
The Asus Zenfone Zoom is built around a quite similar 5.5-inch 1080p screen and 13MP camera. However its main perk is the 3x optical zoom lens, which also has optical image stabilization.
Save for the zoom lens, the Zenfone Zoom has the same guts as the Zenfone 2. At 11.95mm, it is however, “the thinnest smartphone with a 3x optical zoom lens yet”. Indeed, the similar Samsung Galaxy K zoom is 16.6mm in thickness.
The Zenfone Zoom is equipped with a True Tone LED flash and laser focus, similarly to the focus system used on the LG G3. There is at least one press image that has the words “xenon flashlight” written below the lens, but the demo unit presented behind glass at CES doesn’t have that and we didn’t spot a xenon flash either.
The camera sensor behind the 3x zoom lens is again a 13MP one (like the Zenfone 2), but the lens has a variable aperture ranging from f/2.7 to f/4.8. Again, there is a wrong f/2.0 aperture written around the camera lens on the press image.
What FACEBOOK And GOOGLE Are Hiding From The World
This TED Talk was from a while back but i think really interesting and worth a watch
It talks about how web based companies filter information, just take 10 mins out of your day to have a little watch