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Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Twitter testing news-first timeline on Android

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With this update, we’re making it easier for people to see the news and stories their followers have been discussing while they’ve been away right at the top of their timeline,” Mashable quoted Wally Gurzynski, Product Manager, Twitter as saying on Tuesday.

The feature comes with a prompt that says - "Catch up on what's happened while you were away". 
The feature comes with a prompt that says — “Catch up on what’s happened while you were away”.
Earlier in 2015 and 2016 Twitter released “While you were away” and “Never miss an important tweet” features but they were not to specifically highlight news stories.
This feature, however, rather than just surfacing interesting and popular tweets, focuses on news stories from news agencies and organisations.
This catching-up with the news test feature is in line with the other tests that Twitter is running and are aimed at following specific conversations and newsworthy events easier, the report added.
The feature-test roll-out for iOS users and its final release plans remain unclear as of now.
Earlier in 2015 and 2016 Twitter released "While you were away" and "Never miss an important tweet" features but they were not to specifically highlight news stories. 
This feature, however, rather than just surfacing interesting and popular tweets, focuses on news stories from news agencies and organisations.

This catching-up with the news test feature is in line with the other tests that Twitter is running and are aimed at following specific conversations and newsworthy events easier, the report added.
The feature-test roll-out for iOS users and its final release plans remain unclear as of now.
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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

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Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that iApple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and rewards teenagers and adults to download the Research app and give it root access to network traffic in what may be a violation of Apple policy so the social network can decrypt and analyze their phone activity, a TechCrunch investigation confirms.
Facebook admitted to TechCrunch it was running the Research program to gather data on usage habits, and it has no plans to stop.
Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or Android “Facebook Research” app. Facebook even asked users to screenshot their Amazon order history page. The program is administered through beta testing services Applause, BetaBound and uTest to cloak Facebook’s involvement, and is referred to in some documentation as “Project Atlas” — a fitting name for Facebook’s effort to map new trends and rivals around the globe.

We asked the security expert of the Guardian Mobile Firewall to dig the Facebook Research app, and they told us that if Facebook users use the level of access they give by setting them to certify, Collect the following types of data continuously: Private messages in social media apps, chat in instant messaging app - sent to others Hoto / video, email, web search, web browsing activity and even includes location information released by tapping feed expansion. The app that keeps track of any places you have installed. "It is not clear what data Facebook is related to, but after app install, there is almost unlimited access to the user's device.

Strategy shows that Facebook is ready to go and how much it is willing to pay for protecting its dominance - even at the risk of breaking Apple's iOS platform rules, depending on it is. Apple may try to block Facebook to distribute its research app, or the employee can only cancel the permission to present the app, and the situation can further extend the relationship between technical giants. Tim Cook of Apple has repeatedly criticized Facebook's data collection practices. To eliminate more information, Facebook, which rejects iOS policies, can become a new Talking Point. TechCrunch has talked to Apple and he is aware of this issue, but the company did not make a statement before the press time.

Fairly technical sounding is our step to establish our root certificate. "It uses Facebook continuously for the most sensitive data about you, and most users are unable to agree to an agreement, regardless of this, because they are not a good way to sign, just Facebook How much power is given to you when you do this. "

Facebook’s surveillance app

Facebook entered the data-sniffing business for the first time, when it acquired Owanoo for $ 120 million in 2014. The VPN App helped users track and reduce the use of their mobile data plans, but also gave a thorough analysis of Facebook that they are using other apps. Internal documents obtained by Charlie Warzell and Ryan Mac of BuzzFeed News show that Facebook was able to take advantage of Owano to know that Whatsapp is sending messages more than twice a day as a Facebook Messenger. Onova allowed Facebook to increase the meteorite of Whatsapp, and justified the payment of $ 19 billion to buy chat startup in 2014. Whatsapp has since tripled its user base, which demonstrates the power of the foresight of Owanno.



Over the past few years, Owanno has stopped copying of Facebook, copying, making facilities and floping apps. By 2018, Facebook was promoting the Owano app in the Protect bookmarks of the main Facebook app in hopes of scoring more users to snoring. Facebook also launches the Onavo Bolt app, which lets you lock the app behind a passcode or fingerprint while doing surveys, but Facebook closes the app on the day it was discovered after criticizing privacy. Onavo's main app is available on Google Play and it has been installed more than 10 million times.

Backlash became hot after detailed information by security expert Straafchach in March, on how the Oanoo Protect was informing Facebook when the user's screen was on or off, and Wi-Fi and cellular data were used in bytes even when VPN was closed. went. In June, Apple updated its developer policies to ban the collection of data about the use of other applications or data, which is not necessary for the functioning of the app. Apple informed Facebook in August that Onavo Protect had violated those data collection policies and the social network was required to be removed from the App Store, which he did, Deepa Sitharaman of WSJ reported.

But this does not stop Facebook's data collection.

Project Atlas

TechCrunch recently received a tip that despite the Owano protection was disappeared by Apple, Facebook was paying users to sideload a similar VPN app under the Facebook Research Moniker from outside the App Store. We investigated, and learned that Facebook was working with three apps beta testing services to distribute the Research App: BetaBound, Uetest and AppLockes. Facebook started distributing Research VPN App in 2016. It has been referred to as Project Atlas since at least 2018, when Backlash was enhanced for the Owano Protect, and Apple established its new rules which prohibited the Owano. [Update: First, the same program was called Project Codeyak.] Facebook did not want to stop collecting data on the use of people's phones, and therefore the research program continued, which is neglecting to ban Apple Owano Protect. Was there.
Advertisements for the program run by uTest on Instagram and Snapchat (shown below) 13-17 year olds have been asked for "Paid Media Media Research Study". Facebook's research program, which has praised the sign-up page, does not mention Facebook. , But users want "age: 13-35 (parental consent required for 13-17 years of age)." If minors try to sign-up, they are asked to get their parents' permission with a form that reveals Facebook's involvement and says "there is no known risk associated with the project Although you acknowledge that the underlying nature of the project involves tracking your personal information through the use of your child's application. The child's participation will be compensated by the applause. "Payment due to lack of cash for the children, they can force the sale of your privacy on Facebook.

The applause site explains what data can be collected by the Facebook Research App (emphasis my):

"By installing the software, you are allowing our customer to collect data from your phone, which will help them understand how you browse the Internet, and how to use the features in the applications you have installed. It means that you are allowing our customer to gather information such as what apps are on your phone, how you use them and when, they The data about your activities and content, as well as how other people interact with you or your content within them. Apps: You can let our customer know about your internet browsing activity (the website you visit and Including information about your device and the data being changed between those websites) and other online services. Either way our customers will gather this information, where the app uses encryption, or even from secure browser sessions. "

Meanwhile, the betabound sign-up page with the URL ending in "Atlas" states that "For $ 20 per month (via eGift Card), you will install an app on your phone and in the background Let's go. " Provides $ 20 per friend you referenced. The site also does not mention Facebook initially, but the company's involvement with the instruction booklet for establishing Facebook Research reveals the company's involvement.

It seems that Facebook is left with Apple's official beta testing system, the purpose of TestFlight, which requires an app reviewed by Apple and it is limited to 10,000 participants. Instead, the instruction manual shows that users download apps from r.facebook-program.com and they are asked to install enterprise developer certificates and VPNs and "Trust" Facebook in which the data reaches their phones is. Apple requires that developers agree to use only this certificate system to deliver internal corporate applications to their own employees. Recruiting defenders and paying them a monthly fee seems to violate the spirit of that rule.
Once installed, users will have to keep VPN on to pay and send data to Facebook. The applause-administered program requested that users screenshot their Amazon order page. This data can potentially help with the use of Facebook tie browsing habits and other applications with purchase priorities and behavior. That information can be used to point out ad targeting and to understand what kind of purchases the users make.

TechCrunch commissioned Strapack to analyze Facebook Research App and find out where he was sending the data. They confirmed that the data has been sent to "vpn-sjc1.v.facebook-program.com", which is associated with the IP address of Owano, and which is registered on the Facebook- program.com domain Facebook, the marketer's according. The app can update itself without having to interact with the app store, and the email address is linked to PeopleJourney@fb.com. He also discovered that Enterprise Certificate indicates that Facebook renewed it on June 27, 2018. A week after that Apple had announced its new rules, which likewise restricted the Owano Protect app.

"It's hard to know what Facebook really is saving data (without access to their servers). Here is the only information that is accessible to know how much Facebook access is enabled based on the code in the app. And it offers a very worrisome picture, "Straafatch explains. "They can answer and claim only to maintain / save specific data, and this can be true, it really boils down to how much you trust Facebook's word on it. The most charitable statement of this situation would be that Facebook does not think very difficult about the level of access it gives, if it is so, there is a shocking level of negligence in itself. "

“Flagrant defiance of Apple’s rules”

In response to TechCrunch investigation, a Facebook spokesman confirmed the program running to know how people use their phones and other services. The spokesperson told us "Like many companies, we invite people to participate in research, which helps us identify things that we can do better, because this research helps Facebook understand this. The purpose of this is to understand how people use their mobile devices, so we can talk about the types of data we collect and how they can participate. Provided brewing information. We do not share with others the information and people can stop participating at any time. "

A Facebook spokesman claimed that the Facebook Research App was in line with Apple's Apple Enterprise Certificate program, but did not tell it in conjunction with the contrary evidence. He said that Facebook first launched its Research App Program in 2016. He tried to compare the program with a focus group and said that Nielsen and ComScore run similar programs, yet none of them ask people to install VPN or provide root access to the network. The spokesman confirmed that the Facebook Research Program recruits teens or other age groups around the world. He claimed that Owano and Facebook Research are separate programs, but he acknowledged that the same team supports the explanation of both why their code was the same.

However, Facebook claims that it does not violate Apple's enterprise certificate policy, it is directly contrary to the terms of that policy. Those developers include "Provide a Provisioning Profile in conjunction with only for their employees and their internal use applications for the purpose of developing and testing". It has also been stated in the policy that "unless you can not use, distribute or otherwise use your internal use applications under the direct supervision of employees or in the company's premises." Given that Facebook's customers are using an enterprise-certified-driven app without supervision, it appears that Facebook is in violation.

Facebook disobeys Apple so that it can hurt his relationship directly. "The code in this iOS app strongly indicates that this is just a bad re-branded build of the restricted Oanno app, which is now using Facebook-owned enterprise certificates in direct violation of Apple's rules, Allows users to distribute this app without review. "Strawfach tells us as many users as we want." Onav prefixes and graph.onavo.com mentions, "onavoApp: //" "OnavoProtect: //" custom URL that lit Plans App. "This is a serious infringement on many fronts, and I hope that the app will work fast to cancel the signed certificate to present ineffective."


Facebook is particularly interested in teens on their phones, because demographic has left the social network in favor of Snapgit, YouTube and Facebook's Instagram. In the teens, the Chinese video music app, Insight on TikTok and Mem Sharing, launches a clone called Lasso while launching Facebook and starts developing a mem-browsing feature called 'LoL', TechCrunch first reported. But Facebook's interest in statistics about teenagers is appreciated by critics at the time when the company is beaten in the press. Analysts of yesterday's Facebook earnings call should inquire about how the company has more ways to collect competing intelligence.

Last year when Tim Cook was asked what he did in the case of Mark Zuckerberg in the wake of the Cambridge Analyst scandal, he said, "I am not in this situation. . . The truth is that if we can monetize our customer, if our customer is our product, then we can earn a tonne of money. We have been chosen not to do this. "Zuckerberg told Ezra Klein that Cook's comment was" extremely spectacular ".

It is now clear that even after Apple's warnings and the removal of Onavo Protect, Facebook is still aggressively collecting data on its competitors through Apple's iOS platform. "I've never seen such open and key defense of Apple's rules by the developer of the App Store," Straffach concludes. If Apple closes the research program, then Facebook will either have to invent new ways to survey our behavior between the privacy investigation environment, or be left in the dark.
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Gmail on mobile will soon get a new look.

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Gmail on versatile will before long get another look. Google today reported that its portable email applications for iOS and Android are getting an upgrade that is in accordance with the organization's ongoing Material Design updates to Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Docs and Site. Undoubtedly, the new UI will look commonplace to anyone who has ever utilized the Gmail web application, including that variants capacity to choose three diverse thickness styles. You'll likewise observe some new text styles and other visual changes. Regarding usefulness, the portable application is likewise getting a couple of new highlights that put it comparable to the web rendition. 

Like on the work area, you would now be able to pick between the default see, just as an agreeable and minimal style. The default see includes a liberal measure of void area and a similar connection chips underneath the email review as the web rendition. The agreeable view gets rid of those chips and the reduced view evacuates a great deal of the space between messages to demonstrate you more messages initially.


I’ve been testing the new app for a bit and quickly settled on the comfortable view since I never found the attachment chips all that useful in day-to-day use.

with Google’s Material Design guidelines, all the styles feature relatively subtle but welcome animations that don’t take a lot of time but give you a couple of extra visual cues about what’s going on as you work your way to Inbox Zero.

Google also notes that the new design makes it a bit easier to switch between accounts. I’m not sure I agree (I definitely find the implementation of this in Inbox, which is sadly going away soon, easier to use), but if you regularly use this feature, it’s still easy enough to use. The switcher is now part of the search bar, though, which is a bit confusing and took me a moment to find.

One nice addition to the mobile app is that the large red phishing and scam warning box from the web version now also appears in the mobile app.





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Intel Core i9-9900T spotted on auction as a low-power, octa-core CPU

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Featuring severely cutdown performance

Intel has recently expanded its coffee lake refresh processor lineup with integrated graphic-containing F-series chips, and it also plans for new low-power chips.

A mysterious Intel Core i9-9900T has appeared on the Yahoo auction, and it appears to be the original 95W Intel Core i9- 9900K cut-down, 35W version. According to the specifications shared on the listing, the Intel Core i9-9900T will still offer the same 8-core and 16-threads as the original CPU, but with severe reduction in clock speed.

While the original Intel Core i9- 9900K was started with a 3.6GHz base clock and the maximum at 9900T at 5.0GHz on one to two core is believed to be between 1.7GHz and 3.8GHz.

Bringing Core i9 power to all-in-one PCs?

While it is not surprising that Intel will present low-power versions of its existing chips, we would be surprised whether Chipmaker will roll out the T-series version of its core i9 part, and in the frequency with these major downgrades .

T-series CPUs are often reserved for all other small PC systems. Therefore, by very limited 9900T, Intel wants to say that there is a core i9 part in such a compact PC, which is without part of overheating issues similar to the core i9-powered MacBook Pro.

Of course, before making any claims of chipmaker, these T-series processors have to be officially announced. We will be looking for such announcements or any new CPU developments, so stay tuned.

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Google.com Mobile Version Gets Voice Search Support on Android

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HIGHLIGHTS

  • The voice search can be triggered by tapping on mic icon in search bar
  • The feature is only available on Chrome and Edge browsers for the moment
  • iOS is yet to get the voice search on mobile version of Google.com
Google has quietly added the functionality of voice search in the mobile web version of Google.com on Android. This will allow users to use their voice on Google.com, something that is still surprisingly absent. In addition, Google is not yet equally capable for iOS users. According to an online report, Voice Search support in Google.com Mobile Edition is currently limited to Chrome and Edge Browser on Android, it is not visible on other browsers like Firefox, Opera and others.

9to5Google, which was previously to display the voice search function on Google.com mobile web version, reports that Voice Search can be accessed by tapping on the gray mic icon in the Google Search bar. The icon appears on both the Google.com homepage and the search results page. Tapping the mic icon opens a full-screen interface called Speak Now, which is changed after listening to audio input after listening to it. This page also shows live transcription similar to other Voice-related implementations of Google. It is important to note that for the first time you use voice search on the mobile version of Google.com, the browser will ask for some system permissions, depending on whether it has not already been given. The 9to5Google report says that this feature started rolling out users after a while in the last one week.
We independently verified the rollout of voice search on Google.com in Chrome and Edge Browser on Android.

Google offers a variety of ways to do a voice search already on Android, including its own Android app and Google Helper. Regardless of this, this is another opportunity for Android users to avoid typing and simply search for them.

On iOS, where the mobile version of Google.com does not yet provide voice search support, users can use built-in voice input support in the official Google app, Google Assistant app or even the Gboard app. voice search.
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Monday, 28 January 2019

Huawei leveled with 23 criminal charges by the US government, including theft

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The possibility you'll see Huawei telephones and switches in the US developed more hopeless today, as the Chinese telecom firm has authoritatively been criminally charged by the US government. 

Huawei, presently the No. 2 cell phone maker on the planet in front of Apple, faces 23 criminal allegations spreading over two separate prosecutions by the US Department of Justice. It separates to 13 tallies of budgetary extortion, Iran sanctions infringement and illegal tax avoidance, and 10 checks of robbery and charges originating from that activity. 

"Criminal movement returns something like 10 years and goes the whole distance to the highest point of the organization," said US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker in a question and answer session unlocking the prosecutions. 

Working with Iran and concealing it 

The main arrangement of criminal accusations encompass Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meng and somewhat realized member named Skycom. Meng, who happens to be the Huawei prime supporter's girl, was captured in Canada toward the beginning of December and faces removal to the US. 

Skycom is said to be a Huawei partner set up to work together in Iran and undermine US exchange endorses on the Middle Eastern nation. The US government blames Huawei for concealing this reality by lying and submitting bank and wire misrepresentation, and it singles out Meng specifically. 

"As ahead of schedule as 2007, Huawei representatives distorted its association with its Iranian partner," said Whitaker. "Huawei workers had supposedly told managing an account accomplices that Huawei had sold its possession enthusiasm for Skycom." 

That didn't occur as indicated by the prosecution, with Whitaker noticing, "in actuality, Huawei had sold Skycom to itself." 

You may review that Huawei and Chinese opponent ZTE illicitly worked with Iran and fastidiously concealed it, as well. It finished in fines and a seven-year prohibition on working with US organizations, basically giving a 'capital punishment' to the Android telephone producer. That implied no Google programming, no Qualcomm chips, and so forth. 

In ZTE's latest case, President Trump ventured in to let ZTE free. This choice came at the encouraging of Chinese President Xi, and around a similar time China encouraged a gathering between the US President and North Korea's pioneer. 

Tappy on preliminary 

The second arraignment against Huawei encompasses its taking competitive advantages in 2012 and charges that come from concealing the robbery. 

It is anything but an ambiguous instance of Huawei's telephone and programming looking like those of an iPhone or Samsung telephone, either. The US government is pursuing a particular case including Huawei's supposed robbery of a T-Mobile-made telephone testing robot named 'Tappy.' 

Tappy was T-Mobile's cutting edge telephone testing robot arm that could agilely imitate human fingers on a touchscreen and catches. Huawei supposedly needed to fabricate its own Tappy robot to test cell phones before sending them to T-Mobile and different transporters. The present prosecution charges Huawei builds covertly took Tappy's photographs and estimations. 

There's increasingly dismal news for Tappy the robot. The Huawei workers are blamed for really taking a bit of Tappy so that Huawei builds in China could attempt to recreate it, as indicated by the Department of Justice. 

At the point when T-Mobile undermined to sue the Chinese organization, Huawei guaranteed that this burglary was by 'rouge on-screen characters' inside its association. Be that as it may, the US government says it has messages that point to a connivance to take mysteries from T-Mobile and that it was in fact a broad exertion. 

T-Mobile ended up suing Huawei and was granted $4.8 million (about £3.65m, AU$6.7m) by a US jury in 2017, as per the Seattle Times. The US Department of Justice said that its case in the interest of the US government is discrete and the planning was predicated on its examination. 

Huawei's future in the US 

Huawei overwhelmed Apple to end up the No. 2 cell phone producer on the planet. It's second to Samsung, yet its CEO anticipated it'll catch the No. 1 position in 2019 or 2020. 

Confounding its bullish direction is the way that it doesn't move its cell phones in the US. On the off chance that you need the Huawei Mate 20 Pro or Huawei P20 Pro, you'll need to get it from an outsider affiliate. US bearers and significant retailers like Best Buy don't convey them by any stretch of the imagination. 

Things looked altogether different somewhat more than a year back. Huawei was surrounding a conceivably transformative manage AT&T in mid 2018, its first real US transporter bargain for a leader telephone. Yet, that went to pieces at CES 2018, supposedly at the encouraging of the US government. 

From that point forward, its systems administration business has come further under danger, in the US as well as the UK, Australia, Germany and Japan, among different countries. The US, asking partners to discard Huawei hardware, fears that the Chinese government could take advantage of Huawei-made government framework.
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New Exploit Threatens Over 9,000 Hackable Cisco RV320/RV325 Routers Worldwide

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If your organization's connectivity and security relies on the Cisco RV320 or RV325 dual Gigabit van VPN router, then you need to immediately install the latest firmware update released by the vendor last week.


Cyber ​​attackers have actively exploited two new patches of high-severity router vulnerabilities in the wild after releasing their proof-of-concept exploitation codes on the Internet last weekend.


The vulnerability in the question is a command injection fault (assigned to CVE-2019-1652) and an information disclosure defect (assigned to CVE-2019-1653), with the combination of a remote attacker to take full control of an affected Cisco router. Can get permission.


The first issue is going to run on 1.4.2.15 through the firmware version 1.4.2.19 in the RV320 and RV325 dual-gigabit van VPN router, and the second will affect the firmware version 1.4.2.15 and 1.4.2.17 according to Cisco's consultant.



Both the discovery and responsibility of the weaknesses told to the company by the German security firm RedTeam Pentesting actually live in the web-based management interface used for the router and are remotely exploitative.



CVE-2019-1652 - Allows a certified, remote attacker with administrative privileges on an affected device to execute arbitrary commands on fault systems.
CVE-2019-1653 - This defect does not require any authentication to access the router's web-based management portal, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information, including the router's configuration file, in which MD5 hashed credentials and diagnostics Information is included.

PoC exploitation code targeting the published Cisco RV320 / RV325 router on the Internet uses CVE-2019-1653 first, to obtain its hashed credentials, to obtain the configuration file from the router, and then to execute arbitrary commands and complete Explains CVE-2019-1652 to gain control. Of the affected device.


Researchers from cybercity firm Bad Packets said they found at least 9,657 cisco routers (6,247 RV320 and 3,410 RV325) worldwide, which are weak for information disclosure vulnerability, most of which are located in the United States.


The firm shared an interactive map, in which 122 countries have all the weak RV320 / RV325 Cisco routers and 1,619 unique Internet service providers network.


Bad Packets said that its hanipots detected opportunistic scanning activity for weak router from many hosts from Saturday, suggesting that hackers are actively trying to exploit the loopholes to take full control of the weak router.


The best way to save yourself from being the target of such an attack is to install the Cisco RV320 and RV325 Firmware Release 1.4.2.20 as soon as possible.


Administrators who have not yet implemented firmware updates, are highly recommended to change their router's admin and WiFi credentials by assuming that they are already compromised.
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