But DeFoggi’s conviction is perhaps more surprising than others owing to the fact that he worked at one time as the acting cyber security Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. DeFoggi worked for the department from 2008 until January this year. A department official told Business Insider that DeFoggi worked in the office of the assistant secretary for administration as lead IT specialist but a government budget document for the department from this year (....

The change is expected at the upcoming annual conference of the company happening on 28th of October, 2021. Last weekend, Facebook posted about creating 10,000 new jobs at Facebook spanning across the technology metaverse. A larger empire consisting of tech products such as WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and some VR projects under the control of a single parent company. The move is stated as inspired by Google, which created Alphabet in 2012 to manage an extensive line of their technology business and its products....

The exposed data has personal information of 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, which includes details such as phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, past locations, birth dates, and in some cases email addresses, account creation date, relationship status, bio. At least data of over 32 million records on users in the U.S., 11 million records on users in the UK, and 6 million records on users in India are included in this leak....

If this was not enough, Facebook now has been embroiled in a new controversy for collecting users’ contacts, text messages, and call history data through the Facebook app installed on Android devices for the past several years. Citing several users tech site Arstechnica said that when the users’ requested for a Facebook archive, they were provided with a ZIP file to download, which on downloading had complete logs of incoming and outgoing calls and SMS messages sent and received between 2015 and 2017....

The announcement made by Facebook on Wednesday comes as a major win for low-wage workers amidst the increasing tension over the wage gap between the technology sector’s elite and the lower-paid workers. It is likely that Facebook will work only with those companies that would comply with these rules. Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook who resumed work following the sudden demise of her husband this month said “Taking these steps is the right thing to do for our business and our community....

Besides Likes, Shares and Comments, Facebook now includes “time spent by user on any story” as one of the factor for its News Feed ranking.Redesigning of News Feed by Facebook: However, a recent survey carried out by Facebook, as a part of improvement on News Feed indicated that there are certain content which users prefer to read though they might not either click a Like or Share and also may not enter any comment....

That was one of the key messages that came from a question and answer session with the Facebook co-founder and CEO held on his company’s website on Tuesday. Zuckerberg said the principle of Net Neutrality, which requires that all Internet traffic should be treated equally no matter where it’s headed to or from where it is coming from, making sure Internet service providers like Verizon and AT&T are unable to “discriminate and limit the access to services people want to use....

The confirmation regarding the policy came from Zuckerberg during a podcast interview with Vox’s editor at large, Ezra Klein, where he discussed an incident in Myanmar where Facebook systems detected messages about ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and stopped them from going through. “We detected that people were trying to spread sensational messages,” Zuckerberg said on the Ezra Klein Show. “That’s the kind of thing where I think it is clear that people were trying to use our tools in order to incite real harm....

Reuters reported that in a five-page, confidential “flash” warning sent to security staff of some of the companies, FBI provided some of the technical details of the malware. The FBI did not name Sony as the victim of this malware however those experts who are following the Sony breach said it was clearly linked to Sony hack attack. Reuters reported the advisory says the malware overrides all data on hard drives of computers, including the master boot record, which prevents them from booting up....

“We have committed to formal recognition and compensation for discovery of reproducible and legitimate vulnerabilities, provided they are disclosed responsibly,” the company says. “Our goal with the Bug Bounty project is to foster a collaborative relationship with researchers to participate in responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in FCA’s vehicles and connected services.” FCA will offer the bounty on the Bugcrowd platform. The platform will manage the payouts. Bugcrowd says it has about 30,000 security researchers as members....

As we all know, Windows 10 is still vulnerable to viruses, malware, spyware, and all sorts of unwanted harmful programs. Thankfully, feature-rich antivirus software like Avast helps users to safeguard their PCs against viruses. Recently many Avast Antivirus users have been getting an error after updates from windows or avast antivirus that says: ‘UI Failed to load. This is really embarrassing. AV Service is not responding.’ Additionally, the error dialog offers ‘Exit’ and ‘Restart Service’ buttons....

Ford Motor posted a statement on its website which says there is a flaw in the body control module software in the vehicles. As a result of the problem, the engine could keep running after the key is turned to “off” and removed, or after the start/stop button is pressed to turn the engine off. The recall covers some model 2015 Focus cars, C-Max hybrids and Escape sport utility vehicles....

Harvard scientists led by Jeff Nivala and Seth Shipman have discovered a remarkable way to store lines of code in living bacteria, which can then be passed down to the next generation as genetic information. Based on a new study, bacteria colonies when fed by a series of human-written data can transform tiny cells into living hard drives. According to Shipman, genotyping the bacteria could easily read the data from these living memory sticks....

German Supreme Court Block extradition of World’s No.2 most wanted hacker to United States.The Charges against Ercan Ercan Findikoglu, 33, had been arrested by the German Police on a international warrant at Frankfurt Airport in December 2013. In a extradition case spanning 6 months, the lower court decided to permit the police to extradite Ercan to United States. Extradition to United States would have meant that Ercan would have had to spend 250 years behind bars if proven guilty, so he appealed to the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the German supreme federal court....

This major Internet crash will even affect major services like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Global Intenet May Crash Due To Some Maintenance Global Intenet May Crash Due To Some MaintenanceGlobal Intenet Crash: Major Issues The main domain servers and related infrastructure controlling the worldwide internet will be powered down by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Well, the reason behind this crash is some important maintenance work....

“Today, we’re announcing that Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fitbit, a leading wearables brand,” Rick Osterloh Senior Vice President, can accommodateDevices & Services said in the blog post. “Fitbit has been a true pioneer in the industry and has created terrific products, experiences and a vibrant community of users. By working closely with Fitbit’s team of experts, and bringing together the best AI, software and hardware, we can help spur innovation in wearables and build products to benefit even more people around the world....

However, just a couple of days after its release, Google has paused the rollout of Chrome 79 after users started complaining of data loss. Apparently, Chrome 79 Android bug is deleting data of a specific set of apps using its WebView. Which is only those apps that are using Chrome’s web rendering component, i.e. WebView, as their primary or only interface is affected by the bug. WebView is a system component for the Android OS that allows Android apps to display internet content from simple web pages to full-blown web apps....

A recent study sponsored by a complainant in the EU antitrust trial against Google revealed that the company has been found to be favoring its own content in search results even if it is of lower quality in comparison to the organic search results; thus harming not only the consumers but also its competitors. The study was conducted by Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and Michael Luca, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School....

For the unversed, Hangouts, which was originally a feature of Google+, became a standalone product in 2013, when Google began integrating features from Google+ Messenger and Google Talk into Hangouts. The now-defunct cross-platform instant messaging service included messaging, video chat, SMS, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) features. Starting Monday, mobile users will see an in-app notification asking them to upgrade from Hangouts to Chat in Gmail or the standalone Chat app....

The site, DLH.net, that provides news, reviews, cheat codes, and boards, was breached on July 31 by an unnamed hacker. While the name of the hacker is not known, it is speculated that it is the same hacker responsible for an earlier compromise of a Dota 2 forum that resulted in the theft of nearly two million user accounts record. According to breach notification site LeakedSource.com, that received a copy of the stolen database, says the DLH....