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Sep12017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Instagram Hacker Puts 6 Million Celebrities Personal Data Up For Sale, $10 per lookup

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We all know very well that Instagram is the social network of fashion, the fastest growing and also the one that generates more interest in criminals. However, recently an Instagram hacker puts 6 million celebrities personal data up for sale. Instagram Hacker Puts 6 Million Celebrities Personal Data Up For Sale Instagram is the social Just yesterday, It was reported that Instagram had patched a critical API vulnerability that allowed the attacker to access phone numbers and email addresses for high-profile verified accounts. However, Instagram hack now appears to be more serious than initially reported. Not just a few thousands of high-profile users—it's more than 6 million Instagram users, including politicians, sports stars, and media companies, who have had their Instagra...

Apr152017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Snapchat CEO said app is not for ‘poor countries like India’

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A Snapchat ex-employee has alleged that the company’s CEO Evan Spiegel was not interested in expanding the business in ‘poor countries like India’ as recently as 2015. American website Variety quoted the former employee Anthony Pompliano as saying that Spiegel told him this during a meeting in 2015. “This app is only for rich people,” Spiegel said, according to Pompliano. “I don’t want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain.” And this, at a time when Silicon Valley giants such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Tesla are looking to generate new revenue streams from India by offering innovative services and offline apps. India is currently going through a mobile and data revolution. It is not only the second largest smartphone market in the world but also the faste...

Feb102017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Not shortlisted for NASA, clarifies Shawna Pandya in Facebook Post

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Shawna Pandya, an Indian-origin astronaut, has denied news reports that said she was shortlisted by NASA for its 2018 space mission under the Citizen Science Astronaut (CSA) programme. In a Facebook post, Pandya clarified that her work was separate from the work of the Canadian Space Agency and that of NASA. https://www.facebook.com/shawnapandya/posts/10101031795466615 “There has been no new announcement, flight assignment or selection of missions with respect to my work as a citizen-scientist astronaut with Project Possum or The PHEnOM Project. I am no more or less likely to fly than any other member of than these projects than I was 24 hours ago,” Pandya wrote on Facebook. She however remains a crew member in the work of both projects. She added that while the astronaut sele...

Feb12017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Facebook’s develops new tool helps keep your account safe

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A week after Facebook launched Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) Security Keys to secure accounts with second-factor authentication feature “login approvals”, the social media giant has unveiled a new tool that adds an extra security layer when you go for password recovery. The new tool will ask Facebook account users to provide additional authentication as part of the recovery process at GitHub — a software development platform that hosts some of the most popular software in the world. “We need something better — a way to recover access, using identities and services you trust, regardless of whether they are associated with an email address or a phone number. This process needs to be easy, secure, and respectful of your privacy,” Brad Hill, a Security Engineer at Facebook, wr...

Jan122017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Facebook launches ‘Journalism Project’ to fight spread of ‘fake news’

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As part of the new “Journalism Project,” Facebook said on Wednesday that it would focus on improving its current storytelling formats such as Live, 360 and Instant Articles. The company also plans to test a feature using Instant Articles to allow readers to see multiple stories at a time, as a package, from their preferred news organizations. Working with third-party organizations, Facebook said it will work to promote “news literacy” and help users decide which sources are trustworthy and would also continue to work on curbing hoaxes. Fake news Facebook has faced huge criticism in recent weeks amid claims that it did not do enough to tackle the problem of fake news stories on its platform, particularly during the US presidential campaign. “We care a great deal about mak...

Oct62012 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Beware! Your Display pictures may be public on Facebook

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Facebook is trying hard to make most of the user’s private content public. First they launched Cover Photos where we don’t have any option of making pictures private i.e. only friends can see them. Now they have launched another feature which will automatically make current profile picture public. From now onwards whenever you upload a profile picture, it shall be public by default. Even if your profile picture album is set to be private, the current profile picture will be public and it will be shown to everyone who visits your profile or opens up your profile picture album. However, thankfully we still have an option of making profile pictures private. I shall tell you how to do it but before that check if your recently uploaded profile pictures are private or not. How to make a profi...

Dec302011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Be Safe from Spamming on Facebook

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Spammers/Hackers keep finding new and innovative ways to reach out to the masses. Since Facebook has been immensely popular social network, it becomes very attractive media for spammers. It also seems to be very easy to convince users to click a few buttons and steal all your data. They also post links on your friend's walls to attract more visitors. Found a couple of my innocent friends posting these materials again and again. How do you safeguard yourself? Don’t click on any link that you do not know or is suspicious. If any application asks you to approve/join/like do not do it unless you know the website/link They will have very attractive images/text - E.g. Osama bin Laden's uncensored pictures. If it’s too good to be true, it may not be safe link. What do they get by sprea...

Nov142011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Facebook Timeline : Know how to Get Back to Old Profile

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In early September Facebook flooded users profiles with lots of new updates which even becomes harder for users to understand and manage. Among those updates, ‘Facebook Timeline’ profile was the major update which could decide Facebook’s upcoming days. It’s not always that all the pushed updates are liked by the users, some even gets irritating for users such as the new Facebook chat and the news ticker, which can be fixed with Facebook News Ticker Remover and FB chat sidebar disabler, all thanks to third party developers. When Facebook introduced the new timeline profile it was available only for developers. So if you are among those many people who enabled the new Facebook Timeline profile utilizing the developer account and among those only few who hasn’t yet revert back to old pro...

Nov22011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

An Average Day On Facebook

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We all know and understand that Facebook has now start playing a crucial role in our day to day life for example two years back before having an account on social network giant, I didn't remember my friends and family members birthday’s. Even today I don’t remember them, however now I have Facebook at my side to remind me of all such stuffs. Well, what I have discussed is an apparent impact. But I am sure you may get surprised with interesting facts that have been published by in The Pew Research Center on the current state of social network and the role it plays in its users lives. I won’t say that personally I believe the facts mentioned but yeah I found them interesting so sharing them with you Creatively visualized by Jess3 Feedback – Do let me know about your thoughts over ...

Oct172011 by Anchit Pandey4 Comments

[UPDATE] Facebook Timeline Profiles – Get it Now

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Facebook has now officially launched Timelines. To get timeline, simply go to the Introducing Timeline page and click Get It Now. https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline If you cannot wait until then for the new Facebook profile page design called Timeline, then why not masquerade as a Facebook app developer and get the new design RIGHT NOW? Designing a really pimping profile could be something to do on a rainy day. Greg Kumparak from TechCrunch discovered that Facebook app developers get a preview of the new timeline feature. Anyone can sign up to the app developer program, without committing yourself to a project. So if you are itching to see the new stuff, just activate a developer account. The whole process takes less than five minutes. Here's what you need to do: Step 1: S...