Engineering student Arun Suresh Kumar reported two significant security-related bugs to Facebook. Arun Suresh Kumar’s first tryst with computers was a Pentium 3 processor with 128 MB RAM. “I used to play games on it,” says the lad who has participated in and won bounties for his skills in cracking and fixing security bugs — Bitcasa Bug Bounty; AT&T Bug Bounty being some popular ones. Arun was in Class 12 […]
Sharmistha Mukherjee, daughter of President Pranab Mukherjee, was allegedly harassed by a man, who posted sexually explicit messages on her Facebook page. She lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime unit of Delhi Police. Police said the “lewd” messages were sent to the complainant through Facebook Messenger. The profile of the sender mentions him as a resident of Nauhati in Hooghly, West Bengal. Ms Mukherjee, a member of the Congress, […]
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday he was “sympathetic” with Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook in his stand-off with the US government over breaking into the iPhone of a mass shooter. “I don’t think that requiring back doors to encryption is either going to be an effective thing to increase security or is really the right thing to do. We are pretty sympathetic to Tim and Apple,” he said […]
The question is at the forefront again after a French court ruled Friday that a French art teacher can sue the social media service after it suspended his Facebook account. Although Facebook hasn’t given a reason, the account suspension came after he posted an image of a classical painting featuring a female nude. Facebook’s rules on nudity have evolved over time. The latest community-standards policy, from March 2015, says Facebook […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday ruled in favour of net neutrality and struck down differential pricing. This means that TRAI barred companies from charging or offering data traffic on discriminatory basis. This especially comes at a major blow to Facebook’s Free Basics and Airtel Zero that plans to offer free internet to users to access certain sites. Here are some interesting facts about TRAI’s ruling in […]
Indian hackers are cracking down on explicit social media pages They say innocent women are having their photos copied and misused to sell sexual content or services Experts believe over 40 per cent of female Facebook users are victims of such crimes in India Love putting up your best photos on Facebook? Beware! Your pictures may be among several thousands that are being morphed and misused to promote online sex […]
In continuation of our ongoing series on Free Basics By Facebook, here we unveil the key reason that most people polled by the Clamorworld Survey consider it extremely flawed, motivated by individual gains and hardly a social cause. It has been rightly pointed out that Indians who can afford a reasonably good digital device like a mobile/tablet/computer to access facebook can surely pay for the other useful websites that are […]
I am sure most of you reading this post are already aware of this phrase, “Free Basics By Facebook.” Some of us tried to delve deep into it, some got buoyed by the basic sentiment reflected in the opening two lines while there are many others who just rubbished it as another gimmick by Facebook. But the question remains, “What Exactly Is Free Basics By Facebook?” Why is it creating […]
Mark Zuckerberg is feeling the force of critics who believe his effort to provide Indians with free access to a limited number of internet services hurts India’s democracy and violates net neutrality. In an unusually pugnacious appeal in the mass-circulation Times of India, the Facebook founder forcefully defended introducing his Free Basics service, “a set of basic internet services for education, healthcare, jobs and communication that people can use without […]
It’s a baby announcement that easily surpasses all others. With a family photo, an open letter, and one of the biggest philanthropic commitments ever, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced his little bundle of joy, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg, to the world. “We’re so happy to welcome our daughter Max into this world. Everyone is happy and healthy. Thank you for all your love and support through our pregnancy. There is so […]
