According to a Medium blog post penned by bug bounty hunter Mayur Fartade on Tuesday, a set of vulnerable endpoints in the Instagram app could have allowed attackers to view private media on the platform without following a target account. This included private and archived posts, stories, and reels. If an attacker obtains a target user’s Media ID, via brute-force or through other means, they could then send a POST request to Instagram’s GraphQL endpoint, which exposed display URLs and image URLs, alongside records including like and save counts....

In a joint statement, the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the social media giant said the agreement, which is the first of its kind in Central Asia, would help increase the efficiency and effectiveness to counter the spread of illegal content. Giving the Kazakhstan government access to its content reporting system will allow the government to report content that may violate Facebook’s global content policy and local content laws in Kazakhstan, Facebook said....

The Vergehas the details: The plan, according to the report, is that Facebook will release this in the summer of 2022 with a price tag of around $400. Must read: Apple will finally give iPhone and iPad users an important choice to make So, this is a watch that has a camera in it, but to use that camera you have to detach it from your wrist before awkwardly holding it up to take snaps....

I’m putting it up once again. The reason I’m doing it is it goes to human history and the efforts that human beings make in times of innovation and in times of crisis. In the midst of the current global pandemic, it never hurts to remember that we are an infinitely creative, innovative, and a good species. And that while this may be the first in our lifetimes and the first in 100 years, we have managed to survive several pandemics, even those well before the 1918 Spanish Flu, such as the Black Death....

So why is Gordon not enjoying the fruits of his labor at Salesforce? Because, as he put it, they were not practicing what they preach. Gordon realized that engineering teams in organizations are not at all data-driven as they should be. He left his role as VP, Data Science and Engineering at Salesforce Einstein and embarked on a quest to make software engineering data-driven, along with some of his former colleagues....

The agreement would enable Google Pay users to scan the FavePay SGQR at any of 15,000 food and beverage outlets and retailers across Singapore to earn up to 20% cashback. These merchants include Food Republic, BreadTalk, Puma, and Subway. Fave has similar agreements with the likes of DBS’s PayLah and Singtel’s Dash payment apps. Fave’s Singapore and Malaysia regional managing director Ng Aik-Phong said the partnership with Google Pay would make digital transactions rewarding while offering customers more options to use their payment app of choice....

CISA, the FBI and National Security Agency (NSA), as well as cybersecurity authorities from Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and the UK, have compiled a list of the main weak security controls, poor configurations, and poor security practices that defenders should implement to thwart initial access. It also contains the authorities’ collective recommended mitigations. “Cyber actors routinely exploit poor security configurations (either misconfigured or left unsecured), weak controls, and other poor cyber hygiene practices to gain initial access or as part of other tactics to compromise a victim’s system,” CISA says....

You use it for communicating with friends and family, taking photos, sharing posts on social media, browsing the web, accessing your bank account, online shopping, streaming and much more. That’s great, but it also means that your smartphone holds vast amounts of information about you – your private conversations, your passwords, your bank details, your browsing history. And the security risks which potentially threaten your smartphone and accounts by criminals isn’t just limited to hackers; if your smartphone is lost or stolen, whoever ends up with it could easily take advantage of your info for their own gain....

Six flaws in MiCODUS MV720 vehicle GPS trackers – including the use of simple default passwords – have been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at BitSight. They warn that the severity of the vulnerabilities and the potential for disrupting vehicles on the road means that MiCODUS MV720 GPS trackers shouldn’t be used until a security update is made available. It’s believed there are 1.5 million MiCODUS devices in use across 169 countries....

Kuo says the new foldable iPad will have a carbon fiber kickstand to make it lighter and more durable, presumably compared to an iPad’s Magic Keyboard. The kickstand would be manufactured by Chinese firm Anjie Technology. Also: iPad (2022) vs. iPad Air (2022): Which one’s really better for you? “I’m positive about the foldable iPad in 2024 and expect this new model will boost shipments and improve the product mix,” Kuo tweeted on Monday....

Field most recently served as Apple’s VP of Special Projects, where he reportedly ran Project Titan, Apple’s on-again, off-again electric car initiative. The car effort has seen something of a revolving door of executives over the years. Before his most recent turn at Apple, Field was SVP of engineering at Tesla. “Doug is one of the world’s most respected engineering and product design leaders and has been a driving force behind breakthrough products across auto, tech and mobility, including at Apple, Tesla and Segway,” Farley said in a statement....

Bose is well-known for its excellent audio products and other electronics. This is mainly due to the high quality of components and close attention to the features users value most. Naturally, all of that comes at a cost. But if you’d like to have a premium brand wireless headset at a bargain price, look no further than this Bose Series 2 Wireless In-Ear Bluetooth Headset. Refurbished items can often be a way to get high-end components and features at lower prices without sacrificing aesthetics....

Technology that is older, no longer in active production, or has been refurbished, can often do as well for us as flagship lines would. If you pick them up during sales events, you can also save a small fortune. E-readers fall into this category. While smartphones and tablets can be more complicated as they might not support the apps or OS you want to use – should they become slightly too old – Kindles were created for one main task: to allow us to read e-books....

To help remedy this, David A. Wheeler, the LF’s director of Open Source Supply Chain Security, recently revealed the LF or its related foundations and projects directly fund people to do security work. Here’s how it works. The funding comes from a variety of pro-Linux and open-source organizations. These include Google, Microsoft, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), the LF Public Health foundation, and the LF itself. When a problem is found, a developer reaches out to the appropriate LF organization....

This ten-course bundle includes training from some of the web’s top instructors, including Scott Duffy, Vijay Saini, and Manuj Aggarwal. Each instructor has extensive experience working with Microsoft Azure and will give you the foundational knowledge you need to get certified. There are courses dedicated to specific Azure certification exams, including AZ-103, AZ-203, AZ-300, AZ-301, and AZ-900. Through these courses, you’ll master the main concepts of Azure, discover how to implement Azure infrastructure solutions, understand design solutions for Azure, and be up to date on all of the changes to this constantly evolving platform....

The next-generation mobile technology was on track to become the fastest adopted platform, with 1 million subscribers a day currently joining the 5G bandwagon, revealed Ericsson’s latest mobility report. 5G was further projected to exceed one billion subscribers two years ahead of the same milestone achieved by 4G LTE, fuelled by China’s early investment in 5G as well as earlier availability and affordability of commercial 5G devices. Currently, more than 300 5G smartphone models had been launched commercially or announced....

“We are still dealing with shortages of what we can supply to our key customers in 2022 and figuring out how we could produce more, how do we do the right balance and allocations,” said CEO Thomas Caulfield. “So there’s nothing that we see in the industry for 2022 that would suggest the frothiness that you described is changing,” he added, in response to a stock analyst’s question whether surging demand for chips might cool off in future....

Firstly, as for the interface itself, it now boasts a new top utility for discovering and installing applications called Software. OK, so the name isn’t anything to write home about, but it seems faster, and it’s easy enough to use. The type to search function, increasingly important these days, also works well and has some smarts. For instance, if you search for “photo,” the graphic editor GIMP will show up....

Google has been gradually adjusting its lucrative advertising business as the public grows more aware of advertisers’ prying eyeballs – and as Apple has taken more dramatic measure to limit targeted advertising. The new privacy sandbox will give advertisers – as well as app developers who work with third-party ad services – a way to test out Google’s new ad solutions. The new APIs in the privacy sandbox do not use identifiers to track your activity across apps and websites....

The companies announced an expanded partnership Google Cloud Next on Tuesday. Under the deal, General Mills will use Google Cloud as its preferred cloud partner. Top cloud providers: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, hybrid, SaaS players Google Cloud’s deal with General Mills illustrates how that company has been targeting industries and leveraging its analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence prowess to expand. General Mills plans to migrate its SAP, custom application workloads, Windows licensing and Oracle bare metal servers to Google Cloud....