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WhatsApp will always have security issues.... Last week, it was reported that hackers had managed to install spyware on a large number of smartphones thanks to a previously unrevealed vulnerability in WhatsApp. In a post on the Telegraph blogging site, Telegram founder Pavel Durov claimed that WhatsApp’s security issues stem in part from the decision by its parent company Facebook not to release the source code to the app. Durov claims that WhatsApp goes even further and tries to blur the app’s binaries. This means software security researchers cannot take a detailed look at them to discover privacy issues. SOURCE: https://merxforum.com

News... The personal details of millions of celebrities and influencers have been made freely available on the internet. A vast array of private data, apparently focused on Instagram users, was found on the internet and left unsecured so that anyone who accessed it could read what was inside. The record included the personal information of 49 million people before it was shut down, according to Techcrunch, which first reported the breach. It contained publicly available information scraped from their Instagram accounts such as their profiile picture and location but also personal and private data, such as their email address and phone number. SOURCE: https://merxforum.com

Interesting facts about Programming 1. The first computer programmer was a female, named Ada Lovelace. 2. The first high-level programming language was FORTRAN. invented in 1954 by IBM’s John Backus. 3. The original name for JAVA was OAK. 4. Did you know how many total programming languages? it’s 698.... 5. "Perl" is sometimes known as the Swiss-Army knife of programming languages. Read more on: https://merxforum.com/news/ See more

Millions of Instagram influencers reportedly had private data exposed online Tens of millions of Instagram influencers have reportedly had their private data exposed in an online database. The records were hosted by Amazon Web Services and apparently had no password protection. .SOURCE: https://merxforum.com

News...!!! Windows 10 May 2019 Update is coming Microsoft's semi-annual release cycle for Windows 10 feature updates is soon coming to another milestone with the release of the May 2019 Update. Also known as 19H1 or version 1903, this update started being tested with Insiders all the way back in July of last year, and it's now very close to general availability, when the majority of Windows users will be able to install it. SOURCE: https://merxforum.com

Interesting to know... Adobe Creative Cloud delivers the world’s leading creative desktop tools, mobile apps, and services such as Adobe Stock images. Creative Cloud helps people produce their best work - and the value of membership increases all the time through exclusive product and service offerings and feature updates. 1. Over 90% of the world’s creative professionals use Photoshop. 2. Adobe Creative Cloud mobile apps have been downloaded over 310 million times.... 3. Adobe Stock offers 130 million assets including images, templates, 3D assets, over 8 million stock videos, and over 750,000 Premium collection images. Read more on: https://merxforum.com/news/ See more