“TheFacebook” when it launched on Feb. 4, 2004, the site will turn eight years old on Saturday. It’s expected to celebrate its birthday week with the filing of an initial public offering, which could value the company at around $100 billion.
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Feb 4, 2012
Facebook turns EIGHT today | Eighth Birthday of Facebook
“TheFacebook” when it launched on Feb. 4, 2004, the site will turn eight years old on Saturday. It’s expected to celebrate its birthday week with the filing of an initial public offering, which could value the company at around $100 billion.
Oct 16, 2011
Run Any Android Application On Windows | BlueStack
BlueStacks is an Android app player for Windows that can run any type of Android apps and games in full screen mode without encountering any performance or compatibility related issues. It features 10 pre-loaded apps along with an option to add custom apps. You can either download new apps from the BlueStacks Channel or push your favorite apps from your Android phone to your PC via BlueStacks Cloud Connect.
After installation, you will find a gadget on the right corner of your screen. Clicking the gadget will extend an App Tray.When you run an app, the application will automatically go into full screen mode.
At the bottom, you have Menu, Rotate, Zoom and All Apps buttons in the center with app navigation and close buttons at either side. The Zoom button switches between full-screen and standard view modes. Clicking the All Apps button will show the BlueStacks gadget with the App Tray.
You can download additional Android apps from BlueStacks Channels. Click Get More Apps in the widget app tray. Upon the first visit, you need to login with your Facebook account. Once logged in, you can choose and install an app by clicking the Subscribe button under it.
A great feature of this application is that you can push the apps from your Android device to your PC by using the BlueStacks Cloud Connect option.
Once done, open the Cloud Connect page on your PC’s browser to receive a Phone PIN. Open the app on your phone, enter the PIN and tap OK. You should now be able to see a list of all your apps inside BlueStacks Cloud Connect. Check the app that you want to push to your PC and tap Sync.
You might have to wait for some time for the apps to sync with your PC. When the syncing process is completed, you can run all your Android device’s apps on your PC.
There was a lot of hype surrounding BlueStacks when it was first announced and truth be told, even though it is in alpha stage as of now, the application far exceeds expectations. It runs Android apps with little or no lag at all and provides its own medium for transfer of apps from device to PC. It does have its limitations, though. For instance, you cannot use apps or play games that are dependent on multi-touch – an issue that might be resolved in future updates.
Only the free version of BlueStacks is available at the moment and it has a maximum limit of 26 downloadable apps (excluding the 10 pre-loaded apps). The application works on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
by :hemal modi
Sep 8, 2011
VLC Direct Pro 6.2: Stream/Play Music and Videos from/to Android and PC
VLC Direct Pro is a great app to stream and play Music and Videos anywhere you want. No more file transfers! Easy and Powerful Media Client and Server Application. No Ads, No playback Limits, VLC Remote Control features: browse files, play, enqueue, pause, stop, volume, fullscreen, playlist and more.
VLC Direct Pro support all Android smartphones with Android OS 2.0 and above. This is the only application of the entire market that can stream videos and music in both ways:
* From Computer to Android
* From Android to Computer
With this application you can play music and videos in your computer's VLC or in your Android device. You don't have to worry where your files are stored -they can be in your android or in your computer-, VLC Direct Pro will take care of streaming when necessary. New Feature to subtitles support! (.srt files).
* super easy configuration - just one click and you will be ready to go!
* Only for advanced users: If you want to use VLC Direct Pro through remote networks these are the ports you will have to map in the routers:
* 8080 (VLC Web Interface)
* 4444 (Streaming from Android to VLC)
* 5554 (Streaming from VLC to Android)
Keywords: vlc, streaming, stream, video, videos, music, emit, remote, control, controller, convert, wifi, mp4, mkv, avi, rmvb, flv, mp3, wmv, wma, m4v, mpg, mpeg, ts, srt, player, playback, movie, movies, song, songs, subtitle, subtitles
What's in this version 6.2:
~New Feature: IMAGE Streaming Supported!!!
~Performance improvements
~Bug fixes
~Market filtering fix
Aug 10, 2011
Hacker Group Anonymous Aims to Destroy Facebook on Nov. 5 fact or romour !!!
Hackivist group Anonymous vows to "kill Facebook" on November 5, citing users' lack of choice in privacy as its reason for attack.
The group of hackers has claimed participation in just about every recent notable hacking attack of this year and successfully broke into 70 law enforcement websites and took down the Syrian Ministry of Defense website this week alone.
This recent interest in Facebook, despite a slew of privacy concerns raised against the social network since its founding, may be a result of Anonymous's recent announcement that it plans to create its own social network, called AnonPlus. After the group's Google+ account, called "Your Anon News," was banned, it began fleshing out AnonPlus.com, "a new social network where there is no fear...of censorship...of blackout...nor of holding back."
Below is a video and statement released by Anonymous explaining the reason for its upcoming battle with the world's largest social network. Let us know your thoughts on the group's statement in the comments below.
Anonymous Statementsource ::-mashable
Attention citizens of the world,
We wish to get your attention, hoping you heed the warnings as follows:
Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed. If you are a willing hacktivist or a guy who just wants to protect the freedom of information then join the cause and kill facebook for the sake of your own privacy.
Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria.
Everything you do on Facebook stays on Facebook regardless of your "privacy" settings, and deleting your account is impossible, even if you "delete" your account, all your personal info stays on Facebook and can be recovered at any time. Changing the privacy settings to make your Facebook account more "private" is also a delusion. Facebook knows more about you than your family.
http://www.physorg.com/news170614271.html
http://itgrunts.com/2010/10/07/facebook-steals-numbers-and-data-from-your-iphone/
You cannot hide from the reality in which you, the people of the internet, live in. Facebook is the opposite of the Antisec cause. You are not safe from them nor from any government. One day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right, you will thank the rulers of the internet, we are not harming you but saving you.
The riots are underway. It is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It is a battle for choice and informed consent. It's unfolding because people are being raped, tickled, molested, and confused into doing things where they don't understand the consequences. Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is completely false. It gives users the illusion of and hides the details away from them "for their own good" while they then make millions off of you. When a service is "free," it really means they're making money off of you and your information.
Think for a while and prepare for a day that will go down in history. November 5 2011, #opfacebook . Engaged.
This is our world now. We exist without nationality, without religious bias. We have the right to not be surveilled, not be stalked, and not be used for profit. We have the right to not live as slaves.
We are anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us
Aug 6, 2011
Spam King arrested for hacking 500,000 Facebook accounts
'Spam King' arrested for hacking 500,000 Facebook accounts
A notorious spammer known as the “Spam King” has surrendered to the FBI on charges of bombarding Facebook users with unwanted messages after breaching the security 500,000 accounts.
Sanford Wallace, 43, also known as "Spamford Wallace" and "David Frederix", was arrested in Las Vegas on Thursday.
Wallace is accused of hacking into 500,000 accounts to harvest friend lists between November 2008 and March 2009. He allegedly used the compromised lists to make more than 27 million unsolicited postings on Facebook walls that appeared to come from friends.
If targets clicked on links within the messages, they were presented with a website designed to fool them into handing over their full name, email address and password, prosecutors said. Finally they would be redirected to affiliate websites that would allegedly pay Wallace “substantial revenue” for traffic.
The scheme relied on vulnerabilities that Wallace discovered in Facebook’s spam filters, according to the indictment.
“To accomplish his scheme, Wallace first tested his spamming capabilities between two Facebook accounts,” it said.
Jul 28, 2011
FileHippo Vulnerable To Iframe Inejection
One of the most Popular Freeware Software download website "FileHippo" is Vulnerable to Iframe Injection. This Vulnerability is Found and submitted by n3t phir3
Vulnerability Link
Jul 20, 2011
16-year-old leading member of LulzSec reportedly in custody after sting
Following this morning’s FBI raids in New York on the homes of suspected Anonymous members, London’s Metropolitan Police E-Crime Unit says it has arrested one of the suspected leading members of hacking group LulzSec, according to Fox News.
The arrests were part of an internationally coordinated sting on the two allied hacker groups which resulted in 16 arrests.
The hacker in custody is a 16-year-old boy from South London who goes by Tflow online, and has links to both groups. He is being held on suspicion of breaching the Computer Misuse Act.
The sting came just hours after LulzSec returned from its retirement to wreak havoc on News Corp properties such as The Sun, redirecting the website to a fake story about CEO and owner Rupert Murdoch’s death.
Leaked chat records confirm T-Flow as one of the core members of Lulzsec.
Via - The Next Web
Jul 18, 2011
The Anonymous Social Network | Anonplus
The story so far is that Anonymous – or someone associated with Anonymous, or someone cynically riding on the back of Anonymous, who knows? – has set up a site that will offer some kind of social network.
Google+ banned numerous Anonymous members, now they have made their own social network called Anon+/Anonplus.
As is normal with these things, it’d hard to say if it really has anything to do with Anonymous or not – the ‘official’ Anonymous Twitter and Blog accounts have not mentioned Anon+
According to The Register
The story so far is that Anonymous – or someone associated with Anonymous, or someone cynically riding on the back of Anonymous, who knows? – has set up a site that will offer some kind of social network.
According to TechSpot, the idea (and the “Alpha” Website, anonplus.com) arose when Google+ allegedly banned an unknown number of Anonymous members.
The Anonplus site is couched in Anonymous’s usual grandiose phraseology – “they will know that we have arrived. There will be no oppression. There will be no more tyranny. We are the people and we are Anonymous.”
Fair enough. Anyone’s got the right to set up a social network if they want, and they have the right to claim to act on behalf of others, regardless of how accurate that claim may be.
But the idea of a completely anarchic, “no tyranny, no oppression” (defined in whose terms?) social network offers some interesting self-contradictions to resolve.
I’ll grant that the world of corporate social networks is a nightmare of “tyranny and oppression” – so much so that the success of Facebook and the excitement over Google+ mystifies me.
Facebook bans a Google+ ad at the drop of a hat, but turns into a nearly-immovable object if asked to help deal with abusive commenters (who, for example, infest tribute pages to the dead). Google+ demands an understanding of 37 different privacy statements. Social networks are not just tyrannical, they’re also a “confusopoly” whose success depends on nobody being able to decode the rules they’ve promised to follow.
Anonymous’s intervention – to me, a much more welcome intervention than the group’s inability to distinguish between targets, slapping the small and mighty with equal abandon and claiming equal credit whether they’ve defeated a flea-bite nobody or a US military operation – may or may not succeed, but it raises an interesting question.
What’s the line separating rules that are necessary for a social network to function from rules that are oppressive; and when does one become the other?
All social interactions are government by rules of some kind. They may be tight or loose, consensual or tyrannical, explicit or implicit, designed or evolved, but the rules exist, whether or not you follow them (or even acknowledge them).
If all you do is hold a conversation with someone, you will follow at least one rule – the two of you will hold the conversation in languages comprehensible to you both. The interaction won’t happen without that minimum rule.
If we hack something, we publish it” is a rule for Anonymous – written or not. “There will be no tyranny” is a rule of interaction.
And even Anonplus.com must have, at minimum, one rule: “anybody may join”. The group itself has implied a second rule, that nobody be censored or blacked out.
Censorship provides a convenient handle on which I can hang a question about rules: censorship by whom? Sure, it’s clear that “Anonplus” won’t censor the statements or posts of its users – but what of those users who would wish to constrain, censor or silence other users?
Such people exist in every large group – whether they merely seek to shout down dissent or, since this is the Internet, if they seek to silence those they don’t like by hacking their profiles.
“We will not censor” is one rule, one which governs only part of the interaction: “You will not censor” is another – one which, in both its expression and enforcement, contains the potential for tyranny. The more difficult “do not hack other users’ profiles” holds even better tyrannical potential, since it involves questions of accusation, evidence, proof, appeal and enforcement.
These are merely a couple of simplistic examples. The greater the subtlety and complexity of the interaction, the more subtle and complex the rules that govern it.
Anonplus already has rules. To grow into something that has users – users outside its own inner circle – it faces a much tougher task. It must learn to walk a tightrope between the tyranny of rules and the tyranny of anarchy. If it succeeds, it will be a welcome coming-of-age. ®
