"ORIGININULL"- A SIMPLE BUG THAT ALLOWS HACKERS TO READ ALL OF YOUR FACEBOOK MESSAGES CHAT

TECHBYTE: A security firm Cynet found a critical vulnerability in Facebook Messenger that allow the attacker to read all your personal messages affecting the privacy of one billion Facebook users. Facebook has fixed this issue after reporting by security by security firm.

                     Did you ever imagine that just by a running a website in your browser your all Facebook messages can be read by attacker and you will never know about this , no matter whether you are  using Facebook’s mobile app or web browser. Because these flaws affected both the web chat as well mobile application.

                      For example, if the user opens a website to which the hacker has directed them (via a malicious ad, a security issue, or the hacker’s own website), the hacker can then see all the Facebook Messenger chats, photos and other attachments which the user sends or receives. This happens even if the user sends the messages by way of another computer, or from their personal mobile device!

             Earlier this week , Ysrael Gurt, the security researcher at BugSec and Cynet , reported a cross-origin bypass attack against Facebook Messenger that allows hackers to access your chat, photos and attachments as well. With the help of messenger  Facebook manage the to replace the conventional text messages. Now around one billion active users trust Facebook for their conversations.

        The hack, dubbed “Originull,” enables an attacker to access and view all of a user’s private chats, photos and other attachments sent via Facebook Messenger. Dubbed “Originull,” potentially affects millions of website that use origin null restriction checks and exposes the website visitors to malicious elements.

“This security flaw meant that the messages of 1-billion active monthly Messenger users were vulnerable to attackers,” said Stas Volfus, Chief Technology Officer of BugSec.
“This was an extremely serious issue, not only due to the high number of affected users, but also because even if the victim sent their messages using another computer or mobile, they were still completely vulnerable.”

          Usually, the web browser protects  us from such hacks by only allowing Facebook pages to fetch the information. But, due to this bug, Facebook opens a bridge that allows the sub-sites of the social network to access the information.

                The main issue was misconfigured cross-origin header implementation on Facebook’s chat server domain, which is allowing the attackers to bypass the origin checks and access the Facebook chats from a malicious website.

   This video demonstration shows how the hack is happen --

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HOW TO WRITE YOUR NAME IN UBUNTU , KALI , BASH SHELL OR ANY LINUX TERMINAL IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES

TECHBYTE: In many videos you may have seen that people write there name in terminal. How they do that ?  Well in this post you will know that how to write your own name in your Ubuntu, Kali , bash shell or any Linux terminal using some simple commands.

                         If you are Linux user then your will have already familiar with terminal. In any Linux version like Ubuntu , bash shell , Kali etc terminal is very important part. We work on terminal , executes commands and also many more things .

         Just thing that whenever you open your terminal and the terminal came with your name written inside it. Cool is it not ?

    In this post you will know that how you write your name in your terminal by just writing Linux commands in your terminal. No matter you are familiar or you are a beginner  to Linux just follow simple steps and feel like a boss.   

If have any problems doing this , write it in your comments..

See Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfMioBfKOXk

 

Now Lets start...

• First of all open your Linux terminal .
• Then if you are working as a root user then type this command   

              
           apt-get install figlet

•  If you are not a root user then you should have to type

                 
           sudo apt-get install figlet

      It will install figlet in your system.

• Now you have to  do some changes in "bash.bashrc file" which will be in your etc directory..
  

• So for editing this you have to go in your etc folder.

       
            type cd  /etc

    it will shift you in etc directory . Now you have to find bash.bashrc file in your current directory .

so just type ls command. it will show you all the finds inside etc directory.

• Now you have to do some changes in this file. so open it with editor. I am using leafpad for doing this .

   
             type   leafpad bash.bashrc


Note that the name should be right . Here leafpad is only a  editor you can use your own test editor name in place of leafpad.

• It will open bash.bashrc file in editor . Now you have to make changes in it, so go to the bottom of file and type

      
     figlet  " your name here "


Note that whatever you want to write it must be inside  " " .

• Now save your file by pressing cntrl + s .

  Now you have done . You have successfully written your own name in  terminal.

Here is my video ,Watch it and if you have any problems ask them by doing comments and found useful then like and subscribe also.

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GOOGLE'S AI CREATED ITS OWN SECRET INTERNAL LANGUAGE AND ITS AMAZING !

TECHBYTE: Google's Neural Machine Translation System went live in September. Its a machine language based system for performing language translations effectively. Google's AI and language developer thinks that it is using its  own internal language to translate it. 

               Since September Google announced that its Natural Machine Translation System had gone in live. Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT)   system is a machine learning based system capable of performing language translations effectively .  Google has done a lot of research to enhance its translation capabilities . Now its tries to understand a complete meaning of sentence instead of individual words and phrases to translate . 

GNMT’s creators were curious about something. If you teach the translation system to translate English to Korean and vice versa, and also English to Japanese and vice versa… could it translate Korean to Japanese, without resorting to English as a bridge between them? 

They have developed a concept they call “Zero-Shot Translation”. Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation system is able to translate a pair of languages It involves a single Neural Translation Machine (NMT) model to translate between multiple language pairs.

 The researchers trained the system with examples of Japanese⇄English and Korean⇄English pairs.The system was expected to perform Korean⇄Japanese  translations, although, it was never taught to do so. It performed the Korean⇄Japanese translation up to a reasonable extent.

It produces "reasonable" translations between two languages that it has not explicitly linked in any way, means no English allowed.  This raised a quation-

 According to the researchers, the system has developed its own language, or “interlingua”, using which it relates different languages according to their sentence semantics rather than focusing on sentences phrase-to-phrase.

   

The Multilingual Google Neural Machine Translation has been implemented for Google Translate. Also, 10 of the 16 newest language pairs are being translated using multilingual system.

 

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