Breaking News : YAHOO has just released a security patch that prevents a serious bug which allowed hackers to read any email image credit Yahoo has just issued a security patch of a highly critical XSS (cross-site scripting) security vulnerability in its users’ email system that allowed hackers to read any email contents. Who discovered this security flaw ? Jouko Pynnonen, a famous cyber-security researcher lived in Finland first discovered this serious issue and reported it to Yahoo. Jouko Pynnonen also reported a serious bug in Yahoo last year that allowed hackers to hack any user’s account by using XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerability. He was also awarded in $10,000 by Yahoo’s bug bounty program on Hackerone. How does this bug work ? Jouko Pynnonen has posted an article on his personal blog about how the bug works. He said that the bug existed in the email’s HTML filtering. Jouko sent an email with various sorts of attachments to inspect the raw code ...

Steemit bug found in “TAG” image credit I just found a serious bug on steemit TAG. Today I published a news cum TIL post with 5 tags - wilt news newslink til steemitnews https://steemit.com/wilt/@royalmacro/what-i-learnt-today-darkweb-raises-funds-for-assassinating-both-donald-trump-and-mike-pence But, my post is visible in only one section in “wilt”. Other tags are not working anymore. I searched frequently in the following sections which I tagged – https://steemit.com/created/news https://steemit.com/created/newslink https://steemit.com/created/til https://steemit.com/created/steemitnews My post is invisible in the above sections. It’s only visible in - https://steemit.com/created/wilt Update : I just found a solution. I used 4 tags instead of 5. Now, my post is visible to all 4 sections. Tags : Blockchain, Bugs, Cryptocurrency, Steemit,  This Post Was Published On My Steemit Blog . Please, navigate to steemit and cast a free upvo...

I can’t really understand what actually is happening in steemit post rewards calculation? I noticed the incident yesterday, but, didn’t take it so seriously. I thought I saw wrong. But, today I confirmed something terribly wrong is happening in steemit rewards calculation procedure. So, let’s take a look into it – yesterday this post’s potential payment was 12 dollars before 1/2 hour the payment was made. https://steemit.com/wilt/@royalmacro/what-i-learnt-today-most-malware-infected-top-20-cities-in-the-usa But, when payment was made then I was paid only 9.65 USD. Same thing happened with the next post  https://steemit.com/newslink/@royalmacro/newslink-zimbabwe-unleashes-new-dollar-pegged-currency-should-switch-to-bitcoin-instead This post has : Before payout potential amount : 6 USD, after payout 4 USD only. I've checked my other posts and got the same thing was happened :( When this happened the fluctuation rate of steem price was less. Now, I share my...

Today I just found a bug in steemit system. After logged out my account I can “ upvote or comment or even make a new post “.Look into this now : Log into my account  @royalmacro Visit a random post :  https://steemit.com/til/@dragosroua/til-today-i-learned-that-co2-can-be-processed-to-turn-into-ethanol-the-discovery-itself-was-accidental Determine to upvote & make a comment on it …. But, before doing that that I opened another tab in my browser.  I Logged out in that newly created tab  Switch to my old tab. Then look … Surprisingly , I can now upvote & comment on it , although I logged out in the new tab.  How is it possible ? If you don’t believe it just do it yourself. After making a refresh in this tab. It shows that I logged out. Although I logged out about 3 minutes ago already. I think it’s a bug about  cookie . Tags : Blockchain, Bugs, Cryptocurrency, Steemit,  This Post Was Published On My Steemit ...

Today I found a funny bug on my steemit account. This is completely wrong calculation in my Author Rewards Section.  It shows - Daily average author rewards: 9,677.834 STEEM POWER 4983.376 STEEM 1491.254 SD Estimated author rewards last week: 67,744.839 STEEM POWER 34883.634 STEEM 10438.780 SD You may check it now :  https://steemit.com/@royalmacro/author-rewards Have you any idea ? Why it happened to me ? Please, anybody help to solve this issue. Update : I've just checked about 100 random accounts & found no errors. It seems to me that the wrong calculation is only for my account ...... I surprised !!! Update : Now it shows right calculation ....... thanks god :) Tags : Blockchain, Bugs, Cryptocurrency, Steemit,  This Post Was Published On My Steemit Blog . Please, navigate to steemit and cast a free upvote to help me if you like my post. First Time heard about Steemit ? Click Here To Know Everything About Steemit  ...

An IT security firm CheckPoint has found an arrangement of basic security blemishes in a few Android gadgets influencing 900 million clients around the world. Named QuadRooter by the exploration group, these security imperfections can give an aggressor full access to any cell phone that is constructed utilizing Qualcomm chipsets. Right now, Qualcomm processors are being utilized as a part of 900 million Android gadgets. Qualcomm is the world's driving creator of LTE chipsets with a 65% offer of the LTE modem baseband market.  CheckPoint analysts introduced their discoveries in Def Con however an uplifting news is that there's no confirmation if digital crooks have distinguished or utilized these arrangement of security defects yet it about time when they will begin burrowing profound inside the QuadRooter.  How risky are these imperfections?  Extremely! Abusing these imperfections; assailants can take full access of your gadget and take individual and ...