Pavel Jelic It flies like water - Friday is here again and we only have two days off this week. Before you go to spend two days somewhere in the garden or near the water, you can read this week's latest IT summary. Today we will look at a rather interesting finding on Instagram, we will also inform you that the inventor of the pixel has died, and in the latest news we will look at how the Trojan horse is currently massively attacking Czech users of smart devices. So let's get straight to the point.
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Instagram stored deleted photos and messages for a year
In recent days, the Internet is literally full of missteps on Instagram, and by extension Facebook. It's not that long ago that we saw you informed about the fact that Facebook should have collected biometric data, specifically facial photographs, of its users. He was supposed to collect this data from all the photos placed on Facebook and of course without their knowledge and consent. A few days ago we learned that Instagram, which of course belongs to the empire called Facebook, is doing the same. Instagram was also supposed to collect and process users' biometric data, again without their knowledge and permission - we probably don't need to mention that this is an illegal activity. To make matters worse, today we learned about another scandal related to Instagram.
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When you write a message to someone and possibly send a photo or video, and then decide to delete the sent message, most of us expect that the message and its content will simply be deleted. Of course, the message is deleted immediately from the application itself, however it takes some time from the servers themselves. By the way, how much time would be acceptable for you, after which Instagram would have to delete messages and content from its servers? Would it be a few hours or days at most? Most likely yes. But what if I told you that Instagram kept all deleted messages, along with their content, for a year before deleting them? Pretty scary when you realize what you could have sent in messages and then deleted. This error was pointed out by security researcher Saugat Pokharel, who decided to download all his data from Instagram. In the downloaded data, he found the messages and their contents that he had deleted a long time ago. Of course, Pokharel immediately reported this fact to Instagram, which fixed this bug, as he called it. In addition, Pokharel received a reward of 6 thousand dollars to make everything look believable. What do you think, was it really a mistake or another of Facebook's unfair practices?
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Russell Kirsch, the inventor of the pixel, has died
If you know at least a little bit about information technology, or if you use graphic programs, then you absolutely know what a pixel is. Simply put, it is a point that carries part of the data from the captured photo, specifically the color. The pixel, however, did not just happen by itself, specifically in 1957 it was developed, i.e. invented, by Russell Kirsch. This year, he took a black and white photo of his son, which he then managed to scan and upload to the computer, creating the pixel itself. He managed to upload it to the computer using a special technology that he worked on with his team from the US National Bureau of Standards. So the scanned photo of his son Walden completely changed the world of information technology. The photograph itself is even kept in the collections of the Portland Art Museum. Today we unfortunately learned the very sad news – Russel Kirsch, who changed the world in the way mentioned above, has died at the age of 91. However, it should be noted that Kirsch was supposed to leave the world three days ago (i.e. 11 April 2020), the media only found out about it later. Honor his memory.
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The Trojan horse is massively attacking users of smart devices in the Czech Republic
In recent weeks, it seems that various malicious codes are constantly spreading in the Czech Republic, and by extension all over the world. Currently, a Trojan horse called Spy.Agent.CTW is running amok, especially in the Czech Republic. This report was reported by security researchers from the well-known company ESET. The aforementioned Trojan started spreading already last month, but only now has the situation uncontrollably worsened. It is in the following days that further expansion of this Trojan horse should occur. Spy.Agent.CTW is a malware that has only one goal - to get hold of various passwords and credentials on the victim's device. Specifically, the mentioned Trojan horse can obtain all passwords from Outlook, Foxmail and Thunderbird, in addition it also obtains passwords from some web browsers. Reportedly, this Trojan horse is the most popular among computer game players. You can protect yourself against it simply - do not download software and other files from unknown sites, and at the same time try to move around unknown sites as little as possible. It's important to use common sense in addition to antivirus - if something seems suspicious, it very likely is.
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