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The AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation has today released two new episodes of the compelling Closing The Net podcast series to highlight the importance of education and awareness in online child sexual exploitation.Narrated by Australian actress and mother, Caroline Craig, who appeared in Blue Heelers and Underbelly, the two new episodes offer valuable tips and advice on how to keep kids safe online.Episode 1 – See Say Do focuses on what children are seeing and doing online. The episode speaks with the people behind the AFP-led ThinkUKnow online safety program, including volunteers who have been presenting for more than 10 years. AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw, Microsoft’s Phil Myer and Maria Bennett from Neighbourhood Watch are among those featured. A parent discusses what he learned after listening to season one of Closing The Net, and how it gave him and his wife tips on how to speak with their kids about online dangers.Episode 2 – Time to Talk breaks down some of the myths about online child sexual exploitation but explains how easily it can happen. It includes a case study of 13-year-old girl who sent naked images of herself to someone she didn’t know on Snapchat. The mother…

WhatsApp iOS would soon redesign its chat bubbles into a more "rounded" look, something which the company has avoided for the past years since it acquired Facebook. Now, WABetaInfo has revealed that it would soon come for the instant messaging application, bringing a fresh look for the application.  The instant messaging application has been setting up its service to bring several features for its applications, even on iPads and Androids. These are several of the actions being made by the company to regain the public's trust, particularly because it has certain anomalies with regard to privacy and data.  WhatsApp iOS Chat Bubble Redesign (Photo : Alexander Shatov from Unsplash)There is a new mod malware circulating in WhatsApp which could deliver ads and sign up the victims for premium subscriptions. Here's how you can avoid this Trojan in your Android device. It was unprecedented that WhatsApp would be active in bringing new features for the application, particularly because its main problem consists of losing the trust of the public concerning data. However, it has been making moves on bringing several services, which are also seen among other messaging apps.  According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp iOS would bring new changes that can be seen with the…

Joe West during Padres vs. Astros. (Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports) Home plate umpire Joe West was racked over the coals by MLB Twitter for his horrible strike call during the Padres game against the Astros.In a tie ball game, every call counts. Sadly, blown calls matter even more.That’s why Joe West got obliterated by Twitter when he handed Padres closer Mark Melancon a strikeout of Aledmys Díaz on a terrible called strike to end the bottom of the ninth against the Astros.Have a look:There were men on third and first so that at-bat was potentially critical in the game. It’s a shame it ended that way.Joe West blew a critical call in the ninth inning of the Astros-Padres gameMelancon got out of the inning with the Astros and Padres tied at 3-3. In the bottom of the ninth, Jake Cronenworth hit a walk off home run to break the deadlock.MLB Twitter didn’t let West off the hook.How has Joe West not been forced into retirement— Ross Villarreal (@SportsRV) September 5, 2021MLB owes it to their players and fans to employ umpires who can get things right more often than not. West doesn’t fit that description and everyone seems to know…

Toxic algae that can cause “extreme illness” California Downstream of the river where the family was mysteriously found dead. The 28-mile range of the Merced River between the towns of Brysburg and Bagby is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) I received the result of the water sample test. The flowers are about 12 miles downstream from where Jonathan Gerish, 45, wife Ellen Chung, one-year-old daughter MUJI, and a family dog ​​were found dead on August 17th. It was discovered. This means that hiking trails and campgrounds are no longer open to the public three weeks after the death of a British Snapchat engineer and his family. Investigators have confirmed that they have not been killed by weapons such as gas and guns from nearby mines so far, but the mystery surrounds the cause of the family’s death. The closure on Friday further raised suspicions that the family was fatally poisoned from drinking water, although authorities were still waiting to receive toxicology reports. Elizabeth Meyer Shields, a BLM spokesperson, said of the discovery of algae: “We continue to monitor the presence of algae and look forward to a time when the Merced River can be safely reproduced by the general…

Pandemic misinformation broadcast by Sky News Australia is amongst thousands of Australian videos removed from YouTube for code violations.More than 5000 "dangerous and misleading" videos traced to an Australian IP address were removed from YouTube between February 2020 and March 2021, Google Australia spokeswoman Lucinda Longcroft told a federal parliamentary inquiry on Monday.Ms Longcroft confirmed the removed material included 23 YouTube videos posted by Sky News Australia.She said most of the Sky News items were removed due to violations of a COVID-19 misinformation code and two as violations of political integrity."They have been permanently deleted," she said.Over the course of the past 18 months, Google has worked with health authorities around the world to combat false and harmful claims about the pandemic, health treatments and public health measures as well as misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.Spam, hate and misinformation guidelines are applied equally regardless of who creates the item.Globally, more than 90 per cent of pandemic misinformation material removed had 100 views or less.Sky News will give evidence to the inquiry later on Monday.

It didn’t take long for Notre Dame to find the endzone against Florida State. On a 4th and 2, transfer quarterback Jack Coan found sophomore tight end Michael Mayer alone on the right side of the field. Mayer then had an easy run into the endzone for the Irish, as they got on the board first. It was an absolutely fantastic first drive where the Irish went with an uptempo attack, that obviously caught the Seminoles off guard. The Irish didn’t run the ball once, threw every single down and it resulted in a quick score for the Irish. A great job by the offense and play calling by Tommy Rees. Just a beaut. No. 9 @NDFootball 7 – FSU 0📺 ABC#GoIrish #BeatNoles pic.twitter.com/xQwo3AObvz — The Fighting Irish (@FightingIrish) September 5, 2021

Sky News has hit out at YouTube for removing its videos from the platform and suspending it for a week, telling an inquiry the reason was ‘frankly ridiculous’.Sky News CEO Paul Whittaker has blasted YouTube in his opening statement to the Senate Inquiry Into Media Diversity, rejecting suggestions the network ever denied the existence of Covid-19 and accusing the social media platform of censoring “certain views”.In a strongly-worded six-minute statement, Mr Whittaker said YouTube’s assertion Sky had peddled Covid-denialist theories was “frankly ridiculous,” as the network had provided 24/7 coronavirus coverage since March 2020, covering “all angles of this evolving national and global public health and policy debate”.Last month, YouTube took the unprecedented step of removing 23 Sky News videos from the platform and suspending the network for a week. Sky News Australia has nearly two million subscribers to its YouTube channel and has uploaded in excess of 50,000 pieces of content.“Sky News Australia strongly supports vaccination. Any claims to the contrary are false and a blatant attempt to discredit and harm our news service,” Mr Whittaker said. All the network’s hosts “continue to speak strongly in support of vaccination as the only way forward for the nation,” he added.But…

A security vulnerability in popular messaging app WhatsApp’s image filter function discovered by Check Point Research could have exploited more than two billion users worldwide if left unpatched. It is estimated more than 55 billion messages are being sent daily over WhatsApp, with 4.5 billion photos and one billion videos shared per day.  Check Point Research recommends for WhatsApp users to always keep their apps and operating systems updated. Image Filter Function According toe CPR, the vulnerability was rooted in WhatsApp’s image filter function. Image filtering is a process through which pixels of the original image are modified to achieve some visual effects, such as blur or sharpen.  During their research study, CPR learned that switching between various filters on crafted GIF files indeed caused WhatsApp to crash. CPR identified one of the crashes as a memory corruption.  CPR promptly reported the problem to WhatsApp, who named for the vulnerability CVE-2020-1910, detailing it as an out-of-bounds read and write issue. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability would have required an attacker to apply specific image filters to a specially crafted image and send the resulting image. Coordinated Disclosure CPR disclosed its findings to WhatsApp on November 10, 2020. WhatsApp verified and acknowledged the…

Twitch streamer Amouranth has become extremely popular through her IRL content. In a recent stream, she was addressing all the vulgar things she’s been called throughout her life and used this as a perfect opportunity to hit back at the trolls that never call her broke. Kaitlyn ‘Amouranth’ Siragusa has grown her fanbase on multiple social media platforms. From Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, all the way to OnlyFans, she is one of the most successful personalities. While some people may look at her content as controversial, Amouranth has a very supportive community through all the hate. Regardless of internet trolls continuing to diminish her work, she just continues to stream, secure the bag, and let everyone about it. Twitter: AmouranthAmouranth has become vastly popular through her IRL streams. Amouranth flexes wealth to all her haters  The internet personality has never strayed far from the boundaries of the internet. From ASMR to hot tub streams, Amouranth has been pushing the limits of Twitch, growing to over 4.2 million followers on the platform. Read More: Twitch streamer Jinny falls for oldest scam in the book despite chat warnings However, with all this fame comes its perks. While most people enjoy her content there…

Kolkata: A 20-year-old youth has been arrested by Ekbalpore police for allegedly sending obscene messages on Instagram to several women. The main complaint was lodged by a married woman. The accused has been identified as Md Sameer (20), a resident of Ibrahim Road. Police sources said that during questioning, the youth claimed to have sent these messages to only those women who liked his profile. This made him think that he had already “befriended” them and that these women had a “liking” for him. “We have received a written complaint from a woman’s father, a resident of Ekbalpore, that his daughter was sent some obscene messages between 1am and 1.30am. They were purportedly sent to her by the youth, as the complainant alleged. This was immediately objected to by the woman and her husband. The accused thereafter sent filthy voice messages that outraged the modesty of the complainant's daughter. A specific case under IPC 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (insulting the modesty of a woman) was registered at the local police station. The accused was arrested on Saturday and the mobile phone used by him for the crime was also seized,” said DC (Port) Zafar Ajmal Kidwai. FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail