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Google Chrome offers users a Safe Browsing feature that checks for malicious URLs before loading web pages, and the search giant has now given it a major upgrade — a privacy-preserving real-time link scanning mechanism that checks an encrypted version of links that a user is visiting via an independently operated server. While the company claims that the 'standard' version of the browser's Safe Browsing feature is much more effective at detecting threats, the 'enhanced' version will still be more effective against…

Screenshot: GizmodoHundreds of thousands of Maryland vehicles are unknowingly a mobile advertisement for a Filipino casino after a license plate URL recently began redirecting to the gambling hall.Caleb McLaughlin Wants to Play Static ShockVice reports that in 2012, Maryland released a new license plate to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. That license plate was apparently the default license plate for Maryland cars between 2012 and 2016, and featured a URL at the bottom to www.starspangled200.org.…

An Android malware called 'Daam' that infects mobile phones and hacks into sensitive data like call records, contacts, history and camera has been found to be spreading, the national cyber security agency has said in its latest advisory.The virus is also capable of "bypassing anti-virus programs and deploying ransomware on the targeted devices", the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In said.The agency is the federal technology arm to combat cyber attacks and guard the cyber space against phishing and hacking…

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) is reportedly available to download on specific Android devices. Several users online have spotted the once-tarnished battle royale game on the Google Play Store, ready to download without any prior date confirmation from publisher Krafton. Gadgets 360 can confirm the same, albeit only through the web (browser) version — the title won't show up in most of the review units of phones we have in our possession. Late last week, Krafton confirmed that the Indian government allowed them the…

Microsoft has been under fire for its questionable user-tracking tactics for years, but that has not dissuaded the company from continuing to collect oodles of data. To that point, a Redditor (via The Verge) recently noticed that the newest version of Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis.com with the full URL of nearly every site a user visits. “Searching for references to this URL gives very few results, no documentation on this feature at all,” wrote hackermchackface. “Surely I can’t be the first to…

Photo: pathdoc / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)Have you noticed that there’s a lot of stuff on the internet? Heck, these days there’s so much that a person might start having a hard time keeping track of it all! People have been trying to figure out what to do about all that for a long time. RSS—which stands for RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication depending on who you ask—was one early idea. RSS let websites that make content, like this, one for example, to create a feed of content. People could plug the…

Image Source : APPLE SUPPORT Apple Support The Apple Support website has been experiencing a major outage for some users across the world, who are facing trouble accessing the site. It has been unclear how widespread the concern is, but those users who are being affected are seeing an “Invalid URL” error when they are trying to access the website. ALSO READ: Xiaomi…

This article will teach us how to use Request Arguments in our Flask application. First, we will understand. What are the Request Arguments?What are the Request Arguments?Request Arguments are MultiDict objects with the parsed contents of the query string (the part in the URL after the question mark).MultiDict:  It is a dictionary-like structure, having key-value pairs, but the ‘same key’ can occur multiple times in the collection.In Flask, we can use the request.args attribute of the request object to access the URL…

Improve Article Save Article Like Article Improve Article Save Article In this article, we will cover how to Pass URL Arguments in Flask using Python. URL converters in Flask are mentioned in angular brackets (<>). These unique converters are designed to let us generate extremely dynamic URLs, where a part of the URL is regarded as a variable. For that we have created three different endpoints to understand three different scenarios of URL converters in Flask.Usage of a single URL converter.Usage when there are…

Samsung Internet is one of the best mobile browsers available on Android. It’s made by Samsung but is one of its few apps not exclusive to Galaxy smartphones and tablets, which is great because the Samsung Internet browser offers some excellent features, including a built-in ad blocker. Another nice thing about Samsung Internet, especially when compared to Google Chrome, is that its user interface places all the buttons at the bottom, which is great for one-handed use. It also lets you move the address/URL bar to the…