Nepali youth discovered Instagram's 'bug'

A 21-year-old Nepali youth discovered Instagram's 'bug' and won a $ 6,000 prize

Cyber ​​security researcher Saugat Pokharel has discovered a bug (security vulnerability) on Instagram. The 21-year-old discovered on Instagram that the user's deleted photo and direct message had long been on the company's server.

According to Europe's new data policy, in 2018, Instagram provided users with the facility to download their data. Taking advantage of the facility, Saugat downloaded his data. The downloaded data also included a photo he had deleted a year earlier and a direct message.

According to Instagram's policy, if a user deletes a photo or direct message, the deleted message and photo must be removed within 90 days. This means that the company's servers do not have such data.

However, in the data downloaded by Saugat, a photo older than 90 days is still on the server and that photo was also downloaded.

"The data that I deleted a long time ago has not been deleted by Instagram from its servers," he told TechCrunch. The bug was fixed last month. '

"Investigators have long reported that even deleted data stays on the server and that the information is downloaded when the data is downloaded," an Instagram spokesperson said. "The problem has now been resolved." There is no misuse of such data. '

Following the discovery of the bug, Instagram offered a reward of 6,000 US dollars, or 720,000 Nepali rupees.

child addicted to the Internet

Is your child addicted to the Internet? Do this to get rid of it.

All schools and colleges are closed due to Kovid-19. As a result, many children and adolescents have become lazy, spending hours every day on mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and TVs. If your children have such a diary every day, it will definitely bring sad consequences to the family.

Of course, in the modern age, giving children access to technology cannot be considered otherwise. But with the extreme misuse of technology, young children are beginning to have a detrimental effect on the brain. So don't leave the internet open to make children happy. Remember how long your kids have been online?

Which sites do they open the most? How much time are you spending chatting on social networks including Facebook? What kind of people is coming in contact with them? Now is the time to be alert to these things.

On the other hand, are you sure that your children are looking for study materials on the Internet? Do you know if their eyes are on pornography? If we are not aware of this in time, children can get into trouble and even become addicted.

On the other hand, parents are relieved when children forget about gadgets. But such online games are becoming a kind of addiction in children. They keep thinking about the game at other times.

If they do not interact with family and society and do not get to play, they show unnatural activities that make them angry and irritable. It has been found to have a negative effect on reading and other personality development as watching the game makes one feel sad and frustrated that there has been a great loss. In such cases, parents can do the following to protect their children from Internet addiction.

View and monitor what children do online and what sites they use.

Make rules for using the Internet.

Use only when there are parents or set certain criteria.

Teach to maintain your privacy.

Make a place for children to use the internet around their eyes.

Child lock so that pornographic sites and any sites that affect children are not opened in search engines.

Provide training on the disadvantages of social media.

Prohibit posting and commenting on bad pictures.

Sitting together reading various messages etc.

Closer observation.