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10YRS OLD RECEIVE $10,000 FOR INSTAGRAM HACK

Facebook is known to give out rewards to users who find out flaws. This time, a 10-year old who is not on Facebook found a flaw in Instagram owned by Facebook, which earned him $10,000 from the social media platform. The flaw that Jani found let him delete text posted by an Instagram user by getting into Instagram servers says Mashable. This made him win the bug bounty.   The ten years old boy told Finnish news, he can delete any text posted by any Instagram user. The flaw was carried out after Jani created a test account. Jani said he could even delete comments posted by anyone by exploiting this flaw.  Jani’s father said, Jani and his twin brother have found security bugs in a lot of websites and applications, but none of them were important enough to be rewarded to handsomely.  According to Mashable; Facebook has paid out a total of $936,000 to 210 researchers in 2015

The Death of a Legend - Prince

One of the most iconic musicians in music history, Prince has died according to breaking news on international media platforms including TMZ and Sky News. Prince had a medical emergency on April 15th that forced his private jet to make an emergency landing in Illinois. He was hospitalized briefly after the incident but appeared at a concert the next day on April 16th (pictured above) where he assured his fans that he was okay. Prior to then, he had canceled two shows due to health problems. His family told TMZ that he had been battling a bad bout of flu. His body was discovered at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota early Thursday morning, April 21st. He was 57 years old. May his soul rest in peace, amen.

Dangote richer than Trump, Abramovich, Oprah put together - Forbes

Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote group, is now richer than Donald Trump, Republican front runner; Roman Abramovich, owner of Chealsea football club and Oprah Winfrey, the richest black woman, put together. Dangote, who came in at the 51st position of the 2016 ranking by Forbes Magazine, is also richer than the combination of all other Nigerians who made the list. Despite losing $300 million from $15.7 billion (N3.1 trillion) to about $15.4 billion, (N3.05 trillion) in the latest rankings, Dangote remains the richest black billionaire anywhere on the planet. At $15.4 billion, the 58-year-old is richer than Abramovich ($7.6 billion), Oprah ($3.0 billion) and Trump $4.5 billion. The Nigerians who made the list are Mike Adenuga ($10 billion), Femi Otedola ($1.8 billion), Folorunsho Alakija ($1.6 billion) and Abdulsamad Rabiu ($1.1 billion), who came in at 103, 1,011, 1,121 and 1,577 respectively. Bill Gates remains the richest person in the world with a net worth of ...

Switzerland gives condition for returning Abacha's $321m loot

The Swiss foreign minister, Didier Burkhalter, on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, told newsmen that his nation and Nigeria has consented to an arrangement that will clear a path for the arrival of the $321m Abacha plunder.  Burkhalter said part of the assention was that the assets will be utilized to actualize ventures that will advantage Nigerians.  He said "It is $321m that we are taking a gander at repatriating to Nigeria and the modalities are essentially lawful structure for that, shared legitimate help system that we are attempting to put set up and there are pre-conditions that are likewise set up as of now and this requires observing instrument.  "Along these lines, we need to concur previously as a pre-condition on what the cash would be utilized for and the World Bank would be a piece of the checking procedure to guarantee that the cash is utilized for the advantage of Nigerian individuals."  The Swiss ambassador additionally said his nation wil...

Top 10 Richest Bloggers in the World and their Networth

Blogging, so much a piece of day by day lives today, really took a while to get on before turning out to be massively fruitful – basically overnight. Blogging started to quickly spread in 1999 and presently because of a couple about synchronous manifestations of site instruments: Open Diary (1998), LiveJournal (1999), Pitas.com (1999), and Blogger.com (1999).  In 1997, John Bargerm, editorial manager of Robot Wisdom, authored the expression "web-log" while endeavoring to portray the day by day rundown of destinations that he "logged" onto amid his web voyages. A couple of years after the fact Peter Merholz utilized the word as a part of his sidebar however settled on the inventive choice to part the word into two: we blog. It wasn't long after that, that Evan Williams at Pyra Labs started utilizing "blog" all alone as both a verb and a thing, before at last making the expression "blogging" in relationship with Pyra Labs' Blogger ite...

LIST of 2016 Top 10 Richest People In The World - Forbes Releases

The persuasive magazine, Forbes has discharged the rundown of world's wealthiest individuals with their total assets.  The intense magazine, Forbes has released the summary of world's wealthiest people with their aggregate resources.  Gates is still No. 1, however turbulent securities trades modified the positions near the most noteworthy need on the summary. China included 70 new 10-figure fortunes, however the U.S. still leads the world with 540 amazingly rich individuals. The new most energetic to a great degree rich individual on the planet is a 19-year-old from Norway.  Here are the summary of 10 most wealthiest people on the planet:  1. Bill Gates ($75bn) 2. Amancio Ortega ($67bn) 3. Warren Buffett ($60.8bn) 4. Carlos Slim HelĂș ($50bn) 5. Jeff Bezos ($45bn) 6. Mark Zuckerberg ($44.6bn) 7. Larry Ellison ($43.6b) 8. Michael Blomberg ($40bn) 9. Charles Koch ($39,6bn) and 10. David Koch ($39.6bn)