For those who are looking to hack the Facebook accounts of others, there is a marketplace of Facebook Hacker tools that offer the promise of point-and-click ease. According to a new report from Blue Coat Elastica Cloud Threat Labs (BCECTL), the promise made by many Facebook Hacker tools is false.

He emphasized that the Facebook Hacker tools are not doing explicit Facebook hacking. Rather, they are stealing end-users' Facebook account credentials, which can be further used to conduct additional sets of attacks, such as drive-by downloading through malicious link sharing in target accounts, stealing private information, phishing and spamming through Facebook messages.

Government users like Linux and other open-source software for several reasons, but the most important ones are probably that total cost of ownership is often lower than it is for proprietary products and that open-source projects don’t vanish if the company providing them goes under.

No decisions have been made yet, but Hamilton noted that "retirement of the project is a serious possibility," as the Apache board "wants to know what the project's considerations are with respect to retirement."

OpenOffice became an open source project in 2000 after Sun Microsystems acquired StarOffice and released the code. The LibreOffice fork was created after Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010. After the fork, Oracle contributed OpenOffice to the ASF, which renamed it Apache OpenOffice.

Continuing its rapid release cycle, ReactOS has unveiled version 0.4.2 of its free "open-source binary-compatible Windows re-implementation."

ReactOS is free. You can boot your desktop or laptop from it. It looks like Windows (a 10-year-old version, anyway), so you already know how to use it.

On Microsoft’s forums, Rick Hale said: “On Tuesday, I upgraded to the Anniversary Edition of Windows 10. Last night, for the first time since the upgrade, I mounted my Kindle by plugging it into a USB 2 port. I immediately got the blue screen with the QR code. I rebooted and tried several different times, even using a different USB cable, but that made no difference.”

The issue appears to be affecting regular Windows 10 Anniversary update users and those on Microsoft’s Insider programme for pre-release software testing.

If users include the two-dot umlaut in their email password, the system won't authenticate them and their IMAP account will refuse access.

Microsoft has warned that the issue could result if any Unicode character is used, but it cites three examples that point to a distinctly anti-German bias: ä, ö and ü.

Microsoft made a significant change with the release of Windows 10 and support for webcams that is causing serious problems for not only consumers but also the enterprise. The problem is that after installing the update, Windows no longer allows USB webcams to use MJPEG or H264 encoded streams and is only allowing YUY2 encoding.

Because of this change, which Microsoft tried to defend but then realized the scale of the impact this change has caused, means that when a webcam tries to use MJPEG or H264, the device will freeze. If you use Skype and your webcam freezes after about a minute, this is the reason.

"Microsoft has received a small number of reports of Windows 10 freezing after installing the Anniversary Update on systems with the operating system stored on a solid-state drive (SSD) and apps and data stored on a separate drive," wrote a Microsoft forum moderator on Aug. 10. "This issue does not occur when starting Windows 10 in Safe Mode."

Unfortunately, this hybrid-storage approach rendered their PCs inoperable after applying the Anniversary Update. As it investigates the problem, Microsoft is advising users to move all their applications and data to the same drive that contains the operating system.

Some users have been met with blank screens after applying the update while others reported glacially slow boot times. In some cases, the upgrade process will hang for several hours and fail to complete.

You qualify for the free upgrade if you use assistive technologies, which include such features as a magnifier to better see the screen, a narrator to read text aloud, keyboard shortcuts and an on-screen keyboard.

Microsoft has not announced a deadline for the free offer for users of assistive technologies, so those of you who still want Windows 10 should grab the freebie while it lasts.

The corresponding Registry keys are not working either anymore which means that Pro users have no option to make changes to features affected by the change.

The big one is the Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences policy. We have talked about the feature previously. It powers among other things the installation of third-party apps and extra links on Windows 10.

So, if you did not want Candy Crush to be pushed to your operating system, you'd disable the policy to block that from happening.