Venmo is taking heat after a news report last week revealed security holes you could “drive a truck through,” in the words of one aggrieved Venmo user whose account was drained of $2850.
Daily Archives: March 3, 2015
Facebook explains when and why it peeps at your account
A Facebook engineer asked if it would be OK to take a look at Paavo Siljamäki’s profile. Sure, he said. Then he wondered: how many employees can get in without credentials?
Is this the ultimate spam fail?
We’re not sure whether we ought to laugh at cybercrime. But sometimes you just have to smile at the antics of would-be cybercriminals.
Woman reunited with stolen iPhone thanks to accidental Facebook selfie post
A woman and her iPhone have been happily reunited, thanks to the new owner having accidentally posted a selfie onto her Facebook page that went viral.
Uber subpoenas GitHub in search for hacker of driver database
A breach of one of its databases in May 2014, in which the names and driver license numbers of 50,000 “driver partners” were stolen, is the latest entry on Uber’s growing list privacy and security blunders.