The account recovery feature allowed for scraping of any public profile data. Also this: CA actually may have gotten 87m users’ data.
Monthly Archives: April 2018
Facebook and Twitter may be forced to identify bots
If passed, the bill would give platforms 72 hours to investigate reports of bots seeking to mislead Californians and to remove or disclose them.
Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 promises to make DNS more secure
On April Fools’ Day Cloudflare launched a new public DNS (Domain Name System) service using the memorable network address 1.1.1.1.
YouTube employee’s Twitter account hijacked during shooting
In less than an hour after he tweeted from a barricaded room, Vadim Lavrusik’s account was hijacked.
Free Virgin Atlantic tickets? No, it’s a WhatsApp scam
Two free tickets for every family? It sounds great! It has to be a scam.
Get into RSA for free, hear Sophos experts talk, play our VR game
Want a free pass to RSA conference in San Francisco? Look no further!
Hand over your social media history before you enter the US
The US Government will request 5 years’ worth of social media details for 14 million visa applicants, if this proposal goes into effect.
Grindr was sharing HIV status of users, but now it’s not
Grindr has found itself with the uncomfortable job of explaining why it has quietly been sharing the HIV status of its users with third parties.
Those Facebook videos you thought were deleted were not deleted
Facebook’s blamed a bug. Let’s wait and see what other critters crawl out of those data archives many of us have been downloading!
Panera Bread customer records exposed via leaky database – dough!
There’s a war of words going on at the moment between veteran cybercrime reporter Brian Krebs and US bakery chain Panera Bread.