Devs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc.
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Would a bill banning bots do more harm than good?
According to the bill as it stands now, it would be okay to use a bot as long as it discloses that it is a bot, otherwise it’s “unlawful”.
Bigamists have no right to privacy on Facebook
Out of sight, out of mind? Not on Facebook, where 8,000 miles between Illinois and Thailand is wiped out by a “here’s us with the kids!” pic.
How one hacker could have changed automotive history
That’s not supposed to happen: 150GB of customer data that the world could download… and hack.. and then upload again.
Hidden camera Uber driver fired after live streaming passenger journeys
He streamed videos of hundreds of passengers on Twitch, where viewers critiqued bodies and behavior and grabbed at least one upskirt clip.
Crimson Hexagon banned by Facebook over user data concern
Facebook is probing whether the firm’s government contracts comply with its policies, which nix use of user data for government surveillance.
Scammers pwn verified Fox Twitter account to scam cryptocurrency
Scammers have been exploiting Twitter for months now to steal digital currencies from naïve users, but this month one attacker pulled off a rare coup by compromising a verified Twitter account.
Russian hackers are ready to disrupt US energy utilities, says DHS
Jonathan Homer says Russian hackers have snared “hundreds of victims” in the utilities and equipment sectors and “got to the point where they could have thrown switches” in a way that could have caused power blackouts.
The Bluetooth “device snooping bug” – what you need to know
A “Bluetooth snooping” bug, dubbed CVE-2018-5383, was just announced – are you patched, and how can you tell?
Names and photos of Venmo ‘drug buyers’ published on Twitter
The bot scraped Venmo’s public API for sex, drugs and alcohol-related words, then tweeted profile photos and first names of the “buyers.”