Facebook has suffered a data breach affecting almost 50 million accounts. Another 40 million have been reset as a “precautionary” measure.
Daily Archives: September 28, 2018
WhatsApp cofounder: “I sold my users’ privacy”
Regretful WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton has joined the ranks of the Silicon Valley mea-culpa-rati.
Mobile password managers vulnerable to phishing apps
Several leading Android-based password managers can be fooled into auto-filling login credentials on behalf of fake phishing apps.
Power to the people! Google backtracks (a bit) on forced Chrome logins
Google thought it was a such a great idea to start logging you into everything when you logged into something… that it forgot to ask.
Robocallers slapped with huge fines for using spoofed phone numbers
One poor woman whose phone number was hijacked by robocallers got several calls a day from irate consumers who thought she was trying to market to them.