If you’re worried about the evil potential of deepfake video, you’re not alone; so is Facebook.
Monthly Archives: September 2019
US city balks at paying $5.3 million ransomware demand
The attack quickly encrypted 158 workstations – and would have been worse had it struck later in the working day.
Patch early, patch often – and patch everything!
Here’s our latest Naked Security Live video – all about WordPress, plugins and patching.
Database exposed 133 million US Facebook users’ phone numbers
Facebook confirmed the breach, claiming that the total number of users in the database was 210 million.
YouTube fined $170m for covertly tracking kids online
YouTube can’t track kids online anymore without their parents’ permission, says the FTC, as it fined the Google-subsidiary $170m.
Facebook expands use of face recognition
Facebook’s replaced “tag suggestions” with “face recognition” – a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves.
Twitter slaps back SMS texting after @Jack hijacking
Two problems, Twitter says: vulnerabilities that mobile carriers need to fix & its reliance on linked numbers for 2FA.
Raspberry Pi blasted into space, sends back video of Earth
Got a Pi? Here’s a cool project idea for you…
Scammers deepfake CEO’s voice to talk underling into $243,000 transfer
The voice had the hint of a German accent and the same “melody” that an employee recognized in his boss’s voice.
Firefox won’t follow Chrome’s anti-ad-blocker changes, says Mozilla
Mozilla has told developers not to fret – it won’t follow Google in tweaking its browser to be unfriendly to ad blocking software.