A bill to punish robocallers has finished its passage through Congress and is expected to become law any day now.
Monthly Archives: December 2019
Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number
Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.
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Man jailed for $122 million scam that fooled Google and Facebook
Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.
Twitter trolls attack epileptics with seizure-inducing images
They hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation’s hashtags and name during national epilepsy awareness month, when the most people follow the feed.
Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators
Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!
What’s behind Putin’s old-school operating system?
Reports surfaced this week that the president of Russia is still using Windows XP as his primary operating system.
Hello ‘123456,’ my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again
Once again, it reins supreme as the #1 smelliest old fish of a password on the list of ones that most frequently turn up in data breaches.
Hiding malware downloads in Taylor Swift pics! New SophosLabs report
Just because a malware family isn’t all over the headlines doesn’t mean it isn’t interesting… or important… or dangerous!
Chrome 79 patched after Android WebView app chaos
Google has rushed out a fix for a bug in the Android version of Chrome that left some app users unable to access accounts or retrieve stored data.