Justice has already been slow in this case, and the pandemic isn’t helping: His trial has been postponed for a third time.
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FBI arrests alleged owner of Deer.io, top market for stolen accounts
Started around 2013, the site claims to host over 24,000 active shops doing brisk business in stolen PII and hacking services.
Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints
It’s my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we’re just doing what Google Search does.
Hackers plead guilty to breach that Uber covered up
The two men pointed to Uber’s $100K hush-money payment when they tried to extort Linkedin-owned Lynda… that instead called the cops.
Watch out for this latest LinkedIn phish that’s ‘sent’ by a friend
We recently showed you how crooks rip off social networking passwords – here’s what they do with stolen accounts.
Job seekers are scrubbing clean their social media accounts
Most people nowadays are quite aware that hiring managers put their social media postings under a microscope, a new survey finds.
LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules
The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn’t violate the CFAA.
I’d like to add you to my professional network of people to spy on
A deepfake was reportedly spotted in the wild: LinkedIn’s well-connected, young, attractive Eurasia/Russia expert “Katie Jones.”
LinkedIn rapped for targeting ads at 18 million Facebook users
What upset the Data Protection Commissioner: none of the 18 million email addresses were those of LinkedIn users.
Fetish app put users’ identities at risk with plain-text passwords
Whiplr, a naughty, naughty little app, has now secured passwords with “one-way encryption” and is “adding more security measures”.