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Kids as young as eight falling victim to online predators

A UK children’s charity has found that children as young as eight are being sexually exploited online via social media.

Brave is playing down fears after the revelation of what looked like a whitelist in its code allowing it to communicate with Facebook.

Absent from privacy policies, the tracking came to light after a breach with Air Canada’s mobile app, then password slurping from Mixpanel.

A university employee accidentally emailed a spreadsheet containing personal information on every one of the college’s 4,557 students.

So much for creating a three-headed Cerberus marketing-happy chat dog! Also, we’ll soon see the who-what-huh? behind the ads we’re shown.

A clear and present danger: Anyone with a web browser who knows where to look can access Jack’d users’ photos, be they private or public.

From Firefox 66 for desktop and Android, due in March, media autoplay of video or audio will be blocked by default.

Here’s the latest Naked Security podcast – give it a listen!

FamilyTreeDNA has disclosed that it’s opened up more than 1m DNA profiles to the FBI to help find suspects of violent crime.

Anyone could have accessed the entire database, including a child’s location, on Gator watches and other models that share its back end.