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Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs

November 27, 2019 0 Comments advertising, Android, data loss, data slurping, facebook, iOS, Marketing, mobiburn, Mobile, mobile marketing, one audience, oneaudience, Privacy, profile slurping, profiles, rogue sdks, sdk, sdks, security threats, Social networks, third party apps, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:49:19 +0000

Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TEWLcroc9-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

Police arrest alleged Chuckling Squad member who hijacked @Jack Dorsey

November 27, 2019 0 Comments @jack, 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, account hijack, account hijacking, Celebrities, chuckling squad, debug, hack, Hacked, Jack Dorsey, Law & order, MFA, react, santa clara, security threats, SIM swaps, SMS, Social networks, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:58:43 +0000

Debug, another Chuckling Squadder, told Motherboard that the kid was weird, “Swatting celebrities for a follow back.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/LWmwsxXvjmg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee publishes plan to save the web from ‘digital dystopia’

November 26, 2019 0 Comments contract for the web, facebook, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Privacy, sir tim berners-lee, twitter, world wide web

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:27:10 +0000

Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has proposed a ‘Contract for the Web’ to rescue it from a headlong plunge into a moral abyss.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ei841Vw1q5s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

Tories change Twitter name to ‘factcheckUK’ during live TV debate

November 20, 2019 0 Comments @cchqpress, #itvdebate, boris johnson, conservative party, debate, display name, factcheckuk, fake news, full fact, jeremy corbyn, tories, tory, twitter, uk, uk election debate, verified account

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:12:36 +0000

Twitter wagged its finger at the UK’s Conservative party for renaming its press account “factcheckUK” during a live TV debate.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tYYIJoeFjEw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

Two men busted for hijacking victims’ phones and email accounts

November 18, 2019 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, cryptocurrency, data loss, death threat, Law & order, Mobile, original gangster, phone porting, security threats, sim jacking, sim swap fraud, SIM swapping, SIM swaps, sim-jacked, social accounts, Social networks, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:17:51 +0000

Prosecutors allege that Meiggs and Harrington took over their targets’ mobile phone and email accounts via SIM-swapping.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/J1Y9CgBcaSw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

Wikipedia co-founder offers a Facebook/Twitter wannabe

November 18, 2019 0 Comments #deletefacebook, facebook, faceook, jimmy wales, online advertising, online privacy, social media, Social networks, twitter, Wikipedia, wikitribune, wt: social

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:52:08 +0000

Tired of being a tracked, ad-bedeviled product sold by social media companies? The cost to immediately join a network with no tracking/ads: $12.99/month.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/nExb-1DLtfU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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A week in security (November 4 – November 10)

November 11, 2019 0 Comments A week in security, awis, cyber, facebook, fake news, Hacking, Mobile, round up, social media, twitter, week in security

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:38:19 +0000

A roundup of important security news from the week of November 4–10, including the release of Malwarebytes 4.0, vendor email compromise, fake news, robocalls, and more.

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A week in security

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ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability

November 6, 2019 0 Comments access act, apple pages, Big Tech, center for democracy and technology, competition, congress, data interoperability, data portability, Data privacy, data privacy laws, data privacy legislation, ello, European Union, facebook, Facebook Messenger, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Google, google docs, Instagram, interoperability, LinkedIn, Mark Zuckerberg, mastodon, Messenger, Microsoft Word, portability, Privacy, senate, the access act, twitter, us congress, US data privacy laws, US data privacy legislation, user privacy, whatsapp

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as proposed legislation called the ACCESS Act focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to easily pack up their data and take it to a competing service. But will this actually protect privacy?

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Security Sophos

Undercover reporter tells all after working for a Polish troll farm

November 4, 2019 0 Comments cat@net, disinformation, disinformation campaigns, epr, facebook, fake accounts, fake discussions, fake news, fundacja reporterow, Instagram, internet research agency, investigate europe, IRA, katarzyna pruszkiewicz, kulawa rebelia, macedonia, media monitoring, operation lame rebellion, poland, rebellion on crutches, russia, smear campaigns, Social networks, support campaigns, troll farm, trollery, trolls, twitter, undercover reporter, veles

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 11:58:41 +0000

Together with her troll colleagues, she managed 200 fake social profiles, promoted clients’ products, and trolled their competitors.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/C6Rb8RS3-Z8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter bans political ads

November 1, 2019 0 Comments AI, facebook, fake news, Machine Learning, misinformation, political ads, Social networks, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:24:43 +0000

Interesting timing: Right before Facebook’s earnings call, two weeks after Facebook said it won’t pull political ads that spout lies.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/4ojwnOWi26U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>