Fake accounts
The Rise of Mastodon, Twitter in Trouble, Largest Privacy Settlement in US History
Former Twitter users are migrating en masse to Mastodon so what is Mastodon and what do you need to know about Mastodon from a security and privacy perspective? Twitter was flooded by ...
Uber Breach Guilty Verdict, Mandatory Password Expiration, Fake Executive Profiles on LinkedIn
Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing a federal investigation in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber, NIST and Microsoft say that mandatory password ...
What are Fake Accounts and How Can they be Worth $44 Billion?
Fake accounts have been around for years. They are commonly used to anonymously request info, avoid spam from an online merchant or participate anonymously in a conversation. Initially, fake accounts were easy ...
What are Fake Accounts and How Can they be Worth $44 Billion?
Fake accounts have been around for years. They are commonly used to anonymously request info, avoid spam from an online merchant or participate anonymously in a conversation. Initially, fake accounts were easy ...
How to Prevent API Abuse
API abuse, when the API is used in an unexpected way, is a growing problem in software development and one of the leading attack vectors cybercriminals exploit. According to a recent security ...
Facebook Says 5% of Monthly Active Accounts Are Fake, Deletes 3B in 6 Months
Facebook removed 2.2 billion fake accounts between January and March 2019, bringing the total of accounts disabled to more than 3 billion over a six-month period, which includes Q4 2018 data, according ...
6 Ways Machine Learning Can Help with Security
If you were to believe all the marketing buzz about machine learning, you would think it the answer to all security teams’ prayers. But it isn’t. At least not yet. Even so, ...
