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Revealed: Facebook’s “Incredibly Aggressive” Alleged Theft of Snapchat App Data
Richi Jennings | | Brian J. Dunne, class action, class action lawsuit, DeleteFacebook, facebook, facebook fine, free vpn app, Ghostbusters, IAPP, Man In The Middle, man in the middle attack, man in the middle attacks, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, mitm, MitM Attack, mitm attacks, mitm tool, mitm tools, Onavo, Onavo VPN, SB Blogwatch, Snapchat, SSL Bump, VPN
Meta MITM IAAP SSL bump: Zuck ordered “Project Ghostbusters”—with criminal consequences, says class action lawsuit ...
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Who’s to Blame for Hacked Social Media Accounts, Spoofed Online Meeting Requests and Malware
Tom Eston | | account hacking, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, google, hacked, Hacking, Information Security, Infosec, Instagram, Malware, Meeting Invite, Meta, Microsoft Teams, online, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, rat, RATs, remote-access Trojan, security, social media, Spoofed Online Meetings, spoofing, Teams, technology, Weekly Edition, Zoom
In episode 320, Tom and Scott discuss the contentious issue of who is accountable when Facebook or Instagram accounts are hacked, discussing potential failings on both the user’s and Meta’s part. They ...
Facebook/Insta FAIL — ‘Anonymous Sudan’ has a Super Tuesday: ‘We Did It.’
Richi Jennings | | Anonymous, Anonymous Hacking Collective, Anonymous Sudan, API Authentication, API Authentication Errors, API Authorization, Application DDoS, application-layer DDoS attacks, Cloud DDoS, cloud outage, ddos, DDoS attack, DDoS attacks, Downtime and outages, facebook, Facebook accounts, facebook breach, facebook instagram hack, facebook login, Facebook outage, Instagram, Instagram outage, instagram vulnerability, Internet outage, internet outages, InternetOutage, Meta, Meta Networks, outage, Outage Investigation, outages, SB Blogwatch, Storm-1359, Stupidity of Instagram, Threads
Shooper Choosday: Was yesterday’s Meta outage outrage caused by a Russian DDoS? ...
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Facebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network
Bruce Schneier | | Data Privacy, facebook, Meta, Privacy, Reports, surveillance, tracking, Uncategorized
Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network: Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of ...
Ohio’s New Social Media Law, Meta’s Link History Feature, 175 Million Passcode Guesses
Tom Eston | | Apple, brute-force attack, children, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, Information Security, Infosec, Instagram, iPhone, Link History, Meta, Ohio, Ohio Social Media Law, Ottawa, passcode, Passcodes, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, social media, technology, Teenagers, Weekly Edition
In episode 312, Tom and Scott discuss the implications of a new law in Ohio that may require parental consent for children under 16 using social media, including the pros and cons ...
Facebook’s New Privacy Nightmare: ‘Link History’
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising and AdTech, breach of privacy, browser, browser abuse, customer privacy, Data Privacy, DeleteFacebook, facebook, Facebook data, key loggers, key logging, Keylog, keylogger, keyloggers, keylogging, Link History, Meta, Meta Networks, Meta Pixel, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
How stupid does he think we are? You’ll want to turn off this new app setting ...
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Federal Judge Lets FTC Continue with Restrictions Against Meta
A federal court judge gave U.S. regulators the green light to prohibit Meta from monetizing the data its various entities – including Facebook and Instagram – collect from users under the age ...
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Meta Sued for Ignoring its Underage Kids Problem (Because Money)
Richi Jennings | | child, child identity theft, child online privacy, Child Online Safety, Child protection, Child Safety, child security online, children, children online, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), children's privacy, Coppa, facebook, Instagram, Meta, online safety for children, Privacy, privacy children, Rights of Children, Safety Of Children, SB Blogwatch, Won’t somebody think of the children?
Don’t be square: Newly-unsealed COPPA suit says Zuck’s mob knows full well there are loads of users under the age of 13, but did nothing ...
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Paying Big Tech for Privacy, New Privacy Policy Study, Biden’s Executive Order on AI
Tom Eston | | AI, Biden, Big Tech, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Excutive Order, facebook, GDPR, Information Security, Infosec, Instagram, Meta, NordVPN, Pay for Privacy, Pay or OK, Pay-or-Ads, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, Privacy Policies, Privacy Policy, regulation, security, technology, Weekly Edition
In this week’s episode of the Shared Security Podcast, hosts Tom Eston, Scott Wright and Kevin Johnson tackle a number of topics related to AI, privacy and security. They begin with an ...
Lawsuit Filed Against Google, Meta, H&R Block for Sharing Taxpayer Data
Meta, Google, and giant tax preparer H&R Block are being accused of conspiring to illegally use spyware from the tech giants to collect and share tax return information from hundreds of taxpayers ...
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