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Revealed: Facebook’s “Incredibly Aggressive” Alleged Theft of Snapchat App Data
Meta MITM IAAP SSL bump: Zuck ordered “Project Ghostbusters”—with criminal consequences, says class action lawsuit ...
Ethics in AI: The Missing Code
As part of its push toward artificial intelligence, Microsoft laid off more than 10,000 employees and spent billions on acquiring AI tech. Among those laid off were the seven-member team in their ...
Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police
When KrebsOnSecurity last month explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media and technology providers, many security experts ...
Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill
On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of ...
Mass Court: Cops Not Required to Identify Themselves on Social
We’ve all seen those police procedurals where a drug dealer, about to make the sale, turns to the customer and says, “You’re not a cop, are you? ‘Cause if you are, you ...
PlugwalkJoe Does the Perp Walk
One day after last summer's mass-hack of Twitter, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. When the Justice Department last week announced ...
Protect Yourself from Social Media Scams
Social media has become a huge attack vector. Learn why social media scams such as quizzes, romance scams, and social phishing are becoming more popular and what you can do you protect ...
Snapchat workers snooped on users with internal tool
Snapchat’s 186 million users may be in for a rude awakening today after revelation that multiple employees of the social media giant were able to abuse their power and snoop on members ...
Snapchat’s source code leaked out, and was published on GitHub
Snap, the parent company of SnapChat, has revealed that an update earlier this year to the social media app accidentally exposed some of its source code. Snap says that an update in ...
