Are Applications On Android Still Sharing Data With Facebook
We approached Facebook for its thoughts on the situation but have yet to hear back.
View ArticleAnother Facebook Messenger Bug Discovered
In this vulnerability, a hacker would be able to run the process on any individual Messenger contact revealing either a full or empty state. If it was the former, they'd chatted, if it was the latter,...
View ArticleBig Firms Exposing Personal Data While Utilizing Box
"We take our customers' security seriously and we provide controls that allow our customers to choose the right level of security based on the sensitivity of the content they are sharing," a...
View ArticleWill Facebook Go To Court Again Over Data Sharing Activities
We approached Facebook for any insight and comment on the situation, but it rather lazily pointed us to the response it gave the NYT... great work folks.
View ArticleAmazon To Launch Mobile Ads, Targeting Consumers On Smartphones
Amazon.com Inc. has come up with a new way to grab a chunk of the $129 billion digital advertising market now dominated by Google and Facebook Inc.: sell video spots on the e-commerce giant’s...
View ArticleIoT Devices Targeted By Mirai Botnet
It's not the first time that researchers have found Mirai trying to infiltrate enterprise networks. Last September, Mirai was noticed targeting the same Apache Struts weaknesses that were exploited by...
View ArticleWhy Is Facebook Requesting Users Email Passwords
In a statement, Facebook said users retain the option of bypassing the password demand and activating their account through more conventional means.
View ArticleFacebook Suffered Yet Another Major Outage
Facebook Inc. was hit by its third major outage this year, with users across the world unable to access the social network or its suite of services such as Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp....
View ArticleDid The FTC Go Easy On Facebook
But Blumenthal and Hawley, who said the FTC should go further and set the rules of the road on what Facebook can do with consumers’ private information, such as requiring the deletion of tracking data,...
View ArticleIs Google Playing Dirty As Usual With Microsoft
The change affects the latest versions of Microsoft Edge Canary and Dev channels. It is worth noting that the classic Microsoft Edge based on EdgeHTML continues to work fine with the modern YouTube...
View ArticleAre We Facing A Dearth For Software Engineers
Microsoft Taiwan will provide training courses and certification of technology and data engineers to help FET establish a new-generation R&D team and transform its organisation and resources.
View ArticleGoogle’s FIDO Being Used For Authentication On Desktops
It's also worth remembering that the whole point of FIDO is that your biometric data is never sent to Google (or anywhere else) - all that is exchanged is a token confirming that your device has...
View ArticleFacebook Says Fact-checking Rules Won’t Apply To Posts By Politicians
Facebook has confirmed that its efforts to reduce false news and misinformation on the platform don’t apply to politicians. The company said it exempts politicians from its third-party fact-checking...
View ArticleEx-Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia
The US Justice Department has filed charges against two former Twitter employees with spying for Saudi Arabia by accessing the personal information of thousands of Twitter users, according to a...
View ArticleAnother Exploit Impacts Android Banking Data
Promon said the research built upon that carried out by Penn State University in 2015, which found aspects of the flaw and disclosed it to Google, but the search giant dismissed the vulnerability's...
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