November 23, 2018

Hacker says USPS ignored serious security flaw for over a year

A security researcher claims the US Postal Service ignored a security flaw affecting 60 million users, until it was contacted by a journalist.

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October 10, 2018

Google+ wakes up to what the rest of us already knew

Google's closing down the platform nobody uses and might face a class-action lawsuit over a G+ spawned breach it took 7 months to report.

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September 26, 2018

Millions of Twitter DMs may have been exposed by year-long bug

Though the bug was present for over a year, Twitter hasn't found any DMs or protected tweets that were delivered to the wrong developer.

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July 26, 2018

Twitter boots 143K bad apps, throttles developer access to API

Devs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc.

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June 18, 2018

Apple code signing flaw could have made Mac malware look legit

For years it was possible to fool some security software into thinking malicious code had been digitally signed by Apple.

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January 05, 2018

JPMorgan doesn’t trust YouTube to keep its ads out of sketchy channels

Following ads appearing next to hate-filled/extremist content, the bank says it's not relying on Google to protect its brand.

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September 01, 2017

Instagram warns users of API bug on heels of nude Bieber photos leak

Even if you're not quite as famous as Justin Bieber, having your social media accounts compromised is horrible. We've got some tips to help you protect yourself

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August 16, 2017

Judge orders LinkedIn to stop blocking third-party use of your data

How do you feel about other companies scraping your public information from LinkedIn and monetizing it?

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May 03, 2017

Tinder orders researcher to remove dataset of 40,000 profile pictures

Faces scraped from Tinder were being used to train artificial intelligence, according to the researcher

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