April 30, 2020

Coronavirus delays trial of alleged Russian hacker a third time

Justice has already been slow in this case, and the pandemic isn’t helping: His trial has been postponed for a third time.

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March 11, 2020

FBI arrests alleged owner of Deer.io, top market for stolen accounts

Started around 2013, the site claims to host over 24,000 active shops doing brisk business in stolen PII and hacking services.

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February 07, 2020

Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints

It's my First Amendment right to scrape publicly available face images, its CEO says. Besides, we're just doing what Google Search does.

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November 01, 2019

Hackers plead guilty to breach that Uber covered up

The two men pointed to Uber's $100K hush-money payment when they tried to extort Linkedin-owned Lynda... that instead called the cops.

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October 15, 2019

Watch out for this latest LinkedIn phish that’s ‘sent’ by a friend

We recently showed you how crooks rip off social networking passwords - here's what they do with stolen accounts.

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October 10, 2019

Job seekers are scrubbing clean their social media accounts

Most people nowadays are quite aware that hiring managers put their social media postings under a microscope, a new survey finds.

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September 11, 2019

LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules

The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn't violate the CFAA.

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June 17, 2019

I’d like to add you to my professional network of people to spy on

A deepfake was reportedly spotted in the wild: LinkedIn's well-connected, young, attractive Eurasia/Russia expert "Katie Jones."

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November 27, 2018

LinkedIn rapped for targeting ads at 18 million Facebook users

What upset the Data Protection Commissioner: none of the 18 million email addresses were those of LinkedIn users.

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