Ex-Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking 6,000 accounts

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:41:17 +0000

Reyes Daniel Ruiz went after younger women’s accounts, including those of his personal friends and work colleagues, he admitted.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/aH0yMJKQHEU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Is the era of social media Likes over?

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:21:07 +0000

Instagram’s testing a program to hide the Likes that have created a toxic cyberbullying environment. Now, Facebook is as well.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/OX4X4nRKm0M” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google made thousands of deepfakes to aid detection efforts

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 12:40:25 +0000

It’s an arms race: as detection methods improve, deepfake-generating algorithms are quickly updated to correct the flaws.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/-p47wfO19Ec” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Vimeo sued for storing faceprints of people without their say-so

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:47:25 +0000

The suit was filed under BIPA, the Illinois law that requires written consent to grab people’s faceprints – the same law Facebook’s battling.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mzcU6d5eSbI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook has booted tens of thousands of data-grabbing apps

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:09:47 +0000

400 developers have been naughty with user data, noncompliant with policy, and/or have ignored Facebook’s audit, it says.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SBAAxQd8xAE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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CEOs offer their own view of a US data privacy law

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:54:43 +0000

Should this proposed privacy law come into effect, if a company violates that law, you, your neighbor, and your family do not have the right to sue them.

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Facebook says location data in iOS 13, Android 10 may be confusing

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:16:00 +0000

The OS updates may not reflect your Facebook app setting, but Facebook says it will respect whatever users’ most restrictive settings are.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/6rvcy97aMoE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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A week in security (September 2 – 8)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:01:30 +0000

A roundup of the latest cybersecurity news for the week of September 2 – 8, including TrickBot’s new trick, a social engineering toolkit, and how to keep remote workers safe.

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