Collaborate Disseminate
ManageFlitter, Statusbrew, and Crowdfire have had their access to the Twitter API revoked for allegedly helping users abuse the service, aggressively and repeatedly following an unfollowing large numbers of other accounts – a tactic frequently employed… Continue reading Twitter follow bots cut off from API, as accounts disabled for spreading misinformation from Iran and elsewhere
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is investigating a security breach that has seen hackers steal personal information from its systems.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Hackers hit Airbus, steal personal details of employees
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is investigating a security breach that has seen hackers steal personal information from its systems. In a statement published on its website, Airbus admitted that systems used by its commercial aircraft business had been a… Continue reading Hackers hit Airbus, steal personal details of employees
FaceTime bug allows callers to see and hear you *before* you answer the phone, Facebook’s Nick Clegg tries to convince us the social network is changing its ways, and IoT hacking is big in Japan.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest editio… Continue reading Smashing Security #113: FaceTime, Facebook, faceplant
Since 2016 Facebook has been paying users aged 13-35 up to $20 per month to install an app which has almost unlimited limitless access to their smartphones and most sensitive data.
Continue reading Exposed! Facebook pays teenagers to install app that harvests personal data
Don’t panic, but a bug has been found in FaceTime that could allow someone to spy on your conversation – and even see through your iPhone’s front-facing camera – before you answer an incoming call.
Continue reading Apple races to fix FaceTime bug that lets you spy on someone *before* they pick up your call
When police shut down the notorious DDoS-for-hire website webstresser.org last year and arrested its administrators, a clear message was sent to the site’s 151,000 users: you’re next.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading User of the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire website? Police say they’re coming after you
When police shut down the notorious website webstresser.org last year and arrested its administrators, a clear message was sent to the site’s 151,000 users: you’re next. Until its takedown, webstresser.org was believed to the world’s … Continue reading User of the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire website? Police say they’re coming after you
The UK tax authority continues to store a huge database of millions of voice IDs which were collected without permission.
Continue reading Thousands of taxpayers tell HMRC to delete voiceprint data it stored without consent
The police’s use of encryption is apparently making life harder for journalists in Colorado.
Good! Encryption is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Continue reading Colorado police encrypt *all* their radio communications, frustrating journalists