Collaborate Disseminate
Fedir Oleksiyovich Hladyr is the first member of the infamous cybercrime network to be found guilty of hacking-related crimes in a US court. Continue reading Fin7 sysadmin pleads guilty to running IT for billion-dollar crime syndicate
Operation reWired=tired cops worldwide! 167 suspects were cuffed in Nigeria and 74 in the US, among 8 other countries. Continue reading Massive email fraud bust snares 281 suspects
10,700 cases will be reviewed over 2 months, and 32 detainees have already been released after finding bugs in software and raw telecom data. Continue reading Error-laden phone location data suspended from use in Danish courts
The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn’t violate the CFAA. Continue reading LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules
The OS updates may not reflect your Facebook app setting, but Facebook says it will respect whatever users’ most restrictive settings are. Continue reading Facebook says location data in iOS 13, Android 10 may be confusing
It’s a first: The government has never demanded personal data of a single app’s users from Apple & Google. Continue reading Google & Apple pushed to reveal gun scope app users’ names to feds
Ever notice a missing company name next to the URL address bar? Ever change behavior because of it? Likely not, so bye-bye, useless badge. Continue reading Chrome bumps ineffective EV certificates off the omnibar
Facebook’s replaced “tag suggestions” with “face recognition” – a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves. Continue reading Facebook expands use of face recognition
Two problems, Twitter says: vulnerabilities that mobile carriers need to fix & its reliance on linked numbers for 2FA. Continue reading Twitter turns off SMS texting after @Jack hijacking
The voice had the hint of a German accent and the same “melody” that an employee recognized in his boss’s voice. Continue reading Scammers deepfake CEO’s voice to talk underling into $243,000 transfer