Collaborate Disseminate
The OGUsers forum, which trades in hijacked social accounts, has been hacked, its hard drives wiped, and its user database published online. Continue reading Rats leave the sinking ship as hackers’ forum gets hacked
It’s not clear who paid Archimedes Group for its reality-warping campaigns, but it’s clear disinformation is now a global scourge. Continue reading Facebook bans accounts of fake news firm
It turns out that robo-dialed calls accounted for 56.5% of the phone-in vote for the millionaire’s daughter. Continue reading Bots rigged Russian finale of ‘The Voice Kids’ talent show
Six alleged members of “The Community” were indicted, along with three phone service employees who allegedly helped target subscribers. Continue reading Hacking gang stole millions in cryptocurrency via SIM swaps
A tool from the White House invites those who suspect political bias in social media censorship to “share their story with President Trump.” Continue reading Trump seeks tales of social media bias – and your phone number
The feature still lets you see how others see you, but without leaking access tokens. Continue reading Facebook restores disabled ‘View As’ feature used in 2018 breach
The city that gave us facial recognition tech says “not in my back yard”. Continue reading San Francisco bans police use of facial recognition
Now fixed, the bug affected some users with multiple accounts running on an iOS device.
Continue reading Twitter bug leaks to iOS users’ location data to partner
The suit says Rankwave used Facebook user data for targeted marketing and ignored its cease-and-desist letter. Continue reading Facebook sues app developer Rankwave over data misuse
They’re part of a gang that spearphished millions of records out of the health insurer and other businesses, the DOJ says. Continue reading Two people indicted for massive Anthem health data breach