Collaborate Disseminate
This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for May 7, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions, Silent Pocket and CISOBox. This episode was hosted b… Continue reading The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – DNA Privacy, This Week’s Social Media Privacy News Roundup, Remote Car Hacking
Cambridge Analytica, the shady firm at the centre of the recent Facebook data scandal, is shutting down.
But is it simply going to resurrect itself with a new name?
Continue reading Goodbye Cambridge Analytica, hello Emerdata?
A startup incubator is giving seven companies $100,000 in seed money to build a privacy-oriented, democratic Facebook alternative. Continue reading This Company Will Give You $100,000 to Build a Better, Alternative Facebook
The departure is reportedly due to disagreements with Facebook. Continue reading WhatsApp Co-Founder Will Leave Facebook to Play Ultimate Frisbee
The admission is part of an effort to explain how unlike Facebook Twitter is. Continue reading Twitter sold user data to Cambridge Analytica’s Aleksandr Kogan
The apps are deemed malicious by doing things such as capturing pictures and audio when the app is closed, or making an unusually large amount of network calls. Continue reading Tens of Thousands of Malicious Apps Using Facebook APIs
The apps are deemed malicious by doing things such as capturing pictures and audio when the app is closed, or making an unusually large amount of network calls. Continue reading Tens of Thousands of Malicious Apps Using Facebook APIs
Dr Aleksandr Kogan, the academic behind the personality quiz app that harvested Facebook information of 80+ million people, has also had access to a random sample of public tweets posted during a five-month period. Twitter has confirmed that Kogan, thr… Continue reading Twitter sold data access to Cambridge Analytica-affiliated researcher
Twitter is the latest company to face backlash for how it handles data privacy after disclosing that it sold data access to a Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher. Continue reading Twitter Sold Data To Cambridge Analytica-Linked Company
Threatpost’s Tom Spring and Lindsey O’Donnell talk about the top security trends that they are watching out for at the 2018 RSA Conference this week in San Francisco. Continue reading Threatpost RSA Conference 2018 Preview