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Researchers unearthed an army of 15,000 robot Twitter accounts plying a cryptocurrency scam. Continue reading 15,000-strong army of Twitter robots found spreading cryptocurrency spam
Facebook says it has removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram for violating its policies. Continue reading Facebook bans midterm-meddling accounts and pages
Devs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc. Continue reading Twitter boots 143K bad apps, throttles developer access to API
The plan: figure out how it affects people; ID users behind fake accounts, fake news & porn posts; and maybe cook up its own social network. Continue reading Facebook to be blocked in Papua New Guinea for one month
Beware lottery scams on Facebook and Instagram Continue reading No, Mark Zuckerberg isn’t messaging you about winning a Facebook lottery
Fake hot-babe profiles are working together as “feeders,” “bait” and “hunters” in order to lure men into sex chats that lead to extortion. Continue reading Beware the fake Facebook sirens that flirt you into sextortion
If you were to believe all the marketing buzz about machine learning, you would think it the answer to all security teams’ prayers. But it isn’t. At least not yet. Even so, machine learning is pretty powerful tech and there are places it can be helpfu… Continue reading 6 Ways Machine Learning Can Help with Security
An account impersonating Trump adviser Mike Flynn fooled news organizations and individuals alike, fuelling further concerns about ‘fake news’
Continue reading Fallen for a fake Twitter account? Here’s how to spot them
Who is behind the stormtrooper army firing out random tweets from the Star Wars novels? And what are the security implications? Researchers want to hear from you Continue reading Potential Phantom Menace found on Twitter: a Star Wars botnet