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Not a week goes without a new Facebook blunder. Remember the most recent revelation of Facebook being caught asking users new to the social network platform for their email account passwords to verify their identity? At the time, it was suspected that Facebook might be using access to users’ email accounts to unauthorizedly and secretly gather a copy of their saved contacts. Now it turns…
Make Earth Day an everyday event with reusable sandwich bags, solar-powered gadgets and shoes made from water bottles….
Ensuring organizations adapt while also retaining a high level of digital trust is exactly where the chief information security officer (CISO) can help.
The post In Such Transformative Times, the CISO Is Key to Delivering Digital Trust appeared first on Security Intelligence. …
In this week’s episode, #142: we continue our series on Life after Passwords: the Future of Online Identity as we are joined by Ophir Gaathon, the CEO of the firm Dust Identity. The post Podcast Episode 142: On Supply Chains Diamond-based Identities are forever appeared first on The Security Ledger. Related StoriesPodcast Episode 134: The Deep Fake Threat to Authentication and analyzing the PEAR CompromiseMore Questions as Expert Recreates Chinese Super Micro Hardware HackPodcast Episode 141: Massive Data Breaches Just Keep Happening. We Talk about Why. …
Back in March, Google introduced a new rounded square icon requirement for the Google Play Store on Android and Chrome OS. App developers can choose to enable the new icon specification immediately, with the Google Contacts listing already featuring the updated style.
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Security researcher Marcus Hutchins pled guilty on Wednesday to writing malware and aiding with its distribution with the help of a partner. […] …
Across North America, tainted opioids are killing people who use drugs. Vancouver’s Mark Tyndall says we should start dispensing safer pills using high-tech machines….
Facebook has admitted to uploading the email contacts of up to 1.5 million users over a period of three years without gaining either the user or the contacts’ prior consent.
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Facebook late last month revealed that the social media company mistakenly stored passwords for “hundreds of millions” of Facebook users in plaintext, including “tens of thousands” passwords of its Instagram users as well. Now it appears that the incident is far worse than first reported.
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Facebook today quietly updated its March press release, adding that the actual number of…
Your name, your favorite football team and your favourite band: The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has released a list of the 100,000 most common passwords to appear in data breaches in an effort to encourage users to select strong passwords.
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VR and cannabis might seem like natural complements, but to combine them strips both of their transformative power….
Editor’s Note: No one knows how to hire Hiring is the lifeblood of the world. Few people do truly singular work; instead, nearly every facet of our civilization is built by groups of humans (and increasingly machines) working in tandem. That presents quite the puzzle though: if teamwork is so critical to the functioning of, […] …
Mueller report finds that in July 2016, after then-candidate Donald Trump publicly called for Russia to “find the 30,000 emails,” Russian agents targeted Hillary Clinton’s personal office with cyberattacks. …
Four members of Tesla’s board won’t be seeking re-election when their terms expire over the next several years….
This week introduced a new ransomware player that is targeting companies called RobbinHood. This ransomware recently took down the City of Greenville’s computer systems and offers two different ransom payments; a price per computer or one for the entire network. […] …
