Some Reddit users discovered they were locked out of their own accounts earlier this week after an apparent credential stuffing attack compelled the popular website to invoke password security measures. An admin post published on Reddit’s Help subreddit this past Wednesday advises users that a “large group of accounts were locked down” due to anomalous…
A newly released study of 34 prominent Android apps found that roughly 68 percent of them share user data with Facebook even when the device operator isn’t actively logged into the social media service or, for that matter, never created a Facebook account. In such instances, the apps typically communicate to the social media giant…
Hackers supporting ISIS have recently been spreading terrorist propaganda on social media by hijacking old, largely abandoned Twitter accounts that were never confirmed via email by their rightful owners, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday. Generally, the impacted accounts were inactive for long periods of time before they were taken over. Reportedly, many were compromised over the…
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine yesterday filed a civil lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the social media giant’s failure to properly safeguard its users’ data constitutes a violation of the district’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CCPA). The lawsuit seeks payment from Facebook in the form of financial restitution and civil penalties, and also asks the…
Twitter managed to have a worse day than the overall stock market yesterday: the DOW plummeted 500 points, while Twitter’s shares fell seven percent on fears of a support form being targeted by state-sponsored hackers. The social media giant posted a note on its help center page on Dec. 17, stating it had become aware…
A bug in a Facebook photo API, another scandal in a string of privacy violations for the social media company, exposed photos of as many as 6.8 million users who had granted permission to third-party apps to access their photos, including those that they hadn’t yet shared to Facebook. Noting the issue had been fixed,…
Consumers may want to think twice before taking advantage of the Black Friday discounts offered on the latest Smart TVs after a recent study found 25 percent of Americans worry their conversations are being monitored through their smart TVs. The study was conducted by Propeller Insights on behalf of ExpressVPN and surveyed 1,000 U.S. adults, finding that 29…
After compromising the Twitter accounts of Target along with several other high profile and verified accounts and impersonating Elon Musk all to promote Bitcoin giveaway scams, cybercriminals have now set their sights on Google. Just two days earlier, scammers were briefly able to get ahold of the Target Twitter page for about a half hour…
Facebook earlier this year reportedly patched a vulnerability in its search page that could have allowed enterprising attackers to perform reconnaissance on certain users. In a company blog post today, Imperva security researcher Ron Masas wrote that Facebook fixed the issue shortly after he discovered the flaw back in May. Masas reportedly noticed that Facebook’s…
Scammers impersonating Elon Musk managed to hack the verified Twitter accounts of Target and several others in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme promising huge Bitcoin giveaways Tuesday morning. Hackers were briefly able to get ahold of the Target Twitter page for about a half hour when they used the big-box retailer’s account to promote “the biggest crypto-giveaway…
