Mail Online
| 2/13/2019
| Annie Palmer For Dailymail.com
Instagram has confirmed that a bizarre bug is causing popular accounts to see millions of their followers vanish overnight. In a statement on Wednesday, Instagram said it was actively investigating...
Exclusive Some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are on sale from today on the dark web, according the data trove's seller. For less than $20,000 in Bitcoin, the...
Exclusive Some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are on sale from today in bulk on the dark web, according the data trove's seller.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA is telling customers of its oil joint ventures to deposit sales proceeds at an account it recently opened at Russia’s Gazprombank AO,...
Twitter is now banning conservative journalists who tweet these three words: “Learn to code.” Last week, reporters said they heard through the grapevine that Twitter would begin taking action...
Unconstitutional gun law ideas seem to spread from one state to another like some kind of insidious virus. Late last year, an Orwellian gun bill was presented in New York state.
Mail Online
| 2/8/2019
| Annie Palmer For Dailymail.com
Spotify is telling users who try to bypass ads to hit the road. The streaming platform is updating its terms of service, effective March 1st, to explicitly ban accounts that user ad blockers.
Mail Online
| 2/8/2019
| Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline
Online forum Mumsnet experienced a severe data breach earlier this week during a software change which exposed the personal details of up to 4,000 users. It is believed the email addresses, account...
Spotify will take a harder stance on ad blockers in its updated terms of service. In an email to users today, the streaming music and podcast platform said its new user guidelines “mak[e] it clear...
Since the world learned of state-sponsored campaigns to spread disinformation on social media and sway the 2016 election, Twitter has scrambled to rein in the bots and trolls polluting its platform.
The Republican Party, conservative leaders are AWOL on this issue as the tech giants continue to ban, deplatform and demonetize conservative voices. Conservative activist Laura Loomer was already...
Fortnite Creative will be available Dec. 6 for those with a Battle Pass. Have a Fortnite account on your PlayStation 4? You can finally merge it with your Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch or mobile...
Wells Fargo customers experienced issues with accessing online or mobile banking as well as other banking services nationwide, after a fire happened at one of the bank's data centers.
WhatsApp is trying to curb bulk messaging and fake accounts. Ahead of India's national elections later this year, WhatsApp is reportedly trying to wrangle bulk messaging and fake accounts.
Mail Online
| 2/2/2019
| Sophie Law For Mailonline
Celebrities cashing in by peddling fad diets to young people on social media should have their accounts 'stamped out', warns country's top doctor. Social media giants should stop dodgy endorsements...
Twitter and Facebook both announced action against malicious accounts originating from Iran, Russia, and Venezuela on Thursday. They accused the banned accounts of spreading disinformation in an...
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is a hot topic, and for a good reason. 2FA provides an additional layer of security for your online account by requiring a second login token, on a separate device.
Facebook said it has removed hundreds of Facebook and Instagram counts with links to an organization that peddled fake news. The world’s fourth largest country with a population of over 260 million,...
The New York Times published an article, Wednesday, raising questions over the wildly different estimates of fake users on the Facebook platform published by Mark Zuckerberg’s company.
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Facebook Inc has removed hundreds of Indonesian accounts, pages and groups from its social network that the company has found were linked to an online group accused of spreading...
Facebook and Twitter said they coordinated efforts ahead of the 2018 elections to remove thousands of accounts tied to foreign governments that used similar tactics that were used in 2016, NBC...
Facebook says it has removed 783 Iran-linked pages, accounts and groups from its service for what it calls "coordinated inauthentic behavior." That's the social network's term for fake accounts run...
Up to 2.2 billion records of hacked accounts are available for download. Billions of hacked passwords and usernames from the last decade have come together in a convenient download for anyone who...
On Wednesday, Google announced its consumer version of Google+ will officially shut down on April 2. On that date, Google+ accounts and pages will become inaccessible to users and content, including...
Left wing journalists once told working class Americans to “learn to code” and adapt to a globalized economy. Now those same journalists have been laid off, rumor has spread that users will be...
The Trump Administration has handed control of Venezuela's bank accounts in the United States to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, whom Washington and most Latin American countries have...
Mail Online
| 1/25/2019
| Annie Palmer For Dailymail.com
A former Harvard classmate of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a bold claim that the social media giant hosts 1 billion fake accounts on its platform, or 50 percent of its total users worldwide.
A township in central Illinois that overtaxed residents for years is returning more than $735,000 to local property taxpayers, a rare rebate that one lawmaker said he wants to see happen in more of...
French startup Lydia now lets you share your Lydia sub-accounts with other people. The company wants to make it easier to manage money when you’re traveling with friends, sharing an apartment with...
Following Breitbart News’ article on verified Twitter accounts using Jack Dorsey’s platform to encourage violence against conservative high school kids, the company has said it has “taken action”...
In 2017, a team of researchers led by Brandon Marshall, an associate professor of epidemiology at Brown University's School of Public Health, provided rapid-acting fentanyl test strips to young...
Friday, House Republican communication staffers were told not to use official U.S. House of Representatives accounts to promote the pro-life March for Life currently underway in Washington, D.C.
Cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt on Thursday announced the discovery of a gigantic trove of pilfered usernames and addresses for email accounts from a variety of services, quite possibly...
Twitter has fessed up to a flaw in its Android app that, for more than four years, was making twits' private tweets public. The programming blunder has been fixed.
Mail Online
| 1/17/2019
| Natalie Rahhal Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.com
Loneliness is written into our DNA, according to a new study. But these genes still respond to the world around us, so your DNA doesn't necessarily doom you to be lonely, the University of Western...
Facebook says it has removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts that it says were part of two big disinformation operations, in its latest effort to fight fake news.
Two years on from the U.S. presidential election, Facebook continues to have a major problem with Russian disinformation being megaphoned via its social tools. In a blog post today the company...
A popular WordPress plugin, installed on thousands of websites to help users share content on social media sites, left linked Twitter accounts exposed to compromise.
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said on Thursday it has removed a number of pages, accounts and groups that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram. “We didn’t...
Mail Online
| 1/16/2019
| Marlene Lenthang For Dailymail.com
A glitch in the explosively popular video game Fortnite let hackers access millions of players accounts including sensitive credit card information and eavesdrop on private chats.
Security researchers found a vulnerability that hackers could use to take over Fortnite accounts. Attention all epic Fortnite gamers: your accounts were in great danger.
With one click, any semi-skilled hacker could have silently taken over a Fortnite account, according to a cybersecurity firm who says the bug is now fixed. Researchers at Check Point say the three...
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-run congress is considering a measure that would ask dozens of foreign governments to seek a freeze on bank accounts controlled by the government of...
Banks are cashing in on older customers who leave large sums in current accounts that pay little or no interest. Customers of around 61 are the most lucrative current account holders for high street...
Instagram users will now be able to publish posts to multiple user accounts straight from the New Post page. This feature is initially being made available on the iOS app for the social network.
Instagram is letting users simultaneously post the same thing to different accounts they manage. Life may have just gotten easier for Instagram users who often post the same photo or video to...
Instagram is swaying the balance towards simplicity but away from originality. It’s adding the ability to publish feed posts to different accounts you control at the same time by toggling them on...
Ahead of its announcements of new TV partnerships at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Roku today shared some new numbers about the growing traction of its overall platform.
Mail Online
| 1/2/2019
| Annie Palmer For Dailymail.com
ISIS supporters are taking advantage of a decade-old flaw on Twitter to take over inactive accounts and spread terrorist propaganda on the platform. The hijacked accounts hadn't tweeted for several...
Hackers are using a decade-old flaw to target and hijack dormant Twitter accounts to spread terrorist propaganda, TechCrunch has learned. Many of the affected Twitter accounts appeared to be...