Fake News and Pandemics

When the next pandemic strikes, we'll be fighting it on two fronts. The first is the one you immediately think about: understanding the disease, researching a cure and inoculating the population. The second is new, and one you might not have thought much about: fighting the deluge of rumors,...

EU accuses Russia of spreading misinformation on social media

By Owais Sultan Apparently, Russia has carried out several activities attributed to continuous disinformation, with the purpose of suppressing voter turnout in voting sessions, in addition to influencing their preferences. A document, released by the European Union EU, says that Russia is using...

CVE-2019-12210

In Yubico pam-u2f 1.0.7, when configured with debug and a custom debug log file is set using debugfile, that file descriptor is not closed when a new process is spawned. This leads to the file descriptor being inherited into the child process; the child process can then read from and write to it...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Yubico pam-u2f 1.0.7, when configured with debug and a custom debug log file is set using debugfile, that file descriptor is not closed when a new process is spawned. This leads to the file descriptor being inherited into the child process; the child process can then read from and write to it...

Governments increasingly eye social media meltdown

These are trying times for social networks, with endless reports of harassment and abuse not being tackled and many users leaving platforms forever. The major sites such as Facebook and Twitter do what they can, but sheer userbase volume and erroneous automated feedback leave people cold. Bugs su...

Facebook Boots 74 Cybercrime Groups From Platform

Facebook has booted more than 70 cybercrime groups off its platform that were peddling illicit services – from email spamming tools to stolen credentials and payment information sales – in plain sight. Researchers said a simple search on Facebook for keywords like “spam,” “CVV” or more returned...

Facebook Boots Hundreds of Iran-Linked Accounts For Spreading Misinformation

Facebook has booted hundreds of Iran-linked pages, groups and accounts from its social media platform that it claimed were promoting misinformation. According to Facebook, it removed 783 pages, groups and accounts that engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that were misleading users about...

First Annual Cyberwarcon

Cyberwarcon is a brand new event organized yesterday in Arlington, Virginia, and delivered eight hours of fantastic content. "CyberwarCon is a one-day conference in the Washington D.C. area focused on the specter of destruction, disruption, and malicious influence on our society through cyber...

Midterm Elections 2018: All the Hoaxes and Viral Misinformation

WIRED is looking out for the biggest stories, the most common hoaxes, and the likeliest sources of confusion as they emerge throughout the day...

U.S. Elections True Test for Facebook’s Disinformation Crackdown

As the U.S. midterm elections commence on Tuesday, all eyes are on Facebook and other social-media companies to see how they continue to crack down on misinformation and other political meddling efforts on their platforms. Facebook for its part on Monday evening said it has barred an additional 1...

Don’t Be Duped by Voting Misinformation Before the Midterms

How to find accurate voting information for the midterm elections...

Democrat Mail Bomb Scares Are a Perfect Misinformation Storm

News of apparent mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats and CNN give way to a deluge of false reports, partisan finger-pointing, and bad-faith conspiracy theories online...

The vulnerability of Microsoft Edge browser, related to the false representation of information by the user interface, allows a hacker to replace the content of a webpage.

The vulnerability of Microsoft Edge relates to the false representation of information by the user interface. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to replace the content of a webpage with specially crafted web content...

Facebook Expands Efforts to Squash Voter Suppression

Facebook plans to expand its content-policing on its site, aiming to crack down on profiles and pages that it deems are aimed at voter suppression ahead of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Specifically, social-media giant will penalize those that spread disinformation about voting requirements wi...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Oct. 12

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals discuss the top news of the week ended Oct. 12. The week started with a bang with a report that Google did not disclose a potential data breach in Google+, likely contributing to the tech giant’s decision to shut down the social networking...

Facebook and Twitter's Biggest Problems Follow Them to Congress

As Jack Dorsey and Sheryl Sandberg testified before Congress, some of Twitter and Facebook's most notorious trolls and misinformation artists watched on...

Egyptian 'Fake News' Law Threatens Citizens with 5000-plus Followers

Do you or someone you know lives in Egypt and holds an account on Facebook, Twitter, or/and other social media platforms with more than 5000 followers? If yes, your account can be censored, suspended and is subject to prosecution for promoting or spreading the fake news through social media...

Gratipay: Broken link for stale DNS entry may be leveraged for Phishing, Misinformation, Serving Malware

Hi Team, Page: https://gratipay.com/Breadcrumbel/ Broken link for stale DNS entry: Homepage Root domain breadcumbry.com has expiration date: Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-06-10T18:18:30Z And also from whois: Domain Status: OK https://icann.org/eppok OK status means it has no...

Legal Robot: Broken links for stale domains may be leveraged for Phishing, Misinformation, Defaming

Hi, URL: https://www.legalrobot.com/press/2016/07/07/tech4good-on-a-global-scale/ Broken link for an expired domain which is available for sale: http://ecotechfoundation.net/ You may verify that it is available for sale @...

The Inner Workings of Fake News

The moniker of fake news has been utilized in numerous circles recently, including within government, press and cybersecurity, but this concept actually dates back far beyond the past year. Intentionally misleading propaganda materials have been a linchpin of communication for years, particularly...