Twitter Sold Data To Cambridge Analytica-Linked Company

Twitter is the latest company to face scrutiny for how it protects user data, after disclosing this week that it sold data access to a Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher. The news comes a month after Facebook came under fire for leaking user data to Cambridge Analytica through a third-party ap...

Chris Vickery Discusses Data Leak of 48 Million Users by Private Intelligence Firm

SAN FRANCISCO – Profile data of 48 million users that was scraped from social networks and websites ranging from Facebook, LinkedIn, Zillow and Twitter was leaked by a private intelligence agency. The data was left on an Amazon S3 storage bucket accessible without a password by Localblox, the...

Calls For Regulation Build After Facebook Privacy Fallout

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress this week, politicians stressed the need for regulation to secure end users’ data privacy on social media platforms. The series of hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday gave members of Congress an opportunity to question Facebook about multiple...

How to know if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica?

By Waqas Did Cambridge Analytica had access to your Facebook data? This new This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to know if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica?...

Facebook Offering $40,000 Bounty If You Find Evidence Of Data Leaks

Facebook pays millions of dollars every year to researchers and bug hunters to stamp out security holes in its products and infrastructure, but following Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company today launched a bounty program to reward users for reporting "data abuse" on its platform. The move...

dictionary.cambridge.org XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-598271 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| dictionary.cambridge.org Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Privacy Advocates Blast Facebook After Data Scraping Scandal

Privacy advocates are up in arms after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this week a Facebook reverse search tool may have compromised the data of the social network’s two billion users. The feature in question was designed to enable users to enter a Facebook user’s phone numbers or email addresses into t...

Facebook admits public data of its 2.2 billion users has been compromised

Facebook dropped another bombshell on its users by admitting that all of its 2.2 billion users should assume malicious third-party scrapers have compromised their public profile information. On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that "malicious actors" took advantage of "Search" too...

Facebook Bolsters Privacy Measures With New Data Access Restrictions

Facebook on Wednesday listed a number of new data access restrictions as the social media company looks to reassure end users that their personal information will remain private. The new measures, detailed in a post by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, limit the personal data that apps can collect...

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, news articles and commentators have focused on what Facebook knows about us. A lot, it turns out. It collects data from our posts, our likes, our photos, things we type and delete without posting, and things we do while not on Facebook and even when...

Facebook Cracks Down On Data Misuse With Expanded Bug Bounty Program

Facebook said in the coming weeks it will expand its bug bounty program in an attempt to crackdown on data misuse by third-party app developers. The company’s bug bounty program, first started in 2011, prompts researchers to find vulnerabilities on the social media platform – but now will be...

What Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problem means for your data

As you may already know, there's been a security meltdown at Facebook, thanks to a company called Cambridge Analytica and Donald Trump. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists it wasn't a breach, which is technically true. But that doesn't change the fact that the data of 50 million users was obtain...

Facebook Collected Your Android Call History and SMS Data For Years

Facebook knows a lot about you, your likes and dislikes—it's no surprise. But do you know, if you have installed Facebook Messenger app on your Android device, there are chances that the company had been collecting your contacts, SMS, and call history data at least until late last year. A tweet...

cambridgenewhome.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-587379 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| cambridgenewhome.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Zeynep Tufekci on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Zeynep Tufekci is particularly cogent about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Several news outlets asked me to write about this issue. I didn't, because 1 my book manuscript is due on Monday finally!, and 2 I knew Zeynep would say what I would say, only better...

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica – What's Happened So Far

Top Story— Facebook has just lost over $60 billion in market value over the past two days—that's more than Tesla's entire market capitalisation and almost three times that of Snapchat. Facebook shares plunge over revelations that personal data of 50 million users was obtained and misused by Briti...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: exim-4.90.1-3.fc26

Exim is a message transfer agent MTA developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. It is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. In style it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are more general. There is a great deal ...

Facebook CEO Vows to ‘Step Up’ After Cambridge Analytica ‘Mistakes’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday broke his silence on the Cambridge Analytica debacle that has unfolded over the past week, admitting “we made mistakes”. He vowed to step up to the plate when it comes to delivering better data security to Facebook users. “We have a responsibility to...

Experts Call Facebook’s Latest Controversy a Social Media ‘Breach Of Trust’

Privacy advocates are calling on all social media platforms to more responsibly handle and restrict improper access to data in the wake of Facebook’s latest controversy where it acknowledged users’ personal information had leaked through a third-party app. “People are shocked this happened, but I...

Social media accounts of Cambridge Analytica whistleblower suspended

By Waqas Earlier this week, it was reported that in 2015 the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Social media accounts of Cambridge Analytica whistleblower suspended...