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Trump and the Limits of Content Moderation
The president’s televised encouragement of white supremacy and political violence was a reminder that social media didn’t create these problems...
Twitter Hacked in Bitcoin Scam
It started with one weird tweet. Then another. Quickly, some of the most prominent accounts on Twitter were all sending out the same message; I am giving back to the community. All Bitcoin sent to the address below will be sent back double! If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000. Only doing...
Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp
This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself such as WhatsApp will include embedded content moderation and blacklist filtering algorithms. These...
Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security
Really interesting talk by former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos about the problems inherent in content moderation by social media platforms. Well worth watching...
Alex Stamos on Content Moderation and Security
Former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos argues that increasing political pressure on social media platforms to moderate content will give them a pretext to turn all end-to-end crypto off -- which would be more profitable for them and bad for society. If we ask tech companies to fix ancient societal ills...
Drupal 8.x < 8.5.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities
According to its self-reported version number, the detected Drupal application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists in content moderation that could lead to an access bypass. - A flaw exists in path module that could allow users with the administer paths to enter a particular...
Drupal Core Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (SA-CORE-2018-006) - Linux
Drupal is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities. Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...
Workbench Moderation - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2018-067
The Workbench Moderation module adds arbitrary moderation states to Drupal core's "unpublished" and "published" node states, and affects the behavior of node revisions when nodes are published. In some conditions, content moderation fails to check a users access to use certain transitions, leadin...
Drupal Core - Multiple Vulnerabilities - SA-CORE-2018-006
Content moderation - Moderately critical - Access bypass - Drupal 8 In some conditions, content moderation fails to check a users access to use certain transitions, leading to an access bypass. In order to fix this issue, the following changes have been made to content moderation which may have...
Watch Workers Learn How to Filter Obscene and Violent Photos From Dating Sites
Directors Adrian Chen and Ciaran Cassidy give WIRED a first look at their disturbing short documentary on content moderation. The post Watch Workers Learn How to Filter Obscene and Violent Photos From Dating Sites appeared first on WIRED...
Drupal Mollom Module Cross-Site Scripting Patch
Drupal today released an update that patches a cross-site scripting vulnerability in a popular spam and content moderation module used by websites built on the open source CMS. The vulnerability was in a feature of the Mollom module that is installed on at least 60,000 sites, said Drupal security...
