CCDH: when researchers liked self-harm and eating disorder videos on TikTok in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, the app recommended more similar content
TikTok pushes harmful content promoting eating disorders and self-harm into young users' feeds Elizabeth Germino / CBS News : TikTok pushes potentially harmful content to users as often as every 39 se...
Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019
how to check if your phone number was leaked Christianna Silva / Mashable : Mark Zuckerberg is using Signal, according to phone number leaked in Facebook hack Ankita Chakravarti / India Today : Signal...
Apple accuses Google's Project Zero of stoking fear by creating a “false impression of mass exploitation”, says the sophisticated attack was narrowly focused
And They're Wrong PYMNTS.com : Apple, Google At Odds On iPhone Security Flaws Tied To Attacks Michael Tsai : Apple Responds to Project Zero Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google stands by iOS vulnerability r...
An in-depth look at five iOS exploit chains that were used in hacked websites for carrying out watering hole attacks against devices running iOS 10 through 12
In the earlier posts we examined … Ian Beer / Project Zero : In-the-wild iOS Exploit Chain 1 Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review : Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says...
An in-depth look at five iOS exploit chains that were used in hacked websites for carrying out watering hole attacks against devices running iOS 10 through 12
In the earlier posts we examined … Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech : Google Discovered Malicious Websites Used to Hack iPhones for Years Jon Porter / The Verge : Google reveals major iPhone security flaws ...
CERT-Bund discovers a serious vulnerability in VLC for Windows, Unix, and Linux that allows for remote code execution and hasn't been patched yet
but VideoLAN says it is not reproducible Firstpost Tech : VLC media player has a ‘critical’ security flaw that can let the hackers in Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News : Confusion about a rece...
China's border guards close to Xinjiang install Android malware on tourists' devices that scans for 70K+ files and downloads texts, calendar entries, phone logs
An APK Chinese authorities load onto the Android phones … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : China installs a surveillance app on tourists' phones while crossing in the Xinjiang Harper Neidig / T...
Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde says the company is looking into how white nationalists and supremacists use the platform to determine if they should be banned
Twitter should just enforce its existing ban Firstpost Tech : Twitter is researching if white supremacists should be banned from its platform Mark Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews : Twitter looks into wheth...
Expired certificate caused Firefox add-ons to stop working on Friday; Mozilla has issued a fix for most issues, advises others not to try any workarounds
A small number of add-ons may be listed … Victoria Song / Gizmodo : Firefox Fixes Borked Extensions for Everyone but Legacy Users Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Mozilla releases Firefox 66.0.4 with fix dis...