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...
Reid Hoffman says he wasn't aware of disinformation campaign in Alabama race, apologizes for funding group linked to it; source says Hoffman invested $750K
A series of articles in the New York … Matt Binder / Mashable : LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman accidentally funded fake news Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch : Reid Hoffman denies direct knowledge of fu...
Facebook hired a digital forensics firm to conduct an audit of Cambridge Analytica, but their team had to step down at the request of the UK ICO
and maybe the platform Chris Ciaccia / Fox News : Silence from Zuckerberg, Sandberg on Facebook scandal like putting ‘gasoline on the fire’ Jonathan Garber / Business Insider : Facebook is sliding on ...
Google finds Russian-bought ads worth tens of thousands of dollars on YouTube, Gmail, DoubleClick, which were part of effort to influence the 2016 election
another $53,000 is still under review Harper Neidig / The Hill : Report: Google discovers Russian-bought ads Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal : Google Unearths Russia-Backed Ads Related to U.S. Politi...
Facebook releases timeline of murder suspect's activity: first video uploaded 11:09AM PDT, first report received around 11:27AM, account disabled at 1:22PM
“I snapped, dog,” the man says into the camera. Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Facebook publishes timeline of murder suspect's activity James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : A murder video posted to Facebook was ...