The latest congressional hearing was another parade of bad-faith arguments about Section 230, best illustrated by Senate Republicans mischaracterizing the law
@GiladEdelman https://www.wired.com/... John Kennedy / @senjohnkennedy : If Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg don't employ staff to block them from reading certain material, why don't they let their use...
Amazon emails an unknown number of customers disclosing a “technical error” that exposed emails and names, but provides few other details
but doesn't disclose details Lauren Feiner / CNBC : Amazon exposed customer names and emails in a ‘technical error’ Gareth Corfield / The Register : Technical foul: Amazon suffers data snafu days befo...
Sheryl Sandberg says allegations that she and Zuckerberg hid info about Russian interference are untrue, claims she didn't know Facebook hired Definers
and that it might be toxic Michael Posner / Forbes : Confronting Facebook's Growing Pains Rob Price / Business Insider : Facebook employees react to the latest scandals: ‘Why does our company suck at ...
Sources: Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and no evidence of misuse
Google's top executives stopped using it up to 3 years ago Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : No, Google, We Did Not Consent to This — The company knew … Craig Timberg / Washington Post : Google to overhaul ...
New “Bad Rabbit” ransomware targets corp networks in Ukraine, Turkey, Germany, infects devices through hacked Russian media sites using NotPetya type methods
There is a connection between Bad Rabbit and Not Petya Waqas / HackRead : Bad Rabbit ransomware spreading like wildfire but there is a way out Dell Cameron / Gizmodo : ‘Bad Rabbit’ Ransomware Strikes ...
Sources: code written by women at Facebook rejected far more than men's; Facebook says study inaccurate, performed by former employee with incomplete data
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 Inquirer : Facebook under fire for gender bias in code review process Aman Jain / ValueWalk : Facebook Inc (FB) Rejects Claims Of Bias Against Female Coders Julia Carrie Wong / ...
Hacker steals 900GB of data from Cellebrite, the Israeli company that makes products for breaking into mobile phones
Saturday, January 14, 2016 Cellebrite : Petah Tikvah, IL—January 12, 2017—Cellebrite recently experienced … Tim Cushing / Techdirt : Cell Phone Hacking Company Hacked; 900 GB Of Logins, Log Files, And...
WhatsApp says it has enabled end-to-end encryption for all forms of communication on its service, which now has over a billion users, by default
WhatsApp has always prioritized making … Open Whisper Systems : WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete John Snow / blog.kaspersky.com : WhatsApp switches to secure end-to-end encryptio...
Obama unveils $19B Cybersecurity National Action Plan, asking Congress for 35% increase in cybersecurity funding
Dead on Arrival Christian de Looper / Tech Times : White House Proposes $19 Billion Plan To Strengthen Cybersecurity Bryan Clark / The Next Web : Obama plans to spend $19bn to ramp up cybersecurity ef...
Apple acknowledges iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus bug showing inaccurate battery meter percentages, says it is working on a fix, suggests temporary workaround
Apple admits that its battery life meter is busted John Kennedy / Silicon Republic : Apple promises to fix bruising battery bug on iPhone 6s Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica : Apple investigating inac...