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...
Report prepared for the Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more
For years, Russia has leveraged … Wired : How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America New York Times : Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media Sara Fisch...
British Airways says an attack on its site and app on Aug. 21-Sept. 5 exposed customers' personal and financial details, believes ~380K “card payments” breached
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Facebook disables email and phone number search after malicious actors abused the features to scrape public profile data; company says most accounts affected
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Snap stock slid 6%+ after analyst warned of negative reaction to update and Kylie Jenner tweeted suggesting she uses Snapchat less post-update
Should Snapchat Listen? Andrew Krok / CNET : Snapchat should have never made it this far Rhett Jones / Gizmodo : Stock Price Tumble Teaches Snapchat What Happens When You Disappoint Kylie Jenner Peter...
Sources: hackers stole NSA data on US offensive and defensive cyber capabilities from a contractor's laptop in 2015, likely via Kaspersky software
This Time with Kaspersky's Help Associated Press : Report: Russian hackers target secrets taken by NSA worker Steven Musil / CNET : Russian hackers reportedly stole NSA cyber secrets in 2015 Gareth Ha...
Global accounting firm Deloitte confirms report that it was breached, downplays impact; source: it affected all company email, admin accounts, occurred in 2016
U.S. government agencies … William White / InvestorPlace : Deloitte Data Hack 2017: Clients' Secret Emails Exposed Michael Moore / IT ProPortal : Deloitte hit by major cybersecurity breach Mohit Kumar...
Hackers hid backdoor in Avast-owned system cleanup tool CCleaner for Windows from August 15 to September 12; affected software was run by 2.27M users
Here's How to Fix It Inquirer : CCleaner hack: ‘Supply-chain attack’ saw app install malware on users' machines Mahit Huilgol / Technology Personalized : CCleaner Found to be Injecting Malware that St...
WhatsApp service restored after two-hour outage
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross platform mobile … Vincent Lanaria / Tech Times : Whenever WhatsApp Goes Down, The Internet Goes Crazy: Here Are The Reactions This Time Around Josh Levenson / TechnoBuffa...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologizes for errors migrating @POTUS followers, says the issues, which affected about 560K people, have been fixed
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