2023-02-26
required disclosures are useful, as in this case. News Corp says state hackers were on its network for two years https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ...
BleepingComputer
News Corp says attackers behind a data breach the company disclosed in February 2022 gained access in February 2020, stealing some personal data including SSNs
Mass media and publishing giant News Corporation (News Corp) says that attackers behind a breach disclosed in 2022 first gained access …
2022-09-28
same ol' same ol' Subway Surfers was paid to auto-download podcast episodes to manipulate “listen” metrics (they call this incentivized views/listens) Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
A look at tappable podcast ads in mobile games, which trigger episode downloads; source: iHeartMedia got ~6M unique listeners/month through such ads since 2018
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg :
2022-09-11
huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge news; great for privacy Deterring Scraping By Protecting Facebook Identifier https://about.fb.com/...
Meta
Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to make it harder for attackers to scrape unauthorized data
similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers vio...
2022-09-10
huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge news; great for privacy Deterring Scraping By Protecting Facebook Identifier https://about.fb.com/...
Meta
Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to deter unauthorized data scraping
Takeaways — We changed how we use Facebook Identifiers (FBIDs) after we observed that unauthorized scraping often involves guessing content IDs or using purchased FBIDs.
2022-02-04
@jason_kint no. the stock price going up does not tell you anything about the intent and morality of the company nor its people. “because they actually care about their user” cannot be inferred from stock price action
CNBC
Snap reports its first quarterly net profit, with $1.3B in Q4 revenue, up 42% YoY, and $23M net income; FY 2021 revenue grew 64% to $4.1B; stock rises 40%+
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
2020-08-25
another day, another case of mobile ad fraud, with privacy implications too https://www.forbes.com/...
Forbes
Security research firm Snyk alleges that Chinese ad network Mintegral committed ad click fraud via its SDK across billions of installs of 1,200+ iOS apps
A Chinese ad network named Mintegral is accused of spying on user activity and committing ad fraud in more than 1,200 apps with 300 million installs per month since July 2019.