A deep dive into Reddit's history and the power of its 60K+ unpaid moderators, based on interviews with 60+ current and former mods, employees, and contractors
mods and Reddit employees, current and former—to document the company's very bumpy history in unprecedented detail. By @peard33 @RobertHPeck https://www.wired.com/... Paresh Dave /...
eBay will pay $3M to resolve charges over a harassment campaign by staffers who sent spiders and other disturbing items to those behind the EcommerceBytes blog
Online retailer eBay Inc. will pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over a harassment campaign waged by employees …
Researchers deployed exposed Windows servers as honeypots for hackers, recording 190M events and 100 hours of video of their actions, like installing malware
Imagine being able to sit behind a hacker and observe them take control of a computer and play around with it.
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled — Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked o...
Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting Twitter URLs to the sign in page
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …
Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting Twitter URLs to the sign in page
https://www.theverge.com/... @ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social : You can no longer view tweets if you're not logged in to twitter. — You can't even view someone's twitter profile, not ...
How the “arms race” of SEO experts has left Google Search and the web drowning in garbage text, resulting in customers and businesses failing to find each other
The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.
The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps
New York CNN — — Payment apps like PayPal and Venmo might be convenient, but they're not banks — and a federal financial services watchdog …
Insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for the treatment of older patients
STAT : Tweets: @marshacollier and @maartenvsmeden Tweets: Marsha Collier / @marshacollier : How Medicare Advantage Plans Use #AI To Cut Off Care For Seniors Insurers are using unr...
Some US students say hiring managers and college admissions officers are holding their social media content around subjects like mental health against them
Tatum Hunter / Washington Post : Tweets: @marshacollier , @kari_paul , @mattnavarra , @washingtonpost , @taylorlorenz , and @tatum_hunter_ Tweets: Marsha Collier / @marshacollier ...
SEC filing: T-Mobile says a hacker stole the data of ~37M customers, including names, addresses, and phone numbers, but not passwords, SSNs, or credit cards
here's what to do if you're ever worried that your data was leaked Chris Velazco / Washington Post : Here's what to do if you think you're affected by T-Mobile's latest data breach...
PayPal says hackers accessed the sensitive data of ~35K users, including addresses and social security numbers, in a December 2022 credential stuffing attack
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Mailchimp says a hacker accessed data on 133 accounts via a staff social engineering attack, first detected on January 11, its second breach in six months
Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers' data was exposed.
After pushback, the IRS delays requiring e-commerce apps such as Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, and Etsy to send tax forms to small businesses with $600+ transactions
After pushback, the IRS delays requiring e-commerce apps such as Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, and Etsy to send tax forms to small businesses with $600+ transactions
The Internal Revenue Service is delaying a requirement for e-commerce platforms, including Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Etsy …
After pushback, the IRS delays requiring e-commerce apps such as Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, and Etsy to send tax forms to small businesses with $600+ transactions
The Internal Revenue Service is delaying a requirement for e-commerce platforms, including Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Etsy …
Amazon's registries for weddings, birthdays, new babies, and more are publicly visible by default, a sensitive personal data one-stop shop for identity thieves
a byproduct of very weak default privacy settings on their parenting registry products. Good find by the @theintercept: https://theintercept.com/... @theintercept : Imagine if a bu...
eBay plans to launch a beta of eBay Live, an interactive live shopping service, later in June 2022, starting with a livestream event to sell rare trading cards
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A researcher says Australia's New South Wales digital driver's license is easy to forge due to deficient encryption, data validation flaws, and other issues
A litany of security flaws allows forgeries that are easy, quick, and cheap. — In late 2019, the government of New South Wales … Source: Dvuln Blog .