Dan Geer’s Source Boston keynote included a declaration that cybersecurity and humanity’s future are forever conjoined.
Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset
Images of Tinder users “were swept up in a massive grab of some 40,000 photos from the dating app by a dataset collector who plans to use the selfies in artificial intelligence training,” writes Slashdot reader Frosty Piss, sharing this…
Facebook admits it is being used as propaganda tool by ‘malicious actors’
Facebook’s soul-searching report sets itself the challenge of knowing itself
Threatpost News Wrap, April 28, 2017
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap this year’s SOURCE Boston Conference and discuss the week in news, including the long term implications of the NSA’s DoublePulsar exploit, and the HipChat breach.
WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Tool ‘Scribbles’ For Document Tracking
The CIA is planting web beacons inside Microsoft Word documents to track whistleblowers, journalists and informants, according to WikiLeaks.
FCC: net neutrality is ‘politically motivated government overreach’
FCC chief signals assault on rules from the days of Ma Bell used by Obama to guarantee net neutrality
Sports fans protest at plans to scan their faces as they head for the match
Police to use facial recognition to match Champions League fans to ‘persons of interest’ as they arrive for the UEFA Cup final
Ransomware, Cyberespionage Dominate Verizon DBIR
Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report for 2017 shows big growth in the reported number of ransomware attacks and incidents involving cyberespionage.
News in brief: celebs’ phone hacking settled; German court raps Facebook; Ashley Madison victims hit again
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Murder victim’s Fitbit contradicts husband’s version of events
Police gathered evidence from Fitbit, home alarm, Facebook, phone and credit cards to piece together timeline of events leading up to woman’s death