Security News

Hijacking Someone's Facebook Account with a Fake Passport Copy (Schneier on Security)
2016-07-07 18:27

BBC has the story. The confusion is that a scan of a passport is much easier to forge than an actual passport. This is a truly hard problem: how do you give people the ability to get back into...

Privacy pitfalls of Facebook using your location to suggest friends (Help Net Security)
2016-06-28 20:39

If you are a Facebook user and you haven’t guessed by now that it will sometimes suggest “friends” based on the fact that you happened to be at the same place at the same time, you should know...