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If you have ever contacted Microsoft for support in the past 14 years, your technical query, along with some personally identifiable information might have been compromised. Microsoft today admitted a security incident that exposed nearly 250 million "Customer Service and Support" records on the Internet due to a misconfigured server containing logs of conversations between its support team and customers.
A researcher has discovered thousands of Tinder users' images publicly available for free online. In 2017, Google subsidiary Kaggle scraped 40,000 images from Tinder using the company's API. The researcher involved uploaded his script to GitHub, although it was subsequently hit by a DMCA takedown notice.
Ian Russell backs the report's findings - particularly its calls for government and social media companies to do more to protect users from harmful content, not only by sharing content but also by funding research with a "Turnover tax" that will also provide training for clinicians, teachers and others working with children, to help them identify children struggling with their mental health and to understand how social media might be affecting them. Scheduled to go into effect in April 2020, it will impose a 2% levy on the revenues of search engines, social media platforms and online marketplaces that "Derive value from UK users." That 2% will be assessed on digital companies' global turnover.
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An Elasticsearch cluster containing information on Honda owners in North America was recently found to be accessible from the Internet without any authentication. Discovered on December 11, 2019,...
Researchers believe that criminals were able to obtain personal information for millions of Facebook users.
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Online shopping offers plenty of convenience, but it might come at an unexpected price: Your sensitive information. Tom Merritt offers five tips for staying safe while shopping online.
A phishing attack is masquerading as messages from the game's developers.
Researchers at VpnMentor claim that the TrueDialog data leak exposure could have compromised tens of millions of people.