Security News

StackOverflow, Twitch, Reddit, others down in Fastly CDN outage
2021-06-08 10:33

While an investigation is ongoing as to what the reason behind the outage might be, Fastly CDN has been seen as the common link. Many of the impacted websites on the list rely on Fastly CDN to serve content, as noted by BleepingComputer.

Reddit Launches Public Bug Bounty Program
2021-04-15 14:30

Reddit this week announced the launch of a public bug bounty program on the vulnerability hunting platform HackerOne. Following a three-year private bug bounty program on HackerOne, which has resulted in over $140,000 being awarded in bug bounties for 300 vulnerability reports focusing on reddit.com, the program is going public with an expanded scope.

Reddit Names Allison Miller as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
2021-02-23 01:23

Social news community site Reddit announced on Monday that it has hired Allison Miller as Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Trust. Miller joins Reddit from Bank of America where she most recently served as SVP Technology Strategy & Design, and had been overseeing technology design and engineering delivery for the bank's information security organization.

Reddit Names Allison Miller as CISO, VP of Trust
2021-02-22 16:43

Social news community site Reddit announced on Monday that it has hired Allison Miller as Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Trust. Miller joins Reddit from Bank of America where she most recently served as SVP Technology Strategy & Design, and had been overseeing technology design and engineering delivery for the bank's information security organization.

Accounts of Reddit Moderators Hijacked in Pro-Trump Hack
2020-08-10 10:48

Multiple Reddit moderator accounts have been compromised and abused to post pro-Trump messages on a variety of subreddits. The hackers appear to have targeted moderator accounts that did not have two-factor authentication enabled, and leveraged their rights to modify subreddits or even remove moderator accounts that had fewer rights.

Reddit bans ‘impersonation,’ but satire and parody are still OK
2020-01-13 11:23

Reddit had already banned pornographic deepfakes in 2018. Now, in the run up to the 2020 US presidential election, it's expanded its deepfake ban: Reddit is now prohibiting impersonation, including domains that mimic others.

Reddit Says Influence Campaign is Behind Leaked U.S.-U.K. Trade Documents
2019-12-09 14:40

The platform has linked documents posted on its site to a vote-manipulation campaign already observed on Facebook earlier this year.

Android Ransomware Spreads Via ‘Sex Simulation Game’ Links on Reddit, SMS
2019-07-30 17:16

A new strain of ransomware is being distributed to Android users via online forums and SMS messages.

Reddit Gold: Alice and Bob, Caught in a Web of Lies
2019-02-22 21:23

There was a shocking turn of events in crypto-world.

Reddit locks out users with poor password hygiene after spotting 'unusual activity'
2019-01-10 19:13

Forum admin blames recycled credentials for 'security concern' Some Redditors have been locked out of their accounts over a mysterious security problem that the internet forum's admins have blamed...