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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.
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 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.
The platform has linked documents posted on its site to a vote-manipulation campaign already observed on Facebook earlier this year.
A new strain of ransomware is being distributed to Android users via online forums and SMS messages.
There was a shocking turn of events in crypto-world.
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...
Reddit this week decided to lock down some user accounts after detecting unusual activity on those accounts. read more
Finding a mysterious circuit board plugged into a network that you are tasked with managing is always going to be a disconcerting moment for any sysadmin.
