Security News

Free Facial Recognition Tool Can Track People Across Social Media Sites
2018-08-09 13:18

Security researchers at Trustwave have released a new open-source tool that uses facial recognition technology to locate targets across numerous social media networks on a large scale. Dubbed...

ZeroFOX announces TIP integrations providing social media security coverage
2018-08-02 09:15

ZeroFOX unveiled three new integrations with Anomali, ThreatConnect and ThreatQuotient, enabling customers to better prevent, detect, respond to and recover from social media-based threats. By...

Social media rumors lead to PepsiCo lawsuit
2018-07-30 12:26

...so take down those 3,412 Facebook links, 20,244 Facebook posts, 242 YouTube videos, 6 Instagram links, and 562 tweets ... by court order.

Your social media memories may have been compromised
2018-07-09 14:42

Remember that "digital nostalgia" app you installed years ago? You may have forgotten it, but it hasn't forgotten you!

Vietnam Activists Flock to 'Safe' Social Media After Cyber Crackdown
2018-07-06 04:06

Tens of thousands of Vietnamese social media users are flocking to a self-professed free speech platform to avoid tough internet controls in a new cybersecurity law, activists told AFP. read more

Manipulative Social Media Practices
2018-06-28 11:29

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published an excellent report on the deceptive practices tech companies use to trick people into giving up their privacy. From the executive summary: Facebook...

Podcast: The Growing Social Media Threat Landscape
2018-06-14 10:11

How can we keep up with the social media threat landscape as it grows to include more malware, hacks and scams? We discuss on the latest Threatpost podcast.

Would you delete your account if a social media provider misused your data?
2018-06-07 16:50

With the Facebook scandal involving Cambridge Analytica still fresh in people’s minds, two-thirds of professionals admit they would delete their account if a social media provider misused their...

Social Media Privacy Dominates Apple iOS 12, macOS Launches
2018-06-05 14:23

Social media data privacy controls were the top security topic at Apple's WWDC on Monday.

Top 5: Ways people get scammed on social media
2018-05-17 15:01

Scamming happens all the time on social media, and some of the schemes are much less obvious than you'd think. Here are the top ways people get tricked.