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Pro-Democracy Protestors Targeted via Information Operations Attributed to ChinaFacebook and Twitter have suspended a number of accounts and pages that they have tied to information operations...

Mostly the public adversely affected A young man who DoSed two British police forces' websites has been sentenced to 16 months in a young offenders' institution.…

Some user data, such as country and device type, was exposed to some advertisers for over a year.

Twitter admitted this week that it may have accidentally shared some users’ data with third parties without permission. read more

Cybercriminals are abusing Twitter via tech support scams, command-and-control (C&C) operations and data exfiltration, according to Trend Micro. Misuse of social networks Researchers analyzed a...

London's Metropolitan Police apologised Saturday after its Twitter, emails and news pages were targeted by hackers and began pumping out a series of bizarre messages. read more

Thanks to fruitful collaboration between language scholars and machine learning specialists, a new application that can detect Twitter bots independent of the language used was developed by...

The social platform has suspended six sets of accounts across four jurisdictions for running alleged influence campaigns, including Iran.

This is an age of large scale political social engineering through social media, both by advertising and the presentation of misleading data. International social engineering became frontpage news...

SandboxEscaper has released her latest local privilege-escalation exploit for Windows.