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The tense stand-off between privacy campaigners and the popular mobile payment app Venmo has taken another turn for the worse.
From new ransomware attacks to privacy issues around Venmo and Ring, Threatpost editors break down the top news of this week.
In an open letter, the Mozilla Foundation and EFF scolded Venmo for its data privacy policies, which they say could open the door to stalking and spear-phishing.
Not much has changed since a year ago, when a bot was tweeting out publicly visible Venmo "drug" deals from the public-by-default company.
Venmo is a peer-to-peer mobile app designed to make it easy to send and receive payments from friends. It is owned by PayPal -- and it is no stranger to security issues. read more
The bot scraped Venmo's public API for sex, drugs and alcohol-related words, then tweeted profile photos and first names of the "buyers."
To its fans, Venmo is a hassle-free P2P app that lets anyone living in the US send money to friends, split a restaurant bill, pay for a ride on Uber, or buy a hotel room. To the security...
200 million transactions visible to all, inc. the inside dope on a cannabis seller's annual sales PayPal-owned digital wallet Venmo shares way too much data via its public API, according to...
