Security News

Google Shared Private Videos With Wrong Users
2020-02-05 20:18

The bug, which Google describes as a technical issue, was triggered when users requested a Google "Download your data" export. In the notification sent to the impacted users, Google reveals that those who used Takeout to download their data might have ended up with someone else's videos in their Google Photos backups.

Someone else may have your videos, Google tells users
2020-02-05 11:58

During this time, some videos in Google Photos were incorrectly exported to unrelated users' archives. Conversely, being a two-way issue, affected users might notice any videos in their archive not belonging to them.

Google Takeout a bit too true to its name after potentially 1000s of private videos shared with complete strangers
2020-02-05 00:48

A bug in Google's Photo software caused potentially 100,000 or more netizens to have their personal videos exposed to complete strangers last Thanksgiving. The Chocolate Factory this week began notifying punters that a bug in its data-archiving tool Takeout was to blame for some accounts having their private videos shared with total strangers.

Google Accidentally Shared Private Videos of Some Users With Others
2020-02-04 15:59

Google might have mistakenly shared your private videos saved on the company's servers with other users, the tech giant admitted yesterday in a security notification sent quietly to an undisclosed number of affected users. According to a screenshot Jon Oberheide of Duo Security shared on Twitter, the issue reportedly remained active between 21st November and 25th November last year, during which "Some videos in Google Photos [service] were incorrectly exported to unrelated user's archives."

Google Accidentally Shared Private Videos of Some Users With Others
2020-02-04 07:59

Google might have mistakenly shared your private videos saved on the company's servers with other users, the tech giant admitted yesterday in a security notification sent quietly to an undisclosed number of affected users. According to a screenshot Jon Oberheide of Duo Security shared on Twitter, the issue reportedly remained active between 21st November and 25th November last year, during which "Some videos in Google Photos [service] were incorrectly exported to unrelated user's archives."

Baby's First Data Breach: App Exposes Baby Photos, Videos
2020-01-14 09:03

The logs record when someone uses the Peekaboo app and the specific action they took at a certain point in time, such as uploading data or content. Exposed data includes email addresses, detailed device data and often, links to photos and videos, all of which get stored on servers hosted by Singapore-based Alibaba Cloud.

TikTok on the clock, and the hacking won't stop: SMS spoofing vuln let baddies twiddle teens' social media videos
2020-01-08 18:01

TikTok, a mobile video app popular with teens, was vulnerable to SMS spoofing attacks that could have led to the extraction of private information, according to infosec researchers. If the user clicked that malicious link, the attacker could access the user's TikTok account and, so Check Point said, manipulate its content by deleting videos, uploading new videos and making private or "Hidden" videos public.

YouTube to treat all kid-aimed videos like they’re COPPA-liable
2020-01-08 12:29

The big one: rather than trying to verify that users are over the age of 13, it's just going to treat all content aimed at kids as if it is watched by kids, regardless of age of the viewer, and it's going to COPPA-ify that content. As per federal COPPA guidelines, that means that YouTube will limit data collection and use and the serving up of personalized ads on such videos.

Facebook Cracks Down on Deepfake Videos
2020-01-07 14:27

Despite the difficulties of identifying deepfakes, social media sites are recognizing the need to crack down on the manipulated, misleading videos. Facebook is banning deepfake videos, which stem from a technique of human-image synthesis based on artificial intelligence to create fake content.

New Facebook Tool Let Users Transfer Their Photos and Videos to Google
2019-12-02 06:26

Facebook has finally started implementing the open source data portability framework as the first phase of 'Data Transfer Project,' an initiative the company launched last year in collaboration...