Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Apple declares that sharing device usage information with them is anonymous, but researchers are claiming this is not true and Apple can associate actual iCloud users to this shared information. Apple Device Analytics Contain Identifying iCloud User Data, Claim Security Researchers – MacRumors Would Apple do this? They are already …
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Following the story this week that Twitter bots consider images of meteors indecent – here is another round robin bit of hacking and Big Tech “support theatre” that can cost small businesses a lot of money. Meta keeps booting small business owners for being hacked on Facebook | Ars Technica …
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Now the SMS text authentication is only working for some people: Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down | WIRED Do you want to know why SMS text message authentication is a very poor third behind app based multi-factor authentication and just about anything else? Read on: Twitter ‘closes offices’ …
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Robots spotted “intimate content” and banned Mary McIntyre from Twitter and robots handled the appeal processes upholding the ban. Now Mary has a choice – admit she broke the rules and shared “intimate content”, when she obviously has not, to get access to her account or, well there is no …
Elon Musk’s new idea to move Twitter into profit, charging for the blue verification tick, had a fault in its design. Twitter was not verifying the users were who they we purporting to be – so the threat actors moved in very quickly pretending to be a range of celebrities, …
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