Nation-state attackers fingered for exploiting bug in Twitter's anti-troll tools
Nation-state hackers could be undermining Twitter's efforts to clamp down on state-backed trolls.
Nation-state hackers could be undermining Twitter's efforts to clamp down on state-backed trolls.
There are many benefits to having your employees active on social media. Exposure, name recognition and free publicity come to mind. But there are potholes along the way.
Scott Goldman | 06 Jul | Read more
Google, Facebook and Yahoo and industry and civil rights groups have opposed legislation that would extend the categories of Internet records that the U.S. government can collect without court approval through administrative subpoenas known as National Security Letters.
John Ribeiro | 07 Jun | Read more
Over the weekend hackers have managed to gain access to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts, as well as the social media accounts of other celebrities.
Lucian Constantin | 06 Jun | Read more
Security executives should build up an arsenal of use-cases and real-world examples rather than talking in vagaries when educating employees about the threats that social-media channels have opened into modern organisations, a local IT-industry channels specialist has warned.
David Braue | 10 May | Read more
Reddit has removed a notice, known as a warrant canary, from its transparency report for 2015, suggesting that it may have received a secret national security order for user data.
John Ribeiro | 01 Apr | Read more
Online fraud and scams dominate the types of cyber crimes targeted at Australians, the nation’s online crime reporting tool has revealed.
Andrew Colley | 18 Jan | Read more
A New York judge ruled Tuesday that Facebook has no legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of search warrants served on its users, highlighting the limits to online companies' abilities to protect user privacy.
Zach Miners | 22 Jul | Read more
Newly leaked figures reveal that the vast majority of people who exercised their right to be "forgotten" by Google's services in Europe are everyday members of the public, with just 5 percent of requests coming from criminals, politicians and high-profile public figures.
Zach Miners | 15 Jul | Read more
Australians are much more likely than their regional counterparts to accept the monitoring of social media for terrorist activity but Malaysians are far more likely to accept social-media monitoring for targeted advertising, a survey of attitudes has found.
David Braue | 14 Jul | Read more
Think you can stop Facebook from automatically tagging photos of you by covering your face? Think again.
Oscar Raymundo | 24 Jun | Read more
Twitter, to reduce abusive content on its site, is letting users share lists of the people they block, so they can more easily silence those account holders on their own profiles.
Zach Miners | 11 Jun | Read more
Some Facebook users should soon be able to receive encrypted emails from the social networking site if they add PGP public keys to their profiles.
Fred O'Connor | 02 Jun | Read more
Upon learning of Reddit's plan to change its rules to prohibit harassment and make the site friendlier, some users reacted with resentment and confusion.
Zach Miners | 15 May | Read more
Users are getting greater choice over what information is shared with websites and apps when they log in using their Facebook ID.
Zach Miners | 01 May | Read more