Irish data watchdog starts an investigation on Twitter’s data breach concerns
In August last year, Michael Veale, a researcher at the University College London discovered that social media giant Twitter was collecting metadata from the links shortener it uses when Twitter users include certain URLs in their respective tweets. Mr. Veale, who is on the advisory council of the Open Rights Group and a freelance consultant […]
Cyber Attack news on Katie Price and Data Privacy triggering Mercy Killing
A hacker with the Twitter account ‘Thedarkoverlord’ has threatened model turned businesswoman ‘Katie Price’ to share her surgery related photos and videos with the world. A spokesperson of the 40-year-old singer turned designer has confirmed the news early today and said that the internationally reputed star is being constantly harassed online by the said hacker. […]
Cyber Attack news for the last day of this year 2018
1.) France based security engineers have found a software tool to navigate and monitor the dark web. But they also argue that the tool could spell deep trouble to the web users if it falls into wrong hands. Nicolas Hernandez, the Co-founder, and CEO of Aleph Networks, a company based in Lyon- France said that […]
State-sponsored DDoS Cyber Attack on Twitter
Twitter servers tumbled down for several hours last month after they received unusually large volumes of traffic coming from individual IP addresses located in China and Saudi Arabia. Preliminary investigations reveal that the incident could be the work of state-sponsored hackers. But the social networking website added in its statement that nothing can be concluded […]
Cyber Attack news trending now
1.) A research published in the journal Nature Communications says that the 2016 US elections were influenced by fake news spread by 6% of Twitter Bots. The numbers from Facebook aren’t available now. But the study confirms that a lot of accounts (1 million Approx) which have been suspended in March this year by the […]
Safest websites when it comes to Cyber Security
Dashlane, a New York-based mobile security provider conducted a survey recently and came to a conclusion that most of the popular websites are not well equipped when it comes to protecting their customer’s critical data with two-factor authentication. Note 1- 2FA or 2 Factor Authentication adds an extra layer of security protection to a service […]
How to spot fake Twitter Accounts
As Mid Term Elections in the US is fast approaching, Twitter which touts itself as one of the leading social media platforms has issued tips to spot fake Twitter accounts through which fake news is usually found propagating. The social media giant has issued an election integrity framework on Monday where it stated new guidelines […]
How to activate 2-factor authentication on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
There is hardly any human being on earth these days who doesn’t have a social media account. Such is a popularity of the social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. Despite the truth that all these accounts are safe to use, there is a high probability in this existing cyber landscape that hackers […]
Youtube and Twitter to go with FIDO U2F keys for User Security
In order to take down fake and abusive content from their respective platforms, YouTube and Twitter are willing to opt FIDO U2F Keys by early next year. But security analysts suggest that the implementation of such high-security standards will take a lot of time and will also need user/s endorsement which is not possible in […]
Timehop data breach details
New York-based Timehop Company which provides an application for smartphones users to collect their memories from their old social media posts has disclosed that almost all of the private information of all its 21 million users was hacked by cyber crooks last week. The hacked info includes usernames, email address, telephone numbers and the virtual […]
