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Category: social media

  • New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption

    New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general: If the “design choices create liability” framework seems worrying in the abstract, the New Mexico case provides a concrete example of where it leads in…

  • On Moltbook

    On Moltbook The MIT Technology Review has a good article on Moltbook, the supposed AI-only social network: Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots. But even the bot-written posts are ultimately the result of people pulling the strings, more puppetry than…

  • Why LinkedIn is a hunting ground for threat actors – and how to protect yourself

    Why LinkedIn is a hunting ground for threat actors – and how to protect yourself The business social networking site is a vast, publicly accessible database of corporate information. Don’t believe everyone on the site is who they say they are. Go to eset

  • Is it time for internet services to adopt identity verification?

    Is it time for internet services to adopt identity verification? Should verified identities become the standard online? Australia’s social media ban for under-16s shows why the question matters. Go to eset

  • Oversharing is not caring: What’s at stake if your employees post too much online

    Oversharing is not caring: What’s at stake if your employees post too much online From LinkedIn to X, GitHub to Instagram, there are plenty of opportunities to share work-related information. But posting could also get your company into trouble. Go to eset

  • Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices

    Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices In his 2020 book, “Future Politics,” British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was “How much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society?” But in the early decades…

  • Influencers in the crosshairs: How cybercriminals are targeting content creators

    Influencers in the crosshairs: How cybercriminals are targeting content creators Social media influencers can provide reach and trust for scams and malware distribution. Robust account protection is key to stopping the fraudsters. Go to eset

  • The Trump Administration’s Increased Use of Social Media Surveillance

    The Trump Administration’s Increased Use of Social Media Surveillance This chilling paragraph is in a comprehensive Brookings report about the use of tech to deport people from the US: The administration has also adapted its methods of social media surveillance. Though agencies like the State Department have gathered millions of handles and monitored political discussions…

  • The AI Fix #65: Excel Copilot will wreck your data, and can AI fix social media?

    The AI Fix #65: Excel Copilot will wreck your data, and can AI fix social media? In episode 65 of The AI Fix, a pigeon gives a PowerPoint presentation, Mark plays Graham a song about the Transformer architecture, a robot dog delivers parcels, some robots fall over at the World Humanoid Robot Games, and Graham…

  • Iranian Blackout Affected Misinformation Campaigns

    Iranian Blackout Affected Misinformation Campaigns Dozens of accounts on X that promoted Scottish independence went dark during an internet blackout in Iran. Well, that’s one way to identify fake accounts and misinformation campaigns. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

  • Age Verification Using Facial Scans

    Age Verification Using Facial Scans Discord is testing the feature: “We’re currently running tests in select regions to age-gate access to certain spaces or user settings,” a spokesperson for Discord said in a statement. “The information shared to power the age verification method is only used for the one-time age verification process and is not…

  • Russian bots hard at work spreading political unrest on Romania’s internet

    Russian bots hard at work spreading political unrest on Romania’s internet Internet users in Romania are finding their social media posts and online news articles bombarded with comments promoting blatant propaganda, inciting hatred towards the EU and NATO, and support for Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.…

  • Smashing Security podcast #395: Gym hacking, disappearing DNA, and a social lockout

    Smashing Security podcast #395: Gym hacking, disappearing DNA, and a social lockout A Kansas City man is accused of hacking into local businesses, not to steal money, but to… get a cheaper gym membership? A DNA-testing firm has vanished, leaving customers in the dark about what’s happened to their sensitive genetic data. And Australia mulls…