DHS and FBI investigators are using Facebook profile IDs in court records – IDs that are easily used to look up their profile pages.

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Mozilla has fixed a critical zero-day bug in the latest point releases of the Firefox web browser.

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The “Suspicious Site Reporter” extension lets users easily report dubious sites, while a new warning flags potential typosquatting pages.

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Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ll know that earlier this week Facebook announced plans for a new global cryptocurrency for absolutely everyone called Libra.

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The Facebook ad agency xSocialMedia exposed 150K medical histories, along with identifying information for the people involved.

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Three vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels could allow attackers to induce a denial-of-service by clogging networking I/O.

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A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web’s most popular content management systems are using obsolete algorithms to protect their users’ passwords.

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Some pretend to be hospitals to get patients’ payment data. Others pose as the goverment and try to get confidential data from hospitals.

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Not much has changed since a year ago, when a bot was tweeting out publicly visible Venmo “drug” deals from the public-by-default company.

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The ads look like they’re been shared by friends, but they’re really pod people who’ve hijacked accounts.

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