Reddit Ransomware Raid Redux: BlackCat/ALPHV Demands $4.5M
And now, this: John-Oliver-pics protest won’t change Reddit policy, but will ransom demand work? ...
Netflix Cracks Down on Password Sharing, AI Legal Research Gone Wrong, Fake Identities and Surveillance Firms
Netflix plans to crack down on the widespread practice of password sharing among households. We discuss their new verification feature and its impact on user experience and security. A lawyer finds himself ...
Reddit Hacked, Preventing Accidental Location Sharing, Developer Hacks His Own Company
Reddit announced that it was the victim of a phishing attack aimed at its employees, resulting in unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems. Advice on managing device ...
Reddit Hacked — 2FA is no Phishing Phix
Reddit got hacked with a “sophisticated” spear phishing attack. The individual victim was an employee who clicked the wrong email link ...
1/6/21 Insurrection—What Did the Social Networks Know?
The January 6 committee has had enough of delay and prevarication. It’s written yet again to four social network CEOs, telling them in no uncertain terms to get a move on. Oh, ...
Best of 2020: ‘TikTok is Spyware,’ Warns Reddit CEO. ‘We Don’t Care,’ Say Users
Millennial social app TikTok is “fundamentally parasitic,” according to Steve Huffman, Reddit’s co-founder ...
Discovered Artifacts in Decrypted HTTPS
We released a PCAP file earlier this year, which was recorded as part of a live TLS decryption demo at the CS3Sthlm conference. The demo setup used PolarProxy running on a Raspberry ...
Reddit users locked out of accounts after “security concern”
A large number of Reddit users are being told that they will have to reset their passwords in order to regain access to their accounts following what the site is calling a ...
Reddit Breach Takeaways: MFA and Access Management
Reddit has been hacked! Their SMS based authentication was not strong enough to prevent a breach, so they will be moving towards token-based two-factor authentication (2FA)—will that be enough? Discover how a ...
A week in security (July 30 – August 5)
A roundup of the security news from July 30 – August 5, including cryptomining, big data, social engineering, and more. Categories: Security world Week in security Tags: big databreachcryptominingfacebookmalwarerecapredditSocial Engineeringspamsteam cryptominerweekly blog ...
