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Cyber-cracker with the pseudonym Gnosticplayers reported about hacking several applications of the largest American online game developer Zynga Inc. The hacker announced the theft of data from 218 million users. The leak affected all Android and iOS users who installed the Words With Friends puzzle game and registered in it …

On September 24, US President Donald Trump made a speech at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. During the cadence, this is Trump’s third big speech at the United Nations. It is noteworthy that after his speech, the world’s largest technology companies included in the …

As part of the deal with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has blocked tens of thousands of apps due to privacy issues. Last year’s Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to affect Facebook’s reputation, and the company continues to struggle with its consequences. Recalling, at that time was detected an information leak …

The co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, is always very frank and never was skimp on criticisms of world-famous IT personalities like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and others. Quite often, Steve Wozniak criticizes the native Apple. In an interview this week, Bloomberg suggested Apple split into several companies. It should be …

At the beginning of this summer, an independent researcher from India, Laxman Muthiyah, explained how he earned $ 30,000 in bug bounty by discovering a dangerous vulnerability in the password recovery mechanism on Instagram. Although Facebook developers have strengthened their protection since that time, the expert has found another way …

On Wednesday, August 21, Google, Apple and Mozilla announced intention to implement in their browsers a blocking of digital certificates issued by the certifying center of Kazakhstan. In July, residents of Kazakhstan were ordered to install on all gadgets with Internet access a state security certificate that allows law enforcement …

Vulnerability in the new design of Facebook can be used to delete the profile photo of any user. We are talking about the design of the FB5, which the social network presented in April at the F8 conference. The issue was reported by a cybersecurity researcher Philippe Harewood. According to …

Facebook is still implementing a way to bypass end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp. This will be not frank backdoor, but it will be special innovation able to satisfy requirements of authorities and special services. In particular, it will provide access to encrypted correspondence. If we as an example conventional WhatsApp, Facebook …

The Telegram messenger fixed the vulnerability that allowed hacking other people’s accounts through voicemail. During the last several months, attackers have cracked more than a thousand accounts of Brazilian users through this vulnerability. Last week it was reported that Brazilian law enforcement agencies arrested four suspects in hacking 1000 Telegram …

It was reported that Facebook will pay $ 5 billion fine at the suit of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and another $ 100 million at the suit of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for violating privacy of users ’personal data. For those who have already forgotten, it …