Meta halts routing via Deutsche Telekom over €20M peering fee
Meta announced that it's ending its direct peering relationship with Deutsche Telekom following a court's ruling earlier this year that…
FTC exposes massive surveillance of kids, teens by social media giants
A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report has found that social media and video streaming companies have been engaging in widespread…
Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ Groups Thrive on Facebook
Scammers are flooding Facebook with groups that purport to offer video streaming of funeral services for the recently deceased. Friends…
Meta fixes easily bypassed WhatsApp ‘View Once’ privacy feature
A privacy flaw in WhatsApp, an instant messenger with over 2 billion users worldwide, is being exploited by attackers to…
Telegram CEO’s jailing reveals Europe’s true totalitarian colors
French-Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov founded Telegram in 2013, following Russia’s crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011. Now one of the…
Meta ditches ‘misinformation’ tracking tool, angering journalists and nonprofits
Mark Zuckerberg-owned social media giant Meta has shut down CrowdTangle, a researching tool used to monitor social media posts that…
New York AG demands Big Tech step in to ‘protect’ voters from ‘misinformation’
Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter to Big Tech companies calling on them to curb election…
Critical SAP flaw allows remote attackers to bypass authentication
SAP has released its security patch package for August 2024, addressing 17 vulnerabilities, including a critical authentication bypass that could…
Fraud ring pushes 600+ fake web shops via Facebook ads
A malicious fraud campaign dubbed "ERIAKOS" promotes more than 600 fake web shops through Facebook advertisements to steal visitors' personal…
Meta settles with Texas for $1.4 billion for unauthorized capture of biometric data in record settlement
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, had agreed to a record…