social networks

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2019
Twitter inadvertently collected and shared iOS location data

Twitter confirmed revealed that a bug in its iOS app it the root cause for an inadvertent collection of location data and sharing it with a third-party. A new story of a violation of the user’s privacy made the lines, Twitter revealed that due to a bug is collected and shared iOS location data with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2019
Facebook sues data analytics firm Rankwave over alleged data misuse

Facebook sues South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave over alleged data misuse and violation of social network’s rules. Facebook filed a lawsuit against Rankwave in a California State court in Silicon Valley to verify if the analytics firm is violating the rules of the social network giant. Facebook is asking the court to audit the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2019
Experts found 540 Million Facebook user records on unprotected Amazon S3 buckets

The huge trove of Facebook user data was amassed and stored online on unprotected cloud servers by third-party Facebook app developers. Definitively I can tell you that this is an awful period for Facebook and its users. We first read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2018
Social Mapper – Correlate social media profiles with facial recognition

Trustwave developed Social Mapper an Open Source Tool that uses facial recognition to correlate social media profiles across different social networks. Security experts at Trustwave have released Social Mapper, a new open-source tool that allows finding a person of interest across social media platform using facial recognition technology. The tool was developed to gather intelligence from […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2018
After Cambridge Analytica Facebook COO Sandberg admits other possible misuses

After the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg admitted that the company cannot rule out other cases of misuse. In the wake of recent revelations about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg doesn’t exclude other data misuse. Sandberg gave two interviews last weeks to National Public Radio and NBC’s “Today […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2018
Facebook: Cambridge Analytica scandal affected 87 Million users

Facebook revealed on Wednesday that 87 million users have been affected by the Cambridge Analytica case, much more than 50 million users initially thought. The social network giant recently unveiled clearer terms of service to ensure transparency to its users about data sharing. Facebook’s chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer provided further details on the case, including new estimations […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2018
After Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook announces Election security Improvements

After Cambridge Analytica case, Facebook announced security improvements to prevent future interference with elections. Facebook is under the fire after the revelation of the Cambridge Analytica case and its role in the alleged interference to the 2016 US presidential election. While the analysts are questioning about the interference with other events, including the Brexit vote, Facebook is now looking […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2018
Facebook collected call and SMS data from Android users if not explicitly forbidden

After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook made the headlines again, the company collected users’ Android call and SMS metadata for years. The Cambridge Analytica case it raised the discussion about the power of social networks and the possibility of their abuse for the conditioning of political activities. The non-professionals have discovered how important their digital experience […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2018
Facebook confirms Cambridge Analytica stole its data and used it to influence US voters

The commercial data analytics company Cambridge Analytica allegedly used data harvested by Facebook to target US voters in the 2016 Presidential election. A team of academics had collected a huge amount of user data and shared the information with Cambridge Analytica which is a commercial data analytics company that allegedly used it to target US […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2017
Taringa Data Breach, over 28 Million users affected

The data breach notification website LeakBase reported to the colleagues at THN the Taringa data breach, over 28 Million users’ data exposed. Taringa, also known as ‘The Latin American Reddit’, is a popular social network used by netizens in Latin America to create and share thousands of posts every day on general interest topics. The data breach notification […]