Daily Archives: March 5, 2019

When 2FA means sweet FA privacy: Facebook admits it slurps mobe numbers for more than just profile security

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Another week, another Facebook privacy storm.

This time, the Silicon Valley giant has been caught red-handed using people’s cellphone numbers, provided exclusively for two-factor authentication, for targeted advertising and search – after it previously insinuated it wouldn’t do that.

Folks handing […]

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McAfee: Oops, our bad. Sharpshooter malware was the Norks’ Lazarus Group the whole time

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McAfee (the antivirus firm, not John the dodgy “playboy”) reckons the Sharpshooter malware campaign it uncovered in late 2018 is the work of North Korean hacking crew the Lazarus Group.

Thanks to data from a command-and-control server that was “provided to […]

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