Joseph Cox reports: A user of a low level cybercriminal forum is selling access to a database of phone numbers belonging to Facebook users, and conveniently letting customers lookup those numbers by using an automated Telegram bot. Although the data is several years old, it still presents a cybersecurity and [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic sends me an “I told you this would happen” message as Bruce Leshan reports: If you were anywhere near the Capitol on Jan. 6, you may be getting a knock on your door from the FBI. A D.C. woman said an agent visited her neighbor and called her, [Read More…]
Andy Greenberg of WIRED reports: When hackers exploited a bug in Parler to download all of the right-wing social media platform’s contents last week, they were surprised to find that many of the pictures and videos contained geolocation metadata revealing exactly how many of the site’s users had taken part in the [Read More…]
Byron Tau reports: In a new document made public Friday, the nation’s top military intelligence agency acknowledged monitoring the location of U.S.-based mobile devices without a warrant through location data drawn from ordinary smartphone apps. The Defense Intelligence Agency told congressional investigators that the agency has access to “commercially available [Read More…]