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Facebook has announced a policy change that will see the company notify third-party developers if it finds a security vulnerability in their code. Facebook said it “may occasionally find” critical bugs and vulnerabilities in third-party code and systems, in a blog post announcing the change. “When that happens, our priority is to see these issues […]

Facebook to warn third-party developers of vulnerable code

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Facebook has announced a policy change that will see the company notify third-party developers if it finds a security vulnerability in their code. Facebook said it “may occasionally find” critical bugs and vulnerabilities in third-party code and systems, in a blog post announcing the change. “When that happens, our priority is to see these issues […]

Facebook to warn third-party developers of vulnerable code

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In less than three months and notwithstanding intervention, TikTok will be effectively banned in the U.S. unless an American company steps in to save it, after the Trump administration declared by executive order this week that the Chinese-built video sharing app is a threat to national security. How much of a threat TikTok poses exactly […]

Decrypted: The block clock tick-tocks on TikTok

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A security researcher was awarded a $6,000 bug bounty payout after he found Instagram retained photos and private direct messages on its servers long after he deleted them. Independent security researcher Saugat Pokharel found that when he downloaded his data from Instagram, a feature it launched in 2018 to comply with new European data rules, […]

Instagram wasn’t deleting photos and direct messages off its servers

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A 17-year-old Florida teenager is accused of perpetrating one of the year’s biggest and most high-profile hacks: Twitter. A federal 30-count indictment filed in Tampa said Graham Ivan Clark used a phone spearphishing attack to pivot through multiple layers of Twitter’s security and bypassed its two-factor authentication to gain access to an internal “admin” tool […]

Decrypted: How a teenager hacked Twitter, Garmin’s ransomware aftermath

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An ongoing global outage at sport and fitness tech giant Garmin was caused by a ransomware attack, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the incident. The incident began late Wednesday and continued through the weekend, causing disruption to the company’s online services for millions of users, including Garmin Connect, which syncs user activity […]

Garmin global outage caused by ransomware attack, sources say

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Last week was, for most Americans, a four-day work week. But a lot still happened in the security world. The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agencies warned of two critical vulnerabilities — one in Palo Alto’s networking tech and the other in F5’s gear — that foreign, nation state-backed hackers will “likely” exploit these flaws to get […]

Decrypted: Police hack criminal phone network; Randori raises $20M Series ...

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In a conference call on Monday lasting under six minutes, T-Mobile vice president James Kirby told hundreds of Sprint employees that their services were no longer needed. He declined to answer his employees’ questions, citing the “personal” nature of employee feedback, and ended the call. TechCrunch obtained leaked audio of that call, which was said […]

After merger, T-Mobile lays off hundreds of Sprint employees

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It was a busy week in security. Newly released documents shown exclusively to TechCrunch show that U.S. immigration authorities used a controversial cell phone snooping technology known as a “stingray” hundreds of times in the past three years. Also, if you haven’t updated your Android phone in a while, now would be a good time […]

Decrypted: iOS 13.5 jailbreak, FBI slams Apple, VCs talk cybersecurity

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