Category Archives: Bleeping Computer

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 user surveillance, particularly of children and teens, with insufficient privacy protections and earning billions of dollars annually by monetizing their data. […]

Clever ‘GitHub Scanner’ campaign abusing repos to push malware

A clever threat campaign is abusing GitHub repositories to distribute malware targeting users who frequent an open source project repository or are subscribed to email notifications from it. A malicious GitHub user opens a new “issue” on an open source repository falsely claiming that the project contains a “security vulnerability.” […]

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