One of Twitter’s big rivals, Mastodon, recently finished fixing four issues which (in the worst case) allowed for the creation of files on…
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Hive Social pulls the plug on itself after security flaws found
You may well have changed your social media site of choice recently, but that doesn’t mean the security implications of less…
Friendster is back! Or is it…?
Over the last few weeks, large numbers of social media fans have signed up to sites and apps like Cohost, Hive,…
A week in security (November 14 – 20)
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Stealing Mastodon passwords
With large parts of the security community flocking to Mastodon, seemingly the closest thing to a Twitter alternative, some of them…
How to get started on Mastodon
In the last few weeks we’ve seen a lot of tweets from the cybersecurity community about moving away from Twitter and…
ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability
Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as a new, legislative proposal focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling,…
Governments increasingly eye social media meltdown
These are trying times for social networks, with endless reports of harassment and abuse not being tackled and many users leaving…
Mastodon: different social network, additional risks
Mastodon is a social network that’s a few months old and it’s been mentioned on news sites quite a lot recently,…