… The Department of Homeland Security subpoenaed Google in an attempt to obtain the location data and account activity of a Canadian man who criticized US immigration enforcement tactics following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis early this year. …
… Adams spokesperson Jonah Allon said then that the city’s Cyber Command office had decided that TikTok, which was owned by the Chinese-based company ByteDance, “posed a security threat to the city’s technical networks and directed its removal from city-owned devices.” The directive resulted in a num… …
… Meta began implementing age-verification tech in 2024 for Instagram users in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Now, the mechanism will be extended to Instagram accounts in Brazil and 27 European Union countries. …
… This week, Meta entirely eliminated opt-in end-to-end encryption from Instagram Direct Messages after promising for years that it would roll out default end-to-end encryption on Instagram chat.
… Russian Hackers Are Going After Signal Accounts, Dutch Officials Warn Two of the Netherlands’ intelligence agencies, the General Intelligence and Security Service and the Defence Intelligence and Security Service, issued a joint cybersecurity notice warning the public that Russian state hackers hav… …
… I did that on Instagram, I didn't join Xiaohongshu to see Instagram,” says the American user who was recently redirected to Rednote. …
… Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
… It contained nearly 90,000 screenshots showing a European celebrity’s private messages, photos, and phone usage—seemingly compiled using stalkerware. “All the selfies were one person, all the chats were one person, and it was basically everyone they chatted with divided into Instagram, Facebook, Ti… …
… Hiding security codes: When you get a one-time password OTP via text, there's a risk that someone could intercept that information to hijack your account. Now, Android will automatically hide these security codes for three hours from most apps to prevent unauthorized access.
… This week, in response to the issue, Apple released an iOS and iPadOS security update to fix the flaw. “Notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device,” Apple’s security update for iOS 26.4.2 says. “A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.” While t… …