Facebook Paid Teens $20 to Install 'Research' App That Collects Private Data

The Hacker News Daily Updates Live Webinar: TLS 1.3 Adoption in the Enterprise Thursday, February 28 | 11 a.m. Pacific - 2 p.m. Eastern Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jan 30, 2019 Facebook Paid Teens $20 to Install 'Research' App That Collects Private Data If you are thinking that Facebook is sitting quietly after being forced to remove its Onavo VPN app from Apple's App Store, then you are mistaken. It turns out that Facebook is paying teenagers around $20 a month to use its VPN app that aggressively monitors their smartphone and web activity and ... Read More iCloud Possibly Suffered A Privacy Breach Last Year That Apple Kept a Secret Late last year when an unknown group of hackers stole secret access tokens for millions of Facebook accounts by taking advantage of a flaw in its website, the company disclosed the incident and informed its affected users. Similarly, when Twitter was hit by multiple vulnerabilities (#1, #2, #3) in ... Read More How to Recover Lost or Deleted Files? Have you ever lost your important files, like memories or official documents, accidentally or maliciously? Adding more... when you even do not have any backup for the same. Unfortunate, right? We've all been there. Just last week I formatted my computer and later found that I didn't have any ... Read More Europol Now Going After People Who Bought DDoS-for-Hire Services If you were a buyer of any online DDoS-for-hire service, you might be in trouble. After taking down and arresting the operators of the world's biggest DDoS-for-hire service last year, the authorities are now in hunt for customers who bought the service that helped cyber criminals launch millions ... Read More Police Shut Down xDedic – An Online Market for Cyber Criminals In an international operation involving law enforcement authorities from the U.S. and several European countries, feds have shut down an online underground marketplace and arrested three suspects in Ukraine. Dubbed xDedic, the illegal online marketplace let cybercriminals buy, sell or rent out ... Read More Live Webinar: TLS 1.3 Adoption in the Enterprise Thursday, February 28 | 11 a.m. Pacific - 2 p.m. Eastern Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India