Multiple instances of social media platform Mastodon are vulnerable to system configuration issues, security researcher Lenin Alevski warns. The exodus of former Twitter users in response to the...
Attackers could steal password credentials from Mastodon users due to a vulnerability in Glitch, a fork of Mastodon, a researcher has warned. Mastodon has risen in...
Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future identified mis- and disinformation campaigns suggesting that voting machines from three major companies “will be used to falsify the results of the...
Inaugural CISA director Chris Krebs expressed concern about the spread of election misinformation as Twitter changes up its user verification process. Republican lawmakers need to forcefully...
Both voting systems and the voters themselves could be targets of malign influence. The 2020 election was successfully completed without any major disruptions, but that did...
Earlier today, many Instagram users were faced with an alarming message when they tried to use the service: Clicking on the “Disagree with decision” button lead...
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation said a U.S.-led forum could develop “a set of voluntary, consensus-based guidelines” for social media platforms to use when moderating...
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has published a research that shows nearly 40 percent of ITRC victims say their personal information was stolen, compromised or misused...
Senate Homeland Security Committee members grilled social media executives about their content moderation practices and ties to foreign adversaries. Lawmakers expressed national security concerns about the...
The former public official—and legendary hacker’s—decision to expose what he described as a disastrous security environment at the company has prompted an unlikely alliance in Congress....
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