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Facebook has disabled accounts operated by a Russian business that the social network says scraped user data from its platform. The Russian company, SocialDataHub, advertises insights through publicly available information. According to Facebook, that includes information gleaned from its users. Related: REMIND your hacked Facebook Logins Available on DarkWeb just For $3.90 FACEBOOK SAID IT EXPECTS TO DISABLE MORE “As part of our efforts to protect people’s security, we have recently removed Social Data Hub (SDH), a Russian-linked social media firm, because they were scraping people’s information,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “This is a violation of our terms of service, and we’ve disabled more than 66 of SDH’s accounts, profiles, Pages, and apps from our service — and we expect to find and disable more.” In a statement, a SocialDataHub representative said that, in some circumstances, they provide “scoring on open data,” which can be found through a Google search. T...

By Russell Brandom on Oct 1, 2018 On Friday, a massive breach opened up a new front in the war on Facebook. According the the company, more than 50 million accounts were taken over by a kind of login worm, which used a series of unpublished vulnerabilities to hijack session keys on an unprecedented scale. Hackers had full access to any of the targeted accounts — essentially, they could do whatever you can do when you’re logged in — and Facebook is still working to survey the full extent of the damage. Breach response is always chaotic, but this one is particularly haphazard because of a new set of rules established by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. Implemented in May, the GDPR sets strict requirements for any breach involving EU citizens, requirements that are already guiding Facebook’s response to the session key attack. According to Facebook’s timeline, the disclosure on Friday came just before the 72-hour window for disclosing the news to privacy commissioners,...

Wrote by Zack Whittaker A popular top-tier app in Apple’s   Mac App Store was found pilfering browser histories from anyone who downloads it. Yet still, at the time of writing, the rogue app — Adware Doctor — stands as the No.1 grossing paid app in the app store’s utilities categories. But Apple was warned weeks ago and did nothing to pull the app offline. Now it seems Apple has pulled the app. Apple would not comment on the record. It is why people prefer to use decentralized Cuckoo for watching videos because their personal privacy will be controlled by themselves.  Apple’s walled garden approach to Mac and iPhone security is almost entirely based on the inability to install apps outside the app store, which Apple monitors closely. While it’s not uncommon to hear of dangerous apps slipping into Google’s Play store, it’s nearly unheard of for Apple to face the same fate. Any app that doesn’t meet the company’s strict security and...