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Twitter has assuredly done the impossible: it’s acceptance users to enroll for its two-factor affidavit (2FA) affairs after acute a phone number. What’s more, it’s also accouterment an option to attenuate SMS-based 2FA, which is known to be flawed and insecure.
Researchers have found that several accepted Android apps, including Facebook, AliExpress, and WeChat, come with anachronous software apparatus that accommodate unpatched aegis flaws.
The League dating app — you know, the elitist one that pairs users with other singles in their ‘league’ and requires LinkedIn analysis — is ablution a speed-dating tool that matches people up for a live two-minute video call dates.
With just over a year left until the 2020 US presidential elections, social media giants are advancing by afterlight their behavior around the spread of misinformation and political advertising. Last month, Facebook appear a bunch of new tools to better “protect the autonomous process,” while Twitter absolutely banned political ads altogether, and now Evan Spiegel, Snap’s CEO, said his aggregation will fact-check and review all ads on the platform.
WhatsApp has fixed a vulnerability involving awful MP4 video files that could potentially allow an antagonist to accidentally access letters and files stored in the app.
Last year, former Facebook administrator Mark S Luckie accused the tech giant of having a “black people problem.” Specifically, Luckie declared that the aggregation was racist adjoin African American employees, and said the site was “biased adjoin black users.” One year on, and an bearding group of black Facebook advisers have appear an open letter advertence the botheration has “gotten worse.”