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cisa kev vulnerability prioritization Most Linux teams don't struggle to find vulnerabilities anymore. They struggle to decide which ones deserve attention first. Between daily scanner results, vendor advisories, and hundreds of new CVEs each month, the challenge isn't visibility—it's prioritization. . To solve this, organizations typically lean on the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. But these aren’t competing lists. They answer two entirely different questions. While the...
Jul 22, 2026
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security advisory vulnerability GNOME is officially shortening its standard vulnerability disclosure window from 90 days to 30 days, a change that impacts upstream maintainers, downstream Linux distributions, and system administrators in how they handle software vulnerabilities. The policy shift, announced by long-time security coordinator Michael Catanzaro , addresses modern software patching realities and a growing influx of automated submissions. . Because GNOME is the default desktop environment on several major Linux...
Jul 21, 2026
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security advisory moderate For organizations that run a self-hosted Git platform, it’s no longer just about hosting static code repositories. Today, Git servers are responsible for deployment pipelines, API tokens, SSH keys, package repositories, and the automation scripts that push code directly. Confirm that the upgrade addresses known vulnerabilities but also provides production environments. . That makes them trusted systems within the development environment and attractive targets for attackers looking to move...
Jul 20, 2026
Server Securitydata privacy automation
data privacy automation Every system admin has lived through the same Monday morning ritual. A queue of forty tickets, half of them password resets, permission errors, or disk space warnings that any experienced technician could resolve in under two minutes. The other half require actual judgment. For years, automation promised that software would eventually sort the two apart on its own. That promise is now being tested in production Linux environments. . Early results are reshaping how IT teams think about tier-1...
Jul 17, 2026
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data collection automation You're running a web scraping project to collect pricing data from e-commerce sites. You set up a pool of datacenter proxies, launch your scripts, and within minutes — banned . CAPTCHAs everywhere. Your data pipeline stops before it really begins. . It's a frustrating scenario that plays out daily in ad verification, market research, and multi-account management. The website doesn't know you're doing legitimate research or monitoring. It just sees traffic coming from IP ranges it recognizes as...
Jul 17, 2026
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security awarenesspassword managementuser privacyFacebook Security Issue: Password Requests Raise Privacy Concerns
No steps forward, three steps back -- it seems that with every promise Facebook makes to take the security and privacy of its users seriously, yet another example of appalling practices surfaces. . The latest in Facebook's long list of security mishaps and disasters is the requirement for some new signups to the social network to provide their email passwords for the purposes of verification. As spotted by Twitter user e-sushi, the dodgy verification request came up in two out of three replication attempts, made with three different emails, three separate IPs, and two different browsers. The link for this article located at ZDNet is no longer available. . Twitter's recent data breach exposes vulnerabilities in user confidentiality with two-factor authentication prompts for fresh registrations.. Facebook Security Issues, Email Password Risks, Privacy Management. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 03, 2019
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legislationpolitical influencedata privacyFacebook Exposed: Global Lobbying Tactics Against Data Privacy Legislation
Facebook has targeted politicians around the world – including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne – promising investments and incentives while seeking to pressure them into lobbying on Facebook’s behalf against data privacy legislation, an explosive new leak of internal Facebook documents has revealed. . The documents, which have been seen by the Observer and Computer Weekly , reveal a secretive global lobbying operation targeting hundreds of legislators and regulators in an attempt to procure influence across the world, including in the UK, US, Canada, India, Vietnam, Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia and all 28 states of the EU. The link for this article located at The Guardian is no longer available. . The documents, which have been seen by theObserverandComputer Weekly, reveal a secretive global lobb. facebook, targeted, politicians, around, world, former, chancellor, george. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 03, 2019
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privacy issuesecurity flawdata exposureTwitter Privacy Issue: Exposed Android Private Tweets Under Investigation
In October, after Twitter refused to give a user information about how it tracks him when he clicks on links in tweets (as is the right of EU citizens under the newly passed, sweeping General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR] privacy law), Irish privacy authorities launched an investigation into the platform’s privacy practices. . Things could get hairier still, given the major privacy glitch Twitter disclosed on Thursday. The link for this article located at NakedSecurity / Sophos is no longer available. . Things could get hairier still, given the major privacy glitch Twitter disclosed on Thursday.The lin. october, twitter, refused, information, about, tracks, clicks. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 21, 2019
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data protectionuser dataprivacy policyAnalyzing Facebook's Privacy Controversies and Their Future Impact
The past year has been nightmare for Facebook, breaking a decade-long streak of seemingly boundless growth that placed the internet giant at the center of social, political and commercial activities of billions of people around the globe. Facebook began its precipitous downhill turn in March when a whistleblower uncovered Facebook’s role in helping political consultancy Cambridge Analytica harvest and use the personal data of tens of millions of users without their permission.. The company was rocked by a scandal or controversy every month thereafter, not all of which were privacy related. Emerging from these scandals was a portrait of a company with a voracious appetite for monetizing users’ detailed data and sloppy management in protecting the privacy and security of that data. How the company and its regulators react to these events could have a lasting impact on how all companies manage and protect consumer data. The link for this article located at CSO Online is no longer available. . The company was rocked by a scandal or controversy every month thereafter, not all of which were pri. nightmare, facebook, breaking, decade-long, streak, seemingly, boundless. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 07, 2019
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user awarenessonline privacyprivacy issuesExploring Data Exploitation Post-#DeleteFacebook Risks and Concerns
Did you #DeleteFacebook in 2018? Caring about our online privacy might be popular right now, but on a wider level, it’s not as easy as we think to escape the hole we’ve dug ourselves into. . Don’t believe that this is more of a trend than a turning point? Just look at the difference between hype and action. Despite 26 percent of Pew poll respondents saying they’ve deleted the Facebook app, the company’s user stats have stayed essentially the same. The link for this article located at The Next Web is no longer available. . Uncover the challenges of avoiding personal data misuse following the #DeleteFacebook movement and the ongoing concerns regarding digital privacy in contemporary society.. Data Exploitation, Online Privacy, Social Media Impact, Digital Footprint. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 02, 2019
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investigationuser consentdata sharingFacebook's Secret Data Access: Netflix, Spotify, and User Consent Issues
After interviewing over 60 people, ranging from former Facebook employees and partners, as well as reviewing over 270 internal Facebook documents, The New York Times discovered that Facebook offered its users’ data to more than 150 companies. Those companies, the investigation revealed, ranged from tech and entertainment companies to online retailers, automakers, and even banks.. Without first obtaining users’ permission, Facebook “allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete users’ private messages, and to see all participants on a thread.” It let Bing “see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent.” Amazon could “obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends.” Yahoo could view streams of friends’ posts. The list goes on and on. The link for this article located at CSO Online is no longer available. . Without first obtaining users’ permission, Facebook “allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank. interviewing, people, ranging, former, facebook, employees, partners. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 24, 2018
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social mediasuspensiondisinformationFacebook Suspends Accounts for Disinformation in Alabama Election
Facebook's attempt to thwart disinformation campaigns has typically focused on Russia and other hostile countries, but it's now grappling with that problem on its home soil. The site has confirmed to the Washington Post that it suspended five accounts for "coordinated inauthentic behavior" during the 2017 Alabama special election for the Senate, including the CEO of social media research company New Knowledge.. The suspensions came after Morgan acknowledged that he'd created a deceptive Facebook page aimed at conservatives, and had bought retweets on Twitter. Morgan argued that this was part of a research effort to see how online misinformation spread rather than a conscious effort to skew the election, but Facebook clearly didn't see it that way. It came alongside a larger internet-based effort to attack Republican controversial candidate Roy Moore by backing a write-in candidate and falsely claiming that Twitter bots were fueling Moore's support. The link for this article located at Engadget is no longer available. . Twitter halts profiles linked to false narratives amid the Georgia gubernatorial race, refining its operational protocols.. Disinformation Campaigns, Facebook Suspensions, Social Media Research, Alabama Elections. . Brittany Day
Dec 23, 2018
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privacy issuessocial mediadata practicesFacebook's Stance on User Data Access and Privacy Issues
Facebook has defended its data-sharing practices with other technology firms while at the same time admitting that lax API control may have exacerbated what has already been a trying year for the social networking giant.. On Tuesday, Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Director of Developer Platforms and Programs said in a blog post on Facebook that recently exposed data-sharing practices were all about "helping people," and said nothing was done without a measure of user consent. The link for this article located at ZDNet is no longer available. . Twitter addresses its information-sharing policies, emphasizing user agreements in light of worries regarding inadequate API regulations and confidentiality.. Facebook Data Access, Technology Privacy, API Control Issues. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 19, 2018
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