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Why It’s Time to Leave Twitter
Tom Eston | | bluesky, Cyber Security, cyber threat, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, election, Elon Musk, Episodes, facebook, fediverse, Information Security, Infosec, Leaving Twitter, mastodon, Meta, Podcast, Podcasts, Politics, Privacy, security, social media, social network, social networking, technology, Threads, Tweets, Twitter, Weekly Edition, X
In episode 355, Tom discusses his decision to deactivate his Twitter accounts due to privacy concerns with Twitter’s new AI policy and changes in the blocking features. He outlines the steps for ...

Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups
BrianKrebs | | Impulse Scam Crypto Project, Kopeechka, mastodon, Quotpw, Renaud Chaput, Spam, Trend Micro, Web Fraud 2.0
One of the most expensive aspects of any cybercriminal operation is the time and effort it takes to create large numbers of new throwaway email accounts. Now a new service offers to ...

Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, AWPG Ecrime Exchange, Dave Piscitello, Freenom, Interisle Consulting Group, mastodon, Meta, NameCheap, OpenPhish, phishtank, spamhaus
The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta, which alleged the free domain name provider ...

Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer
BrianKrebs | | Arkose Labs, Breadcrumbs, Constella Intelligence, DomainTools, [email protected], Lolzteam, mastodon, Mondi Group, moonxtrade, [email protected], Ne'er-Do-Well News, quot.pw, Renaud Chaput, Sergey Proshutinskiy, TGM, Twitter, Web Fraud 2.0, ципа
Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series ...

Can I auto-post to Mastodon?
I’m reposting this article as part of my tests of auto-posting. In other words, my first attempt wasn’t exactly a success. It appears that I didn’t get my cron working correctly. Like ...

Mastodon
Like lots of other people, I’m looking at Mastodon as a newer, better tech-social community. I’m trying to auto-post from this site to a Mastodon ID, and I have a separate Mastodon ...

The Rise of Mastodon, Twitter in Trouble, Largest Privacy Settlement in US History
Tom Eston | | canada, Canadian, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Elon Musk, Episodes, Fake accounts, google, Information Security, Infosec, mastodon, Podcast, Privacy, Privacy Settlement, security, technology, Twitter, verification, Weekly Edition
Former Twitter users are migrating en masse to Mastodon so what is Mastodon and what do you need to know about Mastodon from a security and privacy perspective? Twitter was flooded by ...