Facebook Sucks: Huge 500M-User Breach ‘Is Your Fault’ - Security Boulevard

GDPR: Coming for Mark’s Money: Last week’s revelation of a half-billion-user leak is still reverberating around the news cycle. Despite Facebook’s attempts to make it go away, new inconvenient truths keep appearing.

This is bad. I can’t watch. But I can’t *not* watch. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we break out the jumbo bag of popcorn: https://t.co/k36bF45QZy

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) April 8, 2021

Cryptominers flooding GitHub—and other cloudy dev services - TechBeacon

“This is why we can’t have nice things.” Owners of public GitHub projects have been noticing weird stuff recently: Random users are forking repos, then pull-requesting a change that includes an obfuscated GitHub Action.

So there isn’t much an owner can do—other than disable the #GitHubActions feature.

In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we watch @GitHubSecurity play Whac-A-Mole: https://t.co/6LeTpyvr40

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) April 8, 2021

Apple Fiddles While App Store Burns: $1M Bitcoin Scam FAIL - Security Boulevard

Tim’s Security Halo Slips: Phillipe Christodoulou got ripped off to the tune of more than a million dollars. An iPhone app stole 17.1 bitcoins from his Trezor hardware wallet.

Are you serious? Deadly. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we learn valuable lessons: https://t.co/6GDEr2mOH7

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) April 5, 2021