TikTok on the clock, and the hacking won’t stop: SMS spoofing vuln let baddies twiddle teens’ social media videos https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/08/tiktok_vulns_/
Beset by lawsuits over poor security protections, Ring rolls out ‘privacy dashboard’ for its creepy surveillance cams, immediately takes heat https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/ring_cameras_security_measures/
Researchers Demonstrate How to Hack Any TikTok Account by Sending SMS https://thehackernews.com/2020/01/hack-tiktok-account.html
Major TikTok Security Flaws Found https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/technology/tiktok-security-flaws.html
Amazon Ring isn’t even good at pretending to care about your privacy and safety https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2020-01-06-amazon-ring-isnt-even-good-at-pretending-to-care/
Location Tracking Cloud Vulnerability Impacts Millions of Smartwatches Worn by Children https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/location-tracking-cloud-vulnerability-impacts-millions-of-smartwatches-worn-by-children/
Amid privacy and security failures, digital IDs advance https://www.computerworld.com/article/3512108/frustration-over-growing-privacy-and-security-failures-advancing-self-sovereign-identities.html
Border Patrol begins pilot program to collect DNA from some migrants https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/department-of-homeland-security/477006-cbp-begins-pilot-program-to-collect
Unpatched US government website gets pwned by pro-Iran script kiddie https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/unpatched-us-government-website-gets-pwned-by-pro-iran-script-kiddie/
Facebook Security Debacles: 2019 Year in Review https://threatpost.com/facebook-security-debacles-2019-year-in-review/151306/
Ring and Amazon get slammed with a federal lawsuit that claims the companies failed to secure cameras against hackers https://www.businessinsider.com/ring-amazon-sued-federal-court-security-hacking-2fa-2019-12
A Twitter app bug was used to match 17 million phone numbers to user accounts https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/24/twitter-android-bug-phone-numbers/
Facebook waited two weeks to tell employees their payroll data was stolen https://mashable.com/article/facebook-employee-payroll-data-stolen/
Hacker accesses Ring camera in little girl’s bedroom to tell her he’s Santa https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/hacker-accesses-ring-camera-in-little-girls-bedroom-to-tell-her-hes-santa/
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