Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News
Techmeme
September 29, 2018, 1:10 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Wired:
How the security breach that made 50M Facebook accounts vulnerable to takeover worked and what information may have been accessed  —  FACEBOOK'S PRIVACY PROBLEMS severely escalated Friday when the social network disclosed that an unprecedented security issue, discovered September 25, impacted almost 50 million user accounts.
Guy Rosen / Facebook:
Facebook says it discovered a security issue, now patched, on September 25 affecting ~50M users that let hackers steal access tokens and take over user accounts  —  On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts.
More: Bloomberg, New York Times, The Guardian, Engadget, Telegraph, Recode, Krebs on Security, Associated Press, Forbes, TechCrunch, San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner, TechCrunch, Facebook, Washington Post, Electronic Frontier Foundation, gHacks Technology News, Firstpost, Silicon Republic, Boing Boing, The Hacker News, CNBC, The Verge, The Next Web, Ars Technica, The Register, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Finextra Research Headlines, NPR, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Techdirt, eWeek, Business Insider, USA Today, Tom's Guide, Fortune, Slate, VatorNews, Avast EN, Bitsonline, Variety, The Ringer, Komando.com, Android Police, The Mac Observer, The Interface, Mashable, Fight for the Future, Gotta Be Mobile, Kaspersky Lab official blog, Bloomberg, CNNMoney, Nextgov, Vox, Social Media Today, The Verge, TidBITS, Quartz, AppleInsider, Thurrott.com, CSO, The Atlantic, AndroidHeadlines.com, Threatpost, Softpedia News, Neowin, BuzzFeed News, PCWorld, Gamasutra, Marketing Land, Refinery29, Android and Me, Digital Trends, Dark Reading, iAfrikan, Newser, Android Authority, TechSpot, PYMNTS.com, Gizmochina, Naked Security, MIT Technology Review, SlashGear, CNET, Inquirer, The Daily Caller, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, Investor's Business Daily, iDownloadBlog.com, PC Gamer, iPhone Hacks, BleepingComputer, BetaNews, CBS San Francisco, CrackBerry.com, Cyberscoop, Windows Central, MacRumors, The Intercept, 9to5Mac, ABC News, London Evening Standard, Telegraph, Business Insider, Boing Boing, Reuters, Axios, Financial Times, Engadget, IGN, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Malwarebytes Labs, MacDailyNews, MAC blog, and AskWoody
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg.  Tweets: @chopraftc, @profcarroll, @donie, @kevinroose, @chronotope, @sarafischer, @briankrebs, @zackwhittaker, @facebook, @johnpaczkowski, @mariabustillos, @zittrain, @mikeisaac, @zackwhittaker, @mikeisaac, @daveleebbc, @daveleebbc, @mikeisaac, @ceciliakang, @anandwrites, @spacekatgal, @dnvolz, @podehaye, @shiraovide, @privacyint, @profcarroll, @ridt, @willoremus, @kimzetter, @kurtwagner8, @kevinakwok, @stevesi, @pinboard, @sarahfrier, @sarafischer, @fxshaw, @jguynn, @zeynep, @c_davies, @willoremus, @brooklynmarie, @joshconstine, @mikeisaac, @cnet, @anthonyquintano, @ap, @reneritchie, @cnet, @jtemple, @sarahfrier, @zittrain, @joshconstine, @chris_ciaccia, @tonyromm, and @nicoleperlroth
Will Oremus / Slate:
Facebook says hackers could have also gained access to users' accounts on other apps and websites, including Instagram and Oculus accounts, via Facebook Login  —  Hours after Facebook announced on Friday a huge data breach that affected at least 50 million users, the news got worse.
Motherboard:
Facebook: vulnerability was the result of 3 distinct bugs and was introduced in July 2017, attackers could use the account as if they were the account holder  —  Facebook “discovered a security issue” that the company said allowed attackers to “take over people's accounts.”
Tim Berners-Lee:
Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, an open source project to decentralize the web and give users control of their data, and Inrupt, a startup to guide the project  —  I've always believed the web is for everyone.  That's why I and others fight fiercely to protect it.
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Instagram co-founders, dubbed by some at Facebook as not “team players”, were needed at the company to challenge Mark Zuckerberg and its groupthink culture  —  Kevin Systrom, a founder of Instagram, wasn't a “team player.”  That was exactly what the company needed.
Jane Wakefield / BBC:
Linus Torvalds shares thoughts on his decision to step away from Linux, the controversy behind the Code of Conduct, and the problems in the Linux community  —  Linux founder Linus Torvalds has told the BBC that he is seeking professional help to become more empathetic towards fellow developers …
More: ZDNet
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
YouTube starts wide roll out of its picture-in-picture mode for web, in testing since March, via a new Miniplayer  —  Back in March, YouTube began testing picture-in-picture on the web for simultaneous watching and browsing.  While the previous A/B test was limited in scope …
Tweets: @joshconstine

Sponsor Posts

Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro  —  Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26  —  Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Zoho:
Give your projects a “signature” upgrade with the Zoho Sign extension for Zoho Projects  —  Well-orchestrated project management keeps people, priorities, and processes all working in sync toward a shared goal.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data  —  Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Great Chat:
 So what happens after AGI?
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
 Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
Big Technology Podcast:
 AI Is Upending Law. Is That A Sign For The Rest Of Us? — With Melia Russell
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
[trading places]:
 Ben Black Akkadian Ventures🏆 | Secondaries Secrets 💎 | RAISE Conf 🎯 | Vercel $9B 🚀
a very bad podcast about broken unicorns & busted carry hosted by dave mcclure and aman verjee
Subscribe to [trading places].
Channels with Peter Kafka:
 Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He's a Must-Read Media Gossip.
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Invest Like the Best:
 Gavin Baker - Nvidia v. Google, Scaling Laws, and the Economics of AI
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:10 PM ET, September 29, 2018.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

From Mediagazer

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a major OpenAI client

Axios:
Sources: during the bidding process, Paramount promised WBD that its foreign partners and Jared Kushner's fund wouldn't have any voting or governance rights

Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
Jack Posobiec, a new Pentagon press corps member, seems to be working in coordination with the Pentagon to threaten a journalist writing about a DoD official

More News

Earlier Picks

Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
ITC judge says that iPhones infringed one Qualcomm patent but denies the chipmaker's request for a ban on the import of Apple's phones into the US
Robert Ferris / CNBC:
Sources: Musk pulled out of a no-guilt SEC settlement at the last minute that barred him from being Tesla chairman for two years, required two new directors
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter