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Twitter said it locked Trump’s account for violating policy

Posted on October 7, 2020 by [email protected]_84

Twitter said it locked President Donald Trump’s account after he shared the email address of a New York Post columnist on the social-media site Monday evening.
Trump praised a column by Miranda Devine in which she applauded the president, saying he pushed through his battle with COVID-19.
In a second, now deleted post, the president tweeted Devine’s email address, a move that Twitter confirmed to Business Insider violated its private-information policy.
Twitter said it prompted him to delete the tweet before his account could be unlocked.
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Twitter said it locked President Donald Trump’s account after he shared the email address of a columnist Monday evening.

The president posted a tweet praising and quoting a column in the New York Post by the journalist Miranda Devine that ran on Sunday night. In the column, Devine praised Trump, saying he overcame his battle with the

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Twitter locked President Trump’s account after he shared NY Post columnist’s email

Posted on October 7, 2020 by [email protected]_84

Twitter said that it locked President Trump’s account on Monday after the commander-in-chief violated company policies by sharing the email address of a New York Post columnist in a chirp.

The social media giant confirmed to the Daily News on Tuesday that the coronavirus-stricken President’s account was locked until the post was removed.

Twitter’s privacy information policy states that users are not allowed to post other people’s private information without their consent.

The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

A chirp from Trump’s @realDonaldTrump account posted Monday was plastered over with the message: “This Tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.”

In his next visible tweet, at 6:23 p.m. on Monday, Trump declared: “Will be back on the Campaign Trail soon!!! The Fake News only shows the Fake Polls.”

President Trump has continued to use his favored social media platform throughout his

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Enormous Grindr Security Flaw Could Have Let Anyone Reset Your Password and Take Over Your Account

Posted on October 6, 2020 by [email protected]_84

A serious security vulnerability in Grindr, the most popular dating app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, has been discovered, which could have allowed anyone to infiltrate and take over a Grindr account simply by knowing the account holder’s email address.

As well as making it easy for bad actors to impersonate other people, the vulnerability would have given them easy access to potentially highly sensitive information, including the user’s HIV status, intimate pictures, dating history and sexual orientation.

In a blog post explaining how the vulnerability could be exploited, security researcher Troy Hunt described it as “one of the most basic account takeover techniques I’ve seen,” adding that “the ease of exploit is unbelievably low and the impact is obviously significant.”

He flagged the security flaw to Grindr after being tipped off by French security researcher Wassime Bouimadaghene, who had repeatedly tried to warn the company about it,

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A shameful security flaw could have let anyone access your Grindr account

Posted on October 4, 2020 by [email protected]_84

You would think a dating app that knows your sexuality and HIV status would take thorough precautions to keep that info protected, but Grindr has disappointed the world once again — this time, with a gobsmackingly egregious security vulnerability that could have let literally anyone who could guess your email address into your user account.

Luckily, French security researcher Wassime Bouimadaghene discovered the vulnerability, perhaps before it could be exploited, and it’s now been fixed.

Unluckily for Grindr, the company ignored his disclosures — until security researcher Troy Hunt (of Have I Been Pwned) and journalist Zack Whittaker (of TechCrunch) each confirmed the issue and wrote about it.

The details need to be seen to be believed (so please look at the image below) but the short version is this: if you put an email address into Grindr’s password reset form, it would send a message back to your

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Account Takeover Becomes Weapon of Choice for Fraudsters Leading Up to Holiday Shopping Season

Posted on September 30, 2020 by [email protected]_84

With attempted account takeover rates skyrocketing 282 percent year-over-year, new data shows consumers place account security burden on businesses

Consumers Are Constantly At Risk

Consumers aren’t ignorant about the dangers of account takeover, and when we asked those who’ve experienced ATO where their credentials were hacked, social media and digital e-commerce sites topped the list. But the rest of the internet is cause for concern, too, with fraudsters finding victims everywhere from financial services platforms to food delivery apps and dating sites.

Consumers aren’t ignorant about the dangers of account takeover, and when we asked those who’ve experienced ATO where their credentials were hacked, social media and digital e-commerce sites topped the list. But the rest of the internet is cause for concern, too, with fraudsters finding victims everywhere from financial services platforms to food delivery apps and dating sites.

Account Takeover in Numbers

We asked consumers if they’ve ever

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Historical racial and ethnic health inequities account for disproportionate COVID-19 impact — ScienceDaily

Posted on September 28, 2020 by [email protected]_84

A new Viewpoint piece published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines the ways in which COVID-19 disproportionately impacts historically disadvantaged communities of color in the United States, and how baseline inequalities in our health system are amplified by the pandemic. The authors also discuss potential solutions.

In “COVID-19 Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Acute Care and Critical Illness Survivorship,” Ann-Marcia Tukpah, MD, MPH, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and co-authors discuss how the legacies of structural racism, unequal resource investment and systems that perpetuate health disparities disproportionately impact individuals from the African American, Latinx, and Navajo Nation communities.

“We hope to draw attention to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on pre-existing health care disparities and inequities, with a focus on long-term care access,” said Dr. Tukpah. “We also hope to spark discussion of how individual clinicians and health care systems can

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Twitter said it locked Trump’s account for violating policy

Twitter locked President Trump’s account after he shared NY Post columnist’s email

Enormous Grindr Security Flaw Could Have Let Anyone Reset Your Password and Take Over Your Account

A shameful security flaw could have let anyone access your Grindr account

Account Takeover Becomes Weapon of Choice for Fraudsters Leading Up to Holiday Shopping Season

Consumers Are Constantly At Risk

Account Takeover in Numbers

Historical racial and ethnic health inequities account for disproportionate COVID-19 impact — ScienceDaily