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Cloudflare Starts Security Focused Domain Registrar

The Cloudflare Registrar will offer organizations wholesale domain pricing and a number of free security and privacy tools.

Privacy

Attackers Take Over 50 Million Accounts in Facebook Breach

Attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Facebook's code to gain access to at least 50 million Facebook user accounts. Those accounts could have been used for information gathering campaigns, as attackers had full access to the user's profile, friends list, and usage history.

Data Breaches, Facebook, Identity Theft

Don’t Skip User Authentication on MDM Even With Apple’s DEP

Duo Labs researchers discovered that Apple was using serial numbers to authenticate devices with its Device Enrollment Program (DEP). If organizations treat DEP as a trust broker and assume DEP-registered devices are trusted, they expose themselves to a variety of risks, including rogue devices receiving internal network configuration settings.

Apple, Labs Research, MDM

Researchers Identify New Phishing Tactics on Android Devices

A team of researchers has developed several new phishing techniques that can be used against Android devices, leveraging issues with some password managers.

Phishing, Android

Getting Closer to a Surveillance-Free Internet

Cloudflare has been working with the likes of Google, Mozilla, Fastly and Apple to make it harder for ISPs and other network operators from being able to see what sites users are visiting. Cloudflare has rolled out ESNI on its systems to see how well the experimental technical specification works to hide user activity online.

Internet, HTTPS