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Lemmy is a free and open-source software for running self-hosted social news aggregation and discussion forums. [3] [4] [5] These hosts, known as "instances", communicate with each other using the ActivityPub protocol.
Social hacking is most commonly associated as a component of “social engineering”. Although the practice involves exercising control over human behaviour rather than computers, the term "social hacking" is also used in reference to online behaviour and increasingly, social media activity.
On 12 November 2021, Truth Social published its source code. [105] [106] In April 2022, the European Union launched its own Mastodon and PeerTube instances via the European Data Protection Supervisor, dubbing them "EU Voice" and "EU Video". The instances were a test run of whether it would be sustainable to run its own social media platforms. [107]
In the context of information security, social engineering is the psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional "con" in the sense that it is often one of the many ...
That hacker claimed the stolen files include 2.7 billion records, with each listing a person's full name, address, date of birth, Social Security number and phone number, Bleeping Computer said.
Zeus is very difficult to detect even with up-to-date antivirus and other security software as it hides itself using stealth techniques. [5] It is considered that this is the primary reason why the Zeus malware has become the largest botnet on the Internet: Damballa estimated that the malware infected 3.6 million PCs in the U.S. in 2009. [6]
It’s unclear what social media sites are included in the search or how the information is compiled. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is demanding information from the FBI about tools used to search ...
The alleged breach was first reported in April after a hacker who goes by USDoD announced on a web forum having accessed a database that included information for every person in the U.S., the ...