PODCASTIt’s not fair to describe what happened at Facebook and Cambridge Analytica as a data breach - it’s much worse than that. An autonomous Uber vehicle kills a pedestrian. And sextortion continues to be a serious problem.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, who are joined this week by researcher Scott Helme.
It’s not fair to describe what happened at Facebook as a data breach.
It’s much worse than that.
Cambridge Analytica is widely credited for helping Donald Trump’s successful campaign on social media to be elected President of the United States.
But now it has been suspended from Facebook, following claims that it gathered the profiles of some 50 million users without their knowledge.
