Tag: TikTok
TikTok Finds Itself on the U.S. Judicial Radar; Agrees $92 Mn...
TikTok, the China-based social media company, has agreed to pay $92 million to settle multiple privacy lawsuits for violating users’ data privacy. The lawsuits...
TikTok Fixes Critical Vulnerability in its ‘Find Friends’ Feature
Security researchers from Check Point uncovered a critical vulnerability in TikTok’s Find Friends feature, which could have allowed threat actors to pilfer users’ phone...
Social Media Giants’ Data Collection under FTC Scanner; Amazon, Facebook, and...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the U.S. has issued orders to nine social media and video streaming giants, asking them to provide data...
Ad Scams Deliver a Bitter Pill to TikTok
The problems for the popular short-video app TikTok don’t seem to subside. After facing a complete ban in India and an impending ban in...
Data Scraped from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Exposes 235 Mn Social...
Security researchers discovered a misconfigured database exposing over 235 million social media profiles online. According to the security researcher Bob Diachenko, who leads cybersecurity...
South Korea Penalizes TikTok for Mishandling Child Data
Following in the footsteps of the U.S. and India, South Korea now seems to have tightened its grip around the China-based social media company,...
TikTok TikTok: The Clock’s Ticking for Chinese Video-Sharing App in U.S.
The situation for China-based social media company TikTok seems to be getting grim by the day as the U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo...
US Navy Bans TikTok for staffers citing Security Threats
The U.S. Navy recently banned short video sharing app TikTok, citing cybersecurity concerns. The U.S. Navy has also sent out a statement stating that...
TikTok Stealthily Transferring Users’ Data to China: Lawsuit
Popular video-sharing app TikTok recently hit with a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. claiming that the company has been surreptitiously transferring users’ data to Chinese servers,...
