PayPal's Venmo sees 20% revenue growth while Block's Cash App underperforms in Q1, highlighting divergent trends in P2P payment market
#YonhapInfomax #PayPal #Block #P2PPayments #Venmo #CashApp #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=61553

You paid your friend for pizza… and half the internet saw it.

Most Venmo transactions are public by default—even WHO you’re paying and WHY.

📌 Set your Venmo privacy settings to “Private”
📌 Don’t broadcast your life for $12.99

📌 Money talks—and sometimes it snitches.

#Privacy #Venmo #CyberSecurity

Weekly output: Google’s AI Mode, Waymo’s software testing, Trump threatens Chris Krebs, Venmo’s dubious privacy defaults

I had a short and useful visit to the future home of Starfleet Academy’s headquarters, courtesy of NTT’s Upgrade 2025 conference there hosting me (including comped airfare and lodging), and now I need to finish writing two pieces from that Japanese telco’s event.

4/7/2025: Google Expands Its Conversational ‘AI Mode’ Search Option, PCMag

Since I already had access to AI Mode and since this is a gardening time of the year, I tested this search option with some queries on that subject for Google’s Gemini AI.

4/8/2025: For Waymo’s Software Team, Bug Hunting Sometimes Happens at 45mph, PCMag

I wrote up an enlightening talk from a Waymo engineer at a software-quality conference I attended the week before hosted by a Tysons Corner startup called Antithesis–and then I got to experience the results of Waymo’s ongoing work during two uneventful rides in San Francisco.

4/10/2025: Still Mad About Losing the 2020 Election, Trump Targets Cybersecurity Pro, PCMag

One reason that I haven’t yet filed anything from NTT’s event is that I took time Thursday to report and write this post to ensure that it would adequately convey the fraudulent nature of Trump’s complaint against Chris Krebs, the CISA director he hired in 2018 and then fired in 2020 for telling the truth about the integrity of that year’s election.

4/11/2025: Venmo’s dubious defaults look like a permanent privacy foul, Fast Company

I’ve had a version of this story on my to-do list for a while, but then the inept opsec of the Trump administration served up a news peg when journalists found the Venmo accounts of multiple White House principals and started exploring their public-by-default friends lists. (Everyone in this administration should have known better, since BuzzFeed News located Joe Biden’s Venmo and inspected his friends list back in 2021). I quizzed a few subject-matter experts, but getting a statement out of Venmo took a little longer.

#2020Election #AIMode #Antithesis #BugBash #ChrisKrebs #defaultSettings #electionDenial #electionSecurity #GoogleAI #GoogleGemini #PayPal #TrumpRetribution #Venmo #VenmoFriendsList #Waymo

NOTUS really took the time to dig deep into the Venmo thing. When are high risk folks gonna learn you just can't leave your underfluffies exposed like that?

https://www.notus.org/congress/people-running-government-public-venmo-white-house

#uspol #venmo

I am 100% committed to finding a PayPal / Venmo or any payment processing alternative that does not fall under US Jurisdiction, but I do not believe there is one.

#PayPal #Venmo #Payment

#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 29, 2025

Five highlights from this week: Google Confirms #Gmail Upgrade - 3 Billion Users Must Now Decide; What is Signal, the app where Trump officials texted war plans?; Even More #Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in #Signal Group Chat Left Data Public; #NIST releases finalized guidelines on protecting #AI from attacks; #Canada

Posted in: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, #encryption #Privacy Search Engines, Search Strategies, Social Media, Technology Trends

https://www.llrx.com/2025/03/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-march-29-2025/

Even More #Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in #Signal Group Chat Left Data Public

https://www.wired.com/story/even-more-venmo-accounts-tied-to-trump-officials-in-signal-group-chat-left-data-public/

#privacy #politics #Signalgate

I need an alternative to #PayPal and I don't mean #Venmo or some other silicon valley techbros funder. Any ideas?

🇺🇸 Users’ transactions and social connections are public by default in the Venmo payment app. The information is obscured only by not knowing someone’s contact information.

Venmo accounts, transactions, and social connections of government officials in the Trump administration were discovered after their contact information was made public as a result of them accidentally adding a journalist to a group chat in Signal.

https://www.wired.com/story/even-more-venmo-accounts-tied-to-trump-officials-in-signal-group-chat-left-data-public/?ref=activitypub

#US #payments #Venmo

Our country is run by childish morons...

Headline: Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public

Subtitle: WIRED has found four new #Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with #Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/even-more-venmo-accounts-tied-to-trump-officials-in-signal-group-chat-left-data-public/

Even More #Venmo Accounts Tied to #Trump Officials in #Signal Group #Chat Left Data Public

WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.
#privacy

https://www.wired.com/story/even-more-venmo-accounts-tied-to-trump-officials-in-signal-group-chat-left-data-public/

LoL. What a bunch of digital illiterates :-D

"A Venmo account under the name “Michael Waltz,” carrying a profile photo of the national security adviser and connected to accounts bearing the names of people closely associated with him, was left open to the public until Wednesday afternoon. A WIRED analysis shows that the account revealed the names of hundreds of Waltz’s personal and professional associates, including journalists, military officers, lobbyists, and others—information a foreign intelligence service or other actors could exploit for any number of ends, experts say.

Among the accounts linked to “Michael Waltz” are ones that appear to belong to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, and Walker Barrett, a staffer on the United States National Security Council. Both were fellow participants in a now-infamous Signal group chat called “Houthi PC small group.”

The White House declined to comment after being presented with WIRED’s findings, but the accounts appearing to belong to Waltz and Wiles went fully private following WIRED’s inquiry."

https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/

#USA #Trump #DataProtection #DigitalLiteracy #Venmo

WIRED has found four new #Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.

🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/even-more-venmo-accounts-tied-to-trump-officials-in-signal-group-chat-left-data-public/

📰 "Konto Venmo pod nazwą "Michael Waltz", opatrzone zdjęciem profilowym doradcy ds. bezpieczeństwa narodowego i połączone z kontami noszącymi nazwiska osób blisko z nim związanych, pozostawało otwarte dla publiczności do środowego popołudnia. Analiza WIRED pokazuje, że konto ujawniło nazwiska setek osobistych i zawodowych współpracowników Waltza, w tym dziennikarzy, oficerów wojskowych, lobbystów i innych - informacje, które zagraniczne służby wywiadowcze lub inne podmioty mogłyby wykorzystać do wielu celów, twierdzą eksperci."

Całość [EN]:
https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/

#USA #bezpieczeństwo #Venmo

#MikeWaltz Left His #Venmo Friends List Public

https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/

#privacy #politics

#MikeWaltz Left His #Venmo Friends List Public

A WIRED review shows national #security adviser Mike Waltz, #WhiteHouse chief of staff #SusieWiles , and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

> looks like these folks don’t understand the concept of basic operational #security

#opsec #operationalsecurity #privacy

https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/

👇🏻 #Waltz #Venmo

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/post/3lld2seaves2g

I guess no one learned from Gaetzgate. #MAGA #Venmo

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/mike-waltzs-venmo-friends-list-was?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=100543