When you think of phishing, you probably think of email – but the crooks know how to abuse closed messaging systems like WhatsApp, too.
Tag Archives: Facebook
Hooray! Facebook ditches searching for people by phone number or email
The account recovery feature allowed for scraping of any public profile data. Also this: CA actually may have gotten 87m users’ data.
Facebook and Twitter may be forced to identify bots
If passed, the bill would give platforms 72 hours to investigate reports of bots seeking to mislead Californians and to remove or disclose them.
Those Facebook videos you thought were deleted were not deleted
Facebook’s blamed a bug. Let’s wait and see what other critters crawl out of those data archives many of us have been downloading!
Facebook revamps security, privacy settings following huge data scandal
Facebook says it’s going to reach into the 20 or so dusty corners where it’s tucked away privacy and security settings and pull them into a centralized spot for users.
Firefox add-on limits Facebook’s tracking of you
Firefox’s Facebook Container extension keeps your Facebook data, well, contained.
Cambridge Analytica’s secret coding sauce allegedly leaked
The exposed data, available free by registering an email address, shows CA used software developed by AggregateIQ to sway US elections.
Cryptocurrency clampdown! Twitter bans ICO ads to combat scammers
Twitter is to ban advertisers from pushing Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) or selling tokens on its platform.
FTC goes after Facebook
Time for Facebook to face the music on its data glad-handling in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
HOAX ALERT: Can you really verify your Facebook account security with a comment?
There’s a rumor floating around in certain corners of the internet that you can “prove” your Facebook account is secure by triggering an animation in the comments section.