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Facebook will target ads based on your Oculus VR data

December 13, 2019 0 Comments ad targeting, facebook, oculus, Privacy, Virtual Reality, vr

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:51:55 +0000

If you’re logged into Facebook, it will suck up information such as which apps you use to provide “relevant content, including ads.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/KvZ9_BDvYpk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook refuses to break end-to-end encryption

December 12, 2019 0 Comments #nobackdoors, backdoors, congress, Cryptography, encrypted messaging, encryption back doors, facebook, Instagram, Law & order, messaging, no backdoors, Privacy, Social networks, whatsapp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:26:50 +0000

Congress on Tuesday told Facebook it must put backdoors into its end-to-end encryption, or it’ll be forced to.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Lghno3KWNa0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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DoItForState domain name thief gets 14 years for pistol-whipping plot

December 11, 2019 0 Comments data loss, do it for state!, doitforstate.com, domain name, domain name transfer, ethan deyo, facebook, influencer, Instagram, iowa state university, Law & order, pistol whipping, polo, rossi lorathio adams ii, security threats, sherman hopkins, Social networks, state snaps, taser

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:18:02 +0000

He hired his cousin to break in, hold the rightful domain holder at gunpoint, and force a transfer to his own GoDaddy account.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/_zSeajgNmp8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules

December 10, 2019 0 Comments 2016 US presidential election, Cambridge Analytica, cubeyou, data loss, eu-u.s. privacy shield, facebook, FTC, Global Science Research, gsr, gsrapp, Law & order, mypersonality, PII, Privacy, privacy shield, psychographic, psychometrics center, Social networks, targeted marketing, thisisyourdigitallife

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:55:38 +0000

Delete the data, and don’t do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/1_W3PpVtWZk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook suing ILikeAd for hijacking users’ ad accounts

December 9, 2019 0 Comments advertising policies, bad ads, celeb bait, chen xiao cong, cloaking, counterfeit goods, deceptive ads, diet pills, facebook, hijacked accounts, huang tao, ilikead media international company ltd, Law & order, lawsuit, malware, policies, socelars, Social networks, terms, unauthorized ads

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:46:38 +0000

Facebook says the company used celeb bait links to infect victims with malware and hijacked their ad accounts to sell diet pills.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/PXMa1EXeC34″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Instagram trying to protect kids by getting dates of birth from new users

December 6, 2019 0 Comments age-appropriate, birthday, children, date of birth, facebook, Instagram, minors, nspcc, policies, policy, Privacy, Social networks, underage children

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 11:48:17 +0000

It’s about showing age-appropriate content, it said. Though staying safe from child-privacy lawsuits doesn’t hurt, either.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Nf5pxYH4NiM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Cookie-stealing malware wants to know your Facebook ad budget

December 5, 2019 0 Comments adkoob, facebook, malware, sniffer

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:37:08 +0000

The AdKoob malware that sneakily peeks at how much you’re spending on ads is back.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/BMsSHs9eEAA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook made to ‘correct’ user’s post as Singapore flexes fake-news muscle

December 4, 2019 0 Comments alex tan, correction direction, facebook, fake news, false statement of fact, Government security, Law & order, pofma, protection from online falsehoods and manipulation act, singapore, Social networks, states times review

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:59:03 +0000

“Facebook did a great job,” said Alex Tan, who admitted that his story about a whistleblower’s arrest was based on hearsay.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/M8F1E6yjtlY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook corrige el error de la cámara del iPhone

December 3, 2019 0 Comments actualidad, facebook

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:53:35 +0000

Esta semana Facebook rápidamente aseguró a los usuarios de iPhone que no los estaba espiando a través de su aplicación, después de que alguien descubrió que el software mantenía activa la cámara trasera del teléfono en segundo plano. El usuario de Facebook Joshua Maddux descubrió el problema el sábado 9 de noviembre al mirar la […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/WruOqBnNn1s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs

November 27, 2019 0 Comments advertising, Android, data loss, data slurping, facebook, iOS, Marketing, mobiburn, Mobile, mobile marketing, one audience, oneaudience, Privacy, profile slurping, profiles, rogue sdks, sdk, sdks, security threats, Social networks, third party apps, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:49:19 +0000

Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TEWLcroc9-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>