Facebook introduces another way to track you – Link History
Facebook has announced it will roll out a new option called Link History to mobile users around the world. What does that mean?
Read moreMeta and TikTok consider charging users for ad-free experience
Categories: News Categories: Personal Categories: Privacy Tags: Meta Tags: facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: X Tags: Youtube Tags: TikTok Social media companies are offering or thinking about paid subscriptions in exchange for removing ads. |
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Read moreMeta is using your public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its AI
Categories: News Categories: Personal Categories: Privacy Tags: Meta Tags: Facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: X Tags: xAI Tags: copyright Tags: tweets Social media companies are showing their hand about scraping user data to feed into their AI and large language models. |
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Read moreThe privacy perils of the Metaverse
Categories: Personal Tags: metaverse Tags: meta Tags: Facebook Tags: VR Tags: AR Tags: XR Tags: reality Tags: virtual reality Tags: privacy Tags: safety We take a look at the privacy implications of the Metaverse. |
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Read moreThe end looms for Meta’s behavioural advertising in Europe
Categories: Personal Tags: meta Tags: Facebook Tags: EU Tags: legal Tags: litigation Tags: behavioural Tags: advertising Tags: tracking We take a look at what appears to be the beginning of the end for Meta’s behavioural advertising in Europe. |
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Read moreMeta subsidiaries must pay $14m over misleading data collection disclosure
Categories: Business Tags: VPN Tags: meta Tags: Facebook Tags: data Tags: disclosure Tags: australia Tags: australian Tags: traffic We take a look at reports that Meta subsidiaries have been ordered to pay a sizeable fine relating to disclosure issues for a now discontinued VPN. |
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Read moreCriminals target businesses with malicious extension for Meta’s Ads Manager and accidentally leak stolen accounts
Categories: Threat Intelligence Tags: Meta Tags: Facebook Tags: malware Tags: ads manager Tags: chrome Tags: extension A group of criminals is actively targeting Facebook business users to gain access to their advertising accounts via malicious Chrome extensions. But we spotted that they made a mistake… |
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Read moreFacebook clickbait leads to money scam for users
Categories: Threat Intelligence Tags: facebook Tags: posts Tags: google Tags: cloud run Clickbait posts on Facebook can lead to malicious websites. In this campaign, crooks are redirecting Facebook victims to scam pages hosted on Google’s infrastructure. |
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Read moreA week in security (April 17 – 23)
Categories: News Tags: fake Chrome update Tags: AirBnb scam Tags: fake IRS tax email Tags: Ransomware in Germany report Tags: Living Off The Land Tags: LOTL attack Tags: ALPHV ransomware Tags: ransomware Tags: spring cleaning your browser Tags: lost injured dog Facebook hoax Tags: Facebook hoax Tags: swatting-as-aservice Tags: LockBit ransomware Tags: Instagram scam Tags: Domino Backdoor Tags: Malwarebytes Admin Tags: Fancy Bear Tags: tech support scam Tags: QBot Tags: Chrome zero-day Tags: Facebook Tags: Cambridge Analytica settlement claim The most interesting security related news from the week of April 17 – 23. |
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Read moreUS Facebook users can now claim Cambridge Analytica settlement cash
Categories: News Tags: Facebook Tags: class action lawsuit settlement Tags: Cambridge Analytica Tags: Lauren Price Tags: Meta In December, Facebook decided to pay $725 million to settle a class action lawsuit. Facebook users in the US can now claim their slice of the pie. |
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