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 moreCategories: News Tags: Ivanti Tags: Meta Tags: Teams Tags: ransomware rollback Tags: AMP Tags: Minecraft Tags: Barracuda A list of topics we covered in the week of July 31 to August 6 of 2023 |
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Read moreCategories: 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 moreCategories: 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 moreCategories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: tax preparation Tags: Meta Tags: Pixel Tags: Markup Tax preparation firms shared personal and financial information with social media giant Meta |
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Read moreCategories: 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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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 16:37:15 +0000
The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta, which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.
Read moreCategories: 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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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:19:26 +0000
The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. The move comes just days after the Dutch registrar was sued by Meta, which alleges the company ignores abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.
Read moreCategories: News Tags: Voyager Labs Tags: Facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: Meta Tags: surveillance tool Tags: data scraping Voyager Labs, a surveillance firm, allegedly created thousands of Facebook and Instagram accounts so it could use its scraping tool to steal data. |
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