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La política de seguimiento de ubicación de Facebook todavía preocupa a los senadores estadounidenses

January 10, 2020 0 Comments actualidad, eeuu, facebook, privacidad, redes sociales

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:36:33 +0000

En noviembre, los senadores estadounidenses Josh Hawley y Chris Coons realizaron a Mark Zuckerberg, una importante pregunta sobre la privacidad: ¿Facebook sigue rastreando las ubicaciones de sus usuarios incluso cuando le han pedido que no lo haga? Esta semana, en una respuesta filtrada a The Hill, obtuvieron la respuesta: sí. El alboroto comenzó en septiembre […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/a-h8nWwLj0U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Fake-review purge: Facebook boots 188 groups, eBay bans 140 shills

January 10, 2020 0 Comments cma, competition and markets authority, ebay, facebook, fake reviews, Law & order, review sites, sock puppets, tripadvisor, yelp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:06:00 +0000

After a poke from the UK’s watchdog, the companies promised to beef up filters to strain out those who write, buy and sell fluffy nonsense.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/7xU4phR6tX8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook bans deepfakes, but not cheapfakes or shallowfakes

January 8, 2020 0 Comments cheapfakes, deepfakes, facebook, fake news, Machine Learning, Mark Zuckerberg, shallowfakes, Social networks

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:20:02 +0000

Quick-n-sleazy edits are still OK, such as the 75% slowdown that made Nancy Pelosi slur or the edit that turned Joe Biden into a racist.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/7w8AhUNJatM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Smartphone location data can be used to identify and track anyone

December 23, 2019 0 Comments facebook, Google, gps, location data, nyt privacy project, Privacy, smartphone privacy, smartphones, the new york times

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 13:29:18 +0000

In today’s smartphone economy, hiding your location has become a major challenge.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/wo6BHh–3_s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number

December 23, 2019 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, facebook, facebook privacy, Privacy, Social networks, two-factor authentication

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:03:45 +0000

Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/8FHvy_UlUI0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Man jailed for $122 million scam that fooled Google and Facebook

December 23, 2019 0 Comments BEC scams, business email compromise, email fraud, facebook, fake invoice, Google, IC3, Law & order, whaling, whaling attack

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 10:35:28 +0000

Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/D5CAYrR74gs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators

December 20, 2019 0 Comments facebook, Google, gps, location data, location tracking, Mark Zuckerberg, Privacy, Social networks

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:37:45 +0000

Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/2grE-GBLP8Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s

December 19, 2019 0 Comments ashley madison, ashley madison hack, Awareness, badrabbit, Cambridge Analytica, cryptolocker, cryptolocker ransomware, Data privacy, edward snowden, emotet, exploits, facebook, Hacktivism, mat honan, notpetya, NSA, nsa spying, nsa surveillance, nsa tools, playstation breach, playstation hack, Ransomware, ryuk, Ryuk ransomware, security fails, shadow brokers, social media, sony, sony pictures hack, surveillance, target breach, target hack, trickbot, triple threat, WannaCry

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:03:33 +0000

As the 2010s come to a close, we take a snarky walk down memory lane, listing the craziest, most impactful, or simply just awful cybersecurity fails of the decade.

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Tags: ashley madison ashley madison hack BadRabbit cambridge analytica cryptolocker cryptolocker ransomware Data privacy Edward Snowden emotet exploits facebook hacktivism mat honan NotPetya NSA nsa spying nsa surveillance NSA tools playstation breach playstation hack ransomware ryuk Ryuk ransomware security fails shadow brokers social media sony sony pictures hack surveillance target breach target hack trickbot triple threat WannaCry

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S2 Ep21: Plundervolt, domain name gunfight, Facebook snubs Congress – Naked Security Podcast

December 19, 2019 0 Comments Audio and Video, Cybercrime, encryption, facebook, plundervolt, Podcast

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:28:36 +0000

Latest podcast episode – listen now!<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ginNM4Lr290″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Instagram hides ‘false’ content, unless it’s from a politician

December 19, 2019 0 Comments facebook, fact checking, fake news, Instagram, international fact-checking network, misinformation, political propaganda, Social networks

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:50:00 +0000

Instagram’s expanding its fact-checking program but, like Facebook, says it won’t keep political speech away from “public debate and scrutiny.”<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/zAu2kI-UzaU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>