Going viral shouldn’t lead to bomb threats, with Leigh Honeywell: Lock and Code S05E06
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Leigh Honeywell about the cybersecurity defenses to online harassment.
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 moreInstagram scam promises money in exchange for your image
Categories: News Tags: fake Tags: muse Tags: art Tags: artist Tags: instagram Tags: check Tags: payment Tags: fraud Tags: wire Tags: bank Tags: banking Tags: drawing Tags: painting We take a look at a fake check scam which plugs into the art world. |
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Read moreSued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations
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 moreA week in security (January 16—22)
Categories: News Tags: Google Tags: Rust Tags: Chromium Tags: Mailchimp Tags: SweepWizard Tags: bossware Tags: TikTok Tags: surveillance firm Tags: Voyager Labs Tags: TracketPacer Tags: Facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: Vice Society Tags: Liquor Control Board of Ontario Tags: Zoho ManageEngine Tags: GitHub Tags: LastPass Tags: Git flaw Tags: ransomware Tags: credit card fraud The most interesting security related news from the week of January 16-22. |
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Read more“Untraceable” surveillance firm sued for scraping Facebook and Instagram data
Categories: 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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Read moreA week in security (January 9—15)
Categories: News Tags: AWIS Tags: weekly blog roundup Tags: week in security Tags: Slack Tags: GitHub Tags: Magecart Tags: Microsoft Tags: Pokemon NFT Tags: Facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: Snapchat Tags: TikTok Tags: YouTube Tags: Google Tags: Meta Tags: identity theft Tags: Maternal & Family Health Services Tags: 2023 predictions Tags: Royal Mail Tags: K-12 security Tags: K-12 Tags: WhatsApp Tags: NSO Group Tags: Department of Interior Tags: weak passwords Tags: Vice Society Tags: ransomware. Vice Society ransomware The most interesting security related news from the week of January 9—15. |
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Read moreUS school district sues Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok over harm to kids
Categories: News Tags: Facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: Snapchat Tags: TikTok Tags: YouTube Tags: Section 230 Tags: Seattle Public School Tags: SPS Tags: Meta Tags: Alphabet Tags: Snap Tags: ByteDance A whole school district in Seattle is suing social media giants for causing harm to kids and youths. |
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Read more“Suspicious login” scammers up their game – take care at Christmas
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:59:06 +0000
A picture is worth 1024 words – we clicked through so you don’t have to.
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