Pegasus spyware creator ordered to reveal code used to spy on WhatsApp users
Meta has won a court case against spyware vendor NSO Group to reveal the Pegasus spyware code that allows spying on WhatsApp users.
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Meta 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 moreA week in security (July 31 – August 6)
Categories: 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 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 moreTax preparation firms shared sensitive information with Meta
Categories: 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 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 morePhishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom
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.
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