Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:05:00 +0000
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| A roundup of the security news from April 09 – April 16, including fake updates, safe messaging, and Facebook spammers. And our quarterly CTNT report is out. Categories: Tags: encryptionfacebookFakeUpdatesMalwarebytessafe messagingsecurityspammersweekly blog roundup |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:59:28 +0000
Facebook has built some of the most advanced algorithms for tracking users, but when it comes to acting on user abuse reports about Facebook groups and content that clearly violate the company’s “community standards,” the social media giant’s technology appears to be woefully inadequate.
Read moreCredit to Author: Julia Glazova| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:00:18 +0000
Rumor has it that typing “BFF” as a Facebook comment checks your profile security. We investigate the claim.
Read moreCredit to Author: David Buxton| Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:02:55 +0000
On this podcast, special guest David Emm joins David to talk data privacy, AI, and smart homes
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Credit to Author: Tiziana Carboni| Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:27:47 +0000
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:38:32 +0000
Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members who flagrantly promoted a host of illicit activities on the social media network’s platform. The scam groups facilitated a broad spectrum of shady activities, including spamming, wire fraud, account takeovers, phony tax refunds, 419 scams, denial-of-service attack-for-hire services and botnet creation tools. The average age of these groups on Facebook’s platform was two years.
Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:13:59 +0000
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| There’s a debate happening at the moment: Myspace vs. Facebook. Was it safer? Easier to use? More welcoming of sparkly gifs? We take a walk down memory lane and remind you that privacy and safety concerns plagued ye old social networks of yore. Categories: Tags: adwarecongressfacebookmalwaremyspacemyspace tomprivacyscamssecuritySocial Engineeringtom |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:05:00 +0000
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| A roundup of the security news from April 09 – April 16, including fake updates, safe messaging, and Facebook spammers. And our quarterly CTNT report is out. Categories: Tags: encryptionfacebookFakeUpdatesMalwarebytessafe messagingsecurityspammersweekly blog roundup |
The post Week in security (April 09 – April 15) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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