Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:51:18 +0000
Protecting privacy online can be good for our mental health. Two reasons: it makes more time for offline socializing and keeps distracting ads at bay.
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Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Data breaches have become so common, and so frequent, that when companies like Facebook or Google admit to data leaks or outright hacks, users fret, the companies pledge to do better, and government regulators (sometimes) issue stern warnings.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
In recent weeks, Facebook acknowledged a breach affecting 50 million users and Google had to fess up to a breach affecting Google Plus users after initially deciding to keep quiet.
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:39:11 +0000
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| Facebook announced earlier today that its social network had been breached, resulting in 40 million accounts that were directly impacted. Learn more as the Facebook breach story develops. Categories: Tags: access tokensbig breachesbreachdata breachfacebookFacebook breachfacebook hackpassword resetsocial mediasocial networksView Asvulnerabilitiesvulnerability |
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Disinformation was in the news again this week. Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft said they removed accounts linked to Russian and Iranian disinformation campaigns.
And if you think it’s all about politics and rogue nations, think again. The real story is about a new enterprise business service that fights disinformation.
I’ll tell you all about that below. But first, the real news about the fake news.
Facebook said that 652 Facebook pages and groups run by the Iranian and Russian governments were deleted because they were found to be “misleading,” by which it meant that the pages and social profiles presented themselves as something other than what they really were.
Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 15:58:16 +0000
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| What happens to online accounts when we die? Not a cheerful subject by any stretch of the imagination, but one we covered at BSides Manchester. Categories: Tags: after we diebsidesBSides Manchesterdeathdigital entropy of deathdigital real estatelink rotsocial media |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Rajiv Singha| Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:00:04 +0000
If you thought there is only a black market for stolen mobile phones, drugs, pirated software, etc., then you could be wrong. There is a black market that exists on the Internet and its most lucrative commodity is your personally identifiable information (PII – sensitive information that can be used…
Read moreCredit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:00:22 +0000
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| Do you know what companies can do after you click ok to a user agreement? Are you sure? Categories: Tags: adblockfacebookgdprprivacysocial mediatrackinguser agreement |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:00:33 +0000
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| How do spammers know how to target you for scams? They use social media to produce the most convincing types of spam. Categories: Tags: login credentialsnigerianphishphishingPieter Arntzsocial mediaspam |
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