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Facebook phishers threaten users with Page Recovery Help Support
April 28, 2022 - We’ve seen multiple hijacked profiles on Facebook recently claiming to be account recovery services. These bogus account recovery services aren’t here...
Hackers fool major tech companies into handing over data of women and minors to abuse
April 28, 2022 - Some major tech companies have unwittingly opened harassment and exploitation opportunities to the women and children who they have pledged to...
Facebook users wary of security mail find themselves locked out of accounts
March 22, 2022 - It’s not unusual for sites and services to offer additional forms of protection on top of regular security features. Some of...
Meta blocks Russia-Ukraine disinformation campaigns on Facebook, Instagram
March 2, 2022 - Meta says it has detected and removed two disinformation campaigns regarding the current Russia-Ukraine war. These campaigns, it says, were run...
US Navy ship Facebook page hijacked to stream video games
October 7, 2021 - The official Facebook page of the US Navy’s destroyer-class warship, USS Kidd, has been hijacked. According to Task & Purpose, who...
Has Facebook leaked your phone number?
April 6, 2021 - Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500...
The many ways you can be scammed on Facebook, part II
December 18, 2020 - In part 1 of this article series, we looked at data mining schemes, scam ad campaigns, concert tickets scams, and PayPal...
The many ways you can be scammed on Facebook, part I
December 2, 2020 - Scams can be found anywhere, and Facebook is no exception. And, with the holiday season just around the corner, and the...
Facebook scams: Bad ads, bogus grants, and fake tickets lurk on social media giant
November 11, 2019 - We recently highlighted new steps Instagram is taking to try and clamp down on scammers sending fake messages on their platform....
Facebook’s history betrays its privacy pivot
March 20, 2019 - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed a radical pivot for his company this month: it would start caring—really—about privacy, building out a...
