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Mega Facebook data breach sees Meta fined $277m

November 30, 2022 - There’s some bad news for Meta, in the form of a $277 million fine related to a data breach which impacted...

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Personal | Privacy

How to delete your email and phone number from Facebook

November 2, 2022 - It’s common knowledge that Facebook knows everything about you, even the data you choose to withhold. Take, for example, your contact...

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Awareness | News

Warning: “FaceStealer” iOS and Android apps steal your Facebook login

October 18, 2022 - Earlier this month, security researchers from Meta found 400 malicious Android and iOS apps designed to steal user Facebook login credentials. Such mobile...

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News | Privacy

Facebook users sue Meta for allegedly building “secret workaround” to Apple privacy safeguards

September 27, 2022 - Last week, two Facebook users filed a class-action complaint against Meta in San Francisco’s federal court, alleging the company built a “secret...

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News

Facebook engineers aren’t sure where all user data is kept

September 12, 2022 - If it takes a village to raise a child, apparently it takes Facebook a team to tell you what data the...

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News | Privacy

Facebook gets round tracking privacy measure by encrypting links

July 20, 2022 - A form of individual tracking specific to your web browser is at the heart of a currently contested privacy battle, and...

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News | Privacy

Europe threatens to ban Facebook over data transfers to the US

July 11, 2022 - If regulators have their way, data transfers from Facebook and Instagram between Europe and the United States could stop this summer....

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News | Scams

Facebook users targeted in massive phishing campaign

June 9, 2022 - Facebook is once again the launchpad for a large-scale phishing campaign, according to researchers at PIXM. The campaign, which first shows...

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Exploits and vulnerabilities | News

Gmail-linked Facebook accounts vulnerable to attack using a chain of bugs—now fixed

May 17, 2022 - A security researcher has disclosed how he chained together multiple bugs in order to take over Facebook accounts that were linked to...

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News | Scams

“Look what I found here” phish targets Facebook users

May 17, 2022 - Facebook-themed messages are a frequent source of bogus links from both spam and compromised accounts. Whether you receive the messages via...

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