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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...

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Beware tragic “my daughter died…” Facebook posts offering free PS5s

April 20, 2022 - Tragic tales are being posted to Facebook, combined with the offer of a giveaway. However, some are perhaps not quite what...

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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...

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Facebook phish claims “Someone tried to log into your account”

March 21, 2022 - Watch out for bogus Facebook phishing messages winging their way to your mailbox. The ruse is quite simple: The mail senders...

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HBO sued for sharing subscriber data with Facebook

March 11, 2022 - HBO Max subscribers Angel McDaniel and Constance Simon filed a class-action lawsuit against HBO on Tuesday, alleging that the company has...

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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...

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Facebook sued for siphoning facial recognition data without consent

February 21, 2022 - Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, recently filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, for harvesting the facial recognition...

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The Facebook Pixel Hunt aims to unravel Facebook’s tracking methods. Will you join?

January 11, 2022 - Browser developer Mozilla has announced a research project to provide insights into, and data about, a space that’s opaque to policymakers,...

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Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to refuse

January 7, 2022 - French privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), has hit Google with a 150 million euro fine...

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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...

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