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State of Malware 2024: What consumers need to know

February 6, 2024 - The State of Malware 2024 report covers some topics that are of special interest to home users: privacy, passwords, malvertising, banking Trojans, and Mac malware.

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“You have blood on your hands.” Senate Committee calls for action by social media giants to protect children online

February 1, 2024 - In a hearing with the CEOs of the five most used social media platforms the Senate Judiciary Committee found common ground for the need to protect children online

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Deepfake Taylor Swift images circulate online, politicians call for laws to ban deepfake creation

January 30, 2024 - Explicit deepfake images of Taylor Swift caused problems on social media and caused politicians to ask for more legislation

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“I’ll miss him so much” Facebook scam uses BBC branding to lure victims

January 16, 2024 - We found a Facebook scam that aims to redirect victims to sites promoting PUPs, adware, or other fraudulent sites.

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Facebook introduces another way to track you – Link History

January 4, 2024 - Facebook has announced it will roll out a new option called Link History to mobile users around the world. What does that mean?

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4 sneaky scams from 2023

December 28, 2023 - Online scams abound every day, but these four scams from 2023 were particularly devious.

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Social media giants to testify over failing to protect kids

December 4, 2023 - US senators issued subpoenas for the CEOs of five social media giants to testify over their "failure to protect children online".

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Meta sued over forcing users to pay to stop tracking

November 30, 2023 - Privacy organization nyob has filed a complaint against Meta about their "Pay or Okay" model it has introduced for European users.

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Meta whistleblower says company has long ignored how it sexually endangers children

November 9, 2023 - At a Senate hearing, a Meta whistleblower has revealed some shocking numbers around children’s experiences of its platforms.

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What Gen Z really cares about when it comes to privacy

November 2, 2023 - It would be easy to think that Gen Z doesn’t care about privacy. It's not that, though, they just care about privacy in a different way to older generations.

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