US-based Facebook users can now claim a piece of the enormous settlement payment by Meta, Facebook’s parent company, over the Cambridge Analytica scandal….
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Has Facebook leaked your phone number?
Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500…
A decade in cybersecurity fails: the top breaches, threats, and ‘whoopsies’ of the 2010s
This post was co-authored by Wendy Zamora and Chris Boyd. All opinions expressed belong to your mom. Back in the days…
The top six data privacy takeaways for users
In April, Malwarebytes Labs completed its data privacy and cybersecurity law blog series, a two-month long exploration spanning five continents, 50…
Facebook’s history betrays its privacy pivot
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed a radical pivot for his company this month: it would start caring—really—about privacy, building out a…
Labs survey finds privacy concerns, distrust of social media rampant with all age groups
Before Cambridge Analytica made Facebook an unwilling accomplice to a scandal by appropriating and misusing more than 50 million users’ data, the…
Should you delete yourself from social media?
You’re feeling like you’ve had enough. All the recent news—from Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica snafu to various abuses of Twitter vulnerabilities—has you…
What Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problem means for your data
As you may already know, there’s been a security meltdown at Facebook, thanks to a company called Cambridge Analytica and Donald…