Almost one decade ago, disparate efforts began in the European Union to change the way the world thinks about online privacy….
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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…
A week in security (February 4 – 8)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a closer look at the technical and reputational challenges for Facebook as it tries…
Merging Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram: a technical, reputational hurdle
Secure messaging is supposed to be just that—secure. That means no backdoors, strong encryption, private messages staying private, and, for some…
A week in security (January 28 – February 3)
Last week, we ran another in our interview with a malware hunter series, explained a FaceTime vulnerability, and took a deep…
Apple pulls Facebook enterprise certificate
It’s been an astonishing few days for Facebook. They’ve seen both an app and their enterprise certificate removed and revoked with…
What does ‘consent to tracking’ really mean?
Thanks to Jerome Boursier for contributions. Post GDPR, many social media platforms will ask end users to consent to some form of…
A week in security (January 7 – 13)
Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at the Ryuk ransomware attack causing trouble over the holidays,…
Christmas tech scams roundup
There’s a fair few Christmas tech scams floating around out there as 2018 winds up, and we thought it’d be a…
A week in security (December 10 – 16)
Last week on Labs, we took a look at some new Mac malware, a collection of various scraped data dumps, the…