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Digital thought clones manipulate real-time online behavior

December 7, 2020

In The Social Dilemma, the Netflix documentary that has been in the news recently for its radical revelations, former executives at major technology companies like Facebook, …

New technique keeps your online photos safe from facial recognition algorithms

July 3, 2020

In one second, the human eye can only scan through a few photographs. Computers, on the other hand, are capable of performing billions of calculations in the same amount of …

2FA, HTTPS and private browsing still a mystery to most Americans

October 10, 2019

Most US adults know what phishing scams are and where they occur, what browser cookies do, and that advertising is the largest source of revenue for most social media …

Cybercriminals targeting social media: Facebook and Instagram are becoming phishers’ favorites

May 3, 2019

Social media phishing, primarily Facebook and Instagram, saw the highest quarter- over-quarter growth of any industry with a 74.7 percent increase, according to the Vade …

Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram

January 28, 2019

The New York Times offers the option but is not on by default, and Instagram offers none. “This move could be potentially be good or bad for security/privacy. But given …

Have you been fooled by Russian propaganda? Facebook’s new tool will show you

November 27, 2017

If you’re one of those people who mentally check out of news the day before Thanksgiving, you might have missed Facebook’s announcement about a new tool aimed at …

Hackers stole contact info of 6 million Instagram users and are selling it online

September 5, 2017

Last week, Instagram pushed out a patch for a bug in the service’s API that allowed attackers to discover users’ email address and/or phone number. Facebook-owned …

Attackers exploited Instagram API bug to access users’ contact info

August 31, 2017

Instagram has confirmed that “one or more individuals obtained unlawful access to a number of high-profile Instagram users’ contact information — specifically …

How to steal money from Instagram, Google and Microsoft

July 18, 2016

Some account options deployed by Instagram, Google and Microsoft can be misused to steal money from the companies by making them place phone calls to premium rate numbers, …

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