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Meta Expands Facebook Protect Program to Activists, Journalists, Government Officials
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Thursday announced an expansion of its Facebook Protect security program to include human rights defenders, activists, journalists, and government officials who are more likely to be targeted by bad actors across its social media platforms. "These...
New Chinotto Spyware Targets North Korean Defectors, Human Rights Activists
North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news, and entities in South Korea are being zeroed in on by a nation-state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT as part of a new wave of highly-targeted surveillance attacks. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky attributed the...
Apple Sues NSO Group
Piling more on NSO Groups legal troubles, Apple is suing it: The complaint provides new information on how NSO Group infected victims’ devices with its Pegasus spyware. To prevent further abuse and harm to its users, Apple is also seeking a permanent injunction to ban NSO Group from using any App...
Facebook Bans Pakistani and Syrian Hacker Groups for Abusing its Platform
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Tuesday that it took action against four separate malicious cyber groups from Pakistan and Syria who were found targeting people in Afghanistan, as well as journalists, humanitarian organizations, and anti-regime military forces in the West...
A week in security (Nov 8 – Nov 14)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Multiple video games break after domain name snafu How to remove adware on an Android phone Smart TV adverts put a wrinkle in your programming Are cybercriminals turning away from the US and targeting Europe instead? Patch now! Microsoft plugs actively exploited...
Facebook to end facial recognition and delete billions of records
By Deeba Ahmed Facebook has announced that it will shut down its Facial Recognition System and delete the templates of over 1 billion people stored by this feature. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook to end facial recognition and delete billions of records...
Facebook to Shut Down Facial Recognition System and Delete Billions of Records
Facebook's newly-rebranded parent company Meta on Tuesday announced plans to discontinue its decade-old "Face Recognition" system and delete a massive trove of more than a billion users' facial recognition templates as part of a wider initiative to limit the use of the technology across its...
Zuckerberg’s Metaverse, and the possible privacy and security concerns
The news is currently jam-packed with tales of Facebooks Meta project. Of particular interest to me is Facebook’s long-stated desire to introduce adverts into the VR space, and what this may mean for Meta too. I’ve talked about the privacy and legal aspects of adverts in gaming and other tech...
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: gfbgraph-0.2.4-1.fc35
GLib/GObject wrapper for the Facebook Graph API that integrates with GNOME Online Accounts...
How social media mistakes can impact cybersecurity
We talked to members of our Malware Removal Support team and asked them what kind of problems they get asked to solve for our customers. To understand why they get to handle these questions, it is also necessary to know that the Malwarebytes software is unable to resolve the problems users are...
Facebook HHVM 路径遍历漏洞
Facebook HHVM a.k.a. HipHop Virtual Machine is a virtual machine from Facebook Inc. that significantly improves the performance of loading dynamic pages in PHP. HHVM suffers from a path traversal vulnerability that stems from improper design or implementation during code development of a networke...
Facebook sues Ukrainian man for scraping and selling 178m users’ data
By Deeba Ahmed Facebook tracked down the programmer after he mistakenly used the same username and contact information on email and job portals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook sues Ukrainian man for scraping and selling 178m users data...
Fedora: Security Advisory for gfbgraph (FEDORA-2021-9c737bb848)
The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...
Fedora: Security Advisory for gfbgraph (FEDORA-2021-7cccd2784c)
The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: gfbgraph-0.2.4-1.fc33
GLib/GObject wrapper for the Facebook Graph API that integrates with GNOME Online Accounts...
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: gfbgraph-0.2.4-1.fc34
GLib/GObject wrapper for the Facebook Graph API that integrates with GNOME Online Accounts...
Ad-blocker Chrome extension AllBlock injected ads in Google searches
By Deeba Ahmed AllBlock was available on Google Chrome's Web Store where it is marketed as a potent Ad Blocker focusing on Facebook and YouTube to prevent pop-ups. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ad-blocker Chrome extension AllBlock injected ads in Google searches...
A week in security (Oct 4 – Oct 10)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Does Cybersecurity Awareness Month actually improve security? Police take a piece out of a ransomware gang, but won’t say which one Neiman Marcus data breach affects millions Windows 11 is out. Is it any good for security? Criminals were inside Syniverse for 5 years...
