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Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked?
Neer-do-wells leaked personal data -- including phone numbers -- for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove...
A week in security (March 29 – April 4)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, our podcast featured Malwarebytes senior security researcher JP Taggart, who talked to us about why you need to trust your VPN. You’ve likely heard the benefits of using a VPN: You can watch TV shows restricted to certain countries, you can encrypt your web traffic...
540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers
It's been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… ...the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users hav...
540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers
It's been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… ...the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users hav...
Threatpost New Wrap Podcast For Oct. 5
Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell and Tom Spring break down the highlights on the heels of a week filled with cybersecurity news. Included in the podcast week news wrap, ending Oct. 5, are the Bloomberg report alleging that a China government-affiliated group slipped tiny microchips into Super Micro...
Facebook Hacked — 10 Important Updates You Need To Know About
If you also found yourself logged out of Facebook on Friday, you are not alone. Facebook forced more than 90 million users to log out and back into their accounts in response to a massive data breach. On Friday afternoon, the social media giant disclosed that some unknown hackers managed to explo...