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New Facebook photo rule hoax spreads

March 13, 2024 - A hoax telling people to copy and paste a copyright notice on Facebook has been making the rounds since 2012. Can we make it go away? Please!

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Facebook bug could have allowed attacker to take over accounts

February 29, 2024 - A vulnerability, now fixed, in Facebook could have allowed an attacker to take over a Facebook account without the victim needing to click on anything at all.

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Facebook Marketplace users’ stolen data offered for sale

February 15, 2024 - Personal data belonging to 200,000 Facebook Marketplace users has been published online, including email addresses and phone numbers.

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Facebook fatal accident scam still rages on

February 7, 2024 - We look at a scam campaign on Facebook that continues to do the rounds, and how you can recover your compromised account.

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“I’ll miss him so much” Facebook scam uses BBC branding to lure victims

January 16, 2024 - We found a Facebook scam that aims to redirect victims to sites promoting PUPs, adware, or other fraudulent sites.

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Facebook introduces another way to track you – Link History

January 4, 2024 - Facebook has announced it will roll out a new option called Link History to mobile users around the world. What does that mean?

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Meta is using your public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its AI

October 3, 2023 - Post anything publicly on Facebook and Instagram? Meta has likely been using those posts to train its AI, according to the...

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Facebook clickbait leads to money scam for users

June 7, 2023 - Online criminals are notorious for lurking on social media sites and tricking users into visiting malicious links. We recently observed a scheme where Facebook users are clicking...

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US Facebook users can now claim Cambridge Analytica settlement cash

April 21, 2023 - 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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Avoid this “lost injured dog” Facebook hoax

April 18, 2023 - Facebook users are advised to be wary of posts involving injured dogs receiving treatment at a vet surgery, or pets sitting...

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