Facebook is accused of using potentially criminal methods to spy on Snapchat users to gain a commercial advantage over its competition.
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Meta to abandon social media tracking tool CrowdTangle
Meta will retire social media tracking tool CrowdTangle in August 2024, which is awkward timing given the amount of important elections this year.
New Facebook photo rule hoax spreads
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!
Going viral shouldn’t lead to bomb threats, with Leigh Honeywell: Lock and Code S05E06
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Leigh Honeywell about the cybersecurity defenses to online harassment.
Facebook bug could have allowed attacker to take over accounts
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.
Facebook Marketplace users’ stolen data offered for sale
Personal data belonging to 200,000 Facebook Marketplace users has been published online, including email addresses and phone numbers.
A week in security (February 5 – February 11)
A list of topics we covered in the week of February 5 to February 11 of 2024
Facebook fatal accident scam still rages on
We look at a scam campaign on Facebook that continues to do the rounds, and how you can recover your compromised account.
Google failing to scrub abortion access in location history, study claims
A nonprofit study claims that Google is failing to delete location history that reveals users’ physical trips to abortion clinics.
“I’ll miss him so much” Facebook scam uses BBC branding to lure victims
We found a Facebook scam that aims to redirect victims to sites promoting PUPs, adware, or other fraudulent sites.