Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
#WeekendWisdom 074 Data Scraping or Data Breaches
Welcome to #WeekendWisdom number 74. This week we’re going to talk about Data Scraping or Data Breaches?
Read MoreWhatsapp Authentication Sucks
Whatsapp Authentication sucks. It sucks really badly. I’d never thought about it before, but then I saw this tweet yesterday. A lady got a new phone number and when she…
Read MoreFacebook are only fined £500,000
You remember the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica mess from earlier this year? Well, Facebook have been issued with a notice that they are to be fined £500,000 as a result of this. “What? Facebook…
Read MoreFacebook Breach – The DPC was very public about it.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week, you will have heard about the Facebook breach. This is where the accounts of at least 50 million people…
Read MoreCambridge Analytica were nosey ninnies
Cambridge Analytica have been rumbled. They have used Facebook data in ways that it should not have been used. By doing so, they have influenced and possibly manipulated the results…
Read MoreTake a 2-Minute Privacy check-up.
After last week’s brief shenanigans with GMail getting phished badly and the recommendation I made about how to help correct and protect yourself from that nasty piece of work, I…
Read MoreFacebook Messenger scam … it’s nothing new, but it’s still effective.
I’ve seen evidence of this scam occurring amongst my Facebook friends this Christmas. It’s a straightforward phishing scam, where one of your friends sends you a Facebook Message with an…
Read MoreHere is a worrying aspect of the Yahoo breach.
Everyone has heard about the personal information related to 500 million Yahoo accounts being stolen from Yahoo in 2014. There’s lots of helpful tips out there (and some here too),…
Read MoreSneaky Facebook phishing attack.
I became aware of this really sneaky attempt by hackers to steal people’s Facebook ID and password recently. This is known as phishing and it’s quite clever and I must…
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