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Facebook: Government demands for more user data

November 15, 2019
Facebook announced that the US Government demands for more user data then ever. The demand increased by 16% during the first half of this year compared to the second half of last year. Thus, this is the highest number of government demands it has received since…
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Hackers attack Germany, Italy and US

November 15, 2019
Security researchers tracked activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers. So, the hackers target a few companies and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States. And they try to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware. The…
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Pay with your data to use Facebook pay

November 13, 2019
Facebook pay, a new payment service will let anyone send or receive money without fees. At the same time, Facebook mentioned that payment data across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger can be used for ads. So, you should pay with your data to use it. The service…
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Facebook defends political ads

November 11, 2019
Facebook announced it would not remove political ads before the UK’s General Election. The decision comes although there were complaints that the Conservative Party is trying to influence users with misleading information. Twitter announced plans to ban political…
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Twitter staff recruited to spy for Saudi Arabia

November 11, 2019
Two former Twitter staff were recruited by the Saudi Arabian governement to spy the critics of the regime. The prosecutors claim that two US citizens of Saudi origin accessed personal information of over 6.000 accounts in 2015. These included Omar Abdulaziz, a governement…
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Malvertising campaign distributed an exploit kit

November 8, 2019
A malvertising campaign exploited a fake advertisement and exposed users to the new Capesand exploit kit. The Capesand exploit kit operates by delivering malicious payload to the victim’s computer. The malvertising campaign that presented users with a fake blog post…
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Firefox will hide notification pop-ups

November 4, 2019
Firefox will hide the annoying notification popups, with the release of Firefox 72, in January 2020. This comes after the experiment Mozilla ran in April to see how users interact with notifications. Also, Mozilla looked at different ways of blocking notifications from being…