Meta adds stricter guardrails for teen feeds 2026-06-02 at 16:40 By Anamarija Pogorelec Meta has expanded its Teen Accounts 13+ content settings globally on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger. The safeguards are designed to help young users see age-appropriate content by default. The company also introduced Limited Content on Instagram for parents seeking stricter restrictions. Meta […]
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Meta is overhauling how you sign in, manage settings, and protect your accounts 2026-04-24 at 13:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec Meta Account gives users of Meta apps and devices a simpler way to access and manage their accounts. Accounts Center will automatically be updated to a Meta Account as part of a gradual rollout over the
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Fake scandal clips on Facebook bait victims into investment scams 2026-03-16 at 07:40 By Sinisa Markovic Bitdefender researchers uncovered hundreds of scam campaigns promoted through Facebook ads that use fake news stories, celebrity impersonation, and redirect chains to funnel victims into investment fraud schemes. The activity ran through 310 malvertising campaigns distributed on Meta platforms
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Meta turns to AI to sniff out scams on Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp 2026-03-11 at 18:31 By Anamarija Pogorelec Meta’s new tools on Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp protect users from scams. They use advanced AI systems to analyze text, images, and surrounding context and identify sophisticated scam patterns. Facebook alerts for suspicious friend requests (Source:
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Privacy risks sit inside the ads that fill your social media feed 2025-12-18 at 08:34 By Sinisa Markovic Regulatory limits on explicit targeting have not stopped algorithmic profiling on the web. Ad optimization systems still adapt which ads appear based on users’ private attributes. At the same time, multimodal LLMs have lowered the barrier for
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Social data puts user passwords at risk in unexpected ways 2025-11-28 at 09:08 By Anamarija Pogorelec Many CISOs already assume that social media creates new openings for password guessing, but new research helps show what that risk looks like in practice. The findings reveal how much information can be reconstructed from public profiles and how
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Phishers are increasingly impersonating electronic toll collection companies 2025-04-03 at 14:31 By Zeljka Zorz Steam was the most imitated brands by phishers in the first quarter of 2025, followed by Microsoft and Facebook/Meta, Guardio researchers have revealed. “Historically, the #1 spot has been dominated by the usual suspects – big tech companies like Meta, Microsoft,
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FreeType Zero-Day Being Exploited in the Wild 2025-03-13 at 19:24 By Ryan Naraine Meta’s Facebook security team warns of live exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in the open-source FreeType library. The post FreeType Zero-Day Being Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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SYS01 info-stealer pushed via Facebook ads, LinkedIn and YouTube posts 2024-07-16 at 13:16 By Zeljka Zorz Malicious Google ads are a well known threat, but malvertising can also be found on other popular online destinations such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Case in point: an enduring campaign that aims to infect Facebook users with the
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CISO Conversations: Talking Cybersecurity With LinkedIn’s Geoff Belknap and Meta’s Guy Rosen 2024-05-01 at 15:31 By Kevin Townsend SecurityWeek interviews Geoff Belknap, CISO at LinkedIn, and Guy Rosen, CISO at Facebook parent company Meta. The post CISO Conversations: Talking Cybersecurity With LinkedIn’s Geoff Belknap and Meta’s Guy Rosen appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is
Meta announces VR education metaverse for ages 13 and up 2024-04-15 at 20:03 By Cointelegraph by Tristan Greene The University of Glasgow, Stanford University, and New Mexico State are already using Quest headsets to educate students. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Billionaire’s suit over scam crypto ads on Meta dismissed in Australia 2024-04-12 at 20:01 By Cointelegraph by Derek Andersen Andrew Forrest’s image was used in an ad promoting crypto scams. He has another suit against Meta in a California district court. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Meta’s metaverse lab has lost $40B since Facebook changed its name in 2021 2024-04-03 at 21:01 By Cointelegraph by Tristan Greene Despite the losses, the company’s other endeavors pushed it to record profits in Q4 2023, with gains expected to continue through Q1 2024. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Facebook is Down Right Now 2024-03-05 at 17:47 By Dalton Cooper The hugely popular social media site Facebook is down right now, with nearly a quarter million users reporting as much. Facebook, owned by Meta, is one of the most popular social media websites in the world, alongside TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram, the latter of
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Oculus Users That Don’t Migrate to Meta Accounts At Risk of Losing All Their Purchases 2024-03-04 at 20:47 By John DiCarlo Meta has announced that all Oculus account owners who don’t migrate to Meta by March 29 will lose access to all previous app purchases and more. This is just the latest step in Oculus
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Meta Patches Facebook Account Takeover Vulnerability 2024-02-29 at 16:34 By Eduard Kovacs Meta has patched a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to take over any Facebook account via a brute-force attack. The post Meta Patches Facebook Account Takeover Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View
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Meta plans to prevent disinformation and AI-generated content from influencing voters 2024-02-27 at 14:50 By Zeljka Zorz Meta, the company that owns some of the biggest social networks in use today, has explained how it means to tackle disinformation related to the upcoming EU Parliament elections, with a special emphasis on how it plans to
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US Aid Office in Colombia Reports Its Facebook Page Was Hacked 2024-01-29 at 16:32 By Associated Press The Colombia office of the U.S. government agency that oversees foreign aid and development funding said its Facebook page was hacked and asked the public to ignore any posts or links from the account. The post US Aid
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Meta introduces default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Facebook 08/12/2023 at 15:01 By Helga Labus Meta is introducing default end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for chats and calls across Messenger and Facebook, the company revealed on Wednesday. Rolling out E2EE for Messenger and Facebook E2EE ensures that messages content is only visible to the person sending the
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Meta Makes End-to-End Encryption a Default on Facebook Messenger 08/12/2023 at 06:46 By Associated Press End-to-End encryption in Facebook Messenger means that no one other than the sender and the recipient — not even Meta — can decipher people’s messages. The post Meta Makes End-to-End Encryption a Default on Facebook Messenger appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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