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- Hackers 'looking to weaponize Facebook Ad Manager' via trojan hidden in PDF reader
Self-professed “ethical hacker and reverse engineer” Vitali Kremez has discovered a new trojan, dubbed ‘Socelars’, which could be used to hack Facebook Ad Manager accounts, further endangering advertising on the platform.Dec 5, 2019 15:54World News - Facebook issues first-ever ‘fake news’ correction to user post under pressure from Singapore govtFor the first time, Facebook has given into pressure from Singapore to add a correction notice on a post which officials have deemed “fake news,” shared on the platform by a blogger.Nov 30, 2019 06:18World News
- Thanksgiving day massacre: Facebook & Instagram experience major outage across continental US & beyondThe world’s largest social media platform Facebook has experienced a major outage across the continental US on Thanksgiving with thousands of reports of problems flooding in to popular crowdsourcing site DownDetector.Nov 28, 2019 14:33World News
- Stormzy, Sterling, Adele & co lead ‘record breaking’ voter registration drive in final day deadlineA record number of people in the UK registered to vote on the final day applications were open, with a huge spike helped by celebrities such as Stormzy, Raheem Sterling and Adele using social media to fuel the drive.Nov 27, 2019 11:50UK News
- ‘Imposing collective punishment’: Employees of Israeli spyware company NSO Group countersue Facebook for deplatformingEight employees of infamous Israeli spyware company NSO Group are countersuing Facebook after it took their accounts offline while suing NSO for spying on thousands of users of its subsidiary WhatsApp through a security exploit.Nov 26, 2019 21:08World News
- World Wide Web creator wants ‘Contract for the Web,’ but crowd-pleasing solutions backed by Big Tech leave many questionsInternet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled a nine-point plan to “save the internet.” Cooked up with the help of some of the web’s biggest players, it has something for everyone, but begs the question of who will enforce it.Nov 25, 2019 22:53World News
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