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Revealed: Facebook’s “Incredibly Aggressive” Alleged Theft of Snapchat App Data

Richi Jennings — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:14:37 +0000

Meta MITM IAAP SSL bump: Zuck ordered “Project Ghostbusters”—with criminal consequences, says class action lawsuit.

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AI and the Evolution of Social Media

Bruce Schneier — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 11:05:23 +0000

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed with stories of social platforms’ role in misinformation, business conspiracy, malfeasance, and risks to mental health. In a 2022 survey, Americans blamed social media for the coarsening of our political discourse, the spread of misinformation, and the increase in partisan polarization.

Today, tech’s darling is artificial intelligence. Like social media, it has the potential to change the world in many ways, some favorable to democracy. But at the same time, it has the potential to do incredible damage to society...

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Who’s to Blame for Hacked Social Media Accounts, Spoofed Online Meeting Requests and Malware

Tom Eston — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:00:22 +0000

In episode 320, Tom and Scott discuss the contentious issue of who is accountable when Facebook or Instagram accounts are hacked, discussing potential failings on both the user’s and Meta’s part. They explore the possibility of inadequate security measures on these platforms and the implications of Meta potentially profiting from fraudulent ads. The episode also […]

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Facebook/Insta FAIL — ‘Anonymous Sudan’ has a Super Tuesday: ‘We Did It.’

Richi Jennings — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:30:28 +0000

Shooper Choosday: Was yesterday’s Meta outage outrage caused by a Russian DDoS?

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Facebook fake videos

David Harley — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 12:23:03 +0000

I have spent a not-very-happy time this morning, besieged by Facebook group posts passed off as porn videos and trying to get rid of them. In fact, it’s unlikely that they’re either porn or videos: they’re bot postings of malicious links that are probably intended to steal credentials. It’s not just fake porn that infests […]

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Facebook and Teen-Targeting Ads

David Harley — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:27:31 +0000

[An extract from the forthcoming book ‘Facebook: Sins & Insensitivities’] The Tech Transparency Project claims to be ‘Holding Big Tech Accountable’ and tracks issues with Facebook, X, Google, Apple, Amazon et al. On 30th January 2024 it published a report – Meta Approves Harmful Teen Ads with Images from its Own AI Tool – about […]

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Facebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network

Bruce Schneier — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:06:14 +0000

Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network:

Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’ data listing over 7,000 companies providing their data. The Markup helped Consumer Reports recruit participants for the study. Participants downloaded an archive of the previous three years of their data from their Facebook settings, then provided it to Consumer Reports...

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Ohio’s New Social Media Law, Meta’s Link History Feature, 175 Million Passcode Guesses

Tom Eston — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 05:00:29 +0000

In episode 312, Tom and Scott discuss the implications of a new law in Ohio that may require parental consent for children under 16 using social media, including the pros and cons of this legislation. They also discuss Meta’s new link history feature and the repercussions it might have on ad targeting on Facebook and […]

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Facebook’s New Privacy Nightmare: ‘Link History’

Richi Jennings — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:40:58 +0000

How stupid does he think we are? You’ll want to turn off this new app setting.

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The (Face-)Book of Mammon [book review]

David Harley — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 17:29:45 +0000

I have, at best, an uneasy relationship with Facebook. To paraphrase something that I’m writing at the moment (more about that shortly): I first subscribed to Facebook because I was working in IT security research and needed to find out more about it, so I signed up to see how it worked from a user’s […]

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