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Yesterday’s useful advice from a TV commentator on matters of IT security can be boiled down to this: if someone sends you a one-time passcode and tells you not to share it ...

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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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

Having found myself roped into assisting as co-administrator a couple of Facebook groups with security/privacy issues, I thought I should, perhaps, share what little I know about defending your group against scam ...

I’ve been seeing an unpleasant scam attack being spread via a friend’s account today: I think from a cloned rather than hacked account, but I can’t be sure. 1. If you see ...

Facecrooks nails Facebook/Meta on (at least) two of its less attractive attributes. Firstly, its reliance on artificial intelligence, in this case using a faulty algorithm to correct a faulty algorithm. Presumably because ...

I’ve spent a lot of time recently writing about FB account cloning, simply because I come across it so often. I haven’t paid nearly so much attention to real account hacking because ...