Meta’s Facebook security team warns of live exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in the open-source FreeType library.
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CISO Conversations: Talking Cybersecurity With LinkedIn’s Geoff Belknap and Meta’s Guy Rosen
SecurityWeek interviews Geoff Belknap, CISO at LinkedIn, and Guy Rosen, CISO at Facebook parent company Meta.
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Meta Patches Facebook Account Takeover Vulnerability
Meta has patched a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to take over any Facebook account via a brute-force attack.
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US Aid Office in Colombia Reports Its Facebook Page Was Hacked
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.
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Meta Makes End-to-End Encryption a Default on Facebook Messenger
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.
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Meta Takes Action Against Multiple Foreign Influence Campaigns
Meta removed three foreign influence operations from the Facebook platform during Q3, 2023. Two were Chinese in origin, and one was Russian, the company says.
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UK Minister Warns Meta Over End-to-End Encryption
Britain’s interior minister warned Meta that out end-to-end encryption on its platforms must “not to come at a cost to our children’s safety”.
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Facebook Parent Meta Hit With Record Fine for Transferring European User Data to US
The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic.
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Delaware Judge Refuses to Dismiss Facebook Shareholder Suit Over User Data Privacy Breaches
Judge refuses to dismiss shareholder lawsuit alleging that Facebook violated the law and fiduciary duties in failing for years to protect user data privacy.
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Facebook ‘Unlawfully’ Used Dutch Personal Data: Court
Social media platform Facebook unlawfully processed Dutch users’ personal details without consent for advertising purposes for almost a decade, Amsterdam-based judges ruled on Wednesday.
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