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In terms of applications, Facebook has also been visually copied by phishing attackers, who aim to confuse individuals into thinking that something else is the legitimate Facebook log-in screen. [1] In 2013, a variant of the "Dorkbot" malware caused alarm after spreading through Facebook's internal chat service. [2]
Koobface is a network worm that attacks Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. [1] [2] [3] This worm originally targeted users of networking websites such as Facebook, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, and email websites such as GMail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail.
Onavo Protect is used by Facebook to monetize usage habits within a privacy-focused environment, and was criticized because the app listing did not contain a prominent disclosure of Facebook's ownership. [16] [17] [18] The app was removed from the Apple iOS App Store. Apple deemed it a violation of guidelines barring apps from harvesting data ...
In computing, a Trojan horse (or simply Trojan) is any malware that misleads users of its true intent by disguising itself as a standard program. The term is derived from the ancient Greek story of the deceptive Trojan Horse that led to the fall of the city of Troy.
All of Meta’s platforms – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads – went down on Wednesday in a major outage that affected users around the world. The company’s systems ...
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(The Center Square) – At the eleventh hour, Gov. Josh Shapiro said he found extra money for the state’s largest mass transit system in Philadelphia and its suburbs. The governor said Friday ...
The site also makes it easier for Facebook to differentiate between accounts that have been caught up in a botnet and those that legitimately access Facebook through Tor. [6] As of its 2014 release, the site was still in early stages, with much work remaining to polish the code for Tor access.