Behold, the Facebook phishing scam that could dupe even vigilant users
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Behold, the Facebook phishing scam that could dupe even vigilant users
Single sign-on, or SSO, is a feature that allows people to use their accounts on other sites—typically Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, or Twitter—to log in to third-party websites. Security and cryptographic mechanisms under the hood allow the login to happen without the third-party site ever seeing the username and password. As the video below shows, the login window looked almost identical to the real Facebook SSO. The window presented on the phishing page, however, was rendered using a block of HTML, rather than by calling an API that opens a real Facebook window. Genuine SSOs from Facebook and Google can be dragged outside of the window of the third-party site without any part of the login prompt disappearing.
Facebook 'allows advertisers to target users interested in the Nazis'
besides Facebook is cashing in on its Nazi interested users by selling targeted adverts for companies who want to reach them, a report claims. Facebook - who preach equality as one of their fundamental principles - conceded they still had to remove some of the targeting options on offer. In 2017, Pro Publica exposed the troubling levels of anti-Semitic search categories which were able to be harnessed by advertisers. However, if they were to plug in 'Josef Mengele' or 'Joseph Goebbels' then tens of thousands of potentially interested users could be found, the Times said. The British lawmaker said he told Zuckerberg that his company was incapable of self-regulation.
Facebook VPN that snoops on users is pulled from Android store
Facebook stops recruiting for "Research" appAdditionally, Facebook has stopped recruiting new users for "Facebook Research," TechCrunch wrote. Apple previously stopped Facebook from distributing the app to iOS users, but it remains available on Android. "Existing Facebook Research app studies will continue to run," even though Facebook won't recruit more users, TechCrunch wrote. TechCrunch previously detailed the Facebook Research app in an investigation titled, "Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them." Starting in 2016, the Facebook Research app for iOS and Android offered users $20 per month in gift cards in exchange for personal data.
Behold, the Facebook phishing scam that could dupe even vigilant users
Single sign-on, or SSO, is a feature that allows people to use their accounts on other sites—typically Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, or Twitter—to log in to third-party websites. Security and cryptographic mechanisms under the hood allow the login to happen without the third-party site ever seeing the username and password. As the video below shows, the login window looked almost identical to the real Facebook SSO. The window presented on the phishing page, however, was rendered using a block of HTML, rather than by calling an API that opens a real Facebook window. Genuine SSOs from Facebook and Google can be dragged outside of the window of the third-party site without any part of the login prompt disappearing.
Facebook VPN that snoops on users is pulled from Android store
according to Facebook is cashing in on its Nazi interested users by selling targeted adverts for companies who want to reach them, a report claims. Facebook - who preach equality as one of their fundamental principles - conceded they still had to remove some of the targeting options on offer. In 2017, Pro Publica exposed the troubling levels of anti-Semitic search categories which were able to be harnessed by advertisers. However, if they were to plug in 'Josef Mengele' or 'Joseph Goebbels' then tens of thousands of potentially interested users could be found, the Times said. The British lawmaker said he told Zuckerberg that his company was incapable of self-regulation.
Facebook 'allows advertisers to target users interested in the Nazis'
Facebook stops recruiting for "Research" appAdditionally, Facebook has stopped recruiting new users for "Facebook Research," TechCrunch wrote. Apple previously stopped Facebook from distributing the app to iOS users, but it remains available on Android. "Existing Facebook Research app studies will continue to run," even though Facebook won't recruit more users, TechCrunch wrote. TechCrunch previously detailed the Facebook Research app in an investigation titled, "Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them." Starting in 2016, the Facebook Research app for iOS and Android offered users $20 per month in gift cards in exchange for personal data.
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